Inside Books Volunteer Night

Come and open letters from Texas inmates and send them books that they request. We need all the help we can get.
Also, we always encourage people to bring dictionaries and book donations (soft back, please)for our library.

This is a non-profit organization formed to help Texas inmates through literacy and self-education.

Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Sundays 7pm-12am

Location:
Rhizome Collective
(300 E Allen St)

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

Indyconference Benefit at Emo's

Benefit for the national Indyconference at Emo's, good punk-rock, come check it out.

Location:

Honoring Women in Recovery

Annual Families in Recovery Celebration

9:30am to Noon

Honoring women in recovery

Cosponsored by the Institute on Urban Health Research
and the Boston Public Health Commission

Location:
Boston Statehouse

URL: http://www.voice.neu.edu/events.html

Organized Resistance Conference

NCOR 2005

The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) has been happening every winter on the campus of American University in Washington DC since 1998. It aims to provide a space for activists to meet each other, have in-depth discussions, analyze our strategies, tactics, beliefs, learn a few new skills, and give everyone a lot to think about after an inspiring weekend. Activists of all ages or levels of experience are welcome, as are curious non-activists and anyone looking to resist systems of oppression and create something new! Last year about 1500 people participated in NCOR, we hope that you'll join us this year, February 3-6, 2005.

Check out the Events page for info on the Festivals of Resistance (evening shows on Fri/Sat).

www.organizedresistance.org/events.shtml

We will also be screening films on Thurs, Fri, and Sat nights - more info on the film descriptions page.

www.organizedresistance.org/films.shtml

List of tablers (organizations and collectives handing out info about what they do or selling radical books, zines, tshirts, and other cool stuff)

www.organizedresistance.org/tables.shtml

The Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and the Schedule of workshops (.pdf) (times/locations) have been updated. Keep checking back for the most current info.

www.organizedresistance.org/workshops.shtml

If you are planning to attend this year's NCOR, check out the logistics page for info on transportation, housing, food, and arrangements for parents and children.

www.organizedresistance.org/workshops.shtml

Proceeds from films and Festivals of Resistance to benefit mutualaid.org/riseup.net, Neighbors Consejo, We Are Family, and the Transgender Health Empowerment Project.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

7pm Lost Film Fest - Weschler Theatre on campus of American University ($5) - see Film Descriptions.

Friday, February 4, 2005

6pm-7:30pm Opening Panel Discussion: Beyond the Indefinite Empire: Post-Election Organizing. Ward 1 at American University. See the Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios page for more information.

7pm 1st Festival of Resistance. First Trinity Lutheran Church (basement), 4th and E Sts NW. $6 all ages. Requiem, Marathon, Bear and the Butterfly, True if Destroyed, The Feverfew.

8pm Films: Mardi Gras Made In China + The Fourth World War ($5) - Ward 1 on campus of American University - see Film Descriptions.

Saturday, February 5, 2005

8:30am - 9:30am Morning yoga and breakfast

9:40am - 5:10pm Workshops, panel discussions, and roundtables - see Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and Schedule of Workshops (.pdf). Also: tablers and guerrilla workshops (see below). All daytime events will be on the American University campus.

1pm - 2pm Disability Caucus - open to anyone with a disability. This will be an informal gathering where we can talk about our experiences as radical activists, obstacles we've encountered, and our vision for accessible movements and communities.

7:30pm 2nd Festival of Resistance. The Tavern on the campus of American University. $5. Head Roc, Cypher Dissident, Food For Animals, Welfare Poets, and more TBA

8pm Film: The Corporation - Ward 1 on campus of American University ($5) - see Film Descriptions.

Sunday, February 6, 2005

9am - 10am Morning yoga and breakfast

10am - 5:20pm Workshops, panel discussions, and roundtables - see Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and Schedule of Workshops (.pdf). Also: tablers and guerrilla workshops (see below). All daytime events will be on the American University campus.

