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Saturday, August 2, 2008
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Saturday, August 2, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Thursday, August 7, 2008, Open Mic Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 - 9 PM
Come read your poetry, your stories, your songs, your statements, or just come get something off your chest! Food and Drink provided! Hosted by staffer Michelle W. Download Flyer

Saturday, August 9, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Busted! The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

Thursday, August 14, 2008, Special Event: Radical Sustainability for Autnomous Communities @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM Download the Flyer
Speaker: Scott Kellogg, Co-founder of the Rhizome Collective

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Saturday, August 2, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Description: Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you'll encounter in René Viénet's outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. Viénet's target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology. (90 Minutes)

Thursday, August 7, 2008, Open Mic Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 - 9 PM
Come read your poetry, your stories, your songs, your statements, or just come get something off your chest! Food and Drink provided! Hosted by staffer Michelle W. Download Flyer

Saturday, August 9, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Busted! The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
Description: Created by Flex Your Rights and narrated by retired ACLU director Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. In an entertaining and revealing manner, BUSTED illustrates the right and wrong ways to handle different police encounters and pays special attention to demonstrating how you, the viewer, can courteously and confidently refuse police searches. (45 Minutes)

Aaron Marcus, a local criminal defense attorney, will be following up the video with a brief know your rights talk concerning issues of search and seizure and police confrontation. There will also be a question and answer session regarding the video.

Thursday, August 14, 2008, Special Event: Radical Sustainability for Autnomous Communities @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM Download the Flyer
Speaker: Scott Kellogg, Co-founder of the Rhizome Collective
Description: A one-night workshop on urban ecological survival skills by Scott Kellogg, Co-founder of the Rhizome Collective and author of "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide"

Saturday, August 16, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Baraka
Description: Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky. (96 Minutes)

Thursday, August 21, 2008, "Solidarity Divided: : A conversation and book signing with Bill Fletcher Jr." @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 - 9 PM
Book: Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice A new direction for labor by two of its leading activist intellectuals
Author: Bill Fletcher Jr., Co-author
Description: “An extraordinarily important and provocative reflection on the limitations of self-reform and reinvention within the American labor movement. The authors provide readers with a unique first-hand view of internal debates, personalities, and decision-making processes but also use their intimate knowledge of union culture and carefully narrated case studies to transcend mere stone-throwing. This book is unlikely to be matched by any other journalistic account or memoir....A landmark in all debates about ‘what next’ for labor.” —Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream Download the Flyer

“An accessible and balanced exploration of recent efforts at community unionism, international solidarity, coalition with nonunion workers and empowerment of immigrants. Above all this is far and away the best argument for the importance of central labor unions that I have read.” —David R. Roediger, author of” Working Toward Whiteness”

Saturday, August 23, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: The Jena 6
Description: Jena, LA - In a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives.

Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of the school, the DA puts six black students on trial for attempted murder, and the quiet town of Jena becomes the site of the largest civil rights demonstration in the South since the 1960s.

The Jena 6 is the story of hidden racial inequality and violence becoming visible. It is a powerful symbol for, and example of, how racial justice works in America – where the lynching noose has been replaced by the DA's pen. (30 Minutes)

Saturday, August 30, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Abortion Democracy & The Coathanger Project
Description: This night, we have a double-feature of two Feminist Films, with directors Sarah Diehl and Angie Young on hand to talk about their films!

Abortion Democracy directed by Sarah Diehl of Berlin, Germany, contrasts the differences in abortion policies in South Africa and Poland. In the 90's, Poland banned abortion due to the increasing influence of the Catholic Church after the fall of communism; around the same time South Africa legalized it, reforming the health system after the fall of apartheid.

The film reveals how the legal status of women is a direct result of the silencing or empowering of women's voices. In the Polish society and media, women's perspectives were made invisible; in South Africa, on the other hand, they were invited to give public hearings in the parliament about problems in the realm of reproduction.

The film aims to emphasize the need for safe abortions and liberal abortion laws. It also, however, illustrates the paradox that the implementation of such laws may have little effect on the accessibility of abortion services. In Poland, for example, illegal abortions are quite available and relatively safe; in South Africa, where the law is very liberal, women have a harder time getting information and services in public hospitals due to jugmental behaviour of the health staff. Only a change in the fundamental social and cultural attitudes towards abortion, contraception, and reproductive health can ensure a woman's right to choose. (45 min)

The Coathanger Project directed by Angie Young, is about abortionand the current state of the pro-choice movement 35 years after Roe vs. Wade. Since the passage of Roe vs. Wade in 1973, anti-choice forces have been making it their mission to dismantle women's reproductive freedom. They came together, brilliantly strategized, pooled their resources, and slowly but steadily they have been implementing their attack. Their weapons: money, the legal system, the government, the media, the church, and - this is the scariest of all - you.

Armed with their slogans and their chants and their gigantic bloody posters, they got to you, too. And by "you" I mean the post-1973 generation. They took advantage of the fact that you never lived during a time when abortion was illegal so you had no frame of reference for the plight of desperate women with unintended pregnancies whose only option would be to carry to term or self-abort. As a result, we have conceded much hard-won ground the women's and pro-choice movements fought so desperately hard to win. Despite all of the gains we have made, we are still living in a world that hates the idea of women having control over their reproductive lives. (40 Minutes)

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