Events
RAINBOW CAMP – The 2010 Rainbow Gathering is scheduled for July 1-7 in Pennsylvania. Advocating for a more inclusive United States National Forest, the event creates an unofficial, temporary eco-city in the wilderness, complete with kitchens, plumbing, medical care, sanitation, and childcare, and culminates with an elaborate prayer for World Peace.
Contact: www.welcomehere.org/gathering_of_the_tribes/annual.
DISARMAMENT SUMMER – Think Outside the Bomb, a youth-led network for nuclear abolition in the U.S., is conducting a national tour, with stops in cities throughout the south and west, culminating in a convergence and encampment on San Ildefonso Pueblo land near Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 30 through August 9.
Contact: www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org; www.totbtour.wordpress.com.
EXHIBIT – “Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBT Struggles & Celebration” will be on display at the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum in West Hollywood July 3 through September 26.
Contact: Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 8124 West Third Street, Suite 211, Los Angeles, CA 90048; 323-653-4662; cspgweb@politicalgraphics.org; www.politicalgraphics.org.
CARAVAN – The 21st annual Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba is scheduled for July 3 through August 3. Volunteers will travel across the U.S. and Canada collecting aid and educating about the unjust blockade against Cuba, before an orientation in Texas July 18-20, followed by travel to and from Cuba until August 3. People can participate by attending or hosting local events, donating materials, or traveling along.
Contact: IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 418 W. 145th St., New York, NY 10031; 212-926-5757; cucaravan@igc.org; www.pastorsforpeace.org.
TRAINING – An Earth Activist Training for “social permaculture” is scheduled for July 3-17 in Bellingham, Washington. Co-taught by Starhawk, with guest teachers Bill Aal and Margo Adair of Tools for Change, this course offers a design certificate with a focus on organizing, activism, and social justice.
Contact: Earth Activist Training, PO Box 170177, San Francisco, CA 94117; 800-381-7940; earthactivisttraining@gmail.com; www.earthactivisttraining.org.
PEACE CAMP – Peace of the Action is planning a Summer Camp OUT NOW with Cindy Sheehan from July 4-17 in Washington, DC, featuring direct action and educational events opposed to U.S. occupation and war.
Contact: cindy@peaceoftheaction.org; www.peaceoftheaction.org.
COMMUNITY MEDIA – The Alliance for Community Media 2010 National Conference is scheduled for July 7-10 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Workshops and skillshares will be offered by this grassroots coalition of community media groups.
Contact: ACM, 1100 G Street, NW, Suite 740, Washington, DC 20005; 202-393-2653; www.alliancecm.org.
LA RAZA – The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 10-13 in San Antonio, Texas, with workshops, presentations, and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-776-1718; www.nclr.org.
DEMOCRACYFEST – The 7th Annual DemocracyFest will be held July 23-24 in Las Vegas, Nevada. DemocracyFest is a political festival for liberal and progressive activists, which features training, speakers, and entertainment.
Contact: DemocracyFest, info@democracyfest.net; www.democracyfest.net.
ANTI-WAR – A National Antiwar Conference is scheduled for July 23-25 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany, New York.
Contact: United National Antiwar Conference (UNAC) Planning Committee, 518-227-6947 or 518-227-6947; UNAC2010@aol.com; www.nationalpeaceconference.org.
BIKE4PEACE – Former Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will join others from Bike4Peace in a cross-country tour departing San Francisco on July 24 and arriving in Washington, DC on September 22, World Car-Free Day, for a Critical Mass bike convergence.
Contact: 541-829-9034; bike4peace@googlegroups.com; www.b4p.bbnow.org.
EDUCATION FORUM – The Rouge Forum 2010, Education in the Public Interest, will be held at George Williams College conference center in Williams Bay, Wisconsin from August 2-5.
Contact: fwilson@aurora.edu; www.rougeforumconference.org
CHIAPAS – The independent collective, Chiapas Against The Grain, is offering programs to learn Spanish and Tsotsil in a socio-cultural context, with visits to different projects, themed discussions, and videos, August 2-13 or August 16-27, with a July 15 registration deadline.
Contact: chiapasacontrapelo@cronopios.org; www.chiapas-a-contrapelo.cronopios.org/en.
CO-OPS – The 2010 National Worker Cooperative Conference is scheduled for August 6-9 at Clark Kerr Conference Center at UC Berkeley, California.
Contact: U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives; 415-379-9201; info@usworker.coop; www.usworker.coop.
COMMUNITIES – The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for anyone interested or involved in co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events, and entertainment scheduled for August 13-15 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: Twin Oaks Communities Conference, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; conference@twinoaks.org; www.communitiesconference.org.
URPE – The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) 4-day workshop/retreat istitled “Capitalism and Global Climate Change” and is scheduled for August 15-18 in Camp Deer Run in Pine Bush, New York.
Contact: Union for Radical Political Economics, Gordon Hall, University of Massachusetts, 418 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002; 413-577-0806; urpe@labornet.org; www.urpe.org.
VETERANS – Veterans for Peace celebrates its 25th anniversary at this year’s annual convention August 25-29 in Portland, Maine, with workshops, talks, and strategy sessions, a final day rally and march.
Contact: Contact Veterans For Peace, 216 S. Meramec Ave., St. Louis, MO 63105; 314-725-6005; www.vfpnationalconvention.org.