Guerrilla Workshops

We are no longer accepting workshops proposals for this year. However, anyone who feels like they would like to lead a workshop or discussion that is not already on the program (or hell, even if it is and you think it needs even more space!) can do a guerrilla workshop. This year the kind folks from Twin Oaks have volunteered to make this a little less chaotic and will have one central, easy-to-find location where you can write down your guerrilla workshop. Guerrilla workshops have been very popular in the past.

Tablers

While you're not in workshops, you'll be able to check out dozens of groups tabling at this year's NCOR. Some of them will be organizations and collectives handing out info about what they do, others will be selling radical books, zines, tshirts, and other cool stuff. Check out the list of who is tabling this year.

Location:
American University in Washington DC

Cost: $12

URL: http://www.organizedresistance.org

African Film Festival at MFA

The MFA presents its annual African Film Festival, February 2-26.

Over the past few years, this festival has expanded, offering more films covering an ever-diversifying range of subjects.

Hollow City by Maria João Ganga (Na Cidade Vazia, Angola, 2004, 88 min.)
A “calm and unsentimental look at the realities of a war-torn nation” (Variety)

Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal, 2004, 124 min.)
"an example of humanist cinema at its finest, a movie that reminds you of the dignity and heroism of ordinary life.” (A. O. Scott, The New York Times)

Mrs.Wheelbarrow by Moussa Sene Absa (Madame Brouette, Senegal, 2002, 104min.)
a loopy saga of passion, ambition, chauvinism, corruption, gangsters and betrayal.

HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s festival begins with an 8-show engagement of Ousmane Sembene’s acclaimed Moolaadé. It then proceeds with an array of eight features and three short films. Represented are Algeria, Angolia, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. This festival is part of the nationally touring African Film Festival of New York.

TICKET INFO
MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9. Double-feature price: any two back-to-back screenings $14/$15 when purchased at the Box Office or by phone.

www.mfa.org/cgi-bin/webevent.pl

Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cost: $9/$8

URL: http://www.mfa.org

MLK Jr. Event at MIT with Gwen Ifill

31st Annual MLK, Jr. Breakfast Celebration

with Ms. Gwen Ifill from PBS

7:30am to 10:30am

Sponsor
President's Office
 
Open to the public

Gwen Ifill: Moderator/Managing Editor/Correspondent

An accomplished political reporter with experience in both print and broadcast news, Gwen Ifill holds two of the most highly respected posts in her field. She is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week, the longest-running public affairs program on public television, and senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
For Washington Week, Ms. Ifill oversees a public television tradition launched in 1967 - a report on the key news events of the previous week.

As managing editor she selects which stories to examine, chooses each week's panel of leading Washington D.C.-based news correspondents, and moderates the lively Q&A format on-air. Washington Week is distinguished by being the first political news show to air each week, beating out all network shows in its genre. Ms. Ifill is also frequently asked to moderate debates in national elections, most recently the Vice Presidential debate during the 2004 election.

On The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS's nightly newscast, Ms. Ifill is a familiar presence as both a correspondent and a moderator. She helps provide its trademark in-depth coverage of current events with a unique mix of informed debates, comprehensive interviews, and expansive feature stories. Ms. Ifill spent several years as a Washington Week panelists before assuming the moderator's chair in 1999, which was also the year she joint the NewsHour.

Prior to joining PBS, Gwen Ifill served at NBC News for five years as chief congressional and political correspondent. While at NBC she covered the premier political stories affecting the national for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Today, Meet the Press and MSNBC.

Ms. Ifill worked for many years as a print journalist before she became a fixture on broadcast news. She was a reporter at such well-known newspapers as The New York Times, where she covered the White House and politics, The Washington Post, where her focus was national and local affairs, The Baltimore Evening Sun, and The Boston Herald American.

She serves on the board of the Harvard Institute of Politics and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Location:
Morss Hall - Walker Memorial, M.I.T.

URL: http://web.mit.edu/mlking/www/event_index.html

The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker: Lessons from an Ancient Native American Spiritual Teacher
Robert Gerzon

Event Code: LF03

The Peacemaker Epic, a recently rediscovered historically-based Native American legend, tells the inspiring story of a great Iroquois spiritual leader whose radical message of love and peace dramatically transformed warring tribes caught in a self-destructive cycle of violence into an enduring civilization based on principles of love, justice and natural law.

