NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR:
JUNE 26 – JULY 13

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

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-Calendar listings begin Thursday for following 2.5 weeks
-Includes submissions received by deadline 5 pm Tuesday
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--Jun 26, 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

--Jun 26, Thu, 7 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
SEX WORKERS, CRIMINALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS
Sex worker organizer Pussy Willow & journalist Kari Lydersen
examine current trafficking victim legislation, decriminalization,
& violence against sex workers
Sponsor: Open University of the Left, Chicago Socialist Party
Info: ChgoSP (at) juno.com

--Jun 26, Thu, 7 pm, Exchequer Pub, 226 S Wabash
CHICAGO CIVIL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES MEETUP
Info: bordc.meetup.com/63/t/if_2053115/

--Jun 26, Thu, 7 pm, 3334 W Lawrence, Rm 202
FILM: STRAWBERRY & CHOCOLATE
Landmark movie opened public discussion on LGBT life in Cuba
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: www.ChicagoANSWER.net

--Jun 26, Thu, continuing, Landmark Cinema, Diversey & Clark
FILM: WAR INC.
John Cusak’s satire on privatizing war

--Jun 28, Sat, 12 pm, Haymarket Memorial Monument
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR GINA MARIE ROSS

--Jun 28, Sat, 6 pm, St Augustine College, 1345 W Argyle
COALITION OF AFRICAN, ARAB, ASIAN, EUROPEAN &
LATINO IMMIGRANTS OF ILLINOIS ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
Info: caaaelii.org/anualevent/index%20caaelii/sponsor.htm

--Jun 28-29, Sat-Sun, Lincoln Park, 1700 N Stockton
CHICAGO PEACE FEST
Info: www.myspace.com/peacefreedomfest

--Jun 28, Sat, 1 pm, 1800 S Halsted
DYKE MARCH CHICAGO
Info: myspace.com/dykemarchchicago

--Jun 28, Sat, 3:30 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
AMERICAN MADE: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE WPA -
WHEN FDR PUT THE NATION TO WORK
Author Nick Taylor

--Jun 28, Sat, 7:30 pm, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: THE DAMNED
Luchino Visconti’s classic saga of pro-Nazi corporate elites

--Jun 28, Sat, 8 pm, Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N Lincoln
CHICAGO COMMITTEE FOR FAIR FOOD
CWI COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS
Sponsor: College of Complexes
Info: www.collegeofcomplexes.org/

--Jun 28 – Jul 6, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
WRITINGS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY:
THE TOM HAYDEN READER
Activist Tom Hayden
6/28 9 pm, 6/29 5 pm & 8 pm & 11 pm
6/30 2 am, 7/6 10 am

--Jun 28-29, Sat-Sun, Cleveland
OPEN NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO STOP THE WAR
IN IRAQ & BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW
Info: natassembly.org/

--Jun 29, Sun, 5:30 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
PEN WORLD VOICES FREEDOM TO WRITE LECTURE:
UMBERTO ECO

--Jun 29, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 309 N Mayfield
RENAISSANCE 2010: IS IT WORKING
Hear education policy scholar Pauline Lipman

--Jun 29, Sun, 11 am, Halsted & Wellington
GAY PRIDE PARADE
Peace & justice contingent organized by the Gay Liberation Network
Info: 773-209-1187

--Jun 30, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash Rm 1440
FLAMES OF REVOLT IN CHINA
Hear News & Letters writer Bob McGuire
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Jul 1, Tue
WITNESS FOR PEACE DELEGATION TO COLOMBIA
APPLICATION DEADLINE
For 8/24-9/3 delegation
Info: katievaratta (at) yahoo.com

--Jul 4, Fri, 11:30 am, Homewood Library, Dixie Hwy
GENERATIONS FOR PEACE MARCH
Info: generations4peace.org/

--Jul 5-9, Sat-Wed, Japan
G8 MEETING ACTIONS
Info: www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/en or media.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8/
or g8medianetwork.org/en

--Jul 8, Tue, 7:30 pm, 182 N. York Rd, Elmhurst
SHOULD VOTERS BE REQUIRED TO SHOW
GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION TO VOTE
Sponsor: Citizen Advocacy Center
Info: www.citizenadvocacycenter.org

