Events
VETERANS/ANTI-MIL – The IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) National Convention will be September 2-5, in Stony Point, NY.
Contact: PO Box 3565, New York, 10008-3565; 646-723-0989; http://www.ivaw.org/.
COMMUNITY CONFERENCE – The annual Twin Oaks Community Conference will be held September 2-5. The conference is committed to equality, participatory government, ecology, and non-violence.
Contact: 138 Twin Oaks Road # W, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; twinoaks@ic.org; http://communitiescon- ference.org/.
ARTS & CULTURE – The first Kinderland Arts & Activism Festival benefiting Camp Kinderland will take place in Tolland, Massachusetts over Labor Day weekend, September 3-5, 2016. The festival will bring together musicians, artists, and dancers, with activists and organizers for a celebration of art as an agent of peace.
Contact: http://campkinderland.org/festival/about-the-festival/.
LABOR DAY – The 32nd Annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 5, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.
Contact: Bread & Roses Heritage, PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; info@breadandrosesheritage.org; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR – The 11th Annual Victorian Anarchist Bookfair will be held September 9-10, in Victoria, British Columbia, including the Festival of Anarchy September 5-11 with a variety of events.
Contact: festival@victoriaanarchist bookfair.ca; http://victoriaanarchist bookfair.ca/.
LGBT – The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) will have its convention September 8-11, in Miami, FL.
Contact: info@nlgja.org; http://nlgja.org/2016.
FORMERLY INCARCERATED – The Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement National Conference (FICPFM) will be September 9-10, in Oakland, CA. FICPFM is a national coalition of organizations comprised of and led by those directly impacted by the punishment system, organizing and fighting against systemic discrimination, and for the full restoration of civil and human rights.
Contact: 844-953-8368; Aaliyah @prisonerswithchildren.org; https://ficpmovement.wordpress.com/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET – September 17 is the five-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occuevolve.com; http://www.nycga.net/.
HUMAN RIGHTS/US SOUTH – The U.S. Human Rights Network Regional Member Meeting and Human Rights Tribunal will be held September 17, in Philadelphia.
Contact: 250 Georgia Avenue SE, Suite 330, Atlanta, GA 30312;info@ushrnet work.org; http://www.ushrnetwork.org/.
NATIVE MEDIA – The Native American Journalists Association and others will co-host Excellence In Journalism 2016, September 18-20, in New Orleans, LA.
Contact: NAJA, OU-Gaylord College, 395 W. Lindsey St., Norman, OK 73019-4201; 405-325-1649; http://www.naja.com.
NONVIOLENCE – Campaign Nonviolence Week is September 18-25. Over 500 marches are being planned worldwide. See the Campaign Nonviolence website for a list of events.
Contact: http://paceebene.org/.
NONVIOLENCE – World Beyond War will host a conference September 23-25, with workshops and other trainings, in Washington, DC.
Contact: http://worldbeyondwar.org/.
INDIE PUBLISHING – The Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo (RIPExpo) will be held September 24-25, in Providence, RI.
Contact: ripepvd@gmail.com; http://ripexpo.tumblr.com/.
MEDIA – The Union for Democratic Communications 2016 conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held September 29-October 1, in Detroit.
Contact: http://www.democratic ommunications.org/conference/.
LGBTQ – The annual Out On Film Festival will take place September 29-October 6, in Atlanta.
Contact: info@outonfilm.org; http://outonfilm.org/.
MUSIC FESTIVAL – Harry Belafonte’s group Sankora will have its first annual social justice festival Many Rivers To Cross, October 1-2, in Chattahoochee Hills, GA.
Contact: https://www.sankofa.org/.
SPACE MILITARIZATION – October 1-8 is Keep Space for Peace Week, an international week of protest to stop the militarization of space.
Contact: http://space4peace.org/.
STREET BANDS – The 11th Annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands will take place October 7-9, in Somerville, MA.
Contact: HONK! Festival, 100 Jackson Street, Cambridge, MA 02140; webmaster@honkfest.org; http://honkfest.org/.
SCHOOL OF AMERICAS/BORDER – The annual vigil to protest the School of the Americas is scheduled for October 7-10, by School of the Americas (SOA) Watch. This year the conference is moved from Fort Benning, GA to the militarized U.S./Mexico border in Nogales Arizona/Sonora.
Contact: SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017; 202-234-3440; info@soaw.org; http://soaw.org.
TEACHERS – The 16th Annual Teaching for Social Justice Conference, Intersection of Teaching and Power, will be held October 8 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; teachers4socialjustice@yahoo.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
SDS – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will be holding its 11th National Convention, October 8-9, in Minneapolis, MN.
Contact: UMN SDS, 1930 Elliot Ave S #3, Minneapolis, MN 55404; http://www.newsds.org/.
COLUMBUS – October 10 is Columbus Day. Many groups around the country will 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.transform columbusday.org.
PEACE WALK – The 5th Maine Peace Walk will take place October 11–26. The organizing team is made up of individuals who are dedicated to creating a more peaceful, sustainable and just world.
Contact: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011; (207) 443-9502; globalnet@mindspring.com; http://www.space4peace.org/.
FILM FESTIVAL – The Seattle Social Justice Film Festival will be held October 13-16 in venues around Seattle.
Contact: http://www.socialjustice filmfestival.org/.
IROQUOIS – The 2016 Conference on Iroquois Research will be held October 14-16, near Albany, NY.
Contact: francis.scardera@sympatico.ca; http://www.iroquoia.org/.
SCHOOLS – The Dignity in Schools Campaign will be holding the 7th Annual Week of Action Against School Pushout from October 15-23. The week of action is organized to raise awareness about the school pushout in the nation’s schools and lift up local member campaigns that are pushing back against school pushout.
Contact: http://www.dignity inschools.org/.
POLICE BRUTALITY – October 22 is the 20th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. Events are planned in various cities nationwide.
Contact: http://www.october22.org/; http://www.stopmassincarceration.net/.
ENVIRONMENT – The APIEL (Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law) Conference will be held October 22-23, 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/.
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES – The International Institute for Restorative Practicies (IIRP) will host its 21st World Conference, October 24-26, in Bethlehem, PA.
Contact: 610-807-9221; registrar@iirp.edu; http://www.iirp.edu/.
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.
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/.
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/.
Books
CHINA/LABOR – China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance provides a window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinational companies.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773- 583-7884; http://www.haymarket books.org/.
HAITI/CHILDREN – Frantz Derenoncourt, Jr.’s new book Haiti: The First Black Republic is an historical work on the history, struggles, and subsequent victory of the Haitian people, intended for ages 7-18.
Contact: http://www.frantzdere noncourt.com/.
PALESTINE – In the new expanded edition of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, Sara Roy takes her study of the political economy of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli occupation in 1967 to one year after Israel’s massive summer 2014 assault known as Operation Protective Edge.
Contact: Institute for Palestine Studies, 3501 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007; 001202-3423990; ipsdc@palestine-studies.org http://www.palestine-studies.org/.
POLICE BRUTALITY – Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? is an anthology that examines key questions about the reality of policing in the United States and the growing movement resisting police violence.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; http://www.hay marketbooks.org/.
FRACKING – Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, by Wenonah Hauter, is a critique of fracking, including an anatomy of the industry and how to stop its dangerous, widespread practices.
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenewpress.com/.
KLAN/LYNCHING – The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan, by Laurence Leamer, is the true story of how the Southern Poverty Law Center brought a lawsuit that bankrupted the United Klans of America for lynching Michael Donald, a black teenager.
Contact: available online.
US/SAUDI – Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, by Medea Benjamin, shines a light on one of the most perplexing elements of American foreign policy.
Contact: OR Books; info@orbooks.com; http://www.orbooks.com/.
Film
ABORTION – Trapped is a feature-length documentary from director Dawn Porter, that follows the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Contact: billionwomenrise@gmail.com; http://www.codepink4peace.org/.
MAROONS/JAMAICA – Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, is a one-hour documentary-film on one of the most celebrated, but least recognized heroines in the resistance history of the New World.
Contact: Action 4 Reel Flimworks, LLC. P.O. Box 3464, Union, NJ 07083; http://www.nannythemovie.com/.
Music/Media
BLACK LIVES MATTER – Charity Case has released #BlackLivesMatter, an EP of 7 songs including “Hangman” (ft. Anya Skidan) and “Waking Up.”
Contact: https://charitycase.bandcamp. com/album/blacklivesmatter.
FOLK/ANTI-NUKE – Eileen & the In-Betweens are on their Truth & Beauty: Anti-Nuke Tour through September. The band’s latest album, Everything Is Alive, is available.
Contact: http://www.eileen shaughnessy.com/.
R&B/SOUL – Tasha has released Divine Love EP, featuring “Divine Love” and “(We Got) Power.”
Contact: https://tashamusic. bandcamp.com.
FOLK/ROCK – Dan Bern has released his 2nd children’s album, Three Feet Tall.
Contact: 1158 26th St #411, Santa Monica, CA 90403; http://danbern.com/.
WORLD ROCK – Pontus has released IV, a new EP.
Contact: hitandrunstudios@gmail.com; http://www.pontusmusic.com/.
