| Saturday, September 6th
All weekend, Hobofest is in Chicago's historic Pullman district,
112th and Pullman.
There will be concerts, workshops, and as always, so much
more.
For more information, visit http://hobofest.southchicago.info/
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It's the weekend. You have plenty of things to do that are
better than watching TV, right? If so, at least TiVo or DVR
the amazing weekend C-SPAN2 series, "Book TV." For
those of you not so technologically inclined, they repeat
some of the shows on Monday and Tuesday.
This weekend, here's just a few of the author you can catch
on 'Book TV':
- New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark
Side," discusses her book on the War on Terror today
at 9 PM, Sunday at 5 PM and 8 PM, and Monday morning at
2 AM.
- past This is Hell! guest Steven Kinzer discusses
his new book, "A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and
the Man Who Dreamed It" at 11 AM today, and tomorrow
at 3:30 AM.
- This is Hell! irregular correspondent John K. Wilson
(http://www.obamapolitics.com)
discusses his book "Barack Obama: The Improbable Quest"
on Sunday from 11 AM till 12:30 PM.
This program repeats at 11 PM.
For more information on John's work, visit http://www.collegefreedom.org.
For the complete schedule, visit http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx.
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Stop America's Next Top Model from crossing the Congress
Hotel picket line!
Workers at the Congress went out on strike on June 15, 2003,
and have walked the picket line ever since. The workers at
the Congress demand equality and justice!
America's Next Top Model is holding a casting call at the
Congress and UNITE HERE! Local 1 will be picketing all day.
It all happens from 9 AM to 11 AM at the Congress, 520 South
Michigan.
For more information call Jessica at 312-446-1767.
UPDATE!
We just received this from UNITE HERE Local 1 ...
- Striking hotel workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel, who
have been on strike for the last five years, can claim one
victory today. Earlier this week, “American’s
Next Top Model” announced that it would stage a local
casting call Saturday morning at the Congress Hotel, but
moved the event to a new venue Thursday evening following
outcry by strike supporters.
Facing the prospect of hundreds of fans and hopeful contestants
crossing the picket line, Congress Hotel strikers and fellow
members of UNITE HERE Local1, the hotel workers union, had
planned a picketing action and protest of the hotel during
the Saturday auditions.
UNITE HERE Local 1 and its supporters in the local and national
labor movement also coordinated extensive outreach to producers
of the popular television show, executives of the CW television
network, and Cover Girl make-up, a key sponsor of “America’s
Next Top Model.”
The Chicago and Los Angeles chapters of AFTRA, the actor’s
union, played a particularly key role in assisting Local
1 with this outreach.
Following a swarm of concerned phone calls and e-mails,
producers of the show sent an e-mail to leaders of AFTRA
LA, announcing that the event had been moved “due to
the long-standing labor dispute with the Congress Plaza
Hotel and its union workers.” The show’s website
posted a new location, the Hyatt Regency at McCormick Place,
Thursday afternoon.
Strikers from the Congress Plaza Hotel went on strike on
June 15, 2003, after the hotel decided to freeze wages and
slash benefits. Now the longest active strike in the country,
workers there have braved five cold Chicago winters to ensure
that hotel jobs in this city are strong, family-sustaining
jobs.
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Jackie Ormes, the first female African American cartoonist,
will be on a panel entitled, "Pioneering Cartoonists
of Color," at 1:30 PM in the Woodson Library, 9525 South
Halsted.
Jackie will be joined by author Nancy Goldstein, former Chicago
Defender editor Charles A Davis, photographer and former publisher
of Tri-State Defender Bobby Sengstacke, cartoonist Greg Harris,
Wall Street Journal & Time journalist Joe Boyce.
The work of African-American pioneering cartoonist Chester
Commodore will definitely be discussed.
For more information on Chester, visit http://www.clstoons.com/paoc/commodore.htm.
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On the second Saturday of every month, Families for Peace
holds their silent vigil at 3 PM in Dunton Park, at Arlington
Heights Road and Northwest Highway.
For more information, send an email.
