NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: AUG 8 - 29

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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--Aug 8, Wed, 6:30 pm, Chicago Workers' Collaborative, 3047 W Cermak
CYGNUS WORKERS SOLIDARITY BENEFIT
Support immigrant workers of South Chicago
Info: 773-852-8815, JMujicaM (at) aol.com

--Aug 8, Wed, 6:30 pm, Landmark Cinema, 2828 N Clark
FILM: NO END IN SIGHT
Chicago premier of Charles Ferguson's acclaimed history
of the Iraq war; discussion follows with Juan Torres of Gold Star
Families for Peace, also Jeff Leys of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Free screening, reservations required
Sponsor: The Public Square, Gold Star Families for Peace,
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Info/rsvp: events (at) thepublicsquare.org

--Aug 8-9, Wed-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: THE TRIALS OF DARYL HUNT
Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg’s essential documentary on Daryl Hunt’s
2-decade, victorious fight to prove his innocence in North Carolina, &
how racism pervades American culture & the criminal-justice system
Info: www.facets.org/asticat

--Aug 8-9, Wed-Thu, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: STRIKE
Volker Schlöndorff’s drama of the 1980s Gdansk labor movement
Info: www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2007/august/6.html

--Aug 8-9, Wed-Thu, Music Box, 3733 N Southport
FILM: KILLER OF SHEEP
Charles Burnett’s classic drama of the Watts ghetto of the 1970s
Info: www.musicboxtheatre.com/killerofsheep.html

--Aug 9, Thu, Hideout
DANBERT NOBACON OF CHUMBAWAMBA

--Aug 8-30, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
BLACK HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL

--Aug 9, 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

--Aug 11, Sat, 12 pm, Chicago area BP gas stations
BP DAY OF ACTIONS
Volunteers needed for flyering at area BP stations
Info: www.environmentillinois.org

--Aug 11, Sat, 2 pm, 11311 Skunk Hollow Rd, Mt. Carroll, IL
GATHERING AT BLACKWATER ILLINOIS FACILITY
www.noprivatearmies.org/take_action.html

--Aug 11, Sat, 4 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
AGAINST CAPITALISM:
THE EUROPEAN LEFT ON THE MARCH
Historian William A. Pelz discusses new book on the European Left
during the half century between the Paris Commune & the
immediate post-World War I years; premier book release event
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org

--Aug 12, Sun, 12:30 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
KNOW WHAT I MEAN? REFLECTIONS ON HIP HOP
Author Michael Eric Dyson, repeats 8/13 5:30 am

--Aug 12, Sun, 9 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME:
THE PAIN, POLITICS, & PROMISE OF SPORTS
Journalist & sportswriter Dave Zirin

--Aug 12, Sun, 11 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
NO CAUSE FOR INDICTMENT:
THE EXPLOSIVE STORY OF THE NEWARK RIOTS
Author Ron Porambo’s 1967 book detailed the riots & examined
police corruption; panel discussion on book’s re-release with
Fred Bruning, Sally Carroll, Robert Curvin, Danny Schechter,
Leonard Weinglass

--Aug 13, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash
DRAFT FOR MARXIST-HUMANIST PERSPECTIVES 2007-2008:
CHALLENGING THE DOMINANCE OF CAPITAL
IN THEORY & PRACTICE
Hear Jim Mills of News & Letters
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Aug 13, Mon, 7 pm, Brehon Pub, 731 N Wells
FILM: WAR MADE EASY
Sean Penn narrates documentary on militarist propaganda
Sponsor: Chicago Progressive Democrats
Info: www.pdachicago.com

--Aug 15, Wed, Adalberto United Methodist Church, Humboldt Park
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF SANCTUARY OF ELVIRA & SAUL ARELLANO

--Aug 17, Fri, 6-9 pm, Sonotheque, 1444 W Chicago
DISSNET IS NOT A CRIME
Benefit for Puerto Rican political prisoners
DJs, readings, more
Info: www.boricuahumanrights.org

--Aug 18, Sat, 1:30 pm, National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W 19th St
WOMEN ARTISTS OF MODERN MEXICO:
FRIDA'S CONTEMPORARIES
Discussion follows exhibition viewing with Sylvia Escárcega of
DePaul University on re-invention & commercialization of progressive
thinkers from Frida Kahlo to Che Guevara
Sponsor: The Public Square

--Aug 21, Tue, 8-4 pm, Hull House Association Center for Civil Society, 3656 N Halsted
SOCIAL EXCLUSION CONFERENCE
Impact of discrimination, bias, exclusion, inequality
Sponsors: Hull House Association Center for Civil Society,
Institute on Social Exclusion of Adler School of Professional Psychology
Info: theinstitute (at) adler.edu

--Aug 17, Fri, 7 pm, Café Cathedral, 2500 S Christiana
COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS BENEFIT
Bands, DJs, lots more; no to Burger King’s treatment of farmworkers
Info: www.ciw-online.org

