Events for July 2008

Tuesday Jul 1, 7:30PM @ Red Emma's : In the middle of a Whirlwind

In the middle of a whirlwind: 2008 Convention protests, Movement and Movements. A one-off Online Journal of theory, practice, art, activism and organzing. Coordinated by Team Colors Militant Research Collective and Published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest .

There will be a brief presentation on this one-off followed by a facilitated discussion on the meaning and function of mass
mobilizations in the context of contemporary U.S. power dynamics and class composition.

Tuesday Jul 8, 7:30PM @ 2640 : "Single-Payer" healthcare study group

Join Charles Village-based community organizer Bill Harvey for a one-time study session on single-payer healthcare. "Single payer" is a technical sounding term that simply means that only one agency will pay for medical services- this in contrast to the roughly 1500 insurance companies now operating in the US. Private insurance companies would be effectively eliminated from the medical market. The rough model for most single payer advocates in the US is the Canadian system. Another way of simplifying: An expanded and enhanced "Medicare for All." Click the link below for more information on readings for this session. Can't make it this month? 2640 hosts this event during the first week of every month! Contact Bill Harvey if you'd like to participate (bharvey (at) smart.net).

Wednesday Jul 9, 7:30PM @ 2640 : Proud Flesh, a new film by Chiara Giovando and Jenny Graf Sheppard

Check out the Baltimore premiere of Proud Flesh, an experimental Western filmed in the Badlands and in our very own Baltimore, featuring a 70-year-old gunslinger and music by some of Baltimore's improvisational & experimental highlights.  The evening kicks off at 7:30PM with a DJ set by Ian Nagoski and some light refreshments, and the film itself (just over 30 minutes long) screens at 9PM.  $5 donation requested at the door.

Thursday Jul 10, 7PM @ 2640 : P.E.P. TALK #3 with Bill Fletcher Jr.: Solidarity Divided

Plus updates and responses from the United Workers and UNITE-HERE!

About the book

What's the future of the labor movement in the United States? How did the onslaught of neoliberalism catch Amercian unions off guard? What would a new labor movement, one able and willing to fight for the rights of workers on all fronts, look like? "Solidarity Divided", the brand-new book co-authored by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, tries to answer exactly these questions. Part overview of American labor history, part analysis of recent developments in American labor, including the split of the Change to Win coalition from the AFL-CIO, and part strategic vision for a new labor movement capable of standing up for the working class and for social justice, "Solidarity Divided" is an excellent starting point for reimagining the politics of labor unions in Baltimore and beyond.

About Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is currently director of Field Services and Education at AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees), and executive editor of Black Commentator. He is a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress as well as the Center for Labor Renewal, formerly served as President of TransAfrica Forum, and was the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He is the author of "The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Relations, 1934-1941."

Friday Jul 18, 5PM @ 2640 : Whartscape!

UPDATE: Red Emma's now has tickets and passes on sale for all of Whartscape.

It's that time of year again --- Wham City's insanely jam-packed celebration of the ecstatic fringes of music from Baltimore and beyond is set to go with four days of music, theater, and more. 2640 is doing its part this year by hosting the Friday evening performance set - doors are at 5PM. Check the Whartscape page for ticket info and the weekend's full lineup (which is mindblowing!), but here's what we'll be hosting at 2640:

BEACH HOUSE
JANA HUNTER
GOLDEN AGE (FORMELY MORE DOGS)
ARBOURETUM
LESSER GONZALEZ ALVAREZ
WHEATIE MATTIASICH
SANTA DADS
MATTEAH BAIM
ANDY ABELOW
EAGLE AGER
A MURMERED TALE

Friday Jul 18, 7PM @ Red Emma's : MC Homeless

MC Homeless is a socially conscious hip hop artist from Youngstown, Ohio. He grew up attending diy punk shows and singing in grindcore bands before starting a rap career at age 18. While attending college at the infamous Kent State he became active politically as well as musically, sharing the stage with such acts as The Coup and Spank Rock and playing many events including those put on by Anti-Racist Action. While in college he gained attention in the Ohio media as Cleveland's Scene Magazine named his ep Pink Unicorns one of the best releases of 2005. He would later drop Trapped Under an Ohio Sky, earning him 4 out of 5 stars in Alternative Press, garnering him some international attention which has led to his relentless tour schedule and split 12 inch record with Indonesia's Homicide on Diseased Records.

Tuesday Jul 22, 6PM @ Red Emma's : Spoonboy, Ryan Harvey, Sine Jensen and Sara Lankutis

Political acoustic folk singers Ryan Harvey, Sine Jensen from Baltimore and Spoonboy from Washington DC get together for a fun jammin' night at Red Emma's!

Come support the acoustic riot folks - 6 p.m., don't miss it!

 

Thursday Jul 24, 7PM @ 2640 : WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: Maryland Anti-Death Penalty Activists Speak Out!

As the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment prepares to gather public testimony and analysis of the state's use of the death penalty, legal action by the American Civil Liberties Union has revealed a campaign of illegal and unconstitutional infiltration and surveillance of the anti-death penalty movement by the Maryland State Police.

On Thursday, July 24, four activists from the Maryland abolitionist movement who are named in the Maryland State Police reports obtained by the ACLU will speak out about their experiences and what it means for the effort to abolish the death penalty in Maryland.

Speakers:

• Max Obuszewski - Baltimore Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Baltimore Pledge of Resistance
• Terry Fitzgerald - Baltimore Campaign to End the Death Penalty
• Mike Stark - Campaign to End the Death Penalty board member
• Dave Zirin - political sports columnist and Campaign to End the Death Penalty member
• Amy Fusting - MD Citizens Against State Executions

   

Thursday Jul 31, 7PM @ 2640 : Turtle an anarchic salon presents: An evening of homage and testament featuring the film "Profit motive and the whispering wind" by John Gianvito.

Please join us for this convergence of film, poetry, photography, lecture, and dialogue weaving a variety of historical strands and interpretations into an evening of homage and testament to fallen and breathing radicals, rebels, agitators and provocateurs. The evening will include the photography of Ryan Coffman capturing the symbolic adornments in cemeteries that reflect our mutable perceptions of death, dying, and the afterlife, and the Poetry/ Photography of the radical priest Daniel Berrigan and Adrianna Amari from the book "Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the sanctity of life and death" followed by words from Liz McAlistar of the Jonah House..

The feature film "Profit motive and the whispering wind" by John Gianvito is a calm, beautiful and wordless testament to fallen rebels and radicals in American history, from colonial times to the present. Winner, Best Experimental Film, 2007, National Society Film Critics.Grand Prize for Documentary Feature - Belfort EntreVues Film Festival [France]Human Rights Award and Special Mention - Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Special Mention- Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival

Two film shorts will preceed our feature, "p.s. beirut, chapter one" by Michael H Shamberg, "a bricolage of scars, traces of repair, iconic meditations on the other side of war", and "NYC Weights and Measures" by Jem Cohen described as "a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, a film that makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York."


More info on Turtle: www.turtlesalon.com
 

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