Evenementen
Klokkenluiden – 1-7 juni is de Internationale Week ter Ondersteuning van Klokkenluiden. Over de hele wereld worden evenementen en acties gepland.
Contact: Stand Up For Truth, c/o Institute for Public Accuracy, 980 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045; 202-347-0020' [e-mail beveiligd]; http://standupfortruth.org.
RURAL ARTS/CULTURE – The 2015 Rural Arts and Culture Summit will be June 2-4, in Morris, MN. This year’s theme, “From the Ground Up: Cultivating Creative People and Places” will highlight the important role of art and culture in shaping the rural narrative.
Contact: Springboard for the Arts, 218-770-3485; michele@spring boardforthearts.com; http://www. ruralartsandculturesummit.com.
JUSTICE - The Justice Conference 2015 will be held in Chicago, June 5-6. The Justice Conference is an annual national primary conference that seeks to educate, inspire and connect a generation of men and women around a shared concern for biblical and social justice, the vulnerable and oppressed.
Contactpersoon: http://thejusticeconference.com/.
FIETSEN – Bikes Not Bombs houdt op 28 juni zijn 7e jaarlijkse Bike-A-Thon in Boston, Massachusetts.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; [e-mail beveiligd]; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
MEDIA – De 17e jaarlijkse Allied Media Conference wordt gehouden van 18 tot 21 juni in Detroit.
Contactpersoon: Allied Media Projects, 4126 Third St., Detroit, MI 48201; 313-718-2267; http://alliedmedia.org/.
FILM/LGBTQX / PALESTINE – The Outside the Frame: Queers for Palestine Film Festival will be held June 19-21, in San Francisco.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://outsidetheframefest.org.
U.S. SOCIAL FORUM – The United States Social Forum will meet June 24-28 in Jackson, MI; June 24-27 in San Jose, CA; and June 25-28 in Philadelphia, PA.
Contactpersoon: USSF 2010, Detroit, MI 48226; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www .ussocialforum.net.
YOUTH/INCARCERATION – The Second Chance Conference: A Time To Act, will be held June 26, in Toronto.
Contact: lreece@secondchance conference.com; http://www.secondchanceconference.com/.
VEGAN FEEST – The 5th annual Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 27. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; madcityveganfest@ gmail.com; http://veganfest.org/.
SOCIALISME – De Socialism 2015 Conference staat gepland voor 2-5 juli in Chicago, met lezingen en paneldiscussies.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.socialismconference.org.
NATIVE MEDIA – The Native American Journalists Association will co-host the National Native Media Conference is July 9-12, in Washington, DC. Other co-hosts include Native Public Media and Vision Maker Media.
Contact: NAJA, OU-Gaylord College, 395 W. Lindsey St., Norman, OK 73019-4201; 405-325-1649; http://www.naja.com.
ARBEID – The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy will be held at Clark University in Worcester, MA, July 10-12.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://east.usworker.coop/.
VREDESBOK – Op 11 juli zal de 13e jaarlijkse Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace plaatsvinden nabij Cannon Falls, MN. Het evenement is een mix van muziek, sprekers en gemeenschap voor vrede. Gesponsord door Veterans for Peace en anderen.
Contactpersoon: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
DE RACE – The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 11-14 in Kansas City, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contactpersoon: NCLR-hoofdkantoor, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
POLITIEBRUTALITEIT – The Million People’s March Against Police Brutality will be July 12 in Newark, NJ.
Contact: People’s Organization For Progress, PO Box 22505, Newark, NJ 07101- 2505; 973-801-0001; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://njpop.org/wordpress/.
NETROOTS – The 10th annual Netroots Nation conference will take place July 16-19, in Phoenix, AZ, with writers, social justice advocates, labor and organizational leaders, grassroots organizers and online activists.
Contactpersoon: Netroots Nation, 1559B Sloat Blvd #316, San Francisco, CA 94132; http://www.netrootsnation.org.
LERAREN – The Badass Teachers Association (BAT) will meet in Washington, DC for BAT’s Teacher Congress, July 23-26.
Contact: http://www.badassteacher.org/.
DAMES – The 2015 Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute will be held July 24-August 2, in New Orleans, under the theme: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Organizing for Racial Equity.