--Aug 17-23, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
Asgar Leth & Milos Loncarevic’s gripping documentary on
Haiti during the political strife
Info: www.facets.org/asticat

--Aug 18-19, Sat, Sun, 9-5 pm, North Ave beach
AIR & WATER SHOW ANTI-MILITARIZATION PROTEST

--Aug 23, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LEFT: COGNITIONS IN
THE CONSTITUTION & WHY BUCKLEY IS WRONG
Hear William Kreml of University of South Carolina
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

--Aug 24, Fri, 2 pm, American Indian Center, 1630 W Wilson
MAZE OF INJUSTICE: VIOLENCE AGAINST
INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE USA
Hear Georgia Little Shield of Pretty Bird Woman House of
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation; Zaynab Nawaz of Maze of
Injustice campaign; Chicago women's rights activists
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Info: mazeofinjustice (at) gmail.com, 312-427-2060

--Aug 24, Fri, 7 pm, El Centro Autonomo, 3460 W Lawrence
FILM: LA TOMA DE LOS MEDIOS EN OAXACA
(THE TAKING OF THE MEDIA IN OAXACA)
Chicago premier of documentary on the 2006 Oaxaca struggles
& the appropriation of local media by striking workers

--Aug 24-25, Fri-Sat, corner North & Kedzie
CHICAGO HOMELESS VETERANS STANDDOWN
A day of health care, food, shelter for homeless veterans

--Aug 26, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 310 N Mayfield
THE BOYCOTT-DIVESTMENT-SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID
Hear Kevin Clark of International Solidarity Movement & Stop CAT Coalition
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org/

--Aug 29 – Sep 2, Wed-Sun
INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ON HURRICANES KATRINA & RITA
Second anniversary of flood that devastated New Orleans
Info: www.peopleshurricane.org, www.internationaltribunal.org

FORTHCOMING
-8/30-9/3 Student-Farmworker Alliance Encuentro, Florida, sfalliance.org/
-8/31 Highlander Center 75th Anniversary,
www.highlandercenter.org/anniversary/program.asp
-9/3-5 Global Social Justice in Theory & Practice conference, UK,
www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/GSAConf2006/index.htm
-9/6-16 Witness For Peace Delegation to Colombia,
ErinCox_XU03 (at) yahoo.com
-9/21 Iraq Moratorium, iraqmoratorium.org
-9/22-29 Troops Out Now Encampment/March, Washington DC,
www.troopsoutnow.org/, ChicagoTroopsOut (at) sbcglobal.net
-9/28 Chicago Critical Mass 10th Anniversary,
chicagocriticalmass.org/ccmx
-9/29-10/6 Banned Book Week, www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
-10/2 International Day of Non-Violence
-10/6 Matthew Shepard March for LGBT Freedom
-10/22-23 Midwest Conference on Labor in the
New Energy Economy, Cleveland OH, www.cows.org/lnee
-10/27 Regional Anti-War Demonstrations, www.unitedforpeace.org/
-11/16-18 Close the School of the Americas, Ft Benning GA,
www.soaw.org/
-12/8 International Demonstrations on Climate Change,
www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
-4/11-13/08 Historians Against the War Conference, Atlanta,
www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/
-5/1-4/08 Global Greens Conference, Nairobi, www.globalgreens.info/nairobi/announce.htm
-5/5-8/08 Fourth International Conference: Karl Marx & the Challenges
of the XXI Century, Havana

NEW & RE-STOCKED BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
---CHARLES H. KERR PUBLISHERS---
-The Big Red Songbook, edited by Archie Green, David Roediger & Franklin Rosemont & Salvatore Salerno (afterword by Utah Phillips)
-Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture,
by Franklin Rosemont
-What's the Use of Walking if There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?
Black Hoboes & Their Songs, by Paul Garon & Gene Tomko (with companion CD)
-We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975,
by Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford, Jr)
-Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Mode a Difference
by Bob Breving
-History Against Misery, by David Roediger
-Starving Amidst Too Much & Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry,
by T-Bone Slim, L. S. Chumley, Jim Seymour & Jack Sheridan,
edited by Peter Rachleff (Foreword by Carlos Cortez)
-Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, by Peter Cole
-Facing Reality, by C.L.R. James & Grace C. Lee
-Punching Out & Other Writings, by Martin Glaberman, edited by Staughton Lynd
-The Head Fixing Industry, by John Keracher
-Haymarket Scrapbook edited by Dave Roediger & Franklin Rosemont
-The Rise & Fall of the Dil Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most
Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot, edited by Franklin Rosemont
-The Right to be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue
-State Capitalism & World Revolution, by C.L.R. James
-IWW Little Red Songbook: Centennial Edition
-Frederick Engels, by John Keracher

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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

Mon, 6 pm, 2502 W Division
IRAQ PEACE PLEDGE
Info: peacepledgechicago.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, Winds Cafe, 2657 N Kedzie
SECOND CITY GREENS
Second & fourth Tuesday
www.secondcitygreens.org

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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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
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