| Friday, March 28th
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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Beginning today and running through Sunday, the Midwest Social
Forum Organizing Teach-In, at the Wonderland Camp and Conference
Center in Camp Lake, Wisconsin.
For more information, call 608-262-0854, visit http://www.mwsocialforum.org,
or send an email.
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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 Friday at 4:30 PM, there's a vigil for peace and witness
Against war at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, 820 South
Damen.
For more information, visit http://www.vitw.org
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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.
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The Chicago Fight Big Media Meetup happens every Friday in
Cosi Cafe, 116 South Michigan, at 6:30 PM.
For more information, visit http://fightbigmedia.meetup.com/134/?gj=sj10
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Maya Angelou speaks at St. Sabina Church, 1210 West 78th
Street, at 7:30 PM.
For more information, visit http://www.saintsabina.org.
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Every Friday evening, the College
of Complexes has a stimulating roundtable for discussion
on a myriad of topics. It's one of those artifacts from the
old Bughouse Square days. Once forced inside, these freespeech-aholics
started the College. It was originally in the St. Regis downtown,
but they tore down the Regis so it's Friday evening location
is at the FutureWorld Café, 1744 E. 55th in Chicago's Hyde
Park. Tuition is around five bucks and the chaos starts at
8 PM.
Saturday, March 29th
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.
Here's some of the stuff they're featuring this weekend:
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The official This is Hell listening center is located
in Cary's
Lounge, 2251 West Devon, in Chicago's West Rogers Park
neighborhood (also known as West Ridge and Chai Town).
While no purchase is necessary, you can get a cup of coffee,
a glass of juice, some seltzer, that breakfast in a glass,
a Bloody Mary, or even a National Beer, (that's right, they
have it on tap!) and meet other This is Hell listeners every
Saturday during or after the show.
This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show
host Chuck Mertz and producer Drew Colglazier, will be hanging
out from 3 PM till 8PM.
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A panel discussion called, "Zionism Reconsidered,"
will be held in the Oak Park Public Library's Veterans Room,
834 Lake Street, at 2:30 PM.
Speakers include:
- Past This is Hell! guest Brian Klug, a senior
research fellow at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford and member
of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. Brian
is also an associate editor of Patterns of Prejudice and
a co-founder of Independent Jewish
Voices (UK). And he is co-editor of the upcoming "A
Time to Speak Out" (Verso).
- Joel Kovel holds degrees in medicine, psychiatry, and
psychoanalysis and practiced for 24 years. Since 1988 he
has been a professor of social studies at Bard College.
He has published nine books, including "White Racism";
"The Age of Desire"; "The Enemy of Nature":
"The End of Capitalism or The End of the World";
and "Overcoming Zionism." Kovel has been engaged
in struggles for peace and justice since the Vietnam War
era and has worked within the anti-war and anti-nuclear
movements.
- Past This is Hell! guest Tony Karon is a senior
editor at TIME.com where he analyzes the Middle East and
other international conflicts. Born in South Africa, Karon
was active in the Labor Zionist Habonim movement in his
teenage years, before moving on to join the anti-apartheid
struggle as an editor in the alternative press and as an
activist of the banned African National Congress. Now a
New Yorker, Karon maintains the website Rootless Cosmopolitan,
which features his analysis of geopolitics in the age of
the war on terror, and writes extensively on questions of
Zionism and Jewish identity.
For information visit http://www.cjpip.org
or call 312-427-2533 x 18
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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, March 30th
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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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
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The speaking tour "Acknowledging the Past: Imagining
the Future" explores Israeli and Palestinian experiences
of 1948, the creation of the Palestinian refugee crisis and
the role of the right of return in any just solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It happens at 7 PM in the University of Chicago's International
House, 1414 East 59th.
Speakers include:
- Mohammad Jaradat is a Palestinian activist and cofounder
of Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee
Rights, established in 1998. Badil takes a rights-based
approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research,
advocacy and promoting the participation of refugees themselves.
- Eitan Bronstein is a Jewish Israeli educator, activist,
and Director of the Israeli organization, Zochrot. Founded
in 2002, Zochrot seeks to educate Jewish Israelis about
al-Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe” which
refers to the 1948 displacement and dispossession of Palestinians.
For more information, send an email
or visit http://www.afsc.org/Israel-Palestine
Monday, March 31st
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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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
Tuesday, April 1st
Today is 'Ride If You're Naked Day' on Chicago's CTA transit
system. All riders who are naked ride for free!
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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, April 2nd
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 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, April 3rd
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.
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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.
Friday, April 4th
Evanston has their own Critical Mass.
It happens on the first Friday of every month at 6:30 PM.
Gather at Fountain Square on the corner of Davis, Sherman
and Orrington.
Monday, April 7th
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.
Friday, April 11th
Through Sunday, it's the Historians Against the War Conference
in Atlanta.
We assume that's the war on Iraq and not the War of Northern
Aggression, er, the War for Southern Independence, ER, the
War-That-Started-When-The-Freaking-South-Attacked-Fort-Sumter-So-Rich-Whitey-Could-Still-Enslave-Whoever-They-Damn-Well-Please.
For more information, visit http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/
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Also, through Sunday, it's the annual Labor Notes Conference
in Dearborn, Michigan. That whirring sound you may hear while
attending is Henry "I Hate Jews" Ford's corpse spinning
in his hell hole, um, grave.
Labor Notes has been featured on This is Hell in the
past, and it's high time we get them back on the show.
Saturday, April 12th
There's a luncheon fundraiser for emergency relief in the
Gaza Strip from 1 PM to 3 PM in Northwestern University's
Hughes Auditorium at the Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center,
303 East Superior.
It's $25 but $10 for students.
Speakers include:
- Andrew Whitley, Director of the Representative Office
of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. Whitley has worked
as a reporter for the BBC, the Financial Times and other
organizations, and has taught at NYU. He was a reporter
in Iran during the 1979 revolution and has worked in Kosovo.
- And the amazing Barbara Lubin, Executive Director of the
Middle
East Children’s Alliance (MECA), an organization
that supports children and families in Palestine, Lebanon
and Iraq through humanitarian aid, education and community-based
projects. All the proceeds from this event will be donated
to MECA to assist in their work in the Gaza Strip.
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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.
Monday, April 14th
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.
Wednesday, April 16th
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.
Friday, April 18th
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, April 19th
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.
Sunday, April 20th
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
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Thursday, May 1st
La Gran Marcha Nacional 2008, the Million Immigrant March,
begins today and runs through Saturday in Washington, DC.
For more information, call Jesse Díaz, Jr. at 213-725-1714
or send an email.
Monday, May 12th
Today through Friday, the World Congress on the Future of
Food and Agriculture take place in Bonn, Germany.
For more information, visit http://www.planet-diversity.org/
Thursday, June 5th
Through Saturday, it's the How Class Works Conference at
the State University of New York-Stony Brook.
For more information, visit http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Friday, June 6th
The National Conference for Media Reform runs through Monday,
June 8th, in Minneapolis.
For more information, visit http://www.freepress.net/conference/
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Today through Sunday, the Global Studies Association conference
will be held in New York City.
For more information, visit http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/
Sunday, June 22nd
The Great Labor Arts Exchange and Conference on Creative
Organizing starts today and runs through Tuesday at the National
Labor College 10000 New Hampshire Avenue, in Silver Spring,
Maryland.
Maryland,
For more information, visit http://www.laborheritage.org/glaecco.htm
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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