ew York Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
122 West 27 Street, 10^th Floor
New York, NY 10001-6227
(212) 229-2388 <metnycoc@hotmail.com>

CALENDAR #458
Vol. XI. No. 24, Monday, June 10, 2002

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JUN 10-16 MON-SUN - Philippine Forum Youth in Action Community Organizers Summer Camp. Equip yourself with knowledge and skills to
improve the condition of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in local communities. Open to youth between 16 and 30. $100, includes food,
lodging, transportation from Manhattan to campsite. Apply by 4/16 to 212-741-6806 xyisa <YouthInAction@philforum.org>.

JUN 10 MON, 5 pm - Drop the Rock Fundraiser Meeting. Help repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws. At Correctional Association, 135 E. 15^th St. bet. 3^rd
Ave. and Irving Pl. 212-254-5700x306 <tkstolar@correctionalassociation.org>

JUN 10 MON, 6 pm - ProLibertad Annual Reception for the Puerto Rican Delegation to UN Decolonization Committee hearings. Hunter College West Building, Rm. 217, 68^th St. and Lexington Ave. ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, 718-601-4751, 212-927-9065 <ProLibertad@hotmail.com>.

JUN 10 MON, 6 to 8 pm - Housing Advice: Do you Have a Housing Problem? Free advice from volunteer attorneys and experienced housing advocates. Harlem Tenants Council 212-316-2240 <Harlemtenants@aol.com>.

JUN 10 MON, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Metropolitan Council on Housing weekly call-in radio show has been permanently rescheduled to this time slot on WBAI, 99.5 FM. This week’s guest will be Adriene Holder; Legal Aid attorney, long time tenant rights warrior and new tenant representative on the Rent Guidelines Board.

JUN 11 TUE, 6:30 pm - What’s at stake in the government’s indictment of Lynne Stewart? The chilling effect on the exercise of our fundamental freedoms including the attorney-client privilege. An evening of information, discussion, cultural performance and celebration of resistance to support Lynne Stewart. Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South between Thompson & Sullivan. Lynne Stewart Defense Committee, Refuse and Resist!, National Lawyers Guild.

JUN 11 TUE, 7 pm - Film: Haters. Response to abuse of Arab-Americans and other ethnicities after 9/11. IndoCenter of Art and Culture, 530 W. 25^th St., 2^nd Fl. bet. 10^th & 11^th St. RSVP: 212-388-1898 <info@thirdwavefoundation.org>

JUN 11 TUE, 7:30 pm - Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. David Graeber (Anti-Capitalist Convergence and People’s Global Action), Beka Economopoulos (editor, Another World Is Possible), Banjo Norman (anarchist economist). Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27^th St., 10^th Fl. Contribution requested to benefit Liberation Book Club 212-979-8353 <roberterler@erols.com>.

JUN 12 WED, 10 am - City Council Hearings at City Hall on Resolution 12 seeking a moratorium on executions. Attend and show your support for a moratorium in New York! New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty c/o Susan Schindler 212-475-7035.

JUN 12 WED, 4:30 pm - Show your support for Lynne Stewart. U.S. District Court, hearing before Judge Koeltl. 500 Pearl Street, 12^th Floor. Info: 212-255-4181x21.

JUN 12 WED, 7 pm - It’s Time to Protest the New Face of Nuclear War! Rally to mark the 20^th anniversary of the 1982 march in Central Park to ban nuclear weapons and war. Speakers and performers: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, sponsor of the Space Preservation Act; Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace; Actress Jane Alexander, Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Author Grace Paley; Kevin Martin, Executive Director of National Peace Action; Kathleen Sullivan, Coordinator, Nuclear Weapons Education & Action Project, ESR Metro Area; William Hartung of the World Policy Institute, SANITY, a project of ESR Metro (Students Against Nuclear Insanity and for Tomorrow’s Youth), The Mammals and the fabulous Circus Amok. The Rally will kickoff a Call to Action by David Cortright, Randall Forsberg and Jonathan Schell: Ending Threats of Mass Destruction. Cortright is President of the Fourth Freedom Forum and author, lecturer on issues of peace, justice and conflict studies. Forsberg is Executive Director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and a founder of the nuclear freeze movement. Schell is a fellow at The Nation Institute and author of The Fate of the Earth and The Gift of Time. Admission is FREE. All are invited. Co-Sponsored by The Nation Institute, Continuing Education and Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY and The Ethical Culture Society. Ethical Culture, CPW & 64^th St. Peace Action of New York State 212-870-2304.

