NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: JAN 31 – FEB 18
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 31, 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 31, Thu, 12 pm, Calrk & Randolph
STUDENT WALKOUT AGAINST TORTURE
Sponsor: World Can’t Wait
Info: chicago (at) worldcantwait.org, 773-227-2453

--Jan 31, Thu, 6 pm, Hull House, 800 S Halsted
GETTING OFF: PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUALITY,
& MASCULINITY IN THE 21st CENTURY
Author Robert Jensen, Prof of Photography Barbara DeGenevieve
Sponsor: The Public Square
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org

--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, Fri, 5:30 pm, Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn
TORTURE IN CHICAGO: THE BURGE CASE
Panelists: Flint Taylor & Joey Mogul of Peoples Law Office,
representatives from Black People Against Police Torture,
victim Darrell Cannon,
Sponsors: National Lawyers Guild, American Friends
Service Committee, Amnesty International,
8th Day Center for Justice

--Feb 1, Fri, 7 pm, Cafe Mestizo, 1646 W. 18th
SON DE LAS BARRICADAS: ART & RESISTANCE IN OAXACA
Exhibit opening of prints by the Assembly of
Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca, includes premier screening
of documentary video The Taking of the Media
Info: chicagotra.org/

--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 ACTIONS
Info: www.GayLiberation.net

--Feb 2, Sat, 2 pm, School of the Art Institute, 280 S Columbus
THE FAILURE OF PAKISTAN
Panelists: authors Ayesha Siddiqa, Manan Ahmed, Atiya Khan
Sponsor: Platypus Affiliated Society

--Feb 2, Sat, 7 pm, UE Hall, 37 S Ashland Blvd.
BENEFIT FOR FREIGHTLINER FIVE
Meet the rank-and-file UAW members fired for union activism
Sponsor: Chicago Supporters of The Freightliner Cleveland Five
Info: Justice4Five.com

--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 3, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
A HISTORY OF PALESTINE
Activist Hatem Abudayyeh

--Feb 3, Sun, 2 pm, Revolution Books, 1103 N Ashland
THE SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION & THE MYTH OF
CREATIONISM: KNOWING WHAT'S REAL & WHY IT MATTERS
Discussion of Ardea Skybreak's book
Sponsor: Revolution Books
Info: 773-489-0930

--Feb 3, Sun, 2 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
LESS SAFE, LESS FREE: WHY AMERICA IS
LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR
Nation magazine journalist David Cole

--Feb 4, Mon, 7 pm, Open University of the Left, 2040 N Milwaukee
BOB BROWN: SLAVERY & THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS
Activist & civil rights veteran discusses the slavery disclosure
& reparations movement
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

--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

--Feb 4, Mon, 7 pm, Loyola University Chicago
GANDHI: VIOLENCE, NONVIOLENCE
& VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Speaker: Dr. John Pincince
Part of Seasons of Non-Violence Series

--Feb 5, Tue, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
STILL POINT THEATER COLLECTIVE: STRONG WOMEN
Performance featuring poetry written by women
incarcerated in Cook County Jail

--Feb 6, Wed, 6:30 pm, Access Living, 115 W Chicago
CHICAGO SINGLE-PAYER ACTION NETWORK MEETING
Info: www.chispan.org
Sponsor: Columbia Alumni Association & Network

--Feb 6, Wed, 7 pm, Columbia College
Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S Michigan
SUGAR, RUM & COKE WAS & IS MADE WITH BLOOD
Presentation by activist Bob Brown

--Feb 7, Thu, 6 pm, National Museum of Mexican Art
FREEDOM TO MARRY RECEPTION
Info: clowery (at) lambdalegal.org, 312.663.4413 ext 27

--Feb 7, Thu, 7 pm, UIC, 750 S Halsted, Room tba
CRISIS, CAPITALISM & THE COMING ECONOMIC RECESSION
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization
Info: 773-552-4640, chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com,
www.socialistworker.org

--Feb 8, Fri, 3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
CONSOLIDATING THE PATRIARCHAL CITY
Historian Maureen Flanagan discusses gender ideals &
transformation of the built environments of Chicago, Dublin,
London & Toronto, 1870s to 1940s
Info: www.newberry.org/scholl

--Feb 8, Fri, 7 pm, Revolution Books, 1103 N Ashland
FILM: THE FEVER
Film version of Wallace Shawn’s haunting play, with
Vanessa Redgrave & Michael Moore
Sponsor: Revolution Books
Info: 773-489-0930

--Feb 8-14, Music Box, 3733 N Southport
FILM: 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS
Cristian Mungiu’s harrowing drama of
illegal abortion in late 1980s Romania

