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OCCUPY TOGETHER - Occupy Together is the unofficial hub for the various occupations across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Towns and cities worldwide are participating.

Contact: http://www.occupytogether.org.

SCHOOLS - Dignity in Schools’ National Week of Action on Ending School Pushout will be September 29-October 6.

Contact: http://www.dignityinschools.org.

CLIMATE CHANGE - The Peace and Justice Studies Association, with the Tufts Initiative on Climate Change and Climate Justice, will hold its annual conference October 4-6 at Tufts University. This year’s theme is: Anticipating Climate Disruption: Sustaining Justice, Greening Peace.

Contact: http://www.justicewithpeace.org.

WOMEN - The Exceptional Merit Media Awards (EMMAs) were created by the National Womens Political Caucus (NWPC) to honor and reward journalists and media outlets in radio, television, print and the internet that inform and educate the public about critical issues that impact women’s lives. This year’s event will be held October 4 in New York City.

Contact: http://www.nwpc.org/.

LGBTQ - The 25th annual Out On Film Festival will take place October 4-11, in Atlanta.

Contact: 456 Kensington Parc Drive, Avondale Estates, GA 30002; 404-671-9446; info@outonfilm.org; http://outonfilm.org/.

HEALTHCARE - A Demonstration for Universal Healthcare has been called for October 6 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Organizing groups include Healthcare-NOW!

Contact: http://duh4all.org; http://www.healthcare-now.org.

TEACHERS - The 12th Annual Conference, Teaching for Social Justice: Acts of Courage and Resistance, will be held October 6th in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.

Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.

SPACE MILITARIZATION - October 6-13 is Keep Space for Peace Week, an international week of protest to stop the militarization of space.

Contact: http://www.space4peace.org/.

COLUMBUS - October 8 is Columbus Day. Many groups around the country, including the Transform Columbus Day Alliance, work to challenge traditional ethnocentric views of Columbus the sole discoverer of America, as well as challenging the celebration of invasion, cruelty, oppression and cultural imperialism.

Contact: http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/.

NADER - Ralph Nader will present The Seventeen Solutions, Bold Ideas for Our American Future, October 10 at St John’s Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, CA.

Contact: http://www.kpfa.org/events.

HOMELESSNESS - October 10 is World Homeless Day. Events are planned worldwide.

Contact: http://www.world homelessday.org/.

ART/SOCIAL CHANGE - The Arts & Social Change Symposium will be held October 12-13 in Seattle. Sponsors include Washington State Arts Commission, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and Seattle Center.

Contact: http://www.artsand socialchange.org/.

McDONALDS - October 16 is Anti-McDonalds Day. Hundreds of Food Not Bombs members will be sharing vegan meals outside their local McDonalds.

Contact: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/.

MASS INCARCERATION - Boston University Law School will host Michelle Alexander at the Strategic National Conference on Mass Incarceration and Reentry, October 18-20. The conference will address public policy, sentence reform, training and resource availability, and other topics.

Contact: http://www.churchandprison.org/.

POLICE BRUTALITY - October 22 is National Day Against Police Brutality.

Contact: http://www.october 22.org/.

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.iranpled ge.org; http://www.united forpeace.org.

SLAVERY - Not For Sale’s 2012 Global Forum will be held November 1-2 in Sunnyvale, CA. Conference-goers will hear what is going on in the movement to end slavery, recent developments and new strategies to fight human trafficking, and personal stories from abolitionists around the world.

Contact: http://www.nfsglobal forum.org/.

VETERANS - Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will have its annual convention November 2, in Baltimore, MD.

Contact: http://www.ivaw.org/.

RESISTERS - The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is celebrating its 30th anniversary November 2-4 in Colorado Springs, CO.

Contact: http://www.nwtrcc.org/.

BOOKFAIR - The 2012 Boston Anarchist Bookfair will be held at Simmons College, November 9-11. There are planned work shops, tables, and a film festival.

Contact: http://www.bostonanarchistbookfair.org/.

WOMEN/LAW - The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) will host its Women, Law & Public Policy conference November 9-11, in Washington, DC. PLEN will explore how the law influences the policy arena. Participants will meet with women leaders who, with and without a law degree, work within the legal system to advance public policy.

Contact: www.plen.org.

TEACHERS - The 12th Annual Teaching For Social Justice Curriculum Fair will be held November 17th in Chicago.

Contact: http://www.teachersforjustice.org/.

RACE - The Facing Race 2012 conference will be held in Baltimore, MD November 15-17. The conference is a national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists and activists. Attendees share their knowledge on advocating for racial justice in all walks of life.

Contact: arc.org/facingrace/.

DIRECT ACTION - The annual November vigil to protest the School of the Americas is scheduled for November 16-18 at Fort Benning, GA.

