NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: OCT 18 – NOV 6

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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--Oct 18, Thu & continuing, 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

--Oct 18, Thu, Washington DC
BRIDGING THE GAP CONFERENCE
Sponsor: Center for Economic & Policy Research
Info: www.bridgingthegaps.org

--Oct 18, Thu, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
ACHY OBEJAS: HAVANA NOIR
Book release event for collection of Cuba’s best literary talent

--Oct 18-21, Live Bait Theater, 3914 N Clark
PLAY: A MURDER OF CROWS
Contemporary satire of media consumerism, environmental degradation,
post-traumatic stress disorder, patriotism & bigotry
Thursdays through Sundays
Info: www.grounduptheatre.com

--Oct 18-21, Thu-Sun, Washington DC
IMF / WORLD BANK ACTIONS:
CONFRONT NEOLIBERALISM IN WASHINGTON DC
Info: octoberrebellion.org/

--Oct 19, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
AN INFINITY OF DAYS IN THE PSYCHOTIC ATOMIK EMPIRE
Author Greg Norton

--Oct 19, Fri, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
CATHY WILKERSON: FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MY LIFE & TIMES AS A WEATHERMAN
Author discusses her new book

--Oct 19-20, Fri-Sat, San Francisco
LABOR CONFERENCE TO STOP THE WAR
Info: laborstopwar.googlepages.com/laborconferencetostopthewar

--Oct 20, Sat, Durty Nellies, 180 N Smith St, Palatine
NORTHWEST SUBURBAN NOW'S GHOULISH FUNDRAISER
Info: contact (at) nwsubnow.org

--Oct 20, Sat, 12:15 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 Cable TV
WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A NARRATIVE
HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA
Historian Peniel Joseph, repeats 10/21 5 am

--Oct 20, Sat, 12:30 pm, Chicago School of Professional Psychology
325 N Wells, Room 407
PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE APA & COERCIVE INTERROGATIONS
Panel of psychologists discuss the past, present, future of
field's involvement in coercive interrogation
Info: www.secondcitygreens.com/events.php

--Oct 20, Sat, 1-8 pm, Experimental Station, 6100 S Blackstone
FESTIVAL OF DEMOCRACY: UNLEASHING RADICAL IMAGINATION
Panelists: Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University, Laura Flanders
of Air America, Bill Fletcher of Center for Labor Renewal,
Bernadine Dohrn, Salim Muwakkil of In These Times,
Dr Quentin Young, Prof Barbara Ransby, others
Sponsor: The Peoples Square

--Oct 20, Sat, 7 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 Cable TV
BROTHER, I'M DYING
Edwidge Danticat discusses her breathtaking book on
her uncle, Baptist minister Joseph Danticat, who fled Haiti
in 2004 at age 81 & died while incarcerated by US Homeland Security

--Oct 20, Sat, 8 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5423 N Clark
FILM: At Maxwell Street
Tom Palazzolo’s 1984 documentary on the late people’s market
Info: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/

--Oct 21, Sun, 2-5 pm, Café Batey Urbano, 2620 W Division
MEMORIAL FOR FERD EGGAN
In honor of the veteran activist

--Oct 21, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAO GREENS MEETING
Info: 312-719-5719, 773-306-5402

--Oct 21-22, Sun-Mon
NO WAR-NO WARMING NATIONAL PROTESTS
Info: www.nowarnowarming.org/

--Oct 21-22, Sun-Mon, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 Cable TV
UNBOWED: A MEMOIR
Activist Wangari Maathai
10/21 9 am & 10 pm, 10/22 3 am

--Oct 22, Mon, 12 pm, Federal Plaza
END POLICE BRUTALITY
Part of nation-wide protests
Info: myspace.com/chicagocopwatch

--Oct 22, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARX'S CRITIQUE OF
VALUE PRODUCTION FOR TODAY'S CHANGED WORLD
Hear Marilyn Nissim-Sabat of Lewis University
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Oct 22, Mon, 7 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th
CAPITALIZING ON DISASTER: TAKING & BREAKING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Author Kenneth Saltman on the privatization of public schooling

