events
Thursday February 26: State of Siege at Firehouse Bikes
Submitted by onion on Fri, 2009-02-13 22:01
State of Siege shows how the U.S. aided and abetted right-wing dictatorships in Latin America during the Cold War. Yves Montand plays an American sent by our government to teach torture techniques to police in Uruguay. He is kidnapped by Tupamaro guerillas, interrogated and presented with proof of his activities. We witness how the military, the diplomats, and the press deal with the crisis. State of Siege generates a great deal of tension and suspense, even though we know the outcome. State of Siege is a film of historical importance that deserves your attention.
Wobbly and NJ labour organizer Bill Zoda will introduce the film and give some background in the context of his recent trip to South America where he researched state repression and torture in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay and the spread of torture as a political weapon against an increasingly vocal working class and the role of US capital using some recently declassified documents.
The event is free, but we pass the hat to raise funds for the defenestrator prisoner mailing.
Thursday February 26
8pm at Firehouse Bikes * 50th and Baltimore Ave
Thurs. 2/19, 6-9 pm -- Prison Letter Writing Night
Submitted by andys on Wed, 2009-02-11 19:39
For more information, email to: stopmax-pa@hotmail.com or call Andy at 215-241-7097.jpg)
Understanding the Economic Crisis
Submitted by clarissa on Thu, 2009-02-05 13:45
Connecting the Global Financial Crisis and the Philly Budget Crisis
Valentines for Political Prisoners
Submitted by clarissa on Wed, 2009-01-28 12:17
Valentines for Political Prisoners
Sunday, Feb. 8th, 2:00-3:30pm
A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave
Saturday January 31st : Trashy Booty Sale and Desperate Living!
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-01-27 22:29
Support the defenestrator!
Buy our old crap! Also, rare and radical DVDs, books, propaganda and CDs, computers, guitar, nick nacks etc....
All day long at the A-Space - 4722 Baltimore Ave.
Desperate Living
After shopping join us in the spirit of things trashy (and of course in the spirit of the desparate living to come), at 8pm for a Screening of John Waters' classic trashy film Desperate Living!! The Hot Chocolate Society will be hooking it up, so you know you can't afford to be a stranger !
Synopsis?
A rich housewife murders her husband with the help of her overweight maid, and the two go on the run, ending up in Mortville, a town providing refuge for criminals. They shack up with a lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess lover, before running into the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, ruler of Mortville...
Catch us the next day at the punk rock flea market!
ELECTRIC FACTORY 10 AM - 4PM
421 N 7th Street (7th & Willow Sts In Center City)
Philadelphia, PA
$3 Entry Donation
Handala Screening (Mon. 1/26)
Submitted by clarissa on Mon, 2009-01-26 13:30
Philly Gaza Action Group presents a screening of:
*"Handala"*
A film named after the character created by the Palestinian refugee-artist Naji al-Ali. His name, "Handala," means bitterness.
A film about the paradox of tremendous hope in various forms of localized Palestinian and Israeli nonviolence, and at the same time, the devastating hopelessness of over 40 years of evermore violent occupation and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. It draws from material filmed in the occupied Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank, and Israel in
the summer of 2007.
5th Annual GeoClan MLK Symposium
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-01-20 13:24
The 5th Annual GeoClan MLK Symposium, "Beyond Voting: Change Through Direct Action," is quickly approaching. This event, taking place on Saturday, January 24, 2009, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. at Houston Hall on the UPenn campus will feature a health and wellness fair, workshops, a panel discussion and so much more. We hope to see you there!
The City From Below March 27th-29th, 2009 Baltimore
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2009-01-19 19:37
To that end, a group of activists and organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader, campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27th-29th, 2009 at 2640, a grassroots community center and events venue
