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Events for October 2009
Monday Oct 5, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Bill Barry // Union Strategies for Hard Times
Bill Barry's new book, Union Strategies for Hard Times, comes at just the right moment. In response to the theoretical and analytical takes on the economic crisis and its effect on labor, Union Strategies for Hard Times is instead a practical field guide directly written for rank-and-file workers. With chapters on grievance and negotiation, communication and organizing, Barry details different strategies unoins can use to defend against the frenzied attack on labor by driven employers in both the public and private sectors. Union Strategies for Hard Times is a much needed resource for union members facing what Barry calls, "The Great Recession."
Bill Barry is the director of labor studies at the Community College of Baltimore County and a 40-year veteran of the movement. Join us for a discussion about the book with him and enjoy some caffeinated strategizing!
Thursday Oct 8, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Book Release Party - Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane!
Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! isn't just a great collection of articles and documents from one of the most inspriring moments in the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (the 1909 Spokane Free Speech Fight, in which hundreds of iterant workers and hobo militants converged on the center of the Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest to defy the city of Spokane's ban on Wobbly free speech). It's also edited and introduced by Red Emma's very own John Duda, who'll be taking us through the history and promise of this amazing slice of radical history at the book's release party!
Friday Oct 9, 7PM @ Red Emma's : THE FOOD NOT BOMBS 30TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION!
Participate in a presentation with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
about thirty years of cooking for peace and working to end hunger, poverty
and war. The 45 minute presentation includes the exciting history,
principles and current actions of the Food Not Bombs movement around the
world and a 15 minute video about Food Not Bombs in Africa. Keith will also
provide literature, books, t-shirts and dvds about Food Not Bombs.
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html
Saturday Oct 10, 7:30PM @ Red Emma's : Last Minute Talk! Afghan Women's Activist ZOYA Speaks Out
Please join us for a talk with Zoya, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was formed in 1977 as an independent social/political organization dedicated to fighting for the human rights of women in Afghanistan. RAWA is an incredible organization, running orphanages, clinics, and underground educational facilities for women both under the Taliban & Karzai-controlled provinces, all while under intense persecution. Zoya, now 28 years old, joined RAWA after attending a RAWA-funded school while in exile in Pakistan escaping fundamentalist violence. Just after the 8th anniversary of the US-occupation of Afghanistan, with no foreseeable end, Zoya will speak about the effects of the occupation on Afghanistan as a whole, and its impact on women's rights specifically. Please join us!
The event is free of charge, though donations will be accepted.
For security reasons, no cameras are allowed at the event.
Sponsored by the Afghan Women's Mission, The Civilian Soldier Alliance, and the UMBC Solidarity Coalition.
Thursday Oct 15, 8PM @ Red Emma's : Chris Chandler at Red Emma's!
Celebrating his twentieth year on the road, poet and storyteller Chris Chandler is as hilarious and entertaining as he is provocative and rabble-rousing, Delivering vignettes about politics and modern culture with the fire of a Baptist preacher and accompanied by a wide variety of musical styles, he has performed on thousands of stages across North America, working with such legendary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Mojo Nixon and Ani DiFranco. The late great Utah Phillips called Chris "the best performance poet I have ever seen."
Monday Oct 19, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Joe Niemczura // The Hospital at the End of the World
There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End of the World tells the story of a nurse from the USA and his first experience as a teaching nurse in Nepal.
Joe Niemczura brings to life the day-to-day realities of life in a rural teaching hospital, literally at the "end of the road." The harsh realities of a lack of modern medical equipment when mixed with the humanness of endurances demonstrates that above all, it is the individual who matters; both patient and caregiver. All else pales in comparison. The strength of this story is in relationships with students, physicians, other nurses, patients, families and most importantly with Nepal itself. There is a sense of community connectedness which the author brings alive as the reader becomes one with the story. The heartbreak and grief of death to the celebrations of life will elicit those same emotions. The thread through it all is the author's own journey as he discovers himself and renews his spirituality. The reader is immediately pulled into the drama and nakedness, and the beauty and mystery of this incredible part of the world.
