NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: DEC 6 – 20

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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submissions received by deadline 5 pm Tuesday - 500+ recipients
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--Dec 6, 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

--Dec 6, Thu, 7 pm, Open University of the Left
2040 N Milwaukee, second floor
FILM: ERNEST MANDEL - A LIFE FOR THE REVOLUTION
Chicago premier of Chris Den Hond’s fascinating documentary on the
Belgian Marxist economist & activist, includes interviews with Tariq Ali &
many others; discussion follows with activists who worked with Mandel
Sponsors: Open University of the Left, Chicago Socialist Party,
Solidarity-Chicago Chapter
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

--Dec 6, Thu, 7 pm, St Clement School, 2324 N Orchard
EYEWITNESSES TO THE OCCUPATION:
REFLECTIONS ON JOURNEYS TO ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Hear Rev Robert Oldershaw of St Nicholas Church,
Miryam Rashid of American Friends Service Committee

--Dec 6, Thu, 7 pm, Rudy Lozano Library, 1805 S Loomis
UPSIDE DOWN PRIORITIES:
WHY IS CHICAGO FALLING APART
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization

--Dec 7, Fri, 5-6:30 pm, Tribune Towers
CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION HOLIDAY SINGALONG
A round of spirited song protest against the Tribune fat-cats
Info: www.chicagomediaaction.org

--Dec 7, Fri, 6-9 pm, Access Living, 115 W Chicago
CONTAGIOUS: A DISABILITY CULTURE CABARET
Music, performance, film, art & artists
Info: 312-640-2100

--Dec 8, Sat
INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Info: www.globalclimatecampaign.org/

--Dec 8, Sat, 10 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
FEASTING ON THE SPOILS: THE LIFE & TIMES OF
RANDY DUKE CUNNINGHAM, HISTORY'S MOST
CORRUPT CONGRESSMAN
Journalist Seth Hettena

--Dec 8, Sat, 12 pm, intersection Michigan & Monroe
COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Sponsors: AFSC, 8th Day Center for Justice,
National Boricua Human Rights Network,
National Lawyers Guild, Peace Pledge Chicago

--Dec 8, Sat, 2 pm, Loyola University Damen Hall, Rm 144
AVERTING ANOTHER CATASTROPHE:
THE FOLLY OF AN ATTACK ON IRAN
Panelists: Elahe Amani of Society for the Support
of Human Rights in Iran;
Mansour Farhang of Bennington College; others
Info: mlynn226 (at) gmail.com

--Dec 8, Sat, 3:15 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
THE SLAVE SHIP: A HUMAN HISTORY
Historian Marcus Rediker

--Dec 9, Sun, 9:30-12:30 pm, Cafe Batey, 2620 W Division
PANCAKE / WAFFLE BREAKFAST BENEFIT FOR
PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER /
PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
Info: 773-278-6706

--Dec 9, Sun, 12-3 pm, Wellington Church, 615 W Wellington
FAIR TRADE HOLIDAY BAZAAR
Info: www.waucc.org

--Dec 9, Sun, 6 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: WINTER SOLDIER
Documentary of 1971 testimony of Vietnam veterans
Benefit for Iraq Veterans Against War
Info: www.ivaw.org/node/2114

--Dec 10, Mon
FIRST ANNUAL JANE ADDAMS DAY
Celebrate the great socialist, radical, anti-war activist, community organizer
Info: www.aauw-il.org/jane.htm

--Dec 10, Mon, 12-1:30 pm, Sen Obama’s office, 230 S Dearborn St 3900
PROTEST AGAINST VIOLENT RADICALIZATION &
HOMEGROWN TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT

--Dec 10, Mon, 6 pm, CLEP Chicago, 815 W Van Buren
PERU LABOR TOUR REPORT BACK
Chicago Labor Education Program
Info: hworthen (at) uiuc.edu

--Dec 10, Mon, 6 pm, Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S Cornell
PRISON & POETRY: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING WAREHOUSED
Activist Laurie Jo Reynolds, video & poetry explores long term incarceration
Sponsor: The Public Square
Info: info (at) thepublicsquare.org

--Dec 10, Mon, 7 pm, Alhambra Palace Restaurant, 1240 W Randolph
FEAST FOR THE AFSC MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM
Benefit features eyewitness reports from AFSC experts
Info: rsvp to lpollack (at) afsc.org

--Dec 10, Mon, 7 pm,
FILM: BLACKWATER INVADES ILLINOIS
Clearwater Project’s documentary examines Blackwater Security
Discussion with Bill Barclay & Peg Strobel of Oak Park Coalition for
Truth & Justice & Chicago Progressive Democrats of America

