"Revolution" Comes to Harlem
Revised June 23, 2007
The "Special Evening" at the Schomburg – June 12th – lived up to its promise. Dreams deferred were awakened as the possibilities and prospects of revolution—a vision of a liberating socialism and communism that inspires—percolated through the multi-national, multi-generational crowd, aroused by meeting and engaging Bob Avakian through watching excerpts of the film of his 2003 talk, Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About.
As one person put it, the entire event served to "open the conversation."
1) Continue to open up that conversation, especially throughout Harlem and the Upper Westside – Join the teams going out. We intend to get back to all those contacted before the event, to those we were unable to reach, and to those who didn’t know about it, but upon hearing about it, want to learn more; to find more vendors for the paper; more paper distributors; set up showings of the DVD.
2) Distribution of a broadsheet with articles from the current issue: NYC Public Schools and the Criminalization of the Students -- What Kind of System Does This to Its Youth?
-- Arrested While Grieving
“This wasting and squandering of human potential, this dehumanizing of the youth, is unacceptable and intolerable. We could have an entirely different society--a society where there is no need at all for schools with state-sanctioned armed thugs, jacking up and locking down students. A society where the youth have an important role and future in building a whole new world. A society where there is no longer one group that is held down and locked out of the realm of ideas--and locked into prison-like schools--while others are trained to use ideas to either “get ahead” or to dominate others. A socialist society--where the state power is in the hands of the masses and where they wield it to wipe out exploitation and to dig up the roots of all the social relations, institutions, and ideas that go with that exploitation--and get to a communist world, where this kind of domination and abuse is really NO MORE.”
Just last weekend, 208 mainly youth were arrested at the Puerto Rican Day parade, 132 charged with “illegal assembly” (at a parade?).
Let’s get out to the schools, youth centers, hang-out places to get the broadsheet into the hands of youth throughout the city; find ways to keep in touch with people over the summer; set up DVD showings;
Key events coming up:
Call Flaco or Janet to let them know which event you will organize or join up with the selling team
Throughout the week: Teams going out in Harlem
6/23 SAT & 6/24 SUN, 10am Harlem Team meets, call Flaco
6/23 SAT, 10am, Upper Westside Teams meets at Revolution Books, call Janet
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
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
6/24 SUN, 12 noon
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
**6/25 MON, 6:30 PM
Town Hall Meeting:
2008 is Too Late!
New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West @ West 64th Street
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
What harm can Bush do before his term is up? He can bomb Iran? He can appoint another Supreme Court Justice. He can continue with impunity the war crime of torture in an unjust war. And more?
Drive Out the Bush Regime! Impeach Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.
Speakers include:
Jeff Sharlet, writer, contributing editor to Harper's,written extensively on Christian fundamentalism in America.
Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel, retired U.S. State Department official.
Major Robert Odell Owens, former U.S. Congressman
Mayor John Shields of Nyack, NY
Liam Madden, co-founder of Appeal of Redress anti-war campaign within U.S. military
(more speakers to be announced)
World Can’t Wait will announce new plans for mass mobilization. Be part of changing the course of history.
Tickets: $10
6/26 TUES 6:30pm
6/27 WED 6:30pm (two nights)
Manu Chao at
Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect park Ban Shell
(enter at Brospect Park West & 9th Street;
F to 7th Avenue)
Benefit Concerts (sold out)
6/26 TUES 8:00PM
The Nightwatchman + Dustin Kensrue
Bowery Ballroom (sold out)
6/26 TUES 7:30pm
Sinead O'Connor
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (sold out)
6/27 WED, 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 organized 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?
***
The Whole List of Events:
Tuesday, June 19th
6/19 TUES, 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
6/19 TUES, 7pm
A screening of
Stephanie Black's Film Life & Debt
Revolution Books
9 West 19th St.
NY, NY
This 2001 documentary portrays the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on Jamaica and the wider Third World
TimesTalks: New York, New York: Songwriter's Muse
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street
NYC
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.
Wednesday, June 20
**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
Thursday, June 21
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, ttp://www.cooper.edu
Friday, June 22
6/22 FRI, 7 pm
AIDS Candlelight Vigil
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.
Saturday, June 23
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, 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
Sunday, June 24
6/24, SUN 12 noon
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
6/24 SUN-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.
6/24 5pm Opening Ceremony
Key note speaker: David Orr, Oberlin college: “Some Don’t Like It Hot: A Cooler Economics in a Hotter Time”
Info: http://www.ussee.org/conference.htm
**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.
Monday, June 25
6/25 MON, 9:00am
Plenary: Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America
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.
6/25 MON, 6:30 PM
Town Hall Meeting:
2008 is Too Late!
New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West @ West 64th Street
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
What harm can Bush do before his term is up? He can bomb Iran? He can appoint another Supreme Court Justice. He can continue with impunity the war crime of torture in an unjust war. And more?
Drive Out the Bush Regime! Impeach Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.
Speakers include:
Jeff Sharlet, writer, contributing editor to Harper's,written extensively on Christian fundamentalism in America.
Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel, retired U.S. State Department official.
