NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR:
MAR 20 – APR 5

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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--Mar 20, 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

--Mar 20, Thu, time tba, loop
CHICAGO IRAQ WAR PROTESTS
Info: chicagomassaction.org/
--Mar 20, Thu, 6 pm, Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano, 2620 W Division
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCE OF INCARCERATION
IN CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Scenes from Michael Reyes Benavides play,
discussion with playwright follows
Sponsor: The Public Square
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org.

--Mar 21, Fri, 11 am, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines
FILM: REFUSING TO BE ENEMIES
Laurie White's documentary about Zeitouna, the Jewish & Arab
women’s peace group; discussion follows with Zeitouna members
Sponsor: Oakton Women's History Month
Info: www.zeitouna.org or kcarot (at) oakton.edu

--Mar 21, Fri, 12 pm, intersection Congress & Michigan
ANNUAL GOOD FRIDAY MARCH FOR JUSTICE
Info: www.8thdaycenter.org/action/c_projects.html

--Mar 21, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: HOOT
Soft core eco-terrorism for kids
Sponsor: Animal Defense League

--Mar 21, 9 pm, Heartland Café, 7000 N Glenwood
ART AGAINST WAR
Sponsor: Peace Pledge Chicago

--Mar 22, Sat, 1 pm, University Center, 525 S State
RE-ENVISIONING REVOLUTION & COMMUNISM:
WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?
Sponsor: Revolution Books
Info: revbookschi (at) yahoo.com or 773-489-0930

--Mar 22, Sat, 2 pm, Columbia College Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S Michigan
THE 2008 ELECTION: REALIZING THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE
Hear Carl Bloice
Sponsor: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism
Info: tpearson (at) naapr.org or 312-927-2689

--Mar 22, Sat, 5 pm, Mercury Café, 1505 W Chicago
BIRTHRIGHT REPLUGGED: THE PHOTO EXHIBIT
Exhibit chronicles experiences of 20 Palestinian children
from Jenin refugee camp
Sponsors: Jewish Voice for Peace,
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

--Mar 22, Sat, 6:30 pm, Autonomous Center, 3460 W Lawrence
UNION WORKER STRUGGLES IN COLOMBIA
Hear Edgar Paez, International Representative of Sinaltrainal,
Food Industry Workers Union of Colombia

--Mar 22, Sat, 8 pm, Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis
BENEFIT FOR BUSH 4 CHICAGO DEFENDANTS
Support anti-war activists Jeff Pickert, Buddy Bell,
Kevin Clark, Andy Thayer, arrested during
Chicago visit of President Bush on 1/7

--Mar 22, Sat, 8 pm, St. Paul’s Church, 2215 W. North
NELSON ALGREN’S 99TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
Poets reading from Algren’s work include Charlie Newman,
Gregorio Gomez, Joe Rorty, Dan Godston, live blues bands, more
Sponsors: Near Northwest Arts Council, Nelson Algren Committee

--Mar 23, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA

--Mar 24, Mon, 6 pm, UIC Labor Education Program
815 W Van Buren, Ste 110
WORKER'S COMPENSATION WORKSHOP
Attorney David B Menchetti
Info: lep.ilir.uiuc.edu

--Mar 24, Mon, 7 pm, 3411 W Diversey, Ste. 19
FILM: THE CONSEQUENCES OF
A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT NEAR CHICAGO
Part of Know Nukes film series
Sponsor: Nuclear Energy Information Service
Info: www.neis.org
--Mar 26, Wed, 6 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th St
JOHN K WILSON
Chicago writer discusses his new book,
Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest

--Mar 26, Wed, 7 pm, Nature Center, 5801 N Pulaski
HEALING THE CITY
Discussion of Irish architect/designer Declan Kennedy
Info: sustaincup1.blogspot.com/

--Mar 27-30, Cairo
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & LIBERATION FORUM
Info: mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cairo021107.html

--Mar 27, Thu, 6 pm, 815 W Van Buren, Ste 110
THE MARCH OF THE MILL CHILDREN
Dramatic reading of Mother Jones speech, with Betsey Means
Info: 312-996-2127