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WE'RE BACK AT CARY'S LOUNGE
- 2251 West Devon - for a meet & greet with our listeners
from 4 PM to 8 PM. Drop by and meet your bitter blind broke
gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, plus other staff
and listeners of This is Hell!
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Every Saturday evening, the College
of Complexes is a free speech forum. It's one of those
artifacts from the old Bughouse Square days and it's been
going strong since 1951. It was originally in the St. Regis
downtown, but they tore down the Regis so the Saturday evening
College is in the banquet room of the Lincoln Restaurant at
4008 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago's North Center neighborhood.
Tuition is around three bucks and the chaos starts at 8 PM.
Sunday, September 7th
Speakers from the Colombia Sanctuary Project will the human
rights crisis in Colombia at 10 AM in the Third Unitarian
Church, 301 North Mayfield.
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Peter Jones Gallery, Studios and Theater, 1806 West Cuyler,
has two regular Sunday events.
First, from 11 AM till 2 PM every Sunday there's life drawing.
Bring your own materials but easels, drawing horses, boards
and tables available.
NO instruction or registration needed, but it does cost ten
bucks.
Then, from 3 PM to 6 PM it's "Sunday Go in the Gallery"
Come play the ancient game of Go in the quiet, plant-filled,
environment of the gallery every Sunday afternoon.
All levels of players are welcome to come, including absolute
beginners.
The gallery will provide the tables, chairs, tea and coffee,
but you have to byob (bring your own board).
Email Rebecca if you
are interested in coming to play on Sunday. Also, please say
in your email if you have a Go set you can bring (or donate!).
See the Lakeview Go Club’s web site for more information
by visiting http://www.lakeviewgoclub.org.
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Every Sunday at Noon in front of Chicago's Water Tower,
830 North Michigan, Not in My Name (http://www.nimn.org)
sponsors a rally to "End Israel's Occupation of West
Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem."
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Every Sunday, from Noon until 4 PM, there is a Humanitarian
Bike Sale (http://www.workingbikes.org)
at 927 South Western just north of Chicago's Douglas Park.
If you have a bike to donate to the sale, or are looking for
a bike and want to give your dough to a good cause, check
out their web site.
For more information, call 708-466-6054.
Also, the new location for the Working Bikes Co-op (http://www.workingbikes.org)
is 1125 South Western, and is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Fridays from Noon till 7 PM and Sundays from Noon till
5 PM.
Recycled bikes are sold to fund shipments of bicycles to developing
countries.
If you have a bike to donate to the sale, or are looking for
a bike and want to give your dough to a good cause, check
out their web site, email workingbikes@yahoo.com
or call 708-466-6054.
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Every Sunday at 1 PM, at the corner of Fullerton and Lincoln
Avenues in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, Food Not Bombs
(http://www.foodnotbombs.net/)
helps prepare and serve meals for the hungry. Come down and
help out.
And on every Wednesday, at 5 PM, FNB is now doing their good
work at the Loyola 'L' stop.
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Every Sunday beginning at 1:30 PM activists from various
groups join together to protest against war in front of the
Chicago Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.
For more information send an email.
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Speakers from This is Hell! featured Iraq Veterans Against
the War will be joined by psychiatrist Abigail Malone
and clinical social worker Ann Russell to discuss Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder, "Our Troops, Our Community," at
2 PM in Urbana, Illinois' Urbana Free Library Auditorium.
For more information, visit http://www.anti-war.net.
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Labor Express Radio, the radio counterpart to the Labor Beat
television show, is broadcast every Sunday at 7 PM on Loyola's
WLUW 88.7 FM.
For more information, visit http://www.laborexpress.org
Monday, September 8th
The public access TV show Labor Beat (http://www.laborbeat.org)
airs on Chicago Community Access TV's Channel 19 on Thursdays
at 9:30 PM and re-airs Fridays at 4:30 PM. Labor Beat is also
broadcast on Evanston Community TV channel 6 on Fridays at
12:30 AM and re-airs Mondays at 5:30 PM.
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Aaron Sarver, of This is Hell! featured In These Times,
hosts 'Fire on the Prairie' on WLUW 88.7 FM here in Chicago
on the second Monday of every month at 10 AM.
