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AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter
Saturday, Sept 29 2007
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Hello!
Thanks to everyone who came out to AREA Chicago's "How We Learn' Lecture/Workshop series this summer. For those of you who have just recently joined out mailing list, this is AREA's irregular mailing of interesting events going on around Chicago that relate to the kinds of themes that are Addressed in AREA (but are not sponsored by AREA in any way). We hope that you check out all these important events and actions in the city and that we see you on October 11 at the release party for the next issue of our magazine (more details coming on that event will come in emails next week).

1) 10.4 and 10.6 Chiapas Media Festival
2) 10.11 AREA #5 Release: The Education Issue "How We Learn"
3) 10.12 Protest for Undocumented Workers Rights @ Federal Plaza
4) 10.12 Conference on Academic Freedom
5) 10.12 and 10.13 Incubate Organizes New Public Art Series in Wicker Park
6) 10.15 Racial Oppression and Neoliberal Chicago w/ Paul Street
7) 10.21 Ferd Egan Memorial @ Batey Urbano
8) 10.22 National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality
9) 10.25 Community Justice For Youth Institute Fundraiser @ Wild Hare
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Event Details
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The Chiapas Media Project would like to invite everyone to a special presentation with one of the co-founders of the organization:

here is a link of the flyer: http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org/festival/indigenousfest.pdf
and the complete program: http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org/festival/FLIPSIDE.PDF

Mexican Indigenous Film Festival/ Festival de Cine Indigena de Mexico

Saturday, October 6, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
The Newberry Library
Center for Public Programs
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324

Thursday, October 4, at 7:00 pm
Rafael Cintron-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lecture Center B2
803 S. Halsted, M/C 218
Chicago, IL.
Organized by Mexican Students de Aztlan,


Speaker: Francisco Vazquez (Nahua), Chiapas Media Project/Promedios de Comunicacion Comunitaria

Since 1998, the Chiapas Media Project/Promedios (a bi-national, Mexico-US partnership) has provided video and computer equipment and training to more than 200 indigenous filmmakers in Chiapas, and Guerrero, Mexico. The co-founder of the Chiapas Media Project/Promedios will present indigenous productions from Mexico with English subtitles. He will discuss how indigenous communities create their own media, promote their autonomy, and tell their own stories with their own words and images. These videos, often produced by youth, are used within the communities to promote sustainable projects, preserve and reflect the culture and also as a means of resistance to oppressive government policies.

Admission to the film festival is free. No reservation is required.

Desde 1998, Chiapas Media Project/Promedios (consorcio binacional Mexico-US) ha proveido entrenamiento, videos y equipo computacional a mas de 200 cineastas indigenas en Mexico. Francisco Vazques (Nahua), co-fundador del proyecto presentara ocho peliculas de dies años de trabajar con el proyecto (subtitulos en ingles). Tambien respondera a preguntas en ingles y espanol sobre la forma en que las comunidades indigenas producen videos para preservar y representar su cultura, promover proyectos sustentables y resistir politicas opresivas del mal gobierno.

La admision es gratuito y no es necesario hacer reservaciones.

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AREA Chicago Issue #5 "How We Learn: The Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Issue"

Issue Release Party
Thursday October 11, 2007
6pm-830pm
@  The Co-prosperity Sphere (CPS) 3219 S Morgan St in Bridgeport

Featuring articles and interviews by and about the following groups and individuals:

Aaron Sarver, Acudetox Healing Collective, Alex Blanchette, Anne Rapp, Beth Gutelius, Bronzeville Historical Society, Caroline Picard, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Teaching Artists Collective, Chicago Women's Health Center, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Dakota Brown, Daniel Tucker, Dave Pabellon, Dave Stovall, Debbie Gould, Ellen Gates Starr, Eric Rodriguez, Eric Triantifillou, Erica Meiners, Euan Hague, Faith Wilson, Ferd Eggan 1946-2007, Fire This Time Fund, Free Geek Chicago, Green Lantern Gallery, Home Schooling Collectives, InCUBATE, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Irina Zadov, Jane Collective, Jayne Hileman, Jeanne Kracher, Jesse Senechal, Jessica Pupovac, Jim Duignan, Joanie Friedman, Kelvyn Park High School, Kristen Cox, Latino Union, Lisa Sousa, Little Village Lawndale High School, Mary Patten, Maura Nugent, Mess Hall, Mia Henry, Mike Wolf, Nance Klehm, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Paula Ladin, Pauline Lipman/Rico Gustein, Pedagogical Factory, Platypus, Pomegranate Radical Health Collective, Popular Education Alliance, Rouge Forum, Sarah Alford, Sarah Atlas, Sarah Miller, Stockyard Institute, Substance News, Teachers for Social Justice, The Odyssey Project, Therese Quinn, Walt Senterfitt and more.