ARTIVIST – The 7th Annual Artivist Film Festival & Artivist Awards, dedicated to addressing human rights, children’s advocacy, environmental preservation, and animal rights is scheduled for October 5-9 in Hollywood, California.
Contact: The Artivist Collective, Inc., PO Box 910, Hollywood, CA 90028; 310-712-1222; info@artivists.org; www.artivists.org.
Wanted
ESSAYS – The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation invites submissions to the 2010 Daniel Singer Prize competition, up to 5,000 words, on the topic: “Given the devastating effects of the present crisis on working people, what proposals for radical reform can be raised that are both practical to the vast majority while moving us towards the goal of socialism?” Deadline: July 31.
Contact: The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation, PO Box 2371, El Cerrito, CA 94530; danielsingerfdn@gmail.com; www.danielsinger.org.
SUPPORT – MediaChannel.org, founded in 2000 by Danny Schechter and Rory O’Connor to inspire debate, collaboration, action, and citizen engagement, is struggling through a financial crisis. It has been kept alive through fundraisers of late, but is now asking for creative ideas, as well as financial support to keep going in a difficult media environment.
Contact: MediaChannel, 575 8th Ave., New York, NY l0018; 212-246-0202; dissector@mediachannel.org; www.mediachannel.org.
DVDs
MIGRANTS – The documentary Which Way Home investigates the personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the U.S. riding freight trains.
Contact: Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-3764; info@bullfrogfilms.com; www.bullfrogfilms.com.
NEWS SHORTS – In Big Noise Dispatches 06, the latest installment of the Dispatches shorts news series on DVD, Jeremy Scahill investigates Blackwater’s role in the Nisur Square massacre, Greg Palast tracks American debt speculators to Liberia, and the resurgent white power movement in America, and East St. Louis de-industrialization are all explored.
Contact: Big Noise Films, PO Box 72, NY, NY 10013; noise@bignoisefilms.org; www.bignoisefilms.org.
RACE – In a lecture based on his book Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights, 2010), activist and author Tim Wise discusses the pitfalls of “colorblindness” in the Obama era and argues for deeper color-consciousness in both public and private practice.
Contact: Speak Out!, PO Box 22748, Oakland CA 94609; 510-601-0182; info@speakoutnow.org; www.speakoutnow.org.
Books
ACORN – In Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group, John Atlas chronicles past ACORN campaigns to organize unions, fight the subprime mortgage crisis, promote living wages, struggle for affordable housing, and help Hurricane Katrina’s survivors.
Contact: Vanderbilt University Press, VU Station B 351813, Nashville, TN 37235; vupress@vanderbiltuniversitypress.com; www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com.
BODY IMAGE – Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women’s Health by anthropologist Wenda Trevathan explores a range of women’s health issues viewed through an evolutionary lens.
Contact: Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016; 212-726-6000; custserv.us@oup.com; www.oup.com.
CIVIL RIGHTS – In Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, Bruce Watson offers a moment-by-moment account of the historic 1964 campaign, based on letters, diaries, and interviews with participants and residents.
Contact: Penguin Group, Viking Adult, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014; 212-366-2000; www.us.penguingroup.com.
FOREIGN POLICY – Hopes and Prospects is a collection of lectures and essays from the past few years by Noam Chomsky, which survey the dangers and possibilities, from Latin American progressivism to U.S. delusions of exceptionalism.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; info@haymarketbooks.org; www.haymarketbooks.org.
GRAMSCI – The biography Antonio Gramsci by Antonio A. Santucci (preface by Eric J. Hobsbawm; translated by Graziella DiMauro with Salvatore Engel-DiMauro) offers a synthesis of the Italian philosopher/political theorist’s life and thought.
Contact: Monthly Review Press, 146 W. 29th Street, #6W, New York, NY 10001; 800-670-9499; bookorder@monthlyreview.org; www.monthlyreview.org.
MAPS – Following up on his earlier book, The Power of Maps, Denis Wood’s new Rethinking the Power of Maps describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state, demystifies hidden assumptions of mapmaking, and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today.
Contact: Guilford Press, 72 Spring Street New York, NY 10012; 800-365-7006; info@guilford.com; www.guilford.com.
MINERS – In When Miners March by William C. Blizzard, the epic West Virginia Mine Wars is explored, the largest open and armed rebellion in U.S. history.
Contact: PM Press, PO Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623; 510-658-3906; info@pmpress.org; www.pmpress.org.
NIGERIA – A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier by Michael Peel reveals the confrontations between oil companies, villagers, and rebels within the largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa.
Contact: Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago Review Press, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610; 312-337-0747; www.chicagoreviewpress.com.
PAST PEACENIKS – In her new book, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914, Cynthia Wachtell reveals the buried history of prominent Americans questioning the morality of warfare, including Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Twain.
Contact: Louisiana State University Press, 3990 West Lakeshore Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808; 800-848-6224; customerservice@longleafservices.org; www.lsu.edu/lsupress; www.warnomorethebook.com.
PROTEST – Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism, edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian, brings together the historic speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos of American dissidents.
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; www.thenewpress.com.
U.S. INVASION OF IRAQ – In Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, Nicolas J.S. Davies takes apart the wall of propaganda surrounding one of history’s most significant military disasters and most serious international crimes.
Contact: Nimble Books, 1521 Martha Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48103; www.nimblebooks.com.
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