Revolution brings truth
Revolution brings truth, and a revolutionary perspective, to a uniquely diverse audience that includes prisoners, students, professors, youth in the housing projects, artists, immigrant workers, anti-war activists and scientists and others. At a moment when much of humanity finds itself in a living hell, when the horror of the U.S. occupation of Iraq threatens to escalate into a war against Iran, and when the future of the planet itself is threatened, Revolution newspaper must be out there much more boldly and much more broadly —exposing what is going on, revealing why, and pointing to a revolutionary solution in the interests of the vast majority of humanity.
Get ready for the launch of Revolution’s six-month expansion drive accompanied by a fund drive to raise $500,000.
Tuesday, June 12
7:00-9:30 pm
Film/discussion/reception: "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About," film of talk by Bob Avakian. W/poet Staceyann Chin, excerpts from film, other performers TBA. Reception to follow. At Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd (at 135th St, 2/3 to 135th St). $15. Sponsors: Revolution Books, Chuck D, Rev Earl Kooperkamp, Herb Boyd & others. Info/tix: 212-691-3345.
Wednesday, June 13th
5:30-7:30 pm
Discussion: "Global Warming & Climate
Change: Is NYC Up to the Challenge?" W/Rohit Aggarwala (Mayor's
Office of Operations), Drew Becher (NY Restoration Project), Marcia
Bystryn (NY League of Conservation Voters). At Goddard Riverside
Community Center, 593 Columbus Ave (at 88th St, photo ID req).
$10/free for WCC members & students w/ID. Sponsor: Women's City
Club of NY. Info/register (req): 212-353-8070 x204,
victoriap@wccny.org
Thursday, June 14
6/14-28th
Human Rights Watch: International Film Festival
6:00pm 6/14 Opening Reception & Benefit Screening
Mon Colonel
Walter Reade Theater,
Lincoln Center
6:30pm
Activism in America
Madison Square Park
Fifth Avenue @ 23rd Street
Women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem and hip-hop historian kevin Powell inaugurate Madison Square Park's literary series with readings from recent works.
6:30-8:30pm
Artist’s Talk
Location: MoCADA – 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY
Cost: $8 for the general public; $4 for MoCADA members, senior citizens and students with ID
Space is limited; Please RSVP to info@mocada.org or call 718-230-0492
Alexis Peskine will discuss the concept of the exhibition and the inspiration for the art included in it. There will be a
talk in English and French to ensure that this exhibition also caters to native French speakers.
8:00pm
The Neville Brothers
Celebrate Brooklyn
The Prospect Park Bandshell.
Parospect park West & 9th St. park Slope, Brooklyn
(F to 7th Ave)
**6/14 THU, 7-8:30 pm - Discussion: "Sunlight in the Torture
Chamber: Expert Views on the US's Use of Secrecy, Detention & Interrogations in the War on Terrorism." W/Col Janis Karpinski (ex-commander at Abu Ghraib Prison), Jumana Musa (Amnesty Int'l), Tara McKelvey (The American Prospect, author, Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations & Torture in the Terror War), Josh Rushing (Al-Jazeera English), Steven Watt (ACLU Human Rights Program, counsel, El-Masri v Tenet), Errol Louis (NY Daily News). At Fordham Law School, McNally Amphitheatre, 160 W 62nd St (1 to 66th St, A/C, B/D to 59th St Columbus Circle). Free. Sponsors: NY Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty Int'l USA, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, Fordham Law School's Public Interest Resource Center, People for the American Way Foundation. Info: 212-607-3358, arosmarin@nyclu.org & http://www.nyclu.org/torturepanel
Friday, June 15th
7:00pm
Cassandra Wilson + Olu Dara
Central Park SummerStage.
Central Park SummerStage Opening Night!
**6/15 FRI-6/28 THU - Films: 18th Human Rights Watch Int'l Film Festival. "Strange Culture" (on US), "Enemies of Happiness" (on Afghanistan), "Sari's Mother" (on Iraq), many others. At Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th St, Plaza Level. Sponsors: HRW, Film Society of Lincoln Center. Info: http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007 Tix: 212-875-5600 or http://www.filmlinc.com
Saturday, June 16
6/16 & 6/17
Clearwater Music & Environmental Festival: Great Hudson River Revival 2007
Croton Point Park,
Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Info: Jen Rubbo, Volunteer Coordinator, 845-454-7673 x123, volcoord@clearwater.org or http://www.clearwaterfestival.org
12 noon-1:30 pm
Rally: for peace
Clove Lake Parks, SI
Music, street theater & energy! We want to reach out to groups & individuals to show the strength & diversity of Staten Islanders who want this endless war to end & US troops to come home." Sponsor: Peace Action SI. Info: sjones1@si.rr.com
7:00 pm
Performance: "Antiwar Expressions: A Poetic Rhythmic Journey from Qns to Borinquen to Baghdad."
