Events
AFRICAN/SOCIALIST – The African People’s Socialist Party USA Plenary will be held January 9-10, in St. Petersburg, FL.
Contact: 1245 18th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33705; 727-821-6620; info@ apspuhuru.org; http://asiuhuru.org/.
GUANTANAMO – January 11, 2016 marks 15 years of torture and indefinite detention at Guantanamo. Groups includeWitness For Torture, CODE PINK, World Can’t Wait will be gathering from January 5-13, 2015 to act for justice and a week of actions.
Contact: [email protected]; http://www.witnesstorture.org/; http://www.codepink4peace.org/.
MLK/PROTEST – The People’s Organization For Progress will have a Martin Luther King Jr. March For Racial Equality, Economic Justice And Peace Friday, January 15, 2016, 12:00 noon beginning at the Lincoln Statue in Newark, New Jersey.
Contact: 973-801-0001; P.O. Box 22505, Newark, NJ 07101-2505; [email protected]; http://njpop.org.
MEDIA – The Media Consortium Conference will be held February 11, in Philadelphia. The conference brings together over 100 leaders of independent news.
Contact: http://www.tmcmedia2016.org/.
BLACK SOLIDARITY – The 21st Annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University will be held February 11-14. The theme is, The Miseducation: Changing History As We Know It.
Contact: PO Box 206471, New Haven, CT 06520; http://www.yale.edu/bsc.
INDIGENOUS WOMEN – The 10th Strawberry Ceremony for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls will be held February 14, in Toronto, to demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions (police, RCMP, coroners’ offices, the courts, and an indifferent federal government).
Contact: http://womencan.ca.
MUSIC – The 28th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp will be held February 17-21, in Kansas City, MO.
Contact: 509 Delaware St. #101, Kansas City, MO 64105; 816-221-3655; [email protected]; http://www.folkalliance.org/.
PROGRESSIVES – The 7th annual Pennsylvania Progressive Summit will be held February 19-21, in Harrisburg. Hundreds of social justice advocates, labor organizers, legislators, and grassroots activists will come together to build the progressive movement.
Contact: http://m64644.wix.com/p aprogressivesummit_1.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH – The Take Root Conference will be held February 26-27, in Norman, OK. The conference aim is to root the fight for reproductive health, rights, and dignity in the struggle for social, racial, political, and economic justice.
Contact: http://take-root.org.
LGBTQ -Rainbow Health Ontario hosts Canada’s largest LGBTQ health conference, March 9-11, in London, Ontario.
Contact: Rainbow Health Ontario, Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne Street, Toronto ON M5A 2S5; 416.324.4100; http://www.rainbowhealth ontario.ca/conference/.
LABOR – The 2016 Labor Notes Conference will be held April 1-3, in Chicago.
Contact: Labor Notes, 7435 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI, 48210; 313-842-6262; [email protected]; www.labornotes.org.
POETRY – The annual Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2016 will be held April 14-17, in Washington, DC.
Contact: Split This Rock, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036; 202-787-5210; [email protected]; http://www.splitthisrock.org/.
DIGITAL BLACKNESS – The Digital Blackness Conference will be held April 22-23, 2016 in New Brunswick, NJ at Rutgers University and will bring together scholars, students, activists, and artists to interrogate the many new modes, customs, and arrangements of racial identity as they are mediated through digital technologies.
Contact: Digital Blackness Conference Coordinator, Rutgers University, Department of History, 111 Van Duck Hall, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; [email protected]; http://www.rutgersdigitalblac kness.com.
Books
HARRISON – Virgin Islands-born, Harlem-based, Hubert H. Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The “Inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World is a collection of over 50 articles that detail his pioneering role in the founding and development of the militant, World War I era “New Negro Movement.”
Contact: 800-937-8000; contact@dafrica press.com; [email protected]:/ /www.dafricapress.com/.
PALESTINE – Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine brings together the work of 65 writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond.
Contact: OR Books [email protected]; http://www.orbooks.com/.
MINORITY PERSECUTION/GWOT – We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer shines a light on an unexplored consequence of modern-day terrorism
Contact: The New Press, 38 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-629-8802; http://thenewpress.com/.