RTP-area local music and culture

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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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