IMC Multimedia Benefit Party!

IMC Multi-Media Extravaganza Benefit Party! Door Prizes! Music! Films! Fun!

Join us for an evening of multi-media art, independent film, live music and visual chaos at Hev'n Haus this Saturday November 13, doors at 8pm. $5 suggested donation, proceds to benefit the Atlanta Independent Media Center


Multi Media art by Laurel Askue
Film Shorts by Yetti
Live Music by Greetings from Urbania
Visual Chaos by the Stimulator
Acoustic Open Mic Area by Bring an Instrument

Hev'n Haus is located at 165 Mayson Ave, Atlanta, Ga. 2 blocks behind the Candler Park/Edgewood MARTA station [MAP]

Location:
Hev'n Haus is located at 165 Mayson Ave, Atlanta, Ga. 2 blocks behind the Candler Park/Edgewood MARTA station MAP: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=US&addtohistory=&searchtype=address&cat=&address=165%20Mayson%20Ave%20Ne&city=Atla

Cost: $5 suggested donation

Organizer:

URL: http://atlanta.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34155/index.php

BREAD AND PUPPET

Bread & Puppet is Here!!!
The most wonderful participatory artistic experience in the entire universe beckons you.

BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER'S
FIRST WORLD INSURRECTION IN CAMBRIDGE

A POST-ELECTION RUCKUS PLAYED OUT FROM NOVEMBER 4-21

(Cambridge, MA) The Bread and Puppet Theater presents the First World Insurrection, a post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, and Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible. For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events call the Cambridge Family
YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706.

Artistic Director Peter Schumann and his band of eight Vermont puppeteers will join forces with 20 local puppeteers and the Cambridge-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Their residency in Cambridge includes three puppet shows (a double-bill geared towards adults and one "family-friendly" show), a "Now What" political art symposium, and an exhibit showcasing Schumann's visual artwork. Each of these opportunities will include the traditional serving of Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread (baked in a temporary outdoor oven in the YMCA parking lot), drizzled with garlic-laden aioli, and the sale of the theater's "cheap art." In November, the city of Cambridge will indeed be the stage upon which much artistic discontent is set - with a few laughs thrown in!

Double Bill of Evening Shows:
WORLD ON FIRE and HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: a Parable of War and Its Making November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8pm (second week) $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Family-Friendly Matinees:
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm
$10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Political Art Symposium:
NOW WHAT?
2D ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUBVERSIVE PAPIER-MACHE & OTHER TOOLS FOR CREATIVE DISSENT
Monday, November 8, 7pm
including panelists Peter Schumann (Director, Bread and Puppet Theater), Gip Hoppe (Co-Artistic Director, WHAT), Reverend Billy (performance artist) and Reno (performance artist) moderated by Dr. John Bell (Puppet Historian, Emerson College professor and author of Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects) suggested donation $5; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Peter Schumann's Visual Art Installation:
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
November 9-21, gallery hours, 9am-8 pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm free and open to all; held at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University

Featuring the Bread and Puppet Theater's signature masked characters and giant papier-mache puppets, the individual shows and art exhibit are described below.

WORLD ON FIRE
A group of National Emergency Clowns demonstrates official reactions to the ultimate emergency. The music is by the Asymmetric Prisoner-of-War Orchestra, consisting of local volunteer performers, and their conductor, the Fire Chief.
HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: A Parable of War and Its Making
With the help of the National More-More-More Society, the Student of Success is taught a lesson: how the transformation of distress into success transforms success. The Population is a child in the arms of Truth. But Truth gets employed by the Executive to ready the Population for war. War is learned in a butcher's shop. The dance of the Collateral Damage Dancers concludes the lesson. The puppets are from cardboard; the music is live and includes an ancient Georgian chant.
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
The circus features upside-down figures, a group of First World representatives trained by a lion, Thomas Jefferson and his patriotic cheerleaders, Gerrard Winstanley and his band of Diggers, the Rotten Idea Theater Company's distillation of political issues and much more, all accompanied by the B&P Circus Band. Political fun for the whole family!
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
Peter Schumann dedicates this installation to Rachel Corrie who died at the age of 23 in Palestine in 2003 as she tried to stop a bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home. Her email is dated February 27, 2003.

(Background of the theater) The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City's Lower Eastside by 70-year old Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer, Peter Schumann. In 1969 a nine-month tour of Europe won recognition and critical acclaim for Bread and Puppet. In 1970, the Theater moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, letting itself be influenced by living in the countryside. Four years later the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a 100-year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Bread and Puppet Theater does massive spectacles in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Their pageants have a broad theme-oriented appeal to large non-elite audiences. They address social, political and environmental issues or simply the common urgencies of our lives. Some of the awards received by Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet are the Obie Award, the Erasmus Award from Amsterdam, the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, UNIMA-USA's Citation of Excellence and the Puppeteers of America President's Award. Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. For more information on the Bread and Puppet Theater: www.breadandpuppet.org/, www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/bread_puppet/bibliography.html and www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/rehearsingwithgods/Preface.
For more information on John Bell's Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects: www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp-
824C-8947CCC171B&ttype=2&tid=4192
For an example on Peter Schumann's outdoor bread-baking technique (press on arrow to view photos):
www.wildhack.com/bedrosian/temp/bp/bread.html

Who: The Bread and Puppet Theater
What: First World Insurrection
When: A post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Events include:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success: a Parable of War and Its Making (a double bill), November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8 pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8 pm (second week) Upside Down World Circus (family-friendly), November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm Now What?: the 2d Annual Symposium On Subversive Papier-Mache And Other Tools For Creative Dissent, Monday, November 8, 7pm
The U.S. Senate Reads An Email By The Late Rachel Corrie To Her Parents, November 9-21, gallery hours, 9 am-8pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm
Where: Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square. Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible.
Tickets:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success (double bill), $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]
Circus, $10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free
Symposium, suggested donation $5
The Late Rachel Corrie art exhibit, free
For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events:
Call the Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706

"dedicated to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in non-traditional venues"

Location:
Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org)

Cost: varies

Organizer:

URL: http://www.marycurtinproductions.com

After The Elections: Creating Vision For Change!

November 12 & 13

After The Elections:
Creating Vision For Change!

Learn to weave our stories from facts, wrap them in emotion
that compels action and together we will transform the world.

