ew York Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
122 West 27
Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001-6227
(212) 229-2388 <metnycoc@hotmail.com>
CALENDAR #458
Vol. XI. No. 24, Monday,
June 10, 2002
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JUN 10-16 MON-SUN - Philippine Forum Youth in Action Community Organizers
Summer Camp. Equip yourself with
knowledge and skills to
improve the condition of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in local communities.
Open to youth between 16 and 30. $100, includes food,
lodging, transportation from Manhattan to
campsite. Apply by 4/16 to 212-741-6806 xyisa <YouthInAction@philforum.org>.
JUN 10 MON, 5 pm - Drop
the Rock Fundraiser Meeting. Help repeal
Rockefeller Drug Laws. At Correctional Association, 135
E. 15th St.
bet. 3rd
Ave. and Irving Pl.
212-254-5700x306 <tkstolar@correctionalassociation.org>
JUN 10 MON, 6 pm - ProLibertad Annual Reception for the Puerto Rican
Delegation to UN Decolonization Committee hearings. Hunter College West Building,
Rm. 217, 68th St. and
Lexington Ave. ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, 718-601-4751,
212-927-9065 <ProLibertad@hotmail.com>.
JUN 10 MON, 6 to 8 pm - Housing
Advice: Do you Have a Housing Problem? Free advice from volunteer attorneys and
experienced housing advocates. Harlem
Tenants Council 212-316-2240 <Harlemtenants@aol.com>.
JUN 10 MON, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Metropolitan Council on Housing weekly call-in radio show
has been permanently rescheduled to this time slot on WBAI, 99.5 FM. This
week’s guest will be Adriene Holder; Legal Aid
attorney, long time tenant rights warrior and new tenant representative on the
Rent Guidelines Board.
JUN 11 TUE, 6:30 pm - What’s
at stake in the government’s indictment of Lynne Stewart? The chilling effect
on the exercise of our fundamental freedoms including the attorney-client
privilege. An evening of information, discussion, cultural performance and
celebration of resistance to support Lynne Stewart. Judson Memorial Church, 55
Washington Square South
between Thompson & Sullivan. Lynne Stewart Defense Committee, Refuse and
Resist!, National Lawyers Guild.
JUN 11 TUE, 7 pm - Film:
Haters. Response to abuse of Arab-Americans and
other ethnicities after 9/11. IndoCenter of
Art and Culture, 530 W. 25th St., 2nd
Fl. bet. 10th & 11th St. RSVP: 212-388-1898 <info@thirdwavefoundation.org>
JUN 11 TUE, 7:30 pm - Globalization:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. David Graeber (Anti-Capitalist
Convergence and People’s Global Action), Beka
Economopoulos (editor, Another World Is Possible), Banjo Norman (anarchist
economist). Brecht Forum, 122
W. 27th St., 10th
Fl. Contribution requested to benefit Liberation Book Club 212-979-8353 <roberterler@erols.com>.
JUN 12 WED, 10 am - City
Council Hearings at City Hall on Resolution 12 seeking a moratorium on executions. Attend and show your support for a moratorium
in New York! New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty c/o
Susan Schindler 212-475-7035.
JUN 12 WED, 4:30 pm - Show your support for Lynne Stewart. U.S.
District Court, hearing before Judge Koeltl. 500
Pearl Street, 12th Floor.
Info: 212-255-4181x21.
JUN 12 WED, 7 pm -
It’s Time to Protest the New Face of Nuclear War! Rally to mark the 20th
anniversary of the 1982 march in Central
Park to ban nuclear weapons and war. Speakers and
performers: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, sponsor of the Space Preservation Act; Cora
Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace; Actress Jane Alexander, Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Author Grace Paley;
Kevin Martin, Executive Director of National Peace Action; Kathleen Sullivan,
Coordinator, Nuclear Weapons Education & Action Project, ESR Metro Area;
William Hartung of the World Policy Institute, SANITY,
a project of ESR Metro (Students Against Nuclear Insanity and for Tomorrow’s
Youth), The Mammals and the fabulous Circus Amok. The Rally will kickoff a Call
to Action by David Cortright, Randall Forsberg and
Jonathan Schell: Ending Threats of Mass Destruction. Cortright
is President of the Fourth Freedom Forum and author, lecturer on issues of
peace, justice and conflict studies.
