NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: SEP 28 – OCT 14

New World Resource Center
A Non-Profit Community-Owned Bookstore & Meeting Center
1300 N Western, Chicago IL USA 60622-2923
(773)-227-4011, Tues-Fri, 3-9 pm; Sat-Sun 12-7 pm
Bookmark: www.NewWorldResourceCenter.com/index1/events.html

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--Sep 28, Thu, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKE PICKET
Rally to support workers in Chicago’s longest running strike
Sponsor: Unite HERE Local 1
Info: www.congresshotelstrike.info

--Sep 28, Thu, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: DELWENDE
S. Pierre Yameogo’s drama of female determination
in the face of patriarchal injustice in Burkina Faso
Info: www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/september

--Sep 28, Thu, 7 pm, Foro Comunitario, 3460 W Lawrence
TELESUR GENERAL DIRECTOR ARAM ARAHONIAN
Info: venechic1 (at) netzero.net

--Sep 28, Thu, 7:45 pm, DePaul University 2250 N Sheffield
SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE:
STOP ISRAELI AND US WARS
Candlelight vigil marks 6th Anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada
Info: aaan_youth (at) riseup.net

--Sep 28-29, Thu-Fri, 7 pm
FILMS: TO BEAR WITNESS: THE QUESTION OF VIOLENCE
Film quartet depicting the Chicago Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s,
recently restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation
Screenings followed by panel discussion: Robert Lucas, leader of Cicero March;
Paul Sequeira, DNC protest photojournalist; Bobby Lee, Black Panther Party;
Barbara Ransby, UIC; free admission
9/28 ICE Theatres, 210 W 87th St
9/29 LaSalle Bank Cinema, 4901 W Irving
Sponsor: Chicago Film Archives
Info: www.chicagofilmarchives.org

--Sep 28-Oct 1, Thu-Sun, Madison WI
LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION
Info: www.LocalDemocracy.org

--Sep 29, Fri, 5:30 pm, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
DEKALB CRITICAL MASS INAUGURAL BIKE RIDE

--Sep 29, Fri, 7 pm, Acme Art Works, 1740 N Western
GENTRIFICATION IN WICKER PARK
Hear Richard Lloyd, author of Neo-Bohemia: Art & Commerce
in the Postindustrial Era; also artist/activist Warren Leming
Sponsor: Near NorthWest Arts Council
Info: www.nnwac.org/

--Sep 29-Oct 1, Fri-Sun, University Center, 525 S State
GLOBAL FUSION CONFERENCE
Info: lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gfc/index.htm

--Sep 30, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guest Jon Wiener, author of
Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon FBI Files
Info: www.thisishell.net

--Sep 30, Sat, 1 pm, Damen & Schiller
HYDE AMENDMENT ANNIVERSARY BIKE RIDE,
FILM SCREENING, PANEL DISCUSSION
Film screening 3 pm: Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance
Roosevelt University, 430 S Michigan Ave
Benefit for Chicago Abortion Fund
Info: www.pomegranatecollective.org

--Sep 30, Sat
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION:
Elvira Arellano, also Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European
& Latino Immigrants of Illinois
10 am, 77 W. Jackson: Protest Anti-Immigrant No-Match Letters
& Applebees Retaurants
12 pm, 100 Leaders Day of Fasting on 10th Anniversary of IIRIRA
3 pm, interfaith service, Adalberto Church, 2716 W Division
Info: www.SomosunPueblo.com

--Sep 30, Sat, 7 pm, Unity Center, 3339 S Halsted
FILM: CAMDEN 28
Documentary on anti-Vietnam war activists arrested in 1971
in a draft board action; discussion follows with Michael Giocondo,
one of the Camden 28 & People's Weekly World reporter
Info: 773-446-9932

--Sep 30, Sat, 7:30 pm, Harold Washington Library, 400 S State
TELESUR, INTERNATIONAL MEDIA & THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION
Hear general director of Telesur Aram Arahonian
Info: www.global-fusion.org

--Sep 30-Oct 1, Sat-Sun
VISIONS OF A POSITIVE FUTURE
Author/activist David C. Korten
9/30 2 pm SGI Cultural Center, 1455 S. Wabash
10/1 10 am Local First Chicago, No Exit Café, 6970 N Glenwood
Info: www.earthcharterchicago.org

--Sep 30-Oct 29, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM IRAN

--Oct 1, Sun, 4:45 am & 3 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
CAMP DEMOCRACY PANEL ON WAR & THE MEDIA
Jeff Cohen, Ray McGovern, Robert Taicher, Jeff Norman

