이벤트
UNITY CONFERENCE – The Fourth Annual Unity Conference, Building Bridges Through Diversity: One Goal, One Vision, United Power, sponsored by the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is scheduled for December 3-5 in Jackson, Mississippi, featuring panels and discussions, plus guest speakers David Bacon and Gilbert Padilla.
책 박람회 – Humboldt’s second annual Anarchist Book Fair is scheduled for December 5 at the Manila Community Center in Arcata, California.
이주 – The National Immigration Law Center has scheduled the 7th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference for December 6 in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose is to share information and experiences and to develop strategies around some of the core issues affecting low-income immigrants.
Contact: NILC, 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2850, Los Angeles, CA 90010; 213-639-3900; [이메일 보호]; www.nilc.org.
CLIMATE TALKS – December 7-18 is the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a potentially crucial meeting of world leaders to come up with a plan for dealing with this unfolding environmental disaster. The Copenhagen, Denmark meeting will elicit worldwide demonstrations to pressure for real commitments and against "false solutions" such as corporate-friendly "cap and trade."
연락처: 글로벌 정의 생태 프로젝트, PO Box 412, Hinesburg VT 05461; 802-482-2689; [이메일 보호]; www.globaljuticeecology.org.
HR 데이 – Thursday, December 10 is Human Rights Day. On that date in 1948, 48 members of the UN, including the United States, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a potentially revolutionary document that has yet to be implemented.
FREEDOM MARCH – On December 31, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, together with an international delegation, will participate in an historic, non-violent, march in northern Gaza towards the Erez border crossing with Israel to galvanize international attention to the ongoing siege. Solidarity actions will also occur in Israel, Egypt, and around the world.
소셜 포럼 – The 10-year anniversary of the first World Social Forum is January 2010. Regional forums are scheduled, including a seminar in January in Porto Alegre and the second U.S. Social Forum in June in Detroit.
MLK 데이 - The Martin Luther King Day holiday is Monday, January 18. Community groups across the country will honor King by organizing a Day of Service and peace groups will highlight MLK’s oft-overlooked anti-imperialist, antiwar activism.
PROGRESSIVE PR – The True Spin Conference in Denver on January 21-22 offers panels, workshops, and networking on effective public relations for progressive political groups and campaigns.
Contact: Effect Communications, 1836 Blake Street, #200, Denver, CO, 80202; 303-292-1524; [이메일 보호]; www.truespinconference.com.
티치인– 제9회 연례 지역 대 세계 정의 교육이 27월 28일부터 XNUMX일까지 템피의 애리조나 주립대학교에서 열리며, 광범위한 사회 정의, 인권 및 지속 가능성 문제를 연구하는 학자와 활동가 간의 경험과 지식을 공유할 수 있는 공간을 제공합니다. .
JOBS – April 8 is the 75th anniversary of the congressional passage of legislation to create the largest public works program in U.S. history, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which created 8.5 million jobs during the Great Depression. The Bail Out the People Movement has issued a national call to organize a mass demonstration on Saturday, April 10 in Washington, DC, calling for a real jobs program.
연락처: Bail Out the People Movement, Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th St. #5C, New York, NY 10011; 212-633-6646; www.BailOutPeople.org.
캠페인
콜로라도 – ProgressNow Colorado is a grassroots citizens group currently seeking volunteers and funds to fight extreme right-wing legislation in 2010 that would ban most birth control and slash public education funding.
Contact: ProgressNow Colorado, 1536 Wynkoop St., #4A, Denver, CO 80202; 303-991-1900; [이메일 보호]; www.progressnowcolorado.org.
사이클링 – Two students will travel 500 miles from Amsterdam to Copenhagen on two old "Omafietsen" (Dutch for "Granny" bikes) November 23 to December 7 while stopping at events to raise awareness about climate change, low tech (low profit) solutions, and the importance of real action at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
도서
COOPERATIVES - 모든 사람들을위한 : 미국의 협력, 협동 운동 및 공산주의의 숨겨진 역사를 발견 by John Curl examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change— farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory.
WAR ECONOMY - Global Depression and Regional Wars by James Petras looks at the roots of the current economic crisis in unsustainable military-driven empire building by the U.S. within a volatile economy.
Contact: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA. 30305; 800-729-6423; www.claritypress.com.