With the inspiration and guidance of two spirited activists, join us as we:
• as peacemakers gather to share, reflect and energize..
• explore the challenges we face in the upcoming year,
• learn the art of story telling as a means to send our message
• participate in commUNITY drum circles drumming for peace

Avi Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College.  Her books include West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica; Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean; The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics.  She has worked with Central America, Cuba and Colombia solidarity groups during the past 20 years.

Andy Davis is a storyteller and political activist who lives in the shadow of Mt. Chocorua in the southeastern corner of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was on the WfP International Team in Guatemala from 1991 to 1994 and helped found the Guatemala Accompaniment Project. For the last four years, he and his wife Andrea (also a WfP former IT member) have co-directed the World Fellowship Center, a progressive educational family camp and retreat enter.

Andy has a special interest in promoting a human-scale, face-to-face culture in which we entertain and nurture each other. He looks for and crafts stories in which the underdog triumphs, the mighty are brought low, the Joan of Arc figure marries the wizard's apprentice, and then everybody gets together over soup.

Drumming: A commUNITY drum circle grows out of a realization that rhythm is a language that can unite the diverse elements of humanity. Rhythm succeeds where words fail. Drumming puts you in touch with your natural rhythm. It takes you out of the head and into the heart and it is through the heart that we connect with all of humanity.
If you have drums, please bring them. There will be some extra drums that can be shared.


For retreat information contact Joanne Ranney • wfpne-AT-witnessforpeace.org • 802-434-2980
Registration form and directions on other side

Retreat Fee $115.00
(includes Event, four meals and Friday night lodging)
Additional night $50.00
( to enjoy the shore)
Retreat Fee (commuter) $95.00
(includes Event and meals)
Limited financial aid is available Please indicate the amount desired

Location:

Nov. 12-13 at Notre Dame Mission Center
30 Jeffreys Neck Road
Ipswich, MA 01938

Cost: $115.00 Includes lodging $95.00 Commuter rate

Directions: www.sndden.org/ndmcips/directions.htm

Organizer:

URL: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/newengland

Animal Liberation Conference for Youths

November 13 & 14, 2004

Student Animal Rights Alliance is inviting you to join us for Demand Liberation: meet and connect with other young activists

Come join us at Demand Liberation to plan actions with other young activists and work together to build a stronger and bigger youth movement for animal rights!

Registration is just $10 if you pre-register now. ($20 at the door.) Yummy vegan lunches and snacks are INCLUDED in the registration fee!

Demand Liberation conferences feature action-packed weekends of workshops and presentations with expert trainers to help you in your struggle for animals. Here are some of the workshops to be featured at Demand Liberation conferences.

Schedule

SATURDAY, Nov 13, 2004
9:00AM to 6:00PM

SUNDAY, Nov 14, 2004
9:00AM to 6:00PM

Building & Sustaining Your Group

Power of One: Effective Individual Activism

Working with the Media

Organizing Events

Public Speaking & Presentation Skills

Regional Action Planning Meeting

…and more!

:: Please note Demand Liberation: Regional Student Animal Rights Action Conferences are organized specifically for students and youth. If you are neither a student or youth, please consider PETA's Helping Animals 101 conferences which are open to animal advocates of all ages and backgrounds. Thanks!

Location:
All activities will be taking place at the Pound Hall (Jarvis Street entrance) at Harvard Law School.

Cost: $10 in advance/$20 at the door

Directions: www.law.harvard.edu/about/directions.php

Organizer:

URL: http://www.defendanimals.org/regionals/boston/info.htm

"Decriminalizing Resistance: Building Community Security, Racial and Economic Justice"

A Regional 1 & 1/2 day Encuentro
November 12-13th
Friday 7:00pm - Saturday 6:00pm

From Buenos Aires to Belgrade to New York City and Worcester resistance movements are being repressed, jailed, and labeled as "security threats." But what is "security"? What are the real threats to the safety and well being of our communities? How is "security" used by the State to undermine resistance movements?

This regional encuentro hopes to provide a participatory space to discuss what communities are doing to build autonomy and alternate forms of security. This will also be an important time for activists and organizers to network with movements throughout the northeast and build support for resistance globally.

This call invites you or your organization to attend, in addition, if you are interested in taking part in planning or sponsoring, please contact us.

Cost: $5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away. Childcare will be provided.
Limited transportation reimbursements available: to apply, get more info or REGISTER below.

International Guests:

* Soledad Bordegaray, Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD) La Matanza, Argentina
* Claudia Acuna, Alerta Salta, Argentina. www.Alerta-Salta.org.ar
* Andrej Grubacic, postYugoslavia, involved with Peoples Global Action and Planetary Alternatives Network
* Guests from the Kanehsatake (a Mohawk community from near Montreal):dominionpaper.ca/firstnations/

www.wogan.org/encuentroschedule.php

Location:
Worcester, Massachusetts
Clark University

Cost: $5-10 Sliding scale, no one will be turned away.

Directions: www.clarku.edu/offices/admissions/visitingclark/directions.shtml

Organizer:

URL: http://www.WoGAN.org

OUR LAND IS NOT FOR $ALE! (part of Stories from the Land: Environmental Films from the Asian Diaspora film festival)

OUR LAND IS NOT FOR $ALE!
Co-Sponsored by Chinese Youth Initiative

Beginning with a community retrospective showing of
The FALL OF THE I-HOTEL (dir. Curtis Choy, 1993 revised, 1983 original, 58 min)

This film brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the I-Hotel's tenants in 1977 ended a decade of spirited resistance. For almost 20 years after the International Hotel's demolition, the former site of the heart of Manilatown and home to more than 10,000 people in the 1950s, remained vacant.

Chinatown Is Not For Sale! (dir. CJP youth, 2002, 43 min)
A film by the Youth Organizers of the Chinatown Justice Project of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

A film about Manhattan's Chinatown community struggle against gentrification and displacement.

1:30pm FALL OF THE I-HOTEL
2:30 pm CHINATOWN IS NOT FOR SALE!
A panel discussion will follow the screening.