Contact: 718-398-4783; sli@urbanbush women.org; https://www.urbanbush women.org.
WEAPONS/SPACE – The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space will hold its annual conference July 29-August 2, in Kyoto, Japan. The conference is currently accepting submissions for its video contest.
Contact: PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011; 207-443-9502; globalnet @mindspring.com; http://www.space4 peace.org/actions/video_contest_rules.htm.
ACTIVISTISCH KAMP – Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp zal sessies hebben in juli en augustus in CA, OR en NY. YEA Camp is bedoeld voor activisten van 12 tot 17 jaar oud die een verschil willen maken in de wereld.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://yeacamp.org/.
VOLKSFEESTL – The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held July 31-August 2, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.falconridgefolk.com/.
SCHOLEN – The Satyagraha Institute 2015: Training Leaders in the Traditions of Nonviolence, will be August 4-22, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Contact: Satyagraha Institute, c/o Carl Kline, 825 Fourth Street, Brookings, SD 57006; 605-692-8465; info@ satyagrahainstitute.org; http://www.satyagrahainstitute.org.
VETERANEN/VREDE – Veterans for Peace is holding their 30th annual convention August 5-9 in San Diego, CA. This year’s theme is, Peace & Reconciliation in the Pacific.
Contact: http://www.vfpnation alconvention.org/.
MEDIA – Alliance for Community Media (ACM) and the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC) will host a joint conference in Pasadena, CA, August 12-14.
Contactpersoon: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/annual-conference.
GEWELDLOOSHEID – The first national gathering of Campaign Nonviolence will be August 6-9, in Sante Fe, NM, featuring presentations, workshops, and vigils at Los Alamos.
Contactpersoon: http://paceebene.org/.
DISSIDENT ARTS – The Dissident Arts Festival will take place August 15-16, in New York City. The Dissident Arts Festival is the annual showcase of radical arts and activism, where revolutionary New Music meets Topical Song and Free Jazz cavorts with Dissident Poetry, Theatre and Film.
Contactpersoon: John Pietaro, 646-599-0060; [e-mail beveiligd]; http:// www.dissidentarts.com/.
GEMEENSCHAPSCONFERENTIE – The 31st annual Twin Oaks Women’s Gathering will be held August 21-23.
Contactpersoon: 138 Twin Oaks Road # W, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://womensgathering.org/.
POLITIE – “This Stops Today” is a march against police crimes, planned for August 29th, in Chicago.
Contact: Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1325 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 105, Chicago, IL 60605; 312-939-2750; http://stoppolice crimes.com/.
DAG VAN DE ARBEID – The 31st annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 7, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: Bread & Roses Heritage, PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794- 1655; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.breadand rosesheritage.org/.
LGBT – The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) will have its convention September 3-6, in San Francisco.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://nlgja.org/2015.
GEMEENSCHAPSCONFERENTIE – De jaarlijkse Twin Oaks Community Conference wordt gehouden van 4 tot 7 september. De conferentie zet zich in voor gelijkheid, participatief bestuur, ecologie en geweldloosheid.
Contactpersoon: 138 Twin Oaks Road # W, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://communitie sconference.org/.
VEGETARIAN – The 31st Annual Vegetarian Food Festival will take place September 11-13, in Toronto.
Contactpersoon: 17 Baldwin Street, 2e verdieping, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1L1; http://festival.veg.ca/.
BEZET WALL STREET – 17 september is de driejarige verjaardag van de Occupy Wall Street-beweging. Er zijn evenementen gepland in New York City en wereldwijd.
Contactpersoon: http://occuevolve.com; http://www.nycga.net/.
GEWELDLOOSHEID – The Campaign Nonviolence Week will be September 20-27, with actions across the nation to mainstream nonviolence and build a culture of peace.
Contactpersoon: http://paceebene.org/.
FEMINISTISCHE KUNST – The third annual Feminist Art Conference will be held September 24-27, in Toronto.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://factoronto.org/.
Overige/mogelijkheden
ESSAY-WEDSTRIJD – The Daniel Singer Foundation is seeking an original essay of no more than 5,000 words to address Singer’s goal of a dynamic, democratic socialism that will place human needs before corporate profits, in the spirit that Singer exemplified. Submissions must be received no later than Saturday, August 30.