Hunter College
Lang Center, 424 HN
68th St & Lexington Ave (6 to 68th St-Hunter College).
A Latino response to the Iraq war, combining poetry, spoken word & music to convey the horrific effects of war on communities in the US & abroad. At $15 adv/$20 door/$5 for high school students w/student ID. Tix: 646-594-4344, ollinimagination@yahoo.com & http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/
7:30pm
Celebrate Brooklyn
The Prospect Park Bandshell.
Parospect park West & 9th St. park Slope, Brooklyn(F to 7th Ave)
Joan Osborne / The Jazz Passengers: The Supremes Project
With her brand new album Breakfast in Bed, an homage to the great soul and R&B of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Brooklyn's own JOAN OSBORNE has reconfirmed her status as one of the most powerful and versatile singers of her generation. "her voice, all on its own, conveys whole choirs of feeling." (Rolling Stone) The wild and wooly JAZZ PASSENGERS, whose "irreverent, sometimes gorgeously cinematic music somehow manages to orbit both Sun Ra and the Marx Brothers," (New York Magazine) take an instrumental approach the classic songs of The Supremes. A special commission for Celebrate Brooklyn.
Sunday, June 17th
2:00-6:00pm
Gay Pride Rally Bryant Park (42nd St & 6th Avenue)
Monday, June 18th
9:30 am
Court support: for Juanita Young
Bronx Criminal Court
61st St & Sheridan Ave, Bx (B/D/4 to 161st St-Yankee Stadium).
Juanita Young, outspoken police brutality activist (mother of Malcolm Ferguson, murdered by NYPD in 2000) awaiting trial on bogus criminal charges brought against her by the precinct whose officers attacked her. Stand w/Juanita on the day that motions are due from her lawyer Geoffrey Stewart. Info: 866-235-7814, oct22ny@yahoo.com & http://www.october22-ny.org
8:00pm
Yoko Ono in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis
92nd Street Y @ Lexinton Avenue
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Yoko Ono is a ground-breaking and award-winning musician, artist, filmmaker and peace activist. Her most recent work includes the albums, Yes, I'm a Witch and Open Your Box. One of the boldest creative thinkers and cultural icons of our time, she discusses her extraordinary life journey with Anthony DeCurtis, who is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.
**6/18 MON, 7 pm - Discussion/book signing: "Can Progressives Move the Democratic Party to the Left?" W/Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY Grad Ctr), Laura Flanders (Air America Radio), Gary Younge (Guardian/moderator). Debate on the possibilities & limitations of working w/in the Democratic party. At CUNY Grad Ctr, Elebash Recital Hall, 34th St & 5th Ave (N/R/W, B/D/F/V to 34th St, 6 to 33rd St). $5-$10. Sponsors: Left Forum, The Nation. Info: 212-817-2003, leftforum@leftforum.org
Tuesday, June 19th
6:00pm-8:30 pm
Film/discussion: "Heir to an Execution."W/Ivy Meerepol
Tamiment Library
70 Washington Sq South, 10th fl (A/C/E, B/D/F/V to W 4th St, R to 8th St-NYU, 1 to Christopher St-Sheridan Sq).
Sponsors: Tamiment, National Cmt to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. Info: 212-998-2428, Michael.Nash@nyu.edu &Marilyn.Young@nyu.edu
06.19.07
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street
NYC TimesTalks
New York, New York: Songwriter's Muse
The city that never sleeps has been inspiring musicians for decades - from Duke Ellington with "Take the A Train" to Jay Z and "The City is Mine" to They Might Be Giants with "Token Back to Brooklyn." Join us as four "hometown" talents - composer-performer Meredith Monk, guitarist Vernon Reid and singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega - riff on how and why New York has been such a powerful influence on them and so many other artists. Moderated by New York Times chief pop music critic Jon Pareles.
A three-part series
Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: series ticket $20, single admission $10
Webcasts: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The state of journalism is examined through cable and broadcast news, newspapers, the internet, and political advertising. The series features journalists Marlene Sanders, formerly of ABC and CBS News; William Small, chairman for News and Documentaries Emmy Awards, National Television Academy; William E. Casey Jr., vice president of special editions, The Wall Street Journal ; Richard Roth, United Nations correspondent for CNN; and Vivian Schiller, New York Times. Moderated by Professor Stuart H. Loory, Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of the Missouri Journalism summer program at The New School in 2007.
