[Debate] Fwd: Calendar of anti-NATO events taking place right now in Chicago, compiled at CANG8 meeting

[Jai Sen]

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Worlds in movement…

[My apologies for this somewhat delayed posting.. there’s so much going on at the moment, in the world and as it happens also in my personal life, that I lost sight of the fact that both NATO and the G8 are meeting in Chicago at the moment - and that with this, both anti-NATO and anti-G8 actions are taking place in that amazing city of movement during these very days, right through this week.

[Here is a calendar of actions and events planned in Chicago, and where you should also of course also read between the lines… Please forward widely !]

Calendar of anti-NATO events taking place right now in Chicago, compiled at CANG8 meeting

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> From: "harishibrahim at gmail.com" <harishibrahim at gmail.com>
> Subject: Calendar of anti-NATO events compiled at CANG8 meeting today
> Date: May 15, 2012 9:36:47 PM EDT
> To: jai.sen at cacim.net
> 
> 
05/14/2012-Monday
 
8:00 am
Catholic Worker demonstration at Obama HQ to invite NATO leaders to end war.
130 E. Randolph
 
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306
 
3:00 pm
Occupy Chicago Day of Education
Dyett High School, 555 East 51st Street
4:00 pm press conference
CACHE and Occupy Chicago welcome all to join the Chicago Teacher's Union, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, students and teachers for an art celebration at Money for Education, Not War
 
6:30 pm
Peace Guide Training – CANG8
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. 26th Street
If you or anyone in your organization is planning on being a Peace Guide, this training is mandatory. We are asking local activists to attend this session instead of the session on Saturday so we can assess the peace guide situation.
 
7:00 pm
Drone Warfare:  Medea Benjamin & Rafia Zakaria
Heartland Café, 7000 N Glenwood
Film:  Drone Warfare: KILLING BY REMOTE CONTROL

7:00 pm
RIGHT TO HEAL TOUR
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted
Fighting for service members and veterans right to heal.
The right to heal tour will take Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Operation Recovery Campaign message that service members and veterans have a right to heal around the country.
 
7:30 pm
Candlelight Vigil for Palestinian Hunger Strikers
806 N. Michigan Ave.
There is no more time to wait, there is no more time to spare, NOW is the time for action!
 
05/15/2012-Tuesday
 
10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306
 
10:00 am
CANG8 Press conference
Hyatt Hotel at McCormick Place, 2233 S. Martin Luther King Blvd. just south of Cermak Road.
No to NATO/G8 Warmakers
No to War & Austerity
 
11:00 am
Occupy Chicago action on Immigration
525 W. Van Buren
No Human is Illegal!
Vigil for Family Unity
Detained Court building
 
6:30 pm
Nakba:  Telling the Story.  Remember, Retell, Resist
637 S. Dearborn
Join the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR) in commemorating Nakba Day (May 15) with a night of story-telling, art, dabke and culture. We will remember a pivotal moment in Palestinian history and celebrate Palestinians' continued resistance to colonialism since 1948.
 
05/16/2012-Wednesday - TODAY
 
10:00 am
Action to Demand a One-year Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions!
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 South La Salle Street
Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction and Occupy Chicago demand that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart STOP all profit-oriented evictions and foreclosures from May 16, 2012 to May 16, 2013.
 
05/17/2012-Thursday - TOMORROW
 
9:00 am
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Veterans memorial, on Riverwalk near East Wacker Dr. and N. Wabash
Press Conference to announce plans for May 20 ceremony against NATO at Cermak and Michigan at the end of the mass CANG8 and IVAW march.
11:00 am
CANG Press Conference with international visitors
8th Day Center For Justice
205 W. Monroe, 5th Floor
 
2:00 pm
Occupy Chicago’s Day of Environment:  Planet over War!
Jackson and LaSalle
BRING BIKE: Mass for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation
3:00 pm
180 N. Stetson Ave
Rally outside of the Canadian Consulate
GET DIRTY with Occupy Chicago against the Alberta Tar Sands and the environmentally destructive agendas of NATO and G8.
4:00 pm Press Conference
 
6:00 pm
NATO Reps, Protestors to Debate – Public forum
Pritzker Military Library, 104 South Michigan Ave.
NATO representatives will meet with members of the largest anti-NATO protest group and Iraq Veterans Against the War for an unprecedented one-hour public debate.
 