We will explore the clues this mythic epic may contain regarding America's spiritual identity and historic destiny

What: Lecture Series at CCAE
When: Thursdays at 10:30am, beginning 1/13/05 and ending 3/17/05

Location:
Cambridge Center for Adult Education 56 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge

Cost: $2 ($1 Seniors)

URL: http://www.ccae.org

War without Violence

Maria J. Stephan, ISP/ICP Research Fellow

BCSIA's International Security Program

Location:
Malkin Penthouse, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

URL: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/ksginfo/enews.nsf/details/NT00013EA2

Great Works for the 21st Century

Great Works for the 21st Century: A Critical Role for The Modern Research University

4:15pm - 5:45pm

Professor A. Richard Newton, UC Berkeley

As we enter the 21st century, there can be no doubt that our worldfaces an enormous range of social, technological, and political challenges.

For example, with almost 3 billion people on the planet earning less than $2/day, over one billion people still lack access toclean drinking water.

If we want to stabilize global warming at 2oC, we will need the ability to produce 30-60 terawatts of carbon-freepower by 2050 - the equivalent of a large, carbon-free power plant every day between now and the year 2050.

As daunting as these challenges seem, we must remember that individuals, governments, and foundations are capable of "great works" that lead to economic and social progress and improvements in our quality of life.

Examples inthe 20th century include Andrew Carnegie's decision to fund public libraries, the GI Bill, the Marshall Plan, the eradication of smallpox, and the Green Revolution.

In this presentation I will describe a set of candidate Great Works for the 21st Century and will sketch an outline of how the world's leading research universities could collaborate to determine a global research agenda, to identify and prioritize the problems we face, and to develop a unique, international public-private partnership to tackle them.

Sponsor
CSAIL

Open to the public

Location:
32-123 M.I.T.

Cost: free

URL: http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=series&id=15

Iraq in Perspective

Iraq in Perspective: The Past and Future of American Grand Strategy

The Merle Goldman Lecture

John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University

Open to the public

Location:
STO B-50 Boston University

Cost: free

URL: http://www.bu.edu/calendar/

Iraq War Veterans Tour: B.U.

UJP/Military Families Speak Out Iraq Veterans Tour

FROM THE FRONTLINES: Come hear Iraq war veterans and military families report on the US occupation of Iraq and the Bush administration's treatment of soldiers, veterans, and their families. This will be a hearing: these soldiers and family members will testify to this war's realities-- realities rarely seen on television or reported in the newspapers.

Sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against The War, Military Families Speak Out, MA Labor for Justice with Peace (affiliate of US Labor Against the War) and the Iraq War Veterans Tour (a coalition of dozens campus, youth, community, and labor organizations).

also sponsored by Boston University Peace and Justice Project and Inter-University Coalition for a Humane Foreign Policy-B.U. Chapter

Former Army Sergeant Kelly Dougherty and Marine Lance Corporal Michael Hoffman will be speaking at the following venues. Please note- to accommodate a heavy speaking schedule and requests for media interviews, some events may have only one speaker from Iraq Veterans Against The War, and at other events they may be speaking alongside other activists and community leaders. Please contact each event's sponsor for more information and - we will be posting all updates as soon as they come in.

The full schedule as of Sunday, January 30:
Sun Jan 30 Fanueil Hall, Boston 3-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Salem State College 11am-1pm
Mon Jan 31 Endicott College, Beverly 2-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Lynn, MA 6:30-9:30pm
Tues Feb 1 South End, Boston 3:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 M.I.T. Cambridge 4:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 Roxbury 7-9pm
Tues Feb 1 Bridgewater State College 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Lowell Noon-2pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Boston 2:30-5pm
Wed Feb 2 Tufts, Somerville 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 Northeastern Univ, Boston 7-9pm
Thu Feb 3 B.U. Law School 5-6:30pm
Thu Feb 3 Chelsea 7:30-9:30pm
Fri Feb 4 Roxbury Community College 11:30am-1pm
Fri Feb 4 Harvard Univ, Cambridge 4-6pm
Fri Feb 4 Watertown 7-9pm
Sun Feb 6 Boston 11am-Noon

Location:
Boston University Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave, Room 870, Boston, MA

URL: http://www.BringTheTroopsHomeNow.net www.justicewithpeace.org

Rate Your Community Center

How is Your Community Center Working for You?