Coming Up:
**6/20 WED, 8:30 am - Public Debate: Local Responses to the US Immigration Crisis: Hightstown, NJ, Hazelton, PA, New Haven, CT, Morristown, NJ, Suffolk Cty, others. W/Jackson Chin (PRLDEF), Muzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute, NYU School of Law), Michael Cutler (Center for Immigration Studies, former INS agent), Heather MacDonald (Manhattan Institute), Michele Wucker (World Policy Institute). How are towns & municipalities responding to immigration crisis? What are effects on our communities? Conversation & debate. At 101 6th Ave (btw Grand St & Watts St, A/C/E/1 to Canal St). Sponsor: Local 32BJ SEIU. Info: Dulce Mateo, 212-539-2793, dmateo@seiu32bj.org & Kate Ferranti, 212-388-3469, kferranti@seiu32bj.org
6/21 THU, 6 pm - Talk: policy address. W/John Edwards (2004
Democratic VP nominee), ex-NYS gov Mario Cuomo, Cooper Union pres
George Campbell Jr. At Cooper Union Great Hall, 7 E 7th St (at 3rd
Ave, 6 to Astor Pl, R to 8th St-NYU). Info: 212-353-4195,
http://www.cooper.edu
AIDS Candlelight Vigil
Friday, June 22, 2007
7 p.m.
Steps off from Sheridan Square Park,
Christopher Street & 7th Avenue
Annual candlelight vigil and march commemorates all those loved and lost to HIV and AIDS. Candles are distributed to all participants for free. A procession of bikes leads the march down Christopher Street to the piers, where there is a non-denominational prayer service, and a wreath is cast into the Hudson River.
**6/22 FRI, 6-8 pm - Forum: "Athletes as Social Activists: Pushing
the Boundaries of the Sports World." W/Dave Zirin (author, Welcome
to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics & Promise of Sports), Toni
Smith (protested war in Iraq as co-captain of Manhattanville
College women's basketball team in 2003). At Murphy Center for
Labor, Community & Policy Studies, 25 W 43rd St. 18th fl (7 to 5th
Ave, B/D/F/V to 42nd St, 4/5/6 to 42nd St-Grand Central). RSVP by
6/18: Eloiza Morales, 212-642-2029.
6/23 SAT, 5 pm - March: 15th annual NYC Dyke March. Bring noisemakers, signs & rebel-rousing lesbians. "The dyke march is a protest march, not a parade--we don't ask for a permit, because we have the right to protest. As lesbians, we recognize that we must organize amongst ourselves to fight for our rights, for our safety, for visibility." At Bryant Park, 42nd St & 6th Ave (D/F to 42nd St/6th Ave, 7 to 5th Ave). Planning meetings: 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22
6/23 SAT-6/27 WED - Conference: "Creating Sustainability W/in Our Midst: Challenge for the 21st Century." 4th biennial conf of US Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE). At Pace U downtown campus. Info: http://www.ussee.org/conference.htm
6/23 SAT, 8-9 pm - Action: protest the war by making a lot of noise
in Park Slope. "Ring a bell, blow a horn, set off a siren, create
feedback--set off car horns, set off car alarms, ride a sound bike-
-anything goes, & the louder the better." At any loc in Park Slope,
Bkn. Info: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/86442.shtml
6/24 SUN
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
**6/24 SUN & 7/1 SUN, 2 pm - Performance: Hot & Holy Highline
Revival. W/Rev Billy, Stop Shopping Gospel Choir & the Not Buying
It Band. Lunch & liquor served, consumed souls saved, weddings &
baptisms & enveloping buss of radical gospel. 35-voice choir, 8-
piece band, playing in wake of Rev's new book, What Would Jesus
Buy?, & anticipation of film by Morgan Spurlock. At Highline
Ballroom, 431 W 16th St (btw 9th/10th Aves, A/C/E, L to 8th Ave at
14th St). $12/$10 adv. Info: reverendbilly.org Tix:
http://www.highlineballroom.com Directions: Highline Ballroom,
212-414-5994.
06.25.07
Tishman Auditorium at The New School
66 West 12th Street
NYC
TimesTalks
No More Violence Against the World's Women
Hundreds of millions of girls and women around the globe continue to endure deadly oppression and human rights violations. Every day, they are threatened, beaten, raped, mutilated, enslaved, trafficked and killed with impunity. Hear New York Times foreign correspondent Celia Dugger; Times Op-Ed columnist Bob Herbert; international women's rights spokesperson Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the author of "Infidel"; and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch, discuss how such
**6/26 TUE, 10:30 am-1 pm - Action: Day of Contemplation & Action
on UN's Int'l Day for Victims of Torture. At various locs.
