Events
ABORTION – The 29th annual conference, From Abortion to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, will be held April 10-12 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Contact: Civil Liberties and Public Policy, 893 West Street, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002; 413-559-6976; [email protected]; http://clpp.hampshire.edu/conference.
COLONIALISM/ANTI-BLACKNESS – Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-blackness Conference is a conversation and intellectual & political exchange between Native Studies and Black Studies, focusing on how anti-Black racism intersects with settler colonial logics. April 10, at the University of California, Riverside.
Contact: 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521; 951-827-1012; http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/conferences/otherwise_worlds.
MILITARY SPENDING – April 13 is a Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Events are planned worldwide.
Contact: http://demilitarize.org/.
RACISM/POLICE – On April 13 Justice League NYC and others will march from New York City to Washington, DC to demand Congress act on legislation to end racial profiling, demilitarize police forces, and invest in communities.
Contact: The Gathering for Justice, 310 West 43rd Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10036; http://march2justice.com.
WOMEN TECH & CULTURE – AdaCamp Montreal, the 7th AdaCamp, will be held April 13-14 in Montreal, Quebec. The conference is dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture.
Contact: [email protected]; http://adainitiative.org/2015/01/.
BLACK LIVES MATTER – The New York Justice League will #March2Justice, from New York City to Washington, DC, beginning April 13, stopping in cities and towns along the route for rallies and mobilizations, demanding that Congress act on legislation to end racial profiling, demilitarize police forces and invest in communities.
Contact: http://www.gatheringforjustice.org/.
BLACK LIVES MATTER – The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) has called for a national strike on April 14 to stop police murder.
Contact: 347-979-7646; [email protected]; www.stopmassincarceration.net.
VIETNAM/VETERANS – Veterans For Peace Annual Tour To Viet Nam will be April 16-May 2. The mission of the tour is to address the legacies of America’s war, as well as tour a beautiful country and form lasting ties of friendship and peace.
Contact: 216 South Meramec Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63105; 314-725-6005; [email protected]; http://www.veteransforpeace.org/.
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR – The 9th Annual New York City Anarchist Book Fair will be held in its original site at Judson Memorial Church, April 18, bringing publishes, designers, writers, artists, musicians and activists from all over North America to Greenwich Village, one of the birthplaces of the anarchist movement.
Contact: [email protected]; http://anarchistbookfair.net/.
CLIMATE – Global Climate Convergence is organizing two days of action – Mother Earth Day (April 22) and May Day (May 1) – including civil disobedience, boycotts and creative community alternatives, building towards the first People’s Global Climate Strike in December 2015 in solidarity with the Paris UN Climate protests.
Contact: [email protected]; http://globalclimateconvergence.org/.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS – A call to action has been issued by a number of organizations for April in NYC just before the UN’s Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference (April 28–May 9), held every five years, to protest the lack of progress in getting rid of nuclear weapons.
Events include an international conference (April 24-25), a mass march to the UN followed by a rally and peace festival (April 26), an Interfaith Service for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.
Contact: 718-768-7306; [email protected].
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP – The 29th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference will be held April 29 in Akron, OH. The Conference is directed towards business owners, current employee owners, and economic & community development professionals.
Contact: 330-672-3028; [email protected]; http://oeockent.org/.
ETHNIC STUDIES – The 2015 conference of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association will be held April 30 – May 3, in Toronto, with the theme: “Sovereignties and Colonialisms: Resisting Racism, Extraction and Dispossession.”
Contact: PO Box 20581, Seattle, WA 98102; https://www.criticalethnicstudies.org.
MAY DAY – May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 125th anniversary of International Worker’s Day. Born out of a call for an eight-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.
MEDIA – The Union for Democratic Communications 2015 conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held May 1-3 at the University of Toronto.
Contact: http://udc2015.wordpress.com/.
WORKERS / FILM – The 4th Annual Workers Unite Film Festival will be May 1-22, in New York City.
Contact: http://www.workersunitefilmfestival.org/.
MARIJUANA – On May 2, the first Saturday in May, marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
Contact: http://cannabisparade.org/.