Do you want to voice your opinion on what you would like to see at the center to the Executive Director of all 46 city community centers and his staff?

Now’s your chance!

Boston Centers for Youth & Families and new Executive Director, Robert Lewis, Jr., will host a series of Community Forums across the city.

Boston residents are invited to come to discuss their local center, meet Executive Director Lewis, and learn how they can be involved.

6pm: Meet & Greet/Refreshments
6:30pm: Agenda begins

Location:
Shelburne Community Center 2730 Washington Street Roxbury

URL: http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/calendar.asp?mode=single&id=8597&type=single

Human Rights Commission

Public Meeting of the Human Rights Commission

Location:
51 Inman St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, Cambridge

URL: http://www.cambridgema.gov/ViewSchedule.cfm?event_id=1715

CCTV Orientation

This is the first step to getting involved with CCTV. You must attend one and then become a member of CCTV before enrolling in our Production Certification courses. The Orientation explains the history of PEG access and CCTV, explains CCTV's policies, operations and your options for getting involved, and discusses your responsibilities. Want a reminder call before the next one? Call (617)-661-6900 and ask to join our calling list.

Location:
CCTV Central Square Cambridge

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cctvcambridge.org/

School Bus Safety Summit

Parents, Parent Organizations, Community Activists, Students & Volunteers Needed!

Sponsored by:
City Councilors Chuck Turner, Felix Arroyo, & Charles Yancey, State Representative Gloria Fox, and State Senator Dianne Wilkerson

Equal, Quality Education Requires Safe, On-Time Transportation

Boston Public School Students Deserve No Less!

For decades, our community has fought for equitable and quality education. While we have struggled to improve the quality of education for all students, we have fought for equal rights for Boston's communities of color, including desegregation. As recent events have shown, this fight is far from over. We have won an important round by setting back an attempt to turn back the clock to separate and unequal education, under the code word of "return to neighborhood schools." Now we must assure that our children are guaranteed a safe, on-time ride to school.

In the early 1970's, Freedom House was a vital center of our organizing to win and defend desegregation.

Location:
Freedom House, 14 Crawford St, Dorchester, corner Warren Street, Grove Hall

Islam: Religion and Art

Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa

Religion and Art: Islam and Hinduism

Instructors: Ali Asani, Professor, Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, Harvard University and Julia Bailey, Managing Editor, Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world.

Examine the richness and diversity of Islamic tradition and its effect on art and architecture.

1. Understanding Islam: Going Beyond the Headlines, Ali Asani

This presentation provides a framework for understanding the role of diverse cultural and historical contexts in determining expressions of faith in Muslim societies around the world.

2. Visual Arts of Islamic Lands, Julia Bailey

What is Islamic Art? This section sheds light on Islamic visual culture by examining some of its most splendid works, produced from the early years of Islam to the present day: Copies of the Koran, objects from town and palace, and arts of the illustrated book.

Meets two Tuesdays, Feb 1 and 8, from 10:30 am–noon in Remis Auditorium

Two-session course: $30, members, seniors, students,$45, non members/general admission not available online:to purchase teickts call 617-369-3306.

Individual sessions: $20, members, seniors, students; $25 non members/general admission.

You may also purchase tickets in person at the Remis Box Office, Mon, Tues, Sat, and Sun, 10 am–4:30 pm, and Wed–Fri, 10 am–8:30 pm or by calling 617-369-3306, please have your credit card information ready.

also Feb 1st & 8th at 10:30am

Location:
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cost: $45/$30/$25/$20

URL: http://www.mfa.org

Casey Neill, Songwriter & Performer

Casey Neill - singer / songwriter and performer
writer of 'Dancing on The Ruins of International Corporations'

Release party for a compilation of political songs through the AK Press.

