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Events for October 2010
Tuesday Oct 12, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Dave Zirin // Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Red Emma's is very excited about this return visit by radical sports writer Dave Zirin. Dave will be presenting his new book "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love," which features an entire chapter about Orioles' owner Peter Angelos, as well as some discussion about the United Workers' efforts to secure a living wage for workers at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Dave comments on sports and the politics of sports for The Nation, The Progressive, and The Los Angeles Times. He is also the host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. His previous books include "A People's History of Sports in the United States," "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports," and ""What's My Name, Fool?" Sports and Resistance in the United States"
Wednesday Oct 13, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Bring the Ruckus // Fight the Power, Up the People!
Question: what do all these things have in common?
- Fighting SB1070 and all anti-immigrant laws in Arizona
- Fighting for justice for Oscar Grant and all victims of police violence in Oakland
- Fighting policing and prisons in the south
- Fighting to live, love, and work wherever we please
- Building the new world in our hearts
Answer: members of Bring the Ruckus take part in all these struggles!
FIGHT THE POWER, UP THE PEOPLE!
Bring the Ruckus Northeast Speaking Tour
Bring the Ruckus (BtR) is a national organization of anti-authoritarian revolutionaries committed to destroying white supremacy and ending capitalism. Folks in BtR seek out, support and defend struggles in which people are fighting oppression and exploitation, and prefiguring a a new society in the shell of the old. Please join members of BtR for a discussion of the work they are involved in around the country.
Thursday Oct 14, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Antero Pietila presents Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
We're sometimes prone to exaggeration here when we talk about new books, but when we say that Antero Pietila's Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City is the most important book about Baltimore in recent memory, we're 100% serious. Pietila, a former Sun reporter, has exhaustively catalogued the strategies of exclusion, segregation, and discrimination which have characterized the way this city has developed, to the point where Baltimore can legitimately be considered a kind of laboratory for racist (and anti-Semitic) urbanism. We've been hard-pressed to keep this book in stock---it's obviously a story that's helping a lot of people, ourselves included, make sense of how this city, still in so many tragic ways separate and unequal, was made. Obviously, therefore, we're thrilled to welcome Antero to Red Emma's for a presentation and discussion of the book. (Also, we might be putting together a reading group at the Baltimore Free School to work through the book together before the event--get in touch at books@redemmas.org if you'd like to participate.)
Monday Oct 18, 7PM @ 2640 : Autonomous Education from Chiapas to Mexico City: Urban-Zapatista Links with Patricia Hernández
Wednesday Oct 20, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Black Bloc, White Riot
Canadian author and activist AK Thompson comes to Baltimore to discuss his new book, Black Block, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent, just released by our favorite anarchist publisher, AK Press!
Black Bloc, White Riot revisits the struggles against globalization that marked the beginning of the twenty-first century and explores the connection between political violence and the white middle class. Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and his own practical investigations, Thompson (co-founder of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action) outlines the movement's effects on the white middle class kids who were swept up in it and considers how and why violence must once again become a central category of activist politics.
Thursday Oct 21, 2PM @ 2640 : IDKE XII: Gender Justice
We're thrilled to welcome the twelfth annual International Drag King Community Extravaganza to Baltimore! IDKE XII is a five-day conference that brings together an international collection of individuals interested in exploring gender, critically and artistically, through performance and art. Members of this community include those who perform in, watch, write about, study, document, and make art about the drag king community. IDKE includes an academic conference with workshops, panels, presentations, how to demonstrations, and open discussions. IDKE XII will occur October 20—24 2010, at venues and creative spaces in Baltimore, including Sonar, 2640 and Grand Central Station, and 2640!
This year, noted author, director and educator Tristan Taormino will keynote the conference. An art show and film festival run concurrently with the conference. In addition IDKE highlights performance with an open mic drag night, a cabaret-style brunch, and an international showcase that has drawn more than 1,000 people in past years.
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.idkexii.com. Hope to see you there!
Sunday Oct 24, 12PM @ 2640 : The 4th Annual DIY Fest (Do It Yourself Festival)!
The event is free (donations are greatly appreciated) and is open to anyone wanting to learn a new skill, teach or present one of their skills/hobbies or just check out what goes down at a DIY Fest! 12 - 6 pm.
We are currently seeking tablers and people to teach workshops. Wanna know more? Wanna teach a workshop or table? Check out our website at www.diyfest.org!
Tuesday Oct 26, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Spencer Compton presents Get Real
Spencer Compton’s new book Get Real is a series of essays that rummage through semi-disparate correlations and cultural debris in order to bring about a new yet familiar geopolitical aura. Extracting and then naming synonyms like contemporary art and imperialism, popular music and despotism, nations and youth cliques, the excessive qualification of our speech and that of capital, “Get Real” sheds a long-awaited light on the fractured historicity of the contemporary. The premise is simple and formidable: capital now overrides creativity as the prime denominator in the ever too popular production, exhibition and critique of Art as such. What to do?
Friday Oct 29, 7PM @ 2640 : STEW FIVE
Grassroots locally sourced culinary fundraising madness. With presentations by:
- Hit and Stay
- Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle
- Change4Real project (Sojourner Douglass College)
Tickets ($10-infinity sliding scale) on sale now at Red Emma's, we've still got some left, but they're going fast! More info at http://stewbaltimore.org
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