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Events for November 2010
Monday Nov 1, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Robert Abadie presents The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
Before the FDA's ban in 1980, medical studies were often conducted on prisoners. When the FDA finally concluded the obvious, that this practice was heinously unethical, pharmaceutical companies and researchers had to develop a new strategy to elicit the necessary human test subjects. Money is the logical incentive.
We're very pleased to welcome medical anthropologist, Roberto Abadie, to discuss his new ethnography The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects.
In groundbreaking exploration, Abadie analyzes those who have developed something of a career out of participating in clinical trials. His study participants may look remarkably familiar, as he focuses largely on a group of self-identified anarchists, in Philadelphia, who use the studies to fund their various activist lifestyles.
His ethnography is a detailed probe into the clinical trials industry. From his investigations, one among many important questions is raised: do financial incentives automatically discredit the idea of ethical informed consent?
We hope you will join us in this fascinating discussion that will elaborate on a wide range of topics from science to ethics to labor rights.
What more could you look for on a Monday night?
Tuesday Nov 2, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Gan Golan presents The Adventures of Unemployed Man
We're thrilled to welcome back New York Times' bestselling author Gan Golan, of Goodnight Bush fame, to talk about his latest creation with Erich Origen, a hilariously satiric (and beautifully illustrated) comic book called The Adventures of Unemployed Man.
In better times, Unemployed Man was a hero called The Ultimatum—but after the financial meltdown, he was left with no money, and the U on his suit took on a very different meaning. Now he secretly lives under his former mansion in a cave—Rock Bottom.
He soon teams with Plan B, and other down-but-not-out superheroes, to fight the sinister villains of The Just Us League, including The Human Resource, The Toxic Debt Blob, and The Invisible Hand!
Monday Nov 8, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Kolya Abramsky presents Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution
As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all sides we hear that it's time to save the planet in order to save the economy, but in reality what lies before us is the next round of global class struggle with energy at the center, as the key means of production and subsistence. There are no easy answers in this battle for control of the world's energy system--all we can be sure of is the fact that the fight has already begun.
Join Red Emma's as we welcome energy activist and scholar Kolya Abramsky for a discussion of his new edited collection, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution, new this fall from AK Press. Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution is not a book of sound bites. It unpacks the seemingly innocent terms "energy sector" and "energy system" by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and the transition to a post-petrol future within a historical understanding of the global, social, economic, political, financial, military, and ecological relations of which energy and technology are parts. The authors probe the systemic relationships between energy production and consumption and the worldwide division of labor on which capitalism itself is based--its conflicts and hierarchies, its crisis and class struggles.
Thursday Nov 11, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Ben Dangl // Dancing with Dynamite
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite, award-winning journalist Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these movements have worked with, against, and independently of national governments. From dynamite-wielding miners in Bolivia to the struggles of landless farmers in Brazil and Paraguay, Dangl discusses the dance between movements and states in seven different Latin American countries. Using original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with workers, farmers, and politicians, he suggests how Latin American social movement strategies could be applied internationally to build a better world now.
Benjamin Dangl has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for the Guardian Unlimited, The Nation, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, and the editor of TowardFreedom.com and UpsideDownWorld.org.
Tuesday Nov 16, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Reading group with Eddie Conway: Revolutionary Suicide
We'll be continuing our quarterly call-in reading group with imprisoned Baltimore Black Panther Marshall "Eddie" Conway, this time having a look at Huey Newton's political autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide. If you want to participate, please read ahead of time! We have copies of the book available @ Red Emma's for a 20% discount, and we're going to be making an excerpt available for free at Emma's next week. To get a sense of what Newton means by "revolutionary suicide", check out this amazing passage, originally posted by the great folks at ChickenBones, after the break:
Thursday Nov 18, 6PM @ Red Emma's : Iraqi Physicians Speak Out
We'll be hosting three Iraqi physicians who will speak out on the devastating health consequences of the U.S. invasion andoccupation. Join us to hear about their work about the ongoing human consequences of the war. They will be joined by a U.S. veteran who co-founded the Justice for Fallujah Project.
Friday Nov 19, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle present "Transforming Baltimore City Schools"
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a radical thinktank that's developing policy analysis to be used in the the struggle for independence and self-determination for the residents of Baltimore, has produced a powerful alternative vision of what our public city schools would look like if they were re-oriented towards social justice, economic self-sufficiency, and real education rather than quasi-carceral warehousing of African American youth. We've invited LBS to come and present the proposal in the store, as well as talk more generally about the way they see radical research, analysis, and alternative policy formulation as critical tools to implement the political goals outlined in their 11-point manifesto.
Sunday Nov 21, 2PM @ 2640 : Anarchists Against the Wall
Join us for an amazing presentation at 2640 by Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW), an Israeli-based direct action group that was established in 2003 in response to the Israeli construction of a wall on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. We will be joined by AATW member, Joseph Dana, a blogger, filmmaker, journalist and activist who has written extensively about Palestine and Israel and who has first hand knowledge of the popular struggle on the ground. He will give a multimedia presentation about the joint Israeli-Palestinian popular struggle against the apartheid wall.
Come support AATW, learn more about the devastation Israel's separation barrier is wreaking on the land and livelihoods of the people of Palestine and hear about the inspiring joint struggle of Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals resisting it.
Hosted by Baltimore Jews For Human Rights. Sliding scale donation of $5-$10.
Friday Nov 26, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Tina Wald presents Railroad Man: The Legend of Lil' Jay w/ Ryan Harvey
Railroad Man, The Legend of Lil’ Jay is the story of anarchist musician Jay Litzner, from the alleys of Detroit to post-Katrina New Orleans, from California’s beaches to the batcave in Brooklyn, riding freight trains, fighting a drug addiction and touching lives along the way.
In 2006 Jay and his wife Rosie were on a train from Seattle to San Francisco when Jay fell to his death. Railroad Man is told from Rosie’s point of view and follows the young couple into box cars and coal cars, protests, parades, wedding and death. For the last two years of his life, Lil’ Jay was a regular guest in the Detroit home of author Tina Wald, who traveled to ten states and interviewed seventy people to compile his biography.
Numerous times in their travels Jay and Rosie crossed paths with musician Ryan Harvey, who joins Wald for an evening of stories and music, entertainment and inspiration. Join us!
Tuesday Nov 30, 6:30PM @ 2640 : Book Party for Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Stories of Women in SNCC
Join some of the editors, including longtime Baltimore activist Betty Robinson, for a Baltimore launch of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC. This tome of esssential radical autobiographical accounts of the civil rights struggle, written by the women who fought it, is one of our favorite new books of 2010 (and, judging by the fact that it's already into a second printing after being out for just under two months, we're not alone!) We'll be serving food and drink to celebrate this amazing new piece of feminist antiracist history, and offering the book for sale at a 20% discount.
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