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Events for May 2010
Tuesday May 4, 7:30PM @ 2640 : Know Your Rights! Screening of "10 Rules for Dealing with the Police"
The newest film from the Flex Your Rights Foundation is a primer on asserting one's Constitutional rights during encounters with law enforcement. This film (made here in Baltimore!) will be shown FREE to the general public, with a moderated discussion and Q&A session to follow the 40-minute film.
Here's praise from a recent review of the film:
"10 Rules will help the both the entirely innocent and those guilty...reduce the harm of their run-ins with police. Not that it encourages the violation of any laws -- it doesn't -- but it does clearly, concisely, and effectively explain what people can do to exercise their constitutional rights while keeping their cool, in the process protecting themselves from police who may not have their best interests in mind."
FREE admission. Donations accepted at the door to support 2640 events and activities. 
Saturday May 8, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Ellen Hagan - Submerged and Crowned
Join us as poet and performer Ellen Hagan reads from Crowned, her new book of poetry, and Submerged: Tales from the Basin, an anthology of literature, memoir, and art created by more than thirty women to benefit those who survived Hurricane Katrina. The title refers to a fear many of us had as young children, of having our heads submerged under water while our mothers washed our hair. The stories, essays, poems, and art of Submerged are an exploration of each contributor’s relationship with her hair, in most cases emotional, often humorous, and consistently generated from youth. An African American writer discusses having her hair ironed straight in the 1960s, with her mother trying hard to keep her from looking like a Black Panther. A Southern writer laments her childhood braid lying in a box in perpetual youth while she, herself, ages. A young woman watches her aging grandmother go bald. A lonely widow rediscovers intimacy from the remote touch of her wax technician. A New Orleans performance group talks about Hurricane Katrina, gender stereotypes, and hair as stagecraft. Artist Lorien Jordan has created a series of drawings in response to these essays, memoirs, and poems. A percentage of the book’s proceeds will help support charities based in New Orleans that work with ongoing relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Saturday May 8, 8PM @ 2640 : SOLD OUT - Beach House! with special guest Washed Out
We're thrilled to host BEACH HOUSE for the homecoming show of their 2010 world tour, with special guest WASHED OUT!
All ages show. Tickets on sale Friday January 15th at Red Emma's and Missiontix.com.
For more info visit monozine.com
Monday May 10, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Think Outside the Bomb! National Tour Stop
Think Outside the Bomb is the largest youth-led network for nuclear abolition in the US. Since 2005, we have organized national and regional conferences, focusing on education, capacity building, linking communities, action and advocacy. 2010 is the year of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty review which we will be meeting with action and this August we are holding a permaculture encampment in New Mexico protesting the construction of a new nuclear weapons lab.On May 10th, TOTB will be making a stop in Baltimore to educate and agitate in preparation for the upcoming events and to talk about nuclear abolition and the deconstruction of militarism. http://www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org/
Wednesday May 12, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Sheri Parks - Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman in American Life and Culture
An important work on an essential subject, Fierce Angels explores and explodes the idea of the “strong black woman” as never before. Authoritative yet deeply personal and daringly confessional, Sheri Parks’s bold new study of the black female’s role as communal savior and martyr will challenge and change anyone who reads it.
Credible and cathartic, piercing and provocative, Fierce Angels is a book born of pain and introspection, a work sure to stir debate and become the primary source on this vital topic.
Sheri Parks is an associate professor in the American Studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s Studies and African American Studies departments and an award-winning teacher and public speaker. She is host of NPR’s Clear Reception with Sheri Parks, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek, and on MSNBC, CNN, NBC News, and many other media outlets.
Friday May 21, 7PM @ Red Emma's : The Greatest Threat: Celebrate the new book by Eddie Conway on the Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO
We are celebrating the release of Marshall "Eddie" Conway 's brand new book on the legacy of COINTELPRO, The Greatest Threat, now in stock at the store - we'd be even happier if Eddie wasn't still in prison, framed up and locked away by the state apparatus for 40 years for the work he had been doing in Baltimore's black communities with the Black Panther Party. Eddie will be calling in from prison to speak about his book on Friday May 21st. All proceeds from the sales of the book are going straight to Eddie's legal defense fund - we're selling it, but not taking any sort of profit off the sales. Please join us and learn about the legacy of COINTELPRO's illegal surveillance, infiltration, and persecution of dissident political organizations and social movements, as well as what you can do to help political prisoners in the U.S.
Monday May 24, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice
Join us as Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor present their new application of critical social and ecological theory.
Providing new practical and conceptual tools for responding to human and environmental crises in Appalachia and beyond, Recovering the Commons radically revises the framework of critical social thought regarding our stewardship of the civic and ecological commons. Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor ally social theory, field sciences, and local knowledge in search of healthy connections among body, place, and commons that form a basis for solidarity as well as a vital infrastructure for a reliable, durable world. Drawing particularly on the work of philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Dewey, and Hannah Arendt, the authors reconfigure social theory by ridding it of the aspects that reduce place and community to sets of interchangeable components. Instead, they reconcile complementary pairs such as mind/body and society/nature in the reclamation of public space.
With its analysis embedded in philosophical and material contexts, this penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization and represents a brave rethinking of politics, economy, culture, and professionalism.
Herbert Reid is a professor of political science at the University of Kentucky and the editor of Up the Mainstream: A Critique of Ideology in American Politics and Everyday Life. Betsy Taylor is a cultural anthropologist and senior research scholar at the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Tuesday May 25, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Heather Rogers presents Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a "petro" to a "green" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life—food, shelter, and transportation.
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