Friday 9am: NYC Cheesehead Rally to Support Wisconsin Workers!

Friday February 18, 9:00 a.m.

Cheesehead Rally NYC

Rally in solidarity with Wisconsin workers against union-busting Gov. Scott Walker, who promised to call out the National Guard against striking workers.

In Madison, 30,000 activists protested against Walker on Wednesday. Let's show our support for workers in Wisconsin, New York, and across the USA!

We'll gather on 6th Ave. (Ave of the Americas) at 9 a.m. at Time-Life (old CNN) between 50/51. We'll march past NBC between 49/50. And we'll end before 10 a.m. at FOX on the corner of 48th and 6th.

Make your own signs. Wear Packers gear (or just green/yellow) and cheesehead hats (we'll bring a few to share). Bring your smartphones and cameras to tell the world!

RSVP:
http://jobparty.us/1/cheesehead_rally_nyc

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Thursday February 17th, 7:00 PM

BOOK PARTY & FORUM
Co-Sponsors: Nation Institute and Washington Spectator

War is Personal
Chris Hedges & Eugene Richards

Join us for a rare evening with legendary documentary photographer Eugene Richards, author of the newly released War is Personal, in conversation with Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Chris Hedges. On your way over stop in at nearby 401 Gallery (401 West Street) to see the current show of Richard's emotionally charged new work depicting the impact of the Iraq war here at home. The conversation with Richards and Hedges will be followed by a reception for the author and book signing.

Chris Hedges is a Nation Institute Fellow, Truthdig columnist and author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.

Eugene Richards is widely considered the dean of American photo journalism. He helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, that reported on black political action and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s. After publication of his first two books, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta and Dorchester Days, Richards began working as a freelance magazine photographer, undertaking assignments on such diverse topics as the American family, drug addiction, river blindness, pediatric AIDS, abuses within the meatpacking industry, and aging and death in America.

Richards is perhaps best known for his later books. Exploding Into Life, which chronicles his first wife Dorothea Lynch's struggle with breast cancer, received Nikon's Book of the Year award. For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, his documentation of urban and rural poverty, Richards was named Photojournalist of the Year by the International Center of Photography. The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes From an Emergency Room received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on the effects of hard-core drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. That same year, Americans We was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Best Photographic Book. Stepping Through the Ashes, an elegy to those who lost their lives in New York on 9/11, received the Golden Light Book Award for best collaboration with a writer. Pictures of the Year International chose The Fat Baby, an anthology of photographic essays, as Best Book of 2005.

Among numerous honors, Richards has won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club, three Canon Photo Essayist Awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged. A film written and directed by Richards, But, the day came, was named Best Short Film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Richards's photographs have been exhibited in more than 40 solo shows in the United States and abroad.
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15
Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers

Tickets here:
https://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?id=11869&reset=1

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Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 7:30 pm

Toward Single-Payer Health Care Reform in Vermont

with
Leonard Rodberg, Ph. D.
Chair, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
on William Hsiao's Groundbreaking Report on Reform Options for Vermont

Carl Berdahl
medical student, Yale School of Medicine
on Medical Student Organizing

Discussant: Dr. Virginia Hood
Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
President-elect, American College of Physicians

In 2010, the Vermont state legislature passed a bill mandating universal health care. The bill required a study of three reform options. Dr. William Hsiao, the Harvard economist who designed Taiwan's single-payer system, was chosen to conduct the study. Vermont's new governor Peter Shumlin ran on a single-payer platform and is intent on moving forward in consultation with Dr. Hsiao. Will Vermont lead the country to single-payer?

Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)

Admission Is Free

Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter; co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX

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Saturday, February 26th - 1-3pm

Stand with Planned Parenthood - Rally for Women's Health!!

IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK!

JOIN US AS WE RALLY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH!

CONGRESS IS HOME AND LISTENING: LET'S MAKE SOME NOISE!!

Sponsoring Organizations: (List in formation) Family Planning Advocates of New York State, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Hudson-Peconic, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Raising Women's Voices

Foley Square, Across from the Court House in Lower Mahattan

http://www.ppaction.org/site/Calendar?id=100457&view=Detail

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Monday, February 28 - 7 p.m.

Nation Books, The New School, and the World Policy Institute
Present

"The Military-Industrial Complex Revisited: Eisenhower's Warning at 50"

A panel discussion to celebrate the release of William Hartung's new
book Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-
Industrial Complex (Nation Books)

William D. Hartung,
Author of Prophets of War

James Ledbetter,
Author of Unwarranted Influence

Moderated by Sharon Weinberger

The New School
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall,
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Free and open to the public.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=58210

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