June 13th, 9am - 1pm --HERBAL SKIN CARE  $65

WEEDS as Foods.
WEEDS as Medicine.

June 13, 9am – 1pm class 4 – HERBAL SKIN CARE
Infused oils, salves, creams, linaments, compresses

$65 class price includes: light meal, tastings and handouts

- Registration is required 1 week before each class without exception.
- Classes are intentionally kept small to facilitate learning. Maximum/class=10 participants.
- All classes held at 2446 South Sawyer Avenue – Little Village, Chicago.

more info/registration: nettlesting@yahoo.com

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June 14th, 2009 - A Special Qawwali Concert with Faiz Ali Faiz
IMAN and the Old Town School of Folk:
http://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2009/6/14_faiz.html
tickets $20

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June 18th 7pm
On the third Thursday of every month (e.g. June 18th), we organize vigils outside the police headquarters to remember those who have been slain or wrongfully incarcerated by police. Our vigils are at 35th and Michigan, at 7:00pm, a half hour before the monthly Police Board meetings where civilians are allowed to go and air complaints about police misconduct to some of the top Chicago Police Department officials.

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25 Works for $25

25 pieces of original art and photography, inspired by the city of Chicago, will be sold for $25 each, with proceeds to benefit AREA Chicago (www.areachicago.org).

This one day exhibit runs from from noon until midnight on June 20th, with DJ's and a photo booth from 7pm on.

The Orientation Center 2129 N. Rockwell Ave.

For more info contact Rachel.a.wallis@gmail.com

Featuring Works by:
Rachel Wallis, Anthony Elms, Rebecca Zorach, Emily Piper Forman, Jayne Hilman, Mary Sea, Jerome Grand, Frank Edwards, Jason Reblando , Justin Goh, Samuel Love, Jhonathan Gomez, Borys Niewiadomski, Seth Kammueller, Dave Pablum, Laurie Palmer, Mike Bancroft, Naomi Leibowitz, Amy Partridge, Daniel Tucker, Michael Coolidge, Allison Havens, Earl Secrest, Dave Marques, Sam Sieger

http://areachicago.org/

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June 20th, 9am - 1pm -- TINCTURES & ESSENCES  $65
WEEDS as Foods.
WEEDS as Medicine.

June 20, 9am – 1pm class 5 – TINCTURES & ESSENCES
Medicinal tinctures, glycerites and flower essences

$65 class price includes: light meal, tastings and handouts

- Registration is required 1 week before each class without exception.
- Classes are intentionally kept small to facilitate learning. Maximum/class=10 participants.
- All classes held at 2446 South Sawyer Avenue – Little Village, Chicago.

more info/registration: nettlesting@yahoo.com

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The Arts of Life, an artist community of adults with developmental disabilities.  The space is huge, there are over twenty artists, and its a lot of fun to come in and help make this place grow.

The event is our annual Summer Exhibition and Silent Auction.  The tickets are $30 pre-sale and $40 at the door but let me tell you what that gets you!

WHAT: Arts of Life Annual Summer Exhibition and Silent Auction

WHEN: June 20, 2009 - doors open at 6PM and the event will officially run till 9PM

WHERE:  The Arts of Life Studio at 2010 W. Carroll (right off Damen Avenue, just south of Grand)

DEETS:  This super cool event will showcase our summer exhibition, with a chance to meet our awesome artists.  Tours of the studio; a performance by our very own Arts of Life Band; food, beer, wine, and soda; a silent auction with prizes like Cubs tickets behind home plate; a raffle with gift certificates from all sorts of places; and a direct way to support a place that makes a direct impact every single day!

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 Saturday, June 20, 2009
 Division and Western, 2:30pm
 31st People's Parade/Desfile del Pueblo

 The Puerto Rican Cultural Center will be celebrating its 31st People's Parade/Desfile del Pueblo on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 2:30pm. Starting on the corner of Division and Western. This year we will celebrate the theme of Building a Community of Health. If you are in the field of health, prevention, or advocacy, please join us. Dedicated to the 31st anniversary of the release of the Nationalists, the 10th anniversary of the struggle of Vieques and the 10th anniversary of the release of the 11 Puerto Rican Patriots.

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Art vs. Craft
The Orientation Center launches a monthly arts/crafts evening! Each month will feature an hour-long hands-on introduction to an art or craft skill, as well as two hours of open time to hang out and work on your own projects. Workshop materials as well as supplies for the free-craft time will be provided. There is a $2-$10 sliding scale donation for the workshop materials (which covers an embroidery hoop, needles, fabric, and thread), but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Future workshops will include book making, weaving, and block printing.

