Events
GUANTANAMO – January 11, 2013 is the 11th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guan- tanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama pledged to close the prison in January 2009, but it remains open. Protest events are planned in Washington, DC.
Contact: http://www.closeguan- tanamo.org/.
WOMEN – CODE PINK is joining VDay to demand an end to rape and gender violence against women. The group invites organizations and individuals to actively join the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict and to join in the actions on the 14th.
Contact: billionwomenrise@ gmail.com; http://www.codepink 4peace.org/.
AFRICA – The Priority Africa Network (PAN) will host the Third Annual Ubuntu Awards Ceremony, February 16. PAN’s mission is to inform, educate and mobilize people in support of the peoples of Africa for sustained peace, economic, political, social justice and democratic development.
Contact: PO Box 2528, Berkeley, CA 94702; 510-652-1493; http:// [email protected]; www.priorityafrica.org/.
WOMEN/FILM – Women, Action, & the Media (WAM!) will host the WAM! Boston Film Festival, March 23-24, in Cambridge, MA.
Contact: 7 Temple Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-876-5310; wam @womenactionmedia.org; http:// www.womenactionmedia.org/.
MEDIA – The sixth National Conference for Media Reform will be held April 5-7, in Denver. The conference is the country’s largest devoted to media, technology and democracy issues.
Contact: http://www.freepress.net/.
MEDIA – The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST – The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecafor peace.org.
PALESTINE – Palestinian students have called for all U.S. students to put boycotts, divestments and sanctions at the heart of University action.
Contact: http://pacbi.org/; http:// www.bdsmovement.net/; http:// www.boycottisraelnetwork.net/.
IRAN/WAR – United For Peace and Justice has initiated and launched the Iran Pledge of Resistance with numerous member groups and other peace and social justice organizations. The pledge is to take action against war with Iran.
Contact: http://www.iranpledge.org; http://www.unitedforpeace.org.
Miscellaneous
WRITER WANTED – The Schott Family Fund is currently seeking an author, editor and chronicler to co-produce a book about the history, current creators and relevance of social movements.
Contact: [email protected].
Books
CATASTROPHE – Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse-—on the left and right, in the environmental movement, and from capital and the state—and examines why the lens of catastrophe distorts our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of the numerous disasters and fatally impedes our ability to transform the world.
Contact: Between the Lines, 401 Richmond Street West, #277, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8, Canada; 416- 535-9914; [email protected]; http://www.btlbooks.com.
FICTION – Exodus, a new novel by Lars Iyer, is about two philosophy professors who help grow a guerrilla philosophy movement to save the study of philosophy and the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and idiocy.
Contact: Melville House, 145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; http://mhpbooks.com.
ATHEISM – Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, by Chris Stedman, is the story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious.
Contact: Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108; 617-723-3097; http://www.beacon.org/.
IRAQ – Genocide in Iraq: The Case Against the UN Security Council and Member States, by Abdul-Haq al-Ani and Tarik al-Ani, offers a comprehensive coverage of Iraq’s politics, its buildings, its destruction through aggression and sanctions, and an analysis of the legality of those sanctions from the point of view of international laws and human rights laws.
Contact: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647-6501; claritypress @usa.net; http://www.clarity press.com/.
ANTI-FASCISM – Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, by Dave Hann, is an activists’ history of the collective anti-fascist struggle in Britain. Large-scare confrontations, disruption of meetings, sabotage and street fighting have been part of the practice of anti-fascism from the early 20th century until the 21st.
Contact: http://www.zero-books.net.
EGYPT – Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen: Egypt’s Road to Revolt, by Hazem Kandil, is an analysis of Egypt’s transformation from military regime to police state, on the road to revolution.
Contact: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; jessica@verso books.com; http://www.verso books.com/.
Film
CLIMATE – Shattered Sky is the story of how America led the world to solve the ozone crisis, and asks if it will do the same with climate change.
Contact: Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-3764; http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/.
RACISM – Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is the story of Anne and Carl Braden, who were charged with sedition for attempting to desegregate their town.
Contact: http://www.annebraden film.org/.
RACE – A documentary 13 years in the making, American Promise follows two African-American boys from middle class families as they navigate their way through 12 years at a prestigious New York City Prep school.
Contact: 602 South FIfth Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28401; 910-342- 9000; http://workingfilms.org/.
