Events
TORTURE/GUANTANAMO – The Witness Against Torture campaign, Fast For Justice 2017 dates are January 3-12, to bring an end to torture and closures of Guantanamo.
Contact: New York Catholic Worker, Attn: Witness Against Torture, 55 East Third Street New York, NY 10003; witnesstorture @gmail.com; http://www. witnessagainst torture.com/
AFRICAN/SOCIALIST – The African People’s Socialist Party USA Plenary will be held January 7-9, in St. Petersburg, FL.
Contact: 1245 18th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33705; 727-821-6620; [email protected]; http://asiuhuru.org/.
HEALTHCARE – Hundreds of activists will meet for a weekend of 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.healt hcare-now.org/strategy-conference/2017-new-york/; http://www .laborforsingle payer.org/.
FEMINIST ART – The fifth annual Feminist Art Conference will be held January 19-21, in Toronto.
Contact: [email protected]; http://factoronto.org/.
INAUGURATION – ANSWER Coalition and other groups will be descending on Washington, DC on January 20 to stage a massive demonstration along Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day
Contact: http://www .answercoalition.org/.
LEFT LITERATURE – Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979, uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism. It uses original printed materials from pamphlets posters, flyers and record albums to tell this rich and little-known story. January 26-May 14, in Brooklyn, NY.
Contact: 131 8th Street No. 4; Brooklyn, NY 11215; [email protected]; http://interferencearchive.org.
PROGRESSIVES – The annual Pennsylvania Progressive Summit will be held February 17-18, in Harrisburg. Hundreds of social justice advocates, labor organizers, legislators, bloggers and grassroots activists will come together to build the progressive movement.
Contact: 201 Washington St., #534, Reading PA 19601; [email protected]; http://www.paprogressivesummit.net/.
BLACK SOLIDARITY – The 22nd Annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University will be held February 16-19.
Contact: PO Box 206471, New Haven, CT 06520; http://www.yale.edu/bsc.
EVOLUTION/RELIGION – February 10-12 will be the annual celebration of Evolution Weekend, intended to demonstrate that religious people from many faiths and locations understand that evolution is sound science and poses no problems for their faith.
Contact: http://www.theclergy letterproject.org/.
MUSIC – The Annual International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp will be held February 15-19, in Kansas City, MO.
Contact: 509 Delaware St. #101, Kansas City, MO 64105; 816-221-3655; [email protected]; http://www.folkalliance.org/.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH – The Take Root Conference will be held February 24-25, in Norman, OK. The conference aim is to root the fight for reproductive health, rights, and dignity in the struggle for justice.
Contact: http://take-root.org.
ECONOMICS – The Union For Radical Political Economics at the Eastern Economic Association will hold its annual conference January 6-8 in Chicago.
Contact: [email protected]; http://urpe.org.
Books
ACADEMY/RACE – Written/Unwritten, edited by Patricia A. Matthew, is a collection of essays that reveals that faculty of color often face two sets of rules when applying for reappointment, tenure, and promotion: those made explicit in handbooks and faculty orientations or determined by union contracts and those that operate beneath the surface.
Contact: University of North Carolina Press, 116 South Boundary Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514-3808; http://uncpress.unc.edu/.
KURDS – Revolution in Rojava by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga, is a full-length study of the ongoing social and political transformation in Syrian Kurdistan. The authors use their own experiences of working and fighting in the region to construct a picture of hope for Middle-Eastern politics and society, and reveal an extraordinary story of a battle against the odds.
Contact: Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London, N6 5AA; 44-(0)-208-348-2724; [email protected]; http://www.plutobooks.com/.
ABOLITION/SLAVERY – The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha is a history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.
Contact: P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040; 203-432-0960; [email protected]; http://yalebooks.com/.
PALESTINE/ACTIVISM – Author Remi Kenazi will be on tour with his new book Before the Next Bomb Drops and forthcoming book Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up From Brooklyn to Palestine, through April 2017.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.remi kanazi.com/.
WAR/PEACE – A History of Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, 2001-2007, a history of Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, by Linda Nathanson, is an account of how Newton Dialogues came into existence and combined with over 200 pages of archival material (newspapers, photos, press reports, event flyers, etc) to create this case study of community anti-war organizing.
Contact: available online.
ONLINE ABUSE – Using current events and the latest available research into cybersexism, Bailey Poland, author of Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online questions the motivations behind cybersexist activities and explores methods to reduce footprints of Internet misogyny, drawing parallels between online and offline abuse.
Contact: University of Nebraska Press; 1111 Lincoln Mall; Lincoln, NE 68588-0630; http://www.nebraska press.unl.edu/.
DIGITAL – Digital Sociologies is a collection of essays providing an overview of the growing field of digital sociology, connecting digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender.
Contact: Policy Press, 1-9 Old Park Hill, Bristol, BS2 8BB; 0117-954-5940; [email protected]; https://policypress.co.uk.
Film
LIBYA – NATO War On Libya is a documentary film by Sukant Chandan that addresses why NATO attacked Libya, and documents and celebrates the Libyan popular resistance to NATO.
Contact: available online.