Sponsors: New York Religious Campaign Against Torture & Rev. Daniel
Berrigan. Info: 347-683-4928, 212-774-5500,
Frida.Berrigan@gmail.com & daloisio@riseup.net & hallinan@nysj.org
--10:30-11:30 am: Inter-faith service, w/a meditation on Guantanamo
by Daniel Berrigan SJ. At St Bartholomew's Church, Park Ave at 51th
St.
--11:30-noon: Peaceful procession to the offices of Sens Charles
Schumer & Hillary Clinton.
--Noon-1 pm: Vigil/press conference calling for an end to torture.
W/Guantanamo lawyers. At Clinton's office, 780 3rd Ave, 49th St.
**6/26 TUE, 11:30 am - Rally: "Day of Action to Restore Law & Justice." "Demand Congress & the president restore the great principles upon which this country was founded--freedom & fairness." Restore due process, habeas corpus, reform Military Commissions Act by passing Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, end torture & abuse in secret prisons, stop extraordinary rendition, close Guantanamo Bay detention camp, accountability for those who broke the law. At Upper Senate Park, near the Capitol, DC. Sponsors: NY Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty Int'l, Leadership Council on Civil Rights, National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Info: http://www.juneaction.org
26 The Nightwatchman Bowery Ballroom. $16.
A three-part series
Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: series ticket $20, single admission $10
Webcasts: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The state of journalism is examined through cable and broadcast news, newspapers, the internet, and political advertising. The series features journalists Marlene Sanders, formerly of ABC and CBS News; William Small, chairman for News and Documentaries Emmy Awards, National Television Academy; William E. Casey Jr., vice president of special editions, The Wall Street Journal ; Richard Roth, United Nations correspondent for CNN; and Vivian Schiller, New York Times. Moderated by Professor Stuart H. Loory, Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of the Missouri Journalism summer program at The New School in 2007.
**6/27 WED-7/1 SUN - Conference: US Social Forum. At various locs in Atlanta. $20-$125. Info: Alice Lovelace, 404-622-1133, alovelace@mindspring.com & http://www.ussf2007.org
**6/27 WED - Event: welcome "Iraq Veterans Against the War Deployed: Northeast Bus Tour." Vets' bus tour, w/barbecues at every military base they can get to, starting in DC on 6/15 & stopping at Camp Meade, Walter Reed, Andrews AFB, Fort Belvoir, MCB Quantico, VA. Volunteer to help w/media contact, site for barbecue, advance outreach to troops, planning the event, housing, etc. At Ft Hamilton, Bkn. Info/volunteer: 917-520-076, elainebrower@worldcantwait.org
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
7:00 PM
GÜNTER GRASS & NORMAN MAILER
in conversation with Andrew O’Hagan:
The 20th Century on Trial
Celeste Bartos Forum
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
“I always thought violence was one of the frontiers left to us as novelists. The great writers of the nineteenth century did not deal with violence. They dealt with disappointment and love, with corruption, they dealt with society as a general abstract force that could bend a person’s will. Then came the 20th century."
Norman Mailer, Paris Review.
"Auschwitz was not a manifestation of common human bestiality; it was a repeatable consequence of a network of responsibilities so organised and so subdivided that the individual was conscious of no responsibility at all. The action of every individual who participated or did not participate in the crime was determined, knowingly or unknowingly, by a narrow conception of duty."
Gunter Grass, What Shall We Tell Our Children?
30
Ozomatli + Babylon Circus
Central Park SummerStage.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
From 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Central Park SummerStage
**6/30 SAT, noon-1:30 pm (RESCH from 6/16) - Rally: US Out of Iraq,
Bring the Troops Home Now. "Music, street theater & energy! We want
to reach out to groups & individuals to show the strength &
diversity of Staten Islanders who want this endless war to end & US
troops to come home." At Tappen Park, Bay St & Water St, SI (from
SI Ferry Terminal: walk or drive S on Bay St 1 mile to Water St, or
take S51 to Water St). Sponsor: Peace Action SI. Info: 718-989-
2881, pasi.eblast@gmail.com & http://www.panys.org/SI/
July
7 Live Earth with AFI + Akon + Alicia Keys + Bon Jovi + Dave Matthews Band + Fall Out Boy + John Mayer + Kanye West + Kelly Clarkson + KT Tunstall + Ludacris + Melissa Etheridge + Rihanna + Roger Waters + Smashing Pumpkins + The Police Giants Stadium. $55, $85, $175, $350.