Major Robert Odell Owens, former U.S. Congressman
Mayor John Shields of Nyack, NY
Liam Madden, co-founder of Appeal of Redress anti-war campaign within U.S. military
(more speakers to be announced)
World Can’t Wait will announce new plans for mass mobilization. Be part of changing the course of history.
Tickets: $10
6/25 MON, 7:30-9pm
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
Tuesday, June 26
**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
6/26 TUES The Nightwatchman Bowery Ballroom. $16.
6/26 TUES, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: A three-part series ticket $20, single admission $10
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.
Wednesday, June 27
**6/27 WED-7/1 SUN - Conference: US Social Forum. At various locations 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
6/27 WED, 7pm
CHRIS HEDGES
Revolution Books
9 West 19th St.
NY, NY
author of
AMERICAN FASCISTS: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE WAR ON AMERICA
What is happening in America is revolutionary. A group of religious utopians, with the sympathy and support of tens of millions of Americans, are slowly dismantling democratic institutions to establish a religious tyranny, the springboard to an American fascism--from “American Fascists”
6/27 WED, 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
6/30 SAT 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Ozomatli + Babylon Circus
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
7/7 SAT 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.
7/20 FRI, 6:30 pm - Discussion: "Passin' It On!" An intergenerational dialogue on Black Power in observation of the 40th anniversary of the New Ark Rebellion. W/elder, veteran & youth voices, experts on Black Power, & surprise guests. Tributes to Kwame Ture, John Coltrane, Assata Shakur (60th birthday), John Henrik Clarke, New Ark's own Amiri Baraka. At WISOMMM African- American Culture Center, 15 James St, Newark, NJ. $10. Sponsors: New Black Panther Party, People's Organization for Progress (POP), REFAL, others (list in formation). Info: 201-602-0780.
7/28 / 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.
August
8/25 SAT - March: statewide demo to bring the troops home NOW &
spend money instead in our communities for people's needs. At loc
TBA in Newark, NJ. Sponsor: People's Coalition for Peace & Justice,
organization w/120 member organizations. Info: 973-801-0001.
SEPTEMBER
9/22 SAT-9/29 SAT - Action: antiwar encampment & march on the White
House. At loc TBA in DC. Sponsor: Troops Out Now Coalition. Info:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org
OCTOBER
10/27 SAT - Event: Million Women March 10th Anniversary. At locs in
Atlanta, Detroit, & New Orleans. Info: 267-299-6424,
mwmsistahood@aol.com & mwmorganization@yahoo.com &
http://myspace.com/millionwomenmarch
The "Special Evening" at the Schomburg – June 12th – lived up to its promise. Dreams deferred were awakened as the possibilities and prospects of revolution—a vision of a liberating socialism and communism that inspires—percolated through the multi-national, multi-generational crowd, aroused by meeting and engaging Bob Avakian through watching excerpts of the film of his 2003 talk, Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About.
As one person put it, the entire event served to "open the conversation."
1) Continue to open up that conversation, especially throughout Harlem and the Upper Westside – Join the teams going out. We intend to get back to all those contacted before the event, to those we were unable to reach, and to those who didn’t know about it, but upon hearing about it, want to learn more; to find more vendors for the paper; more paper distributors; set up showings of the DVD.
2) Distribution of a broadsheet with articles from the current issue: NYC Public Schools and the Criminalization of the Students -- What Kind of System Does This to Its Youth?
-- Arrested While Grieving
“This wasting and squandering of human potential, this dehumanizing of the youth, is unacceptable and intolerable. We could have an entirely different society--a society where there is no need at all for schools with state-sanctioned armed thugs, jacking up and locking down students. A society where the youth have an important role and future in building a whole new world. A society where there is no longer one group that is held down and locked out of the realm of ideas--and locked into prison-like schools--while others are trained to use ideas to either “get ahead” or to dominate others. A socialist society--where the state power is in the hands of the masses and where they wield it to wipe out exploitation and to dig up the roots of all the social relations, institutions, and ideas that go with that exploitation--and get to a communist world, where this kind of domination and abuse is really NO MORE.”
Just last weekend, 208 mainly youth were arrested at the Puerto Rican Day parade, 132 charged with “illegal assembly” (at a parade?).
Let’s get out to the schools, youth centers, hang-out places to get the broadsheet into the hands of youth throughout the city; find ways to keep in touch with people over the summer; set up DVD showings;
Key events coming up:
Call Flaco or Janet to let them know which event you will organize or join up with the selling team
Throughout the week: Teams going out in Harlem
6/23 SAT & 6/24 SUN, 10am Harlem Team meets, call Flaco
6/23 SAT, 10am, Upper Westside Teams meets at Revolution Books, call Janet
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
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
6/24 SUN, 12 noon
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
**6/25 MON, 6:30 PM
Town Hall Meeting:
2008 is Too Late!
New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West @ West 64th Street
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
What harm can Bush do before his term is up? He can bomb Iran? He can appoint another Supreme Court Justice. He can continue with impunity the war crime of torture in an unjust war. And more?
Drive Out the Bush Regime! Impeach Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.