Location:
Tufts Jaharis Auditorium in Boston Chinatown (136 Harrison Ave)

Cost: $5, $25 for Festival Pass ($15 for Students), Tufts students w/ID free

Directions: uccps.tufts.edu/storiesfromtheland/directions.htm
Jaharis Auditorium
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111


By local transportaion:

There are several ways to come to Jaharis Hall. Get off either at New England Medical Center Sta. (Orange line), Chinatown Sta.(Orange line), or Boyleston Sta. (Green line) are closest. You can also walk from Downtown Crossing (Red Line).

Organizer:

URL: http://www.aarw.org for Asian American program schedule, www.storiesfromtheland.org for full schedule & info!

Film and Discussion series "Massachusetts Communities"

Filmmakers Collaborative, in partnership with Freedom House, is excited to announce a FREE cultural community event coming to Dorchester, MA

The Collaborative, a Boston-based non-profit that uses the power of film to start important public conversations, received funding from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Sovereign Bank to present a free statewide Film and Discussion series "Massachusetts Communities".

The series delivers hopeful stories to communities across the state that share something in common with the inspiring Massachusetts' residents and places profiled in the films. Dorchester was selected as one of five communities across the state to host an event in the series.

"The Power of Art & Culture in Our Children's Lives"
Film: Someone Sang for Me
As budget cuts exacerbate an already deplorable situation in our inner-city schools, the arts are among the first to go. In Springfield, Massachusetts, one African-American woman, educator, musician, and cultural activist Jane Sapp is doing all she can to stem the tide -- with remarkable success. Someone Sang for Me is a portrait of Sapp, a courageous and insightful woman, as she uses music to convey a sense of self-worth to youth at-risk.

Talk: Join Jane Sapp, filmmaker Julie Akeret, and Ceasar McDowell, director of MIT∂s Center for Reflective Community Practice, for a discussion about the lessons learned in Springfield about integrating art and culture in the lives of youths and what meaning they have for Boston.

Location:
Freedom House 14 Crawford Street Dorchester, MA 02121

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://filmmakerscollab.org/ akeretfilms.com/JaneSapp.htm www.freedomhouse.com/

COMMUNITY VOICES: FILM SHORTS FROM THE FRONTLINES

COMMUNITY VOICES: FILM SHORTS FROM THE FRONTLINES
Co-sponsored by Boston Hawaiian Club

Featuring voices from Richmond CA's Laotian Organizing Project, Oakland Chinatown tenants, Waiahole Ditch's Hawaiian taro farmers & residents fighting for community control of waters & more! Community members take matters into their own hands by taking up the camera to tell their own stories about community in this shorts program.

4:30pm Film Shorts Program
Followed by Q&A at 6:30pm with Al Wong (EPA, Boston Hawaiian Club) as well as Food & Performance!

CRIZEL (dir. Aimee Suzara, 2001, 6 min)
A short documentary dedicated to a young victim of the toxic waste left behind by the U.S. military upon vacating the bases in the Philippines.

THERE'S FIRE IN YOUR EYES (dir. mari rose taruc, 2000, 2 min 27 sec)
About environmental justice organizing efforts of Laotian refugee community in Richmond, CA by Asian Pacific Environmental Network – Laotian Organizing Project

ENERGY RANGERS IN SOOT CITY (dir. Pratap Chatterjee, 2002, 13 min)
This Flash animation movie stars "Solar Woman," "Wind Woman," and "Efficiency Man," fighting the menace of the evil Moore power company and its henchman President Curious George and Vice-President Tricky Dick OilSlick. It covers many topics including pollution problems, the energy crisis, corporate profiteering, governmental acquiescence, and political and social activism, in a fun and informative style designed for youth and adult audience.

WE WILL NOT BE MOVED (dir. Ching-In Chen, 2003, 5 min)
Inspired by resistance to the 2003 evictions of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza tenants, this poem-film pairs images of everyday life in Oakland Chinatown with lyrical words

GOLD, GREED & GENOCIDE (dir. Pratap Chatterjee, 2002, 22 min)
A documentary by an Asian American filmmaker in collaboration with the International Indian Treaty Council about the effects of the 1849 gold rush on native peoples and the environment

STOLEN WATERS (dir. Na Maka o ka ' Aina, 1996, 27 min)
Documents the battle over the water in Waiahole Ditch on the island of O'ahu, where taro farmers and long-time residents seek to reclaim the natural stream waters that were taken in the early 1900's by sugar plantations.

Location:
Tufts Jaharis Auditorium in Boston Chinatown (136 Harrison Ave)

Cost: $5, $25 for Festival Pass ($15 for Students), Tufts students w/ID free

Directions: uccps.tufts.edu/storiesfromtheland/directions.htm
Jaharis Auditorium
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111


By local transportaion:

There are several ways to come to Jaharis Hall. Get off either at New England Medical Center Sta. (Orange line), Chinatown Sta.(Orange line), or Boyleston Sta. (Green line) are closest. You can also walk from Downtown Crossing (Red Line).

Organizer:

URL: http://www.aarw.org for Asian American program schedule, www.storiesfromtheland.org for full schedule & info!

After The Elections: Creating Vision For Change!

November 12 & 13

After The Elections:
Creating Vision For Change!

Learn to weave our stories from facts, wrap them in emotion
that compels action and together we will transform the world.

With the inspiration and guidance of two spirited activists, join us as we:
• as peacemakers gather to share, reflect and energize..
• explore the challenges we face in the upcoming year,
• learn the art of story telling as a means to send our message
• participate in commUNITY drum circles drumming for peace

Avi Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College.  Her books include West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica; Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean; The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics.  She has worked with Central America, Cuba and Colombia solidarity groups during the past 20 years.

Andy Davis is a storyteller and political activist who lives in the shadow of Mt. Chocorua in the southeastern corner of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was on the WfP International Team in Guatemala from 1991 to 1994 and helped found the Guatemala Accompaniment Project. For the last four years, he and his wife Andrea (also a WfP former IT member) have co-directed the World Fellowship Center, a progressive educational family camp and retreat enter.

Andy has a special interest in promoting a human-scale, face-to-face culture in which we entertain and nurture each other. He looks for and crafts stories in which the underdog triumphs, the mighty are brought low, the Joan of Arc figure marries the wizard's apprentice, and then everybody gets together over soup.

Drumming: A commUNITY drum circle grows out of a realization that rhythm is a language that can unite the diverse elements of humanity. Rhythm succeeds where words fail. Drumming puts you in touch with your natural rhythm. It takes you out of the head and into the heart and it is through the heart that we connect with all of humanity.
If you have drums, please bring them. There will be some extra drums that can be shared.