Tuesday Oct 20, 7PM @ 2640 : Feminist Sex: A Panel Discussion on Being Anti-Sexist and Sex-Positive
The next exciting installment of the Red Emma's P.E.P. Talk series! Join authors Shira Tarrant, Shawna Kenney, and Cara Bruce for an evening of Feminist Sex at 2640. Reading from their latest work, these authors explore what it means to be both anti-sexist and sex-positive.
Shira Tarrant will discuss pornography and masculinity from her newest book, Men and Feminism (Seal Press). She is also the editor of Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power and author of When Sex Became Gender. Shawna Kenney reads her essay, “Seven Minutes With Stripper #2,” which appears in the new anthology, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex (Soft Skull Press). Cara Bruce draws from her published work in Viscera, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, and Best Fetish Erotica.
Also joining us is Baltimore's own lesbian-owned, womyn and trans-operated, feminist sex toy store, SUGAR !
Please join us for a rousing discussion and invigorating debate. Also, join us afterwards for a reception; light refreshments will be provided.
$3 - $10 sliding-scale suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.
* Please note that the location has changed from Red Emma's to 2640 *
Saturday Oct 24, 8PM @ Red Emma's : Starla! Ubiquitous and Todi Stronghands
Join us for a night with two starry-eyed, music making punk kids from Canada!
www.myspace.com/starlaubiquitous
www.myspace.com/todistronghands
Monday Oct 26, 7PM @ 2640 : Sister Spit: The Next Generation!
It's the 2009 Sister Spit Next Generation U.S. Tour, and it's coming to Baltimore! The roadshow is the updated next incarnation of the legendary 90's queer feminist poetry/performance troupe, described by an original member as "a utopian cadre of female outlaw optimists, teeming butch/femme talent, total tattoos and fearlessness, gaudiness, booziness, flaunting a complex sexuality that would embarrass anyone's mother."
The October tour, which is bringing more of the same to Baltimore, features queer luminary Michelle Tea, hilarious literary force Beth Lisick, trans-licious performance artist Ben McCoy, graphic novelist and former L Word staff Ariel Schrag, powerhouse poet Kirya Traber, photographer/myth-explorer Sara Seinberg, and world-traveling novelist Rhiannon Argo. This is a vanload of magnificent underground female-centric brilliance blazes across the USA and into Baltimore -- be there!
$8 at the door, $6 in advance. Tickets available now at Brown Paper Tickets.
Tuesday Oct 27, 7PM @ Red Emma's : David Bergman // Gay American Autobiography: From Whitman to Sedaris
Exploring 150 years of gay American autobiography, David Bergman's new book, From Whitman to Sedaris is surprisingly the first book of its kind. In his book, Bergman chronicles a variety of experiences including autobiographical work by science fiction author, Samuel Delany, performance artist Justin Chin amongst 19th-century literary figures Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Henry James. Bergman was and is a pioneer of the LGBT program at Towson University, a founder of the LGBT studies program and associated with the LGBT center on campus. His new book adds much to the growing literature on LGBT experience.
This is another one of those times when we at Red Emma's are stoked to be in Baltimore so we can host David Bergman for what is sure to be a lovely and engaging evening. We'd be thrilled if you'd join us!
Thursday Oct 29, 7PM @ Red Emma's : The Nuclear Comeback Screening
In a world living in fear of climate change and global warming, the nuclear industry is now proposing itself as a solution. It claims that nuclear power generation produces zero carbon emissions... and people are listening. The result is the beginning of a global nuclear renaissance, with 27 nuclear power stations under construction, and another 136 to be commenced within the next decade.
The world's electricity consumption is expected to double in the next 25 years and the nuclear industry claims that nuclear power is the only large-scale method of power production that can reliably replace coal, gas or oil-fired power plants. But many people have an inherent fear of nuclear power. Is it time we learned to love the split atom? Or is there a risk that we might be jumping out of the carbon frying pan and into the plutonium fire?
Justin Pemberton's 2007 documentary, THE NUCLEAR COMEBACK, goes on a worldwide tour of the nuclear industry in search of answers. It visits some of the planet's most famous nuclear facilities, including the control room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it investigates the state of 'the grand old lady' of commercial nuclear power, the U.K.'s Calder Hall, and travels through a nuclear waste repository under the Baltic Sea, a uranium mine in Australia, and one of only two fuel recycling plants in the world.
Don't miss what promises to be an interesting screening!
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