NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: JAN 17 – FEB 4
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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--Jan 17, 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

--Jan 17, Thu, 7 pm, University of Chicago, 1116 E 59th
Harper Memorial Library room 140
RECLAIMING MARX’S CAPITAL: A REFUTATION
OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCY
Author Andrew Kliman
Sponsors: Platypus Affiliated Society, News & Letters

--Jan 17, Thu, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
LEFT WING COMMUNISM IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR I
Sponsor: 49th St. Underground
Info: www.49underground.org/index.php

--Jan 18, Fri, 3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
WE MUST BRING TOGETHER A NEW COALITION:
THE CHALLENGE OF WORKING-CLASS WHITE
ETHNICS TO COLOR-BLIND CONSERVATISM IN THE 1970S
Historian Dennis Deslippe analyzes progressive
white ethnic leaders of the 1970s

--Jan 18-20, Fri-Sun, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
WHAT WE KNOW OF OUR PAST
WHAT WE DEMAND OF OUR FUTURE
Gathering to discuss intersections between art & activism
Info: www.letsremake.info/whatweknow.html

--Jan 18-24, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: 2 OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM
Malte Ludin’s documentary on the present-day family of
Nazi war criminal Hanns Ludin
Info: www.facets.org

--Jan 20, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guest Thomas Geoghegan
Info: www.thisishell.net

--Jan 19, Sat, 2 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
AMERICAN INQUISITION: THE HUNT FOR
JAPANESE AMERICANS DISLOYALTY IN WORLD WAR II
Author Eric Muller

--Jan 19, Sat, 3:30 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WAITING 'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR:
A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA
Historian Peniel Joseph

--Jan 19, Sat, 5 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WALKING WITH THE WIND: A MEMOIR OF THE MOVEMENT
Activist John Lewis

--Jan 19, Sat, 7 pm, Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 W Grand
FILM: JUSTICE WITHOUT BORDERS
Video of Adriana Portillo-Bartow’s experiences as a survivor
of the conflict in Guatemala; Ms Portillo-Bartow will discuss
following screening
Sponsor: Amnesty International
Info: www.amnestyusa.org/justice/

--Jan 19, Sat, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
MARX RIDES THE BUS: MARXIST THEORY & EVERYDAY ACTION
Discussant: Tim Sarrantonio
Part of We Are Many: Inquiries Into Chicago Activism series
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Jan 20, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
FARM POLICY & WORLD HUNGER
Organizer Katie Danko, active in Oxfam's campaign to reform farm policy
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--Jan 20, Sun, 12 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
STATE OF THE UNIONS: HOW LABOR CAN STRENGTHEN
THE MIDDLE CLASS, IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY,
& REGAIN POLITICAL INFLUENCE
Journalist Philip Dine

--Jan 20, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS GATHERING-FORUM
Info: 423-718-5719, 773-306-5402

--Jan 20, Sun, 2:30 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
HIP-HOP REVOLUTION: THE CULTURE & POLITICS OF RAP
Historian Jeffrey Ogbar

--Jan 21, Mon
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR HOLIDAY

--Jan 21, Mon, 12 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
TURN AWAY THY SON: LITTLE ROCK,
THE CRISIS THAT SHOCKED THE NATION
Author Elizabeth Jacoway

--Jan 21, Mon, 7 pm, Open University of the Left, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: MARTIN LUTHER KING – THE OTHER AMERICA
Allen Willis’s documentary of Dr King’s noted Stanford University
speech (April 1967) on the racist bases of neo-conservative
philosophies & the imminent rise of Reganism
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

--Jan 22, Tue, 6:30 pm, Access Living, 115 W Chicago
CHICAGO SINGLE-PAYER ACTION NETWORK MEETING
No to HMO hell -- non-profit health care for all
Info: www.chispan.org, 312-714-5154

--Jan 23, Wed, 9:30 am, CPS Headquarters, Truth in Recruitment Rally
TRUTH IN RECRUITMENT RALLY
Tell the Chicago Board of Ed to limit access of military recruiters to schools

--Jan 23, Wed, 7 pm, Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge
IRAN: STILL A TARGET? SCOTT RITTER ON IRAN &
THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Sponsors: Evanston Neighbors for Peace, AFSC

--Jan 24, Thu, 7 pm, Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S Woodlawn
ANGELA DAVIS

--Jan 24, Thu, 7 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th
SEE YOU IN COURT: HOW THE RIGHT
MADE AMERICA A LAWSUIT NATION
Author Thomas Geoghegan

--Jan 24, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
TET: TURNING POINT OF THE VIETNAM WAR
Journalist Joe Allen
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization
Info: chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com

--Jan 26, Sat, 2 pm, Albany Park Library, 5150 N Kimball
FILM: ANATOMY OF A COUP
Documentary on Iran;
discussion follows on opposition to US intervention
Sponsor: Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace & Justice
Info: justice.yes (at) juno.com