6:00 pm
Korean American Resource Center, 2701 W. Peterson Ave.
Sounds of a New Hope
Film on the hip hop movement in the Philippine struggle for national liberation
BAYAN USA and ILPS
 
6:30 pm
Discussion with Workers World Party:  NATO:  A tool of the 1%, with Larry Holmes, John Parker, Sara Flounders, and Armando Robles
UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland
 
7:00 pm
Film Showing:  The Killing Floor:  An Evening with Elsa Rassbach
5811 S. Ellis, Cobb 307
 
05/18/2012-Friday
 
8:30 a.m.
Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice
People’s Church, 941 W Lawrence
9:00 – 10:00
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306

9:00 – noon
Anakbayan USA Founding Congress
Gabriela USA 2nd Congress
1:00 – 6:00 pm
BAYAN USA 4th Congress
3460 W. Lawrence
 
National Nurses United:  Chicago Rally to Protest Global 1%
11:00 am
Daley Plaza
We must send a message to our world leaders: No more cuts to our communities. Make Wall Street and the banks pay for global recovery.
No Cuts! No Austerity! Tax on Wall Street!
 
1:00 pm
Crime Busting March on Chicago’s Climate Crooks!
Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington
March with the NATO Environmental Justice Alliance around the Chicago Loop as we issue warrants for arrest of the corporations and government organizations responsible for destabilizing our climate!
 
6:30 pm
Climateactionchicago.org - Dinner & Overview of Summit Events
1447 W. Superior
 
7:00 pm
Voices for Humanity:  Arts to Oppose NATO
St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square 2649 N. Francisco Ave.
Unite! Inspire! Resist! An Evening of Arts to Oppose NATO
Singer/songwriter David Rovics headlines an evening of story, poetry, inspiration, resistance to US/NATO war crimes.

05/19/2012-Saturday
 
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306
 
10:00 am - noon
Healthcare Not Warfare! Take the Fight to Rahm’s House!
Irving Park Brown Line stop
The Mental Health Movement is calling on all NATO protesters to occupy the public clinics being closed by Mayor 1% Emanuel. On May 19, NATO demonstrators will take the fight to #SaveOurClinics to the Mayor's doorstep.
 
7:00 pm
David Swanson:  Lifting the Shadow of War
615 West Wellington Ave.
David Swanson will speak and lead a discussion on the topic of “Lifting the Shadow of War.”
 
8:30 am
Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice
People’s Church 941 W Lawrence
 
9:30 am
Peace Guide Training for out-of-towners – CANG8
8th Day Center, 205 W. Monroe
If you or anyone in your organization is planning on being a Peace Guide, this training is mandatory. This session is primarily for out-of-town activists who want to be peace guides.
 
1:00 – 5:30 pm
Founding of International League of People’s Struggle
US Chapter
3460 W. Lawrence
$20 admission.  Lunch and dinner provided.
8:00 – 11:00 pm
International Cultural Solidarity Night
With Rebel Diaz
$10 admission
 
6:30 pm
Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
1447 W. Superior
Join us for this documentary, food, and a discussion on climate justice. Learn how to get involved in the environmental contingent for the HUGE march and rally to the NATO summit on Sunday May, 20th.
 
7:00 pm
Woody Guthrie Centennial concert
Metro, 3730 North Clark Street
Tom Morello will headline a musical celebration that honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary American folk hero Woody Guthrie. The once-in-a-lifetime concert is the culmination of a month-long festival of cultural events that celebrate artistic and creative expression as a form of protest, presented by portoluz.

8:00 pm
This is Hell! Fundraiser for CANG8
Cary's Lounge 2251 W. Devon
In the midst of the NATO protests, take a break to party with the This is Hell! rabble as we raise funds for the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8), Saturday, at the 51st Ward's Designated Free Speech Zone for the evening.
 
05/20/2012-Sunday
 
9:00 – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306
 
Bless the March
10:00 am
Washington and Clark
Volunteers needed at prayer service to help with gathering crowd.  Bring your families, children, musical instruments, signs, props, cameras, balloons, bicycles, horns, kazoos, funny hats and all other merry-making apparatus.
 
Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda mass rally and march against the NATO/G8 summits.
10:00 am
Petrillo Band Shell, Columbus Drive and Jackson, Grant Park
www.cang8.org

05/21/2012-Monday
 
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline:  872-216-5306
 
Time:  TBD
Shut Down Boeing
100 North Riverside Plaza
Boeing has received over $12,231,152,299 from the US Department of Defense to produce war machines, which are used to terrorize civilians and communities the world over. These tools of destruction are produced using prison labor, allowing Boeing to make weaponized products for pennies on the dollar.




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