New York City Activist Calendar

April 16–23, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

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CONTENTS

Events: {1} Regular; {2} Ongoing. Selected Resources: {3} Tours

and Delegations; {4} Classes; {5} Calendars & Event Listings; {6}

Books & Videos; {7} Radio & TV; {8} Other Resources.



{1} APRIL

Through 4/26 TUE - NY premiere of "Mas Alla del Mar" ("Beyond the

Sea"), documentary on the 1980 Mariel boatlift. 3/28 MON-3/29

TUE, 5:15 & 9 pm: 2 Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 E 3rd St (btw Ave

A & B), 212-591-0434; 4/4 MON, 7:30 pm: Cinema Village, 22 E 12th

St, 212-924-3363; 4/8 FRI, 7:30 pm: American Museum of the Moving

Image, 35th Ave & 36th St, Astoria, Qns, 718-784-0077; 4/11 MON,

7:30 pm: Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY, 631-

423-3456; 4/20 WED, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 pm: BAMCinematek, BAM Rose

Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Ft Green, Bkn (btw Ashland Place & St.

Felix St), 718-777-FILM; 4/26 TUE, 5:15, 7:15 pm: Jacob Burns

Film Center, 364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY, 914-747-5555.



Through 5/21 SAT, WED-SAT, noon-6 pm - Exhibition: "Jump Cuts:

Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Coleccion Mercantil," works from 28

Venezuelan artists from Banco Mercantil's extensive art

collection in Caracas. At Americas Society, 680 Park Ave (at 68th

St). Sponsor: Americas Society. Info: 212-249-8950,

http://www.americas-society.org



Through 6/5 MON - Film trilogy & multimedia installation:

"Disappeared in America." Humanizes the faces of some 3,000

"disappeared" US Muslims detained in post-9/11 security dragnet

(including NYC activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti). At Qns Museum,

Flushing Meadows, Corona, Qns (next to the Unisphere, 7 to Shea

Stadium/Willets Point). Info: 718-592-9700,

http://www.queensmuseum.org



**4/18 MON & 4/25 MON, 6:30-9 pm - 3-pt film on the Israeli-

Palestinian Conflict, "Route 181: Fragments of a Journey." 4/11:

"The South"; 4/18: "The Center"; 4/25: "The North." Arabs & Jews

living along the 1947 partition line talk about their memories,

fears, anger, disappointment & hopes for reconciliation w/Israeli

filmmaker Eyal Sivan & Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi.

Refreshments & time for discussion following film. At Bkn Society

for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Pk W, Bkn (at 1st St). $8/ea

night or $20 for all 3. Sponsors: Int'l Human Rights Education

Group, w/All Souls Bethlehem Church; Bkn Dialogue Group; Bkn

Parents for Peace; Bkn Soc for Ethical Culture/Ethical Action

Cmt; Jews Against the Occupation; & the Social Action Cmte of the

Pk Slope Methodist Church. Info: Laura, 718-230-1516; Cheryl,

718-636-3099; ihredu@yahoo.com



**4/18 MON, 8:30 am-5 pm - Conference: "A Sustainable World Is

Possible: A Trade Union Day of Strategy on Globalization,

Development & Environment." A rare opportunity for trade

unionists from around the world who are concerned about issues of

sustainable development & the environment to meet w/unionists in

the US who are/are becoming involved in these critically

important questions. Panels on water privatization, public &

occupational health & global warming. W/labor reps from Bolivia,

Brazil, El Salvador, Kenya, Norway, Senegal, Spain & South Africa

& US-based reps from the Steelworkers, UNITE-HERE, SEIU & the

Utility Workers. At Cornell ILR Conf Ctr, 16 E 34th St, 6th fl.

Sponsor: Cornell Global Labor Institute. $75. RSVP: 212-340-2843,

ss266@cornell.edu



**4/18 MON, 11:30 am - Press conference: on political assault on

Mexico City's progressive mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

W/Mexican authors Elena Poniatowska & Paco Ignacio Taibo II. In

Sp/Eng. At Asociacion Tepeyac, 251 W 14th St. Info: Asociacion

Tepeyac, 212-633-7108.