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Every Monday night, the Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 West Grand,
becomes the Leftist Lounge.
For more information, send
an email.
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Every Monday at 6 PM, Iraq Peace Pledge meets at 2502 West
Division.
For more information, visit http://peacepledgechicago.org
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Past This is Hell! guest Dave Zirin will be joined
by Kevin Coval to discuss "Sports, Poetry and Resistance"
at 6:30 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 East Randolph.
For more information, visit http://www.thepublicsquare.org
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Past This is Hell! guest Paul Street discusses his
new book, "Obama and The Future of American Politics,"
at 7 PM in the Lincoln Park Library, 1150 West Fullerton.
Check out these blurbs from other past This is Hell! guests
on Paul's new book:
- “…read urgently this wise book…”-
John Pilger
- “…lucid and penetrating…” - Noam
Chomsky
For more information, visit http://www.openuniversityoftheleft.org.
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The Chicago Women's Health Center presents, "Planting
a Seed: Autonomous Health in Chiapas," wherein the Zapatista
independent health care system, a health care system created
to be a democratically built community effort, will be discussed.
It all starts at 7:30 PM in Links Hall, 3435 North Sheffield.
For more information, send
an email or call 773-935-6126, extension 221.
Tuesday, September 9th
Every Tuesday, from 6 AM till 7:15 AM there's an Antiwar
Vigil at the corner of Sheridan and Hollywood.
For more information visit http://www.vcnv.org.
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Every Tuesday, there's a silent vigil against war and racism
at the Chicago Federal Building, Jackson and Dearborn, from
8 AM till 9 AM.
For more information call 312-641-5151.
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Working Bikes Co-op (http://www.workingbikes.org),
1125 South Western, is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
from Noon till 7 PM and Sundays from Noon till 5 PM.
Recycled bikes are sold to fund shipments of bicycles to developing
countries.
If you have a bike to donate to the sale, or are looking for
a bike and want to give your dough to a good cause, check
out their web site, email workingbikes@yahoo.com
call 708-466-6054.
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Every Tuesday, Ravenswood for Peace holds their weekly meetings
at 6:30 PM in Ravenswood United Church at 2050 West Pensacola
in Chicago's North Center neighborhood.
For more information send an email (ravenswood4peace@yahoo.com).
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Every Tuesday at 7 PM, Cafe Society happens at Cafe Mestizo,
2123 South Ashland.
For more information, visit http://www.thepublicsquare.org/cafe
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Every Tuesday, the Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism
holds their weekly meeting at 7 PM. in the University Church
at 5655 South University.
For more information call 773-377-5002, extension 5676, or
send an email.
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Every Tuesday at 7:30 PM, South
Siders for Peace hold their weekly meeting at the Beverly
Unitarian Church, 103rd and Longwood
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Peter Jones Gallery, Studios and Theater, 1806 West Cuyler,
hosts a photography discussion group meeting on the first
Tuesday of every month.
Bring your recent work to show and tell at this lively and
informative photography meeting that starts at 7:30 PM and
goes till 9:30 PM.
Regular participants to the group include experts with digital
as well as 19th century techniques.
Show off your latest work. Get your questions answered.
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Every Tuesday at 8:30 PM, the Nervous Center at Hotti Biscotti,
3545 West Fullerton, features two free sets of improvised
jazz, by the Baker Hunt Sandstrom group featuring Jim Baker
on arp and keyboards, Brian Sandstrom on bass and guitar,
Steve Hunt on drums percussion, and Mars Williams on reeds.
For more information, call 773-772-9970.
There's no cover but it is a 21 and over venue.
Wednesday, September 10th
Every Wednesday, Counterspin airs at 10 AM on WLUW 88.7 FM.
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Every Wednesday at 5 PM, there is a 'Women in Black Silent
Vigil' at Evanston's Fountain Square.
For more information, send an email.
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On the second Wednesday of every month, the Pomegranate Radical
Health Collective gets together at the Association House,
1116 North Kedzie, from 6 PM to 8 PM.
For more information, visit http://www.pomegranatecollective.org
or call 312-924-1820.