--Mar 27, Thu, 6:30 pm, Chicago History Museum, 1600 N Clark
SEXUALITY & US CITIZENSHIP
Historian Siobhan Somerville

--Mar 27, Thu, T's Bar, 5025 N Clark
SUPPORT LOW-POWER COMMUNITY RADIO IN BOLIVIA
Benefit for Radios Populares, trains communities in low-power FM radio
Sponsor: Radios Populares
Info: radios.populares (at) gmail.com

--Mar 26-27, Wed-Thu
PETER LINEBAUGH
Radical historian discusses his new book,
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties & Commons for All
3/26 7 pm, Loyola Mundelein Tea Room, 1020 W Sheridan
3/27 6 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th St

--Mar 28, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: THE CORPORATION
Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbot's fascinating documentary on
rise & nature of the private corporation

--Mar 28, Fri, 7 pm, Oakton Community College
Rooms 145-152, 7701 N Lincoln, Skokie
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Student production, part of Women's History Month
Info: www.oakton.edu/acad/dept/philhum/Womens_Studies.htm

--Mar 28, Fri, 7:30 pm, St Sabina Church
MAYA ANGELOU

--Mar 28-30, Fri-Sun, Kenosha
MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM ORGANIZING TEACH-IN
Info: www.mwsocialforum.org

--Mar 28 – Apr 4
NATIONAL STUDENT LABOR WEEK OF ACTION
Info: www.jwj.org/projects/slap/week.html

--Mar 29, Sat, Kennedy-King College, 740 West 63rd St
WOMEN AND WORK CONFERENCE
Sponsor: Working Women’s History Project,
Chicago Area Women’s History Council, CLUW,
Kennedy King College
Info: Workingwomen.homestead.com

--Mar 29, Sat, 12:30 pm, St. Xavier University
Butler Reception Room, 3700 W 103rd St
ACADEMIC FREEDOM, TRUTH & POWER
Hear Mehrene Larudee of DePaul University,
followed by panel on shared governance
Sponsor: Illinois AAUP
Info: ilaaup.org, collegefreedom (at) yahoo.com

--Mar 29, Sat, 1 pm, Mudelein Center Loyola University
NONVIOLENCE TRAINING SESSION
Sponsors: Seasons of Nonviolence, 8th Day Center for Justice

--Mar 30, Sun 2 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake St
FILM: UNCOUNTED: THE NEW MATH OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS
Dale Earnhardt’s documentary exposes election fraud of 2000 & 2004
Sponsor: Oak Park Coalition for Truth & Justice, Oak Park Public Library
Info: www.opctj.org or 708-524-1230
--Mar 30, Sun 2:30 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake St
ZIONISM RECONSIDERED
Panelists: Brian Klug of Oxford University, author Joel Kovel,
Tony Karon of Rootless Cosmopolitan
Sponsor: AFSC
--Mar 30, Sun 3 pm, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: THE NEW MAN (DEN NYA MÄNNISKAN)
Klaus Härö’s drama of poor women in Sweden who underwent
forced sterilization in the mid-20th century
Info: www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter
--Mar 30, Sun 3 pm, Riverside Library, One Burling Rd, Riverside
FILM: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
Sponsor: Near West Citizens for Peace & Justice

--Mar 30, Sun 3:30 pm, 1151 W. Leland
BURMA UPDATE
Documentary screenings, discussion with
Nora Rowley of Doctors Without Borders
Info: J-Lipner (at) neiu.edu

--Mar 31, Mon, 7 pm, International House 1414 E 59th St
ACKNOWLEDGING THE PAST: IMAGINING THE FUTURE.
PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS ON 1948 & THE RIGHT OF RETURN
Panelists: Mohammad Jaradat of Badil Resource Center for
Palestinian Residency and Refugee Right,
Eitan Bronstein of Zochrot
Sponsor: AFSC, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago

--April 1, Tue, Multipurpose Room Loyola University Chicago
HUMAN COSTS OF THE IRAQ WAR
IVAW representative discusses homelessness & suicide among veterans
Sponsors: LAWN, Iraq Veterans Against War, Military Families Speak Out