JUN 13-17 THU-MON - How We Can Work Together To Build A Truly Democratic Society: Green Party USA annual Green Gathering and Congress in Bar Harbor, Maine. Everyone invited. http://www.greenparty.org

JUN 14 FRI, 6:30 pm - Benefit for Food Not Bombs and ABC No Rio. 6:30 pm -
Free bagels and drinks. 7 pm - Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon. 9 pm - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Midnight - Return of the Living Dead. ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St. bet. Clinton and Suffolk. $5-10.
212-254-3697 http://www.abcnorio.org

JUN14 FRI, 7 pm - Forum with Wilson Borja, leader in the Unitary Workers Federation (CUT), Colombia’s main labor federation. 2005 Amsterdam Ave. bet. 159^th and 160^th St., 2^nd Fl. Committee for Social Justice in Colombia.

JUN 15-19 SAT-WED - Fellowship of Reconciliation USA Conference: The Power of Nonviolence. Exploring Alternatives. Mairead Maguire (Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize), Amber Amundson (whose husband, Craig, died in the terrorist act at the Pentagon), Rev. James Lawson (Co-Worker with Martin Luther King, Jr.), Bruce Gagnon (Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space), Dr. Hildegard Goss-Mayr (Honorary President International Fellowship of Reconciliaton), Javier Sanchez (leader of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in war zone in northern Colombia), Folksingers Tom Chapin, Pete Seeger and British Blues Diva Dana Gillespie. Manhattan College, Riverdale. Register online at http://www.forusa.org or call Susheilla Mehta, Fellowship of Reconciliation 845-358-4601 x27 or Kate Brennan, NYFOR 718-786-2413, <conference@forusa.org> <mailto:conference@forusa.org>.

JUN 15 SAT, 12 noon - Protest secret detentions of Arab and South Asian immigrants. Weekly rally at Metropolitan Detention Center, 29^th St. & 3^rd Ave., Sunset Park, Brooklyn. N or R to 25^th St. stop at 4^th Ave., walk down 1 block and over to 29^th St. Immigrants rights and prison groups DRUM, CHRI, and PMP will mobilize for this march and rally. 718-482-3157 <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com>.

JUN 15 SAT, 12:30 pm - Drop the Rock March, Concert and Rally in Harlem! Demand that policy makers repeal NY’s mandatory minimum drug laws and end 29 long years of suffering and injustice. 12:30 pm: March: meet on 126^th St. bet. Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass Blvd. (1/2/3/B/D/A to 125^th St). 2:30 pm: concert/rally in Marcus Garvey Park, 122^nd St. and Madison Ave. Tamar Kraft-Stolar 212-254-5700 x306 <tkstolar@correctionalassociation.org>.

JUN 15 SAT, 1:00 pm -Stop the Disappearances. Labor, peace, immigrants rights, and social justice groups protest the continuing detention of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim immigrants in the Metropolitan Detention Center. March and protest at the MDC, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 29^th St. & 3^rd Ave. N/R to 25^th St at 4^th Ave. Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI), and Prison Moratorium Project (PMP) <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com> 1-800-454-1906x4612.

JUN 16 SUN, 2:10 pm - Screening of Two Aliens, documentary about the NYC greengrocers organizing campaign. Directed by Su Hi Choi. Brooklyn Museum (2/3 to Eastern Parkway). Free, but you must pay to enter museum. <treechoi@yahoo.com>.

JUN 19 WED, 7:30 pm - East Timor: From Annihilation to Celebration. Eyewitness Accounts of the Birth of the New Nation. A look at East Timor’s past, present and future. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Deepa Fernandes (Free Speech Radio News), Brad Simpson (ETAN) and more. Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27^th St. 10^th Fl. $10 Donation requested. East Timor Action Network 718-596-7668 <etanny@etan.org> http://www.etan.org

JUN 19 WED, 5:30 pm - 49^th Rosenberg Memorial. Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68^th St. Ossie Davis speaking. National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case 212-228-4500.

JUN 20 THU, 7 pm - Author event: Joel Kovel (The Enemy of Nature). Eco Books, 837 Union St. (Park Slope) 6^th and 7^th Ave., 2^nd Fl. 718-623-2698 http://www.ecobooks.com/events.htm

JUN 20 THU, 7:30 pm - Book Party: Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal. Barbara Nimri Aziz. $6. Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27^th St. 10^th Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.

JUN 21 FRI, 7:30 pm - Class Conflict in the Intimate Arena. Harriet Fraad. $6. Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27^th St. 10^th Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.

JUN 22 SAT, 6 pm - Benefit for a film about Howard Zinn - A Disobedient History. Barry Crimmins, Paul Lussier (Last Refuge of Scoundrels) and Anthony Arnove (editor), producers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. 7 pm - film showing. Seven Stories Press, 140 Watts St. bet. Greenwich and Washington. Tix: $30/sliding scale. RSVP <info@agitfilm.com>

JUN 24 MON, 6 to 8 pm - Housing Advice: Do you Have a Housing Problem? Free advice from volunteer attorneys and experienced housing advocates. Harlem Tenants Council 212-316-2240 <Harlemtenants@aol.com>.

JUN 24 MON, 7 pm - Mightier than the Sword. Kick-Ass Cartoonists and Art of Political Subversion. Panel discussion with Ted Rall (Search and Destroy), Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World), Stephanie McMillan, Joel Pett, Matt Wuerker. Moderated by: Bill Hartung, (World Policy Institute). CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5^th Ave. at 34^th St. $20, $10/Seniors, students, low-income. Pre-panel reception (6 pm): $100 (includes signed copy of Ted Rall’s Attidtude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists signed by all the artists present. TrueMajority Campaign, Continuing Education and Public Programs-Graduate Center, CUNY and World Policy Institute, New School. Seating limited: RSVP, 212-817-8215.

JUN 26 WED, 10 am to 10 pm - Attend and Testify at the Rent Guidelines Board Public Hearing. Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 E. 7^th St. N/R to 8^th St., 6 to Astor Place. To testify call: (212) 385-2934. Call the Rent Guidelines Board to confirm dates: 212-385-2934 or see http://www.housingnyc.com. Met Council on Housing 212-979-6238x6 <active@metcouncil.net>.

JUN 27 THU, 5:30 pm - Attend the Rent Guidelines Board Vote on Rent Adjustments. Hamilton/U.S. Custom House Auditorium (basement)
1 Bowling Green, a.k.a The Smithsonian/Museum of the American
Indian,(Manhattan), 4/5 to Bowling Green. Call the Rent Guidelines Board to confirm dates: 212-385-2934 or see http://www.housingnyc.com. Metropolitan Council on Housing 212-979-6238x6 <active@metcouncil.net>.

JUN 29-30 SAT-SUN - National Summit on the Impact of Incarceration on African American Families and Communities. University of the District of Columbia, Washington. http://www.keepthetrust.org/summit/

JUN 29 SAT, 12 noon - March on the FBI and the Justice Department to protest John Ashcroft’s domestic espionage program that targets political organizations, mosques and community groups. Pennsylvania Ave. between 9^th and 10^th St. NW, Washington. International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism. http://www.internationalanswer.org

JUL 4 THU, 11 am -3 pm - Diversity Day Rally. Celebrate racial, ethnic and religious diversity and equality. Focus on issues of immigration policy affirmative action, racial profiling, police brutality, US imperialism and Bush’s war on terror and more. Morris County (NJ) Court House Steps. NJ Independents 201-487-3748.

JUL 10 WED, 7:30 pm - Book Party: Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Tariq Ali. $6. Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27^th St. 10^th Fl. 212-242-4201 <info@brechtforum>.

JUL 24-29 WED-MON - Strategies for Peace, Equality and Justice in an Age of Globalization. National conference and convention of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism with Herbert Aptheker, Angela Davis, Manning Marable, Betita Martinez, Charlene Mitchell, Gus Newport, John Nichols, Mike Prokosch, Ken Riley, Mark Solomon, Tim Wise and others plus representatives of progressive movements in Brazil, Cuba, Germany, Israel, Palestine and South Africa. San Francisco State University, Seven Hills Conference Center. All welcome! CCDS, 116 W. 111 St., New York, NY 10026. 212-663-3526 <NATIONAL@CC-DS.ORG>.

AUG 17-20 SAT-TUE - Union for Radical Political Economics Summer Conference. Our World or Theirs? Challenging Global Capitalism. Workshops plus time for recreation. Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, CT. Contact URPE 203-777-4605 <URPE@labornet.org> http://www.urpe.org

AUG 17 SAT - Millions for Reparations March, Protest and Demo in Washington on 115^th anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s birth. The Durban 400, National Black United Front, December 12^th Movement. 708-389-9929, 708-389-9819 <nbufchi@allways.net>.

OCT 22 TUE, 4 pm - Annual march and rally to stop police brutality, repression and the criminalization of a generation. Assemble at 4 pm at Union Sq., 14^th St and B’way, R/N, 4/5/6 to Union Sq. March at 6 pm to Times Sq. Oct 22 Coalition 212-673-6008 <oct22ny@yahoo.com> http://www.october22.org

Continuing Activities

The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign has been launched in the United States in protest against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people. In addition to a boycott of Israel’s agricultural and industrial products, the Campaign also discourages tourism and advocates divestment from Israel. For further information, visit the Campaign’s web site at http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org.

Every SUN, 4:30 pm - Vigil for peace. Broad Ave. Beechwood Pl., Leonia, NJ, in front of the gazebo. Ellie Spiegel 201-947-9231 <hansle@ix.netcom.com>.

Every 3^rd SUN, 7 pm - West Queens Greens meet. Ann Eagan’s home, 39-51 ½ 46^th St., Sunnyside 718-482-0170 (three blocks north of the 46^th St. stop on the 7). Meet and Greet the Greens at 5 pm at Ann’s but call first. Jerry Kann 718-728-1092 <jerrykayy@yahoo.com>.

Every MON, 4 pm - SLAM meeting. Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Building (6 train to 68^th) Rm. 105. SLAM/USG 212-772-4261.

Every MON, 7 pm - More Gardens! Stop selling and bulldozing neighborhood gardens. 79 Clinton Street, #17, F to Delancey St., JMZ to Essex St. Aresh 212-533-8019 <aj9@is3.nyu.edu>.

Every MON, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Metropolitan Council on Housing weekly call-in radio show has been permanently rescheduled to this time slot on WBAI, 99.5 FM.

Every 2^nd MON, 6:30-9:30 pm - Bronx Greens works to build the Green movement through grassroots organizing and electoral reform. Focus on energy and the private government. Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, 1087 East Tremont Ave., Bronx (2/5 to East Tremont; buses: 9/21/36/40/42 or Q44 to East
Tremont and Boston Road; cars: X Bronx to 177^th St). Info: 718-548-4693, http://www.bronxgreens.org

Every TUE, 4/4:30-ish - SCALE (Student Committee Against Labor Exploitation). Run by high school students. Fun stuff! National Labor Committee, 275 7^th Ave. at 25^th St., 15^th Fl. 212-242-3002 http://www.nlcnet.org/scale/main.htm

Every TUE, 7 pm - NY Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. 130 W. 29^th St., 9^th Fl. 212-760-0333 <nycispes@mindspring.com>.

Every 1^st and 3^rd TUE, 6-8:30 pm - Metropolitan Council on Housing open house volunteer nights. Focus on the political work of Met Council via phone banking, mailings and letter writing campaigns, forum for exchange of ideas. 339 Lafayette St. at Bleecker, 6 to Bleecker St., F/S to B’way/Lafayette. 212-979-6238. Tenant hotline 212-979-0611. Fax 212-979-6997 <active@metcouncil.net>.

Every 1^st and 3^rd WED, 6:30 pm - Prolibertad Freedom Campaign to free the Puerto Rican political prisoners. Resurrection Church, 790 Elton Ave. bet. 157^th & 158^th St., Bronx. Ben Ramos 718-601-4751, <uriyoan@hotmail.com>.

Every 2^nd and 4^th WED, 7 pm - Direct Action Coalition against the death penalty and the prison industrial complex. Hunter Student Resource Center, 68^th St. & Lex. Ave., Thomas Hunter Hall, Room 202. <aug1directaction@onebox.com> http://www.freemumia.com/212-629-1775

Every THU, 5:15 to 6:45 pm, Brooklyn Vigil for Peace, 7^th Ave. & Flatbush, (Q to 7^th Ave.), Park Slope Greens, War Resisters League. 718-768-7306.

THU every 4 wks, 7-9 pm - Network in Solidarity with People of the Philippines. 122 W. 27^th St., 10^th Fl. Confirm meeting date and time: 212-741-6806xNISPOP <nispop@nispop.org>.

Every FRI, 6 pm - Vieques Support Campaign. US Navy out of Vieques! Call for location. Frank Velgara 718-601-4751, Carlos Rovira 212-677-0619.

Every SAT, 11 am-noon - Silent vigil for a non-violent response to terrorism. Kissena and Main (near Flushing Library), Flushing. Queens Network for Peace and Justice, WILPF, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Pax Christi. Bill Hagel 718-507-4467 <bill.hagel@juno.com>, Anne Bjornson 718-776-5021 <anne.bjornson@juno.com>.

Every SAT, 11:30 am to 2:00 pm - Manhattan Vigil for Peace, Northern End of Union Square, around statue. War Resisters League 212-228-0450, 1-800-975-9688 <wrl@igc.org> http://www.warresisters.org

Every SAT, noon to 1 pm - Demand due process rights for immigrants and an end to secret detentions. Join the struggle to protect the Bill of Rights and safeguard democratic process. Protest at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 29^th St. & 3^rd Ave. N/R to 25^th St. at 4^th Ave. If you can’t join, help with petition drive and letter-writing. 1-800-454-1906x4612 <JusticeForDetainees@hotmail.com>

Last SAT of every month, 12:30 to 2:30 pm - Flushing Greens meet. 36-09 Main St., Rm. CC1, near Northern Blvd. (7 to Main St. or 13/16/17/20/25/28/34/44/48/58/65/66 buses, also the QB #1 from Co-op City). 718-961-2002 <1daystar@worldnet.att.net>.

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Edited by Philip Oke