HUMAN RIGHTS – The Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center and the U.S. Human Rights Network will present the 10th Annual Human Rights Institute, May 7-9.
Contact: 123 William Street, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10038; 646-459-3031; [email protected]; http://www.urbanjustice.org/.
ANTIWAR – The “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad” conference will be May 8-10, in Secaucus, NJ, hosted bt the United National Antiwar Coalition.
Contact: PO Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; 518-227-6947; [email protected]; https://www.unacpeace.org/.
MOTHER’S DAY – The 19th Annual Mother’s Day Walk For Peace will be May 10, in Dorchester, MA.
Contact: http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
MALCOLM X – May 19th is the birthday of Malcolm X. Calls have been issued for a holiday, Claim Malcolm X Day, to celebrate the birthday of a freedom fighter.
Contact: [email protected].
FEMINISM/SCI-FI – The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 39 is scheduled for May 22-25 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; [email protected]; http://www.wiscon.info/.
MULTICULTURE– The 28th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 26-30, in Washington, DC. Student scholarships are available.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; [email protected]; www.ncore.ou.edu.
CLASS/INEQUALITY – The Fighting Inequality: Clase, Race, and Power conference will be presented by the Labor and Working-Class Association, and the Working-Class Studies Association. May 28-31, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Contact: LAWCHA, 226 Carr Building (East Campus), Box 90719, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0719; [email protected]; http://lawcha.org; http://fightinginequality.org/.
LEFT FORUM – The 2015 Left Forum will be held May 29-31, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Contact: 212-817-2003; [email protected]; http://www.leftforum.org.
MOUNTAINTOP – The 10th Annual Mountain Justice Summer Camp will be held May 30-June 7, in Charleston, WV. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: Mountain Justice, PO Box 86, Naoma, WV 25140; http://mountainjustice.org.
JUSTICE – The Justice Conference 2015 will be held in Chicago, June 5-6. The Justice Conference is an annual national primary conference that seeks to educate, inspire and connect a generation of men and women around a shared concern for biblical and social justice, the vulnerable and oppressed.
Contact: http://thejusticeconference.com/.
BIKES – Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 28th annual Bike-A-Thon in Boston, MA on June 7.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; [email protected]; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
MEDIA – The 17th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 18-21, in Detroit.
Contact: Allied Media Projects, 4126 Third St., Detroit, MI 48201; 313-718-2267; http://alliedmedia.org/.
FILM / LGBTQX / PALESTINE – The Outside the Frame: Queers for Palestine Film Festival will be held June 19-21, in San Francisco.
Contact: [email protected]; http://outsidetheframefest.org.
US SOCIAL FORUM – The United States Social Forum will meet June 24-28 in Jackson, MI; June 24-27 in San Jose, CA; and June 25-28 in Philadelphia, PA.
Contact: USSF 2010, Detroit, MI 48226; [email protected]; http://www.ussocialforum.net.
YOUTH/INCARCERATION – The Second Chance Conference: A Time To Act, will be held June 26, in Toronto.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.secondchanceconference.com/.
VEGAN FEST – The 5th annual Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 27. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; [email protected]; http://veganfest.org/.
Misc
WOMEN/SCHOLARSHIP – Women Deliver is accepting applications for Scholarship to attend the Women Deliver 2016 Conference, May 16-19, 2016, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Women Deliver conferences focus on health, rights and well-being of girls and women.
Contact: 588 Broadway, Suite 905, New York, NY 10012; 646-695-9100; [email protected]; http://www.womendeliver.org.
Books
ETHNIC STUDIES – The essays in Strange Affinities examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
Contact: Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B, Durham, NC 27701; 888-651-0122; [email protected]; https://www.dukeupress.edu.
ROMA – Jud Nirenberg’s Gypsy Movements is an account of what Roma across Europe who continue to face violence and oppression.
Contact: https://judnirenberg.wordpress.com/; http://www.smithpublicity.com/.
