Events
OCCUPY TOGETHER – Occupy Together is the unofficial hub for the various occupations springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Over 1,000 cities and towns are currently participating.
Contact: http://www.occupytogether.org.
FUNDRAISING – Truthout is celebrating its ten-year anniversary and raising funds to continue its important work in the movement for accountability, truth, and justice.
Contact: Truthout, PO Box 276-414,
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION – The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its 21st annual conference in
Contact: [email protected]; http://nameorg.org.
RESISTERS – The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is holding the “Nuclear Weapons: Don’t Buy Them, Don’t Own Them,” conference in
Contact: http://nwtrcc.org/.
RIGHTS – The Northeastern University School of Law will host The Institute on Framing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for Mobilization and Advocacy: Towards a Strategic Agenda in the
Contact: http://www.northeastern.edu.
BOOKFAIR – The 10th Annual New Orleans Bookfair is scheduled for November 5 at 500-600 blocks of
Contact: Robin Stricklin,
MARXISM – The Fall 2011 Greater New York Marxism Conference will take place November 5-6 at
Contact: Andrea Carmen, 907-745-4482, [email protected]; [email protected]; http://www.nwtrcc.org/.
HUMAN RIGHTS – The U.S. Human Rights Network will host A Forum: U.S. Toxics Policies & U.S. Human Rights Obligations, on November 6, in
Contact: http://www.ushrnetwork.org.
CLIMATE JUSTICE – On November 6, Tar Sands Action will return to
Contact: http://www.tarsands action.org/.
MEDIA – November 6 is Media Democracy Day and events promoting non-corporate independent media are planned in Vancouver, BC (Nov. 11-13) and
Contact: http://mediademocracyday.org/; http://www.chicagoprogmedia.org/.
HUMAN RIGHTS – The Human Rights and Racial Justice Convening will take place on November 7. Sponsors include the U.S. Human Rights Fund, the Overbrook Foundation, and the Just and Fair Schools Fund.
Contact: [email protected]; http:// www.ushumanrightsfund.org/.
DIRECT ACTION – The annual November vigil to protest the School of the
Contact: SOA Watch,
PRISONERS – Prison Radio challenges unjust police and prosecutorial practices which result in mass incarceration, racism, and gender discrimination. Prison Radio is currently raising funds in efforts to record music from Mumia Abu- Jamal; as well as cover news from the California Prison hunger strike and news of Bradley Manning’s defense, among other prisoners.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.prisonradio.org/.
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR – The first Annual Boston Anarchist Bookfair will take place November 11-13 at
Contact: http://www.bostonanarchistbookfair.org/.
ENVIRONMENT – The San Francisco Green Festival, the largest sustainability event in the nation, will take place November 12. Speakers include Amy Goodman and Tom Hayden.
Contact: http://www.green festvals.org/.
TEACHERS –
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.teachersforjustice.org/.
WOMEN – The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. It will take place November 25 to December 10. The campaign begins on the International Day Against Violence Against Women and ends on International Human Rights Day.
Contact: http://cwgl.rutgers.edu/; http://www.unwomen.org/.
PRISONERS – The Prisoners Are People Too! Community Education Meeting will be held in
Contact: http://www.reentry.net/ny/.
CLASS – The Center for Study of Working Class Life has announced the “How Class Works – 2012 Conference,” to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, July 7-9, 2012. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 12, 2011.
Contact: Center for Study of Working Class Life, Dept. of Economics, SUNY at Stony Brook, 
HUNGER/POVERTY – Food Not Bombs continues its End Hunger and Poverty Tour in cities across the
Contact: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/.
Books
WALL STREET – In How Wall Street Fleeces America, Stephen Lendman discusses Wall Street’s recovery from the financial crisis of 2007 & 2008 while industrial
Contact: Clarity Press Inc. Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647- 6501; www.claritypress.com/.
CULTURE – Groundswell, a new journal, is a loose affiliation of cultural producers working in the arts and activism. Groundswell is currently accepting submissions.
Contact: [email protected]; http://groundswellcollective.com/.
CENSORSHIP – Censored 2011 is a collection of the top 25 censored stories of 2010-2011 that somehow fell off the national news radar. Stories include, “More US Soldiers Committed Suicide than Died in Combat”; “Trafficking of Iraqi Women Rampant”; and “Sweatshops in China Are Making Your iPods While Workers Suffer.”
Contact: Seven Stories Press,
RACISM – Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice is a guide to understanding and confronting institutionalized racism (3rd edition). The book provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how white people can intervene in interpersonal and organizational situations to work as allies for racial justice.
Contact: New Society Publishers,
FEMINISM – Merle Hoffman pioneered one of the first abortion clinics in the time before Roe v. Wade and her new memoir discusses this as well as personal events from her life. Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom is a personal and political book from this journalist, activist, and women’s health care pioneer.
Contact: The Feminist Press, The
FINANCIAL CRISIS – Yanis Varoufakis’ new book, The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy, traces the systemic cause of the current crisis back to the U.S. trade and budget deficits of the 1970s. Varoufakis links the lessons learned from the crash of 1929 and the
Contact: Zed Books,
SPANISH CIVIL WAR – The Story of the Iron Column, Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War is a new book by Abel Paz, translated by Paul Sharkey. This history of the Iron Column—an anarchist militia during the Spanish Civil War—is the first book about this group of “uncontrollables.”
Contact: AK Press,
Contact: Duke University Press,
Films
CIVILIZATION – The Crisis of Civilization is a new documentary investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism, and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Contact: http://crisisofcivilization.com/.
CORRUPTION – The Washington Influence Industry is a call to action as it documents a cycle of political corruption that has resulted in the corporate dominance of American democracy. The film highlights corporations and politicians who buy and sell access to the halls of government for the purpose of rigging public policy for personal gain.
Contact: http://thewashington influenceindustry.com.
HOUSING – Families living on the South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation crowd into mold-infested trailers. Others are on the brink of losing homes to foreclosure in the old
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.nesri.org/.
MILITARY – Semper Fi: Always Faithful will premier November 12 at the Cucalorus film festival in
Contact: http://workingfilms.org/blog/; http://www.cucalorus.org/index.asp.
MEDIA – Media That Matters will tour the southeastern
Contact: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/.
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