Events
CLIMATE – From November 29 to December 11, world leaders will meet in Paris to negotiate a new global climate treaty. On December 12, people will come together in New England to call for bold climate solutions that create secure union jobs, strengthen community power and help build a more resilient future at the Jobs, Justice, Climate: Rally to Defend New England’s Future.
Contact: 617-299-0771; info@betterfutureproject.org; http://masspeaceaction.org/events/jobs-justice-climate-rally.
SEX WORKERS – December 17 is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers,’ Events are planned in many cities worldwide.
Contact: http://www.december17.org/.
AFRICAN/SOCIALIST – The African People’s Socialist Party USA Plenary will be held January 9-10, in St. Petersburg, FL.
Contact: 1245 18th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33705; 727-821-6620; info@apspuhuru.org; http://asiuhuru.org/
GUANTANAMO – January 11, 2016 marks 15 years of torture and indefinite detention at Guantanamo. Groups including Witness For Torture, CODE- PINK, World Can’t Wait will be gathering from January 5 – 13, 2015 to act for justice and a week of actions.
Contact: WitnessTorture@gmail.com; http://www.witnesstorture.org/; http://www.worldcantwait.net/; http://www.closeguantanamo.org/; http://www.codepink4peace.org/.
BLACK SOLIDARITY – The 21st Annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University will be held February 11-14. The theme is, The Miseducation: Changing History As We Know It.
Contact: PO Box 206471, New Haven, CT 06520; http://www.yale.edu/bsc.
MEDIA – The Media Consortium Conference will be held February 11, in Philadelphia. The conference brings together over 100 leaders of independent news.
Contact: http://www.tmcmedia2016.org/.
PROGRESSIVES – The 7th annual Pennsylvania Progressive Summit will be held February 19-21, in Harrisburg. Hundreds of social justice advocates, labor organizers, legislators, bloggers and grassroots activists will come together to advance progressive policy and build the progressive movement.
Contact: http://m64644.wix.com/papro- gressivesummit_1.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH – The Take Root Conference will be held February 26-27, in Norman, OK. The conference aim is to root the fight for reproductive health, rights, and dignity in the struggle for social, racial, political, and economic justice.
Contact: http://take-root.org.
EVOLUTION/RELIGION – February 12-14 will be the 10th annual celebration of Evolution Weekend, intended to demonstrate that religious people from many faiths and locations understand that evolution is sound science and poses no problems for their faith. The Clergy Letter Project’s theme for 2014 is Exploring Ways to Engage in Complex Discussions in a Civil Manner.
Contact: http://www.theclergyletter project.org/.
MUSIC – The 28th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp will be held February 17-21, in Kansas City, MO.
Contact: 509 Delaware St. #101, Kansas City, MO 64105; 816-221-3655; fa@folk .org; http://www.folkalliance.org/.
LGBTQ – Rainbow Health Ontario hosts Canada’s largest LGBTQ health conference, March 9-11, in London, Ontario.
Contact: Rainbow Health Ontario, Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne Street, Toronto ON M5A 2S5; 416.324.4100; http://www.rainbow healthontario.ca/conference/.
Books
NOVEL – What’s Going On at UAardvark? by Lawrence S. Wittner is a fast-paced political satire about how an increasingly corporatized, modern American university becomes the site of a rambunctious rebellion that turns the nation’s campus life upside down.
Contact: http://www.lawrences wittner.com/.
SCHOOLS/RACE – Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, by Carla Shedd, examines the ways in which Chicago’s most vulnerable residents navigate their neighborhoods, life opportunities, and encounters with the law. This analysis of the intersection of race, place, and opportunity, illuminates how schools either reinforce or ameliorate the social inequalities that shape the worlds of these adolescents.
Contact: Russell Sage Foundation, 112 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065; 212-750-6000; https://www.russellsage. org/publications/unequal-city.
SOCIALISM – Socialism …Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation, by Danny Katch, brings together the Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics and the potential of human beings.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583 -7884; http://www.haymarket books.org/.