--Oct 1, Sun, time tba, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: THREE PENNY OPERA/DIE 3GROSCHENOPER
The original G.W. Pabst 1931 version of the Brecht classic

--Oct 2, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash, Rm 1440
THE MIDDLE EAST & WORLD POLITICS IN THE AFTERMATH OF
ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST LEBANON
Hear Peter Hudis, co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Oct 3, Tue, 6:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
WOMEN, ETHICS, & INEQUALITY IN US HEALTHCARE:
TO COUNT AMONG THE LIVING
Author Anna Marie Vigen:

--Oct 3, Tue, 7 pm, Quenchers Saloon, 2401 N Western
FILM: IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS
Robert Greenwald’s riveting, must-see new documentary

--Oct 4, Wed, 7:30 pm, Chicago Temple, 77 W Washington
THE MEDIA & URBAN ISSUES: COVERAGE OF
THE INNER CITY & THE URBAN POOR
Panelists: Cliff Kelly of WVON; Paul Street, author of Segregated
Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America;
Steve Macek, author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right
& the Moral Panic over the City
Sponsor: Chicago Media Action
Info: cma (at) chicagomediaaction.org

--Oct 5, Thu
WORLD CAN'T WAIT DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
12 pm Grant Park
4:30 pm Federal Plaza

--Oct 5, Thu, 7:30 pm, Acme Artists Community, 2418 W Bloomingdale
FILMS: i , also MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY
i is a new documentary about Argentina’s Indymedia;
My Country, My Country documents life of Iraqi doctor before the 2005 elections
Sponsor: Chicago Indymedia
Info: imc-chicago (at) indymedia.org

--Oct 6, Fri, 7 pm, DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center
2320 N Kenmore
POLICE TORTURE, FBI FRAME-UPS, POLITICAL PRISONERS
Hear Ishmael Muhammad on the Cuban 5; Joey Mogul on John Burge
& police toruture; Maryam Salah, wife of Palestinian-American
Muhammad Salah who is on trial for terrorism
Sponsor: Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five,
National Lawyers Guild Chicago Chapter
Info: uscubachi (at) hotmail.com

--Oct 6, Fri, 8 pm, Columbia College
FILM: MARINES IN OUR HOME: OKINAWA, HOKKAIDO, KOREA
Yukihisa Fujimoto’s documentary on present-day
US military occupations
Info: corryb8 (at) yahoo.com

--Oct 7, Sat, 1:30 pm, Woodson Library, 9525 S Halsted
LATINO & AFRICAN-AMERICAN WORKERS &
CIVIL RIGHTS UNIONISM IN MISSISSIPPI
Hear Sarah Claree White, organizer of the union for African American
women working in Mississippi’s catfish processing plants
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies
Info: lorenic (at) dom.edu

--Oct 7, Sat, 6 pm, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
EUGENE V DEBS DINNER HONORING HARRY BELAFONTE
Info: eugenevdebs.com

--Oct 7, Sat, 7 pm, St Josaphat Church, 2311 N Southport
COLOMBIA: EXPERIENCES IN ECUMENICAL PEACE BUILDING
AMID VIOLENCE & FORCED DISPLACEMENT
Panelists: Bishop Nel Beltran, Afro-Colombian Fr Rafael Castillo,
Mennonite peace leader Ricardo Esquivia
Sponsors: Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America,
Catholic Relief Services, Archdiocese of Chicago, Amnesty International
USA/Midwest, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Chicago Presbytery
Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America Mission Team,
Eighth Day Center for Justice
Info: csalinas (at) crln.org

--Oct 7, Sat, 7 pm, Ann Sather's Restaurant, 929 W Belmont
NEIS ANNIVERSARY DINNER
Info: www.neis.org

--Oct 7, Sat, 8 pm, Halsted & Roscoe
MATTHEW SHEPARD MARCH FOR LGBT FREEDOM
Info: www.GayLiberation.org

--Oct 8, Sun, 2 pm, North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N Pulaski
SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH BIOREGIONALISM
Hear author Mark D Whitaker on the need for institutional change
Info: www.sustainCUP.blogspot.com

--Oct 8, Sun, 7 pm, Wellington Church, 615 W Wellington
FILM: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Discussion follows with Pam & Lan Richart of Eco-Justice Collaborative

--Oct 8-14, Sun-Sat, numerous Chicago area locations
FILM: IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS
Robert Greenwald’s riveting must-see documentary; hosted screenings
throughout Chicago area are free, reservations required
Info/RSVP: iraqforsale.org/index.php