28 / 29 Rock the Bells with Rage Against the Machine + Wu-Tang Clan + Public Enemy + Cypress Hill + The Roots + Mos Def + EPMD + MF Doom Randalls Island. $83.
Get ready for the launch of Revolution’s six-month expansion drive accompanied by a fund drive to raise $500,000.
Tuesday, June 12
7:00-9:30 pm
Film/discussion/reception: "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About," film of talk by Bob Avakian. W/poet Staceyann Chin, excerpts from film, other performers TBA. Reception to follow. At Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd (at 135th St, 2/3 to 135th St). $15. Sponsors: Revolution Books, Chuck D, Rev Earl Kooperkamp, Herb Boyd & others. Info/tix: 212-691-3345.
Wednesday, June 13th
5:30-7:30 pm
Discussion: "Global Warming & Climate
Change: Is NYC Up to the Challenge?" W/Rohit Aggarwala (Mayor's
Office of Operations), Drew Becher (NY Restoration Project), Marcia
Bystryn (NY League of Conservation Voters). At Goddard Riverside
Community Center, 593 Columbus Ave (at 88th St, photo ID req).
$10/free for WCC members & students w/ID. Sponsor: Women's City
Club of NY. Info/register (req): 212-353-8070 x204,
victoriap@wccny.org
Thursday, June 14
6/14-28th
Human Rights Watch: International Film Festival
6:00pm 6/14 Opening Reception & Benefit Screening
Mon Colonel
Walter Reade Theater,
Lincoln Center
6:30pm
Activism in America
Madison Square Park
Fifth Avenue @ 23rd Street
Women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem and hip-hop historian kevin Powell inaugurate Madison Square Park's literary series with readings from recent works.
6:30-8:30pm
Artist’s Talk
Location: MoCADA – 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY
Cost: $8 for the general public; $4 for MoCADA members, senior citizens and students with ID
Space is limited; Please RSVP to info@mocada.org or call 718-230-0492
Alexis Peskine will discuss the concept of the exhibition and the inspiration for the art included in it. There will be a
talk in English and French to ensure that this exhibition also caters to native French speakers.
8:00pm
The Neville Brothers
Celebrate Brooklyn
The Prospect Park Bandshell.
Parospect park West & 9th St. park Slope, Brooklyn
(F to 7th Ave)
**6/14 THU, 7-8:30 pm - Discussion: "Sunlight in the Torture
Chamber: Expert Views on the US's Use of Secrecy, Detention & Interrogations in the War on Terrorism." W/Col Janis Karpinski (ex-commander at Abu Ghraib Prison), Jumana Musa (Amnesty Int'l), Tara McKelvey (The American Prospect, author, Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations & Torture in the Terror War), Josh Rushing (Al-Jazeera English), Steven Watt (ACLU Human Rights Program, counsel, El-Masri v Tenet), Errol Louis (NY Daily News). At Fordham Law School, McNally Amphitheatre, 160 W 62nd St (1 to 66th St, A/C, B/D to 59th St Columbus Circle). Free. Sponsors: NY Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty Int'l USA, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, Fordham Law School's Public Interest Resource Center, People for the American Way Foundation. Info: 212-607-3358, arosmarin@nyclu.org & http://www.nyclu.org/torturepanel
Friday, June 15th
7:00pm
Cassandra Wilson + Olu Dara
Central Park SummerStage.
Central Park SummerStage Opening Night!
**6/15 FRI-6/28 THU - Films: 18th Human Rights Watch Int'l Film Festival. "Strange Culture" (on US), "Enemies of Happiness" (on Afghanistan), "Sari's Mother" (on Iraq), many others. At Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th St, Plaza Level. Sponsors: HRW, Film Society of Lincoln Center. Info: http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007 Tix: 212-875-5600 or http://www.filmlinc.com
Saturday, June 16
6/16 & 6/17
Clearwater Music & Environmental Festival: Great Hudson River Revival 2007
Croton Point Park,
Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Info: Jen Rubbo, Volunteer Coordinator, 845-454-7673 x123, volcoord@clearwater.org or http://www.clearwaterfestival.org
12 noon-1:30 pm
Rally: for peace
Clove Lake Parks, SI
Music, street theater & energy! We want to reach out to groups & individuals to show the strength & diversity of Staten Islanders who want this endless war to end & US troops to come home." Sponsor: Peace Action SI. Info: sjones1@si.rr.com
7:00 pm
Performance: "Antiwar Expressions: A Poetic Rhythmic Journey from Qns to Borinquen to Baghdad."