4/18 MON, 5 pm - Racial Justice Day 2005: Remember those who have

been killed & brutalized by the NYPD's

racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic/anti-youth anti-immigrant

policing practices. At City Hall. Sponsors: NYC Coalition Against

Police Brutality (Audre Lorde Project, CAAAV: Organizing Asian

Communities, Justice Cmt, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement),

Domestic Workers United, FIERCE!, Nodutdol for Korean Community

Development, NYS Black Gay Network, Sista 2 Sista. Info:

212-353-7825, rjd05@hotmail.com



4/18 MON, 6 pm - Talk: on the policy of closure & restrictions of

movements in the West Bank & Gaza, w/Amira Hass (Haaretz

correspondent, only Jewish Israeli reporter on Palestinian

affairs to live among the people she reports about; author,

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days & Nights in a Land under Siege &

Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied

Land). At NYU, Vanderbilt Hall, room 204, 40 Washington Sq West.

Info: dayvid@nyu.edu



**4/18 MON, 6:30 pm - Discussion: "El Mexico del Desafuero:

Legalidad y Democracia," on political assault on Mexico City's

progressive mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. W/Mexican author

Elena Poniatowska. In Sp. At New School U, 66 W 12th St, rm 404,

4th fl/piso 4 (entre 5th y 6th Avenida). Free/entrada libre.

Sponsors: Janey Program for Latin American Studies, Asociacion

Tepeyac, y estudiantes mexicanos de la New School Graduate

Faculty. Info: Clemente Castaneda, clementech@yahoo.com & Isaac

Preciado, isaacpreciado75@msn.com & Juan Carlos Cornell,

juancarloscornell@gmail.com



4/19 TUE - National Civic Dialogue. Groups meet nationwide for

discussion about Social Security, values, & how to talk about the

issue using values-based messaging. Info on organizing a

dialogue: Civic Dialogue Project,

http://www.wellstone.org/network/issue_page.aspx?catID=1770



4/19 TUE, 3:30-5:30 pm- Mass rally & picket to support CUNY

faculty & staff. Professional Staff Congress (PSC; CUNY nnion) is

engaged in contract negotiations w/the university. At 5th Ave btw

43rd & 44th St, outside office of Benno Schmidt (CUNY Trustees

Board Chair). Info: Davis821@aol.com & PSC, 212-354-1252,

office@psc-cuny.org & http://www.psc-cuny.org/address.htm



**4/19 TUE, 6-9 pm - Panel discussion: "Political Expression

through the Arts." Leading South Asian artists & performers

discuss their political activism through their distinct

disciplines. W/Mallika Dutt (founder, Breakthrough), DJ Rekha,

Geeta Citygirl, others. At Student Union Ballroom (4th floor),

Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, Qns (exit 24 off LI

Expy; directions, campus map:

http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions.php ). Sponsors: South

Asian Students Assn & Pakistani Club. Free; dinner & Q&A. Info:

zeesh911@yahoo.com



**4/19 TUE, 6-9 pm - Screening/panel: "Venezuela, the Best Kept

Secret of the Caribbean: A Multidisciplinary Evening of

Venezuelan Visual Arts," video program & panel discussion, in

conjunction w/exhibit: "Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art,

Coleccion Mercantil," works from 28 Venezuelan artists from Banco

Mercantil's extensive art collection in Caracas. At Americas

Society, 680 Park Ave (at 68th St). Sponsor: Americas Society.

