NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR:
MAY 8 - 23

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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-Includes submissions received by deadline 5 pm Tuesday
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--May 8, 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

--My 8, Thu, DePaul Student Center, 2250 N Kenmore
IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES
Info: jdoub (at) afsc.org

--May 8, Thu, 5 pm, Northwestern University Hall Room 102,
1897 Sheridan, Evanston
BLACK STUDENT REVOLT AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDENT SIT-IN AFTER 40 YEARS
Hear John H Bracey, Jr of University of Massachusetts
Sponsors: African American Studies, Department of Art Theory & Practice,
Gender Studies, Peace Project

--May 8, Thu, 5:30 pm, 719 S State, Suite 3N
HARVEY MILK
Discussion on the first openly gay member of San Francisco's
city council; screening of The Times of Harvey Milk at 7 pm
Sponsor: Chicago Freedom School
Info: www.chicagofreedomschool.org/index.php

--May 8, Thu, 6 pm, Art Institute, 280 S Columbus
40 YEARS OF 1968
Panelists: Bill Ayers, Chris Cutrone, Atiya Khan,
Mike Klonsky, Prexy Nesbitt
Sponsors: Platypus, Students for a Democratic Society
Info: platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_40years1968_050808poster.pdf

--May 8, Thu, 7 pm, 3334 W. Lawrence
FILM: WETBACK
Arturo Perez Tores’ documentary follows two migrants from Nicaragua to the US
Sponsor: ANSWER

--May 9, Fri
NATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH FREIGHTLINER FIVE
Info: www.justice4five.com

--May 9, Fri, ARC Gallery, 832 W Superior
60 YEARS
Palestinian & Jewish/Israeli artists reflect on 60 years
since the establishment of Israel & the Palestinian Nakba, opening reception

--May 10, Sat, London
CONFERENCE: 1968 AND ALL THAT
Info: www.1968andallthat.net/

--May 10, Sat, 8 am, Book-TV, CPSAN2
ALICE WALKER
3 hour interview

--May 10, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guests: David Rothkopf, Janet Redman, John Perkins
Info: www.thisishell.net

--May 10, Sat, 9 pm, Heartland Cafe, 7000 N Glenwood
RADIO TRONO: AN EVENING OF REVELRY, RADIO & RESISTANCE
Benefit for radio station for Bolivian street theater group, Teatro Trono
Music by Musica Son Jarocho, Vivan Garcia
Sponsor: Radios Populares
Info: radios.populares (at) gmail.com

--May 10-14, Sat-Wed, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR
Hoop Dreams creators Steve James & Peter Gilbert’s documentary on the
former Texas death-row chaplain who now stands against the death penalty

--May 11, Sun, 1:15 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT:
EVEN A DEAD FISH CAN GO WITH THE FLOW
Author Jim Hightower, repeats 5/11 10:15 pm

--May 11, Sun, 2 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
CHICAGO GREENS GATHERING
Info: 312-719-5719, 773-306-5402, wesgreen (at) ripco.com

--May 11, Sun, 2:30 pm, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: FOREST OF THE HANGED
Padurea Spânzuratilor’s 1964 classic anti-war drama of WWI
Repeats 5/13 6:30 pm

--May 12, Mon, 3 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
DOUGLASS AND LINCOLN: HOW A REVOLUTIONARY
BLACK LEADER & A RELUCTANT LIBERATOR STRUGGLED
TO END SLAVERY & SAVE THE UNION
Authors Paul & Stephen Kendrick recount the relationship
between Fredrick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln

--May 12, Mon, 9 pm, Danny's Tavern, 1951 W Dickens
BENEFIT: AREA CHICAGO, also ART FOR LIFE
DJs, more

--May 12-16, Mon-Fri, Bonn
WORLD CONGRESS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Info: www.planet-diversity.org/

--May 13, Tue, 11-5 pm, DePaul Club, 11th Floor, 25 E Jackson
EYES WIDE OPEN: THE HUMAN COST OF WAR