Location:
The Paradise Lounge 969 Commonwealth Ave
http://www.thedise.com/lounge.html

Cost: $7

URL: http://www.caseyneill.org

Iraq War Veterans Tour: Chelsea

UJP/Military Families Speak Out Iraq Veterans Tour

FROM THE FRONTLINES: Come hear Iraq war veterans and military families report on the US occupation of Iraq and the Bush administration's treatment of soldiers, veterans, and their families. This will be a hearing: these soldiers and family members will testify to this war's realities-- realities rarely seen on television or reported in the newspapers.

Sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against The War, Military Families Speak Out, MA Labor for Justice with Peace (affiliate of US Labor Against the War) and the Iraq War Veterans Tour (a coalition of dozens campus, youth, community, and labor organizations).

also sponsored by Chelsea Uniting Against War

Former Army Sergeant Kelly Dougherty and Marine Lance Corporal Michael Hoffman will be speaking at the following venues. Please note- to accommodate a heavy speaking schedule and requests for media interviews, some events may have only one speaker from Iraq Veterans Against The War, and at other events they may be speaking alongside other activists and community leaders. Please contact each event's sponsor for more information and - we will be posting all updates as soon as they come in.

The full schedule as of Sunday, January 30:
Sun Jan 30 Fanueil Hall, Boston 3-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Salem State College 11am-1pm
Mon Jan 31 Endicott College, Beverly 2-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Lynn, MA 6:30-9:30pm
Tues Feb 1 South End, Boston 3:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 M.I.T. Cambridge 4:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 Roxbury 7-9pm
Tues Feb 1 Bridgewater State College 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Lowell Noon-2pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Boston 2:30-5pm
Wed Feb 2 Tufts, Somerville 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 Northeastern Univ, Boston 7-9pm
Thu Feb 3 B.U. Law School 5-6:30pm
Thu Feb 3 Chelsea 7:30-9:30pm
Fri Feb 4 Roxbury Community College 11:30am-1pm
Fri Feb 4 Harvard Univ, Cambridge 4-6pm
Fri Feb 4 Watertown 7-9pm
Sun Feb 6 Boston 11am-Noon

Location:
St. Rose Church School, 580 Broadway, Chelsea, MA

URL: http://www.BringTheTroopsHomeNow.net www.justicewithpeace.org

Benefit for No-Kill Animal Shelter

Three local bands will join forces for a charity concert designed to raise funds and awareness for Cape Ann Animal Aid (www.capeannanimalaid.com), a no-kill shelter based in Gloucester, MA.

the haunting melodies of Amber Spyglass
(www.amberspyglass.net)

innovative dark pop band Lilac Ambush
(www.lilacambush.com)

and
musician-activist Nancy Mroczek PHD
(www.music.nancymroczek.com)

DJ Elyzia David rounds out the evening by spinning cool tunes between
the bands' sets.

This event begins at 8pm, is open to the public, and all proceeds
from the $8 admission charged at the door will go directly to benefit
Cape Ann Animal Aid. Patrons are encouraged to bring pet food and
supplies to the venue that evening, as they will be collected for the shelter.

Originally intended as a rescue committee for the helpless kittens and
puppies abandoned by casual summer residents, Cape Ann Animal Aid
Association has grown into a home-finding agency for all unwanted or stray
cats and dogs on Cape Ann. Last year, the shelter placed over 500
animals, every one spayed or neutered. Every penny spent comes from the
shelter's supporters - they receive no state or municipal funding.

Location:
The Skybar, 518 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA

Cost: $8

URL: http://www.skybar.us/

Power of Nightmares Screening

The Power of Nightmares: Rise of the Politics of Fear

The last and most hard hitting of episodes in the Power of Nightmares trilogy, which shows the simultaneous rise to power of two marginalized groups, the American Neo-conservatives and the Islamic Jihad.
In this Episode, "Shadows in the Cave", much is revealed to dispell the myths created out the war on terror and the "reality player" lies of the neoconservative movement.