Info: 212-249-8950, http://www.americas-society.org



4/19 TUE, 7 pm - Screening: "Poison Dust: A New Look at US

Radioactive Weapons." +Discussion w/Sue Harris (Peoples' Video

Network), Ray Ramos (Iraq War veteran), Qns antiwar & community

activists. At All Saints' Church, 43-12 46th St, Sunnyside, Qns

(at 43rd Ave, 7 to 46th St). Sponsors: Sunnyside Woodside Peace,

Int'l Action Center Depleted Uranium Education Project, West Qns

Greens, NY Area Million Worker March. Info: 718-512-5442,

http://www.swpeace.org



**4/19 TUE, 7 pm - Screening: "The Landless: On the Paths of

America," about the struggles of the Landless Rural Workers

Movement (MST). In April & May, 1,000s of Brazil's rural workers

are marching on the capital to counter the myths of global

agribusiness & restate their proposal for a development model

rooted in the political & economic participation of Brazil's

majority, the working poor. At Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (at

Stanton, 1 bk S of Houston). $5-$10, benefit for MST. Info: 212-

777-6028, http://www.bluestockings.com/ &

http://www.mstbrazil.org/



4/19 TUE, 7:30 pm - Book party/forum: "Separating Church & State:

The Struggle Against US Fundamentalism," w/Lenni Brenner (editor,

Jefferson & Madison on the Separation of Church & State), Susan

Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism) & Esther

Kaplan (W/God on Their Side). At Brecht Forum, 451 West St (btw

Bank & Bethune St). $6/$10/$15 suggested. Info: 212-242-4201,

http://www.brechtforum.org



**4/20 WED, 9:30 am - Courtroom support: for Quentin, brother of

Nicholas Heyward, Jr, killed by NYPD 9/24/94. At Bkn Supreme

Court, Part 10, 360 Adams St, Bkn (2/3/4/5 to Boro Hall). Info:

Nicholas Heyward, Sr, 718-864-3748.



4/20 WED, 11 am-3 pm - Westchester Community College's 2005,

Earth Day Festival: Crafts Fair, Earth Day Deli, Earth Day Market

Music, Environmental Action Center Dance, guest speakers. At WCC

Student Center, Grasslands Road, Valhalla, NY. Info:

914-785-6731.



4/20 WED, 12:30 pm - Lunchtime Tour: "Bkn Works: 400 Years of

Making a Living in Bkn." Meet at Bkn Historical Society, 128

Pierrepont St, Bkn Hts (corner of Clinton & Pierrepont, R, 4/5,

2/3 to Court St/Boro Hall). Free, but limit 10 people. Info:

718-222-4111, http://www.brooklynhistory.org



**4/20 WED, 6-10 pm - Benefit: Celebrate & support the Mass

Defense Cmt of the National Lawyers Guild. Live bluegrass w/The

Cobble Hillbillies at 8 pm; DJ & dancing 6-8 pm. At Galapagos, 70

N 6th St, Williamsburg, Bkn (L to Bedford Ave, walk 2.5 blocks

west). $10-$20 sliding scale. Info: Jeff Senter, NLG, 212-

679-6018 x 20.



**4/20 WED, 6-8:30 pm - Workshop: "Organizing Politically for

Animals: A Primer." The beginner activist learns the basics of

government, lobbying & electioneering & many things they didn't

teach you in high school. At League of Humane Voters-NYC office,

404 Park Ave S, 9th fl). RSVP: space is limited: 212-889-0303.



4/20 WED, 7:30 pm - Forum: "Sistas in the Center: Female Hip-Hop

Activists Fight Sexism, Misogyny & the Music Industry,"

w/panelists TBA. At Brecht Forum, 451 West St (btw Bank & Bethune

St). $6/$10/$15 suggested. Info: 212-242-4201,

http://www.brechtforum.org



4/20 WED, 7:30 pm - Report-back: "Stopping the War on Women of

Color & Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom," 1st-hand

accounts of national confs. At Freedom Hall, 113 W 128th St (btw

Malcolm X & 7th Ave). Free; dinner at 7 pm for $6 donation.