--Feb 9, Sat, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
NETWORKING PARTY: BEING OUR OWN MEDIA
Sponsor: Metro Chicago Progressive Media Network,
Chicago Media Action
Chicago area progressive media professionals & activists
Info: 708-447-1547, walterb306 (at) cs.com

--Feb 9, Sat, 5 pm, Decima Musa, 1901 W Loomis
STOP MILITARY RECRUITMENT IN SCHOOLS:
Curriculum development workshop
Sponsors: Teachers for Social Justice, AFSC
Info: www.teachersforjustice.org/Feb9thAntiMilitaryRecruitmentFlyer.jpg

--Feb 9-10, Sat-Sun, Minneapolis
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION PROTEST ORGANIZING CONFERENCE
Info: www.protestrnc2008.org

--Feb 10, Sun, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO WOMEN’S LIBERATION UNION PRESENTATION
History of one of the most influential leftist women’s groups
of the 1960s-1970s
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Feb 11, Mon, 10 pm, Danny’s, 1951 W. Dickens
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR BENEFIT
Info: chicago (at) ivaw.org

--Feb 12, Tue
INTERNATIONAL CHARLES DARWIN DAY
Info: www.darwinday.org/

--Feb 12, Tue, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO ABORTION FUND WORKSHOP
The realities of abortion in Chicago, where to find out more info,
the importance of grassroots organizing
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Feb 12, Tue, 7:30 pm, Glen Ellyn Library, 400 Duane St
PERSPECTIVES ON PEACE
Hear representatives from peace groups in Chicago area
Sponsor: DuPage Against War Now
Info: www.d-a-w-n.org

--Feb 13, Wed, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: TURNING A CORNER
Saloma Chasnoff’s documentary on sex workers in Chicago
Discussion follows screening with panelists from
Prostitution Alternatives Round Table, Beyondmedia,
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Feb 13, Wed, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
HAROLD! PHOTGRAPHS FROM THE
HAROLD WASHINGTON YEARS
Journalists Marc PoKempner, Antonio Dickey,
Salim Muwakkil, & Ron Dorfman

--Feb 14, Thu, 12 pm, Thompson Center, 100 W Randolph
RALLY FOR NEW TRIALS FOR POLICE TORTURE VICTIMS
Dozens remain in Illinois prisons due to confessions
forced by Chicago Police
Sponsors: Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Black People
Against Police Torture; Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty;
International Socialist Organization; Men & Women in Prison Ministry--
Universal House of Refuge Center; National Alliance Against Racist
& Political Repression; October 22 Coalition Against Police Brutality;
Voices for Creative Non-Violence; others
Info: 773-955-4841, cedp (at) nodeathpenalty.org

--Feb 14, Thu, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO AREA CODE PINK
Part of We Are Many: Inquiries Into Chicago Activism series
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Feb 15, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: AMERICAN BLACK OUT
Ian Inaba’s documentary on Cynthia McKinney
Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/

--Feb 17, Sun, 2 pm, Carleton Hotel
FILM: CAN'T WAIT - A STORY OF RESISTANCE
16-year old Matthew Sezer’s new documentary on the
peace & impeachment movements
Sponsor: World Can’t Wait Oak Park
Info: www.sittlestudios.rk

--Feb 18, Mon, 7 pm, Open University of the Left, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: THE CAMDEN 28
Anthony Giacchino’s fascinating documentary on the 1971
break-in & document destruction by anti-war activists at the
Camden NJ Army draft board
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

FORTHCOMING
-2/29 Crossroads Fund Benefit,
www.crossroadsfund.org/2008Benefit.html
-3/11-14 Charleston 5 book author Suzan Erem in Chicago,
www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org/
-3/13-16 Winter Soldier, Gathering of US Veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan,
Washington DC, www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
-3/14-16 Left Forum, NYC, www.leftforum.org,
-3/15 Demonstrate for Troops Out Now, London, www.stopwar.org.uk/
-3/16 Fifth Anniversary of Death of Rachel Corrie
-3/19 Fifth Anniversary US Anti-War Actions, www.5yearstoomany.org/
-3/19-20 Chicago Iraq War Protests
-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
-4/11-12 Summit on Economic Justice for Women, Atlanta,
www.nowfoundation.org/issues/economic/events/ejsummit2008/index.html
-4/11-13 Historians Against the War Conference, Atlanta,
www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/
-4/11-13 Labor Notes Conference, Dearborn MI, www.labornotes.org/conference
-4/11-13 Climate Change / Social Change Conference, Australia,
www.greenleft.org.au/2008/736/38107
-4/17-18 Clayborne Carson, Oakton Community College, Skokie,
www.oakton.edu/user/~schuster/indiafulbright/gandhikingconf.htm
-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
-5/9-11 Israel Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Conference, Chicago,
caap_mail (at) yahoo.com
-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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