For retreat information contact Joanne Ranney • wfpne-AT-witnessforpeace.org • 802-434-2980
Registration form and directions on other side

Retreat Fee $115.00
(includes Event, four meals and Friday night lodging)
Additional night $50.00
( to enjoy the shore)
Retreat Fee (commuter) $95.00
(includes Event and meals)
Limited financial aid is available Please indicate the amount desired

Location:
Nov. 12-13 at Notre Dame Mission Center
30 Jeffreys Neck Road
Ipswich, MA 01938

Cost: $115.00 Includes lodging $95.00 Commuter rate

Directions: www.sndden.org/ndmcips/directions.htm

Organizer:

URL: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/newengland

Demonstration Against Force Feeding Ducks and Geese

Foie Gras Demo: Sat. Nov 13, 6:30-8:30pm!

The 8th Clio demo to educate diners, staff, and the many
passersby about the horrors of foie gras.

(Demo is weather permitting---check for postponement email Sat. am.)

WHY: Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of very young ducks and geese. To make foie gras, workers shove long inflexible pipes down 8-10 week old ducks' and geese' throats and pump up to 7 pounds of food per day into their stomachs to enlarge their livers (called gavage feeding). This is the equivalent of eating 16 pounds of spaghetti for a human. On average, they are force-fed 20 to 30 percent of their body weight each day. This painful force-feeding is the general method used for all foie gras production. The force-fed birds become too sick to even walk because of the serious liver disease hepatic lipidosis. Vets say they must experience unspeakable pain.

Animals also suffer ruptured stomachs, throats, liver disease, foot infections, kidney necrosis, spleen and liver damage, bruised and broken bills, and tumor-like lumps in their necks. They are usually crammed into tiny, vomit-covered cages for this horror. At one Hudson Valley farm, so many ducks died when their stomachs burst,
workers were given a bonus if they killed fewer than 50 birds a month. One duck had a maggot-infested neck wound so severe that water spilled out of it when he tried to drink. Birds have literally exploded from the force-feeding.

Only males are used for foie gras because they produce larger livers. Female hatchlings are drowned, beaten, or crushed to death.

Foie gras farms have been banned in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Israel (previously the 4th largest producer), Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland. Many restaurants have banned it, including the San Francisco Hilton, Chicago's Pump Room and San Antonio's La Louisiane. United Airlines, Delta, Holland KLM, and Scandinavia's SAS have removed foie gras from their menus. The Boston Symphony dropped foie gras from their annual Wine & Food Event. Trader Joe's east and west coast stores have stopped selling it. State bills banning it have been introduced in both California and New York--the only US states that produce foie gras.

MARC sent a polite letter and pledge card for Clio's owners to sign agreeing to stop serving foie gras and a member also met with them in person but they never responded.

Please stand up for these incredibly abused animals.

Location:
Clio's in Back Bay, Boston. Clio's (part of the Eliot Hotel building) is located at 370 Commonwealth Avenue (Commonwealth and Mass Ave). The restaurant entrance is actually on Mass Ave.

Organizer:

Festa do Centro Acadêmico de História da Figuinha

Centro Acadêmico de História da FaG (Figuinha-Centro)

Convidamos a tod@s, para um momento de lazer e reflexão.
Nesta oportunidade estaremos debatendo a memória do revolucionário brasileiro “Carlos Marighella”, assassinado pela ditadura militar em 04 de novembro de 1969.

Festa de confarternização

Dia 13 de Novembro de 2004
Às 16:00 horas


“A verdadeira história da classe trabalhadora ainda não fora escrita,
Caberá a classe escrevê-la.”

Location:
(STAP) Sindicato dos Servidores Municipais de Guarulhos.
Av. Esperança Nº792 Centro - Guarulhos -SP

Cost: R$ 0,00

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cahistoria.cjb.net

DERRIBEMOS EL MURO DE PALESTINA

Acto lúdico-festivo con la construcción de un muro de cartón que simboliza el de Palestina. Al finalizar el acto el muro será destruido por los niños asistentes al acto.

Location:
Plaza de la Pescadería de Castellón

Organizer:

Análisis del proceso revolucionario bolivariano

Charla-coloquio a cargo de D. Gonzalo Gómez Freire, Miembro de Conexión Social de Venezuela.


Inscripción previa. Plazas limitadas

Location:
Local del Comité Canario de Solidaridad con los Pueblos. POlígono Padre Anchieta, blq 41, local 2. La Laguna

Organizer:

[Gran Canaria] Manifestación contra la especulación el el Itsmo de Las Palmas.

No a los rascacielos de 30 pisos de altura ni a más centros comerciales como el muelle.

Manifestación y concierto.

Concierto de Aristides Moreno en la puntilla.

Location:
intercambiador de guaguas de santa catalina.

Concierto Kakó(Kakofonía)

Location:
C/ Dr. Marañón nº3 Bajo La Laguna

Organizer:

Primera festa per l'ensenyament popular

Cicle de debat sobre el model d'ensenyament que volem:

11'30 - Presentació dels nous plans europeus d'ensenyament + debat (a La Torna).
14'00 - Dinar popular a La Torna.
16'30 - Presentació i tertúlia sobre el model d'ensenyament cubà, amb un membre de l'Institut Cubà d'Amistat amb els Pobles (a La Torna).
19'00 - Xerrada i debat sobre l'ensenyament durant la II República amb una testimoni + debat final de la jornada (a la Fera).
20'30 - Obertura de portes i paradetes a la Fera.
21'00 - Lectura del manifest de la jornada + concert (entrada 2 e): Insershow, Pirat's Sound Sistema, Arma social, Divisió 29.

Location:
La Torna (c/ St Pere Màrtir 37)
La Fera de Gràcia (c/ Sta Àgata 26)

Cost: El concert val dos euros.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.alternativaestel.org

ATAC SENSEFILS al CSOA l'Estella

Jornada de Seguretat Wireless

Esteu convidats a una jornada de seguretat sensefils que muntem
dissabte 13 de novenbre a Mataró.
Amb l'excusa d'un concurs (de moment sense premis), pretenem
montar una party wireless per compartir coneixements i experiències
sobre seguretat. També hi haurà algunes conferències.

