NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: NOV 22 – DEC 10

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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--Nov 22, Wed, 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

--Nov 23, Thu, 1 pm & 9 pm, Book TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
AFRICANA: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
THE AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Hear historian Henry Louis Gates

--Nov 24, Fri, 12 pm, Daley Plaza
FUR FREE FRIDAY
2 pm march ends Water Tower
SHAC 7 benefit follows, Lake Shore Park
Info: adlchicago (at) yahoo.com

--Nov 24-30, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: OUR DAILY BREAD
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s spooky documentary on
industrial food production & high-tech farming

--Nov 25, Sat, 7:05 pm, Book TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
HIGH TECH TRASH: DIGITAL DEVICES,
HIDDEN TOXICS & HUMAN HEALTH
Journalist Elizabeth Grossman; repeats 11/26 1 am

--Nov 26, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
GENDER: A PERSPECTIVE
Hear author Shirley Simeon
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--Nov 26, Sun, 12:45 pm, Book TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
THE IRON CAGE: THE STORY OF THE
PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD
Arab studies scholar Rashid Khalidi; repeats 11/27 5:45 am

--Nov 26, Sun, 2 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake
FILM: THE LOST BOYS OF SUDAN
Documentary follows lives of Sudanese refugees in America
Sponsors: Oak Park Coalition for Truth & Justice,
Oak Park Public Library

--Nov 27, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash
COAL MINERS' STRUGGLES FORESHADOWED TODAY'S LABOR CRISES
Hear Andy Phillips, author of Coal Miners' General Strike of 1949-50
& the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the US
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Nov 28, Tue, 7:30 pm, Court Theater, 5535 S Ellis
GUANTANAMO: HONOR BOUND TO DEFEND FREEDOM
Nicholas Rudall directs Victoria Brittain & Gillian Slovo’s must-see drama
Free performance, reservations required
Info: humanrights.uchicago.edu/guantanamo_play_registration.shtml

--Nov 29, Wed, 7:30 pm, Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
FILM: DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
Hubert Sauper’s documentary on the destruction of Tanzania’s Lake Victoria
Info: block-museum (at) northwestern.edu

--Nov 30, Thu, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash, Rm 144
STUDENT/SWEATSHOP SOLIDARITY:
THEORY & PRACTICE IN TODAY'S CAMPUS ACTIVISM
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Nov 30, Thu, 7 pm, Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington
FILM: ETERNAL VIGILANCE
Dave Earnhardt’s film in progress on fraud in election machines
Sponsor: Illinois Ballot Integrity Project
Info: 773-661-4051

--Nov 30, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
THE NEO-LEFT
Students for a Democratic Society presentation
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: 847-677-5474

--Dec 1, Fri
INTERNATIONAL AIDS ACTION DAY

--Dec 1, Fri, Grace United Church, corner Wrightwood & Kimball
FILM: WHY WE FIGHT
Eugene Jarecki's documentary on the anatomy of the American war machine
Info: 773-252-9956

--Dec 1-2, Fri-Sat, Illinois State University, Bone Student Center, Normal, IL
EYES WIDE OPEN: THE COST OF WAR TO ILLINOIS EXHIBIT
Info: CSchaarschmidt (at) afsc.org

--Dec 2, Sat, 1:30 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
GAZA ON THE GROUND:
WORDS & PICTURES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Hear Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Sponsor: International Solidarity Movement
Info: www.palsolidarity.org

--Dec 2, Sat, 4-12 am, Acme Art Works 1741 N Western
CELEBRATE LOCAL CHICAGO ARTISTS
Open studios, also live bands
Info: nnwac (at) nnwac.org

--Dec 2-3, Sat-Sun, Cleveland OH
US LABOR AGAINST THE WAR
ANTIWAR RALLY & LABOR CONFERENCE
Info: www.uslaboragainstwar.org

--Dec 3, Sun, 10 am, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 2700 W Haddon
PANCAKE/WAFFLE BREAKFAST BENEFIT FOR VIDA/SIDA AIDS PROJECT
Sponsors: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee,
Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Info: 773-278-6706

--Dec 3, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
THE MUHAMMAD SALAH CASE:
IS HELPING PALESTINIANS TREASON IN THE US
Maryam Salah discusses case of Muhammad Salah, the first US
citizen to be labeled a specially designated terrorist
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--Dec 3, Sun, 5 pm
ISM MONTHLY POTLUCK DINNER
Sponsor: International Solidarity Movement
Info: www.palsolidarity.org

--Dec 4, Mon, 7:30 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th
ALEX KOTLOWITZ: NEVER A CITY SO REAL: A WALK IN CHICAGO
Acclaimed author reads from his new book; event benefits Literacy Works

--Dec 7, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: THE TAKE
Naomi Klein’s documentary on workers' takeover
of an auto parts factory near Buenos Aires
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: 847-677-5474

--Dec 8-10, Fri-Sun, London UK
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE
historicalmaterialism (at) soas.ac.uk

--Dec 10, Sun, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted
INAUGURAL JANE ADDAMS DAY IN ILLINOIS
75th anniversary of Jane Addams’ Nobel Peace Prize
www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/janeaddamsday/

--Dec 10, Sun, 12 pm, Mercury Cafe, 1505 W Chicago
FILM: MANUFACTURING CONSENT
Documentary features Noam Chomsky
Benefit for Midwest Books to Prisoners
Info: home.comcast.net/~more_about_it/

--Dec 10, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS GATHERING
Info: 312-719-5719

--Dec 10, Sun, 5:30 pm, 19th Century Club, 178 Forest Ave, Oak Park
ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY 2006 AWARDS DINNER
Info: 312-663-4107

FORTHCOMING
-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
-1/27 End The War March & Rally, Washington DC, www.unitedforpeace.org
-2/2-3 Building Bridges Labour Studies Conference, University of Windsor-Ontario
-3/17 Fourth Anniversary of Iraq War,
www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php
-5/17-19 Citizenship, Identity, & Social Justice Conference, Windsor, infoservices.uwindsor.ca/ocs/index.php
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NEW BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-2007 Slingshot organizer
-There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class & Hurricane Katrina
eds Chester Hartman & Gregory D. Squires
-Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006, eds Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
-Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker
-Naked Imperialism: The US Pursuit of Global Dominance, by John Bellamy Foster
-Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology,
by Michael Perelman
-The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib & the American Media, by Lila Rajiva
-The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
-Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq,
by Stephen Kinzer
-The Liberal Virus: Permanent War & the Americanization of the World,
by Samir Amin
-Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire,
eds John Bellamy Foster & Robert W McChesney
-The Problem of the Media: US Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century,
by Robert W McChesney
-Windows on the Workplace: Technology, Jobs, & the Organization of Office Work,
by Joan Greenbaum
-Silent Revolution: The Rise & Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America,
by Duncan Green
-The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory & Politics,
ed Nancy Holmstrom
-Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education,
by Joe Berry
-A History of Capitalism: 1500 – 2000, by Michel Beaud
-Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine,
& Iraq in a Marxist Mirror, by Gilbert Achcar
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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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