December 05 Community Calendar
THU DEC 1
Ongoing through August, 2006
MOVING WALLS
Documentary photograph exhibition series
including photographs by: Lynsey Addario,
Marcus Bleasdale, Julien Chatelin, Katja
Heinemann, Tim Hetherington,
and Sara Terry.
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th St. Info: 212-548-0600
FRI DEC 9
4 – 9pm
5th ANNUAL FILIPINO YOUTH FESTIVAL
Workshops and performances on Philippine
history and arts.
Philippine Forum
54-05 Seabury St.
Elmhurst, Queens
SAT DEC 10
8:15am • Free
ABORTION CLINIC DEFENSE
Tired of clinic patients being harassed?
Come join us to tell Bishop Thomas Daily and
the “Helpers of God’s Precious Infants” that
they are not welcome.
43rd St. and 3rd Ave.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
9pm • $10
MUSIC: Neues Kabarett with Assif Tsahar,
Cooper-Moore & Chad Taylor.
Brecht Forum
451 West St.
212-242-4201
www.brechtforum.org
SUN DEC 11
6pm • Free
ALTAR MAGAZINE SCREENING: The film Body:
The Value Of Women by Shereen Noon will be
shown. Attendees will receive a free goody
bag of items from women-friendly businesses
and organizations.
Stain
766 Grand St. (at Humboldt St.)
Brooklyn
info@altarmagazine.com
2:00pm • Free
READING: BLUE RAGE, BLACK REDEMPTION
Stanley “Tookie” Willams is on death row
with an execution set for December 13.
A clip from the film Redemption, based on
Williams’ memoir, will be shown.
VoxPop, 1022 Cortelyou Rd. (at Coney Island Ave.)
(F or D/Q lines), Brooklyn
www.voxpopnet.net
MON DEC 12
6pm • $5
MUSIC: NYC Labor Chorus Evening Concert
for Family & Friends.
Teamsters Local 237
216 W 14th St. (at 7th Ave.)
Info: 212-929-3232, info@nyclc.org
www.nyclc.org
7pm • Free
READING: DANNY SCHECHTER, Death of
Media & the Fight to Save Democracy,
which chronicles the rise of the media
reform movement.
Bluestockings
172 Allen St at Stanton St.
1 blk so of Houston. F/V to 2nd Ave.
Info: 212-777-6028, www.bluestockings.com
TUE DEC 13
9:30am • Free
PROTEST: Miguel Malo Sentencing. Come support
Hostos Community College student leader
arrested by CUNY security in August 2001
when he held up a sign in a public atrium outside
the school cafeteria to protest cutbacks.
Bronx Criminal Court
215 E. 161 St. (2 blocks east of Grand Concourse,
4, D to 161st St.)
Info: CUNY Action to Defend Miguel Malo, 212-460-0983.
7pm • Free
READING: Hazel Rowley, Tête-à-Tête: Simone
de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre, on two of the
most fascinating, iconic intellectuals of the
20th century.
Bluestockings
172 Allen St at Stanton (1 bk S of Houston, F/V
to 2nd Ave). Info: 212-777-6028,
www.bluestockings.com
WED DEC 14
7 pm • Free
FILM: BEYOND THE PATRIOT ACT, First in
ACLU Freedom Files Series. Post-film
discussion & Q&A w/ speaker from NYCLU.
Common Lounge, Int’l Student Ctr, 38 W 88th St.
Sponsor: Arts for Peace. Info: Mike Popowich, 212-
787-7706, info@arts-for-peace.org & www.arts-forpeace.
org.
7pm • Free
READINGS: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber and
the Orientalist by Julian Rubenstein and Tom
Reiss.
Housingworks Used Books Cafe
126 Crosby St.
www.housingworks.org/usedbookcafe
7pm • Free
READING: The Heart of Whiteness by
Robert Jensen. Mixing experience with
data theory, Jensen examines difficult realities
of race, racism and white privilege.
Jensen argues that any system that denies
non-white people their full humanity also
keeps white people from fully accessing
their own humanity.
VoxPop
1022 Cortelyou Rd. (at Prospect Pl.)
(F or D/Q lines)
Brooklyn
www.voxpopnet.net
THU DEC 15
8pm • Free
FILM: ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE
Filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas interviews
Michael Moore and others.
Time’s Up!
49 E Houston St
212-802-8222
www.times-up.org
5 pm • Free
PROTEST: HOLIDAY SEASON of CONSCIENCE
Candlelight March. Expose Wal-Mart’s Hidden
NYC office.
Wal-Mart office
310 5th Ave; walk up 5th Ave to 34th St & then to
Herald Sq for short rally. Sponsor: National Labor
Committee. Info: 212-242-3002,
nlc@nlcnet.org & http://www.nlcnet.org
6pm • Free
TALK: “Diet, Inflammation & the Cause of
Prostate Cancer,” by Dr William G Nelson,
MD, PhD (JHU School of Medicine, Johns
Hopkins Hospital).
525 E 68th St, 1/4 block E of York Ave,
Lect. Hall A950
Sponsor: Us TOO NY Prostate Cancer Survivors
Support Group.
Info: 212-946-1494.
FRI DEC 16
6-9pm • Free
AN EVENING OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT,
ENTERTAINMENT & APPRECIATION. With
Mental Notes Xspiritmental Hip hop fusion
band, Realities Awaken, Kahjee, Candela &
local talent – Marie Curie High School Youth,
Youth Ministies for Peace & Justice & then
some.
60 East 174th St., Bronx
www.rockingtheboat.org
8pm • Suggested donation $10
PROLIBERTAD’S SALSA HOLIDAY AUCTION. DJ
Carlito spinning Mambo/Salsa, Merengue, Hip
Hop with Nuyorican musician Rafael Landron.
Proceeds of auction and donations to the
Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Commissary
Fund and others.
St Mary’s Episcopal Church
521 West 126th St.
212-927-9065
www.prolibertadweb.com
SAT DEC 17
7pm • Suggested $5
STUDENT RESPONSE TO GENOCIDE IN SUDAN
Join a discussion and speak with members of
the Children’s Right Summer Institute, who
are working to save lives in the Sudan.
Bluestocking
172 Allen St
Btwn. Stanton and Rivington
SUN DEC 18
6pm• Donations accepted
HOLIDAY BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
21st Annual Interdenominational Celebration.
All pets welcome, even teddy bears. Proceeds
to the ASPCA.
Central Presbyterian Church
593 Park Ave.
212-838-1501
www.centralonpark.org
WED DEC 21
7pm • $6
END-OF-YEAR OPEN HOUSE. Come eat and
party at an event sponsored by Radical Women.
Freedom Hall
113 West 128th St.
212-222-0633
www.socialism.com
FRI DEC 30
7pm • Free
MANHATTAN CRITICAL MASS RIDE
Gather at Union Square Park North for
monthly celebration of bicycles and other
non-polluting transportation. Bring winter
coats to donate to a homeless shelter.
SUN JAN 1
2pm –12am • Free
WORD/PERFORMANCE EXTRAVAGANZA
featuring 150 artists. Bring can foods and
paperbacks to benefit City Harvest and Books
Through Bars.
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
212-614-0505
SAT JAN 7
8pm • $12
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and JON FROMER at
New York’s longest running venue for political
music.
Peoples’ Voice Café at the Workmen’s Circle
45 East 33rd St. (betw. Park & Madison)
www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
THU JAN 12
6-8:30 pm • Free
DELEGATION TO CHIAPAS
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