--Oct 10-11, Tue-Wed
WITNESS TO AN EXECUTION
Hear Barbara Becnel, witness to the execution of death row prisoner
Stanley Tookie Williams; also Darby Tillis, exonerated IL death row prisoner
10/10 7pm, Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N St Louis
10/11 12pm, John Marshall Law School, 315 S Plymouth Ct
10/11 7pm, University Church of Hyde Park, 5655 S University
Sponsors: Campaign to End the Death Penalty, 8th Day Center for Justice,
Hands Off Assata-Chicago, Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago,
No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee
Info: www.nodeathpenalty.org

--Oct 12, Thu, 9-2 pm, Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, 300 N Orleans
CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER HEALTH CARE 10TH ANNUAL MEETING
Info: 312-913-9449

--Oct 12, Thu, 5 pm, Chicago Hilton & Towers, 720 S Michigan
GEORGE THE DECIDER BUSH
Greet our Homeland Leader & friends at this $500/plate dinner

--Oct 12, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: OUR BRAND IN CRISIS
Documentary on US-style campaign of new-liberal candidate in Bolivia
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: groups.yahoo.com/group/oulchicago/

--Oct 12, Thu, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
EVE ENSLER: INSECURE AT LAST:
LOSING IT IN OUR SECURITY-OBSESSED WORLD
Hear the author & playwright

--Oct 13, Fri, Chicago Theatre
ANI DIFRANCO

--Oct 13, Fri, 3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
FROM BIRMINGHAM TO MEMPHIS: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES &
THE LABOR-CIVIL RIGHTS ALLIANCE OF THE 1960s
Hear historian Will Jones
Info: scholl (at) newberry.org

--Oct 13, Fri, 7 pm, United Electrical Hall, 37 S. Ashland
RALLY: FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Hear Cliff Kelley of WVON, Stan Willis of National Conference
of Black Lawyers, Mike Elliot of UAW 551,
Bernard Branche of Labor Black Struggle League
Sponsor: Partisan Defense League
Info: chicagopdc (at) sbcglobal.net

--Oct 13-19, Fri-Thu, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: BLACK GOLD
Nick & Marc Francis’ documentary on the multi-billion dollar coffee
industry & the experience of Ethiopian fair trade activist Tedesse Meskela;
discussion with Meskela follows 10/19 screenings

--Oct 14, Sat, Heartland Cafe
DAVE ROVICS

FORTHCOMING
-10/20-22 Conference on Feminism & War, Syracuse University, www.SisterSong.net
-10/26-28 Rethinking Marxism Conference, www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org
-10/27-29 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Conference,
Fairfax VA, www.ncadp.org
-10/28 Inquest Iraq: Accountability & the War public hearing,
www.inquestiraq.org/Home.html
-11/2 Paul Krugman, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/4-5 Midwest Socialist Conference
-11/7 Joan Baez, Harris Theatre
-11/11 Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair, Orozco School, www.teachersforjustice.org/
-11/11 Rashid Khalidi, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/11 National Lawyers Guild Chicago Annual Dinner
-11/12 Amartya Sen, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/17-19 School of the Americas Protests, Ft Benning GA, www.soaw.org
-12/12 Greenham Common 25th Anniversary Peace Protests
-1/12-14 National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis TN, www.freepress.net/conference/CFS
-1/20-25 World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
-2/2-3 Building Bridges Labour Studies Conference, University of Windsor-Ontario
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NEW BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-Support Chicago’s progressive not-for-profit book shop!
-Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty, by Ali Geissari
-Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, by Betti Apteker
-The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
-Angela Y. Davis Reader
-Children of NAFTA, by David Bacon
-Conversations with Amiri Baraka
-The House That Race Built, by Wahnee Lubiano
-People's History of Iraq, by Ilario Salucci
-Workers’ Movements, & the Left 1924-2004, by Ilario Salucci
-Women, Culture, & Politics, by Angela Y Davis
-Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Y Davis
-Hizbu’llah: Politics & Religion, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
-America: The New Imperialism: From White Settlement
to World Hegemony, by V.G. Kiernan
-Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur
-Black Genius: African American Solutions to
African American Problems, edited by Walter Mosely et al
-After Capitalism, by David Scweickart
-Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture
in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Denning
-Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast
-Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis
-Shut Up Shut Down, by Mark Nowak
-Abolition Democracy, by Angela Davis
-Hugo Chavez & the Bolivarian Revolution, by Richard Gott
-Rough Music, by Tariq Ali
-The Prison Industrial Complex, compact disc, by Angela Davis
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WEEKLY & BIWEEKLY EVENTS

