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Events
SCHOOLS - The Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center in Walnut Creek, CA will host the Second Annual Conference Creating a Peaceful School, February 2. The conference is intended for parents, teachers, administrators, classroom aides and anyone who works with K-12 students.
Contact: Seven Hills School, 975 North San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598; 925-933-7850; margli@mtdpc.org; http://www.mtdpc.org/.
LEONARD PELTIER - February 4 is the International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier. The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee calls on supporters worldwide to protest against the injustice suffered by the Indigenous activist.
Contact: http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info.
NUCLEAR - Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) will be hosting its 30th annual gala, “Half Life: Celebrating 30 Years of Working for Peace and Disarmament,” February 10, in Oakland, CA. Guests include Dennis Kucinich, Daniel Ellsberg, Rose Aguilar, and Rep. Barbara Lee.
Contact: 655 13th Street, Suite 201, Preservation Park, Oakland, CA 94612; 510-839-5877; wslf( at)earthlink.net; http://www.wslfweb.org/.
EVOLUTION - February 10-12 will be the 8th annual celebration of Evolution Weekend, intended to demonstrate that religious people from many faiths and locations understand that evolution is sound science and poses no problems for their faith (affiliated with the Clergy Letters Project repudiating anti-science fundamentalism).
Contact: http://www.the clergy letterproject.org/.
LABOR - Workers Rising: A Symposium for Low-Wage Worker Organizing in NYC will be held at the CUNY Murphy Institute in NYC. The event will gather workers, organizers, scholars, candidates, and elected officials dedicated to building a more progressive NYC. The event is hosted by United NY, the Center for Popular Democracy, New York Communities for Change, Make the Road NY, SEIU 32BJ and others.
Contact: 347-985-2374; abaran@populardemocracy.org;
BLACK SOLIDARITY - The 18th Annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University will be held February 14-17. The theme is, From the Pulpits to the Polls: Ushering in a New Era of Activism.
Contact: PO Box 206471, New Haven, CT 06520; http://www.yale.edu/bsc.
WOMEN - CODEPINK is joining V-Day to demand an end to rape and gender violence. A staggering number of women around the world will experience rape or other violence in their lifetimes. The UN Secretary General says 1 out of every 3, over one billion women. CODE PINK invites all to actively participate in the Campaign by coming out to Strike, Dance and Rise on February 14 and, at minimum, add your name to the growing list of One Billion Rising to call for an end to violence against women.
Contact: billionwomenrise@gmail.com; http://www.code pink4peace.org/; http://one billionrising.org/.
CLIMATE - 350.org, the Sierra Club and other groups and individuals concerned about climate change will take to the streets of Washington, DC on Presidents Day weekend to form a massive human pipeline and to demonstrate opposition to climate change beginning with a rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with the big action taking place February 17.
Contact: http://350.org/.
AFRICA - The Priority Africa Network (PAN) will host the Third Annual Ubuntu Awards Ceremony, February 16. PAN’s mission is to inform, educate and mobilize people in support of the peoples of Africa for sustained peace; economic, political, social justice; and democratic development.
Contact: PO Box 2528, Berkeley, CA 94702; 510-652-1493; http://priorityafrica@priorityafrica.org; www.priorityafrica.org/.
FOOD - The 34th annual Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association (OEFFA) Conference will be held in Granville, February 16-17. The conference is Ohio’s largest and longest-running sustainable food and farm conference.
Contact: http://www.oeffa.org/conference2013.php.
STUDENTS - The 2013 IMPACT Conference will be held February 21-24, in Albuquerque, NM. The conference is historically the largest annual conference focused on civic engagement of college students in community service, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy and other forms of social action.
Contact: http://www.impact conference.org/.
GIRLS/FILM - The 2013 Girls Impact the World (GITW) Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College School Innovation Collaborative and Connec- ther, will be held February 23. The event is a film festival and scholarship program in which high school and undergraduate college students submit 3-5 minute short films that focus on a variety of global women’s issues.
Contact: http://www.connecther.org/gitw;connecther@gmail.com.
JUSTICE - The Justice Conference 2013 will be held February 22-23 in Philadelphia, PA. The conference seeks to promote dialogue around justice related issues such as human trafficking, slavery, poverty, HIV/AIDS and human rights through speakers, organizations and workshops.