Per més informació:

actividades.matarowireless.net

Oberts a col·laboracions, ponències... :-)

Location:
CSOA l'Estella

Directions: c/Lepant, 83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró

Organizer:

URL: http://actividades.matarowireless.net

Acte públic contra la repressió i per la llibertat dels 2 joves de l'Hospitalet

Prou repressió als moviments socials. Llibertat pels 2 joves de l'Hospitalet. Hi participaran:
- Un membre de l'assemblea de suport
- David Fernàndez, membre dels moviments socials
- Gabriela Serra, d'Entrepobles
- Iñaki Ribera, de l'Observatori del Sistema Penal i dels Drets Humans de la Universitat de Barcelona

Location:
Sala d'actes de la Parròquia de Sant Medir.
Carrer Constitució 17
Pç Sants , L1 i L5

Organizer:

Totes a la manifestació per la llibertat dels 2 joves d'h

16h: Marxes fins a Pç Universitat. Sortiran de Jardinets de Gràcia i Pç de Sants

17h: Manifestació. Llibertat inmediàta i sense càrregs pels 2 joves de l'Hospitalet. Pç Universitat de Barcelona.

Location:

Organizer:

Manifestació contra la brutalitat policial dels MoSSos a Berga

Manifestació contra la brutal actuació dels mossos d'esquadra el passat dissabte 6 de novembre a Berga.

Després de la seva violenta i injustificada actuació els Mossos d’Esquadra han iniciat una campanya de mentides i desinformació indignant a través dels mitjans de comunicació no-independents. Em d’actuar en conseqüència, cal que es sàpiga la veritat i que ens manifestem totes dissabte contra la violència i la mentida dels MoSSos!



DISSABTE 13 DE NOVEMBRE A LES 19:00 H A LA PLAÇA DE SANT PERE DE BERGA

Location:
PLAÇA DE SANT PERE DE BERGA

Directions: mes info a www.berguedallibertari.org

URL: http://www.berguedallibertari.org

concert @ Navarcles

Tocaran
Ajos Porros Band
Maria y sus cogollos

i es farà una actuació de diapos psicodelica

el lloc és a la Font Nova de NAvarcles (sota els colegis)
es gratuit i el beure es a preus populars!!!!!!!!

Location:

Organizer:

EHGFren II. topaketaren antolaketarako asanblada

Agur t’erdi lagunak:

Eskutitz honen bidez, Euskal Herriko Gizarte Foroa antolatzeko asanbladak deialdia luzatu nahi dizue, laster batean ospatuko den Foroaren II. Topaketarako, gustukoa eta beharrezkoa duzuen tailer, mintegi, mahai ingurua edo dena delakoa antola dezazuen, eta Topaketaren egitarauan sar dezazuen.

Ba dira bi urte Euskal Herriko Gizarte Fororaren asanbladatan biltzen hasi ginela. Horietan, eztabaidarako eta hausnarketarako den gunea sortu dugu, eta pixkanaka, apainketa lana ezberdinak burutzen ari gara. Horrela, Foroaren I. Topaketa ospatu genuen 2003ko ekainean, Gasteizen, eta bertan bildutako mila pertsona inguru partaide izan ginen antolatutako ehunka tailerretan.
Oraingo txandan, II. Topaketaren antolaketa lanetan murgildu gara. Aipatutako Topaketa, azaroaren 12, 13, 14ean izango da, Bilboko alde zaharrean.

Topaketaren egitarauaren zio zentrala, talde ezberdinek antolatuko dituzten tailer, mintegi, mahai inguru e.a.tan datza. Horrela, urriaren 23ª bitartean, edozein taldek aukera du, nahi eta interesekoa duen tailer edo bilera mota antolatzeko, eta Topaketaren egitarauan sartuko da. Egitarauaren antolaketa txukun eta ulergarri bat egite aldera, 10 gai ardatz definitu dira, nolabaiteko gaien sailkapen adostu bat egiteko. Gai ardatz bakoitzak beharrezko espazioak izango ditu lanerako, eta soilik, orduen arabera sailkatuko ditu saioen aukerak. Hona hemen gai ardatzak eta haiekin kontaktatzeko helbideak:

GAI ARDATZA POSTA ELEKTRONIKOA
Sozioekonomia socioekonomia-AT-ehgf.org

Askatasun demokratiko eta eskubide zibilak askatasunaetaeskubideak-AT-ehgf.org

Migrazioak migrazioa-AT-ehgf.org

Autodeterminazioa autodeterminazioa-AT-ehgf.org

Lurraren solasa lurra-AT-ehgf.org
Gazteria gazteria-AT-ehgf.org

Emakumea emakumea-AT-ehgf.org

Identitatea, hizkuntza, hezkuntza eta komunikazioa idleedcom@ehgf

Egoera internazionala, antimilitarismoa eta herrien arteko elkartasuna/ Neoliberalismoaren instituzio internazionalak nazioarteko-AT-ehgf.org

Teknologi berriak eta gizarte mugimenduak tekbegimu-AT-ehgf.org

Beraz, zuen txanda da. Kokatzen zareten gai ardatzean landu eta konpartitu nahi duzuen hori antolatu, eta egitarauan sartu mezu baten bidez. Gero, zehaztasunak jakiteko, gai ardatzaren koordinatzailea zuekin jarriko da harremanetan. Gogoratu urriaren 23 izango dela egitarauan zerbait sartzeko azken eguna. Handik aurrera, behin betiko egitaraua izango du gai ardatz bakoitzak, eta urriaren 30etik aurrera publiko egingo dira euskarri elektronikoan zein paperezkoan.

