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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter Events for March 08 (Tamms Year 10/Anti Gravity Surprise/Young Chicago Authors/Versionfest/49th St Underground/More) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :::Please Repost and Spread the Word Widely, We Never Know Who Knows What::: Mar 08 Events Summary (Details Below) 01) 03.01 Sat - Start Your Own Farm Workshop - RSVP For Space! 02) 03.01 Sat - GunViolence Workshop with Journal of Ordinary Thought 03) 03.01 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" 04) 03.02 Sun - Self Care for Social Justice @ Albany Park Workers Center 05) 03.02 Sun + 03.04 Tue - Critical Conversation about Climate 06) 03.03 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Press conference/spoken-word event 07) 03.03 Mon - Talking Point with Anti Gravity Surprise @ HPAC 08) 03.04 Tue - Women in the Global City Discussion @ Lozano Library 09) 03.04 Tue - Douglas Crimp On Gay Districts and Urban Space @ SAIC 10) 03.06 Thu - Eyes Wide Open Installation @ Depaul 11) 03.06 Thu - Screening of film about League of Revolutionary Black workers 12) 03.06 Thu - Gender, Human Rights and Media Panel @ Columbia College 13) 03.07 Fri - Aaron Hughes/Iraq Vets Against War @ Vietnam Vets Art Museum 14) 03.08 Sat - International Womens Day! 15) 03.08 Sat - Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event @ Mess Hall 16) 03.09 Sun - Louder Than a Bomb Finals @ Vic Theater 17) 03.09 Sun - Rosa Luxembourg Revisited with Peter Hudis 18) 03.10 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser Party @ Danny's 19) 03.13 Thu - 49th Street Underground Presents Readings on the 60s "UltraLeft" 20) 03.14 Fri - Lectures: International Women's Conferences/Black Chicago 1938-47 21) 03.14 Fri - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Live Performance Art About in Pilsen 22) 03.15 Sat - King Corn Screening with Claire Pentecost and Ladonna Redmond 23) 03.15 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser @ the Hideout 24) 03.19 Wed - Opening Reception for "Secrets" by the 6+ Women's Art Collective 25) 03.19 Wed - Anti War Protest 26) 03.22 Sat - Fundraiser for Arrested Anti War Protesters @ Decima Musa 27) 03.28-30 Fri - Midwest Social Forum - Spring Organizers Retreat 28) 03.29 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Organizing Meeting 29) Get Ready: Version Fest 2008 Call For Participation - Do the the "Nfo Xpo" 30) Ongoing: Go see Chicago 10 @ Landmark Theater Today Until Mach 6th Event Details Below and Archived Here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 01)============= Farm Dreams, March 1, 11am-3pm Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N Sacramento Have you ever dreamed of starting your own farm? This interactive course is designed to help you explore whether a farming business is the right choice for you. Learn about regional business and training opportunities and get a chance to ask questions about the development of successful local farms. Join us for this class in the Center for Green Technology's new Resource Center! Get in touch with Angelic Organics Learning Center. You can contact our office by email (workshops@learngrowconnect.org) or phone (815.389.8455) to reserve your spot for any of the workshops below. If we do not meet a minimum registration of 8, classes may be cancelled. 02)============= A Call to Conscience: workshop on non-violent responses to gun violence. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. Code Pink, Women for Peace, the National Lawyers' Guild, the Strictly Flow Poetry Slam and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance invite you to attend this three-part workshop. Includes non-violent response training, a writing workshop and an open mic. Sat. Mar.1, 12-3pm, North Branch Library Community Room, 310 W. Division Street. RSVP to Rupal at (773) 684-2742 or rsoni@jot.org. 03)============= March 1-Saturday-10:30AM. A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" Sacred Heart Parish, 337 S. Ottawa Street, Joliet, IL 60436 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 04)============= --Mar 2, Sunday, 1 pm, Albany Park Workers Center 3416 W Bryn Mawr SELF CARE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Benefit for Chicory Center & On-The-Fly Farms Sponsor: Acudetox Healing Collective Info: www.chicorycenter.org, lizappel@yahoo.com 05)============= --Mar 2 & 4, Sun & Tue SOLVING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONVERSATION ON CARBON TRADING Hear Larry Lohmann of Durban Group for Climate Justice 3/2, 2 pm, Good News Community Church, 7649 N Paulina 3/4, 1:30 pm, DePaul Loop, 1 E Jackson, Rm 8009 3/4, 6 pm, DePaul Lincoln Park, Student Center Rm 220 Info: www.ecojusticecollaborative.org 06)============= March 3-Monday-4PM. Press conference and spoken-word event Jane Addams Hull-House Museum The University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted (M/C 051), Chicago, IL 60607 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 07)============= TalkingPoint: Anti Gravity Surprise 6pm Monday, March 3rd at the Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Muller Meeting Room http://www.hydeparkart.org TalkingPoint is a free monthly Monday evening series in which Chicago-based cultural producers share their ideas as a starting point for conversation in an intimate setting. Since 2001, public art group Anti Gravity Surprise has addressed the concept of world peace in 9/11-themed multimedia project Gathering Motion; mounted a full eight-hour day of art and discussion about work with Second Shift; and hosted $election community art events to engage voters. Co-founders Kathleen Duffy and Jennifer Karmin will speak about their collaborative approach and ongoing work Tell Us What You Think, an evolving public art project that will be distributed as a free workbook. http://www.antigravitysurprise.org Come down to the Hyde Park Art Center for a chance to listen, discuss, and learn. Food and drink provided. TalkingPoint is curated by Dan Wang. Past guests include Industry of the Ordinary, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Theaster Gates, and Jeanne Dunning. 