--Oct 22, Mon, 7 pm, Wellington Church, 618 W Wellington
CLIMATE JUSTICE CHICAGO PUBLIC FORUM
Info: www.climagejusticechicago.org

--Oct 22-23, Mon-Tue, Cleveland OH
MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON LABOR IN THE
NEW ENERGY ECONOMY
Info: www.cows.org/lnee

--Oct 22-23, Mon-Tue, Minneapolis MN
LESSONS FROM NAFTA: BUILDING A NEW FAIR TRADE AGENDA
Info: www.iatp.org or lvieira (at) iatp.org

--Oct 23, Tue, 6 pm, Treat Restaurant, 1616 N Kedzie
DEATH ROW BLUES BENEFIT
Sponsor: Campaign to End the Death Penalty

--Oct 23, Tue, 7 pm, Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn
BUSTAN: CULTURAL & POLITICAL LANDSCAPES OF THE NEGEV
Hear Bustan founder Devorah Brous & director Ra'ed Al-Mickawi
on the organization of Jewish & Arab eco-builders, architects,
academics & farmers promoting justice in Israel/Palestine
Sponsor: Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago, American Friends Service Committee
Info: lpollack (at) afsc.org

--Oct 23, Tue, 7 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th
POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO: THE DETAINEES SPEAK
Readings from the book; with Marc Falkoff,
attorney for seventeen Guantánamo prisoners

--Oct 25, Thu, 7 pm, Nature Center, 5801 N Pulaski
PEAKING PROBLEMS & THE REFOCUSING OF PROGRESS
Thomas J Murphy discusses Richard Heinberg's new book.
Info: sustaincup1.blogspot.com/

--Oct 25, Thu, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
THE ESSENTIAL FEMINIST READER
Hear Stanford historian & editor Estelle B Freedman

--Oct 25, Thu, 7:30 pm, Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, 5800 Kimball
BEYOND SEPARATISM:
WHAT IRAQIS REALLY WANT THE US TO DO NOW
Hear Iraqi political analyst & journalist Ra’ed Jarrar

--Oct 25-28, Thu-Sun, Dearborn MI
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR
ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE
Info: www.nnaac.org

-Oct 26-27, Fri-Sat, Sonoma State University
PROJECT CENSORED MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY CONFERENCE
www.projectcensored.org/conference

--Oct 26, Fri, 6 pm, International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: DISPATCHES FROM
AN UNEMBEDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
Journalist Dahr Jamail

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--Oct 27, Sat, 1:30 pm, Union Park
ALL OUT!! CHICAGO / MIDWEST REGIONAL
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
March to Federal Plaza for 4 pm rally
Info/posters/flyers/volunteers: www.oct27chicago.org
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--Oct 27, Sat, 7 pm, UIC
DAHR JAMAIL: BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: DISPATCHES
FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
Info: scruggs48 (at) yahoo.com

--Oct 28, Sun, 10 am Third Unitarian Church, 301 North Mayfield
US FOREIGN POLICY & THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM:
WHAT DRIVES TERROR & WHAT CAN DEFEAT IT
Hear Steve Niva of Middle East Research & Information Project

--Oct 28, Sun, 10:30 am, Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 N Lincoln
ETHICAL HUMANISM AS A UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Hear Jennifer Scates of American Ethical Union

--Oct 28, Sun, 2 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake
FILM: WAR MADE EASY
Sponsor: Oak Park Coalition for Truth & Justice,
Oak Park Public Library

--Oct 28, Sun, 3 pm, Unite Hall, 333 S Ashland
GREG PALAST
Benefit for Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Honoring the Rosen Family
Info: www.ccdbr.org/

--Oct 28, Sun, time tba, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE LEFT:
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVVE
Chicago’s oldest ongoing independent leftist forum series conducts
its first ever self-assessment, with Carl Davidson & David Williams
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

--Oct 29-11/8, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
HUMANITIES FILM FESTIVAL
Info: www.facets.org