--May 13, Tue, 11:30 am, City Hall, 121 N LaSalle, Room 201A
NO WAR ON IRAN: CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION HEARING
Info: www.nowaroniran-chicago.org/

--May 13, Tue, 12 pm, Hilton Chicago, 720 S Michigan
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Keynote for The Working Lunch

--May 14, Wed, 12 pm, Thompson Center, 100 W Randolph
NEW TRIALS FOR POLICE TORTURE VICTIMS
Rally to demand Attorney General Lisa Madigan order new trials
for torture victims in Illinois
Sponsor: Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Info: 773-955-4841 or cedp (at) nodeathpenalty.org

--May 14, Wed, 6 pm, 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th
TEACH FREEDOM
Author Charles Payne discusses new book on history of attempts
by African Americans to use education as a tool of collective liberation

--May 15, Thu, 6 pm, International House, 1414 . 59th
INNOCENTS LOST: WHEN CHILD SOLDIERS GO TO WAR
Author Jimmie Briggs

--May 15, Thu, 7 pm, 3334 W Lawrence
CHINA: REVOLUTION & COUNTERREVOLUTION
Hear Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition

--May 15, Thu, 7 pm, Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis
1968: A YEAR OF REVOLT
International Socialist Review speaking tour
Info: www.isreview.org

--May 16, Fri, 7 pm, 3334 W. Lawrence #202
CHINA: REVOLUTION & COUNTERREVOLUTION
Hear Brian Becker of ANSWER Coalition
Info: 773-920-7590

--May 16, Fri, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
VOICES
Hear the Chicago political folk band

--May 16-17, Fri-Sat, Newleaf Natural Grocery, 1261 W. Loyola
USED BIKE DRIVE
Working Bikes Cooperative, a Chicago-based non-profit
Info: steve (at) newleafnatural.com

--May 16-18, Fri-Sun, Anaheim CA
SIXTH AL-AWDA CONVENTION
TO MARK 60 YEARS OF PALESTINIAN NAKBA
Info: al-awda.org/alert-conv6.html

--May 16-22, Fri-Thu, Landmark Century Cinema & elsewhere
FILM: BODY OF WAR
Phil Donahue’s acclaimed documentary on disabled Iraq vet Tomas Young

--May 17, Sat, 10-4 pm, 719 S State, Suite 3N
COMMUNIVERSITY: LABOR MOVEMENTS & IMMIGRATION
Sponsor: Chicago Freedom School
Info: www.chicagofreedomschool.org/index.php

--May 17, Sat, 12-9 pm, DePaul Lincoln Park Quad
BOOGIE NOT BOMBS
Music, dance, lots more
Sponsor: DePaul Activist Student Union

--May 17, Sat, 1 pm, 5650 S Woodlawn
SOCIAL JUSTICE TEACH-IN: CHOOSING YOUR ROLE
Panelists: Dr Barbara Ransby, Cathy Cohen, others
Info: www.affinity95.org

--May 17, Sat, 3 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA
Rally & march to Gerber Hart Library, 1127 W Granville
Reception follows with Iranian Queer Organization's Arsham Parsi
Info: www.gayliberation.net/home.html

--May 17-18, Sat-Sun, Navy Pier
CHICAGO GREEN FESTIVAL
Amy Goodman, Medea Benjamin, Greg Palast, Winona LaDuke, more
Info: www.greenfestivals.org/content/view/230/200/

--May 18, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY: US & MEXICO
Hear Leah Fried of United Electrical Workers
Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org

--May 18, Sun, 12:30 pm, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: LOS TRAIDORES (THE TRAITORS)
Raymundo Gleyzer’s drama of a trade union leader corrupted by the
bureaucracy in Argentina during the time of Peron

--May 18, Sun, 1 pm, First United Church of Oak Park, 848 Lake
SEVENTH ANNUAL WALK FOR A JUST PEACE IN ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Sponsors: Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice in the Middle East;
Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine; Committee for a Just Peace in
Israel & Palestine; DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition; 8th Day Center
for Justice; Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice; International Solidarity
Movement-Chicago chapter; Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago;
Middle East Task Force of the Presbytery of Chicago;
Oak Park Club of the Communist Party USA
Info: www.cjpip.org