Forsberg is Executive Director of the Institute for Defense and
Disarmament Studies and a founder of the nuclear freeze movement. Schell is a
fellow at The Nation Institute and author of The Fate of the Earth and The Gift
of Time. Admission is FREE. All are
invited. Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute, Continuing Education and Public
Programs, The Graduate Center,
CUNY and The Ethical Culture Society.
Ethical Culture, CPW & 64th
St. Peace Action of New
York State 212-870-2304.
JUN 13-17 THU-MON - How We Can Work Together To Build A Truly Democratic
Society: Green Party USA
annual Green Gathering and Congress in Bar
Harbor, Maine.
Everyone invited. http://www.greenparty.org
JUN 14 FRI, 6:30 pm - Benefit
for Food Not Bombs and ABC No Rio. 6:30
pm -
Free bagels and drinks. 7
pm - Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon. 9 pm - Willy Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory. Midnight -
Return of the Living Dead. ABC No Rio, 156
Rivington St.
bet. Clinton and
Suffolk.
$5-10.
212-254-3697 http://www.abcnorio.org
JUN14 FRI, 7 pm - Forum
with Wilson Borja, leader in the Unitary Workers
Federation (CUT), Colombia’s main labor federation. 2005
Amsterdam Ave. bet. 159th and 160th
St., 2nd Fl. Committee for Social
Justice in Colombia.
JUN 15-19 SAT-WED - Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
Conference: The Power of Nonviolence. Exploring Alternatives. Mairead Maguire (Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace
Movement and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize), Amber Amundson (whose husband, Craig, died in the terrorist act
at the Pentagon), Rev. James Lawson (Co-Worker with Martin Luther King, Jr.),
Bruce Gagnon (Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space), Dr. Hildegard Goss-Mayr (Honorary
President International Fellowship of Reconciliaton),
Javier Sanchez (leader of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in war zone in northern Colombia), Folksingers Tom
Chapin, Pete Seeger and British Blues Diva Dana
Gillespie. Manhattan College,
Riverdale. Register online at http://www.forusa.org or call Susheilla Mehta, Fellowship of Reconciliation 845-358-4601
x27 or Kate Brennan, NYFOR
718-786-2413, <conference@forusa.org> <mailto:conference@forusa.org>.
JUN 15 SAT, 12 noon - Protest
secret detentions of Arab and South Asian immigrants. Weekly rally at Metropolitan Detention Center,
29th St. & 3rd Ave., Sunset Park, Brooklyn. N or R to
25th St. stop
at 4th Ave.,
walk down 1 block and over to 29th
St. Immigrants rights and
prison groups DRUM, CHRI, and PMP will mobilize for this march and rally.
718-482-3157 <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com>.
JUN 15 SAT, 12:30 pm - Drop
the Rock March, Concert and Rally in Harlem!
Demand that policy makers repeal NY’s mandatory minimum drug laws and end 29
long years of suffering and injustice. 12:30
pm: March: meet on 126th
St. bet. Adam Clayton Powell
and Frederick Douglass Blvd.
(1/2/3/B/D/A to 125th St). 2:30 pm: concert/rally in Marcus Garvey Park, 122nd
St. and Madison Ave. Tamar
Kraft-Stolar 212-254-5700 x306 <tkstolar@correctionalassociation.org>.
JUN 15 SAT, 1:00 pm -Stop
the Disappearances. Labor, peace, immigrants rights, and social justice groups
protest the continuing detention of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim immigrants in
the Metropolitan Detention Center.