Thursday, September 11th
There is an antiwar peace vigil every Thursday morning from
6:30 AM till 7:30 AM at the Geneva, Illinois Metra train station.
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Working Bikes Co-op (http://www.workingbikes.org),
1125 South Western, is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
from Noon till 7 PM and Sundays from Noon till 5 PM.
Recycled bikes are sold to fund shipments of bicycles to developing
countries.
If you have a bike to donate to the sale, or are looking for
a bike and want to give your dough to a good cause, check
out their web site, email workingbikes@yahoo.com
call 708-466-6054.
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Every Thursday, from 12:30 PM till 1 PM, there's an 'End
the War, Bring the Troops Home Now' rally at Central Avenue
and Port Clinton Plaza, in downtown Highland Park.
For more information, call 847-432-9411
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Every Thursday, from 5 PM till 6 PM, in front of Blue line
El stop at Milwaukee, North and Damen, artist C Drew gives
away free hand-printed peace patches and passes out his 'Peace
Personified' series of fliers with news of coming peace protests
and other peace related events. Often he prints peace patches
right on the spot.
For more information, call 773-561-7676, send an email
or visit http://www.c-drew.com
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On the second and fourth Thursday of each month, at 7 PM,
there's a planning meeting for Oak Park Coalition for Truth
and Justice (http://www.opctj.org/),
in the second floor book discussion room of the Oak Park Public
Library, 834 Lake Street.
For more information, call 708-668-7945 or send
an email.
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Every Thursday at 7 PM, Cafe Society happens at Valois Restaurant,
1518 East 53rd.
For more information, visit http://www.thepublicsquare.org
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The public access TV show Labor Beat (http://www.laborbeat.org)
airs on Chicago Community Access TV's Channel 19 on Thursdays
at 9:30 PM and re-airs Fridays at 4:30 PM. Labor Beat is also
broadcast on Evanston Community TV channel 6 on Fridays at
12:30 AM and re-airs Mondays at 5:30 PM.
Saturday, September 13th
The open exhibit "Eyes Wide Open," featuring 146
pairs of empty combat boots, one for each Illinois serviceperson
killed in the Iraq War happens today and tomorrow from 9 AM
to 6 PM.
Today, it's at Nichols Park, 1300 East 55th Street. Tomorrow,
it's at the 57th Street Quaker House, 5615 South Woodlawn.
Sunday, September 14th
Journalist and columnist Robert Koehler, an editor at Tribune
Media Services, discusses "A Peace Journalist Looks at
the Media," at 10:30 AM in Skokie's Ethical Humanist
Society, 7574 North Lincoln Avenue.
For more information, visit http://www.ethicalhuman.org
or send an email.
Monday, September 15th
Past This is Hell! guest Tom Frank discusses his new
book, "The Wrecking Crew," at 7 PM in the Experimental
Station, 6100 South Blackstone.
Wednesday, September 17th
This is Hell! featured Center for Neighborhood Technology
celebrates their 30th anniversary at 6 PM in the Garfield
Park Conservatory, 300 North Central Park.
For more information, visit http://www.cnt.org/calendar#cnt30
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On the first and third Wednesday of every month, the Chicagoland
Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights meets at 6:30 PM
in 1325 South Wabash, Suite 105.
For more information, visit http://www.ccclr.org/
Thursday, September 18th
Gary Gerstle, the James Stahlman Professor of History at
Vanderbilt University, will discuss "Private Power and
American Democracy: Rethinking the History of the US State,"
at 7 PM on the tenth floor of Roosevelt University, 430 South
Michigan.
Gary will be joined by Joan Sangster of Trent University on
the view from Canada, and Barbara Weinstein of NYU on the
view from Latin America,
For more information, visit http://www.workingclassstudies.org
Friday, September 19th
On the third Friday of every month at 7 PM, there's a meeting
of the Northern Illinois chapter of End the Occupation.
This potluck happens in Wesley United Methodist Church, 21
East Franklin, in Naperville.
The potluck and program are followed by by a vigil on the
Washington Street Bridge in Naperville the following Saturday
from Noon to 1 PM.