Besterik ez lagunak, amaitu aurretik esan, edozein zalantza argitzeko, Joxemi Zumalabe Fundazioak bere idazkaritza lanak eskaintzen dizkiola Topaketaren antolaketari. Era berean, bada antolaketa lanetan gabiltzan taldeon posta zerrenda komun bat, eta web gune bat. Hona hemen horietako bakoitzarekin harremanetan jartzeko datuak:
www.ehgf.org; Joxemi Zumalabe Fundazioa
Asanbladaren posta zerrenda: ehgf-AT-listas.nodo50.org joxemi-AT-joxemi.org
943275561
Laster batean elkarren berri izango dugulakoan, besarkada bat,

EUSKAL HERRIKO GIZARTE FOROAREN II. TOPAKETAREN ANTOLAKETARAKO ASANBLADA

Location:
Bilboko alde zaharra

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ehgf.org

a-n-t-e-n-a-k))))))) -hiriko haizeak / la ciudad en el aire-

Azaroaren 7tik 14ra Bilbon jardunaldi batzuk antolatuko dira, hiria eta Informazio medioen arteko lotura eta hartuemanak eztabaidatzeko. Hiri egitura berrien garai honetan, teknologien ugaltzeak eragindako zenbait fenomenoren azterketa.

Del 8 al 14 de noviembre organizamos unas jornadas de debate en Bilbao sobre el modo en que la ciudad y los medios de informacion se articulan e interactuan. En una epoca de proliferacion de medios tecnologicos y nuevos tejidos urbanos, donde cuerpos, maquinas, imagenes y llamadas perdidas se dan cruce.

Location:
Bilbo

URL: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/eu/2004/10/17612.shtml

Nuevas tecnologías

Location:

Organizer:

FOSS tools for individuals

A 1 day workshop for individuals introducing various FOSS tools suitable for personal management, communication and creativity ranging from OpenOffice to audio, video and 3D animation tools. Presented by Simon Yuill and Peter George.


Part of a series of events, called "Your Machines", introducing Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and related issues.

Location:
Centre For Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Organizer:

URL: http://www.yourmachines.org

Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) National Conference

RIT Anti War, a member group of the democratic, grassroots, student organized Campus Antiwar Network, is trying to organize local support for this conference, which will be held in NYC. For more information contact RITAntiWar-AT-hotmail.com

========== PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ==========

Save the date!

Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) National Conference

WHEN: November 13-14

WHERE: Pace University in New York City

WHO: All campus antiwar/anti-occupation committees are invited to attend and all interested antiwar individuals and organizations are welcome as well.

We are an independent, democratic, grassroots network of campus-based antiwar committees. Check us out at: www.campusantiwar.net

HOW: (See details below for registration info)

WHY:

Whatever the outcome on November 2nd, one thing is certain: the
carnage in Iraq will continue, because both major presidential
candidates are committed to continuing the occupation. That's why
we need to keep organizing right on through the election.

As we speak, the US military is carrying out a major offensive against
strongholds of the Iraqi resistance, with continual air strikes and
artillery attacks on Fallujah in particular. The horrific toll in
Iraqi civilian lives may never be known.

At the same time, US soldiers face over 80 attacks every day.
Recently, an entire platoon of 19 soldiers in Iraq refused to carry
out an extremely dangerous mission – and the military is cracking
down on their dissent because it represents widespread feelings of
discontent within the armed forces.

Even if the US succeeds in intimidating and shutting down the Iraqi
resistance for a while, the seething discontent and anger at the
occupation will provide a constant source for its renewal and
resurgence. As long as the US military occupies Iraq, there will be a
resistance fighting for independence, and there will be carnage.

In this context, our side needs to get organized to fight for ending
the occupation of Iraq. That's why the CAN National Conference is
crucial. After seeing which militarist gets elected on November 2nd,
we must get down to the work of plotting out a political strategy and
a tactical course to grow our campus committees and increase the
profile of the movement to bring the troops home.


DETAILS:

This conference will feature plenary sessions where activists from all
across the nation can share their experiences and discuss the state of
our movement and future directions for organizing. In addition, there
will be workshop sessions covering topics such as:

The Political Fallout of the Election
The Possibility of a Draft
The Next Targets of Empire: Iran and North Korea
The Nuts and Bolts of how to put on a successful antiwar event

Make sure to check in on the website for updates as the agenda and the
program get finalized: www.campusantiwar.net


TO REGISTER:

We need people to register ASAP so that we can plan for the number of
participants.

Please send an email with the following info to:
register-AT-campusantiwar.net

Name:
Address:
Telephone:
Email:
Name of Antiwar Group/Member campus:
How many of you are coming?:
How many of you need housing? (any allergies?):
Do you need CAN's help to get to NY?:


TO HELP:

We want as many people's input in planning the conference as
possible. If you can help with planning the details of the
conference, please send an email to sidpatel99-AT-yahoo.com, and we will
plug you into the organizing.

Also, PLEASE send this announcement out to as many antiwar people,
groups, and lists that you are on, particularly if you know any other
students or campus committees.

Location:
Pace University in New York City

Organizer:

URL: http://www.campusantiwar.net

Produce and Broadcast Your Own Public Access Television Show!

A technical assistance workshop for grassroots groups!

Be the media! This workshop, hosted by the Independent Media Center and Alternate Focus, will guide participants through the production and editing process of public access television. Attendees will learn how to obtain a weekly half hour time slot on local public access television stations such as Cox, Time Warner and Adelphia. The workshop will include a hands-on introduction to video and interview techniques using cameras, microphones, and tripods. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn about video editing and what it takes to acquire a workable editing system. To register for this workshop, visit the Foundation for Change website: www.foundation4change.org/

Location:
Foundation for Change, 3758 30th Street in Nroth Park

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

URL: http://www.foundation4change.org

Public Event - Cohousing for San Diego!

Cohousing for San Diego! seeks to support the creation of Cohousing Communities in San Diego County.
Cohousing neighborhoods balance the advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared facilities and ongoing social connections with your neighbors. There are now more than 70 completed cohousing neighborhoods in the US, with 19 in Northern and Central California.
Join us as we create Cohousing together in San Diego!

Location:
San Diego Church of the Brethren
(Friends Meeting House)
3850 Westgate Place
San Diego CA 92105
619-262-1988

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cohousingforsandiego.org

KCSB-FM ANNUAL FUN-DRIVE

The Annual On-Air Fund Drive of College and Community Radio Station, KCSB 91.9 FM is now in progress through Weds. night, Nov. 17th, 2004.

The only community radio station based in Santa Barbara County, KCSB 91.9 FM, began its annual on-air Fund Drive on Monday, November 8th, 2004. Culminating a very active year for one of our area's most unique community-media resource, KCSB's ten day-long Fund Drive is featuring exclusive guests like Santa Barbara indie-rock band Kissing Tigers (playing live in the KCSB broadcast studio on Thursday, Nov. 11th, starting at 10pm), timely and topical interviews with newsmakers (from such locations as Fallujah, Iraq) and celebrities (including performers with the "Putumayo Present Latinas" tour), numerous thank-you gifts (CDs, books, DVDs, gift certificates for restaurants and retail, etcetera), and much more.