Contact: The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation, PO Box 2371, El Cerrito, CA 94530; DanielSingerFdn@ gmail.com; http://danielsinger.org/.
FEMINISTISCHE KUNST – The third annual Feminist Art Conference will be held in Toronto, September 24-27. Submissions of visual art, film, theater art, music, dance, design, spoken word and literature are currently being accepted.
Contact: [e-mail beveiligd]; http://factoronto.org/.
Boeken
WORKER HEALTH/SAFETY - Workers Guide to Health and Safety by Todd Jailer, Miriam Lara-Meloy, and Maggie Robbins covers chemical, machine, fire, and other physical hazards as well as social hazards like sexism, low pay, violence, etc., and how to organize for change.
Contact: Hesperian, 1919 Addison St. #304, Berkeley CA 94704; 510-845-4507; [e-mail beveiligd]; www.hesperian.org.
VREDE - Stemmen voor vrede is an edited collection of peace and activism essays, articles, and interviews by and with Noam Chomsky, Cynthia McKinney, John Pilger, Kathy Kelly, Ilan Pappe, and others.
Contact: http://www.pipr.co.uk/ebooks/.
ECONOMIE - Systemische kwetsbaarheid in de wereldeconomie by Dr. Jack Rasmus offers a new approach to explaining why mainstream economic analyses have repeatedly failed and why fiscal and monetary policies have been incapable of producing a sustained recovery.
Contactpersoon: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647-6501; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.claritypress.com/.
GROTE RECESSIE – The articles and essays by Dr. Richard Wolff gathered in, Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014, explore current aspects of the deepening crisis as they became clear, caught the public’s attention, or defined a particular historic moment.
Contact: Democracy At Work; https://gumroad.com/democracyatwork.
Syrië - Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell is a close-up report from a key moment in a war that still grips the Middle East.
Contactpersoon: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.versobooks.com/.
ETNISCHE STUDIES – The essays in Strange Affinities examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
Contact: Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B, Durham, NC 27701; 888-651-0122; [e-mail beveiligd]; https://www.dukeupress.edu.
ROME – Jud Nirenberg’s Gypsy Movements is an account of Roma across Europe who continue to face violence and oppression.
Contact: https://judnirenberg. wordpress.com/; http://www.smithpublicity.com/.
IRAK - Genocide In Iraq, Volume 2: The Obliteration of a Modern State by Abdul Haq al-Ani and Tarik al-Ani details the scale of post-2003 destruction and redesign, showing how every step was intended to change Iraq irreversibly to a slave state of extreme neoliberal capitalism.
Contactpersoon: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647-6501; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.claritypress.com/.
STRAF - Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism, by Andrew Ditts, gives a theoretical and historical account of the practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival research into state constitutional conventions.
Contact: Fordham University Press, 2546 Belmont Avenue, University Box L, Bronx, NY 10458; 718-817-4795; http://ford hampress.com.
HOUSING/HOUSELESS - House Keys Not Handcuffs is a reflection on over 30 years of homeless organizing in San Francisco. It is an attempt to sort out what went well and what did not as a community begins to organize in order to hold public and private institutions accountable.
Contactpersoon: AK Press, 3500 Parkdale Avenue, gebouw 1, Suite 3, Baltimore, MD 21211; 510-208-1700; http://www.akpress.org/.
Film
PALESTINA - Roshima is a new documentary by Salim Abu Jabal, based on an old refugee couple’s story in the last natural valley in Haifa, defending their home from demolition.
Contact: http://vimeo.com/user7493717.
AFGHANISTAN - Playing With Fire introduces six courageous Afghan women who share their passions for acting, dreams, and difficult realities. Filmmaker Anneta Papathanssiou exposes pervasive erosions of Afghan women’s rights and captures art’s transformative power and the dangers these courageous women face to do the work they love.
Contact: Women Make Movies, 115 W 29th St, Suite 1200; New York, NY 10001; 212-925-0606; [e-mail beveiligd]; http://www.wmm.com.
LAND DEVELOPERS - Een gevaarlijk spel is Anthony Baxter’s sequel to U bent getrommeld about how big land developers use gold as an excuse to build massive luxurious resorts on the expense of the locals and their ecosystem, and abuse natural resources.
Contact: http://www.adangerousgame.org