Location:
The Mercury Cafe
22nd & California
Denver

Cost: $5 Suggested Donation

Entrega del premio "En Carnaval también lucho por mi tierra"

Entrega del premio "En Carnaval también lucho por mi tierra"

Por segundo año consecutivo, la Organización Juvenil Azarug quiere mostrar su reconocimiento a las murgas del carnaval de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, que mayor compromiso demuestran a traves de su puesta en escena y de sus letras, con la realidad que les rodea, con la situacion de estas islas.
Este premio, que titulamos "En carnaval también lucho por mi tierra", se lo entregaremos este año a las murgas "Los Trabas", "Diablos Locos" y "Tras con Tras", por algunos de sus temas cantados este año, llenos de compromiso, lucha y valentía.
El acto de entrega tendrá lugar en el Local Sociocultural Tamonante (c/Dr. Zamenhof nº7, Aguere), el jueves 3 de febrero, a las 20 horas.
Tras esto, tendrá lugar una mesa redonda entre murgeros, Azarug, y diversas personas, como el musicólogo Domingo Corujo, que hemos titulado "Murgas, la voz del pueblo"
Esperando la asistencia de todos, saludos y ¡Feliz Carnaval!

Azarug

Location:
Local Sociocultural Tamonante (c/Dr. Zamenhof nº7, Aguere)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.azarug.org

Entierro por la Europa Social

Desde la plataforma por el No a la Constitución, que agrupa a más de 110 entidades y plataformas se ha organizado mañana, jueves día 3 de febrero, a las 23:30 un acto para enterrar la Europa Social.

Sería muy útil que aportarais velas para iluminar el entierro.

Después se ha previsto ir a "saludar" la inauguración de la campaña de los partidos.

Location:
Paseo de Gracia, 90, delante de la sede de la Convención Europea

Organizer:

Presentación libro en pamplona Software libre para una sociedad libre

«El hacklab de iruña Hackresi y la editorial Traficantes de sueños esta
semana organiza la presentacion/charla del libro "Software libre para una
sociedad libre" de Richard M. Stallman.

La presentación se hara en dos lugares:

- Jueves a las 19:30 en el local Zabaldi plaza de la Navarreria 25.
- Viernes a las 11:00 Universidad publica de Navarra en el edificio de las
Encinas (departamento de matematicas e informática) seminario 1

Se podría aprovechar esta charla/debate para discutir donde esta la Comunidad
Foral en lo que respecta al Software Libre, y si los distintos grupos que
andamos relacionados con estos temas tenemos algo que decir. sobre todo
teniendo en cuenta los últimos acontecimientos que hacen referencia a
Navarra.
¿Estaría bien alguna actuación en común? podría ser un buen tema para el
debate.»

Location:
Pamplona/Iruña

Directions: Navarreria 25 zabaldi

Organizer:

"El delito de ser inmigrante"

AURREIRITZIAK ETA INMIGRAZIOA
PREJUICIOS E INMIGRACIÓN
"El delito de ser inmigrante"
Daniel Wagman

Location:
La Bolsa (Pelota Kalea-Alde Zaharra, Bilbao)

Organizer:

Brain wash session one

Location:

Film: “The Corporation”

“The Corporation” investigates the history of the institution of the corporation, and delves into concerns about the current structure and power of corporations. According to Roger Ebert, "The Corporation is an impassioned polemic, filled with information sure to break up any dinner table conversation.

Location:
Plymouth State University, Hyde Building Room 120, Plymouth, NH

Cost: Free and open to the public

Organizer:

URL: www.thecorporation.com

Movement for Change Weekly Meeting

Movement for Change has its weekly meeting on this day at the Center for Social Justice on the corner of Davis and Moreno. They are open to the public and start at 7 p.m.

