Volume 20, Number 12
Workers Centers
Colin Asher
Block Battle
Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Organizing Domestics
Ari Paul
Commentary
Downwinders
Lisa Mullenneaux
Winter Soldier Campaign
Iraq veterans against the war -- Ivaw
Eighty and Still Protesting
James Lamb
Nut House Econ
Edward Herman
Behind Burma's Repression
Marc Pilisuk
Gayspeak/Christianspeak
Michael Bronski
Nukes Are Back
Harvey Wasserman
Culture
Burns’s War
Ron Linville
Getting Off
Eleanor J. Bader
2 Book Reviews
Vijay Prashad
Shock Doctrine
Joshua Sperber
Features
Year 501
Noam Chomsky
Corporate Democrats
Paul Street
Corporate SCHIP
Kip Sullivan
Healthcare Reform
Roger Bybee
Auto Industry
Jack Rasmus
U.S. & Eygpt
Sara Abbas
India SEZs
Sriram Ananthanarayanan
Zaps
ZAPS
Z Staff
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ZAPS
Events
EXHIBIT - Gaza Zoo, an exhibition of 40 prints by activist and artist Laray Polk at the Haley-Henman Gallery in Dallas, runs through January 5; hours, Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5 PM; Thursdays, until 8 PM by appointment.
Contact: Haley-Henman Gallery, 2335 Hardwick Street, Dallas, TX, 75208; 214-749- 1277; info@ haley henman.com; www.haley henman.com.
HR DAY - December 10 is Human Rights Day as declared by the United Nations. On that date in 1948, 48 members of the UN, including the United States, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See the official website for this potentially revolutionary document in over 300 languages, along with related info and press.
Contact: OHCHR-UNOG, 8-14 Avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; www.unhchr. ch/udhr.
DAY OF ACTION - The World Social Forum has called for a Global Day of Mobilization and Action on January 26, 2008, to feature educational events and demonstrations against corporate oligarchy and in favor of grassroots alternatives. This day was called instead of having a central WSF in 2008.
Contact - globalaction@wsf 2008.net; www.wsf2008.net.
Proposals Wanted
LA FORUM - A Los Angeles Social Forum is being proposed for April 2008; planning meetings are open and ongoing in December and January and organizations are encouraged to attend and offer proposal ideas.
Contact: LA Social Forum, PO Box 79612, Los Angeles, CA 90079; 213-596-8226; info@lasocialforum.org; www.lasocialforum.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2008 Left Forum is scheduled for March 14-16 at the Cooper Union in NYC and panel proposals will be accepted through December 15.
Contact: Left Forum, c/o PhD Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016; 212-817-2003; leftforum @leftforum.org; www. leftforum.org.
EDUCATION - Proposals for the 2008 Rouge Forum Conference, “Education: Reform or Revolution?” will be accepted until December 15. The Rouge Forum—a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society—focuses on education this year, as one of the major socializing influences in our lives, hosted by Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, March 14-16.
Contact: rougeforum@pipeline.com; www.rougeforum.org.
WORKING CLASS - The Center for Study of Working Class Life is accepting proposals until December 17 for its 2008 conference, “How Class Works,” to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5-7, 2008. Guidelines for papers, presentations, and sessions available on the website.
Contact: www.workingclass. sunysb.edu.
Campaigns
ABORTION - In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federal funding for abortion. The only exceptions are in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the life of the woman. We urge you to join the “Hyde–30 Years is Enough!” campaign demanding an end to this injustice.
Contact: Hyde–30 Years is Enough! Campaign, c/o the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), 42 Seaverns Ave., Boston, MA 02130; 617-524-6040; info@nnaf.org; www.hyde30years.nnaf.org.
FNB - Three city governments in the United States are trying to stop Food Not Bombs from publicly feeding the hungry and working for peace. Amnesty International has declared Food Not Bombs volunteers “Prisoners of Conscience” if convicted for their work.
Contact: Food Not Bombs, PO Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514; 800-884-1136; menu@foodnotbombs.net; www.foodnotbombs.net.
GIFTS - This holiday season, Leonard Peltier offers all his supporters an opportunity to give something back and honor the Lakota people. He respectfully requests your help making these holidays a little brighter and this winter a little warmer for the children at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Please send new toys, coats, socks, shoes, and clothing.
Contact: Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift Drive, C/O LPDC, 3800 N. Mesa #A2, El Paso, Texas 79902; 570-524-0749; info@leonardpeltier.net; www.leonardpeltier.net.
SOCIAL SECURITY - The 2007 Social Watch Report “In Dignity and Rights: Making the universal right to social security a reality” provides an overview of social security systems worldwide, with an approach that emphasizes the right of people to live in dignity with secure livelihoods.
Contact: Social Watch, Jackson 1136, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay; socwatch@socialwatch. org www.socialwatch.org.
UNIONS - New Unionism is the collective name for unions who want to make change and set agendas, rather than just reacting to them.
Contact: NewUnionism.Net, Suite 7 Peel House, 30 The Downs, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA142PX, UK; communications@newunionism.net; www.newunionism.net.
Organizations
ANARCHISM - The objective of the Institute for Anarchist Studies is to create an opening for voices of hope. Their work includes grants and editorial assistance to writers and translators documenting resistance, the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, Perspectives—a broad- based radical journal, the National Conference on Organized Resistance, and a new collaborative book series between AK Press and the IAS.