Contact: http://thejusticeconference.com/.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE - Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns. Events are being held through February and March.
Contact: http://apartheid week.org/; http://www.usacbi.org/.
WOMEN - March 8 is International Women’s Day and events are planned worldwide.
Contact: http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/; http://www. internationalwomensday.com/about.asp.
EDUCATION - On March 16-17 the Museum of the City of New York will host Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom. Educators are invited to present and participate in this two-day conference which will highlight the various tools and techniques used by teachers to engage their students in the history and practice of social change.
Contact: 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029; 212-534-1672; ezipris@mcny.org; http://www. mcny.org/.
YOUNG FEMINIST - The 9th Annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference will be held March 23-25, in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Feminist Majority Foundation, the 2013 conference will focus on the impact young women have when it comes to domestic and global issues.
Contact: 1600 Wilson Blvd, Suite 801, Arlington, VA 22209; 866-444-3652; nyflc@feminist.org; http://www.feminist campus.org/.
WOMEN/FILM - Women, Action, & the Media (WAM!) will host the WAM!Boston Film Festival, March 23-24, in Cambridge, MA.
Contact: 7 Temple Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-876-5310; wam@womenactionmedia.org; http://www.women actionmedia.org/.
HISTORIANS/WAR - Historians Against the War will host their national conference, April 5-7, in Baltimore, MD. The theme is The New Faces of War; and will feature panels, roundtables and workshops.
Contact: PO Box 442154, Somerville, MA 02144; conf@historiansagainst war.org; http://historians againstwar.org/.
MEDIA - The sixth National Conference for Media Reform will be held April 5-7, in Denver. The conference is the country’s largest conference devoted to media, technology and democracy issues.
Contact: http://www.free press.net/.
ABORTION RIGHTS - The 27th annual conference, From Abortion to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, will be held April 12-14 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Contact: Civil Liberties and Public Policy, 893 West Street, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002; 413-559-6976; clpp@hampshire.edu; http://clpp.hampshire.edu/conference.
MILITARY SPENDING - April 17 is a Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Events are planned worldwide.
Contact: http://demilitarize.org/.
MILITARY SEXUAL VIOLENCE - SWAN (Service Women’s Action Network) will present Truth and Justice: The 2013 Summit on Sexual Violence, April 17-18, in Washington, DC. The summit gives survivors and their families the opportunity to share their experiences with congressmembers, policy experts and one another; along with key panels by law and policy experts on major topics involving military sexual violence and survivors’ access to justice.
Contact: http://truthandjusticesummit.org/.
LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker’s Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year’s theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; PNLHA1@aol.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
Contact:http://global cannabismarch.com/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention, WisCon 37, is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; concom37@wiscon.info; http://www.wiscon. info/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405- 325-3694; ncore@ou.edu; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.all communitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is scheduled for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202- 756-2268; comments@nfcb. org; http://www.nfcb.org/.
ART/ANTI-CORPORATE - The Snake Oil Exhibition will run until April 1 at the Albany Community Center Foyer Art Gallery. Snake Oil is Doug Minkler’s artistic response to Corporate- Congressional lies and a celebration of community activism.
Contact: 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA 94706; 510-524-9283; dminkler@dminkler.com; http:// www.justseeds.org/blog/2013/01/snake_oil_exhibition.html.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www. leftforum.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http:// alliedmedia.org/.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
PALESTINE - Palestinian students have called for all U.S. students to put boycotts, divestments and sanctions at the heart of University action.
Contact: http://pacbi.org/; http://www.bdsmovement.net/; http://www.boycottisraelnetwork.net/.
IRAN/WAR - United For Peace and Justice has initiated and launched the Iran Pledge of Resistance with numerous member groups and other peace and social justice organizations. The pledge is to take action against war with Iran.
Contact: http://www.iran pledge.org; http://www.united forpeace.org.
Fundraising
RADIO/OCCUPY - Voices of the 99% is a radio station born out of the Occupy Movement that also covers resistance movements worldwide. The group is moving to a 24-hour format, building a new broadcast center and a network of syndicated partner programs. They are currently fundraising to accomplish these things.
Contact: http://www.indie gogo.com/Vof99.
