Events
ARTS – The 78th Annual Conference For Community Arts will take place November 2-5, in Chicago, IL. 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/.
PALESTINE – The Students for Justice in Palestine conference will be November 4-6 at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, with the theme “Critical Mass: With Our Roots in Resistance, Forging a Just Future.”
Contact: http://www.nationalsjp.org/
BLACK IS BACK – The annual Black is Back national conference will be held November 5-6 in Washington, DC, and will be a Convention of resistance beginning with a rally and march on the White House on November 5th.
Contact: 917-818-0466; http://www.blackisbackcoalition.org/.
NUCLEAR – Shut Down Creech, A Convergence for Peace will be November 6-12, with CODEPINK and others as part of Drone Resistance Week.
Contact: http://www.codepink.org/.
EDUCATION – The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will host its 26th annual conference, NAME: The Multicultural Lens of Equity for ALL, in Cleveland, OH, November 9-13.
Contact: http://nameorg.org.
RACE – The 2016 Facing Race national conference will take place November 10-12, in Atlanta, GA. The conference is a national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists and activists.
Contact: arc.org/facingrace/.
WOMEN’S STUDIES – The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) will host its annual conference November 10-13, in Montreal, Quebec, under the theme Decoloniality.
Contact: NWSA, 11 E Mount Royal Ave., Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202; 410-528-0355; nwsaoffice@nwsa.org; http://www.nwsa.org/.
CLIMATE – Power Shift 2016 will be in Berkeley, CA, November 11-13. Power Shift brings young climate leaders together as a movement—building the organizing skills, shared excitement, and strong relationships needed for a long-term commitment to the grassroots work that will help realize a just, clean energy-powered future.
Contact: http://powershift2016.org/.
YOUTH MILITARIZATION – War Resisters’ International is organizing the 3rd International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth, November 14-20. The week is a concerted effort of antimilitarist actions across the world to raise awareness of, and challenge, the ways young people are militarized, and to give voice to alternatives.
Contact: http://www.wri-irg.org/; http://antimili-youth.net/.
BROOKLYN FOR PEACE – Brooklyn For Peace will honor Moustafa Bayoumi, Frances Fox Piven, Opal Tometi, and Granny Peace Brigade at the organization’s Pathmakers To Peace event, November 17.
Contact: 41 Schermerhorn Street, PMB 106, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-624-5921; bfp@brooklynpeace.org; http://www.brooklynpeace.org/.
HEALTHCARE – Hundreds of activists will meet for a weekend of inspiration and strategy to win single-payer national health insurance at the Single-Payer Strategy Conference in New York, NY, January 13-15, organized by Healthcare-NOW and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.
Contact: https://www. healthcare-now.org/strategy-conference/2017-new-york/; http://www .laborforsinglepayer.org/.
FEMINIST ART – The fifth annual Feminist Art Conference will be held January 19-21, in Toronto.
Contact: torontofac@gmail.com; http://factoronto.org/.
Books
SURVEILLANCE – Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure, by Ingrid Burrington, with more than 50 illustrations— from manhole coverings to sidewalk spray-paint to carrier hotels— reveals the pieces of the Internet that are hiding in plain sight.
Contact: Melville House, 145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; http://mhpbooks.com.
GAZA – Gaza As Metaphor, edited by Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar, brings together journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, who use metaphor to record and historicize Gaza, to contextualize its everyday realities, interrogate its representations and provide an understanding of its real and symbolic significance.
Contact: Hurst Publishers, 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL; 44-0-20-7255-2201; http://www. hurstpublishers.com/.
POETRY/ESSAYS – Tranny reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of the cult punk rock band Against Me! experienced in her quest for gender transition, by Laura Jane Grace and Dan Ozzi.
Contact: 800-222-6747; hachette.books@hbgusa.com; http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/.
FICTION – The Break by Katherena Vermette is an intergenerational family saga, and through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg’s North End is exposed.
Contact: House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books, 128 Sterling Road, Lower Level, Toronto, ON, M6R 2B7; 416-363-4343; publicity@houseofanansi.com; http://houseofanansi.com/