Contact: Institute on Anarchist Studies, PO Box 15586, Washington, DC 20003; info@anarchist-studies.org; www.anarchist-studies.org.
CENTRAL AMERICA - With its head office in Guatemala, Rights Action is a multi-faceted community development enviro- and human rights organization for funding people, communities, and human rights campaigns in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and El Salvador.
Contact: Rights Action, PO Box 50887, Washington, DC 20091; 202-783-1123; info@rightsaction.org; www.rightsaction.org.
RADICAL SITE - Launched just before the protests against the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, focusing first on real-time coverage, rabble.ca today is “news for rest of us”—articles, podcasts, book reviews, discussions, announcements, news links, art, and more. Always free.
Contact: information@rabble.ca; www.rabble.ca.
Films
ISRAEL - Through the example of Israeli Refuseniks we learn what happens when soldiers act out of conscience in the new documentary Raised to Be Heroes.
Contact: Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-3764; info@bullfrog films.com; www.bullfrogfilms. com.
PANAMA - The Academy Award winning documentary The Panama Deception, about the illegal 1989 U.S. invasion, is now available as an extended version DVD.
Contact: Empowerment Project, 8218 Farrington Mill Rd., Chapel Hill NC 27517; 919-928- 0382; info@empowermentproject.org; www.empowerment project.org.
PRISON - A documentary on death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, In Prison My Whole Life, takes a new and personal look at the frame-up.
Contact: info@inprisonmy wholelife.com; www.inprisonmy wholelife.com.
VIETNAM WAR - The Sixth Side of the Pentagon is a chronicle of the 1967 Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam protest march on the Pentagon by documentary essayist Chris Marker.
Contact: First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718- 488-8900; mailroom@ frif.com; www.frif.com.
Books
WAR - War With No End reveals the anti-war movement among America’s literary community, showcasing a wide range of views on “the long war,” from Arundhati Roy on the unsustainability of an “American way of life” to Naomi Klein on war as a lifestyle.
Contact: Verso Books, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014; 212-807-9680; versony@versobooks.com; www.versobooks.com.
POETRY - Poets Against the Killing Fields is a new anthology by the Liberation Poetry Collective featuring ten poets who participated in a series of public anti-war readings in the Boston area over the past several years.
Contact: Trilingual Press, PO Box 391206, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-331-2269; triling ualpress@tanbou.com; www. tanbou.com/trilingualpress.
CULTURE - For over a decade LiP: Informed Revolt concocted a deeply imaginative, iconoclastic mix of politics, culture, sex, and humor that took clear, sometimes uproarious aim at mass mediocracy and capitalist miserablism. Tipping the Sacred Cow, edited by Brian Awehali, is a collection of some of the best stories in its 11-year history.
Contact: AK Press, 674-A 23rd St, Oakland, CA 94612; 510-208-1700; info@akpress. org; www.akpress.org.
HISTORY - In the historic A Slave No More, Yale University’s David W. Blight tells the story of John Washington and Wallace Turnage, two slaves plotting their escape and then making their way as free men in a nation still raw from the Civil War.
Contact: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 15 East 26th St., New York, NY 10010; 800-543-1918; www.harcourtbooks.com.
CLASS - In The Unaffordable Nation: Searching for a Decent Life in America, Jeffrey Jones addresses the people of the U.S. in the most basic and equal of terms: in their capacities as working persons dependent upon their occupations, their employers, and the government.
Contact: Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Dr., Amherst, NY 14228; 800-421-0351; www.prometheusbooks.com.
GENDER - Jude Browne brings together prominent thinkers to address the elusive concept of The Future of Gender, addresses this crucial question with scholars from diverse backgrounds.
Contact: Cambridge University Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013; 212-924-3900; www.cambridge.org/us.
ORGANIZING - In Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy, Gabriel Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy in the old fashioned way: through grassroots organizing.
Contact: Nation Books, 387 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10016; 212-822-0250; www.nationbooks.org.
FOREIGN POLICY - In Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray offers a disquieting survey of contemporary right wing apocalyptic philosophy and politics currently holding and taking power in the West.
Contact: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003; 888-330-8477; sales@ fsgbooks.com; www.fsg books.com.
FOOD POLITICS - Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed edited by Vandana Shiva is a pocket-sized collection that grapples with these enormous questions, daring to imagine a food system and world that is sustainable, healthy, and ultimately just.
Contact: South End Press, 7 Brookline St. #1, Cambridge, MA 02139; 800-533-8478; www.southendpress.org.
LEBANON - The War on Lebanon: A Reader, edited by Nubar Hovsepian, offers a collection of essays examining the ethical, legal, and strategic issues of the conflict, and the regional and global consequences in the wake of the Israeli invasion.
Contact: Olive Branch Press, 46 Crosby St., Northampton, MA 01060; 1-800-238-LINK; info@intelinkbooks.com; www.interlinkbooks.com.
Corrections
The photo in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Conference article in the October 2007 issue was misattributed to Bob Gronko. The photo was taken by Brooke Anderson.
The interview with Noam Chomsky in the November issue was conducted by Gabriel Matthew Schivone.
Z Magazine Archive
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.