Location:
Center for Social Justice
1603 N Davis St

Cost: FREE

Directions: corner of Davis and Moreno

Organizer:

Niani art showcase

If we understand that "The only justification of our concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences. The order is relationship of things among themselves." (Einstein)

Mature and impactive African art defines the many faces of humanity.
Embrace the African world through African art.
Embrace oneness through African Art's deep sense of Forms.
Embrace mystical participation a conception of reality behind the world of appearance.
African Art, an element of wisdom to be learned throught the mystical way of feelings.

Please come and see the masks of the Dan people of Liberia, of the Bakongo of the Congo, and of the Songye of the Congo to celebrate Black History Month.

Location:
Red Emma's Coffeehouse Bookstore

Cost: Free

URL: www.redemmas.org

Picket Line @ Rochester City School District’s first Public Hearing on School Closings

What: Picket Line @ Rochester City School District’s first Public Hearing on School Closings

When: Thursday, February 3, 2005……………………………….........Thursday, February 3, 2005

Where: Frederick Douglass Preparatory School……….....……(940 Fernwood Park, Rochester)

Why: To Stop School Closings……....To Stop School Closings…….To Stop School Closings

Time: 5:15 PM…....…..…..Time: 5:15 PM……...….....Time: 5:15 PM……….…....Time: 5:15 PM



Who: People against school closings invite you to join us in sending Rochester Mayor, Superintendent, and School Board a clear message on Thursday evening: CLOSE NO SCHOOLS. When the Superintendent and Board members arrive at the Hearing, we will greet them with a strong show of resistance. We hope to see you on the PICKET LINE (with your protest sign and or bullhorn at 5:15 PM on Thursday evening, February 3, 2005).

CHANTS


Up with schools

Down with prisons

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Johnson, Rivera, Big Business

Y’all ain’t slick

We know this is about money and politricks

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Hands off the children

Do us all a favor

Close Central Office

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Ain’t nobody gonna turn us around

We gonna unite and shake this town

Location:
Where: Frederick Douglass Preparatory School……….....……(940 Fernwood Park, Rochester)

CASINO GAMBLING IN ROCHESTER

Thursday, February 3rd at 5:15 pm
Free and Open to the Public



What are the stakes in the decision of whether or not to allow casino gambling in
downtown Rochester? Our panel will help us sort out the economic and
jurisdictional issues involved. Will gambling help the downtown economy? Will a
casino be good for other businesses? Is it necessary to give up sovereignty of two
blocks of the city for a casino to be built? What does the experience of Atlantic
City, Niagara Falls, and other cities tell us.

Panelists: David Cay Johnston, NY Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and author
of “Temples of Chance”; Mayor William Johnson; Chris Wilmot, Monroe County
Legislator

Location:
Gleason Auditorium, Central Library

SB IndyMedia General Meeting

BE THE MEDIA! Help us run this site and get it to be used more. Thursday Feb.3 at 7 pm, 1129 State St. off the indoor patio in the Rain.org office.
Info: 962-8415

Location:
1129 State St. off the indoor patio in the Rain.org office.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbindymedia.org

SB IndyMedia General Membership meeting

BE THE MEDIA! Help us run this site and get it to be used more. Thursday Feb.3 at 7 pm, 1129 State St. off the indoor patio in the Rain.org office.
Info: 962-8415

Location:
1129 State St. off the indoor patio in the Rain.org office.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbindymedia.org

HUFF's Vigil Against Two Wars

HUFF shares space with Santa Cruz Copwatch in front of Borders Book Store. We also have a radio which plays Free Radio Santa Cruz's Bathrobespierre's Broadsides--a two hour civil rights show concerned with local human rights violations--from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Often we have access to a cellular phone to call in to the show and report police misconduct and other discrimination against the poor directly from the street.

We also circulate petitions urging City Council to take actions to end the War in Iraq and the War Against the Poor in Santa Cruz. The petitions urge the Rotkin City Council to loosen local laws so as to permit medical marijuana distribution centers, urge the Council to press for the impeachment of Bush, urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, urge restoration of public spaces and benches downtown, and urge an end to the Sleeping, Blanket, and Camping Bans.

We also distribute literature as well as the monthly homeless newspaper Street Spirit.

HUFF activists also cook and distribute food, often vegan, which we pass out until the pot is empty.

