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  • Subject: [Internationalist] Friday 8/29: Katrina anniversary documentary screening!
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:37:48 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.942.1740
Open 11 AM to 8 PM, Mon-Sat; 12 to 6 PM Sun
www.internationalistbooks.org

IN THIS EMAIL:
1) Hurricane Katrina anniversary film screening!
2) Radical Thinkers Lecture series continues!
3) Republican National Convention protests!
4) more upcoming events at the store!


1) HURRICANE KATRINA ANNIVERSARY FILM SCREENING!

FRI 8/29, 5:30 PM: DOCUMENTARY SCREENING- "NEW ORLEANS: PAST, PRESENT,
FUTURE?"

Want to help ensure a sustainable recovery for New Orleans and the
Gulf Coast? Mark your calendar to head to our house party to protect
the Gulf's natural storm defenses!

The third anniversary of Katrina is fast approaching but the Gulf
Coast and its communities still need help. Levees are just not enough
to protect coastal communities from powerful hurricanes. Natural storm
defenses, such as wetlands, coastal forests, and barrier islands, are
essential to the survival of these vibrant Gulf Coast communities yet
every 35 minutes we lose a football fields worth of wetlands to
erosion. Strong leadership is required to restore the coastal wetlands
and you can help convince our nation's leaders to take action by
joining us at a screening of "New Orleans: Past, Present, Future?" by
Walter Williams. This moving series of three short films that
document the evolution of our coastal wetlands crisis and the
solutions for our survival. The film and event are sponsored by the
Gulf Restoration Network, a network of environmental, social justice,
and citizens' groups and individuals committed to restoring the Gulf
of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition.


2) RADICAL THINKERS LECTURE SERIES CONTINUES!

Join us at Internationalist Books and Community Center for an ongoing
series of lectures and discussions on subversive thinkers. Starting
August 19th, every Tuesday night at 7 PM at 405 W. Franklin St. in
Chapel Hill, we will host radical intellectual historian William
Manson, PhD, for a weekly series of in-depth examinations of thinkers
ranging from Thoreau to Freud. Each evening will feature the screening
of a 28-minute video lecture about the fundamentals of a philosopher?s
thought and their contributions to radical critiques of society,
followed by a lively facilitated discussion about the contemporary
relevance of their ideas.

TUES 8/26, 7 PM - SOCRATES: "DISSENT AND INTEGRITY"
TUES 9/9, 7 PM - FREUD: "REPRESSION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS"

Future Radical Thinkers lectures in September and October will be
scheduled soon, including Wilhelm Reich, Frederick Nietzche, and more!
Keep an eye on our website (www.internationalistbooks.org) and our
weekly emails for more details.


3) REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS!

On September 1-4 of 2008, the Republican Party is coming to Minnesota
to celebrate their latest conquests in global domination and
exploitation. Protesters from around the country want to make sure
that this time the fear-mongers will be met with their own biggest
fear: people mobilized, organized, and taking the future back into
their own hands. Members of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community will
be traveling up to participate in protests and direct action during
the convention. If you're interested in attending, you can contact
the Internationalist or Students for a Democratic Society at UNC
(www.chapelhillsds.org).

For more information on the RNC protests, check out:

http://www.nornc.org/
http://protestrnc2008.org/
http://www.unconventionalaction.org/


4) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

All events take place at the Internationalist (405 W. Franklin St.)
unless otherwise noted.

FRI 10/10, 8 PM- CD RELEASE CONCERT: GARY KOONCE AND WILL RIDENOUR
Join us for a night of beautiful music with two exciting local
musicians! Gary Koonce (http://www.reverbnation.com/gary) is a
classically trained singer and songwriter currently based in the
Greensboro area, whose uplifting and melodic guitar tunes place him
head and shoulders above the standard for acoustic singer-songwriters.
He will be performing songs from his self-released full length CD,
which will be available for sale. Will Ridenour
(http://www.myspace.com/zumana) performs traditional songs and
original compositions on the kora, a 21-stringed West African bridge
harp. His musical goal is "to bring the beautiful instrument, the
music, and the culture behind it to the ears and souls that seek it,
for whatever reason, learning and growing along the way." Don't miss
this riveting evening with two of the area's most innovative acoustic
musicians!

THURS, 10/16, 7:30 PM: "CARBON FREE HOME" AUTHOR READING!
You probably know that energy used in your home produces more
global-warming pollution than your car, but what can you do to reduce
your reliance on fossil fuels? Maybe you daydream of starting from
scratch, building a new, super-efficient, passive-solar, off-grid
house?but in reality you?ve got a roof (and a mortgage) over your head
already. How can you turn your existing house into an environmental
asset? One that simultaneously saves you money on utilities and
insulates you from the possible shocks of Peak Oil?

Meant as a guide for renovating existing homes, The Carbon-Free Home
gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil-fuel
habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and
energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by
fossil fuels, The Carbon-Free Home offers alternatives you can
accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable
sources of power. Having weaned themselves completely from fossil
fuels in their conventional 1930s urban house, Rebekah and Stephen
Hren provide a map for others to do the same. Their book shows first
how to reduce energy consumption, then to retrofit existing homes to
obtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and
electricity from renewable sources. The Hrens also provide advice on
renewable methods of transportation and home gardening. These
practical approaches fit anyone?s budget and can be implemented over
time to progressively liberate a home from fossil-fuel dependency.

Authors Stephen and Rebekah Hren live in Durham, North Carolina, where
they are both actively involved with renewable energy, natural
building, and edible urban gardening. Rebekah works with Honey
Electric Solar, Inc., as a professional designer/installer of
photovoltaic systems and domestic solar hot-water systems. Stephen is
a professional restoration carpenter, focusing on antebellum houses.
He teaches natural-building classes and workshops at the local
community college, and in any spare time works with Bountiful
Backyards, an edible-landscaping cooperative.

WED, 10/29, 7 PM: JEFFERY BEAM READS FROM "BEAUTIFUL TENDONS:
UNCOLLECTED QUEER POEMS, 1969-2007"
Renowned poet and Hillsborough resident Jeffery Beam will bring his
latest collection of riveting, passionate poems to Internationalist
Books! The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007
brings together more than three decades of lyrical, metaphysical Gay
poetry from native North Carolinian Jeffery Beam. The vast majority of
these poems are unpublished in any of his previously published books,
but were originally published in many of the most important gay
magazines & anthologies of the latter half of the 20th century.

ONGOING EVENTS:

INTERNATIONALIST PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE
The Internationalist sponsors a program that sends free books and
literature to people incarcerated in Mississippi and Alabama. Since
2006 the Books to Prisoners collective has mailed educational
materials to thousands of prisoners, building solidarity with networks
of activists inside and out of prison agitating for justice and
alternatives to the prison system, while meeting a direct and urgent
need. There are many ways to get involved:

-Come fill requests at the weekly book-wrapping, which takes place
every Sunday from 1-4 PM at 218 N. Graham St. in Chapel Hill.

-DONATE books by dropping them off at the Internationalist!
Particularly in demand are dictionaries, thesauruses, African-American
history, culture, and fiction, self-help, Spanish language,
GED/education, and more (paperbacks only).

For more information, check out www.prisonbooks.info.

NEW LOCAL SKILLSHARE / FREE SKOOL!

Do you like to make stuff, learn things, and teach others? A local
Skillshare/DIY/Art Collective, Free Skool, Radical Event Bulletin, and
Space/Material/Tool Share is being formed. This is a way for local
creative types to find each other to make and do stuff together. There
are a lot of innovative, skilled, and imaginative people in this area.
Let's pool our knowledge, skills, and resources to exponentialize our
creative input and output. So if you want to make masks or soap or
vegan liqueurs or a rope ladder or a mud oven or collaged formal wear
or tamales or hula hoops or pretty much anything else, or find others
to play soccer or practice tai chi with, or host a workshop on blowing
glass or screen-printing, or organize a potluck or salon, or just put
out an idea to the community; check this thing out. This is a way to
get your desires out of your head and into the awareness of lots of
other like-minded local people. Let's get together for the artistic
and practical. This is completely non-commercial and local. The
website is http://people.tribe.net/papokha. (Please email
papokha AT gmail.com to make postings or with any questions.)




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