--Apr 3, Thu, 7 pm, UIC
MARTIN LUTHER KING'S LAST STRUGGLE
Keeanaga-Yamahatta Taylor discuses strike of
Memphis sanitation workers
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization

--Apr 3, Thu, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM & SHIPYARD RESISTANCE:
THE CNT IN PUERTO REAL, SPAIN
Part of Work Against Work series
Sponsor: 49th St. Underground, Finding Our
Roots, Industrial Workers of the World

--Apr 4-16
CHICAGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
Info: www.latinoculturalcenter.org/Filmfest/Index.htm

--Apr 5, Sat, 11 am, Gage Gallery, 18 S Michigan
GETTING PAID TO CAUSE TROUBLE:
CAREERS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE
For Chicago area college students interested in working for change:
hear from union & community organizers from Illinois Action Now,
UNITE HERE, AFSCME Council 31, IEA-NEA, others
Info: cbreitba (at) csu.edu
--Apr 5, Sat, 4 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
MICHAEL LÖWY: PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION:
MAY-JUNE 1968 IN FRANCE
Panelists: author Michael Löwy, organizer Joanna Misnik,
historian William A. Pelz; 40th anniversary of uprising of May 1968
when 10 million workers & students shut down France
Sponsors: Open University of the Left, Chicago Socialist Party,
Solidarity-Chicago Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America-Chicago,
New World Resource Center
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

FORTHCOMING
-4/9 Isabel Allende, Swedish-American Museum
-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
-4/17-20 US Human Rights Network National Conference, Chicago,
www.ushrnetwork.org/conference_2008
4/18-20 Finding Our Roots Anarchist Conference, Chicago,
mayfirst.wordpress.com
-4/24-26 Historical Materialism - First North American Conference, Toronto, hmtoronto (at) yahoo.com
-4/25 50th Annual Chicago Eugene V Debs Dinner, www.chicagodsa.org/d2008/index.html
-4/27 Holly Near, Wellington Church
-5/1-3, La Gran Marcha Nacional 2008, A Million Immigrant March, granmarchanacional2008 (at) gmail.com
-5/2-4 Jobs With Justice Conference, Providence, jwj.org/projects/conference.html
-5/1-4 Global Greens Conference, Sao Paulo, 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,
caapweb.org/id13.html
-5/10, 1968 And All That conference, London, www.1968andallthat.net/
-5/12-16 World Congress on the Future of Food & Agriculture, Bonn,
www.planet-diversity.org/
-5/16-18 Sixth Al-Awda Convention to Mark 60 Years of Palestinian Nakba,
Anaheim, al-awda.org/alert-conv6.html
-5/22-25 A World in Revolt: Prospects for Socialism in the
21st Century conference, Toronto, www.socialistaction.org/conference.htm
-5/30-6/1 Labour for Palestine Conference, Toronto, labour (at) caiaweb.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
-6/28-29 Open National Conference to Stop the War in Iraq &
Bring the Troops Home Now, Cleveland, natassembly.org/
-7/10-13 Green Party of United States Conference, Chicago,
www.ilgp.org/
-7/16-20 Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work & Social Justice, Chicago,
www.desireealliance.org/conference.htm
-8/8-10 National Palestinian Popular Conference, Chicago,
www.palestineconference.org/register.html
-8/15-17 Peoples Networking Convention, Madison, lothwiki.org/index.php/PNC
-Jan 2009 World Social Forum, Belem, Brazil

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 pm, Oak Park Library, 834 Lake St
OAK PARK COALITION FOR TRUTH & JUSTICE MONTHLY MEETING
Second Thursdays
Info: www.opctj.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, 1 pm, Old Town School of Folk Music, Lincoln & Wilson
TELL OLD TOWN SCHOOL TO STOP ACCEPTING
SPONSORSHOP FROM MILITARY CONTRACTOR BOEING
Informational leafleting event
Info: John_Otrompke (at) yahoo.com, 312-217-3394

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, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS MEETING: Second Sundays
Info: rudnergreens (at) hotmail.com

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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