March and protest at the MDC, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 29th St. &
3rd Ave. N/R to 25th St at 4th Ave. Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Coalition for the Human
Rights of Immigrants (CHRI), and Prison Moratorium Project (PMP) <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com>
1-800-454-1906x4612.
JUN 16 SUN, 2:10 pm - Screening
of Two Aliens, documentary about the NYC greengrocers organizing campaign.
Directed by Su Hi Choi. Brooklyn Museum
(2/3 to Eastern Parkway). Free, but you must pay to enter museum. <treechoi@yahoo.com>.
JUN 19 WED, 7:30 pm - East
Timor: From
Annihilation to Celebration. Eyewitness Accounts of the Birth of the New
Nation. A look at East Timor’s
past, present and future. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Deepa
Fernandes (Free Speech Radio News), Brad Simpson
(ETAN) and more. Brecht
Forum, 122 W. 27th St. 10th
Fl. $10 Donation requested. East Timor
Action Network 718-596-7668 <etanny@etan.org>
http://www.etan.org
JUN 19 WED, 5:30 pm - 49th
Rosenberg Memorial. Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue, 30 W. 68th St. Ossie Davis
speaking. National Committee to Reopen
the Rosenberg
Case 212-228-4500.
JUN 20 THU, 7 pm - Author
event: Joel Kovel (The Enemy of Nature). Eco Books, 837
Union St. (Park Slope) 6th
and 7th Ave., 2nd Fl.
718-623-2698 http://www.ecobooks.com/events.htm
JUN 20 THU, 7:30 pm -
Book Party: Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal. Barbara Nimri Aziz. $6. Brecht Forum, 122
W. 27th St. 10th
Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.
JUN 21 FRI, 7:30 pm
- Class Conflict in the Intimate Arena. Harriet
Fraad. $6. Brecht Forum, 122
W. 27th St. 10th
Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.
JUN 22 SAT, 6 pm - Benefit
for a film about Howard Zinn - A Disobedient History.
Barry Crimmins, Paul Lussier
(Last Refuge of Scoundrels) and Anthony Arnove
(editor), producers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. 7 pm - film showing. Seven Stories Press, 140
Watts St. bet. Greenwich and
Washington. Tix: $30/sliding scale. RSVP <info@agitfilm.com>
JUN 24 MON, 6 to 8 pm - Housing
Advice: Do you Have a Housing Problem? Free advice from volunteer attorneys and
experienced housing advocates. Harlem
Tenants Council 212-316-2240 <Harlemtenants@aol.com>.
JUN 24 MON, 7 pm - Mightier
than the Sword. Kick-Ass Cartoonists and Art of
Political Subversion. Panel discussion with Ted Rall
(Search and Destroy), Tom Tomorrow (This
Modern World), Stephanie McMillan, Joel Pett, Matt Wuerker. Moderated
by: Bill Hartung, (World Policy Institute). CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. at 34th
St. $20, $10/Seniors, students,
low-income. Pre-panel reception (6 pm): $100 (includes signed
copy of Ted Rall’s Attidtude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
signed by all the artists present. TrueMajority Campaign, Continuing Education and Public Programs-Graduate Center,
CUNY and World Policy Institute, New School. Seating limited: RSVP, 212-817-8215.
JUN 26 WED, 10 am to 10 pm - Attend
and Testify at the Rent Guidelines Board Public Hearing. Great Hall at Cooper
Union, 7 E. 7th St. N/R to 8th St., 6 to Astor Place. To
testify call: (212) 385-2934. Call the Rent Guidelines Board to confirm dates:
212-385-2934 or see http://www.housingnyc.com. Met
Council on Housing 212-979-6238x6 <active@metcouncil.net>.
JUN 27 THU, 5:30 pm - Attend
the Rent Guidelines Board Vote on Rent Adjustments. Hamilton/U.S. Custom House
Auditorium (basement)
1 Bowling Green, a.k.a The Smithsonian/Museum of the American
Indian,(Manhattan),
4/5 to Bowling Green.
Call the Rent Guidelines Board to confirm dates: 212-385-2934 or see http://www.housingnyc.com.
