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FROM THE WEB
Net Briefs
Various Contributors
WIKILEAKING
Manning & the Law
Kevin Zeese
NUKEWATCH
New START
John Laforge
CROSSING THE LINE
Corruption in U.S.
Don Monkerud
FOG WATCH
"Investment Climate"
Edward Herman
HALLMARKS
Real Fascists
Zoltan Grossman
SELF-DETERMINATION
Lumumba's Assassination
Carlos Martinez
Activism
PEOPLE'S UPRISING
Tunisia
Ramzy Baroud
REFUSAL
Activism Not a Crime
Maureen Murphy
PROTESTING
War in Arizona
James Patrick Jordan
LABOR TODAY
Hyatt v. UNITE-HERE
Carl Finamore
ACTIVIST AWARDS
Food Sovereignty
Olga Bonfiglio
INTERVIEW
Medicare for All
Joan Brunwasser
Features
POWER POLITICS
Chamber & Capitalism
Laurence Shoup
CAPITALIST PLANNING
Classroots
Rob Larson
FOREIGN POLICY
Savage Imperialism 4
Noam Chomsky
MEDIA MATTERS
"No Progressive Champion"
Paul Street
Reviews
CULTURE & FILM
The Gay Oscars
Michael Bronski
DOCUMENTARY
Phil Ochs
John Pietaro
BOOK
Saviors and Survivors
Steven Fake
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Zaps - 03/11
Various Contributors
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Zaps - March 2011
Events
TOUR - The Taking It Back Tour 2011 features former Green Party vice-presidential candidate Rosa Clemente, author/activist JLove Calderon, and former Dead Pres musician M-1, aka Mutulu Olugabala, in an interactive, multimedia tour working with youth, immigrants, college students, and community organizers to empower and sustain their local communities. Open dates still available.
Contact: takingitback2011@gmail.com; rosaclemente.org.
STUDENT STRIKE - Students in California are planning more actions this March in response to budget cuts affecting tuition and courses. Actions include a statewide strike and day of action on March 2, a conference on March 12, and a march on the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 14.
Contact: statewidecoordination@gmail.com; www.defendcapubliceducation.wordpress.com.
GREEN FILMFEST - The first-ever San Francisco Green Film Festival is scheduled for March 3-6, featuring 70 film premieres, panels, workshops, and more.
Contact: Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 9th Street, Ste. 101, San Francisco CA 94103; 415-742-1394; info@sfgreenfilmfest.org; www.sfgreenfilmfest.org.
WOMEN'S STRIKE - March 8 is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day with events planned around the world. Global Women's Strike also organizes protest, education, and direct action around this day to redress the ongoing oppression of women who do two-thirds of all the world's work—most of it without pay or formal benefits and often in slave conditions.
Contact: www.internationalwomensday.com; www.globalwomenstrike.net.
FEMINIST CONFERENCE - The Young Feminist Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Feminist Majority Foundation, the world's largest pro-choice student network, is scheduled for March 12-14 at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Contact: Feminist Majority Foundation, 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801, Arlington, VA 22209; 866-444-FMLA; www.feministcampus.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2010 Left Forum is scheduled for March 18-20 at Pace University in New York City. This year's theme is "Toward a Politics of Solidarity" and will feature hundreds of panel discussions, art and film shows, and exhibitors.
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.
PROTEST - March 19 is the eight-year anniversary of the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq and more than 50,00 American troops and mercenaries still occupy the country, while U.S. aggression continues across the globe. Veterans for Peace and other organizations are planning a demonstration at the White House in Washington, DC.
Contact: stopthesewars@gmail.com; www.stopthesewars.com.
SENTENCING - Five peace activists convicted in December of felony trespass and other charges for a protest against nuclear weapons at a Navy base near Bremerton, Washington are scheduled to be sentenced on March 28 in Tacoma. They face up to ten years in prison.
Contact: Tacoma Catholic Worker, 1417 South G St., Tacoma, Washington 98405; 443-602-0464; disarmnowplowshares@gmail.com; www.disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com.
CESAR CHAVEZ DAY - March 31 is Cesar Chavez Day, with a parade and festival in San Francisco (on April 9 this year), plus a national campaign to get March 31 (Chavez's birthday) declared a national holiday to honor the migrant farm worker organizer.
