Events
EDUCATION – The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its 25th annual conference in New Orleans, October 1-4.
Contact: http://nameorg.org.
LGBTQ – The 27th annual Out On Film Festival will take place October 1-8, in Atlanta.
Contact: info@outonfilm.org; http://outonfilm.org/.
IROQUOIS – The 2015 Conference on Iroquois Research will be held October 2-5, near Buffalo, NY.
Contact: francis.scardera@sympatico.ca; http://www.iroquoia.org/.
SPACE MILITARIZATION – October 3-10 is Keep Space for Peace Week, an international week of protest to stop the militarization of space.
Contact: http://space4peace.org/.
SLAVERY – Not For Sale is touring with a multimedia presentation with live music, spoken word, project videos, stories from abolitionists and survivors, as well as information about how you can take action.
Contact: https://notforsalecampaign.org/
IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES – The Changing Face of the South: Investing in the Infrastructure to Support a Growing Immigrant Population conference will be held October 6-8, in Arkansas. Co-sponsored by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), Neighborhood Funders Group, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Grantmakers for Southern Progress.
Contact: PO Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA 95473-1100; 707-824-4374; https://www.gcir.org/.
PALESTINE – The Students for Justice in Palestine conference will be October 9-11 at San Diego State University.
Contact: http://www.sjpnational.org/
HOMELESSNESS – October 10 is World Homeless Day. Events are planned worldwide.
Contact: http://www.worldhomeless day.org/.
TEACHERS – The 15th Annual Conference, “Teaching for Social Justice: The Roots of Resistance,” will be held October 10 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
RACISM – The Million Man March will be October 10, in Washington, DC.
Contact: http://www.justiceorelse.com/.
SDS – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will be holding its 10th National Convention, October 10-11, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contact: UMN SDS, 1930 Elliot Ave S #3, Minneapolis, MN 55404; http://www.newsds.org/.
COLUMBUS – October 13 is Columbus Day. Many groups around the country work to challenge traditional ethnocentric views of Columbus the sole discoverer of America, as well as challenging the celebration of invasion, cruelty, oppression and cultural imperialism.
Contact: http://www.transformcolum busday.org.
ENVIRONMENT – The APIEL (Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law) Conference will be held October 24-25, at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. The conference brings together hundreds of eco-minded and socially conscious activists, attorneys, students, scientists and citizens in the interest of social justice.
Contact: PO Box 20363, Knoxville, TN 37920; apiel.info@gmail.com; http://www.apiel.org/.
WAR RESISTERS – The War Resisters League is holding the 27th Annual Resisters League Raffle for Resistance, until December 18th.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; wrl@warresisters.org; http://www.warresisters.org.
ENVIRONMENT – The Green Festival, a project of Green America and Global Exchange, will take place in in Los Angeles, November 13-15; in Portland, December 11-13.
Contact: http://www.greenfestivals.org/.
POLICE BRUTALITY – October 22 is National Day Against Police Brutality. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) is currently campaigning towards #RiseUpOctober on October 24.
Contact: http://www.october22.org/; SMIN, PO Box 941 Knickerbocker Station, New York, NY 10002-0900; 347-979-7646; stopmassincarceration@gmail.com; http://www.stopmassincarceration.net/.
DRUGS – The biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference will be held November 18-21, in Washington, DC. The conference brings together people from around the world committed to finding alternatives to the war on drugs.
Contact: http://www.reformconference.org/
CORRUPTION – November 1-5 is the March Against Corruption, an international campaign to raise awareness about the corrupting influence of money and special interests in governance and public policy making; to provide a forum for people, to organize and speak out against corruption; and to educate the public about the consequences of corruption.
Contact: http://marchagainstcorruption.com/.
ENVIRONMENT/WAR – November 6 is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
Contact: http://www.un.org/en/events/ environmentconflictday/.
MEDIA – Media Democracy Days Vancouver (MDD) will host free public events including a panel and keynote, November 7.
Contact: http://mediademocracyproject.ca/.
ARTS – The 78th Annual Conference For Community Arts will take place November 11-14, in Philadelphia, PA. The conference provides professional development and networking opportunities for staff, faculty, trustees and teaching artists at more than 350 arts education organizations and programs.
Contact: 520 8th Ave., Suite 302, New York, NY 10018; 212- 268-3337; guildinfo@ nationalguildorg; http://communityartsed.nationalguild.org/.
WOMEN’S STUDIES – The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) will host its annual conference November 12-15, in Milwaukee, WI, under the theme Precarity, with keynote speaker Sara Ahmed.
Contact: NWSA, 11 E Mount Royal Ave., Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202; 410-528-0355; nwsaoffice@nwsa.org; http://www.nwsa.org/.
BROOKLYN FOR PEACE – Brooklyn For Peace will honor Amy Goodman at the organization’s Pathmakers To Peace event, November 12.
Contact: 41 Schermerhorn Street, PMB 106, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-624-5921; bfp@brooklynpeace.org; http://www.brooklynpeace.org/.
TRANSGENDER – November 20 is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. The 2015 Transcending Boundaries Conference will be held November 20-22, in Springfield, MA. The annual conference brings together sexuality, relationship and gender minorities for three days of education, activism and community building
Contact: Transcending Boundaries, Inc., PO Box 30171, Springfield, MA 01103; info@transcendingboundaries.org; http://www.transcendingboundaries.org/.
SCHOOL OF AMERICAS – The annual vigil to protest the School of the Americas is scheduled for November 20-22 at Fort Benning, GA, by School of the Americas (SOA) Watch.
Contact: SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; http://soaw.org.
Books
MASS INCARCERATION – Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, by James Kilgore, offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by he world’s largest jailer: the United States.
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenewpress.com/.
AFRICAN AMERICAN/LABOR – Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Stories of African American Women Who Built a Movement, by Premilla Nadasen, resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.
Contact: Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108; 617-723-3097; http://www.beacon.org/.
RECONCILIATION/CANADA – The Land We Are is a collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada, using visual, poetic, and theoretical language.
Contact: ARP Books, 201E-121 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 1Y4, Canada; 204-942-7058; info@arbeiterring.com; http://arpbooks.org.
Film
HEALTHCARE – Remote Area Medical takes place over three days in April 2012, when Remote Area Medical, the pioneers of “no-cost” health care clinics, treated nearly 2,000 patients on the infield of Bristol, TN’s massive NASCAR speedway.
Contact: 902 Broadway, 9th FL, New York, NY 10010; http://www.docurama.com.
Zaps are compiled by Joel Chaffee.