Tuesday June 23
@ 2129 N Rockwell (Just north of Milwaukee Ave)
7-8pm Embroidery and hand sewing 101
8-10pm Open arts/crafts time. Bring your own projects and materials or get inspired by what's available.

Please let us know if you're planning on coming by June 20th, so we have enough supplies. Rachel.a.wallis@gmail.com

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Tues June 23, 7pm
 SEX +++ Documentary Film Series / Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 800 S Halsted St.
“On The Downlow” (2007)
Creates a portrait of Cleveland’s underground black gay scene including coming out to one’s parents; black homophobia; and the persisting rumor that only gay people spread AIDS.  Conversation follows film.  More info at www.hullhousemuseum.org

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We invite you to join us to CELEBRATE EXPERIMENTAL STATION on Thursday, June 25, 6-10pm, at the Experimental Station. We are putting together what we think will be a truly memorable evening for our guests—small plates dining by chefs from such restaurants as Blackbird, Publican, The Parrot Cage and Sikia, Vie (Paul Virant) and Lula Cafe (Jason Hammel), Steve Edwards in conversation with author and historian Timuel Black, music by Baby Alright, a performance by the oh-so-sublime Echoes of Southern Africa, private wine and beer tastings, wine generously provided by Richard Driehaus, Goose Island beer, and more.

You may purchase your tickets for CELEBRATE EXPERIMENTAL STATION online at our website at www.experimentalstation.org.

CELEBRATE is intended to raise funds to help support the rich ecology of programs and activities at the Experimental Station—Blackstone Bicycle Works, the 61st Street Farmers Market, the Invisible Institute, an active events program, and a small-business incubator program. Since we launched our first programming in 2006, we have realized the efficiencies and dynamism of our model whereby a diverse array of activities and programs located under one roof gives rise to cross-pollination, innovation and collaboration. We look forward to continuing the experiment well into the future.

While the Experimental Station uses its financial resources most efficiently and we do all that we can to generate our own revenues, we remain dependent on the Experimental Station community—people like you—to help to make our financial ends meet. In 2009, we aim to fund our Executive Director position, a critical next step in our organizational development. You can assist us in taking this step by celebrating with us on June 25.

Once again, you may purchase your tickets for CELEBRATE EXPERIMENTAL STATION online by visiting our website at www.experimentalstation.org. Once you are there, just click on the "Make a Donation" button in the upper right corner and enter "Benefit Tickets" in the 'Purpose' line.

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 Think Galaticon Radical Leftist Science Fiction Convention, June
 26-28, Roosevelt University

 Think Galacticon is a literary science fiction convention that createsa space in which leftists can discuss politics and speculative fiction
 in an intelligent, engaging, and fun fashion. There will be multiple tracks of programming that seek to expand the boundaries of  sci-fi discussions. We will explore issues of oppressive hierarchies, confronting topics of race, gender, sexuality, class, and the environment as they relate to science fiction and fantasy, and more. A few panel highlights this year will be discussions on food production, climate change, and cultural appropriation issues.

 Our notable guests this year include award-winning author Eleanor Arnason and activist and artist Josh MacPhee. Eleanor Arnason is a science fiction author who brings politics into her writing in thoughtful and engaging ways. Her works are subtly complex explorations of how cultures engage with colonialism, gender, and sexuality, and the compromises individuals must make to find their place within these cultures.
 Josh MacPhee is an artist, activist, and sci-fi fan. He is the author of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street and editor of Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority and Reproduce & Revolt. He has curated numerous art shows focusing on political art, most recently Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.

 For more information and to register: www.thinkgalactic.org

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DONATIONS NEEDED FOR OUR NEW FREE BOUTIQUE -- THRIFTY TEENS!
Please donate children and teen clothing and accessories to the YWAT Free Boutique!
Dear YWAT Supporter, 
As the current economic recession has worsened, our young leaders have noticed that their peers are having a difficult time affording basics such as clothing.  We have decided to do what we do best and that is to TAKE ACTION!  YWAT is collecting new and/or gently used children and teen clothing.  Thrifty Teens (the Free Boutique)is a project that will be completely youth-organized and youth-run.  Our members will develop valuable leadership skills in setting up this project.  We hope that you will consider participating in this exciting project by donating clothing and accessories.  In addition, YWAT is in need of "racks" that we can hang the clothes on.
 
Please contact YWAT leadership core member and Free Boutique coordinator, Ronnett Lockett at rpywat@hotmail.com if you have any questions.
 
Sincerely,
 
YWAT Core Members.

YWAT Free Boutique
Clothing Drop Off Dates:
 Saturday, June 20th from 11 to 7 p.m.
 Sunday, June 21st from 11 to 7 p.m.
 
 Please drop off at our office -- 7067 N. Glenwood Ave.
 
We accept new and/or gently used clothing and accessories that would be appropriate for children and youth ages 0 to 19.  We are particularly concerned that several young people will be unable to afford BACK TO SCHOOL wardrobes this year.  In terms of accessories, we are particularly interested in BACKBACKS!
 
Please help us spread the word!
 
Clothing should be dropped off at the YWAT office, 7067 N. Glenwood.  We will be running the Thrifty Teens Free Boutique out of our office space until we can secure a free space somewhere else in the community

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Saturday, July 11, 2009, 12 noon- 3pm

A Memorial will be held for
FRANKLIN ROSEMONT (1943-2009)

Peace Movement, Civil Rights Movement, YPSL, IWW, SDS, Black Swan Press, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Illinois Labor History Society, author, editor, poet, artist, teenaged beatnik, lover of the Wild, utopian dreamer, defender of marvelous freedom, & most of all Surrealist

Among his works are Joe Hill, The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture,

An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers,  editor of Arsenal, Surrealist Subversion, and forthcoming with Robin D.G.Kelley, Black, Brown &Beige, Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora

at The Newberry Library 60 West Walton, Chicago, Illinois

Further information arcane@ripco.com

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1.0    Scream at the Economy
Is a participatory project which invites people to call a phone number and scream at the economy. We want to utilize the scream as a primary accessible interface but also as an instinctive survival expression, as a warning of danger, and through considering the historical context and implications of the “Scream” in art history (such as in Munch's painting) that have become a kind of shorthand of modern alienation and despair, icons of anxiety and hopelessness.

Detail Instructions:

1.    Call this number: 646.402.5686 ext 90514 (24/7) to call to the United States from another country +1

2.    Scream at the economy. To get a clear recording please back up a few inches from your phone before you scream.

3.    The screams will be used to compose music. (6 international composers will use the screams as a source for the composition)

4.    Download the music created from the screams (for free) beginning June 25, 2009 at: www.floatinglabcollective.org.

5.    The music will be played as a performance in public space in front of financial institutions. Using the “screamer”, to play the compositions.

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Homebrew Needed for Brew Not Bombs II

The second annual Brew Not Bombs homebrew party will be held in September, to benefit Cob Connection (www.cobconnection.org) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.org). The event will feature rockin' bands, chili, root beer floats, raffle prizes, and homebrew for all. We are seeking homebrewers to participate by donating a batch of their beer to the event, which attentees will get to sample, and then vote on their favorite brew. There will be trophies awarded for the "People's  Choice" brews. Last year's event was a smash, and your help is needed to top it this year. If you are interested in participating, contact tayls8@yahoo.com for more details.

 

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NASCO is in search of presenters for the 2009 Cooperative Education and Training Institute, November 6-8 in Ann Arbor, MI.
 
This year's Institute, In Our Backyards: Defending the Environmental Commons, will build on last year's exploration of cooperatives and land rights to explore the role and future of cooperatives in the environmental justice movement at local, regional, and global levels.
 
The deadline to submit proposals is June 15, 2009! 
 
Please consider submitting a proposal and forwarding this email to those who may be interested.

There are six kinds of proposals:
Workshops
Panel Discussions
Films
Tables
Skillshares
Caucuses/Working Groups
Click Here to Submit a Proposal

We are seeking proposals for sessions that will educate and engage our cooperative community in exploring the following questions:
What role do cooperatives play in supporting environmental justice work?
What are some effective ways to reduce the ecological impact of housing cooperatives?
How are issues around labor, food, water, land, borders, disaster, youth, gender, and the economy interrrelated within the North American environmental justice movement?
How do we confront "greenwashing" and hold corporations and policymakers accountable for truly addressing environmental concerns?
How are indigenous communities, communities of color, and low-income communities organizing for environmental justice?
How do these topics fit into the larger internaional struggle against globalization and economic colonialism?
 We're also seeking sessions in the following categories:
 Developing New Co-ops
 Housing Co-op Operations
 Labor
 Finance
 Marketing
 Governance
Maintenance
 Co-op History
 Member Education
 Kitchen Management
 Facilitation & Conflict Resolution
 Social Justice, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Equality
 Workplace Democracy
 Community Health
 Community Organizing
All presenters receive complimentary registration for all conference events.  Travel stipends are awarded on need-basis and usually cover at least 75% of travel costs. Apologies for any cross-posting!

www.nasco.coop/