NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR:
MAY 15 – JUNE 1

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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--May 15, 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

--May 15, Thu, 5:30 – 7 pm, State & Madison
LEAFLETING FOR PALESTINIAN NAKBA
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: 773-463-0311

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

--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
Join Phil Dohahue for discussion following 5/16 screenings

--May 17, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guests: Dahr Jamail,
Info: www.thisishell.net

--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, Sat, 6 pm, Ida Noyes Hall East Lounge, 1212 E 59th
RACE, CLASS & THE FIGHT FOR A WORKERS AMERICA
Sponsors: Labor Black Struggle League, Spartacist League
Info: www.icl-fi.org

--May 17, Sat, 6 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
LET ME STAND ALONE: THE JOURNALS OF RACHEL CORRIE
Corrie's parents & colleagues read selections from her work
Repeats 5/18 1 am

--May 17, Sat, 9 pm, Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace
JON LANGFORD & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS:
BENEFIT FOR ILLINOIS COALITION TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Also featuring The Sadies, Rosie Flores, Sally Timms, Puerto Muerto,
John Rice, many more
Info: 773-478-4408 or www.abbeypub.com

--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, 9 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
THIS COMMON SECRET: MY JOURNEY AS AN ABORTION DOCTOR
Susan Wicklund recounts her twenty-year career as an abortion doctor,
recorded at Chicago’s Women & Children First

--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 19, Mon, 4:45 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2
THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR:
THE TRUE COST OF THE IRAQ CONFLICT
Authors Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes

--May 19, Mon, 6 pm, DePaul University, 2400 N Sheffield
SHUT DOWN HATE: PROTEST MINUTE MAN FOUNDER
CHRIS SIMCOX SPEECH AT DEPAUL
Vigil, protests, more against these racists & immigrant-haters
Info: web.mac.com/jenpagonis/minutemanprotest/Home.html

--May 20, Tue, 6:30 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
FILM: SHARKWATER
Documentary on exploitation & corruption of shark populations in
the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica & Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Sponsor: Animal Defense League

--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, Fri, 5 pm, Federal Plaza
SOLIDARITY RALLY FOR PALESTINE:
60 YEARS OF EXILE, 60 YEARS OF CATASTROPHE
Sponsors: Al Awda-Chicago, American Muslims for Palestine,
Chicago Islamic Center DePaul, Northwestern & UIC-Students
for Justice in Palestine, Mosque Foundation Community Center,
Muslim American Society, Palestine Solidarity Group, United States
Palestinian Popular Conference Network, American Friends Service Committee,
ANSWER, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Chicagoans
Against Apartheid in Palestine, Church Network for Education on Palestine,
Fight Back! Newspaper, International Solidarity Movement-Chicago, others

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

--May 24-25, Milwaukee Ramada Inn South, 6401 S 13th
AL NAKBA EXHIBITS AND SPEAKERS
Sponsor: Muslim American Society
Info: www.masnet.org

--May 26, Mon, 9 am, Arlington Heights Village Hall
MARCH FOR PEACE IN THE
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Sponsors: Chicago Area CodePINK, NW Suburban NOW, others

--May 28, Wed, 6 pm, Hull House Museum, 800 S Halsted
COMMUNITY FORUM ON CHALLENGING
CONCENTRATED WEALTH & POWER
Panelists: Chuck Collins of Institute for Policy Studies, Wendy Pollack
of Shriver National Center on Povery Law, Ralph Martire of Center
for Tax & Budget Accountability, Josina Morita of Applied Research Center,
James Thindwa of Jobs With Justice
Sponsors: Applied Research Center, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability,
Crossroads Fund, Global Initiatives Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House
Museum, Jobs With Justice, Institute for Policy Studies, Sargent Shriver
National Center on Poverty Law
Info: rsvp econjustmidwest (at) gmail.com

--May 28, Wed, 7 pm, Northwestern Thorne Auditorium, 375 E Chicago
FILM: AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR
Steve James & Peter Gilbert’s documentary on death house
chaplain Carroll Pickett
Sponsors: Kartemquin Films, ACLU of Illinois, Center on Wrongful Convictions
at Northwestern University School of Law, The Public Square

--May 30 - Jun 1, Fri-Sun, Toronto
LABOUR FOR PALESTINE CONFERENCE
Info: labour (at) caiaweb.org

--May 30 - Jun 1, Fri-Sun, Columbia SC
NATIONAL ACTIVIST SUMMIT ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Info: www.nirs.org/nwsummit/summit.htm

--May 31, Sat, 3 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
LABOR & GLOBALIZATION IN EUROPE & THE U.S.
Labor analyst Kim Scipes examines the consequences of neo-liberal
globalization on union movements in Europe & the US
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org

--Jun 1, Sun, 12:15 pm, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
FIESTA LUNCHEON BENEFIT FOR MEDICAL AID
TO HONDURAS & NICARAGUA

--Jun 1, Sun, 6 pm, 3411 W Diversey
NUCLEAR ENERGY INFORMATION SERVICE OPEN HOUSE
Video screening of Carbon Free–Nuclear Free by 2050:
A Roadmap for US Energy Policy
Info: www.neis.org

FORTHCOMING

-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 & 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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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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