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--Oct 12, Fri, 12-6 pm, Federal Plaza
PROTEST NO-MATCH LETTERS:
DEFEND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS RIGHTS
Against SSA discrimination of immigrant workers
Sponsors: Chicago Workers Collaborative, Comité de Chicago Contra
las No-Match, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights,
Korean Resource & Cultural Center, Laborers Chicago District Council,
Latino Organization of the Southwest, Movimiento 10 de Marzo,
United Electrical Workers, many others

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--Oct 12, Fri, 2-7 pm, Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S Woodlawn
IN DEFENSE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM CONFERENCE
Tariq Ali, Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, Akeel Bilgrami,
John Mearsheimer, Neve Fordon
Sponsors: Diskord Magazine, Verso Books,
Academic Freedom Committee (DePaul)
Info: www.academicfreedomchicago.org/

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Around the Coyote
Film and Video curated by Abigail Satinksy of InCUBATE/Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday http://www.incubate-chicago.org

Friday, October 12   6 PM - 9 PM
Every Body Moves Against Control: Pilot TV
Featuring Latham Zearfoss and Dylan Mira
The Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 ½ W. North Ave.

Saturday, October 13 6 PM - 9 PM
Animation and Live Video Performance, featuring CARTUNE XPREZ, Jim Trainor, Caroline Nutley, Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp
The Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 ½ W. North Ave.

Public Art curated by Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE/Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday (http://www.incubate-chicago.org) and Stevie Greco

PUBLIC DOMAIN featuring:
Rebar's PARKing : http://www.rebargroup.com
People Powered's Soil Starter: http://www.peoplepowered.com
G-RAD's Portable Cinema: http://viget.org/index.php/Portable_Cinema
Showing Man with the Golden Arm outdoors at Algren Triangle [ map] Friday Oct. 19 at dusk (like 7 PM)
Fereshteh Toosi's Coyote Spells: http://www.fereshteh.net/coyote.html

Sculptures by:
Sze Lin Pang
Rich Mansfield & Emily Gustafson

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--Oct 15, Mon, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
PAUL STREET: RACIAL OPPRESSION & GLOBAL CHICAGO
Historian discusses his new book "Racial Oppression in the
Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History" on the links
between neo-liberalism & metropolitan anti-black racism in
20th & 21st century Chicago
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

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MEMORIAL FOR FERD EGGAN
OCT. 21, 2007, 2-5 PM
CAFÉ TEATRO BATEY URBANO
2647 W. DIVISION ST., CHICAGO
Ferd was a writer, activist, teacher, and a tireless advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. A veteran of the "new left," civil rights, gay liberation, and student movements of the 1960s-70s, he was a founder of ACT UP/Chicago and longtime supporter of Puerto Rican independence. Ferd was a brilliant thinker and rhetorician, whose creative output included experimental films, audio CDs, and prolific writing. He was, and remains, the Cranky P.W.A.
Join us on October 21 as we celebrate Ferd's life, work, and writing, share memories, watch videos, and listen to some of his favorite music.

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Stop Police Brutality - October 22, National Day of Protest

In Chicago:

October 22nd Noon, at Federal Plaza

The October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality, Repression, and
the Criminalization of a Generation is gearing up for this years
National Day of Protest.

Also, below is a link to the national website with this year's Call
and list of endorsers and an initial local flyer posted at Chicago
IndyMedia. Planning meetings are being held every Saturday. The
next meeting is at 3:00 pm, Sat Sept 29, at the McDonald's at
Roosevelt and Kedzie

 http://october22.org/Call2007.html
http://october22.org/endorsers2006.html
 http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/79510/index.php

Chicago Contact Information
O22@hush.com  - phone: (773)932-3562
Myspace.com/chicagocopwatch
Please make donation and endorsement checks payable to:
 Chicago Rolling Thunder
1341 N. Wilke Rd. Arlington Hts, IL 60004

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October 25th, at the Wild Hare 3530 N. Clark, from 6pm to 9pm. The party is in support of the  Community Justice For Youth Institute, a  restorative justice organization  whose board I am very honored to serve on. For $50 a person, party goers will enjoy FOOD (AREA advisor Ryan Hollon is cooking!) and transformative dancing. Meanwhile, you will have a chance to learn about the  transformative work of this wonderful organization.