People's University in Chicago

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storiesofthe99percent — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:51:08 -0500

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people's summit chicago, may 12-13

storiesofthe99percent — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:57:24 -0500

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TODAY!

storiesofthe99percent — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:26:55 -0500

Budgets and Bombs: The U.S. role in NATO and G8 and how it affects all of us

facilitated by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and War Resisters League
Saturday, March 31st, 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., @ 500 W. Cermak, Room 700

This training is primarily for Chicago organizers and activists working to build the leadership and collective power of communities who are most directly affected by U.S. government policies and their enforcement (policing, prisons, detention centers, border patrol, etc.) and to put that power into action for social change.

The goal of the workshop is to strengthen participants’ understanding of the role of the U.S. in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Group of 8 (G8)—two international bodies that are meeting simultaneously over the weekend of May 18-20, with NATO meeting in Chicago—which make decisions that affect all of our lives.

Participants will also come out of the workshop with a clear breakdown of the connections between the U.S. economy and U.S. militarism globally, as well as a strengthened understanding of how to deepen their work for economic and social justice in the U.S. through an antimilitarist lens. They will also learn about the current status of the U.S.-NATO war in Afghanistan as well as Afghan resistance to occupation.

Participants will engage in an array of exercises and activities that draw upon popular education tools and methods.

NATO / Libya Teach-in @ LaSalle & Jackson tonight!

storiesofthe99percent — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:46:02 -0500

First teach-in out at the old HQ, make sure to be there!

LIBYAN REVOLUTION™ by NATO

When: Friday, March 30 @ 5 p.m.
Location: LaSalle & Jackson
Facilitators: Alan Maass and Marco Rossi

Marco Rossi, experienced Chicago anti-imperialist and solidarity activist, will present “Libya, the West, and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention: A Critical Examination of Foreign Military Intervention in the Battle for Libya”:

The military intervention into Libya has received a tremendous amount of celebration and controversy. For those supportive of the military strike the United Nations has changed its inaction towards crises. Those opposed have accused the intervention of being another attempt to take over an Arab nation. There is a manner to systematically address these concerns. The UN Secretary General’s report A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility outlines the moral parameters for humanitarian interventions. While the ability to use force in the NATO strike on Libya is legal, according to the criteria accepted by the authors of A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, it is not legitimate.

Alan Maass, editor of Socialist Worker and author of The Case for Socialism, will present “NATO’s Mission Creep and the War in Libya”:

When it was formed in the aftermath of the Second World War, the NATO military alliance was supposed to have a defensive mandate—a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to oppose the former USSR during the Cold War. This was never true—the alliance had an offensive character from the beginning. This aspect of NATO became more pronounced falling the collapse of the Eastern European satellites of Russia, and then the USSR itself. First in Europe, and then beyond, NATO has played the role of aggressor, representing the interests of the most powerful governments involved, above all, the U.S.

This was the role that NATO played in Libya. The national rebellion against the Qaddafi regime was entirely legitimate, but after an initial hands-off attitude, the West, led by the U.S., intervened in Libya with the aim of shaping anti-Qaddafi forces into a new political and economic structure that would by to its interests. The result has been a set-up in post-Qaddafi Libya that has been dominated, though not without sympathetic challenges, by pro-Western forces nurtured during the NATO intervention.

Next Wednesday!

storiesofthe99percent — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:58:00 -0500

Wednesday March 21 – Evening with Luther Castillo, MD
Calles y Sueños Gallery
1900 S. Carpenter, Chicago
773.208.0553

Honduran graduate of Cuba’s free international medical school, built hospital in Afro-Honduran community
Dinner 6pm (donation), Program 7pm

Dr. Castillo believes in health care as a right. He will speak on his experiences starting grassroots clinics in Honduras, the medical needs and responses in Haiti, and on Cuba’s preventative approach to public health and the role of Cuban doctors abroad. Castillo will lead a discussion on the possibilities of implementing people’s medicine.