IRAQ – Genocide In Iraq, Volume 2: The Obliteration of a Modern State by Abdul Haq al-Ani and Tarik al-Ani details the scale of post-2003 destruction and redesign, showing clearly how every step was intended to change Iraq irreversibly to a slave state of extreme neoliberal capitalism.
Contact: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647-6501; [email protected]; http://www.claritypress.com/.
PUNISHMENT – Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism, by Andrew Ditts, gives a theoretical and historical account of the practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival research into state constitutional conventions.
Contact: Fordham University Press, 2546 Belmont Avenue, University Box L, Bronx, NY 10458; 718-817-4795; http://fordhampress.com.
HOUSING/HOUSELESS – House Keys Not Handcuffs is a reflection on over 30 years of homeless organizing in San Francisco. It is an attempt to sort out what went well and what did not as a community begins to organize in order to hold public and private institutions accountable.
Contact: AK Press, 3500 Parkdale Avenue, Building 1, Suite 3, Baltimore, MD 21211; 510-208-1700; http://www.akpress.org/.
TESTING – More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.
Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884; http://www.haymarketbooks.org/.
FREE ENTERPRISE – Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies, by Michael Parenti, demonstrates that capitalists do everything they can to undercut their competitors, and hate competition even as they sing its praises.
Contact: Clarity Press, Inc., Ste. 469, 3277 Roswell Rd. NE, Atlanta, GE 30305; 404-647-6501; [email protected]; http://www.claritypress.com/.
SOCIAL SECURITY – Social Security Works!: Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All, by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson is a myth-busting look at a critical component of the American social contract.
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenewpress.com/.
EUROPE/GOVERNANCE – Global Governance Trade and the Crisis in Europe, by Mariarosaria Iorio, contains reflections on how the financial crisis has affected Europe and the links with educational systems that have not been adapted to the new realities of the globalized world economy.
Contact: http://www.authorhouse.co.uk.
POVERTY – Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History by David Wagner and Jenna Nunziato, depicts stories of Americans born in poverty who achieved fame; while also showing how poverty hampers individuals and groups for a lifetime.
Contact: Paradigm Publishers, 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206A, Boulder, CO 80303; 303-245-9054; https://paradigm.presswarehouse.com.
ARMED CONFLICT – Transnational Asymmetric Armed Conflict under International Humanitarian Law: Key Contemporary Changes, by Eliav Lieblich, addresses some of the major challenges that contemporary conflicts, particularly transnational asymmetric armed conflicts, present in the context of international humanitarian law.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.inss.org.il/.
Film
PALESTINE – Roshima is a new documentary by Salim Abu Jabal, based on an old refugee couple’s story in the last natural valley in Haifa, defending their home from demolition.
Contact: http://vimeo.com/user7493717.
AFGHANISTAN – Playing With Fire introduces six courageous Afghan women who share their passions for acting, dreams, and difficult realities. Filmmaker Anneta Papathanssiou exposes pervasive erosions of Afghan women’s rights and captures art’s transformative power and the dangers these courageous women face to do the work they love.
Contact: Women Make Movies, 115 W 29th St, Suite 1200; New York, NY 10001; 212-925-0606; [email protected]; http://www.wmm.com.
LAND DEVELOPERS – A Dangerous Game is Anthony Baxter’s sequel to You’ve Been Trumped about how big land developers use gold as an excuse to build massive luxurious resorts on the expense of the locals and their ecosystem, and abuse natural resources.
Contact: http://www.adangerousgame.org.
IMMIGRATION – The filmmakers of The Hand That Feeds are fundraising to bring the documentary about immigration, fast food and making your own justice to cities and towns around the U.S.
Contact: http://thehandthatfeedsfilm.com/.
PACIFIC GARBAGE – In Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels and meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined.
Contact: Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-3764; [email protected]; http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/.
Music / Media
WORLD MUSIC – African musician Emmanuel JAL is touring the U.S. and Canada through March.
Contact: [email protected]; http://emmanueljal.com/.
HIP-HOP – Hip-hop artist Myssone has released “What’s Going On?” as a civil rights anthem for 2015.
Contact: http://mysonnenyg.com/home/.