NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: AUG 16 – SEP 3

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 16, 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 16, Thu, 6 pm, Police Board meeting, 3510 S Michigan
PROTEST POLICE SHOOTINGS
Sponsor: Chicago COPWATCH
Info: 773-2600-0308, copwatch(at)hush.com

--Aug 16, Thu, 7 pm, Book Cellar, 4736-38 N Lincoln
PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS READINGS
Authors Danny Postel, Tom Geoghegan, Rick Perlstein, Matti Bunzl
Info: www.bookcellarinc.com

--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 17, Fri, 6:30 pm, Skylark (Cermak & Halsted)
MEMORIAL RIDE FOR BIKE MESSENGER RYAN BOUDREAU
Silent ride to the site of Ryan's death, 18th & Clark

--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 of 2004
Info: www.facets.org/asticat

--Aug 18, Sat, 11 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
EUGENE V. DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST
Historian Nick Salvatore discusses his classic 1982 biography of the
labor leader & founder of the modern US socialist movement

--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 18, Sat, 7 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM: A YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE
TO WHY FEMINISM MATTERS
Author Jessica Valenti

--Aug 18, Sat, 9 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? FABULOUS PRAYERS
IN THE FACE OF THE SHOPOCALYPSE
Reverend Billy, head of the Church of Stop Shopping,
examines the effects of consumerism

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

--Aug 19, Sun, 2 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
IN DEFENSE OF OUR AMERICA: THE FIGHT FOR
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE AGE OF TERROR
ACLU executive director Anthony Romero

--Aug 19, Sun, 10:30 am, 9th & Cole, St Louis MO
NATIONAL MARCH THROUGH THE ARCH:
STOP THE WAR
Sponsor: Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans
Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, CodePink, St Louis Instead
of War Coalition, Grassroots America, Gold Star Families for Peace, others
Info: www.vfpnationalconvention.org/march.htm

--Aug 19, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS FORUM
Info: wesgreen (at) ripco.com

--Aug 19, Sun, 3:30 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
KNOW WHAT I MEAN? REFLECTIONS ON HIP HOP
Author Michael Eric Dyson

--Aug 19, Sun, 6:50 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME:
THE PAIN, POLITICS, & PROMISE OF SPORTS
Sports journalist Dave Zirin

--Aug 20, Mon, 6 pm, Access Living, 115 W Chicago
WINDY CITY US SOCIAL FORUM DEBRIEF
Info: 312-738-6203

--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 22, Wed, 5:30 pm, Access Living, 115 W. Chicago
Film: CAMDEN 28
Award-winning documentary on 1971 anti-war protest
that destroyed draft board files
Sponsors: Chicago ADAPT, Access Living, Chicagoans Against War
& Injustice, Communist Party, American Friends Service Committee,
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Right
Info: 312-640-2125

--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, Wed, 6 pm, Humboldt Park Library, 1605 N Troy
STORYTELLING AS CULTURAL MEMORY
AN EVENING WITH RAMON LOPEZ
Sponsor: The Public Square

--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

--Aug 30- Sep 3, Thu-Mon, Ft Myers, Florida
STUDENT-FARMWORKER ALLIANCE ENCUENTRO
Info: sfalliance.org/2007encuentro.html

--Aug 31-Sep 2, Fri-Sun, New Market, TN
HIGHLANDER CENTER 75TH ANNIVERSARY
Info: www.highlandercenter.org/anniversary/program.asp

--Sep 3-5, Mon-Wed, Birmingham UK
GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE
Info: www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/GSAConf2006/index.htm

FORTHCOMING
-9/6-16 Witness For Peace Delegation to Colombia,
ErinCox_XU03 (at) yahoo.com
-9/7-10 US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation National Organizers'
Conference, Arlington VA, www.endtheoccupation.org/
-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/
-11/10 Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair, Chicago
-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
groups.yahoo.com/group/ChicagoPeaceVigilArtInstitute/

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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