NYC Antiwar/Race Attacks Activist Calendar

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NY ANTIWAR/STOP RACIST ATTACKS ACTIVIST CALENDAR

(Subjectively gathered by
Mitchel Cohen)



Please send calendar items to:
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com, or



Call (212) 726-3272 for regular updates.


In New York ...


Thursday, Sept 20


* Teach-in at Columbia W 116th Street and Broadway from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm




* Afternoon gathering at Hunter College, 68th St. & Lexington Ave.
W/ Dietrech Mohammed and others.



* 1 pm SUNY STONY BROOK
Bringing Context To The Crisis: Talks and a Panel Discussion on Terrorism
and its Aftermath (Javits Lecture Center, Room 105, 1-3pm)
Speakers: Prof. Krin Gabbard: History of Media Coverage in Wartime, Prof.
Eduardo Mendieta: The Language of Mourning in Crisis, Prof. Mike Davis: The
Future is Here: Civil Liberties and the Crusade against Terrorism, Prof. Said
Arjomand: Islam and US involvement in the Middle East, Ambassador Harsh
Bahsin: Diplomacy, War, Truth, and Reconciliation, Moderator: Chad Kautzer



* 7 pm "The World Trade Center and After: Critical Perspectives," a teach-in
at St. John The Divine Chapel-Synod Hall, 110th St. and Amsterdam Avenue.
This event is being organized by a coalition of concerned graduate students
from various departments at Columbia U. Confirmed speakers so far include:
Timothy Mitchell,
Hamid Dabashi, Mahmood Mamdani, Drucilla Cornell, Brinkley Messick and
Partha Chatterjee.



* 5:30 pm NYU: The U.S. & the Muslim World --Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001, 5:30 -
7:30 p.m. Hemmerdinger Hall1/2Main Building 100 Washington Square East. NYU
faculty specializing on the Middle East, Islam, and U.S. foreign policy


* BIG TEACH-IN Teach-in at NYU
Join activists at NYU for a teach-in for peace
Thursday, September 20 at 7 PM
NYU Main Building, room 809



Main Building is located at 100 Washington Square East at the corner of
Waverly.



The event will focus on giving a context to the tragic events of September
11 and organizing around two themes: To stop the racist scapegoating and the

US drive to war.



Speakers include

* Amy Goodman, co-host of Democracy Now! WBIX (WBAI in exile)

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* Purvi Shah, SAKHI for South Asian Women (an anti-violence collective)

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* Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization and veteran activist of
the National Network of Campuses Against the War 1990-91

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(invited speakers also include) Arab Students United, Arab American Family
Center, Prof. Bertell Ollman, War Resisters League, Jews Against the
Occupation

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This event is sponsored by Prof. Bertell Ollman and the NYU Peace Coalition
and endorsed by Earth Matters at NYU, Jews Against The Occupation, the
International Socialist Organization, SAKHI for South Asian Women

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*7:30 pm Manhattan Greens meeting, Baruch College, 151 E. 25th St., Rm 765


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FRIDAY, Sept 21

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* TEACH-IN at New School for Social Research 10:30 am - 6 pm

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* TEACH-IN at CUNY GRAD CTR
Threats of War
Prospects for Justice
AFTER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
4:00 to 6:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (Btwn. 34th & 35th St.)
Proshansky Auditorium - Concourse Level

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With:
Talal Asad
Ella Shohat*
David Harvey
Zahera Saed
Stanley Aronowitz
Fahima Danishgar*
Neil Smith
Sunita Reddy
Ali Mir
Khaled Fahmy*

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* All Day teach-in OUTDOORS at Rockefeller Center, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.

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****6 PM UNION SQUARE TO TIMES SQUARE

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**PEACE VIGIL/WALK -
Mourn the Victims - Stand for Peace
THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST
A GATHERING FOR GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE
Take a stand... Join
A PEACE VIGIL/WALK

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ISLAM IS NOT THE ENEMY

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WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

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GATHERING FOR GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE

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Friday, September 21st
6:00 PM SE Corner UNION SQUARE
7:00 PM Procession to Times Square
leaving from NE Corner UNION SQUARE
8:00 PM Arrive US Army Recruiting Office TIMES SQUARE

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Bring signs ....

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* 8 pm - 1 am
Event at 56 Walker St., 2 blocks S. of Canal, between Broadway & Church.
TEACH-In: War & Peace, and benefit for MAYDAY BOOKS & InfoShop $5 - $15
sliding scale.

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SATURDAY Sept 22

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* 10 am NY State Greens/Green Party of NY Assembly, Buchanan NY, w/
demonstration at Indian Point nuclear power plant.

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* 1 pm Youth Peace Summit, Sunset Park, Brooklyn - 44th St. and 6th Ave. A
call to commemorate those who have passed, and for all acommunities to come
together and express solidarity. For more info, call Ricardo at UPROSE (718)
492-9307.

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* 11 am - 7 pm: Charas (9th St. bet B & C) Direct Action Network is
sponsoring a Day of Resistance and Learning to end racism and war. Workshops

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* 4 pm Vigil against racism and war UNION SQUARE

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SUN Sept 23

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* 9 am ˆ 5 pm New Jersey Green Party Convention, Rutgers Labor Center, New
Brunswick, NJ.

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* NOON Indoor Rally: Learn the Truth about Palestine, Stand United with Arab
and Muslim Sisters and Brothers, Sun., Noon to 3PM, Pier 63 Maritime 12th
Ave. at West 23rd Street (One pier north of Chelsea pier sports, behind
basketball city)

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* 12:30 pm Radical and Progressive Jews gather at 83rd St. & Hudson River
and will march at 3 pm to larger Citywide memorial

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* WBAI-IN-EXILE COMMUNITY FORUM
Bernard White, Amy Goodman, Robert Knight & Mimi Rosenberg
Sunday, September 23, 2001
7:00-10:00 pm
PS 321, 180 7th Ave. (between 1st and 2nd St.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn

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MONDAY Sept 24
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* 7 pm - 11 pm
WAR, PEACE & the USA
Where do we go from here?
Benefit for WBAI Radio in Exile, with
Grandpa Al Lewis, Elombe Brath, Bob Fass, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Dan
Coughlin, Errol Maitland, Esther Kaplan, and others ... Suggested donation -
$15.
No one turned away.

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* 7 pm Meeting at Charas

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TUES Sept. 25
PRIMARY DAY - Don't forget to vote (Greens: write-in Mitchel Cohen for
Mayor!)

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* 6:30 pm Coalition meeting (place tba)

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WEDS. Sept. 26
* NOON The Center for European Studies
at New York University

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will host an open forum to discuss

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Europe and the Current Crisis
chaired by Martin Schain
Professor of Politics and Director, NYU Center for European Studies

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Speakers will include:

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Fulvia Attiná
NY Consortium for European Studies Visiting Professor, Fall 2001
and Professor of Political Science at the University of Catania, Italy

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Helmut Dubiel
NYU Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, 2000-2002
and Professor of Sociology at the Justus-Liebig Universitaet in Giessen,
Germany

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Behrooz Moazami
Post-doctoral fellow, European union Center of New York

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Damir Skenderovic
Visiting Scholar, NYU Center of European Studies, 2001-2002
and Research Collaborator, Swiss National Science Foundation

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Wednesday, September 26, 2001
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
58 West 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
For more information call the NYU Center for European Studies at (212)
998-3838

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SAT 9/29
* Gathering in Washington DC, National rally, 12 noon at the White House /
Lafayette Park. Call International Action Center, (212) 633-6646. email:
iacenter@iacenter.org

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OCT 6 & 7 Rallies in NYC
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