Speakers include:
Jeff Sharlet, writer, contributing editor to Harper's,written extensively on Christian fundamentalism in America.
Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel, retired U.S. State Department official.
Major Robert Odell Owens, former U.S. Congressman
Mayor John Shields of Nyack, NY
Liam Madden, co-founder of Appeal of Redress anti-war campaign within U.S. military
(more speakers to be announced)
World Can’t Wait will announce new plans for mass mobilization. Be part of changing the course of history.
Tickets: $10
6/26 TUES 6:30pm
6/27 WED 6:30pm (two nights)
Manu Chao at
Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect park Ban Shell
(enter at Brospect Park West & 9th Street;
F to 7th Avenue)
Benefit Concerts (sold out)
6/26 TUES 8:00PM
The Nightwatchman + Dustin Kensrue
Bowery Ballroom (sold out)
6/26 TUES 7:30pm
Sinead O'Connor
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (sold out)
6/27 WED, 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 organized 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?
***
The Whole List of Events:
Tuesday, June 19th
6/19 TUES, 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
6/19 TUES, 7pm
A screening of
Stephanie Black's Film Life & Debt
Revolution Books
9 West 19th St.
NY, NY
This 2001 documentary portrays the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on Jamaica and the wider Third World
TimesTalks: New York, New York: Songwriter's Muse
Landmark Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street
NYC
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.
Wednesday, June 20
**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
Thursday, June 21
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, ttp://www.cooper.edu
Friday, June 22
6/22 FRI, 7 pm
AIDS Candlelight Vigil
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.
Saturday, June 23
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, 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
Sunday, June 24
6/24, SUN 12 noon
Gay Pride March
5th Avenue & 52nd Street to Christopher & Greenwich Streets
6/24 SUN-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.
6/24 5pm Opening Ceremony
Key note speaker: David Orr, Oberlin college: “Some Don’t Like It Hot: A Cooler Economics in a Hotter Time”
Info: http://www.ussee.org/conference.htm
**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.
Monday, June 25
6/25 MON, 9:00am
Plenary: Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America
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.
6/25 MON, 6:30 PM
Town Hall Meeting:
2008 is Too Late!
New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West @ West 64th Street
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
What harm can Bush do before his term is up? He can bomb Iran? He can appoint another Supreme Court Justice. He can continue with impunity the war crime of torture in an unjust war. And more?
Drive Out the Bush Regime! Impeach Bush and Cheney for War Crimes.
Speakers include:
Jeff Sharlet, writer, contributing editor to Harper's,written extensively on Christian fundamentalism in America.
Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel, retired U.S. State Department official.
Major Robert Odell Owens, former U.S. Congressman
Mayor John Shields of Nyack, NY
Liam Madden, co-founder of Appeal of Redress anti-war campaign within U.S. military
(more speakers to be announced)
World Can’t Wait will announce new plans for mass mobilization. Be part of changing the course of history.
Tickets: $10
6/25 MON, 7:30-9pm
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
Tuesday, June 26
**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
6/26 TUES The Nightwatchman Bowery Ballroom. $16.
6/26 TUES, 7:00 P.M.
Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Admission: A three-part series ticket $20, single admission $10
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.
Wednesday, June 27
**6/27 WED-7/1 SUN - Conference: US Social Forum. At various locations 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
6/27 WED, 7pm
CHRIS HEDGES
Revolution Books
9 West 19th St.
NY, NY
author of
AMERICAN FASCISTS: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE WAR ON AMERICA
What is happening in America is revolutionary. A group of religious utopians, with the sympathy and support of tens of millions of Americans, are slowly dismantling democratic institutions to establish a religious tyranny, the springboard to an American fascism--from “American Fascists”
6/27 WED, 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
6/30 SAT 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Ozomatli + Babylon Circus
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
7/7 SAT 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.
7/20 FRI, 6:30 pm - Discussion: "Passin' It On!" An intergenerational dialogue on Black Power in observation of the 40th anniversary of the New Ark Rebellion. W/elder, veteran & youth voices, experts on Black Power, & surprise guests. Tributes to Kwame Ture, John Coltrane, Assata Shakur (60th birthday), John Henrik Clarke, New Ark's own Amiri Baraka. At WISOMMM African- American Culture Center, 15 James St, Newark, NJ. $10. Sponsors: New Black Panther Party, People's Organization for Progress (POP), REFAL, others (list in formation). Info: 201-602-0780.
7/28 / 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.
August
8/25 SAT - March: statewide demo to bring the troops home NOW &
spend money instead in our communities for people's needs. At loc
TBA in Newark, NJ. Sponsor: People's Coalition for Peace & Justice,
organization w/120 member organizations. Info: 973-801-0001.
SEPTEMBER
9/22 SAT-9/29 SAT - Action: antiwar encampment & march on the White
House. At loc TBA in DC. Sponsor: Troops Out Now Coalition. Info:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org
OCTOBER
10/27 SAT - Event: Million Women March 10th Anniversary. At locs in
Atlanta, Detroit, & New Orleans. Info: 267-299-6424,
mwmsistahood@aol.com & mwmorganization@yahoo.com &
http://myspace.com/millionwomenmarch
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