--Jan 26, Sat, 3 pm, Riverside Public Library, One Burling Rd
FILM: UNCOUNTED: THE NEW MATH OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS
Documentary on US election fraud of 2004 & 2006
Sponsor: Near West Citizens for Peace & Justice
Info: www.nwcpj.org

--Jan 27, Sun, 2 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake St
FILM: TRASHED: THE STORY OF GARBAGE AMERICAN STYLE
Bill Kirkos documentary examines the impact of American waste stream
Sponsor: Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice
Info: www.opctj.org

--Jan 29, Tue, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
THE POLITICS OF PLACE: A HISTORY OF ZONING IN CHICAGO
Author Joseph P. Schwieterman
Part of We Are Many: Inquiries Into Chicago Activism series
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Jan 30, Wed, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
THIS COMMON SECRET: MY JOURNEY AS AN ABORTION DOCTOR
Hear Dr Susan Wicklund on why safe, legal abortion is already
an impossibility for many US women

--Jan 31, Thu, 7 pm, DePaul Student Center Room 314A, 2250 N Sheffield
LIVING AND DYING IN PRISON: THE STORY OF MICHAEL LAMBERT
Panelists: Rev Tricia Teater, Andrea Lyon of of DePaul Center for
Justice in Capital Cases, exonerated death row inmate Delbert Tibbs,
Jane Bohman of ICADP
Sponsors: DePaul University Cultural Center & University Ministry
Info: r.r.kidd (at) att.net or 773-334-1668

--Jan 31, Thu, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
EVERYMAN NEWS: THE CHANGING AMERICAN FRONT PAGE
Journalist Michele Weldon discusses the transformation of
newspapers from hard news to features-driven info-tainment

--Feb 1, Fri, 4 pm, International House, 1414 E. 59th
MILITARY INC: INSIDE PAKISTAN'S MILITARY ECONOMY
Author Dr Ayesha Siddiqa

--Feb 1-2, Fri-Sat,
DEPAUL ACADEMIC FREEDOM CONFERENCE
Speakers: Sara Roy, Juan Cole, Robert Jensen,
Peter Novick, Bill Ayers
Info: academicfreedomchicago.org./

--Feb 2, Sat, 11 am, Cook County Marriage License Bureau, 118 N Clark
MARRIAGE EQUALITY DAY PROTESTS
Info: www.GayLiberation.net

--Feb 2, Sat, 7 pm, ACME Coop, 2418 W Bloomingdale
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT
Video screening of Soldiers for Peace
Info: chicago (at) ivaw.org

--Feb 3, Sun, St Sabina Church, 1210 W 78th
CORNELL WEST

--Feb 4, Mon, 7 pm, Wellington Church, 615 W Wellington
FILM: WAR ON THE FAMILY: MOTHERS IN PRISON
& THE CHILDREN THEY LEAVE BEHIND
Screening of work-in-progress documentary; discussion follows
with Pastor Bernadine Dowdell of Grace House &
panel of formerly incarcerated women
Part of Conscientious Projector series

FORTHCOMING
-2/9-10 Republican Convention Organizing Conference, Minneapolis, www.protestrnc2008.org
-3/13-16 Winter Soldier, Gathering of US Veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan,
www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
-3/14-16 Left Forum, NYC, www.leftforum.org,
-3/15 Anti-War March on Washington, www.answercoalition.org/
-3/27-30 Cairo International Conference & Liberation Forum,
mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cairo021107.html
-3/28 Maya Angelou, St Sabina Church
-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
-4/17-18 Clayborne Carson, Oakton Community College,
www.oakton.edu/user/~schuster/indiafulbright/gandhikingconf.htm
-4/18-20 Israel Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Conferene, Chicago,
chi_anti_apartheid (at) yahoo.com
-4/25 50th Annual Chicago Debs Dinner
-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, www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/congreso08/2008_primer_aviso_english.pdf
-5/12-16 World Congress on the Future of Food &Agriculture, Bonn,
www.planet-diversity.org/
-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/
-6/6-8 Global Studies Assoc conference, NYC,
www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/
-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
-The Cornel West Reader
-Salvation: Black People & Love, by bell hooks
-The Autobiography of Medgar Evars, ed by Myrlie Evers-Williams & Manning Marable
-Freedom Riders: 1961 & the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Raymond Arsenault
-Explosion of Chicago’s Black Street Gangs: 1900 to Present, by Useni Eugene Perkins
-Down to Now: Reflection on the Southern Civil Rights Movement, by Pat Watters
-Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations, edited by Alan Wilkinson
-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
-Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? US Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis & Paths to Peace, by Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy
-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)
-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, location tba
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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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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