events
defenestrator party gets new flier
Submitted by duffy on Mon, 2010-08-16 20:10
Come to Lava (4134 Lancaster Ave) on Saturday September 4 to celebrate the release of the defenestrator's fall issue (49)!
Featuring:
DJ Seedless bbv
Party starts at 9 and ends when you stop dancing.
Defenestrator Issue 49 Almost Out! Some Say Party is Unavoidable!
Submitted by crash on Wed, 2010-08-11 00:22
DEFENESTRATOR MOVIE NIGHT: GASLAND
Submitted by seanwestwispy on Fri, 2010-07-16 13:58
Time for Another Exciting Defenestrator Film Screening!
GASLAND
A new documentary about natural gas drilling and how it might impact your life
Q&A afterwards the screening with independent researchers and journalists currently covering natural gas extraction in PA.
Thursday, July 29
8 PM
Firehouse Bikes (50th and Baltimore, accessible by the #34 Green Line)
When filmmaker Josh Fox received an unexpected offer of $100,000 for the natural gas drilling rights to his property in the Delaware River Basin, on the border of New York and Pennsylvania, he resisted the urge to accept. Instead, he set off on a cross-country journey to investigate the environmental risks of agreeing to the deal.
Traveling Art & Variety Show
Submitted by clarissa on Thu, 2010-07-15 16:15
The Jubilee Family Band Presents the Traveling Art and Variety Show. Come out on Tuesday July 20th from 1 PM until 3 PM at the A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave in West Philly for original live music, an assortment of zines, and other crafty things for sale or for trade, as well as social and interactive projects. Audiences are encouraged to bring their own physical or performance art to share.
R2K+10
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2010-07-12 16:44
This July 2010 marks 10 years since Philadelphia was the site of the 2000 Republican National Convention. The week of August 1, 2000, thousands of activists took to the streets of Center City Philadelphia for direct action against police brutality and the prison industrial complex.
"The Creative [Under]Class": Zine Reading
Submitted by clarissa on Thu, 2010-06-24 12:59
"The Creative [Under]Class"
Film: View from a Grain of Sand
Submitted by clarissa on Mon, 2010-05-03 15:53
2001 saw an unprecedented level of international interest in the lives of Afghan women living under the Taliban. With the Taliban's fall later that year, the U.S proclaimed the dawn of a new era in Afghanistan that promised peace, democracy and liberation for women. Years after this "new era" was declared, cracks in this story are beginning to appear. Afghanistan is once again in the news, not because of successful reconstruction, but because of increasing violence and the highest rate of opium production in the world. And what about the women?
Protest Paramilitary Repression in Mexico/Stand in Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca
Submitted by onion on Sat, 2010-05-01 17:19
***Sign-making & Action planning Sunday, May 2 @7:30pm at the A-space, 4722 Baltimore Ave.***
Monday, May 3
3-5:30pm
The Mexican Consulate
21 S. 5th St, between
Market & Chestnut
Philadelphia
WHY TAKE ACTION NOW?
On April 27, 2010, a Solidarity caravan representing members of Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) was brutally attacked by paramilitary forces. Two people were killed, one injured and many more have disappeared. See below for more information in English & Spanish.
IT’S TIME TO STOP POLICE TERRORISM!!!!!
Submitted by onion on Fri, 2010-04-30 13:01
This year marks 25 Years since the bombing of our Family! At 9:00am MOVE is delivering MURDER charges to The Courts on May 12th, Charging officials with the Vicious Murder of 11 Innocent MOVE family members! There will be a 10:00 am press conference at The AFSC, located at 15th & Cherry Sts., about the Murder Complaints.