Visit or tune into 91.9 FM, and call (805) 893-2424 starting Monday, Nov. 8th to pledge financial support for listener-sponsored KCSB.

Location:
91.9 - ON THE AIRWAVES!!

Cost: AIRWAVES ARE FREE, BUT INDEPENDENT MEDIA IS PRICELESS

Directions: TUNE YOUR DIAL TO 91.9-FM. CALL IN AT 805-893-2424,2426. PLEDGE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AFFORD.

Organizer:

How to Think Like a Watershed: Collect, Conserve, and Clean the Water in Santa Barbara

HORT 350: How to Think Like a Watershed: Collect, Conserve, and Clean the Water in Santa Barbara

Saturday, November 13, 9:00 a.m. Noon, and 1:00 4:00 p.m.
LIMIT 25 PLEASE SIGN UP BY NOV 1 TO MAKE SURE COURSE HAPPENS

This workshop explores the factors necessary to maintain regenerative cycles within our healthy watersheds. A series of plans and strategies, based on permaculture techniques utilizing soil-water-plant designs,illustrate successful projects that can be integrated into the community
environmental fabric.

A tour of the watershed beginning at the SB Botanic Garden, the Natural History Museum, Eseling Park and the Arroyo Beach Watershed Resource Center will round out a day of adventure finishing at the restaurant at Arroyo Beach and the Best Management Practices of its owner.
Efforts in ecological restoration and water
harvesting features improve our sense of stewardship and the biological integrity of the ecology of watersheds. Please bring a sack lunch.

Instructor: Dr. Bill Roley

Location: Blaksley Library (SB Botanic Gardens) and the South Coast Watershed Resource Center (Arroyo Burro)

On the South Coast, from Point Conception to Rincon Creek, there are approximately 50 short steep watersheds that start in Santa Ynez Mountains flow, through the foothills and coastal plain and ultimately empty into the Pacific Ocean. The Santa Ynez Mountains are unusual in California because of the east-west alignment. Once part of the ocean floor, they were formed of hard shale and sandstone that was uplifted, folded, faulted and eroded over time. Many of the creeks flowing from these mountains are dry for five or six months a year. When it rains however, large volumes of water move across these areas flushing pollutants and sometimes creating a flood control challenge due to the number of people living in the natural flood plain and their pattern of settlement.

Present day Santa Barbara and surrounding areas feature a vibrant culture with Latinos, European, Asian and Native American influence. The 200 census found that 201,000 people live on the South coast. Within 15 years, this number is expected to increase to 234,000. This growing population lives along a strip of coast 5 miles wide, 26 miles long, bordered on the North by Santa Ynez Mountains and on the South by the Pacific. As our population grows, more pollutants put an increase strain on our watershed system and jeopardize our health. We cannot continue in this way without harming our waterways.

Location:
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1212 Mission Canyon Rd
Santa Barbara CA 93105-2126 Blaksley Library

Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members/$25 students

Organizer:

East Bay Do--it-Yourself Festival/ Skillshare

TWO DAY SKILLSHARE!!!

Saturday at peoples park,
workshops on poi, biking across the country, piss standing up, instrument making, car maintenance, appropriate technology; juice press, treadle lathe, bike blender, crochet, knitting, sewing, stencil making, and more

tables on Berkeley Worms (composting), Berkeley Free Clinic, Seed Exchange, Berkeley Liberation Radio, The Longhaul, Slinghsot , CA Anarchist Prison Solidarity, Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (from the Central Valley, make your own paper, and more

bonfire at the BUlb Saturday night

and on Sunday KIck -ass- in depth workshop around town, brunch at 11 at spaz north, workshops on, bee-keeping and cobb oven construction at the Ashby garden, Biodeisel at the Tinkers workshop, HOuse BUilding and Sustainable urbanism at Ft. Awesome, Straw PLaster wall construction, fake meat and cheese and hummus making, beer brewing, and a pirate radio workshop, and movie making 101.

Why? Why not? You can learn new skills, make interesting friends, breathe (hopefully) fresh air, and have lots of jolly-good fun. On the other hand, if you prefer to cultivate obliviousness, devolve into a misanthropist, wallow in sloth, and languish in utter boredom, then by all means stay at home! See if we care...

Do you want to share a skill? Come and teach any workshop that you want at our guerilla forum on Saturday.

see barringtoncollective.org for more info...
contact-AT-barringtoncollective.org if you wanna help out.

Location:
Saturday the 13th, People's Park in Berkeley, music at 11am workshops at noon,
Sunday the 14th, around town, meet at SPaz north warehouse for brunch at 11am (fourth and jones on the tracks)

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://barringtoncollective.org

Statewide Meeting to Abolish the SHU

What is the SHU?

The Security Housing Units in California's prisons are another name for the same Control Units found in prisons across the country. Control units are prisons within a prison. They are solitary confinement cells, usually 6 x 8 foot, where prisoners are locked up 23 hours a day for years at a time. The one hour a day these prisoner sometimes get outside of their cell is spent alone in an exercise pen not much larger than their cell, with no direct sunlight. This long term isolation causes serious mental and physical health problems for many prisoners. And these torture cells are used to target politically active prisoners using a system of classification that makes it impossible for prisoners to appeal their assignment.

Why YOU should be there:

This is an opportunity to gain knowledge, get involved, and take action about abolishing prison torture in California.
We will also be planning for a national conference in October 2005. The location is tentatively Oxnard, California and the tentative date is October 8th. This conference will focus on education and organizing around the struggle to shut down prison control units. It will include several workshops about prisons and control units, and workshops about organizing strategy. The conference is geared towards organizers, but we hope to attract new people to our struggle to attend the event as well. The format of workshops will be participatory rather than focusing on a few big name speakers just talking at the crowd. But we will invite a few speakers to open and close the conference.
All events at the conference will be bilingual.