Sponsor: Radical Women. Info: 212-222-0633, fsprw@nyct.net,

http://radicalwomen.org



4/21 THU - Nationwide media activities around "Raising Immigrant

Voices for Dignity & Justice" campaign; announcement of results

of various local consultations (dialogues & a poll to explore

what members of diverse immigrant communities think about issues

as legalization, guest-worker programs, immigration law

enforcement, militarization of the border, civil liberties).

Sponsors: American Friends Service Cmt-Project Voice, CARECEN-LA,

National Day Laborer Organizing Network, National Network for

Immigrant & Refugee Rights, many others. Info: Regina Garza

(NDLON), rgarza@casamd.org & Catherine Tactaquin (NNIRR),

ctactaquin@nnirr.org



**4/21 THU, 12:30 pm - Rally: Support the CCNY 4, arrested for

3/9 counter-recruitment protest. Demand criminal charges be

dropped. At CCNY NAC Plaza, Convent Ave & W 138th St (1/9 to

137th St/CCNY). Sponsor: CCNY Defense Campaign. Info:

cityfreespeech@earthlink.net & http://citydefensecampaign.org



4/21 THU, 4:15-6:15 pm - NY Immigration Seminar Series: "The

Future of Race in the US," w/Herbert Gans (Columbia U), Stephen

Steinberg (Qns College), Edward Telles (UCLA). At CUNY Grad Ctr,

365 5th Ave, rm 9207 (btw 34th & 35th St). Free. Info:

DJackson@gc.cuny.edu



**4/21 THU, 6 pm - Screening: "Justifiable Homicide," in memory

of Montique Smalls (killed by NYPD 2/20/05). At Cuyler Warren

United Methodist Church, 450 Warren St, Bkn (btw Nevins & Bond

St, F to Bergen St). Info: Nicholas Heyward, Sr, 718-864-3748;

Juanita Young, 646-294-8344.



**4/21 THU, 7-9 pm (CANCELLED due to teaching assistants' strike)

- Film festival: "Carla's Song," love saga of a Nicaraguan woman

refugee & a Glaswegian bus driver. At Columbia School of Social

Work (CUSSW). Sponsors: CUSSW Latin@s Caucus, NYC's People

Referendum on Free Trade. Info: milly0724@yahoo.com,

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/newhome/index.html



4/21 THU, 7 pm - Screening: "Con los Pobres de la Tierra," on

Venezuela, + 10-min clip from 14th World Festival for Youth &

Students in Cuba. In Sp w/Eng subtitles. At El Maestro, 700 Elton

Ave, 2nd fl, Bx (btw 154th & 155th St, 2/5 to 149th St & 3rd Ave.

Free. Sponsors: Puerto Rican Nationalist Youth (JNP-NY),

Bolivarian Circle Alberto Lovera, Fundacion Andres Figueroa

Cordero, Cuba Solidarity NY, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party-NY

Junta, NY LOC for World Festival for Youth Students. Info: 718-

585-6753, http://www.nuyorico.com



**4/21 THU, 7 pm - Reading & discussion: Dr Patti Feuereisen's

Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse, pioneering work

about sexual abuse & healing, powerful 1st-person narratives

w/gentle guidance & seasoned insights; share in the message that

recovery, vibrancy & triumph can be attained. At Bluestockings,

172 Allen St (at Stanton, 1 bk S of Houston). Info: 212-777-6028,

http://www.bluestockings.com/



**4/21 THU, 7-11 pm - Benefit: African Lounge, African music,

tea/coffee, artwork & spirits. At Bkn Society for Ethical

Culture, 53 Prospect Park West, Bkn (2/3 to Grand Army Plaza,

walk 6 blocks south, across from park). Tix $20; benefits Asylee

Family Rescue Project (helps people who have been granted asylum

in the US reunite w/the families they were forced to leave when

fleeing racial, religious, social or political persecution in

their home countries). Info/tix: 718-768-2972,

afrp@rescueteam.com



**4/21 THU, 8 pm - Party: for release of Hungry March Band's new

CD, "Critical Brass." W/Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars &

Nervous Cabaret. At Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St (btw B'way &

Church. $12. Tix/info: http://www.knittingfactory.com



4/22 FRI, 6-9 pm, 4/23 SAT & 4/24 SUN, 10 am-6 pm - Theater of

the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) workshop: Education for

Liberation, workshop on the Paulo Freire methodology. At Brecht

Forum, 451 West St. Tuition: $150-200. Info: 212-924-1858,

toplab@toplab.org, http://www.toplab.org



**4/22 FRI, 9 am - Protest: Rent Guidelines Board increases.

Demand an end to skyrocketing rent increases & demand RGB members

who understand tenant issues. At RGB, 22 Reade St (City Planning

Commission btw Chambers & Duane). Sponsor: Met Council on

Housing. Info: 212-797-6238, active@metcouncil.net &

http://www.metcouncil.net



**4/22 FRI, 12:30-2:30 pm - Vigil: In solidarity w/march by

Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). At Brazilian

consulate, 1185 6th Ave (btw 46th & 47th St, B/D/F/V to 47th-50th

Sts/Rockefeller Center Station, N/R/W to 49th St Station).

Sponsor: Friends of MST. Info: dawn@mstbrazil.org



**4/22 FRI, 7 pm - Reading: "Southern Girls Do It Better!"

Georgia native Tayari Jones (Leaving Atlanta), reads from her new

novel, The Untelling, & Maud Newton reads from her novel-in-

progress about fundamentalist Christians in 1980's Miami &

religious extremism passing from 1 generation to another. At

Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (at Stanton, 1 bk S of Houston).

Info: 212-777-6028, http://www.bluestockings.com/



**4/22 FRI, 7:30 pm - Benefit: Party for the WBAI Late Night

Crew. W/Late night hosts & Lach, Jeff Lewis, Don McCloskey, Paula

Valstein, more TBA. At Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Ave A at 6th St. Info:

http://www.antifolk.net



4/22 FRI, 8 pm - Benefit concert for IWW Starbucks Workers Union,

w/folk singer David Rovics, political comedian Katie Halper &

spoken-word champion Amina Munoz-Ali. After Rovics, dance to

inspired DJ rhythms late into the night. At Dumba, 57 Jay St, Bkn

(F to York, walk 2 bks towards river). $5-$12. Info:

http://www.wildlifespecial.net/sbuxb.html &

http://www.davidrovics.com & http://www.starbucksunion.org &

http://www.iww.org



4/22 FRI, 8 pm - Music: Traveling Troubadour Series, w/Dale

Miller. At The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor, 53 Prospect Park

West, Bkn, NY. $15/$6 children. Info: 718-768-2972, 718-965-8490,

917-514-5364, info@jamesreams.com,

http://www.bsec.org/events/coffeehouse/index.html



4/23 SAT-4/24 SUN, 4-6 pm & 7-9 pm - 2-Day Intensive

Participatory Seminar on Alternatives to Capitalism,

w/facilitator Peter Staudenmaier (Institute for Social Ecology).

At Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (at Stanton, 1 bk south of

Houston, F/V to 2nd Ave). $40; scholarships available. Register

(required): brooke@bluestockings.com Info: 212-777-6028,

http://www.bluestockings.com



**4/23 SAT, 10 am-5 pm - Benefit: The Indypendent's 3rd annual

spring sidewalk sale. At Bedford Ave & N 7th St, Williamsburg,

Bkn. Info/donate items: 212-684-8112, jtarleton@indypendent.org



**4/23 SAT, noon - March: "Take It to the Streets on Mumia's

Birthday." Assemble at Marcus Garvey Park, march through streets

of Harlem to Salem United Methodist Church, 129th St & 7th Ave

(2/3 to 125th St) at 3 pm. Sponsor: National Task Force to Free

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Pam Africa, Robert Meeropol, many others. Info:

212-330-8029, http://www.mumia.org



**4/23 SAT, 4 pm - Families for Freedom Bx Open House: Food,

showing of clips of 2 films: "Whose Children Are These?" by

Theresa Thanjan & film by Homies Unidos about the killing of

deportees in Honduras. At 2751 Grand Concourse, Bx (entrance on

196th St, D, 4 to Kingsbridge). Free. RSVP: Agatha, 212-898-4121.