08)============= --Mar 4, Tue, 6 pm, Lozano Library, 1805 S Loomis WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL CITY Panelists: Janet Smith of UIC College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, Pauline Lipman of UIC College of Education, Kim Wasserman of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Kim Daykin of Housing Opportunities for Women Sponsor: Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies Info: www.workingclassstudies.org 09)============= March 4 6pm SAIC Ballroom 112 S Michigan Ave Douglas Crimp the art historian and critic discusses the 1970s transformation of Manhattan's Lower West Side, as both artists and gay men sought the neighborhood's abandoned spaces. For more information, visit saic.edu. 10)============= --Mar 6, Thu, 11 am & 8 pm, DePaul University Student Center, 2250 N Sheffield EYES WIDE OPEN 140 pairs of combat boots, one for each Illinois service person killed in the Iraq War; also screening of The Ground Truth Sponsor: AFSC 11)============= March 6th Film: "Finally Got the News" 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hall (6932 N. Glenwood; 'Morse' stop on the Red Line; 773-465-4033) A documentary about the League of Revolutionary Black workers inside and outside of auto factories in Detroit, and their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, would respond to workers' problems. After Party Benegit for Finding Our Roots @ 6748 N. Newgard. 12)============= GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA March 6, 2008 Reception 5:30pm. Program 6:00pm. Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Open to the Public & Free of Charge In recognition of International Women's Day, the Institute presents the 2nd annual panel program on gender and media, with this year's focus on human rights. Gender, Human Rights and Media brings together five leading writers, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars whose work ranges from broadcast reporting on Hurricane Katrina and South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to a film on Argentina's state terrorism in the 1970s. Through individual presentations, media clips and discussion, the panelists will engage in personal and scholarly interpretations of the complicated role that media can play in reflecting, influencing and broadening our understanding of human rights. Introduced by Jane M. Saks (Executive Director, Institute) and moderated by Laura S. Washington (Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor in Journalism, DePaul University), the panel discussion will feature Cheryl Corley (reporter, National Public Radio), Antjie Krog (poet, writer and journalist), Silvia Malagrino (visual artist and filmmaker), and Joe Richman (independent producer, National Public Radio's Radio Diaries). 13)============= March 7th, 7-10pm @ National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum 1801 South Indiana Ave. Aaron Hughes of Iraq Veterans Against the War has a Closing Reception for his Exhibit "You Are Not My Enemy" and a Book release for IVAW's Warrior Writers Publications http://ivaw.org/node/2653 14)============= --Mar 8, Sat INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 15)============= March 8-Saturday-6:00-8:30PM. Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event and kick-off for Supermax Subscriptions - an initiative to get the residents of Tamms prison magazine subscriptions Mess Hall. 6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago 60626 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 16)============= Louder Than a Bomb 2008 Finals! Sunday, March 9th, 2007 The Vic Theater 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. Doors at 5PM, Show from 6PM-9PM For specific questions, contact Robbie Q: robbieq@youngchicagoauthors.org or call 773-486-4331 17)============= --Mar 9, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield ROSA LUXEMBURG REVISITED Hear Peter Hudis of News & Letters 18)============= March 10-Monday-10PM. Chicago Peace Party at Danny's Benefit for Tamms Year Ten Campaign-half of bar proceeds go to our campaign. Danny's Bar. 1951 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 19)============= March 13th - The Legacy of the "Ultraleft," Part II: Workerists and Gauchistes around 1968* 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hall (6932 N. Glenwood; 'Morse' stop on the Red Line; 773-465-4033) The rebirth of global radicalism in the 1960s is best known by the image of a hippie counter-culture and a "New Left" student movement which (as it is popularly understood) had little interest in work or the working class. Some of the most important radical activity of the period, however, can be placed in the tradition of the "Left-Wing Communist" analysis of capitalism and its call for working-class self-activity and worker control. This discussion will focus on the "Workerists" ("Operaisti") in Italy and the variety of "ultraleft" (gauchiste) tendencies that combined in the student-worker uprising across France in 1968. The goal is to understand each tradition in its own right and at the same time to understand their mutual relation and their place history. They are treated both as historical products and as theories worthy of consideration for practice today. *Central texts* for discussion: http://49underground.org/nextevents.php 20)============= --Mar 14, Fri, 3 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton WOMEN'S INTERNATIONALISM & ORIENTALISM: THE INDOCHINESE WOMEN'S CONFERENCES OF 1971 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu of Ohio State University examines the formation of multi-racial & transnational women's alliances and WILL OUR PEOPLE BE ANY BETTER OFF AFTER THIS WAR? SPACES OF OPPORTUNITY IN BLACK CHICAGO, 1938-1947 Jeffrey Helgeson of University of Illinois at Chicago 21)============= March 14-Friday-8PM. The Tradeshow. Live performance installation by RATIO and Chicago Arts District 1945 S. Halsted, Ste 101, Chicago, IL (also performed on 3/16 at 2PM and as a Tamms benefit on 4/25 at 8PM) Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 22)============= Civic Cinema: King Corn - Screening and Discussion Saturday, March 15 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chicago Cultural Center Claudia Cassidy Theater (2nd Floor) 77 East Randolph Street Chicago Free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by e-mailing events@prairie.org or by calling 312.422.5580. For more information, visit www.thepublicsquare.org. Join us for a screening and discussion of the critically-acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary King Corn, the story of two friends who grow an acre of corn in Iowa and learn the disturbing truth about growing and consuming food in modern America. "Enormously entertaining! A moral, socio-economic odyssey through the American food system." - The Boston Globe After the film, there will be a discussion on focused on the availability and sustainability of food in modern culture, especially here in Chicago, featuring local food activist LaDonna Redmond and artist Claire Pentecost. What exactly goes into making the food in a local grocery store? And what do you eat if there isn't a store around you? How can we combat the "food desert" phenomenon? How can the average consumer agitate for greater access to local and sustainable products in their neighborhood? Join us for an intriguing look at the truth about what we eat every day. 23)============= March 15-Saturday-9PM. A Benefit For Tamms Year Ten Featuring Elmore James Jr. and Rupert (Jaimie Branch/Marc Riordan/Toby Summerfield). The Hideout. 1354 W. Wabansia Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 24)============= March 19 Reception 5-7pm @ Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery March 12- April 25, Exhibition Run 6+ is a women's art collective which has been developing projects in and about Palestine for two years. our website is www.6plus.org We have an upcoming exhibition in Chicago at Columbia College http://cspaces.colum.edu/upcoming_at_glass_curtain/2008/02/secrets.php 25)============= -3/19-20 Chicago Iraq War Protests, http://chicagomassaction.org/ 26)============= March 22 At 8 PM that night there will be a fundraiser for the Bush 4 Defendants at Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago. Pics and videos of this year's anti-war protests on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion. $20 suggested donation; more if you can, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. On January 7th, four anti-war activists, Jeff Pickert, Buddy Bell, Kevin Clark and Andy Thayer, were arrested during the Chicago visit of President George Bush. During his visit, Bush was greeted by Mayor Richard M. Daley, Cardinal George, and a coterie of wealthy businessmen at the exclusive Union League Club. To contribute to the fund, please make checks payable to the "8th Day Center for Justice" and write in the memo section "Bush Protesters Legal Defense" and mail to: 8th Day Center For Justice Attn: Bush Protesters Legal Defense 205 W. Monroe Street, 5th floor Chicago, IL 60606 27)============= "ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES ACROSS BOUNDARIES" An Organizing Teach-in sponsored by the Midwest Social Forum www.mwsocialforum.org MARCH 28-30, 2008 Wonderland Camp and Conference Center Camp Lake, Wisconsin (near Kenosha) Register now at www.mwsocialforum.org Registration deadline: MARCH 14 This weekend-long organizing teach-in will develop collaborative relationships and teach organizing skills, strategies, and tactics needed to break out of the "silos" that segment the social justice movement. Get all the details at http://www.mwsocialforum.org/teachin 28)============= March 29--Saturday--10:00 AM. Tamms Year Ten Organizing Meeting. 2638 W. Division, Saints of Humboldt building. Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 29)============= Version Fest is coming upon us soon. We want you to know that the deadline for submitting a proposal for version>08 festival is Feb 25, 2008. please make it happen :: http://www.versionfest.org we are especially looking for groups and spaces to participate in our NFO XPO program during the festival. if you want more information on how to do that email ed (at) lumpen.com . he will send you a nice pdf. what is the NFO XPO? The NFO XPO (pronounced "info expo") brings art groups, spaces, community organizations and individuals together to exchange ideas as well as provide a public platform for each group to present themselves. We view it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It's our version of what an art fair should be. Through the presentation format of a booth or table, based on a hybrid art fair meets science fair model, we will facilitate straight-forward exchanges about what is going on locally in various communities, from neighborhoods in Chicago, to cities all over the world. Media and art collectives, artist installations, galleries, community projects, alt spaces, and other art/activist initiatives are highly encouraged to participate. 30)============= --Feb 29 - Mar 6, Fri-Thu, Landmark Cinema FILM: CHICAGO 10 Brett Morgen's film mixes animation with archival footage to explore the Chicago Conspiracy Trial