Thu, 10 am, wluw 88.7 fm
ALTERNATIVE RADIO

Thu, 7 pm, 3334-61/2 W Lawrence, Rm 202
A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION MEETING
Info: 773-463-0311, answer (at) chicagoanswer.net

Thu, 7 pm, Valois Restaurant, 1518 E. 53rd
CAFE SOCIETY
Sponsors: The Public Square, Illinois Humanities Council
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org

Thu, 7:30 pm, 806 Ridge Avenue, Evanston
NEIGHBORS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
Info: www.neighborsforpeace.org/

Thu, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV cable channel 19
LABOR BEAT: CLASS STRUGGLE TV
Repeats Friday 4:30 pm
Info: 312-226-3330 or www.laborbeat.org

Fri, 4:30 pm, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, 820 S Damen
VIGIL FOR PEACE & WITNESS AGAINST WAR
Info: www.vitw.org

Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Info: www.thisishell.net

Sat, 9 am, wluw 88.7 fm radio
LIVE FROM THE HEARTLAND
Info: www.heartlandcafe.com

Sat, 2-4 pm, Logan Square, Kedzie & Milwakee Aves
NORTHSIDE PEACE GATHERING

Sun, noon, Water Tower Park, 830 N Michigan
END ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE VIGIL
Sponsor: Not In My Name. Info: www.nimn.org/

Sun, 1 pm, WILL radio 580 AM
MEDIA MATTERS WITH BOB MCCHESNEY
Info: www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm

Sun, 1:30 – 3:30 pm, Art Institute of Chicago front steps
PEACE VIGIL
Sponsor: Code Pink
Info: codepinkchicago (at) yahoo.com

Sun, 7 pm, wluw radio, 88.7 FM
LABOR EXPRESS RADIO
Info: redjerry2 (at) yahoo.com

Mon-Fri
DEMOCRACY NOW
7-8 am, CAN-TV cable TV channel 19
7-9 am, WZRD 88.3 FM
9-10 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
Info: www.DemocracyNow.org

Mon-Fri
FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS
4 & 10 pm, WZRD 88.3 FM

Mon, WLUW radio 88.7 FM
10 am, FIRE ON THE PRAIRIE, 2nd Mon/month
10 am THE EIGHTH DAY, 1st & 3rd Mon/month
10 am FROM THE TRENCHES, 4th Mon/month

Mon, 6 pm, 2502 W Division
IRAQ PEACE PLEDGE
Info: peacepledgechicago.org/

Mon, 7 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
WORLD CAN'T WAIT: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
Fair trade coffee/snacks available from Acme Jazz Cafe
Info: 773.227-2453, chicago (at) worldcantwait.org

Mon, Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 W Grand
LEFTIST LOUNGE
Info: focus (at) apolloproject.org

Tue, 8-9 am, Chicago Federal Building, Jackson & Dearborn
SILENT VIGIL AGAINST WAR & RACISM
Sponsor: 8th Day Center for Justice
Info: 312-641-5151

Tue, 7 pm, Grace Church, 3325 W Wrightwood
LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORS FOR JUSTICE & PEACE
First & third Tuesday
Info: 773-252-9956 or g.henninger (at) comcast.net

Tue, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
HYDE PARK COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR & RACISM
BIWEEKLY MEETING, 2nd & 4th Tue
Info: www.chicagoantiwar.org/hydepark/

Tue, 7 pm, Cafe Mestizo, 2123 S Ashland
CAFE SOCIETY
Sponsor: The Public Square, Illinois Humanities Council
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org/cafe

Tue, 7:30 pm, Beverly Unitarian Church, 103rd & Longwood Dr
SOUTH SIDERS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
Info: www.southsidersforpeace.com/

Tue, 8 pm, Baker, 1215-27 W Lunt
NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY WORKERS COOP
FOR BIG CHANGE weekly meetings

Wed, 10 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
COUNTERSPIN

Wed, 6-8pm, Association House, 1116 N Kedzie
POMEGRANATE RADICAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE
Second Wednesday of the month
Info: www.pomegranatecollective.org, 312-924-1820

Wed, 6:30 pm, Gourmand Cafe 728 S Dearborn
PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS
Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society
Second Wednesday of the month
Info: www.chicagoparecon.org

Wed, 6:30 pm, 1325 S Wasbash, Suite 105
CHICAGOLAND COALITION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES & RIGHTS
1st & 3rd Wed
Info: www.ccclr.org/
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WHO WE ARE: The New World Resource Center is Chicago’s oldest
independent left & labor bookstore and meeting center. Founded
in 1972, NWRC is a not-for-profit owned and operated by an all-volunteer
collective. Volunteers always welcome; phone 773-227-4011 for info

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