Location:
In front of New Leaf Market at Pacific and Soquel

Directions: In front of Borders Book Store in Santa Cruz downtown on Pacific Avenue at Soquel

Organizer:

URL: www.huffsantacruz.org, www.santacruzcopwatch.org

Watsonville Brown Berets

The Brown Berets are a historical part of the Chicano movement that was launched during the late 1960's. Our organization has been active in Watsonville since 1994 in responce to gang violance and ignorance that was taking the lives of our young people. Since then we have worked tirelessly on issues such as police harrassment, imrovement of our educational institutions, and demanding the voice of the disenfranchised community to be heard. We believe that through education, spiritaulity, cultura, and resistance that we can create effective changes in this society. We invite you to join our efforts. Mexica TIahui!!

Location:
406 Main Street and Beach Suite# 408b
(First Floor behind the Luttnich ( Ritmo Latino)Bld)
Watsonville, Califaztlan 95076

Cost: Dedication, an open mind, and corazon

Directions: Accroos the street of the Watsonville plaza and
next to Plaza Vigil

Radical Queer Reading

That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting
Assimilation
Edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Published by Soft Skull Press

Thurs, Feb 3, 7:30 p.m.
Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Avenue
Tel: 831-423-0900
with editor Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
and contributors
Eric Stanley, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Charlie Anders and
more TBA

That's Revolting! is a radical queer intervention in
the culture wars. It is a call to action dispatched by
early gay liberation rabble-rousers, counterculture
demons, fringe artistes, renegade academics, the
dispossessd, and the obsessed. In other words, it�s a
book by freaks, fruits, perverts and whores dedicated
to resisting homogenization, globalization and all the
other evils of this ravaging world. Enjoy the glamour
of it all!


"Startlingly bold and provocative.�
--Howard Zinn, author of A People�s History of the
United States

�Tired of being represented by the Rich White
Homosexual Lobby and its corporate and media sponsors?
Pick up That's Revolting! and find the
bracing world of vivid, provocative, radical queer
visionary argument and activism that you need to feel
challenged, goaded, energized and alive.�
--Lisa Duggan, author of The Twilight of Equality:
Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on
Democracy

�Excellent writing and unabashed left politics combine
to make this collection vibrant and energizing. The
diversity of voices--young and old, people of color,
working class, and, of course, every shade of
queer--is impressive. These amazing essays represent
an anti-racis, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist, and
anti-imperialist perspective in a positive,
optimistic, and even hilarious manner. �
--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up
Okie and Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years,
1960-1975



�Mattilda has performed the Herculean task of
gathering all my favorite smart, irreverent, talented,
fierce, funny and fabulous people together in one
place. I can't wait to see what happens in the world
once
That's Revolting!as been out there for a while.�
--Kate Bornstein, author of My Gender Workbook

Until recently, one might not have imagined the
largest national gay rights lobbying group endorsing a
right-wing Republican Senatorial candidate (Al
D'Amato in New York), or the San Francisco Pride
parade adopting the Budweiser slogan as its official
theme. That�s Revolting! skewers the holy trinity of
marriage, military service and adoption that has
become the
rallying cry of a movement centered more around
obtaining straight privilege than challenging power.



About the editor:
Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, is the
author of Pulling
Taffy
(Suspect Thoughts 2003) and the editor of Tricks and
Treats: Sex
Workers
Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000) and Dangerous
Families: Queer
Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004). Mattilda is an
instigator of Gay
Shame:
A Virus in the System, a radical queer activist group
that fights the
monster of assimilation.

Location:
Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Avenue
Tel: 831-423-0900

Cost: free

Organizer:

Peace Witness - Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

Clarksville Weekly Vigil Peace

Our candlelight vigils are every Thursday night, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in
downtown Clarksville, Public Square and Main Street.

We read poetry at the vigils and display the number of US soldiers
killed
and wounded and number of Iraqi civilians killed to date.


We have a newsletter called: Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and
Civil
Liberties. Our e-mail is Freeinthesouth-AT-bellsouth.net

Thanks again,
debbie

Location: