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Another Chicago #2
Summary:
01.25 Talk by Former Combatants for Peace (former Hamas and Israeli Defense)
01.27 Beyond Beats & Rhymes (Film Screening): Sexism and Homophobia in HipHop
01.29 Rally @ Daley Plaza for Cook County Health Proposed Budget Cuts
01.30 New "Platypus" Journal hosts 1st public event - a real Chicago pan-leftist gathering!
02.01 "Fed-Up-Honeys" present workshop on challenging stereotypes of young women of color
02.03 Artists Working with Prisoners Discussion
02.10 Free Store Opens - Stays open for 3 weeks
02.17 Chicago Tenant Congress 2007 Open Meeting
02.24 Sex Offender Sensitivity Workshop/Discussion
02.26 AREA#4 "No Justice, No Peace" Release Event: Mark your Calendar!
03.02 Polvo Fundraiser: One of the most interesting self-organized cultural spaces in town
03.08 Who has the Right to the City (Lecture by Don Mitchell)
+ Ongoing: OpenPort Festival at Links Hall all month see www.linkshall.org
+ Call for Submissions: 7th Anarchist Film Festival of Chicago
+ Ongoing: Captive Audience Exhibit at UIC until Feb 24
+ Reminder Call for Proposals: Education for Liberation Conference Due 01.31
+ Chicago Underground Library New Regular Hours
+ Volunteer Opportunities with mid south side Home Building org
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Details:
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Event Date: Thursday, January 25, 7:30pm
Talk by Former Combatants for Peace
Sulaiman Al Hamri and Elik Elhanan, former Combatants, and the Palestinian
and Israeli coordinators for Combatants for Peace will speak. After
brandishing weapons for so many years, these former combatants decided to
put down their guns and instead fight for peace. Sponsored by the Chicago
chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
and the North Shore Coaltiion for Peace and Justice.
Location: Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster (at Ridge), Evanston
Contact: aliza@btvshalom.org or (312) 341-1205
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Event Date: Saturday Jan 27 2 pm
Englewood Library, 1745 W 63rd
FILM: BEYOND BEATS & RHYMES
Byron Hurt's documentary on manhood, sexism &
homophobia in hip-hop culture
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Event Date: Monday, January 29th
Contact for Details: Dan Lichtenstein-Boris < dlichtensteinboris@calnurses.org>
Save County Services! Demonstration and Rally!
Rally at Cook County Budget Hearing
Where: Daley Plaza 118 N. Clark St. (gather in AM; time to be announced)
Cook County's 2007 Draft Budget proposes dramatic cuts in vital health, safety and other County services. The recommended cuts stand to undermine our community's access to these vital services and could lead to disastrous outcome s in the Bureau of Health Services, Public Safety, our Court system and other vital County services. We must not let this happen.
Let Your Voice be Heard:
NO elimination of core services | NO layoffs of frontline service providers
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Event Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 7-9PM
The Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago is presenting its first public forum on:
"'Imperialism: What is it? -- Why should we be against it?"
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago280 S. Columbus Dr. main auditorium
Please join us for a lively, but serious and thoughtful debate, a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on issues of global capital, imperialism and war, possibilities for progressive political opposition, and the problems and tasks for the Left in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world raised by the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
With invited panelists including: Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Peter Hudis (New and Letters), Nick Kreitman (new Students for a Democratic Society), Danny Postel (OpenDemocracy.net), and representatives of the International Socialist Organization, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Solidarity, and the Spartacist League.
"However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be recovered and reformulated. . . . The Left should be very careful about constituting a form of politics that, from the standpoint of human emancipation, would be questionable, at the very best, however many people it may rouse." -- Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness" (2006)
This event is free and open to the public.
Forum information is available at:
http://home.comcast.net/~platypus1789/platypus_imperialism013007.html
Platypus is a new international journal of critical letters and emancipatory politics, dedicated to reconstituting the Marxian Left. The Platypus Affiliated Society organizes reading groups, research, and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the "Old" (1920s-30s), "New" (1960s-70s), and post-political (1980s-90s) Left, for the possibilities of emancipatory, socialist politics today.
http://www.platypus1917.com
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Event Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6:00 to 8:00pm
The Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education, UIC College of Education
invites you to a free community dialogue with the "Fed-Up-Honeys"
MAKES ME MAD! Challenging stereotypes of young women of color using participatory action research
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum* University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted**
This event is co-sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
The "Fed-Up-Honeys" began in 2002 when six young women from the lower east
side of New York city came together as part of a participatory action
research project focused on the lives of young urban women. They produced
a report called "Makes Me Mad: Stereotypes of Young Urban Womyn of Color"
which in their words, "illuminates …stereotypes of our peers, the
relationship of those stereotypes to the development of self-image, and the
ultimate negative impact of those stereotypes on the viability and health
of our communities."
Members of the NYC-based Fed-Up-Honeys research team will discuss this
project and the importance of engaging young people as 'agents of change'
in their home communities and schools:
Indra Rios-Moore was born and raised on the Lower East Side of New York to
a strong, inspirational and determined single Puerto Rican mother. She
grew up in the Baruch Houses of the New York City Public Housing Authority,
the largest project development in Manhattan. In 2003, she graduated from
Smith College with a Bachelor degree in American Studies and a minor in
Spanish. She has a strong desire to continue working and studying in a way
that will allow her to contribute to social justice and finds all of the
members of the Fed Up Honeys to be continually inspiring.
Caitlin Cahill is committed to engaged interdisciplinary scholarship. She
is currently an assistant professor of Community Studies at the University
of Utah. Caitlin's work focuses upon young people's well-being, racial
equity, urban restructuring, critical race and feminist theory,
participatory action research approaches, and social justice. She is
interested in research at the intersection of theory and practice that
contributes to social change and public policy initiatives, and pushes
scholarship in new directions.
*For a detailed map of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, go to
<http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ADAMap.html >http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ADAMap.html.
**For directions to UIC and parking information, please go to
< http://www.uic.edu/index.html/visiting.shtml>http://www.uic.edu/index.html/visiting.shtml.
For a copy of the flyer and for more information, please visit the CEJE
website at <http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/>http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/ or
call 312.413.2640.
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Event Date: Saturday Feb. 3, 2 – 4 p.m.
"Artists Working with Prisoners," discussion with Marc Fischer and
artists Mary Patten, Laurie Jo Reynolds and Sarah Ross
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 South Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-6114 tel
312-355-3444 fax
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
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Event Date: Saturday February 10th. 4-10pm
The Free Store
at the Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery
1646 N. Bosworth Ave.
Show runs from 7th Feb. - 28 Feb, Opening is on the Saturday the 10th. 4-10pm
Hello Chicago Peoples,
We're doing a Free Store for the month of February in a gallery in Bucktown.
A free store is exactly what it sounds like, a store with out money. Bring things, take things.
Have things you don't want?
Until Feb 1 if you have a truck or van load of stuff we will come and get it!
If you have just a couple bags, come by when the store is open and see what its about.
We are in particular need at the moment of ways to display things, shelves, magazine racks, etc etc. There will be an area in the gallery for free information, if you are involved in something that others should know about bring some flyers. We will take ANYTHING that is of manageable size and is non-perishable.
The store will move to other parts of the city from here, and maybe you should start one of your own, come and find out how, its very simple.
-Melinda, Salem, Rob, and Zena
ph: 312.829.6967 email: melinda.fries@gmail.com
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Event Date: Saturday February 17, 2007 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Chicago Tenants Rally for Change:
2007 COMMUNITY CONGRESS FOR TENANTS RIGHTS
WHAT: Tenants from across the city of Chicago will convene a Community Congress to call Chicago community residents to better tenants' rights. This gathering will be modeled on the historic forum which led to passage of the landmark Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (RLTO) of 1986. The RLTO has protected the rights of tenants across the city for the past 20 years. Decent, affordable rental housing is an issue that cuts across economic and racial barriers to address the concerns of all of Chicago's tenants.
WHY: Rents are rising across the city. Condo conversion is out of control and limiting the amount of affordable housing available to Chicago city residents. At a time when public housing developments have been destroyed and thousands of people are displaced, this is a critical issue to address. An agenda for future work around tenants' rights will be set at the Community Congress.
WHERE: United Church of Hyde Park 1448 E. 53rd Street in Hyde Park
HOW: MTO is returning to the success of the forum that won Chicago its landmark Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance. By building a coalition of tenants, community organizations, religious communities, politicians and others concerned with housing issues, we will set an agenda for future work around tenants' rights. In addition, we will empower the community of Chicago tenants to hold legislators accountable in working for stronger and more effective tenants' rights.
WHO: Metropolitan Tenants Organization www.tenants-rights.org
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Feb. 24, 2 – 4 p.m.
"Where Did They Come From? Where Are They Going?" workshop with the S.O.
Work Group and local therapists who work with sex offenders
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 South Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-6114 tel
312-355-3444 fax
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
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Event Date: Monday February 26, 6:30-8:30pm
AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism Issue #4
No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the criminal justice system, challenging mass incarceration, and defining justice on our own terms
Where do we get our definitions of "justice?" How do ambiguous uses of the term "justice" impact social struggles? How can we better articulate the kinds of justice we demand?
Available in print or online at areachicago.org (see website for distribution locations or to get involved)
With contributions by or about:
Affordable Power to the People, Ajitha Reddy, Beyondmedia Education, Blocks Together, Blue Light Cameras, Bridgeport Volunteer Center, Campaign in Support of C# Prisoners, CCJTDC "Audy Home", Changing Systems Thinking, Charles Bagget, Cheryl Graves, Cheryl Graves, Chicago County Fair, Chicago Ghost Bike Project, Chicago Justice Project, Chicago Tribune Company, Community Justice and Philanthropy, Community Justice for Youth Institute, Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI), Craig Harshaw, Critical Resistance Chicago, Crossroads Foundation, Dakota Brown, Dan Perry (RIP), Dan S. Wang, Daniel Tucker, Dave Pabellon, David Saxner, Deborah Bennet, Justice Coalition, Diamond Sharp, Eréndira Morales, Erica R. Meiners, Ericka Adams, Hull House history, James Yaki Sayles, Jamillah James, Jason Reblando, Jean Hughes, Jeanne Kratcher, Jessi Lee Jackson, Jitu Brown, Josina Morita, Karen Benita Reyes, Sarah Ross, Kari Lydersen, Kellie Magnuson, Kevin Glover, Kristen Cox, LaTosha Traylor, Lauren Shrensel-Zadikow, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Laurie Schaffner, Lisa Lee, Lowell Elementary School, Malachi Ritscher, Marc Fischer, Margaret E. Hughes, Martine Caverl, MessHall, Michael Piazza (RIP), Michelle VanNatta, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Nelida Torres, Nik Theodore, Ora Schub. Paul Fitzgerald, POWER-PAC, Prison Release, Rape Crisis in Womens Prison, Robert Spicer, Robyn Clark, Ryan Hollon, S.O. Work Group, Samuel Barnett, Sarah Atlas, Sarah Kanouse, Sex Offender Registry, Shadell Jamison, Shontae Walker, St. Leonard's High School, Tessa Catlett, Tousaint Losier, Whitewalls, womenandprisons.org, Woods Fund, Young Chicago Authors,Yusufu Mosley, and more..
Mark Your Calendars!!!!
Release Party for Issue #4: Come pick up your free copy!
Monday, February 26 2007 6:30-8:30pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted (for map see http://tinyurl.com/2ee4we)
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Event Date: Friday March 2, 2007 from 6pm-10pm
Early Warning: Fundraiser for Polvo Arte Gallery in Pilsen
http://polvo.org
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Event Date: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 pm,
Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
Pretexts, Paranoia and Public Space: Rethinking the Right to the City
after 9/11
How has post 9/11 fear led municipalities to seek new modes of
regulation of public space? Dr. Mitchell argues that many of these new
modes are simply pretexts. Claiming to target one issue, they actually
target specific classes of people. Is the novel use of no trespassing
ordinances applied to public property helping to construct a city based
on social prohibitions rather than social inclusion?
Don Mitchell is a McArthur fellow and Professor of Geography at Syracuse
University. His most recent book is "The Right to the City: Social
Justice and the fight for public space" (Guilford, 2003).
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ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
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+ Ongoing: OpenPort Festival at Links Hall all month see www.linkshall.org
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+ Anarchist Film Fest Call for Videos!
The 7th Chicago Anarchist Film Fest will again take
place in Chicago around MayDay, either the weekend
before or after at a place TBA.
Please help widely post that we are looking for
submissions!!!
Send submissions to
AFFC
1573 N. Milwaukee #460
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Submissions should arrive by March 1st, 2007, and
sorry but we can not reimburse for the cost of
postage. All questions, suggestions and comments can
be emailed to
affc@riseup.net
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+ Ongoing: Captive Audience exhibit through Feb 24
Event Date: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
Captive Audience curated by Marc Fischer
January 16 - February 24, 2007
An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners' lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.
See Event Details here http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm
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+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Free M i n d s Free P e o p l e
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
Chicago
June 21 to 24, 2007
Reminder—Proposals due Jan. 30, 2007
Free Minds, Free People will bring together teachers, youth, parents, researchers and community-based educators from across the country to begin building a movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Education for Liberation is an umbrella term we use to describe the work of people who are trying to link education, social justice and activism. Other more common terms are popular education, social justice education, survival schools or Freedom Schools.
We are seeking individuals and organizations who would like to plan and facilitate discussions, panels, workshops, demonstrations and/or activities that will help develop our understanding and practice of Education for Liberation. We are aiming for a diverse audience and a wide variety of conference activities. Free Minds, Free People represents a unique and exciting opportunity for all of us to come together to learn and build strength from each other. Whether you are a teacher trying to offer students a version of history they won't see on their exams, a community-based activist leading a rites of passage or popular education program, a researcher interested in the impact of alternative approaches to education, a youth organizing other youth to make change in your community or a parent helping a child understand her inheritance of a proud history of struggle against injustice we hope you will share your experience and knowledge at this gathering.
This conference is being organized by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the Chicago Freedom School Project, the Education for Liberation Network and the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement.
For more information on how to apply, see www.edliberation.org. Questions? Call 212 283 7044 or email freeminds@brotherhood-sistersol.org .
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+ Ongoing
info@underground-library.org
Starting Saturday, January 20 Chicago Underground Library will now be open from 1-5pm every Saturday at MoJoe's, 2849 W. Belmont. So
Come on down and flip through a book, help us catalog, or just bask in the
glow of our large brown file cabinet.
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+ Announcement/Call For Participation
AREA Readers!
Rebuilding Together*Metro Chicago is happy to request your help for the upcoming Rebuilding Day event on April 28, 2007. Rebuilding Together provides free home repairs and modifications for low-income homeowners in the Chicagoland area. Rebuilding Day combines the volunteer labor of the skilled trade unions (plumbing, carpentry and electric) with teams of handy volunteers and donated materials to improve the homes of families and seniors. This year we are looking forward to working on homes in the Englewood/West Englewood Neighborhoods and in Markham, IL.
Volunteer Opportunities!
One day to Rebuild Chicago! Rebuilding Day: April 28th, 2007 8am-4pm - join a team and lend a hand to paint, patch and do other handy work. Individuals & groups welcome!
Committees for Rebuilding Together-- if you have skills and want to share them, Rebuilding Together needs your help. Logistics, Marketing, Fundraising & others.
Contact Andrea Fritsch at (312)201-1188 or email rtmc@rebuildingtogether-chi.com
www.rebuildingtogether-chi.com
Details:
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Event Date: Thursday, January 25, 7:30pm
Talk by Former Combatants for Peace
Sulaiman Al Hamri and Elik Elhanan, former Combatants, and the Palestinian
and Israeli coordinators for Combatants for Peace will speak. After
brandishing weapons for so many years, these former combatants decided to
put down their guns and instead fight for peace. Sponsored by the Chicago
chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
and the North Shore Coaltiion for Peace and Justice.
Location: Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster (at Ridge), Evanston
Contact: aliza@btvshalom.org or (312) 341-1205
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Event Date: Saturday Jan 27 2 pm
Englewood Library, 1745 W 63rd
FILM: BEYOND BEATS & RHYMES
Byron Hurt's documentary on manhood, sexism &
homophobia in hip-hop culture
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Event Date: Monday, January 29th
Contact for Details: Dan Lichtenstein-Boris < dlichtensteinboris@calnurses.org>
Save County Services! Demonstration and Rally!
Rally at Cook County Budget Hearing
Where: Daley Plaza 118 N. Clark St. (gather in AM; time to be announced)
Cook County's 2007 Draft Budget proposes dramatic cuts in vital health, safety and other County services. The recommended cuts stand to undermine our community's access to these vital services and could lead to disastrous outcome s in the Bureau of Health Services, Public Safety, our Court system and other vital County services. We must not let this happen.
Let Your Voice be Heard:
NO elimination of core services | NO layoffs of frontline service providers
==================================================
Event Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 7-9PM
The Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago is presenting its first public forum on:
"'Imperialism: What is it? -- Why should we be against it?"
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago280 S. Columbus Dr. main auditorium
Please join us for a lively, but serious and thoughtful debate, a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on issues of global capital, imperialism and war, possibilities for progressive political opposition, and the problems and tasks for the Left in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world raised by the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
With invited panelists including: Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Peter Hudis (New and Letters), Nick Kreitman (new Students for a Democratic Society), Danny Postel (OpenDemocracy.net), and representatives of the International Socialist Organization, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Solidarity, and the Spartacist League.
"However difficult the task of grasping and confronting global capital might be, it is crucially important that a global internationalism be recovered and reformulated. . . . The Left should be very careful about constituting a form of politics that, from the standpoint of human emancipation, would be questionable, at the very best, however many people it may rouse." -- Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness" (2006)
This event is free and open to the public.
Forum information is available at:
http://home.comcast.net/~platypus1789/platypus_imperialism013007.html
Platypus is a new international journal of critical letters and emancipatory politics, dedicated to reconstituting the Marxian Left. The Platypus Affiliated Society organizes reading groups, research, and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the "Old" (1920s-30s), "New" (1960s-70s), and post-political (1980s-90s) Left, for the possibilities of emancipatory, socialist politics today.
http://www.platypus1917.com
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Event Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6:00 to 8:00pm
The Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education, UIC College of Education
invites you to a free community dialogue with the "Fed-Up-Honeys"
MAKES ME MAD! Challenging stereotypes of young women of color using participatory action research
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum* University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted**
This event is co-sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
The "Fed-Up-Honeys" began in 2002 when six young women from the lower east
side of New York city came together as part of a participatory action
research project focused on the lives of young urban women. They produced
a report called "Makes Me Mad: Stereotypes of Young Urban Womyn of Color"
which in their words, "illuminates …stereotypes of our peers, the
relationship of those stereotypes to the development of self-image, and the
ultimate negative impact of those stereotypes on the viability and health
of our communities."
Members of the NYC-based Fed-Up-Honeys research team will discuss this
project and the importance of engaging young people as 'agents of change'
in their home communities and schools:
Indra Rios-Moore was born and raised on the Lower East Side of New York to
a strong, inspirational and determined single Puerto Rican mother. She
grew up in the Baruch Houses of the New York City Public Housing Authority,
the largest project development in Manhattan. In 2003, she graduated from
Smith College with a Bachelor degree in American Studies and a minor in
Spanish. She has a strong desire to continue working and studying in a way
that will allow her to contribute to social justice and finds all of the
members of the Fed Up Honeys to be continually inspiring.
Caitlin Cahill is committed to engaged interdisciplinary scholarship. She
is currently an assistant professor of Community Studies at the University
of Utah. Caitlin's work focuses upon young people's well-being, racial
equity, urban restructuring, critical race and feminist theory,
participatory action research approaches, and social justice. She is
interested in research at the intersection of theory and practice that
contributes to social change and public policy initiatives, and pushes
scholarship in new directions.
*For a detailed map of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, go to
<http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ADAMap.html >http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ADAMap.html.
**For directions to UIC and parking information, please go to
< http://www.uic.edu/index.html/visiting.shtml>http://www.uic.edu/index.html/visiting.shtml.
For a copy of the flyer and for more information, please visit the CEJE
website at <http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/>http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/ or
call 312.413.2640.
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Event Date: Saturday Feb. 3, 2 – 4 p.m.
"Artists Working with Prisoners," discussion with Marc Fischer and
artists Mary Patten, Laurie Jo Reynolds and Sarah Ross
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 South Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-6114 tel
312-355-3444 fax
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
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Event Date: Saturday February 10th. 4-10pm
The Free Store
at the Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery
1646 N. Bosworth Ave.
Show runs from 7th Feb. - 28 Feb, Opening is on the Saturday the 10th. 4-10pm
Hello Chicago Peoples,
We're doing a Free Store for the month of February in a gallery in Bucktown.
A free store is exactly what it sounds like, a store with out money. Bring things, take things.
Have things you don't want?
Until Feb 1 if you have a truck or van load of stuff we will come and get it!
If you have just a couple bags, come by when the store is open and see what its about.
We are in particular need at the moment of ways to display things, shelves, magazine racks, etc etc. There will be an area in the gallery for free information, if you are involved in something that others should know about bring some flyers. We will take ANYTHING that is of manageable size and is non-perishable.
The store will move to other parts of the city from here, and maybe you should start one of your own, come and find out how, its very simple.
-Melinda, Salem, Rob, and Zena
ph: 312.829.6967 email: melinda.fries@gmail.com
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Event Date: Saturday February 17, 2007 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Chicago Tenants Rally for Change:
2007 COMMUNITY CONGRESS FOR TENANTS RIGHTS
WHAT: Tenants from across the city of Chicago will convene a Community Congress to call Chicago community residents to better tenants' rights. This gathering will be modeled on the historic forum which led to passage of the landmark Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (RLTO) of 1986. The RLTO has protected the rights of tenants across the city for the past 20 years. Decent, affordable rental housing is an issue that cuts across economic and racial barriers to address the concerns of all of Chicago's tenants.
WHY: Rents are rising across the city. Condo conversion is out of control and limiting the amount of affordable housing available to Chicago city residents. At a time when public housing developments have been destroyed and thousands of people are displaced, this is a critical issue to address. An agenda for future work around tenants' rights will be set at the Community Congress.
WHERE: United Church of Hyde Park 1448 E. 53rd Street in Hyde Park
HOW: MTO is returning to the success of the forum that won Chicago its landmark Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance. By building a coalition of tenants, community organizations, religious communities, politicians and others concerned with housing issues, we will set an agenda for future work around tenants' rights. In addition, we will empower the community of Chicago tenants to hold legislators accountable in working for stronger and more effective tenants' rights.
WHO: Metropolitan Tenants Organization www.tenants-rights.org
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Feb. 24, 2 – 4 p.m.
"Where Did They Come From? Where Are They Going?" workshop with the S.O.
Work Group and local therapists who work with sex offenders
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 South Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-6114 tel
312-355-3444 fax
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
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Event Date: Monday February 26, 6:30-8:30pm
AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism Issue #4
No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the criminal justice system, challenging mass incarceration, and defining justice on our own terms
Where do we get our definitions of "justice?" How do ambiguous uses of the term "justice" impact social struggles? How can we better articulate the kinds of justice we demand?
Available in print or online at areachicago.org (see website for distribution locations or to get involved)
With contributions by or about:
Affordable Power to the People, Ajitha Reddy, Beyondmedia Education, Blocks Together, Blue Light Cameras, Bridgeport Volunteer Center, Campaign in Support of C# Prisoners, CCJTDC "Audy Home", Changing Systems Thinking, Charles Bagget, Cheryl Graves, Cheryl Graves, Chicago County Fair, Chicago Ghost Bike Project, Chicago Justice Project, Chicago Tribune Company, Community Justice and Philanthropy, Community Justice for Youth Institute, Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI), Craig Harshaw, Critical Resistance Chicago, Crossroads Foundation, Dakota Brown, Dan Perry (RIP), Dan S. Wang, Daniel Tucker, Dave Pabellon, David Saxner, Deborah Bennet, Justice Coalition, Diamond Sharp, Eréndira Morales, Erica R. Meiners, Ericka Adams, Hull House history, James Yaki Sayles, Jamillah James, Jason Reblando, Jean Hughes, Jeanne Kratcher, Jessi Lee Jackson, Jitu Brown, Josina Morita, Karen Benita Reyes, Sarah Ross, Kari Lydersen, Kellie Magnuson, Kevin Glover, Kristen Cox, LaTosha Traylor, Lauren Shrensel-Zadikow, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Laurie Schaffner, Lisa Lee, Lowell Elementary School, Malachi Ritscher, Marc Fischer, Margaret E. Hughes, Martine Caverl, MessHall, Michael Piazza (RIP), Michelle VanNatta, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Nelida Torres, Nik Theodore, Ora Schub. Paul Fitzgerald, POWER-PAC, Prison Release, Rape Crisis in Womens Prison, Robert Spicer, Robyn Clark, Ryan Hollon, S.O. Work Group, Samuel Barnett, Sarah Atlas, Sarah Kanouse, Sex Offender Registry, Shadell Jamison, Shontae Walker, St. Leonard's High School, Tessa Catlett, Tousaint Losier, Whitewalls, womenandprisons.org, Woods Fund, Young Chicago Authors,Yusufu Mosley, and more..
Mark Your Calendars!!!!
Release Party for Issue #4: Come pick up your free copy!
Monday, February 26 2007 6:30-8:30pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted (for map see http://tinyurl.com/2ee4we)
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Event Date: Friday March 2, 2007 from 6pm-10pm
Early Warning: Fundraiser for Polvo Arte Gallery in Pilsen
http://polvo.org
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Event Date: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 pm,
Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
Pretexts, Paranoia and Public Space: Rethinking the Right to the City
after 9/11
How has post 9/11 fear led municipalities to seek new modes of
regulation of public space? Dr. Mitchell argues that many of these new
modes are simply pretexts. Claiming to target one issue, they actually
target specific classes of people. Is the novel use of no trespassing
ordinances applied to public property helping to construct a city based
on social prohibitions rather than social inclusion?
Don Mitchell is a McArthur fellow and Professor of Geography at Syracuse
University. His most recent book is "The Right to the City: Social
Justice and the fight for public space" (Guilford, 2003).
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ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
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+ Ongoing: OpenPort Festival at Links Hall all month see www.linkshall.org
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+ Anarchist Film Fest Call for Videos!
The 7th Chicago Anarchist Film Fest will again take
place in Chicago around MayDay, either the weekend
before or after at a place TBA.
Please help widely post that we are looking for
submissions!!!
Send submissions to
AFFC
1573 N. Milwaukee #460
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Submissions should arrive by March 1st, 2007, and
sorry but we can not reimburse for the cost of
postage. All questions, suggestions and comments can
be emailed to
affc@riseup.net
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+ Ongoing: Captive Audience exhibit through Feb 24
Event Date: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
Captive Audience curated by Marc Fischer
January 16 - February 24, 2007
An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners' lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.
See Event Details here http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm
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+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Free M i n d s Free P e o p l e
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
Chicago
June 21 to 24, 2007
Reminder—Proposals due Jan. 30, 2007
Free Minds, Free People will bring together teachers, youth, parents, researchers and community-based educators from across the country to begin building a movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Education for Liberation is an umbrella term we use to describe the work of people who are trying to link education, social justice and activism. Other more common terms are popular education, social justice education, survival schools or Freedom Schools.
We are seeking individuals and organizations who would like to plan and facilitate discussions, panels, workshops, demonstrations and/or activities that will help develop our understanding and practice of Education for Liberation. We are aiming for a diverse audience and a wide variety of conference activities. Free Minds, Free People represents a unique and exciting opportunity for all of us to come together to learn and build strength from each other. Whether you are a teacher trying to offer students a version of history they won't see on their exams, a community-based activist leading a rites of passage or popular education program, a researcher interested in the impact of alternative approaches to education, a youth organizing other youth to make change in your community or a parent helping a child understand her inheritance of a proud history of struggle against injustice we hope you will share your experience and knowledge at this gathering.
This conference is being organized by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the Chicago Freedom School Project, the Education for Liberation Network and the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement.
For more information on how to apply, see www.edliberation.org. Questions? Call 212 283 7044 or email freeminds@brotherhood-sistersol.org .
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+ Ongoing
info@underground-library.org
Starting Saturday, January 20 Chicago Underground Library will now be open from 1-5pm every Saturday at MoJoe's, 2849 W. Belmont. So
Come on down and flip through a book, help us catalog, or just bask in the
glow of our large brown file cabinet.
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+ Announcement/Call For Participation
AREA Readers!
Rebuilding Together*Metro Chicago is happy to request your help for the upcoming Rebuilding Day event on April 28, 2007. Rebuilding Together provides free home repairs and modifications for low-income homeowners in the Chicagoland area. Rebuilding Day combines the volunteer labor of the skilled trade unions (plumbing, carpentry and electric) with teams of handy volunteers and donated materials to improve the homes of families and seniors. This year we are looking forward to working on homes in the Englewood/West Englewood Neighborhoods and in Markham, IL.
Volunteer Opportunities!
One day to Rebuild Chicago! Rebuilding Day: April 28th, 2007 8am-4pm - join a team and lend a hand to paint, patch and do other handy work. Individuals & groups welcome!
Committees for Rebuilding Together-- if you have skills and want to share them, Rebuilding Together needs your help. Logistics, Marketing, Fundraising & others.
Contact Andrea Fritsch at (312)201-1188 or email rtmc@rebuildingtogether-chi.com
www.rebuildingtogether-chi.com
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