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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:00PM
Event: Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Inquiry and Radical Organizing for Movement Capable of Building New Social Relations
With: Jenna Peters-Golden (Philly Stands Up), Timothy Colman (Philly's Pissed), Malav Kanuga (Bluestockings NYC), and Craig Hughes (Team Colors Collective)

Saturday, July 5, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Made in LA PLUS: Dorian Lam from Sweatfree PA and Quyen Nguyen from United Students Against Sweatshops (Temple)

Saturday, July 12, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: SHUTDOWN: The rise and fall of Direct Action To Stop the War

Saturday, July 19, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Black And Gold: The Story of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation

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July 2008 (Flyer: People's Movie Night)

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:00PM
Event: Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Inquiry and Radical Organizing for Movement Capable of Building New Social Relations
With: Jenna Peters-Golden (Philly Stands Up), Timothy Colman (Philly's Pissed), Malav Kanuga (Bluestockings NYC), and Craig Hughes (Team Colors Collective)

Description: Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Inquiry and Radical Organizing for Movement Capable of Building New Social Relations' brings together three different organizers under the theme of radical organizing, and for the purpose of movement building. By explaining the purposes, process and function of particular organizing efforts in context of building sustained radicalmovement, we hope to deepen thinking of political organizing through an emphasis on a practice that takes everyday power relations -- as well as larger institutions of oppression and exploitation -- as central targets.

On May 25, 2008 Team Colors Collective and Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press released a one-off online journal entitled 'In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements' ("Whirlwinds"). Whirlwinds was heavily inspired by experiences with radical organizing over the past decade within the "counter-globalization" movements in the U.S. and, on theoretical levels, "inquiries" into "class composition" that are most well known as central parts of the "autonomist Marxist" tradition. The presentation on Whirlwinds will address recent movement in the U.S., and the meaning of inquiry and analysis of class composition for movement building, as well as some of the more salient themes of the Whirlwinds project and the lessons it might teach us.

Philly's Pissed and Philly Stands Up are groups working against sexual assault in radical communities in Philadelphia. Philly's Pissed provides support to survivors of sexual assault; Philly Stands Up works primarily with people who have sexually assaulted, trying to help them take accountability for their actions and change their behavior. Timothy (Philly's Pissed) and Jenna (Philly Stands Up) will discuss the work done by Philly's Pissed and Philly Stands Up, addressing the challenges of organizing around sexual assault as well as its significance for movement-building.

Relevant Websites:
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info
Philly's Pissed: www.phillyspissed.net
Philly Stands Up: www.phillyspissed.net/phillystandsup
Team Colors Collective: www.warmachines.info

Saturday, July 5, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Made in LA PLUS: Dorian Lam from Sweatfree PA and Quyen Nguyen from United Students Against Sweatshops (Temple)
Description: Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. In intimate observational style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.

Lupe Hernandez, a five-foot tall dynamo who learned survival skills at an early age, has been working in Los Angeles garment factories for over 15 years since she left Mexico City at age 17. Maura Colorado left her three children in the care of relatives in El Salvador while she sought work in L.A. to support them. She found that the low-paid work came with a high price - wretched conditions in the factories and an "undocumented" status that deprived her of seeing her children for over eighteen years. María Pineda came to Southern California from Mexico in hopes of a better life at 18, with an equally young husband. Twenty three years later, substandard working conditions, a meager salary and domestic abuse have left her struggling for her children's future and for her own human dignity. (70 Minutes).

Dorian Lam and Quyen Nguyen will be on hand to talk about the PA Sweatfree Campaign and Temple U Sweatfree Campaign and how you can ensure workers are treated with fair labor practices, who supply public employees and Temple students with clothing.

Saturday, July 12, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: SHUTDOWN: The rise and fall of Direct Action To Stop the War
Description: SHUTDOWN is a in-depth and action packed documentary exploration of how 20,000 San Franciscans successfully organized to blockade and shutdown their financial district in March, 2003 to protest the US attack on Iraq. A inspirational, informative, and engagingly honest look at the difficulties they faced in maintaining militant opposition. Created by people directly involved with the organizing, utilizing on the street footage, news clips and interviews with eighteen key participants. It is a peoples history made in support of the movement against war and empire, aiming to galvanize resistance and further critical analysis in cities and towns throughout the country.

Saturday, July 19, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Black And Gold: The Story of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Description: In 1994, the Latin Kings - the largest and most powerful street gang in New York - became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords. With over 3,000 members in New York, some saw the Latin King and Queen Nation as the most important political voice to rise from the streets in decades. The NYPD did not agree, calling them a vicious gang with a PR campaign. One thing is certain, the City was never the same after the Nation went downtown. (76 Minutes)

Saturday, July 26, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Oh, Saigon
Description: Airlifted out of Vietnam on April 30, 1975, Doan Hoang's family was on the last civilian helicopter out of the country at the end of the war. Twenty-five years later, she sets out to uncover their story. The film follows her family as they return to Vietnam after decades of exile, where her father, a former South Vietnamese major, meets his brothers again to confront their political differences: one was a Communist, the other a pacifist. Meanwhile, Hoang tries to reconcile her own difficult past with her half sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape. (57 Minutes)

August 2008 (Flyer: People's Movie Night)

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)

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.

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)

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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