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Events for February 2010
Tuesday Feb 2, 7PM @ Red Emma's : A Musical Extravanganza: Slow Teeth (w/ member of Riot Folk!), Jubilee, Mark Gunnery, Ryan Harvey & Bean!
Come to Red Emma's for a night of vaudevillian anarchofolk with Slow Teeth. Hailing from Portland, OR and including a member of the Riot Folk Collective, the haunted cabaret that is Slow Teeth will grace Baltimore with their spooky, radical, beautiful presence on Tuesday, February 2. Fellow Riot Folkers and trouble-making troubadours Mark Gunnery and Ryan Harvey will also play, along with Baltimore's own Bean, who is sure to fingerpick her way into your soul with her lush. surreal acoustic tales. 
Monday Feb 8, 7PM @ Red Emma's : CANCELLED! Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots
We're so sorry to announce that the presentation of Venezuela Speaks has been cancelled due to the weather! The editors, who were coming to Baltimore from both the south and the north, are snowed in, and unable to make it here in time for the event. We apologize for the disappointing news! But we're doing our best to reschedule for later in the Spring, so please stay tuned!
Thursday Feb 11, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Sarah Lazare: Dialogues Against Militarism
The Civilian-Soldier Alliance welcomes you to a presentation by Dialogues Against Militarism (DAM), a group of both Iraq veterans and soldiers who refused to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and their allies, who work to build partnerships between U.S. and Israeli war resisters.
In August of last year 100 Israeli high school students signed an open letter to the government of Israel stating they would not enter into the mandatory two years of service in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) upon graduation and instead risk imprisonment, with another group of high school students making a similar refusal this August. These refusals were based on their unwillingness to enter into a situation where they were going to be forced to participate in the occupation of land and the subjugation of a people.
These are just a few instances of a large number of Israeli youths who have decided to enter the ranks of the Refusenik movement rather than those of the IDF, while simultaneously ex-soldiers are increasingly speaking out in opposition to Israeli policy based on their own experiences.
Sarah Lazare just returned from a U.S. war resister delegation to Israel/Palestine, where U.S. war resisters and anti-war veterans met with Palestinian activists and Isreali resisters to build relationships and share experiences. She will discuss what she learned there, focusing on Israeli resistance to occupation from within the ranks of the IDF.
Monday Feb 15, 7PM @ Red Emma's : An anarchist analysis of the squatting movement in Barcelona
Most of us have heard stories about (or experienced firsthand) the squatting movement in Spain. But we frequently fail to stop and think about the effect that this network of squatted & autonomous spaces has on the social activist movement in Europe, generally, and Barcelona, specifically. How does the prevalence of squatted spaces affect the activist/anarchist world in ways that are structurally different from the activist/manachist world in the United States? What do we stand to learn from each other?
Red Emma's is thrilled to welcome back author and activist Peter Gelderloos, perhaps best-known for his phenomenal South End Press book, How Non-Violence Protects the State, for a discussion on the squatting movement in Barcelona. Gelderloos made headlines in 2007, when he was arrested in conjunction with a squatters protest in Barcelona; Spanish comrades helped Peter raise the 30,000 euro bail, but the Spanish government refused to allow him to leave Spain for more than two years while he was awaiting trial. Join us on February 15 as we welcome Peter home, as a part of his first US tour since his arrest in 2007, and hear about the squatting movement in Barcelona from am anarchist perspective!
Sunday Feb 21, 3PM @ Red Emma's : Sabrina Chapadjiev "Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction"
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.
Monday Feb 22, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Dexter Whitfield // Global Auction of Public Assets
Public infrastructure in the 21st century is confronted with new challenges; adapting to climate change, meeting the economic, energy, water, transportation and social infrastructure needs of megacities in Asia, megaregions in North America, European city regions and older industrial areas.
Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the global infrastructure market, financed by investment and pension funds, are fuelling a new era of public asset sales. This first critical global analysis of PPPs examines projects in the UK, France, Ireland, Germany, US, Canada, Russia, Australia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Over $500 billion of PPP projects have failed, most have little or no democratic control or transparency. They are costly, poor value and lack innovation. Ultimately, they are entirely publicly financed by government and/or user charges.
Global Auction of Public Assets proposes a new strategy for public investment. It sets out new priorities, radical changes in global financial markets, abandonment of PPPs and neo-liberal ideology, new controls on existing PPPs and public management renewal. This is a definitive analysis and an invaluable resource for all those concerned about the future of the public doman.
Thursday Feb 25, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Laura Whitehorn presents The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
Join us for a very special evening event with author, editor, and former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn, as she presents The War Before, a new book of writings by Black Panther Safiya Bukhari, published this year by The Feminist Press. The War Before traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings provide an intimate view of a woman wrestling with the issues of her time—the troubled legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to convert to Islam, the incarceration of out spoken radicals, and the families left behind. Her account unfolds with immediacy and passion, showing how the struggles of social justice movements have paved the way for the progress of today. Don't miss this event!
Friday Feb 26, 7PM @ Red Emma's : A Catalytic Conversation on Anarchy and Peace with Alexis Bhagat
The stage for the conversation is set by an analysis of the War on Terror from an anarchist perspective. Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. If the War on Terror is anything, it is complex. It is worth analyzing: But how to begin? Our strategies have failed. The state moves ahead with its imperial manoeuvres, pulling new justifications out like rabbits from hats. This is "change:" bait-and-switch. We know that we do not really know what is going on. All experts are liars, or repeaters of lies. We must come together to constitute knowledge, to know how to construct new strategies.
But, it is difficult to move from the position that we do not know what is going on. ANARCHY AND PEACE will work to help us arrive there. Not didactic analyses, not conventional rhetoric. In the first part of the evening we will get drunk on some words – PEACE, WAR, PACIFICSM, AHIMSA, NUCLEAR WEAPON, MASS DESTRUCTION, QUAGMIRE, DRONE, PRISON – get dizzy and confused in order to remember that WORDS ARE MAGIC. They constitute reality. And from this position, the talking stick will be extended so that we may come together to remake reality.
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