[Internationalist Books] Ibooks update: Freedom Riders, Bread & Puppet performances, Understanding War & Empire Conference

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Fri Sep 26 14:31:41 EDT 2003


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In this update:
1)  William Rivers Pitt speaking on UNC campus this evening at 7:00
2)  Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride stops in NC Sept. 29 & 30
3)  Bread & Puppet Theatre's "Victory Over Everything Circus" in Chapel 
Hill Oct. 1 & 2
4)  Understanding War & Empire Conference at NCCU Oct. 4
5)  "Final Girl" author Daphne Gottlieb reads at Internationalist Oct. 21
6)  Sally Bermanzohn reads from her book  "Through Survivors Eyes: From the 
Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre" at Internationalist Oct. 30

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September 26  William Rivers Pitt, manageing editor of Truthout.org and 
author of The Greatest Sedition is Silence will speak on issues of 
progressive activism and current events.  Presented by UNC Students for 
Howard Dean.  7:00 pm, UNC campus, Caroll Hall 111.

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Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride stopping by NC next Monday & Tuesday

Immigrant workers, living and paying taxes in the United States, deserve the
rights to legalize their status, to have a clear road to citizenship, to
reunify their families, to have a voice on the job without regard to legal
status, and to enjoy full protection of their civil rights and civil
liberties... rights denied by their undocumented status and outdated laws.
The road to citizenship needs a new map. The goal of the Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride is to help draw that map.

On September 20th, hundreds of immigrant workers boarded buses heading
toward New York as part of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. The Freedom
Ride is modeled after the 1961 Freedom Rides of the U.S. civil rights
movement, which took busloads of student activists from across the country
into the Deep South to challenge segregation. Today's Freedom Riders are
seeking the same rights and opportunities everyone in this country deserves.
So far, local events have attracted thousands of participants.

North Carolinians will have an opportunity to be part of this historic
mobilization on September 29th and 30th. Please read on to find out how you
can be involved across North Carolina.

Immigrants toil in some of the country's toughest, lowest paying and most
dangerous jobs. They suffer higher rates of on-the-job injuries, illnesses
and fatalities than other workers. But when they stand up for their rights
on the job, employers often threaten deportation. Employers regularly harass
and intimidate workers to block their freedom to form unions--but immigrant
workers are especially vulnerable.

These are outrageous attacks on the rights and freedoms of immigrant workers
who live, work and pay taxes in the US, and on whom our economy depends. And
yet, immigrant workers live in fear for their future: they are vulnerable to
economic exploitation, cannot receive benefits like Social Security (to
which they contribute) and have no clear way to change their status or be
reunited with their families. Abuses like this are an affront to every
person concerned about justice in the workplace and social justice more
broadly.

--YOU CAN SUPPORT --
--IMMIGRANT WORKERS--
--BY ATTENDING EVENTS--
--IN YOUR AREA--
While in North Carolina, Freedom Ride buses will stop for events in:

CHARLOTTE - Tuesday, Sept 30: 10:30am Gather to greet bus riders at Johnson
C. Smith University (JCSU), 11am-1pm luncheon and speakers.

DURHAM - Tuesday, Sept 30: 4:30pm Meet at NC Mutual Bldg (Duke & Chapel
Hill St.) for rally & speakers, 6pm March to Immaculate Conception Catholic
Church (810 W. Chapel Hill St.), 6:30pm Gather at church for Town Hall
Meeting.

FAYETTEVILLE - Monday, Sept 29: 5:30pm Meet downtown at the Market House
to welcome riders, hear speakers and more.

GREENSBORO - Tuesday, Sept 30: 5:45pm Assemble in front of the Civil
Rights Museum (old Woolworth Store on Elm St. downtown) for Freedom March to
NC A&T University, with candlelight vigil, speeches and songs.

MARION - Monday, Sept 29: 1:30-2:30pm Gather on Baldwin Ave across from
the old Marion Manufacturing Company to greet bus riders and commemorate the
massacre of six striking workers shot by sheriff's deputies at this location
in 1929.

MORGANTON - Monday, Sept 29: 4:45pm Press conference, march and other
events at St. Charles Catholic Church, 728 W. Union Street.

WILSON - Tuesday, Sept 30: 12noon-1:30pm Luncheon and speakers at the
Wilson County Public Library (Prior to lunch, riders, advocates and other
interested participants will visit migrant labor camps-contact Kevin Blair
at (919) 731-4433 to join this portion of the event.)

Learn more by visiting the Freedom Ride website:
http://www.iwfr.org/

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October 1 & 2:  Bread and Puppet Theatre seeks  musicians, performers, 
activists, and kids to perform in the Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Victory 
Over Everything Circus”  October 1 and 2 at the Forest Theater in Chapel 
Hill, and "The Insurrection Mass with Funeral Marches for Rotten Ideas" at 
Weaver Street Market.  Contact Maria Schumann at 933-1135 
(tschu at email.unc.edu) for more information and to register.

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October 4:  Understanding War and Empire Conference, presented by Breaking 
the Chains Coalition, 9am to 5pm North Carolian Central University, Miller 
Morgan Health Sciences Building.  The goal of this conference is to assist 
in building the global anti-war movement- particularly here in North 
Carolina. The more information we have, the more effective we can be in our 
communities, unions, campuses and religious organizations. -Panels, 
Workshops, Cultural Presentations -Local, National and International 
Speakers -Experienced and Informed Facilitators ¡Kand many other resources 
Palestine Colombia Philippines Cuba India Pakistan Liberia South Africa 
Iraq Afghanistan Conference fee: sliding scale $5-$25. No one turned 
away.  For more information please go to http://fayettevillepwj.org/chains

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October 21: The performance poet Daphne Gottlieb (She is the poetry editor 
of online queer literary magazines Lodestar quarterly and Other 
Magazine)  will read from her new book “Final Girl”.  She plays with the 
slasher film genre to comment on popular culture. 7:00 pm at 
Internaitonalist Books.

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October 30: Sally Bermanzohn will read from and discuss her book, Through 
Survivors’ Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre.  Sally 
Bermanzohn was one of the demnstrators who came under fire in 
Greensboro.  7:00pm at Internationalist Books.




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