--Dec 13, Thu, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
TAKING ACTION IN CHICAGO TO REFORM MEDIA
Hear activists from Chicago Media Action

--Dec 14, Fri, 6:30 pm, Church St & Maple, Evanston
SONGS OF PEACE IN A TIME OF WAR
Sponsor: North Shore Coalition for Peace & Justice
Info: 847-912-0739

--Dec 14-20, Fri-Thu,
FILM: MEETING RESISTANCE
Steve Connors &Molly Bingham’s acclaimed documentary
on the Iraqi insurgency
Info: www.facets.org/

--Dec 15, Sat, 11-3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
THE CHALLENGE OF ISRAEL ON THE APPOMATTOX:
A SOUTHERN EXPERIMENT IN BLACK FREEDOM
FROM THE 1790S THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR
Historian Melvyn Ely discusses his award-winning book, with commentary
by historians Eric Arnesen, Corey Capers, Jane Dailey, Leon Fink,
Michael Perman, Julie Saville, James Schmidt

--Dec 15, Sat, 11-3 pm, Quenchers, 2401 N Western
CHICAGO SOCIALIST PARTY'S WINTERFEST
Info: www.chicagosocialistparty.com

--Dec 16, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS GATHERING
Info: wesgreen (at) ripco.com

--Dec 16, Sun, 2:30 pm, St Giles Church, 1045 Columbian Ave, Oak Park
ADVENT REFLECTIONS ON THE CRISIS IN PALESTINE
Hear theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether,
Jim Wall of Christian Century,
Dean Lueking of Grace Lutheran Church-River Forest
Sponsor: Committee for a Just Peace in Israel & Palestine
Info: justpeace1 (at) aol.com

--Dec 16, Sun, 3-4 pm, intersection Addison & Halsted
RALLY/MARCH TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS
Info: www.swop-chicago.org

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--Dec 17, Mon, 7 pm, Open University of the Left
2040 N Milwaukee, second floor
BOOK RELEASE PARTY: THE EUGENE V DEBS READER
Hear labor historian William Adelman, discussion & screening of
the documentary video Eugene Debs & the Labor Movement
Release party for Eugene V Debs Reader (AK Press, Second Edition)
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/
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--Dec 18, Tue, 5:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, 151 E Wacker
HELLO HILLARY
Greet the former member of Wal-Mart’s board of directors

--Dec 18, Tue, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
BENEFIT FOR ILLINOIS PRISONERS
Holiday potluck benefit
Sponsors: Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
Hyde Park/Kenwood Interfaith Council
Info: cedp (at) nodeathpenalty.org

--Dec 20, Thu, 7 pm, Police Headquarters, 3510 S Michigan
CHICAGO POLICE BOARD HEARING
Protest on behalf of victims of police violence

FORTHCOMING
-1/11 Sixth Anniversary of Indefinite Detention for Guantanamo prisoners
-1/21 Martin Luther King Jr Holiday
-3/13-15 Winter Soldier, Gathering of US Veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan,
www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
-3/27-30 Cairo International Conference & Liberation Forum,
mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cairo021107.html
-3/28-30 Midwest Social Forum Organizing Teach-In,
www.mwsocialforum.org
-4/11-13 Historians Against the War Conference, Atlanta,
www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/
-4/11-13 Labor Notes Conference, Dearborn MI
-5/1-3, La Gran Marcha Nacional 2008, A Million Immigrant March, granmarchanacional2008 (at) gmail.com
-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/
-6/22-24 Great Labor Arts Exchange & Conference on Creative Organizing,
Maryland, www.laborheritage.org/glaecco.htm
-7/10-13 Green Party of United States Convention, Chicago,
www.ilgp.org/

NEW & RE-STOCKED BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-Woman Suffrage, by Mary Jo Buhle
-The Color of Violence: The Incite Anthology,
by Incite:Women of Color Against Violence
-Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Reflections of
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, by Camilo Mejia
-Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, ed by Marc Falkoff
-We Wont Go: The Truth on Military Recruiters & the Draft;
A Guide to Resistance
-W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat, by Manning Marable
-Mad Bomber Melville, by Leslie James Pickering
-The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of
Critical African American Studies, ed by Manning Marable
-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein
-Women Behind Bars:
The Crisis of Women in the US Prison System, by Silja Talvi
-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, 6 pm, Chicago Cable TV Channel 21
VETERANS HELPING VETERANS
Live call-in TV show hosted by anti-war vets for vets,
GI's & their families

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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