--May 18, Sun, 7 pm, Heartland Cafe, 7000 N Glenwood
ANNE FEENEY RECORD RELEASE PARTY
New CD - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Also benefit for CCAWR, Chicago Greens, Chicago Indymedia, IWW,
New World Resource Center

--May 21, Wed, 6 pm, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall, 800 S Halsted
THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT:
WOMEN, VOTING & ELECTIONS IN AMERICA
Sponsor: Chicago Freedom School
Info: www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/

--May 22, Thu, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
AUTONOMISM TODAY
Part of Work Against Work: The Legacy of the Ultra Left series
Sponsors: 49th Street Underground, Finding Roots, IWW
Info: 49underground.org/nextevents.php_

--May 22-25, Thu-Sun, Toronto
A WORLD IN REVOLT: PROSPECTS FOR
SOCIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Info: www.socialistaction.org/conference.htm

--May 23-29, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL
Info: www.facets.org/

FORTHCOMING

-5/30-6/1 Labour for Palestine Conference, Toronto, labour (at) caiaweb.org
-6/4-6 Bil’in Friends of Freedom & Justice Society Conference,
Palestine, www. Ffj-bilin.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/
-6/12 ALL OUT: SUPPORT CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKERS,
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PICKET, www.CongressHotelStrike.info
-6/19-22 Socialism 2008 conference, Chicago, www.socialismconference.org
-6/20-21 Chicago Homeless Veterans Standdown, Fosco Park, 14th & Racine
-6/20-22 Conference of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces, www.usworker.coop
-6/21-22 Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service,
Conference, & Caravan for Justice, Neshoba County, Mississippi
-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/
-7/13 Bastille Day Party, Quenchers Saloon, chgosp (at) juno.com
-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
-8/24-9/3 Witness for Peace Delegation to Colombia, katievaratta (at) yahoo.com
-Jan 2009, World Social Forum, Belem, Brazil

NEW & RE-STOCKED BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-Democracy Now T-Shirts & Stickers now available!
-The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of
Critical African American Studies, ed by Manning Marable
-Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, ed by Marc Falkoff
-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein
-Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing & the Erosion of
Integrity by, Anne Elizabeth Moore
-Jacques Vache’ and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vache’s War Letters
& Other Writings, by Franklin Rosemont
-Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II by Martin Glaberman
-Starving Amidst Too Much: & Other IWW Writings on the Food Industry by T-Bone Slim, L.S. Chumley, Jim Seymour & Jack Sheridan, ed by Peter Rachleff
-If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left & the Birth of the New Left,
by Maurice Isserman
-Punching Out: & Other Writings by Martin Glaberman, ed by Staughton Lynd
-The American Worker, by Paul Romano & Ria Stone)
-Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World,
ed by Paul Buhle
-Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma,
1905-1930, by Nigel Anthony Sellars
-Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA, by Norman Caulfield
-Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader,
ed by Lowell May & Richard Myers
-History Against Misery, by David Roediger
-State Capitalism & World Revolution, by C.L.R. James
-Frederick Engels, by John Keracher
-Lucy Parsons: Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937, ed by Gale Ahrens
-Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin DG Kelley
-The Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition & Strategy,
ed by Noel Ignatiev
-Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman &
-Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago, ed by Franklin Rosemont
-Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail
& Other Writings on Crime & Punishment, by Clarence Darrow (2000)
-A Dreamer’s Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey & the
-Decline of Radicalism in the US, by Paul M. Buhle
-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
-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
-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
-Women Behind Bars:
The Crisis of Women in the US Prison System, by Silja Talvi
-Class Matters, by Bill Keller
-The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity &
Ignore Inequality, by Walter Benn Michaels
-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)

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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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TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC: Phone (773) 227 4011or
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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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