Hunter College
Lang Center, 424 HN
68th St & Lexington Ave (6 to 68th St-Hunter College).
A Latino response to the Iraq war, combining poetry, spoken word & music to convey the horrific effects of war on communities in the US & abroad. At $15 adv/$20 door/$5 for high school students w/student ID. Tix: 646-594-4344, ollinimagination@yahoo.com & http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/
7:30pm
Celebrate Brooklyn
The Prospect Park Bandshell.
Parospect park West & 9th St. park Slope, Brooklyn(F to 7th Ave)
Joan Osborne / The Jazz Passengers: The Supremes Project
With her brand new album Breakfast in Bed, an homage to the great soul and R&B of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Brooklyn's own JOAN OSBORNE has reconfirmed her status as one of the most powerful and versatile singers of her generation. "her voice, all on its own, conveys whole choirs of feeling." (Rolling Stone) The wild and wooly JAZZ PASSENGERS, whose "irreverent, sometimes gorgeously cinematic music somehow manages to orbit both Sun Ra and the Marx Brothers," (New York Magazine) take an instrumental approach the classic songs of The Supremes. A special commission for Celebrate Brooklyn.
Sunday, June 17th
2:00-6:00pm
Gay Pride Rally Bryant Park (42nd St & 6th Avenue)
Monday, June 18th
9:30 am
Court support: for Juanita Young
Bronx Criminal Court
61st St & Sheridan Ave, Bx (B/D/4 to 161st St-Yankee Stadium).
Juanita Young, outspoken police brutality activist (mother of Malcolm Ferguson, murdered by NYPD in 2000) awaiting trial on bogus criminal charges brought against her by the precinct whose officers attacked her. Stand w/Juanita on the day that motions are due from her lawyer Geoffrey Stewart. Info: 866-235-7814, oct22ny@yahoo.com & http://www.october22-ny.org
8:00pm
Yoko Ono in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis
92nd Street Y @ Lexinton Avenue
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Yoko Ono is a ground-breaking and award-winning musician, artist, filmmaker and peace activist. Her most recent work includes the albums, Yes, I'm a Witch and Open Your Box. One of the boldest creative thinkers and cultural icons of our time, she discusses her extraordinary life journey with Anthony DeCurtis, who is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.
**6/18 MON, 7 pm - Discussion/book signing: "Can Progressives Move the Democratic Party to the Left?" W/Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY Grad Ctr), Laura Flanders (Air America Radio), Gary Younge (Guardian/moderator). Debate on the possibilities & limitations of working w/in the Democratic party. At CUNY Grad Ctr, Elebash Recital Hall, 34th St & 5th Ave (N/R/W, B/D/F/V to 34th St, 6 to 33rd St). $5-$10. Sponsors: Left Forum, The Nation. Info: 212-817-2003, leftforum@leftforum.org
Tuesday, June 19th
6:00pm-8:30 pm
Film/discussion: "Heir to an Execution."W/Ivy Meerepol
Tamiment Library
70 Washington Sq South, 10th fl (A/C/E, B/D/F/V to W 4th St, R to 8th St-NYU, 1 to Christopher St-Sheridan Sq).
Sponsors: Tamiment, National Cmt to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. Info: 212-998-2428, Michael.Nash@nyu.edu &Marilyn.Young@nyu.edu
06.19.07
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street
NYC TimesTalks
New York, New York: Songwriter's Muse
The city that never sleeps has been inspiring musicians for decades - from Duke Ellington with "Take the A Train" to Jay Z and "The City is Mine" to They Might Be Giants with "Token Back to Brooklyn." Join us as four "hometown" talents - composer-performer Meredith Monk, guitarist Vernon Reid and singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega - riff on how and why New York has been such a powerful influence on them and so many other artists. Moderated by New York Times chief pop music critic Jon Pareles.
A three-part series
Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: series ticket $20, single admission $10
Webcasts: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The state of journalism is examined through cable and broadcast news, newspapers, the internet, and political advertising. The series features journalists Marlene Sanders, formerly of ABC and CBS News; William Small, chairman for News and Documentaries Emmy Awards, National Television Academy; William E. Casey Jr., vice president of special editions, The Wall Street Journal ; Richard Roth, United Nations correspondent for CNN; and Vivian Schiller, New York Times. Moderated by Professor Stuart H. Loory, Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of the Missouri Journalism summer program at The New School in 2007.
Coming Up:
**6/20 WED, 8:30 am - Public Debate: Local Responses to the US Immigration Crisis: Hightstown, NJ, Hazelton, PA, New Haven, CT, Morristown, NJ, Suffolk Cty, others. W/Jackson Chin (PRLDEF), Muzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute, NYU School of Law), Michael Cutler (Center for Immigration Studies, former INS agent), Heather MacDonald (Manhattan Institute), Michele Wucker (World Policy Institute). How are towns & municipalities responding to immigration crisis? What are effects on our communities? Conversation & debate. At 101 6th Ave (btw Grand St & Watts St, A/C/E/1 to Canal St). Sponsor: Local 32BJ SEIU. Info: Dulce Mateo, 212-539-2793, dmateo@seiu32bj.org & Kate Ferranti, 212-388-3469, kferranti@seiu32bj.org
6/21 THU, 6 pm - Talk: policy address. W/John Edwards (2004
Democratic VP nominee), ex-NYS gov Mario Cuomo, Cooper Union pres
George Campbell Jr. At Cooper Union Great Hall, 7 E 7th St (at 3rd
Ave, 6 to Astor Pl, R to 8th St-NYU). Info: 212-353-4195,
http://www.cooper.edu
AIDS Candlelight Vigil
Friday, June 22, 2007
7 p.m.
Steps off from Sheridan Square Park,
Christopher Street & 7th Avenue
Annual candlelight vigil and march commemorates all those loved and lost to HIV and AIDS. Candles are distributed to all participants for free. A procession of bikes leads the march down Christopher Street to the piers, where there is a non-denominational prayer service, and a wreath is cast into the Hudson River.
**6/22 FRI, 6-8 pm - Forum: "Athletes as Social Activists: Pushing
the Boundaries of the Sports World." W/Dave Zirin (author, Welcome
to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics & Promise of Sports), Toni
Smith (protested war in Iraq as co-captain of Manhattanville
College women's basketball team in 2003). At Murphy Center for
Labor, Community & Policy Studies, 25 W 43rd St. 18th fl (7 to 5th
Ave, B/D/F/V to 42nd St, 4/5/6 to 42nd St-Grand Central). RSVP by
6/18: Eloiza Morales, 212-642-2029.
6/23 SAT, 5 pm - March: 15th annual NYC Dyke March. Bring noisemakers, signs & rebel-rousing lesbians. "The dyke march is a protest march, not a parade--we don't ask for a permit, because we have the right to protest. As lesbians, we recognize that we must organize amongst ourselves to fight for our rights, for our safety, for visibility." At Bryant Park, 42nd St & 6th Ave (D/F to 42nd St/6th Ave, 7 to 5th Ave). Planning meetings: 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22
6/23 SAT-6/27 WED - Conference: "Creating Sustainability W/in Our Midst: Challenge for the 21st Century." 4th biennial conf of US Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE). At Pace U downtown campus. Info: http://www.ussee.org/conference.htm
6/23 SAT, 8-9 pm - Action: protest the war by making a lot of noise
in Park Slope. "Ring a bell, blow a horn, set off a siren, create
feedback--set off car horns, set off car alarms, ride a sound bike-
-anything goes, & the louder the better." At any loc in Park Slope,
Bkn. Info: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/05/86442.shtml
6/24 SUN
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
**6/24 SUN & 7/1 SUN, 2 pm - Performance: Hot & Holy Highline
Revival. W/Rev Billy, Stop Shopping Gospel Choir & the Not Buying
It Band. Lunch & liquor served, consumed souls saved, weddings &
baptisms & enveloping buss of radical gospel. 35-voice choir, 8-
piece band, playing in wake of Rev's new book, What Would Jesus
Buy?, & anticipation of film by Morgan Spurlock. At Highline
Ballroom, 431 W 16th St (btw 9th/10th Aves, A/C/E, L to 8th Ave at
14th St). $12/$10 adv. Info: reverendbilly.org Tix:
http://www.highlineballroom.com Directions: Highline Ballroom,
212-414-5994.
06.25.07
Tishman Auditorium at The New School
66 West 12th Street
NYC
TimesTalks
No More Violence Against the World's Women
Hundreds of millions of girls and women around the globe continue to endure deadly oppression and human rights violations. Every day, they are threatened, beaten, raped, mutilated, enslaved, trafficked and killed with impunity. Hear New York Times foreign correspondent Celia Dugger; Times Op-Ed columnist Bob Herbert; international women's rights spokesperson Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the author of "Infidel"; and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch, discuss how such
**6/26 TUE, 10:30 am-1 pm - Action: Day of Contemplation & Action
on UN's Int'l Day for Victims of Torture. At various locs.
Sponsors: New York Religious Campaign Against Torture & Rev. Daniel
Berrigan. Info: 347-683-4928, 212-774-5500,
Frida.Berrigan@gmail.com & daloisio@riseup.net & hallinan@nysj.org
--10:30-11:30 am: Inter-faith service, w/a meditation on Guantanamo
by Daniel Berrigan SJ. At St Bartholomew's Church, Park Ave at 51th
St.
--11:30-noon: Peaceful procession to the offices of Sens Charles
Schumer & Hillary Clinton.
--Noon-1 pm: Vigil/press conference calling for an end to torture.
W/Guantanamo lawyers. At Clinton's office, 780 3rd Ave, 49th St.
**6/26 TUE, 11:30 am - Rally: "Day of Action to Restore Law & Justice." "Demand Congress & the president restore the great principles upon which this country was founded--freedom & fairness." Restore due process, habeas corpus, reform Military Commissions Act by passing Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, end torture & abuse in secret prisons, stop extraordinary rendition, close Guantanamo Bay detention camp, accountability for those who broke the law. At Upper Senate Park, near the Capitol, DC. Sponsors: NY Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty Int'l, Leadership Council on Civil Rights, National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Info: http://www.juneaction.org
26 The Nightwatchman Bowery Ballroom. $16.
A three-part series
Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: series ticket $20, single admission $10
Webcasts: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The state of journalism is examined through cable and broadcast news, newspapers, the internet, and political advertising. The series features journalists Marlene Sanders, formerly of ABC and CBS News; William Small, chairman for News and Documentaries Emmy Awards, National Television Academy; William E. Casey Jr., vice president of special editions, The Wall Street Journal ; Richard Roth, United Nations correspondent for CNN; and Vivian Schiller, New York Times. Moderated by Professor Stuart H. Loory, Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of the Missouri Journalism summer program at The New School in 2007.
**6/27 WED-7/1 SUN - Conference: US Social Forum. At various locs in Atlanta. $20-$125. Info: Alice Lovelace, 404-622-1133, alovelace@mindspring.com & http://www.ussf2007.org
**6/27 WED - Event: welcome "Iraq Veterans Against the War Deployed: Northeast Bus Tour." Vets' bus tour, w/barbecues at every military base they can get to, starting in DC on 6/15 & stopping at Camp Meade, Walter Reed, Andrews AFB, Fort Belvoir, MCB Quantico, VA. Volunteer to help w/media contact, site for barbecue, advance outreach to troops, planning the event, housing, etc. At Ft Hamilton, Bkn. Info/volunteer: 917-520-076, elainebrower@worldcantwait.org
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
7:00 PM
GÜNTER GRASS & NORMAN MAILER
in conversation with Andrew O’Hagan:
The 20th Century on Trial
Celeste Bartos Forum
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
“I always thought violence was one of the frontiers left to us as novelists. The great writers of the nineteenth century did not deal with violence. They dealt with disappointment and love, with corruption, they dealt with society as a general abstract force that could bend a person’s will. Then came the 20th century."
Norman Mailer, Paris Review.
"Auschwitz was not a manifestation of common human bestiality; it was a repeatable consequence of a network of responsibilities so organised and so subdivided that the individual was conscious of no responsibility at all. The action of every individual who participated or did not participate in the crime was determined, knowingly or unknowingly, by a narrow conception of duty."
Gunter Grass, What Shall We Tell Our Children?
30
Ozomatli + Babylon Circus
Central Park SummerStage.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
From 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Central Park SummerStage
**6/30 SAT, noon-1:30 pm (RESCH from 6/16) - Rally: US Out of Iraq,
Bring the Troops Home Now. "Music, street theater & energy! We want
to reach out to groups & individuals to show the strength &
diversity of Staten Islanders who want this endless war to end & US
troops to come home." At Tappen Park, Bay St & Water St, SI (from
SI Ferry Terminal: walk or drive S on Bay St 1 mile to Water St, or
take S51 to Water St). Sponsor: Peace Action SI. Info: 718-989-
2881, pasi.eblast@gmail.com & http://www.panys.org/SI/
July
7 Live Earth with AFI + Akon + Alicia Keys + Bon Jovi + Dave Matthews Band + Fall Out Boy + John Mayer + Kanye West + Kelly Clarkson + KT Tunstall + Ludacris + Melissa Etheridge + Rihanna + Roger Waters + Smashing Pumpkins + The Police Giants Stadium. $55, $85, $175, $350.
28 / 29 Rock the Bells with Rage Against the Machine + Wu-Tang Clan + Public Enemy + Cypress Hill + The Roots + Mos Def + EPMD + MF Doom Randalls Island. $83.
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