TODAY! Join the Columbia College Chicago students, staff,...

storiesofthe99percent — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:43:00 -0500

TODAY! Join the Columbia College Chicago students, staff, faculty, alumni, and allies to show the Carter Administration how change is truly created.

https://www.facebook.com/events/357207937653469/

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storiesofthe99percent — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:26:23 -0500

For your listening pleasure - an audio file of Tuesday’s...

storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:08:00 -0500

For your listening pleasure - an audio file of Tuesday’s teach-in.
Be careful, you know what they say about anarchism and contamination…

PICK YOUR ANTIDOTE to an ill-informed consciousness with our...

storiesofthe99percent — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:17:00 -0500

PICK YOUR ANTIDOTE to an ill-informed consciousness with our ever-expanding list of teach-ins:

Occupy Music? Crisis, Resistance and the Sound of Revolt

facilitated by Alex Billet, an openly radical music journalist
Saturday, March 17 from 4:30 - 6:30 in Room 700 @ 500 W. Cermak

MST Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement

facilitated by Jeff Frank (OC attorney and national coordinator of Friends of the MST)
Sunday, March 18 from 5 - 7 p.m. in Room 700 @ 500 W. Cermak

Salt of the Earth film screening

When: Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Occupy Chicago Headquarters, 500 W. Cermak Room 700
Facilitator: Frank of Occupy Chicago

Anti-Semitism vs. Opposition to Zionism

Sunday, March 25, 5:00 - 7:00, Room 700, 500 W. Cermak
Facilitated by members of the Chicago chapter of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

LIBYAN REVOLUTION™ by NATO

When: Friday, March 30 @ 5 p.m.
Location: Room 700, 500 W. Cermak
Facilitators: Alan Maass and Marco Rossi

Crisis Theory for Complex Societies

Facilitated by Brian Holmes, activist researcher and cultural critic
Sunday, April 8th, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. @ Occupy Chicago HQ, Room 700, 500 W. Cermak

For more information on these events, visit our Calendar.

Image by Natalie Roman of Davis, CA (http://defactodestructo.wordpress.com/), courtesy of Occuprint.

Join the Occupy Chicago Education Committee in coordination with...

storiesofthe99percent — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:33:44 -0500

Join the Occupy Chicago Education Committee in coordination with the Columbia College Chicago Cultural Studies Student Society to welcome the infamous CrimethInc. to our troubled city.

When:

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 7:00pm

Location:

Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, Room 109, 623 S. Wabash.

Facilitator:

The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective (CWC)

After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? Why does the old labor movement seem to be powerless to stop the new assault on workers? Can capitalism survive another century of crises? And how do we get out of this mess?

Please join us for a high-energy discussion of these questions and more. We’ll focus on the ways capitalism has changed over the past few decades, and scrutinize recent examples of resistance in the US and overseas to propose anti-capitalist strategies for the 21st century.

About the speakers: The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective (CWC) is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of many cells which act independently in pursuit of a freer and more joyous world. Visit them online @ http://crimethinc.com

Join us this evening for “Underground Politics:...

storiesofthe99percent — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:46:56 -0600

Join us this evening for “Underground Politics: Belarus!”

When:

Friday, March 9, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Occupy Chicago Headquarters, 500 W Cermak, Room 501,

Facilitator:

Members of the Rebel Studies Library in Belarus

This teach-in will explore the effects of state repression on contemporary political practice in Belarus. When “traditional” methods for free speech and civil disobedience aren’t available, how does one adapt? The facilitator, a young anarchist philosopher from Minsk, will discuss some of the noncommercial and alternative spaces in his hometown that have thrived under the blanket of neoliberalism. A short video about recent crackdowns will be shown, as well as a film about the Masterskaya squat that existed in Minsk from May to October of 2008. We’ll also hear about Rebel Studies Library, an educational project he began with friends.

Join us for our first conference today and...

storiesofthe99percent — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:17:00 -0600

Join us for our first conference today and Sunday!