Contact: SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; http://soaw.org.

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION - The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its 22nd annual conference in Philadelphia, November 28-December 1. This year’s theme is, Realizing the Power of Movements through Multicultural Education.

Contact: http://nameorg.org.

JOBS - Jobs with Justice will celebrate its 25th anniversary November 29 in Washington, DC.

Contact: http://www.jwj.org/.

ROOTS CAMP - RootsCamp will be held November 30th, in Washington, DC. The idea of the conference is to bring together progressives who design sessions and decide the program, to exchange ideas.

Contact: http://neworganizing.com/.

SCHOOL/FOOD NOT BOMBS - Food Not Bombs activists have started the Free Skool in Toas, New Mexico. Donations of money or supplies are welcomed.

Contact: http://foodnot bombs.net/.
 

Opportunities & Resources

ESSAYS WANTED - San Francisco State University School of Journalism is seeking submissions from essayists and literary journalists on interracial interaction in neighborhoods. What keeps some communities together and some apart? What are the patterns of interaction and communication? How does this affect our understanding of racial and ethnic identity?

Contact: vwagner@sfsu.edu; ywilson@sfsu.edu.

Books

SECURITY - In Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India and Israel, Reese Jones analyzes how controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally.

Contact: Zed Books, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, 44(0)20-8466-7837-8466; sales@zedbooks.net; www.zedbooks.co.uk.

RACE - Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields’ Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, argues that the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft”; and that Americans have failed to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality.

Contact: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; verso@versobooks.com; http://www.versobooks.com/.

CLIMATE - Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence is Christian Parenti’s new work about the era of climate war. The book is about how extreme weather brought on by global warming is unleashing unrest and violence from Africa to Asia to the Americas.

Contact: Nation Books, 250 West 57th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10107; 212- 340-8100; press@nationbooks.org; http://www.nationbooks.org/.

POLAND - In the 1980s and 1990s, Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement. In the ensuing two decades, socialism has collapsed, capitalism has been restored, and Poland is now among the most unequal countries in the world. From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland is Kowalik’s book asking how this could happen in a country that once had the largest and most militant labor movement in Europe.

Contact: Monthly Review Press, 146 W 29th St, Suite 6W, New York, NY 10001; 212-691- 2555; http://monthlyreview.org/.

UNIONS - They’re Bankrupting Us! and 20 Other Myths about Union, by Bill Fletcher Jr., refutes 21 myths that labor opponents typically use to discredit unions.

Contact: Beacon, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108; 617-742-2110; http://www. beacon.org/.

RULING CLASS - New American Revolution: The Constitutional Overthrow of the United States Government, by Wm W. Fa- well, is an expose of the history of the ruling class in America: who they are, how they got there, how they are destroying America.

Contact: wwfawell@yahoo.com; http://www.nar2012.com/.

DEMOCRACY - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: The True Meaning of Democracy, by Arthur Robbins, is a platform for discussion democracy at a time when citizens are focused on government and the electoral process, and seeks intelligent and interesting ways to talk about government without personality politics and sloganeering.

Contact: Arthur Robbins, 245 Avenue C, 7A, New York, NY 10009; 212-673-9337; adrob@rcn.com.

ELECTIONS - Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters, by Victorial Bassetti, is book written in conjunction with a PBS documentary of the same name, reporting on voting in America.

Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenew press.com/.  

Film

HUMAN RIGHTS - The United Nations Association Film Festival will be held October 18-20 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. The festival showcases films dealing with human rights, environmental themes, population, migration, women’s issues, refugees, homelessness, racism, health, universal education, war and peace.

Contact: http://www.unaff.org/.

LABOR - Tejid@s Juntas / Stitched Together: Workers, Students, and the Movement for Alta Garcia is a new movie and organizing tool about the Alta Garcia factory workers in the Dominican Republic.

Contact: http://tejidxs.tumblr.com/.

CREATIVE ECONOMY - In blue-collar North Adams, MA, the world’s largest museum of contemporary art moved into the complex of buildings that formerly housed the city’s huge textile and electronics industry. Aided by a state subsidy and the hopes of many, the museum was sold as an “engine of economic development.” The documentary Farewell to Factory Towns? critiques the museum’s record and argues that what is needed in North Adams, and throughout the country, is a new “New Deal.”

Contact: Maynard Seider, 413-374-8429; M.Seider@ mcla.edu; http://farewellto factorytowns.com/.

Music/Media

AFRICA - African musician Emmanuel Jal’s new album, See Me Mama, has been released. The album features the song “We Want Peace.”

Contact: Gatwitch Records, 390 Queens Quay West, PO Box 40007 PO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 0A4; 647-347-7138; info@gatwitchrecords.com; http://gatwitchreords.com/.