NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: MAY 24 – JUN 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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Calendar listings begin Thursday for following 2.5 weeks, includes
submissions received by deadline 5 pm Tuesday - 500+ recipients
SUBMIT EVENTS & SUBSCRIBE at NWRC2600 (at) juno.com
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--May 24, Thu, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
SUPPORT CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKERS
Support workers in Chicago’s longest running strike
Sponsor: Unite HERE Local 1
Info: www.congresshotelstrike.info

--May 24, Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: SACCO & VANZETTI
Peter Miller’s spellbinding documentary
Info: www.facets.org,
www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

--May 24, Thu, 6:30 pm, 3334 W. Lawrence #202
FILM: POSADA CARRILES: TERRORISM MADE IN THE USA
Premier of new documentary
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: 773-463-0311

--May 24-28, Thu-Mon, Grant Park, Jackson & Columbus Drive
EYES WIDE OPEN: AN EXHIBITION ON
THE HUMAN COST OF IRAQ WAR
Exhibit contains pair of combat boots with the name/age/rank/hometown
of each US soldier killed in Iraq war; final time entire US death toll
will be represented in one place because exhibit has grown too large
-5/24 12 - 6 pm
-5/25-27 8 am - 8 pm
-5/28 8 - 3 pm
Info: www.afsc.org/eyes!

--May 25, Fri, 6:30 pm, Art Center of Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Rd
EXHIBIT: TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR
Features artists from Iraq, Iran, Israel, Northern Ireland, Russia,
Bosnia & USA on topics of fear, violence & crisis;
also war poetry by Warren Leming
Sponsor: Links for International Promotion of the Arts
Info: www:LipaArt.org

--May 25, Fri, 7 pm, Arlington Heights Library, 500 N Dunton
FILM: WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
Chris Paine’s documentary
Sponsor: Independent Documentary Film Presentation Group
Info: fotgp (at) sbcglobal.net

--May 26, Sat, 1:45 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
I'VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND:
A LOST TALE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Historian Karolyn Smardz Frost

--May 26, Sat, 6:30 pm, Acem Art Works, 1741 N Western
ANIMAL RIGHTS & THE GREEN SCARE
Hear journalist Will Potter on how War on Terror
affects civil liberties
Info: chicago.animaldefense.info

--May 27, Sun, 1 pm, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2
Mike Gray & Howard Alk’s brilliant 1969 documentary on
the 1968 Democratic Convention protests, a critique of the events
by working class African-Americans in Chicago, & attempts
by the Black Panther Party to organize poor white youths
on the north side

--May 27, Sun, 2 pm, Local 1033 Hall, 11731 S Avenue O
70TH ANNIVERSARY OF MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE
AT REPUBLIC STEEL IN CHICAGO
Keynote: Leo Gerard, President, USWA
Ten workers were killed in 1937, including 3 USWA Local 1010
members, for peacefully demonstrating for a union contract

--May 28, Mon, 9:30 am, east of Arlington Heights Rd on Sigwalt
MARCH FOR PEACE IN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Sponsor: CodePINK, Northwest Suburban NOW
Info: ccaporusso (at) yahoo.com

--May 28, Mon, 11 am, Vietnam Vets Memorial, Wacker & Wabash
MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
Sponsor: Vietnam Veterans Against the War

--May 28, Mon, 2 pm, Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, 1801 S Indiana
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR BBQ BENEFIT
Info: 312-326-0270

--May 29, Tue, 7 pm, Arlington Heights Library, 500 N Dunton
FILM: THE TORTURE QUESTION
Frontline Documentary
Sponsor: Green Party of Arlington Heights
Info: fotgp (at) sbcglobal.net

--Jun 1-2, Thu-Fri, City University of New York
STORMING THE HEAVENS: WORKER EDUCATION &
SOCIAL ACTIVISM CONFERENCE
Info: www.workereducation.org

--Jun 1-8, Rostock, Germany
G8 PROTESTS
Info: www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/g82007/index.htm

--Jun 2, Sat, 1:30 pm, Scoville Park, Lake & Oak Park,
HELP BURY RACISM IN OAK PARK
Support Resurrection West Suburban Hospital workers
to bury racism & demand justice for hospital workers
Sponsor: South Austin Coalition
Info: 773-287-4570