Right now we are focused on the following tasks:
1. Produce a list of organizations to invite
2. Produce a list of speakers to invite
3. Put together a fund raising committee to raise money to bring speakers and orgs from out of state

Location:
Cell Space
2050 Bryant St (at 18th)
San Francisco

Organizer:

Emma- Play by Howard Zinn

Get your tickets now for Emma!
A play by Howard Zinn. Presented at the CSUMB World Theater, November 12,13,14,16,17.
Emma Goldman...an activist for Free Speech, Anarchism, Women’s Rights, Draft Resistance, Worker’s Rights, and Free Love.
Come share the experiences of early 1900's Anarchists struggling for a people's revolution, risking everything against the suppression of the state and the ruling class in a society where dissent was deemed criminal (seems like times haven't changed that much). Participate in the re-telling of stories written out of high school history books and fight for people's histories to be heard.
Tickets available at the box office or by calling 831-582-4580, only five dollars with CSUMB student ID.
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“Emma” played by CSUMB student Ashley Simmons
is brought back to life through the riveting speeches and sexually liberating
lifestyle in this fall production of “Emma”.
Show opens Friday November 12th to Saturday November 13th at 8pm
A Sunday Matinee November 14th at 2pm
And two special nights: Tuesday, November 16th and Wednesday November 17th at 8pm
At the World Theater on 6th Avenue
General Admission is $10
Faculty/Staff/Seniors/Alumni are $8
And all Students are $5 with ID
Tickets are on Sale Now.
For tickets or additional information contact the World Theater @ 831-582-4580
To request disability or sign language interpretation contact the
Teledramatic Arts and Technology department at 831-582-3750
Directed by TAT faculty Shannon Edwards
Produced by TAT student Rebecca F. Peña
>http://www.roundworldmedia.com/emma/

Location:
The World Theater CSU Monterey Bay Campus, Sixth Street

Cost: $5 with Student ID, $7 Faculty, $10 General Admission

Directions: From Highway 1 Take the CSU Monterey Bay/ Fort Ord Exit
The Exit will put you on Lightfighter Drive
Turn Left at the Third Traffic Signal onto General Jim Moore Blvd
Turn Right on Third Street,
Turn Right on Sixth Street
For detailed directions to cmapus go to
csumb.edu/general/how-get-here.html

Organizer:

URL: http://www.roundworldmedia.com/emma/

TERRY GALLOWAY’S “IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES”

The Mickee Faust Club presents…

TERRY GALLOWAY’S “IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOLES”

Why is it that it’s always the ugly, queer, trouble-making thinker who gets it in the end? That’s the essential question posed in Terry Galloway’s original play, “In the House of the Moles”. This tragedy in burlesque opens Thursday, November 4th with additional shows Nov. 5-7 and November 11-14 at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse in Railroad Square. Members of the media are welcome to attend the final dress rehearsal, Wednesday November 3rd. All shows start 8PM.

There will also be an opportunity to be part of the live audience during the videotaping of the show Sunday, November 21 and Monday, November 22.

“I’ve loved working on this production,” says Galloway. “It’s funny and profane. Not profound. Profane!"

Galloway and FSU Communications Professor Donna Marie Nudd have directed this show, and allowed for a give-and-take with the actors to create the final script for this performance. The play has also been read and workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and American Place Theater in New York City.

“If I were to describe this play, I’d say its sort-of like “Little Women” with beer, dope and violence,” says Galloway.

The play proper focuses on a family of four sisters and their late mother’s live-in male friend. To honor their mother’s memory, the sisters agree to perform their mom’s life work—her play—one last time. Within this drama comes another morality play creating a play-within-the-play-within-the-play, and a show that both entertains and provokes.

“There’s certainly a “Little Women” gone awry at the start,” says Dr. Nudd, “But there are also elements of vaudeville and “Punch and Judy” in the other parts, and the basic plot elements are lifted from Hamlet, a testament to Terry’s love of Shakespeare and her performance background.”

Tickets are $10 general admission/ $5 seniors and students with ID. Tickets for the shows can be purchased at the door the night of the performances. There are some tickets set aside for reservation each night, so please call 309-5353.

Location:
Mickee Faust Clubhouse
Railroad Square

Cost: $10.00 / $5.00 students/seniors

Organizer:

Left of Center

Left of Center plays on Nashville Community Access Television every Saturday at 11:30am in Davidson County on Channel 19 Comcast.

Left of Center is a program dedicated to bringing you the news in Nashville from a progressive and radical perspective. We cover everything the corporate news won't touch. This summer's lineup includes a documentary on the movement to allow residents to opt out of the spraying of pesticides in their neighborhood, a documentary on the march for women's lives, coverage of the protests against the g8 in georgia, the protests against the the $25,000 a plate george bush fundraiser in may, tennesseeans to end the death penalty, Barry Lynn - advocate of Church State Separation, gaza strip about the detention and isolation of palestinians and many more interesting goings on from Nashville and beyond.

For more information or to get your program aired please email chris lugo at christopher_lugo-AT-yahoo.com

Location:

Organizer:

second Vanderbilt Living Wage Demonstration

Following the success of Wednesday’s demonstration to support a living wage, Vanderbilt students will hold a second rally and teach-in during the ongoing union negotiations.

The rally is organized by the student group Living Income for Vanderbilt Employees (LIVE) and will occur at 2:00 p.m. on November 13th at Vanderbilt Sarratt Student Center on the steps facing Vanderbilt Place. The rally is a sign of solidarity between those employed for poverty wages by the university and the rest of the Vanderbilt community.

In response to Wednesday’s rally, the Vanderbilt administration has consistently claimed that the workers’ benefits package is the redeeming factor of the university’s compensation plan. However, according to workers and faculty, the benefits package has been deteriorating over the past few years, placing a larger financial burden on employees. As low base wages have stagnated over the last three years, the employees are, in fact, receiving less total real compensation than they were several years ago.

In a professional survey of staff, the majority found that their pay does not “compare favorably with similar positions in [their] job market.” Vanderbilt received a significantly lower rating on this issue than the national average of comparable institutions.

In the spring of 2003, Chancellor Gordon Gee claimed that Vanderbilt is the “gold standard for employment.” Reality more closely resembles a “gold standard” of exploitation. Living wage supporters are rallying November 13th for a just compensation policy during Vanderbilt’s contract negotiations.

Location:
Sarratt Student Center, steps facing vanderbilt place

Organizer: