Events

ACTIVIST CAMP – Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in CA, OR, and NY. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.

Contact: info@yeacamp.org; http://yeacamp.org/.

WHISTLEBLOWING – June 1-7 is International Week to Support Whistleblowing. Events and actions are planned all over the world.

Contact: Stand Up For Truth, c/o Institute for Public Accuracy, 980 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045; 202-347-0020Æ dcinstitute@igc.org; http://standupfortruth.org.

LEFT FORUM – The Left Forum will be held June 2-4, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Contact: 212-817-2003; leftforum@leftforum.org; http://www.leftforum.org.

RURAL ARTS/CULTURE – The 2017 Rural Arts and Culture Summit will be June 2-4, in Morris, MN. This year’s theme, From the Ground Up: Cultivating Creative People and Places will highlight the important role of art and culture in shaping the rural narrative.

Contact: Springboard for the Arts, 218-770-3485; michele@ springboardforthe arts.com; http://www .ruralartsandculturesummit.com/.

BIKES – Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 30th annual Bike-A-Thon in Boston, MA on June 4.

Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; mail@bikesnotbombs.org; www.bikesnotbombs.org.

FEMINIST CAMP – Feminist Camp is open to all who are interested in learning more about transforming feminist theory into practice. Camps are scheduled June 5-9 in New York City; June 26-30 in Seattle.

Contact: http://www.feministcamp.com/.

LABOR – The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy will be held June 9-11, at Fordham University Lincoln Center in New York City, in partnership with NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives and Fordham University Law School’s Economic Development Clinic.

Contact: info@east.usworker.coop; http://east.usworker.coop/.

LGBTQX/PRIDE – The National Pride March will be held June 11, in Washington, DC., Austin, TX, Portland, ME, Indianapolis, IN and other cities nationwide.

Contact: information available online.

MEDIA – The 24th annual Media Consortium Conference will be held June 13-15, in Boston, MA. The conference brings together over 100 leaders of independent news.

Contact: https://www.nmc.org.

JUNETEENTH – June 16 is Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the announcement of the end of slavery in Texas and in the rest of the U.S. through the Emancipation Proclamation; June 19 is Juneteenth Independence Day.

Contact: http://national juneteenth .com/Juneteenth_Movement.html.

MEDIA – The 19th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 15-18, in Detroit. The conference brings together a vibrant and diverse community of people using media to incite change: filmmakers, radio producers, technologists, youth organizers, writers, entrepreneurs, musicians, dancers, and artists.

Contact: Allied Media Projects, 4126 Third St., Detroit, MI 48201; 313-718-2267; http://alliedmedia.org/.

ANTIWAR – The Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad conference will be June 16-18, in Richmond, VA, hosted bt the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC).

Contact: https://www.unacpeace.org/.

NUCLEAR – The Women’s March to Ban the Bomb will be June 17, in New York City. Sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, a steering group member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

Contact: http://www. reachingcriticalwill.org/; https://www.womenbanthebomb.org.

LABOR – The LAWCHA (Labor and Working Class History Association) will hold its conference, Scales of Struggles: Communities, Movements, and Global Connections, June 23-25, in Seattle, WA.

Contact: LAWCHA, 226 Carr Building (East Campus), Box 90719, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708- 0719;lawcha@duke.edu; http://lawcha.org/.

REPARATIONS – The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) is calling a March  to demand Reparations for African Americans for the enslavement of African ancestors. June 24, in Newark, NJ.

Contact: People’s Organization For Progress, PO Box 22505, Newark, NJ 07101-2505; 973-801-0001; info@njpop.org; http:// njpop.org/wordpress/.

LA RAZA – The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 8-11 in Phoenix, AZ, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.

Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.

CUBA – The 28th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba is traveling through the US from July 11-28.

Contact: https://ifconews.org.

MEDIA – Alliance for Community Media (ACM) and the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC) will host a joint conference in Minneapolis, July 12-14.

Contact: http://www. allcommunity media.org/annual-conference.

RADIO – The Annual National Federation of Community Broadcasters Community Media Conference will be held July 17-19, in Denver, CO, with break-out sessions, two keynotes, affinity group summits, panel discussions and tours around the host city.

Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; comments @nfcb.org; http://www.nfcb.org/.

TEACHERS – The Badass Teachers Association will have their annual conference in Seattle, WA, July 22-23.

Contact: http://www.badassteacher.org/.

WOMEN/PEACE – The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 33rd Triennial Congress will be held July 27-30, in Chicago.

Contact: http://wilpfus.org.

DEMOCRACY – The Democracy Convention, Universalizing Resistance, Democratizing Power! will be held August 2-6, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Contact: http://www.democracyc onvention.org/.

FOLK FESTIVAL – The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 4-6, in the Berkshires, NY.

Contact: falcridge@aol.com; http://www.falconridgefolk.com/.

HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI – August 5-8, annual Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day peace vigils and demonstrations will be held worldwide. Ground Zero Center’s weekend of events commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakiace from August 7-9

Contact: 16159 Clear Creek Rd. NW, Poulsbo, WA 98370; 360-930-8697; http://www.gzcenter.org/.

VETERANS/PEACE – Veterans for Peace annual convention is August 9-13 in Chicago. This year’s theme is, Education Not Militarization.

Contact: http://www.vfpnational convention.org/.

PEACE – The 18th Annual Kateri Peace Conference: Confronting the Politics of Fear, will be held August 17-18, in upstate New York

Contact: http://kateri peaceconference.org/.

WOMEN’S CONFERENCE – The annual Twin Oaks Women’s Gathering will be held August 18-20.

Contact: 138 Twin Oaks Road # W, Louisa, VA 23093; 540-894-5126; twinoaks@ic.org; http://womens gathering.org/.

DISSIDENT ARTS – The Dissident Arts Festival will take place August 19, in New York City.

Contact: John Pietaro, 646-599-0060; leftmus@earthlink.net; http://www.dissidentarts.com/.

Books

PALESTINE – In Palestine it is something colonial, Hatem Bazian offers a theoretical basis for understanding Palestine while avoiding the pitfalls of the internationally supported peace process  that, on the one hand, affirms settler-colonial rights and, on the other hand, problematizes the colonialized and dispenses with the ramifications of the colonial project.

Contact: http://www.hatembazian.com/.

ANTISEMITISM – On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine, from Jewish Voice for Peace with a foreword by Judith Butler, has been released online and in paperback.

Contact: Haymarket Books, PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618; 773-583-7884;  http://www.haymarke tbooks.org/.

PALESTINE/CARTOON – White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh draws attention to brutalities of the Israeli occupation and celebrates the Palestinian’s popular resistance.

Contact: info@justworldbooks.com; http://justworldbooks.com/gaza-writes-back

 

Film

ENVIRONMENT –  The Documentary Where Do You Draw the Line? was filmed in Sani Isla and Ecuador’s capital city, Quito. It gives voice to an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon and their fight against enforced oil extraction.

Contact: http://www.word smithproductions.co.uk/.

PALESTINE/WOMEN/CARS – The Speed Sisters is a documentary about the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. The movie weaves together their lives on and off the track in occupied Palestine.

Contact: http://speedsisters.tv/about.