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  • Subject: [Internationalist] measures the COST OF PRIVILEGE (oct 24 @ 7pm)
  • Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:59:01 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
www.internationalistbooks.org
919.942.1740

DANG YA'LL, WE GOT SLINGSHOTS! That's right, folks, they're here,
gettin' you ready for 2008. Stop by today and pick up your own! We
made an extra huge order this year, but they'll go fast.

CHIP SMITH
The Cost of Privilege
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24 @ 7pm
The Cost of Privilege tears through the matrix of race relations to
expose a power structure that has shaped all economic, political and
cultural life in the United States, since colonial settler days. The
visible half of that system is the systematic oppression,
super-exploitation and demonization of people of color by a white
capitalist elite. But the system also requires regular white folks
accepting it as normal and natural, even though they pay a terrible
cost for it. This white acquiescence is based on the systematic
awarding of white privileges, large and small, to everyday working
people who sometimes cling desperately to "whiteness" and often don?t
recognize the role their lives play in a much larger scheme.

NOVEMBER 1 @ 6:30
Embodied Sexuality Book Group
Amy Stapleford will lead a monthly book group on sexuality and gender.
We have the book for November: Naked on the Internet by Audicia Ray.
Email: amy AT embodiedsexuality.com

KNIT KNIT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4 @ 3pm (NEW TIME!!)
We're proud to be hosting Sabrina Gschwandtner of KnitKnit magazine
she has a new book out this fall, KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from
Knitting's New Wave. Join us for a discussion and demonstration. The
book profiles 27 of the most talented artist-crafters knitting today.
All over North America and Europe, a brand-new generation has taken up
knitting and is transforming the venerable needlecraft by blurring the
boundary between craft and art. In Copenhagen, Denmark, Isabel
Berglund hand-knit an entire room. In New England, Dave Cole
constructed an enormous knitting machine (he used excavators and
utility poles) that knit an 800-stitch, 35-by-20-foot American flag.
But the projects aren?t all of a monumental scale. In Los Angeles,
Bridget Marrin knits little dollhouses complete with lawns, shrubbery,
and smoke-filled chimneys, all made of yarn. Using surgical wire,
Indiana-based knitter Althea Merback hand-knits sweaters smaller than
a dime.

CHOICE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29 @ 7pm at Open Eye Cafe
Join us for a panel of women authors who discuss reproductive rights
and their choices to become mothers, not mothers, or anywhere in
between. Panel participants to be announced, but will include authors
from the released book, "Choice" from MacAdam/Cage.

BUY NOTHING DAY
We need your suggestions and energy for our Buy Nothing Day event this
year, on Friday 23 November. Send ideas, panel proposals, DIY workshop
ideas, etc. to daniel AT internationalistbooks.org

OUR FRIENDS ARE DOING EXCITING THINGS! PLEASE SUPPORT ?EM!

Free Showing: The Battle of Algiers
7 pm, Wednesday, October 24
Murphey 118

This acclaimed realist film reconstructs the events of November 1954
to December 1960 in Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence.

In 2003, the Pentagon screened The Battle of Algiers as a source of
perspective on the challenges of the occupation of Iraq, billing it
thus:

"How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas.
Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in
cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound
familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails
strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film."

Direct Action in the Anti-Globalization and Anti-War Movements
7 pm, Thursday, October 25
Murphey 118

A historical review of the roots, strategies, and legacy of the
Anti-Globalization and Anti-War movements of the past ten years,
focusing on the roles civil disobedience and direct action have played
in them.

Since the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in
November 1999 announced the domestic debut of the Anti-Globalization
Movement, every ambitious global free trade agreement from the FTAA to
the MAI has collapsed; the WTO itself now seems to be on its last
legs. Where did that movement come from? What forms did it assume in
the United States? How does it compare to the subsequent Anti-War
movement?

Both events are sponsored by the Campaign to End the Cycle of
Violence. Send questions to unconventional_action AT mountainrebel.net

daniel elam
internationalist books & community center
405 w franklin street
chapel hill, nc 27516
internationalistbooks.org
919.942.1740





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