Metropolitan Council on Housing
212-979-6238x6 <active@metcouncil.net>.
JUN 29-30 SAT-SUN - National Summit on
the Impact of Incarceration on African American Families and Communities.
University of the District of Columbia, Washington. http://www.keepthetrust.org/summit/
JUN 29 SAT, 12 noon
- March on the FBI and the Justice
Department to protest John Ashcroft’s domestic espionage program that targets political
organizations, mosques and community groups. Pennsylvania
Ave. between 9th and 10th
St. NW, Washington.
International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism. http://www.internationalanswer.org
JUL 4 THU, 11 am -3 pm - Diversity Day Rally. Celebrate racial,
ethnic and religious diversity and equality. Focus on issues of immigration
policy affirmative action, racial profiling, police brutality, US
imperialism and Bush’s war on terror and more.
Morris County
(NJ) Court House Steps. NJ Independents 201-487-3748.
JUL 10 WED, 7:30 pm -
Book Party: Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Tariq Ali. $6. Brecht Forum, 122
W. 27th St. 10th
Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.
JUL 24-29 WED-MON - Strategies for Peace, Equality and Justice in an Age of
Globalization. National conference and convention of the Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism with Herbert Aptheker,
Angela Davis, Manning Marable, Betita
Martinez, Charlene Mitchell, Gus Newport, John Nichols, Mike Prokosch, Ken Riley, Mark Solomon, Tim Wise and others plus
representatives of progressive movements in Brazil, Cuba, Germany, Israel,
Palestine and South Africa. San
Francisco State University, Seven Hills Conference Center.
All welcome! CCDS, 116 W. 111 St., New
York, NY 10026. 212-663-3526 <NATIONAL@CC-DS.ORG>.
AUG 17-20 SAT-TUE - Union for
Radical Political Economics Summer Conference. Our World or Theirs? Challenging
Global Capitalism. Workshops plus time for recreation. Camp Chinqueka,
Bantam, CT. Contact URPE 203-777-4605 <URPE@labornet.org> http://www.urpe.org
AUG 17 SAT - Millions for Reparations March, Protest and Demo in Washington on
115th anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s birth. The Durban
400, National Black United Front, December 12th Movement.
708-389-9929, 708-389-9819 <nbufchi@allways.net>.
OCT 22 TUE, 4 pm - Annual
march and rally to stop police brutality, repression and the criminalization of
a generation. Assemble at 4 pm at Union Sq., 14th St and B’way, R/N, 4/5/6 to Union Sq. March at 6 pm to Times Sq.
Oct 22 Coalition 212-673-6008 <oct22ny@yahoo.com>
http://www.october22.org
Continuing Activities
The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign has been
launched in the United
States in protest
against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people. In addition to a boycott
of Israel’s agricultural and industrial products, the Campaign also discourages
tourism and advocates divestment from Israel. For
further information, visit the Campaign’s web site at http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org.
Every SUN, 4:30 pm - Vigil for peace. Broad Ave. Beechwood Pl., Leonia, NJ, in front of
the gazebo. Ellie Spiegel 201-947-9231 <hansle@ix.netcom.com>.
Every 3rd SUN, 7 pm - West Queens Greens meet. Ann
Eagan’s home, 39-51 ½ 46th St., Sunnyside 718-482-0170 (three blocks
north of the 46th St. stop on the 7). Meet and Greet the Greens at 5 pm at Ann’s but call first. Jerry Kann 718-728-1092
<jerrykayy@yahoo.com>.
Every MON, 4 pm - SLAM meeting. Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Building (6 train to 68th) Rm.
105. SLAM/USG 212-772-4261.
Every MON, 7 pm - More Gardens! Stop selling and bulldozing
neighborhood gardens. 79 Clinton Street, #17, F to Delancey St., JMZ to Essex St. Aresh
212-533-8019 <aj9@is3.nyu.edu>.