Contact: www.cesarchavezday.org.
CLIMATE - A national youth summit to strategize climate activism, Power Shift 2011, is scheduled for April 1-4 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC with workshops and discussions about organizing and legislative campaigns.
Contact: www.energyactioncoalition.org.
ANTIWAR DEMOS - The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance has called for a march on the Pentagon in Washington, DC on April 8 and a coalition of groups through the United National Antiwar Committee has called for rallies and marches in San Francisco and New York on April 9.
Contact: www.iraqpledge.org/wordpress; www.nationalpeaceconference.org.
HUMAN RIGHTS - The annual Get On The Bus for Human Rights, scheduled for April 8, draws upwards of 1,200 participants riding buses, commuter trains, and carpooling to New York City to take peaceful action in front of embassies, consulates, and corporate headquarters in support of human rights. Sponsored by Amnesty International USA Local Group 133 of Somerville, Massachusetts.
Contact: gotb@amnesty133.org, www.gotb.org.
ABORTION RIGHTS - The 30th annual CLPP conference "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom" is scheduled for April 8-10 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, featuring workshops, trainings, and discussions.
Contact: Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002; 413-559-5416; clpp@hampshire.edu; clpp.hampshire.edu.
ANTI-MILITARIZATION - A convergence in Washington, DC for Latin America solidarity and against U.S. militarization there is planned for April 4-11, sponsored by SOA Watch and the Latin America Solidarity Coalition. Events include fasts, direct actions, a two-day conference (April 8-10), and a lobbying day (April 11).
Contact: School of the Americas Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; www.soaw.org.
BOOKFAIR - The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair is scheduled for April 9 at the Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. A film festival and additional events are scheduled for the night before and after.
Contact: info@anarchistbookfair.net, www.anarchistbookfair.net.
MEDIA REFORM - The 5th National Conference for Media Reform is scheduled for April 8-10 in Boston and brings together thousands of activists and mediamakers to help democratize communications media.
Contact: Free Press, 40 Main St, Suite 301, Florence, MA 01062; 877-888-1533; conference@freepress.net; conference.freepress.net.
DAY OF ACTION - Rising Tide North America has called for a Chain Reaction Day of Action Against Extraction, with various events nationwide on April 20, the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill.
Contact: www.risingtidenorthamerica.org.
Books
AGRICULTURE - In Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar present a collection of essays on the inequities of the current profit-driven food production and distribution system, while also examining what can and is being done to create a human-centered and ecologically sound alternative system.
Contact: Monthly Review Press, 146 W. 29th Street, #6W, New York, NY 10001; 800-670-9499; bookorder@monthlyreview.org; www.monthlyreview.org.
ART - Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis by Susan Noyes Platt offers a critical analysis of contemporary, politically-engaged art, beginning with the Seattle anti-WTO demos of 1999 up to the BP spill in 2010, from street art to the international art scene and a special emphasis on Turkey and the Mideast.
Contact: Midmarch Arts Press, 300 Riverside Dr., New York NY 10025; 212-666-6990; info@midmarchartspress.org; www.midmarchartspress.org; www.artandpoliticsnow.com.
BALKANS - In Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia, Andrej Grubacic offers a radical left perspective on Yugoslav balkanization and occupation, "humanitarian intervention," the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, and structural adjustment.
Contact: PM Press, PO Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623; 510-658-3906; info@pmpress.org; www.pmpress.org.
BIOREGIONALISM - Bioregionalism and Global Ethics by Richard Evanoff examines the possibility of maximizing ecological sustainability, social justice, and human well-being in the context of decentralized but confederated bioregional communities.
Contact: Taylor & Francis Books, 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042; 561-361-6000; orders@taylorandfrancis.com; www.routledge.com.
CANADA - Todd Gordon's Imperialist Canada exposes an imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe, interweaving histories of indigenous dispossession with a much ignored oppression of peoples in the global South.
Contact: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 201E-121 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 1Y4, Canada; 204-942-7058; info@arbeiterring.com; www.arbeiterring.com.
CAPITALISM - In The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers, Michael Perelman describes how dominant, mainstream economists distort economic reality by covering up the reality of exploitation and promoting a fantasy of equal exchange.
Contact: Monthly Review Press, 146 W. 29th Street, #6W, New York, NY 10001; 800-670-9499; bookorder@monthlyreview.org; www.monthlyreview.org.
CIVIL RIGHTS - Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama by Wayne Greenhaw describes the local activists who fought back against kidnappings, bombings, and murders and transformed a state's political machinery.
Contact: Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago Review Press, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610; 312-337-0747; www.chicagoreviewpress.com.
DESIGN - In ID: Ideology of Design, Branka Curcic edits an anthology focused on the former Yugoslavia, which tried to define the role of design in a (non)market socialist economy, but which increasingly played a main role in building a socialist market society.
Contact: Autonomedia, www.autonomedia.org.
DISSENT - The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad, edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim, with a preface by Tariq Ali, commemorates 40 years of publishing with a historical compendium of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression.
Contact: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; verso@versobooks.com; www.versobooks.com.
ECOLOGY - Vandanna Shiva's Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development exposes third-world development policy as violence against nature and women, with a focus on how rural Indian women experience and resist causes and effects of ecological destruction.
Contact: South End Press, Medgar Evers College, 1 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225; 800-533-8478; info@southendpress.org; www.southendpress.org.
ECUADOR - In Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador, Marc Becker examines the tensions between social movements and electoral politics in Ecuador, where powerful Indigenous movements are clashing with the country's leftist president Rafael Correa.
Contact: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham MD 20706; 800-462-6420; orders@rowman.com; www.rowman.com.
FEMINISM - In Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, Stephanie Coontz examines the context for Betty Friedan's 1963 bestseller through research and interviews to illuminate how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life originated in social and political injustice.
Contact: Basic Books, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016; 212-340-8164; www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic.
GOODMAN - The Paul Goodman Reader, edited by Taylor Stoehr, collects works from the influential 1960s author, including excerpts from best-sellers like Growing Up Absurd and landmark essays on education, community planning, and language theory.
Contact: PM Press, PO Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623; 510-658-3906; info@pmpress.org; www.pmpress.org.
GRAPHICS - Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now collects more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from more than 25 nations focused on global struggles for equality, democracy, freedom, and basic human rights.
Contact: AK Press, 674-A 23rd St., Oakland, CA 94612; 510-208-1700; info@akpress.org; www.akpress.org.
HOMELESS - First-time author Jake Anderson travelled the country to collect stories of today's homeless and combined photos, poems, and their words and art in the new book Homeless Souls. Proceeds go to organizations supporting the homeless.
Contact: Antrim House, 21 Goodrich Rd., Simsbury, CT 06070; eds@antrimhousebooks.com; www.antrimhousebooks.com.
INVISIBLE - In Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Barbara Foley explores the political context behind the 1953 classic and argues that by expunging leftist vision, Ellison rendered his novel not only less radical but also less humane than it might otherwise have been.
Contact: Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St., Suite 18B, Durham, NC 27701; 888-651-0122; www.dukeupress.edu.
ISLAMOPHOBIA - Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims by Stephen Sheehi, preface by Mumia Abu Jamal and foreword by Ward Churchill, examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-bating rhetoric, legislation, police surveillance, and discriminatory policies in North America and abroad.
Contact: Clarity Press, Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA. 30305; 404-647-6501; www.claritypress.com.
LABOR - Steve Early's The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? describes how the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement—including SEIU, UNITE HERE, the California Nurses Association, and various independent organizations—tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles between 2008 and 2010.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; info@haymarketbooks.org; www.haymarketbooks.org.
LAW - In The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, Erwin Chemerinsky exposes how conservative justices, far from following the Constitution's "original meaning," are imposing their personal prejudices in detrimental ways that affect every American.
Contact: Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Fl., New York, NY 10020; 212-698-7000; www.simonandschuster.com.
MARX - In Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx, Chris Harman uses basic Marxist concepts to show how the current financial crisis is embedded into the structure of the capitalist system.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; info@haymarketbooks.org; www.haymarketbooks.org.
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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.