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On the third Friday of every month, the Historic DANK-HAUS,
4740 North Western, hosts Stammtisch the Monthly Open Haus
on the sixth floor in the Skyline Lounge.
German food, drink, and gemütlichkeit. Meet old friends
and make new ones.
This month's musical entertainment is provided by Jutta and
the Hi-Dukes, a small ensemble offering a wide-ranging musical
tour through many Euro-American cultures in an engaging and
energetic way. From German to Romanian to Danish and Bulgarian,
be ready to dance along to great music. The band's German
repertoire is an eclectic mix - everything from the Oktoberfest
Bavarian "standards" to Medieval material! They
will be unveiling a specially-composed Zwiefacher dance melody,
too.
There's no cover and doors open at 7:30 PM.
Saturday, September 20th
The 2008 Pax Cristi Peace Conference, featuring Iraq war
refugees and veterans, plus, that's right, so much more, happens
today starting at 8:30 AM and going till Noon in St. Gertrude’s,
1401 West Granville.
For more information, send an email.
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On the third Saturday of every month, there's a vigil on
Naperville's Washington Street Bridge from Noon to 1 PM.
It's brought to you by the Northern Illinois chapter of End
the Occupation which holds their annual meeting and potluck
the night before, at 7 PM, in Wesley United Methodist Church,
21 East Franklin, also in Naperville.
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The DANK-HAUS, 4740 North Western, hosts "German Cinema
Now" featuring contemporary film screenings (in German
with English subtitles) every third Sunday of the month.
It's at 7 PM on the second floor in the Brandenburg Room.
For more information visit, http://www.dankhaus.com
Sunday, September 21st
Donor mom and volunteer activist Jeanette Leavett discusses
"Organ Donation: A Gift of Hope, A Gift of Life,"
at 10:30 AM in Skokie's Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 North
Lincoln Avenue.
For more information, visit http://www.ethicalhuman.org
or send an email.
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The Young Lords are celebrating their 40 year struggle beginning
at 2 PM in the San Lucas United Church of Christ, 2914 West
North.
Speakers include Kathleen Cleaver, Omar Lopez, Carlos Flores,
Iris Morales, and others.
For more information, visit http://www.nationalyounglords.com
Friday, September 26th
Chicago's Critical Mass, featured in the past on This
is Hell, happens on the last Friday of every month no matter
the weather ... For more information, visit http://chicagocriticalmass.org/ccmx.
Saturday, September 27th
The Tenth Annual Matthew Shepard March begins at the corner
of Halsted and Roscoe.
Wednesday, October 1st
The labor movement in the post-Bush Era will be discussed
by past This is Hell! guests Bill Fletcher and David
Moberg, among others, at UE Hall, 37 South Ashland.
Saturday, October 4th
WE'RE BACK AT CARY'S LOUNGE
- 2251 West Devon - for a meet & greet with our listeners
from 4 PM to 8 PM. Drop by and meet your bitter blind broke
gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, plus other staff
and listeners of This is Hell!
Monday, October 6th
On the first Monday of each and every month, there is a meeting
of the Chicago Area Chapter of Fellowship of Reconciliation,
an international, interfaith group dedicated to peace, justice
and nonviolence.
They hold their meeting at 7 PM in the First United Church
of Oak Park, 848 Lake, Oak Park, Illinois.
Thursday, October 9th
On the first Thursday of every month, from 6:30 AM till 8
AM, there's a Families for Peace Vigil on the northeast corner
of Arlington Heights Road and Northwest Highway in Arlington
Heights.
For more information, send an email.
The first Thursday of every month, at about 8 PM, past This
is Hell guest Taki Pantos plays music for free - but
throw a couple of bucks in the jar - at Simon's Tavern in
Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood, 5210 North Clark Street.
Make sure you call Simon's first at 773-878-0894 to see if
Taki is keeping to his schedule.
Sunday, November 9th
Past This is Hell! guest Naomi Klein speaks as part
of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Special thanks to Eric Schuster at Chicago's New World Resource
Center (http://www.newworldresourcecenter.com)
at 1300 North Western and the Open University of the Left (http://www.openuniversityoftheleft.org)
for his indispensable tips on just what the Hell is going on.
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