--Oct 31, Wed, 4 pm, Wicker Park
CAPITALISM GIVES ME THE CREEPS:
ANARCHIST HALLOWEEN PARADE

--Nov 1, Thu, 8 pm, Mandel Hall, University of Chicago
UM KULTHUM EGYPTIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Sponsor: Arab American Action Network

--Nov 1, 8 pm, Thu, Doc Films, 1212 East 59th
FILM: CAMP DE THIAROYE
Ousmane Sembène’s riveting drama of West African conscripts
in the French army of 1944
Info: docfilms.uchicago.edu/

--Nov 1-4, Thu-Sun, Doc Films, 1212 East 59th
CHICAGO KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
Info: docfilms.uchicago.edu/events/ckff.shtml

--Nov 2-4, Fri-Sun, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: CRUDE IMPACT
James Jandak Wood’s stunning documentary on the historical
impact of oil extraction on indigenous peoples & their environment
Info: www.facets.org/

--Nov 3-4, Sat-Sun,
MIDWEST SOCIALIST CONFERENCE
Info: www.socialistworker.org

--Nov 4, Sun, 10 am, Symphony Center
E.L. DOCTOROW
Info: www.chfestival.org

--Nov 5, Mon, Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S Halsted
FUNDING THE REVOLUTION: PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS & FUNDING
ACTIVIST ORGANIZING IN CHICAGO
Discussion with Z-Magazine's Michael Albert
Sponsors: 49th St Underground, AREA Chicago,
Jane Addams Hull House Museum,
Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society

--Nov 6, Tue, 7 pm, Art Institute auditorium, 280 S Columbus
THE 3 RS: REFORM, REVOLUTION & RESISTANCE:
THE PROBLEMATIC FORMS OF ANTI-CAPITALISM TODAY
Panelists: Michael Albert of Z Magazine, Chris Cutrone of Platypus,
Stephen Duncombe of New York University, Brian Holmes of Continental Drift & Universite Tangente, Marisa Holmes of Students for a Democratic Society
Info: home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_resistance110607.html

FORTHCOMING
-11/8-11 Movement for a Democratic Society Convergence,
Loyola University, www.movementforademocraticsociety.org/
-11/8-18 Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival,
www.reelingfilmfestival.org
-11/10 Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair, Chicago
-11/10-11 Movement for a Democratic Society Convergence, Loyola University
-11/10-11 Campaign to End the Death Penalty Conference,
nodeathpenalty.org/
-11/16-18 Close the School of the Americas, busses to Ft Benning GA,
www.soaw.org/
-12/1 Peoples Thanksgiving Dinner, Casa Michoacan
-12/8 International Demonstrations on Climate Change,
www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
-1/11 Sixth Anniversary of Indefinite Detention for Guantanamo prisoners
-4/11-13 Historians Against the War Conference, Atlanta,
www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/
-4/11-13 Labor Notes Conference, Dearborn MI
-5/1-4 Global Greens Conference, Nairobi, www.globalgreens.info/nairobi/announce.htm
-5/5-8 Fourth International Conference: Karl Marx & the Challenges
of the XXI Century, Havana
-6/5-7 How Class Works Conference, SUNY, www.workingclass.sunysb.edu
-6/6-8 National Conference for Media Reform, Minneapolis,
www.freepress.net/conference/

SUPPORT PLUTO PRESS: U.S. distribution threatened by far right
reaction to publication of Joel Kovel’s "Overcoming Zionism"
Info: www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm

NEW & RE-STOCKED BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein
-Class Matters, by Bill Keller
-Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich
-The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity &
Ignore Inequality, by Walter Benn Michaels
-In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes
in Iraq & Beyond, by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler & Brendan Smith
-Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change
from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer
-How to Succeed at Globalization:
A Primer for Roadside Vendors, by El Fisgón (translated by Mark Fried)
-Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture,
by Franklin Rosemont
-We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975,
by Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford, Jr)
-History Against Misery, by David Roediger
-State Capitalism & World Revolution, by C.L.R. James
-IWW Little Red Songbook: Centennial Edition
-IWW Big Red Songbook
-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

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, 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

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
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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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