4/24 SUN, 11 am-12:15 pm - Platform: "Peace, Values &

Transformative Experience Through the Wisdom of Native American

Spirituality," w/Dr Kurt Johnson, Rev Tom Downes, Lisa Lerner &

Dorothy Cunha. At Bkn Society for Ethical Culture, Meeting House

main hall, 53 Prospect Pk West (btw 1st & 2nd Sts), Park Slope,

Bkn. Free. Followed by workshop, "Delving Deeper into Indigenous

Wisdom & Ceremony," 1 pm. Info: 718-768-2972, bsecOffice@aol.com

& http://www.bsec.org/events/platform/index.html



**4/24 SUN, 2 pm - Festival: "Spring Waterfront Festival at Grand

Street Park!" Celebrate the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront &

oppose Bloomberg's development plan, which includes 1,000s of

high-income housing units in high rise towers for 40,000 new

residents, w/loss of 4,000 local jobs. W/music by the Hungry

March Band & others, free food, treasure hunts, pirate radio,

guerrilla gardening, kite flying, art making & more. At Grand St

Park, Grand St & Kent Ave in Williamsburg. Info:

http://www.communityplan.org &

http://www.williamsburgwarriors.org

http://www.northbrooklynalliance.org



4/24 SUN, 4-6 pm - Training: volunteers for NY Taxi Workers

Alliance (NYTWA) Survey Outreach. At NYTWA office, 37 E 28th St,

#302. Info/volunteer: 212-627-5248, nytwa1@aol.com



**4/24 SUN, 4 pm - Concert: "Ecuador: Music & Tradition/Musica y

Tradicion, Echoes from the Middle of the World/Ecos de la Mitad

del Mundo." Traditional dances from Ecuador, Andean music,

popular mestizo songs, more. At Qns Theatre in the Park, Flushing

Meadows/Corona Park, Qns (off Grand Central Parkway, at 1939 &

1964 World Fairs site, 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium, free

trolley to Theater runs 1 hour before & after show, by car:

GCPkwy Exit 9E/Shea Stadium, follow signs, free parking). $20

adv/$25 door. Info/tix: 718-760-0064, 201-847-4299, 973-398-9573,

718-779-4209, 718-807-5457, 718-464-4469, 718-413-8426,

http://queenstheatre.org



4/25 MON-4/26 TUE - Conference: 28th National Legal Conf on

Immigration & Refugee Policy, w/Leo Anchondo, Kevin Appleby, Ana

Avendano, Michael Biggs, Eric S Bord, many others. Session:

Impact Security Checks & Backlogs Have Had on Assorted

Industries; The Impact on Civil Rights & Liberties for Immigrants

in Our Post-9/11 World; Human Rights & Asylum Developments;

Emerging Issues in Employment-Based Immigration; Workplace

Enforcement Issues; Prospects for Immigration Reform. At Fordham

Law School. Sponsors: Center for Migration Studies (CMS), Fordham

Law School, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC).

Info/register: http://www.cmsny.org



**4/25 MON, 8:30 am - Picket: support activist Juanita Young

(mother of Malcolm Ferguson, killed by NYPD 3/1/00) before

hearing in trial on criminal trespass charges stemming from an

illegal eviction engineered by her landlord. At Bx DA's office,

across from Supreme Court, 851 Grand Concourse (off 161st St, 4,

D to 161st St); hearing is in Part 60 at 10 am. Info:

oct22ny@yahoo.com, http://october22-ny.org



**4/26 TUE, 7 pm - Performance & open-mike: Women's Poetry Jam.

W/Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poetry about wonders & terrors