--Jun 4, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash Rm 1440
RE-CREATING MARX'S PHILOSOPHY OF
REVOLUTION IN PERMANENCE FOR TODAY
Hear Olga Domanski of News & Letters
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Jun 7, Thu, International House, 1414 E 59th
TWO STATE SOLUTION: STILL POSSIBLE?
Panelists: Author Ali Abunimah, activist Prof Yigal Bronner,
writer Emily Hauser, Rev. Said Aliabouni
Sponsors: AFSC, University of Chicago Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago International House

--Jun 10, Sun, Washington DC
ISRAEL-PALESTINE MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE OCCUPATION
Spnsors: Jewish Voice for Peace, US Campaign to End the Occupation,
United for Peace & Justice, many others
Info: www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp;

--Jun 10, Sun, 4 pm, Barbara’s Bookstore at Dominican University
7200 W Division
VEGAN BANQUET TO HONOR THOSE
WHO WORK TIRELESSLY FOR ANIMALS
Keynote: author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Sponsor: Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom
Info: www.speakonline.org

--Jun 13, Wed, St Charles IL
CATERPILLAR SHAREHOLDER MEETING PROTEST

--Jun 14-17, Thu-Sun, New Orleans
SOCIAL WELFARE ACTION ALLIANCE CONFERENCE
Info: www.socialwelfareactionalliance.org/2007_conf_ann.pdf

FORTHCOMING
-6/15 Congress Hotel Strikers Fourth Anniversary Mass Picket
-6/14-15 Chicago Homeless Vets Standdown, Armory, North Ave & Kedzie
-6/14-17 Socialism 2007, Crowne Plaza O’Hare, www.haymarketbooks.org
-6/16-19 Interfiath Worker Justice National Conference, Chicago,
www.iwj.org/conference-2007/2007-conference.html
-6/21-24 Education for Liberation Conference, Chicago,
freeminds (at) brotherhood-sistersol.org
-6/22-24 UFPJ 3rd National Assembly, Chicago
-6/22-28 African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinémathèque
-6/27-7/1 US Social Forum, Atlanta, www.ussf2007.org/
-7/5-8 Toward an Africa Without Borders Conference, Durban,
www.towardanafricawithoutborders.org/durban2007.html
-7/13-15 National NOW Conference, Dearborn MI, www.now.org/organization/conference/2007/
-8/3-5 Vietnam Veterans Against the War 40th Anniversary, Roosevelt University
-9/3-5 Global Social Justice in Theory & Practice conference, UK,
www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/GSAConf2006/index.htm
-12/8 International Demonstrations on Climate Change,
www.globalclimatecampaign.org/

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NEW & RE-STOCKED BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-30% off 2007 Calendars!! (excluding Slingshots)
-Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army,
By Jeremy Scahill
-What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression:
A Guide for Activists, by Victor Serge
-Looking for Bigfoot, by Mike Palecek
-Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali,
by Tariq Ali & David Barsamian
-Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radial Media Criticism,
edited by Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott
-America & Iraq: Seduced by Fear, By Dr. Amaal V.E. Tokars
-The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929, by Isaac Deutscher
-Harlem's Glory: Black Women's Writing 1900-1950,
edited by Lorraine Elena Roses & Ruth Elizabeth Randolph
-What's the Matter With America?:
The Resistible Rise of the American Right, by Thomas Frank
-The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, by Riane Eisler
-On Guerrilla Warfare, by Mao Tse-tung
-Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
-Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival, by Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro
-My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King, by Reymundo Sanchez
New Children's books:
-Be BOY BUZZ by bell hooks
-Don't Hold Me Back: My Life and Art, by Winfred Rembert
New Sale books -- 50% off!
-The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, $6.48
-Don't You Know There's A War On? The American Home Front 1941-1945,
by Richard Lingeman $8.48
-The Story of American Freedom, by Eric Foner
-The American Dream, by Mike Palecek
-Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror,
by Frederick Schwartz, Jr. & Aziz Huq

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by 5 pm Tuesday for events beginning Thursday

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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

Sat, 3 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

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: People Against War & Empire
Info: hooshi (at) sbcglobal.net

Sun, 7 pm, wluw radio, 88.7 FM
LABOR EXPRESS RADIO
Info: www.laborexpress.org

Mon-Fri
DEMOCRACY NOW
7 am, CAN-TV cable TV channel 19
7-9 am WZRD 88.3 FM
9 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
12 pm WMXM 88.9 FM
5 pm WRTE 90.5 FM
Info: www.DemocracyNow.org

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

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, 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, Mercury Cafe, 1505 W Chicago
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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TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC: Phone (773) 227 4011or
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smoking storefront accessible by public transportation, street parking
available, wheelchairs/bikes welcome. Small donation requested.

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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