--Jul 10-13, Thu-Sun, University of Missouri, St Louis,
MIDWEST SCHOOL FOR WOMEN WORKERS
Meeting of women from all sectors of the labor movement
Special guests are 6 union women from Iraq
Info: www.womenworkers.org

--Jul 10-13 Thu-Sun, Palmer House Hilton, 17 E Monroe
also Chicago Symphony Center, 7/12
GREEN PARTY OF UNITED STATES CONFERENCE
Hear Malik Rahim, Kathy Kelly, Cliff Thornton Jr, many others
Info: www.ilgp.org/

--July 11, Fri, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
JOHN K WILSON
John K Wilson discusses his new books, Patriotic Correctness:
Academic Freedom & Its Enemies, also
Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest
Info: obamapolitics.com, womenandchildrenfirst.com

--July 11-13, Fri-Sun, Philadelphia
CONVENTION FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Catholic & social justice groups conference to organize on health care,
poverty, economic justice, immigration, global warming, more
Info: www.commongoodconvention.org/

--Jul 12, Sat
LAUNCH OF WITNESS AGAINST WAR
Peace walk from Chicago to St Paul MN to challenge & nonviolently resist
our country's continuing war in & occupation of Iraq
-11 am Witness Against War Kick-Off at Federal Plaza
with speakers Diar Jameel, Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, Kathy Kelly
-12 pm Walk to Grant Park & North to St Gertrude Parish
-7 pm rally at St Gertrude Parish, corner Granville & Glenwood
Info: www.vcnv.org

--Jul 13, Sun, 2 pm, Quenchers Saloon, 2401 N Western
BASTILLE DAY PARTY
Off with their heads! Imbibe, fraternize, hear some great live jazz
by the anti-capitalist free jazz band Undertow, & celebrate
the era when the ruling class ran for their lives
Sponsors: Chicago Socialist Party, Solidarity-Chicago,
Open University of the Left, Marxist-Humanist Committee,
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, New World Resource Center
Info: chgosp (at) juno.com

FORTHCOMING

-7/16-20 Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work & Social Justice, Chicago
www.desireealliance.org/conference.htm
-7/18 Police Torture Victims Rally, Thompson Center, cedp (at) nodeathpenalty.org
-7/18-23 NeighborWorks Training Institute for community organizers,
Chicago, www.nw.org/Network/training/upcoming/ChicagoNTI08.asp
-7/23 Chicago Women Employed 35th Anniversary Benefit, womenemployed.org
-7/25-27 Legacy of Leon Trotsky & US Trotskyism Conference,
Fordham University NYC, lthompson321 (at) aol.com
-7/26 Bughouse Square Debates
-7/27 Center for Popular Economics, weeklong economics for activists,
Roosevelt University, www.populareconomics.org
-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

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CALENDAR INFO: Send event title, date, time, location,
contact info, sponsor to NWRC2600 (at) juno.com
by 5 pm Tuesday for events beginning Thursday
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WEEKLY & BIWEEKLY EVENTS

Thu, 10 am, wluw 88.7 fm
ALTERNATIVE RADIO

Thu, 1:30 pm, whpk 88.5 FM
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Info: www.szcz.org/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/

LABOR BEAT: CLASS STRUGGLE TV
Thu, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV cable channel 19
Fri, 4:30 pm, CAN-TV cable channel 19
Sat 12:30 pm, EvanstonCable channel 6
Mon 5:30 pm, EvanstonCable channel 6
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 am Tue-Thu, Evanston Community TV
7-9 am WZRD 88.3 FM
9 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
12 pm WMXM 88.9 FM
12 pm WRTE 90.5 FM
Info: www.DemocracyNow.org

Mon, WLUW radio 88.7 FM
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

Mon, 11 pm, CAN TV cable TV channel 19
CHICAGO INDEPENDENT TELEVISION, 1st & 3rd Mon/month
Info: www.chicagoindependenttv.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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TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC: Phone (773) 227 4011or
nwrc_2600 (at) yahoo.com. New World is a centrally located non-
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

THANKS to everyone for your support

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