w/fondness for inversions & sly perversions & Lisa Rhoades'

award-winning "Strange Gravity," in which ordinary people &

actions are lit with visionary imagination. Host: Vittoria

Repetto. Open mike sign-up starts at 7 pm, (up to) 8 minutes of

your poetry, prose, songs & spoken word. At Bluestockings, 172

Allen St (at Stanton, 1 bk S of Houston). $3-$5. Info: 212-777-

6028, http://www.bluestockings.com/



4/26 TUE, 7:30 pm - 4th Annual Joanne Lukomnik Forum: "National

Health Care: A Women's Health Issue." W/Byllye Avery (Avery

Institute for Social Change & Nat'l Black Women's Health

Project), Linda Prine, MD (Reproductive Health Access Project) &

Martha Livingston, PhD (PNHP NY Metro). At Beth Israel Medical

Ctr, Phillips Ambulatory Care Ctr, 10 Union Sq E, 2nd fl lecture

hall (btw 14th & 15th St). Free. Sponsors: Physicians for a Nat'l

Health Program, NY Metro, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign,

Public Health Assn NY, City Qns College Urban Studies Dept. Info:

jlandy@igc.org



4/27 WED - Action day to oppose US travel ban on Cuba, along

w/rest of embargo. Meeting, rally, visits to Congress. In DC.

Info: Latin America Working Group, manderson@lawg.org &

http://www.cubaactionday.org/ or http://www.lawg.org



4/27 WED - National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights. In DC.

Info: Beatriz Maya (FLOC), 419-243-3456, bmaya1@floc.com



4/27 WED, 7-9 pm - Talk: "The Marxist Critique of Ideology: What

It Is, How It Works & Why It's Important--Especially Now,"

w/Bertell Ollman. At Fusion Arts Museum, 57 Stanton St (1 block

south of Houston, F/V to 2nd Ave). $7-10 sliding scale.

Sponsor: New SPACE (New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist

Education). Info: 800-377-6183, http://new-space.mahost.org



**4/28 THU, 9:30 am - Courtroom support: for Malcolm X Grassroots

Movement's Djibril, Dasaw & Lumumba, who were arrested while

documenting police as part of MXGM's CopWatch Program. At Bkn

Criminal Court, 120 Schermerhorn, 6th fl, Bkn (2/3/4/5 to Boro

Hall). Info: NYC Indymedia article,

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/141108 & MXGM,

http://mxgm.org



4/28 THU, 7:30 pm - Talk: "Globalization & Agrarian Crisis in the

3rd World: The Case of Farmers' Suicides in South India,"

w/D Narasimha Reddy (U of Hyderabad, India). At Brecht Forum, 451

West St (btw Bank & Bethune St). $6/$10/$15 suggested. Info:

212-242-4201, http://www.brechtforum.org



4/29 SAT-4/30 SUN, 9 am-5 pm - Workshop: "Public Listening

Project." "You want to make a difference--but some activist

actions seem like preaching to the converted. How can we reach

out to all people--especially those w/whom we disagree?" Detailed

presentation of project's successes & methods, incl demos of

approach in action. At loc TBA in Stamford, CT. $20. Info/apply:

http://publiclisteningproject.org/contact.html



4/29 FRI, 7-9 am - Kickoff of Free Breakfast Program (every last

FRI), w/NYC Councilmember Charles Barron. Green tea, fresh fruit

& organic whole grain cereal. Also promotes startup of the East

NY Food Coop. At East NY Green Tea House, 300 Logan St, Bkn (btw

Atlantic & Liberty Ave, A to Euclid Ave, J to Norwood Ave). Info:

Gary Davidson, 718-277-6276, 646-549-1622; zool, 646-549-1612,

zoolTheArtandPolitics@hotmail.com



4/29 FRI, 8 pm - Music: Traveling Troubadour Series, w/Blues &

ragtime guitarist Nick Katzman. At The Good Coffeehouse Music

Parlor, 53 Prospect Park West, Bkn, NY. $15/$6 children. Info:

718-768-2972, 718-965-8490, 917-514-5364, info@jamesreams.com,

http://www.bsec.org/events/coffeehouse/index.html



4/30 SAT-5/1 SUN - 13th Annual Int'l Conference Global Network

Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space: "Full Spectrum

Resistance: An Int'l Space Organizing Conference." W/keynote

speaker Dr Michio Kaku (cofounder of string theory, a founding

member of Global Network). At Musicians Union Hall, 322 W 48th

St. $15-$60 sliding scale; adv registration necessary; some

housing available at Musicians Union Hall, 322 W 48th St.

Cosponsor: Abolition 2000. Info/register: Global Network,

207-729-0517, globalnet@mindspring.com or

http://www.space4peace.org



4/30 SAT-5/1 SUN, all hours - Open House party: "Painting &

Scheduling." There is painting & construction to be done at new

community space. +Propose projects & events for the benefit of

the community--art shows, bicycle workshops, political benefits,

dance parties, etc. At East NY Green Tea House, 300 Logan St, Bkn

(btw Atlantic & Liberty Ave, A to Euclid Ave, J to Norwood Ave).

Info: Gary Davidson, 718-277-6276, 646-549-1622; zool,

646-549-1612, zoolTheArtandPolitics@hotmail.com



4/30 SAT, time TBA - PNHP NY Metro Leadership Training/Speaker

Training Workshop. Loc TBA. Physicians for a Nat'l Health

Program. Info: jlandy@igc.org



4/30 SAT, 10 am - Conf: Batey Relief: "HIV/AIDS in the Dominican

Republic & Haiti: A Bilateral Challenge." At Columbia U, Schapiro

Center, Davis Auditorium, 500 W 120th St (btw B'way & Amsterdam

Ave). Free, but space is limited. Sponsors: Columbia U Int'l

Family AIDS Program & Barnard College. Info/register: Ulrick

Gaillard, 917-627-5026, bra@bateyrelief.org &

http://www.bateyrelief.org>www.bateyrelief.org



**4/30 SAT, 5-10:30 pm - Domestic Workers United (DWU) 5th

Anniversary Dinner. W/Robin DG Kelley, Kongo (Haitian Roots

Music), DWU members, Ishle Yi Park (Qns poet laureate), Keith

Wright (NYS Assembly), NYC Councilmembers Bill Perkins & Gale

Brewer, dancing. At Demo Hall, Our Lady of Pompeii Church,

25 Carmine St, (corner of Bleecker, A/C/E/F/V/B/D to W 4th & exit

at W 3rd St). Tix: $25/children under 5 free. Info/RSVP: 718-

220-7391 x11 or 23.



**4/30 SAT, 7 pm - Info session & sign-up: "Community Supported

Agriculture (CSA)." Organic produce doesn't have to be expensive,

neither you nor farmers have to be at the mercy of the corporate

influence on the food chain; CSA is a collaboration btw farmers &

eaters. The Stanton St Settlement CSA is signing up members to

purchase shares in this year's harvest. At Bluestockings, 172

Allen St (at Stanton, 1 bk S of Houston). $3-$5. Info: 212-777-

6028, http://www.bluestockings.com/



4/30 SAT, 8 pm - Peoples' Voice Cafe: Songs & Letters of the

Spanish Civil War, w/Dan Lynn Watt, Molly Lynn Watt, Tony Saletan

& Sylvia Miskoe. At The Workmen's Circle, 45 E 33rd St (btw

Madison & Park); wheelchair-accessible. $12 suggested/$9 members.

Info: 212-787-3903.



4/30 SAT, 8:30 pm - Music: Neues Kabarett w/Burton Greene/Roy

Campbell Quartet & Tom Abbs Group. At Brecht Forum, 451 West St

(btw Bank & Bethune St). $10 suggested. Info: 212-242-4201,

http://www.brechtforum.org





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