Here’s our conference schedule at a glance. Please look here for more detailed information for the sessions, panels, and speakers, and join and share our facebook event here. For questions on accessibility, please click here.

Saturday, March 3

Panel Discussion 1: “Analysis and Reflections on the Occupy Movement”: Noon - 2 p.m.

Room 700, facilitated by Marissa Brown (Occupy the South Side), Brit Schulte (Occupy Chicago), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University) and Joe Macaré (writer and editor)

Teach-in Series “Whose City?” Session 1: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

“A Short and Irreverent History of the G8 and NATO”

Room 700, facilitated by Eric Ruder

“Immigrant Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism”

Room 501, facilitated by Mario Cardenas

Teach-in Series “Whose City?” Session 2: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

“Health Disparities in Chicago”

Room 700, facilitated by Professor Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University)

“Walmart: Big Retail Employment and the 99%”

Room 501, facilitated by Janel Bailey

Sunday, March 4

Teach-In Series “Whose City” Session 3: Noon - 1:30 p.m.

“Chicago and the Human Right to Housing”

Room 700, facilitated by Janet L. Smith (UIC) and Loren Taylor (Occupy Our Homes)

“Environmental Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism”

Room 501, facilitated by Jerry Mead-Lucero (P.E.R.R.O)

“SILENCE = DEBT”

Room 501, facilitated by Brian Holmes (European Graduate School)

Teach-In Series “Whose City?” Session 4: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

“Corporations Declare War Against Public Education”

Room 700, facilitated by Bill Watkins (UIC) and Jackson Potter (CTU staff coordinator)

“Utility Profiteering and How to Fight It”

Room 501, facilitated by Virginia Miller (Midwest Workers Association)

Panel Discussion 2: “Our City: Occupying, Decolonizing, Mobilizing”: 4 - 6 p.m.

Room 700, facilitated by Todd Freeman, Brian Holmes, Crystal Vance Guerra (Occupa El Barrio, Occupy Chicago) and Toby Chow (Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation)

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storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:51:25 -0600

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TODAY! Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -...

storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:00:53 -0600

TODAY!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 4:00pm

Location:

Occupy Chicago Headquarters, 500 W. Cermak Room 701

Facilitator:

Alberto Toscano, Goldsmith’s University

This talk will survey conservative arguments against social levelling, from Edmund Burke onwards, alongside and in contrast to communist critiques of equality (above all Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme and Lenin’s State and Revolution) which link our customary conceptions of equality and redistribution to bourgeois conceptions of rights and capitalist forms of value. The aim will be to try and think through what is at stake in contemporary movements for social justice beyond demands for rights and redistribution.

Alberto Toscano is a professor of Sociology at Goldsmith’s in England. His most recent book is: Fanaticism - On the Uses of an Idea. A recent interview with him discussing the book can be found here, an interview with him in the Guardian is here, and a video of a talk here.

Here’s our conference schedule at a glance. Please look...

storiesofthe99percent — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:45:00 -0600

Here’s our conference schedule at a glance. Please look here for more detailed information for the sessions, panels, and speakers, and join and share our facebook event here.

Saturday, March 3

Panel Discussion 1: “Analysis and Reflections on the Occupy Movement”: Noon - 2 p.m.

Room 700, facilitated by Marissa Brown (Occupy the South Side), Brit Schulte (Occupy Chicago), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University) and Joe Macaré (writer and editor)

Teach-in Series “Whose City?” Session 1: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

“A Short and Irreverent History of the G8 and NATO”

Room 700, facilitated by Eric Ruder

“Immigrant Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism”

Room 501, facilitated by Mario Cardenas

Teach-in Series “Whose City?” Session 2: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

“Health Disparities in Chicago”

Room 700, facilitated by Professor Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University)

“Walmart: Big Retail Employment and the 99%”

Room 501, facilitated by Janel Bailey

Sunday, March 4

Teach-In Series “Whose City” Session 3: Noon - 1:30 p.m.

“Chicago and the Human Right to Housing”

Room 700, facilitated by Janet L. Smith (UIC) and Loren Taylor (Occupy Our Homes)

“Environmental Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism”

Room 501, facilitated by Jerry Mead-Lucero (P.E.R.R.O)

“SILENCE = DEBT”

Room 501, facilitated by Brian Holmes (European Graduate School)

Teach-In Series “Whose City?” Session 4: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

“Corporations Declare War Against Public Education”

Room 700, facilitated by Bill Watkins (UIC) and Jackson Potter (CTU staff coordinator)

“Utility Profiteering and How to Fight It”

Room 501, facilitated by Virginia Miller (Midwest Workers Association)

Panel Discussion 2: “Our City: Occupying, Decolonizing, Mobilizing”: 4 - 6 p.m.

Room 700, facilitated by Todd Freeman, Brian Holmes, Crystal Vance Guerra (Occupa El Barrio, Occupy Chicago) and Toby Chow (Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation)

Courtesy of Occupy Columbia.

storiesofthe99percent — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:44:00 -0600

Courtesy of Occupy Columbia.

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storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:28 -0600

LGBTQ Struggles & the 99%

storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:13:02 -0600

Out of the Closets and Into the Occupation: Queer Struggle Against the 1%

facilitated by members of Join the Impact Chicago (JTIC)
Saturday Feb. 25 from 1 - 3 p.m. in Room 700 @ 500 W. Cermak

Join us for a lively discussion of the queer struggle at the heart of Occupy Everything. We’ll begin with the experiences of lived oppression in terms of class. The range of class issues that disproportionately affect the LGBTQ community are legal and social. These challenges include employment discrimination, marriage equality, police violence, healthcare, homelessness, and feelings of isolation or rejection. We will then discuss how prejudice is a weapon of the 1%. The occupy movement is a part of the queer struggle, and all occupiers can stand in solidarity with their queer comrades. In the face of a homo/transphobic culture and the gendered dichotomy enforced by corporate capitalism, the 99% must be an inclusive challenge to those institutions.

LIBYAN REVOLUTION™ by NATO Sunday, Feb. 26 from 1 - 3 p.m. in...

storiesofthe99percent — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:28:00 -0600

LIBYAN REVOLUTION™ by NATO

Sunday, Feb. 26 from 1 - 3 p.m. in Room 700, 500 W. Cermak
facilitated by MARCO ROSSI and ALAN MAASS of Socialist Worker

Marco Rossi, experienced Chicago anti-imperialist and solidarity activist, will present “Libya, the West, and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention: A Critical Examination of Foreign Military Intervention in the Battle for Libya”:

The military intervention into Libya has received a tremendous amount of celebration and controversy. For those supportive of the military strike the United Nations has changed its inaction towards crises. Those opposed have accused the intervention of being another attempt to take over an Arab nation. There is a manner to systematically address these concerns. The UN Secretary General’s report A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility outlines the moral parameters for humanitarian interventions. While the ability to use force in the NATO strike on Libya is legal, according to the criteria accepted by the authors of A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, it is not legitimate.

Alan Maass, editor of Socialist Worker and author of The Case for Socialism, will present “NATO’s Mission Creep and the War in Libya”:

When it was formed in the aftermath of the Second World War, the NATO military alliance was supposed to have a defensive mandate—a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to oppose the former USSR during the Cold War. This was never true—the alliance had an offensive character from the beginning. This aspect of NATO became more pronounced falling the collapse of the Eastern European satellites of Russia, and then the USSR itself. First in Europe, and then beyond, NATO has played the role of aggressor, representing the interests of the most powerful governments involved, above all, the U.S.

This was the role that NATO played in Libya. The national rebellion against the Qaddafi regime was entirely legitimate, but after an initial hands-off attitude, the West, led by the U.S., intervened in Libya with the aim of shaping anti-Qaddafi forces into a new political and economic structure that would by to its interests. The result has been a set-up in post-Qaddafi Libya that has been dominated, though not without sympathetic challenges, by pro-Western forces nurtured during the NATO intervention.