Books
CREDIT CRISIS - The Anthology of the Credit Crisis: Magical Thinking, Irrationality and the Role of Inequality is a new book by Niccolo Caldararo that applies an anthropological perspective to the credit crisis. The book seeks to explain banking and the means of credit creation which involves magical thought and manipulation.
Contact: 415-405-2536; cald@sfsu.edu; http://anthropology.sfsu.edu/niccolocaldararo.
HAITI - Haiti’s New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN Occupation is a new book by Justin Podur about the history of the past seven years, from the 2004 coup against Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake; and abuse and neglect by international forces.
Contact: Between the Lines, 401 Richmond Street West, #277, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8, Canada; 416- 535-9914; info@btlbooks.com; http://www.btlbooks.com.
FOOD - Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter is an expos? of how agribusiness and food corporations are undermining a healthy food system and how voting with your food choices will not solve the problem.
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenew press.com/.
AFRICA/ANARCHISM - Last year a Jura Books Collective member traveling in Africa conducted an interview with Sam Mbah, a Nigerian author, lawyer, academic and anarchist. The interview has been published as a blog under the heading Anarchism is not dead in Africa. Mbah’s book, African Anarchism, was the first anthropological study of the anarchistic elements of traditional African societies.
Contact: http://jura.org. au/; http://sammbah.wordpress.com/.
HITCHENS - Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens by Richard Seymour is an interrogation of the politics and motives of the infamous ex-leftist.
Contact: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718- 246-8160; jessica@verso books.com; http://www.versobooks.com/.
HAITI - Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who led the defense campaign for the “Haymarket martyrs,” including her husband Albert Parsons, and remained active in struggles of the oppressed throughout her life. Lucy Parsons: American Labor Revolutionary is a new book about her life by Carolyn Ashbaugh.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; http://www.haymarketbooks.org.
Film
HONDURAS - Lower Aguan River Valley: The Clamor for Land is a documentary about the Honduran LIBRE Party that has grown out of the people’s pro-democracy movement in opposition to the post-June 2009 military coup; and the violent repression in the Lower Aguan river region where campesino farmers are being forcibly and illegally evicted from their lands.
Contact: Right Action, Box 50887, Washington, DC 20091-0887; info@rights action.org; http://www. rightsaction.org/.
DECAY - Detropia is a new documentary that paints a portrait of the city of Detroit’s decline. The film poses the troubling question: Is Detroit a harbinger for U.S. cities and towns of the near future?
Contact: Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-3764; http://www. bullfrogfilms.com/.
CIVILIZATION - The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Contact: Cinema Politica, PO Box 55097 (Mackay), Montreal, Quebec, H3G 2W5; http://www. cinemapolitica.org/.
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Announcements
LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker’s Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: Douglas@thefarmcommunity.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: palestinianconference@gmail.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year’s theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; PNLHA1@aol.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
Contact:http://globalcannabismarch.com/.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People’s Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People’s Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; BaltimorePeoplesAssembly@gmail.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER’S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother’s Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
Contact: nato5solidarity@gmail.com; https://nato5support.wordpress.com.
MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, ? SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; concom37@wiscon.info; http://www.wiscon.info/.
ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; ncore@ou.edu; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; comments@nfcb.org; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; mail@bikesnotbombs.org; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; madcityveganfest@gmail.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; convention@adc.org http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: cuba@globaljusticecenter.org; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; registration@netrootsnation.org; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: info@socialismconference.org; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People’s College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; billhabedank@yahoo.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN’S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
Contact: cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org; http://www.childrensdefense.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: info@yeacamp.org; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: info@east.usworker.coop; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti’s government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; madre@madre.org; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; falcridge@aol.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.’ long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; wrl@warresisters.org; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year’s theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; programs@populareconomics.org; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year’s theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
Contact: ccardinal@haven-oakland.org; http://www.nomas.org/.
OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
Contact: natgat2013@gmail.com; http://occupynationalgathering.net/.
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, “Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy,” will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HAITI - International Action, which brings clean water and chlorinators to Haiti, seeks office space capable of housing up to six people and their office equipment.
Contact: Zach Bremer, Zbrehmer@haitiwater.org; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco. Proposals for presentations, workshops and panels from activists and critical scholars are invited.
