NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: DEC 7 - 30

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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--Dec 7, 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

--Dec 7, Thu, 7 pm, Physicians for a National Health Plan
29 E Madison, Ste 602
ILLINOIS SINGLE PAYER COALITION MEETING

--Dec 7, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
THE REBELLION IN OAXACA
Frontline report from Zapatista solidarity group ChicagOtra
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: groups.yahoo.com/group/oulchicago/

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

--Dec 9, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guests: war crimes attorney Asli Bali,
journalist Larisa Alexandrovna
Info: www.thisishell.net

--Dec 9, Sat, 12-1 pm, corner Michigan & Monroe
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: DENOUNCE TORTURE
Sponsors: American Friends Service Committee,
Christian Peacemaker Teams, 8th Day Center for Justice,
National Boricua Human Rights Network, Peace Pledge Chicago
Info: 773-278-6706

--Dec. 9, Sat, 1 pm, North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N Pulaski
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE &
SUSTAINABLY ORIENTED COMMUNITY OF STELLE
Video screening
Info: 815-256-2204, sustaincup.blogspot.com/

--Dec 9, Sat, 2 pm, West Englewood Library, 1745 W 63rd
RACISM & ANTI-RACISM IN MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES
Hear Prof France Winddance Twine of
University of California-Santa Barbara
Sponsor: Public Square
Info: 312-422-5580

--Dec 9, Sat, 5 pm, Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis
RENAISSANCE 2010 & CHICAGO SCHOOL CLOSINGS
Sponsor: Teachers for Social Justice
Info: www.teachersforjustice.org/

--Dec 9, Sat, 5 pm, Restaurant La Margarita, 555 W Madison
VENEZUELAN ELECTIONS: CELEBRATE THE PEOPLE'S VICTORY
Sponsor: Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

--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, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
SOCIAL JUSTICE & ETHICAL ISSUES IN
ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Dr. Sheila Curren & panel of experts on overcoming obstacles to treatment
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--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, 12-3 pm, Art Institute, 111 S Michigan
NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT DAY RALLY
Demand Congress investigate/impeach Bush/Cheney
Info: impeachoriran (at) yahoo.com

--Dec 10, Sun, 12:30-3 pm, Wellington Church, 615 W Wellington
FAIR TRADE & HAND MADE HOLIDAY GIFT SALE
Info: waucc (at) sbcglobal.net

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

--Dec 10, Sun, 3-7 pm, 37 S Ashland
HOLIDAY APPEAL FOR CLASS-WAR PRISONERS
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, abolish the racist death penalty
Sponsor: Partisan Defense Committee
Info: 312-563-0442

--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

--Dec 11, Mon 4 pm, Aon Center, 200 E Randolph
STOP THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FROM BUYING CITY HALL
Protest Chicago Chamber of Commerce’s plans to spend $1M
buying friendly candidates in 2007 Chicago elections
Sponsors: Jobs with Justice, others
Info: www.chicagojwj.org/download/dec11_ccc_flyer.pdf

--Dec 11, Mon, 10-2 am, Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W Dickens
AREA CHICAGO MAGAZINE FUNDRAISER
Info: www.areachicago.org/

--Dec 13, Wed, 7:30 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
THE DEMONIZATION OF THE INNER CITY
Author Steve Macek of Chicago Media Action discusses his book
Urban Nightmares: the Media, the Right
& the Moral Panic Over the City
Info: 773-227-4011

--Dec 14, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 W Milwaukee
IMAGES OF WAR: MULTIMEDIA JOURNEY THROUGH THE
34-DAY WAR IN LEBANON & ITS AFTERMATH
Interactive multimedia presentation with award-winning
independent reporter Ana Nogueira of Democracy Now
& photojournalist Andrew Stern

--Dec 15, Fri, 3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
DEFECATION FICTIONS: CIRCULATION &
THE INVISIBLE ECONOMY OF THE PRISON CAMP
Hear Scott Nelson of College of William & Mary
Info: scholl (at) newberry.org

--Dec 15-17, Fri-Sun, Vienna
AUSTRO-MARXISM
Conference marks 70th anniversary of
Otto Bauer’s Between Two World Wars
Info: www.kpoe.at/austromarx/engl_start.htm

--Dec 16, Sat, 6 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
WHERE IS THE LEFT ON IRAN
Hear author Danny Postel of openDemocracy magazine
Info: 773-227-4011

--Dec 16, Sat, 3-7 pm, Quenchers Saloon, 2401 N Western
WINTERFEST 2006
Chicago Socialist Party annual bash
Info: chgosp (at) juno.com

--Dec 16, Sat, 7 pm, Albany Park Community Arts Cooperative, 3460 W Lawrence
FIGHT POLICE BRUTALITY
Benefit for Anti-Minutemen protestors; video, live music by Tristan James, more
Sponsors: Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Mexico Solidarity Network,
Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, Party for Socialism & Liberation
Info: 773-463-0311

--Dec 16-17, Sat-Sun, Vancouver CA
ANTI-WAR FILM FESTIVAL
Sponsor: Mobilization Against War and Occupation
Info: www.mawovancouver.org

--Dec 17, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
CURRENT CHALLENGES IN ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
Hear W. Robert Schultz III of Amnesty International &
Illinois Coalition for Abolition of the Death Penalty
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--Dec 19, Tue 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: THE TAKE
Must-see documentary on workers’ take-over of auto parts factory
near Buenos Aires following Argentina’s 2001 economic collapse
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: groups.yahoo.com/group/oulchicago/

--Dec 19, Tue, 7:45 pm, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: A SHORT WORKING DAY
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1981 drama of social strife
resulting from food price increases in a factory town

--Dec 22, Fri, 7 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
BENEFIT HOLIDAY PARTY:
CHICAGO COALITION AGAINST WAR & RACISM
Info: nnwac (at) nnwac.org

--Dec 23, Sat, 1-3 pm
ANTI-FUR PROTEST
1 pm, Burberry, 633 N Michigan
2 pm, Neiman Marcus, 737 N. Michigan
Sponsor: ADL Chicago
Info: chicago.animaldefense.info

--Dec 30, Sat, 1-3 pm
ANTI-FUR PROTEST
1 pm, Nordstroms, Grand & Michigan
2 pm, Burberry, 633 N Michigan
Sponsor: ADL Chicago
Info: chicago.animaldefense.info

--Dec 30 – Jan 7, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: FANTASTIC PLANET
René Laloux's classic is an animated surrealist portrayal of
state-sponsored terror
Info: www.facets.org

FORTHCOMING
-1/12-14 National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis TN, www.freepress.net/conference/CFS
-1/15 Martin Luther King Jr holiday
-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
-3/18-21 National Conference for Union Representatives in Healthcare
conference, Holiday Inn City Center Chicago
-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
-Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right & the Moral Panic Over the City,
by Steve Macek
-Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran & the Future of Liberalism,
by Danny Postel
-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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