Every MON, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Metropolitan Council on Housing weekly call-in radio show
has been permanently rescheduled to this time slot on WBAI, 99.5 FM.
Every 2nd MON, 6:30-9:30 pm - Bronx Greens works to build the Green
movement through grassroots organizing and electoral reform. Focus on energy
and the private government. Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, 1087 East Tremont Ave., Bronx (2/5 to East Tremont; buses: 9/21/36/40/42 or Q44 to East
Tremont and Boston Road; cars: X Bronx to 177th
St). Info: 718-548-4693, http://www.bronxgreens.org
Every TUE,
4/4:30-ish - SCALE (Student Committee Against Labor Exploitation). Run by high
school students. Fun stuff! National Labor Committee, 275 7th Ave. at 25th St., 15th Fl.
212-242-3002 http://www.nlcnet.org/scale/main.htm
Every TUE, 7 pm - NY Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. 130 W. 29th
St., 9th
Fl. 212-760-0333 <nycispes@mindspring.com>.
Every 1st
and 3rd TUE, 6-8:30 pm - Metropolitan Council on
Housing open house volunteer nights.
Focus on the political work of Met Council
via phone banking, mailings and letter writing campaigns, forum for
exchange of ideas. 339 Lafayette St. at Bleecker,
6 to Bleecker St., F/S to B’way/Lafayette.
212-979-6238. Tenant hotline 212-979-0611. Fax 212-979-6997 <active@metcouncil.net>.
Every 1st and 3rd WED, 6:30 pm - Prolibertad
Freedom Campaign to free the Puerto Rican political prisoners. Resurrection Church, 790 Elton Ave. bet. 157th & 158th St., Bronx. Ben Ramos 718-601-4751, <uriyoan@hotmail.com>.
Every 2nd and 4th WED, 7 pm - Direct Action Coalition
against the death penalty and the prison industrial complex. Hunter Student Resource Center, 68th St. & Lex.
Ave., Thomas Hunter Hall, Room 202. <aug1directaction@onebox.com>
http://www.freemumia.com/212-629-1775
Every THU, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, Brooklyn Vigil for Peace, 7th
Ave. & Flatbush, (Q to 7th Ave.), Park Slope Greens, War
Resisters League. 718-768-7306.
THU every 4 wks, 7-9 pm - Network in Solidarity with People of the Philippines. 122 W. 27th
St., 10th
Fl. Confirm meeting date and time:
212-741-6806xNISPOP <nispop@nispop.org>.
Every FRI, 6 pm - Vieques Support Campaign. US Navy out of Vieques! Call for location. Frank Velgara
718-601-4751, Carlos Rovira 212-677-0619.
Every SAT, 11 am-noon - Silent vigil
for a non-violent response to terrorism.
Kissena and Main (near Flushing Library), Flushing. Queens Network for Peace and Justice,
WILPF, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Pax Christi. Bill Hagel
718-507-4467 <bill.hagel@juno.com>, Anne Bjornson
718-776-5021 <anne.bjornson@juno.com>.
Every SAT, 11:30
am to 2:00 pm - Manhattan Vigil for Peace, Northern End of Union Square, around
statue. War Resisters League 212-228-0450, 1-800-975-9688 <wrl@igc.org> http://www.warresisters.org
Every SAT, noon to 1 pm - Demand due process rights for immigrants and an end to secret
detentions. Join the struggle to protect
the Bill of Rights and safeguard democratic process. Protest at the
Metropolitan Detention Center, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 29th St. &
3rd Ave. N/R to 25th St. at 4th Ave. If you can’t join, help with petition drive
and letter-writing. 1-800-454-1906x4612 <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com>
Last SAT of every
month, 12:30 to 2:30 pm - Flushing Greens meet. 36-09 Main St., Rm. CC1, near Northern Blvd. (7 to Main St. or
13/16/17/20/25/28/34/44/48/58/65/66 buses, also the QB #1 from Co-op City). 718-961-2002 <1daystar@worldnet.att.net>.
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Edited by Philip Oke