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From: “Eustacia Smith” esmith') //-->esmith
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:11:05 -0400
memorial service for Bob Kohler PLEASE POST!

Memorial for Bob Kohler,
queer activist extraordinaire
(and anti-racist, feminist, music & theater-lover, West Village hero
plus much more…)

Sunday, May 18
2:30-5pm

@ the LGBTQ Center
208 West 13th Street, between 7th & 8th Avenues

Please join us on the day after Bob’s birthday to celebrate the
impact he had in our lives and on our communities. There will be
speakers, star-studded performances, art, video and the launch of an
ongoing archive of Bob’s life.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
For more information, or to be added to the list of speakers
remembering eras in Bob’s long, exciting life, please e
-mail: , or call (917) 517-3627

Flyer is attached. bob mem flyer.jpg [avail on req.]

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Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:34:52 -0400
From: "Jeannette Gabriel" <jgabrilovich {AT}
gmail.com>
Subject: Rally in New Brunswick to Terminate Detention
Contract

END DETENTION ABUSE IN MIDDLESEX CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL!

Innocent immigrants are suffering in jails all across America! 
In 2007, 311,213 were illegally detained.  Immigrant detainees do
not have access to basic human rights-like due process, a jury trial or
even adequate medical care.  No mandatory standards exist.

Right here in Middlesex County, where over 150 immigrant detainees are
held, the county is making over $6 million a year off of their
suffering.  On March 2nd a Cuban detainee held in detention at
Middlesex County Jail died from medical neglect.  Over 90 detainees
wrote a petition to protest his death and a week later detainees signed a
2nd petition protesting conditions inside Middlesex County Jail. 
Don’t let their brave actions be go unnoticed!

Take a stand for civil rights for all!

SAY NO TO ABU GHRAIB AND GUANTANAMO IN OUR BACKYARD!
Join NJCRDC to demand the
Middlesex County Freeholders
stop profiting from the suffering of innocent people.

Terminate the Contract NOW!

Meet on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm
Middlesex County Freeholders meeting
Administration Bldg, 75 Bayard St, New Brunswick

=AD=AD=ADFor more information on New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Commit=
tee,
including how our actions led to
the termination of the detention contract at Passaic County Jail go to

http://www.nj-civilrights.org

Please help by distributing the attached flyers

May 15 Action.pdf [avail on request.  or contact organizers. 
–t.]

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The L.A.V.A.A Group-Our Bodies Our Boundaries: A workshop series

OUR BODIES:OUR BOUNDARIES
A free 6 week workshop!
When? Every Wednesday beginning May 14th 2008 - June 18th from 6:30-8pm
Where? The Audre Lorde Project (Click here for directions)
Who? The L.A.V.A.A. Group Inc.
What? A**Free 6 week workshop on STD, AIDS AND Domestic Violence

I. Intro: A brief introduction to all of the=20
topics that we are going to cover in our=20
workshops. Also, a discussion on self-esteem and=20
why it is important to learn about safe sex practices and HIV prevention.

II. Our Bodies, Our Boundaries: A discussion on=20
ways to negotiate boundaries with partners and=20
what to do if those boundaries are violated. We=20
will role play conversations on negotiating boundaries.

III. STD’s/STI’s: What each STD is/does, its=20
symptoms, what to do if you think you have an=20
STD, treatments, and consequences of ignoring=20
symptoms. We’ll learn ways you can protect=20
yourself against STD’s, and we’ll also learn what=20
type(s) of sexual contact can lead to specific=20
infections. Safe sex packets will be given out=20
and we’ll learn how to use a condom, female condom, and dental dam properly.

IV. HIV 101: How to protect yourself from=20
contracting HIV. Overview of the history of AIDS=20
and its current treatments. Where you can get=20
tested, confidentiality, and how to deal with a=20
friend that just found out that he/she has contracted HIV.

V. Domestic Violence: We will look at different=20
hypothetical situations together and discuss the=20
best method of action to take with each=20
situation. We will also learn the following: how=20
to deal with cops and medical professionals that=20
don’t take same sex DV cases/complain ts=20
seriously, what to do if you are in an abusive=20
relationship and fear for your safety, how to get=20
an emergency restraining order, file a police=20
report , and if necessary, get temporary sole=20
custody of children. We’ll also learn what steps=20
to take if you are being sexually harassed at school or work.

VI. Closing: Review, short, ungraded quiz,=20
graduation with certificates, small party.

If you are interested in participating in our 6 week workshop please EMAIL =
US.

** Donations are always appreciated! Donate=20
today and keep these workshops available!

email -

Linnet V Caban-Brown
President/Founder
The L.A.V.A.A. Group, Inc
Lesbians Against Violence And Aggression

**************************************************************
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:39:37 -0400
From: ALP
Subject: [ALP-announce] Community FYI’s
List-Subscribe: ,
be>

*******
THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT a Center for Community Organizing Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color
Communities
85 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel: 718-596-0342 * Fax: 718-596-1328
*******
(Forwarded information of events organized by=20
LGBTSTGNC People of Color=20
organizations/individuals - to request that an=20
event be added to future listings, please
email: For info about=20
specific events, please contact the organizers=20
directly with the contact info provided below.)

In this email, you will find info on:

1) A Jihad for Love
2) Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay writings from the Antilles
3) The L.A.V.A.A Group-Our Bodies Our Boundaries: A workshop series
4) PRIDE Carnival Boricua 2008
5) Pandora: Roles and ticket information

****************************************************************
A Jihad for Love

Seeking Interns, Volunteers, Street Team for the=20
May 21st theatrical release of A Jihad for Love at the IFC Center.

We are forming a team of interns and volunteers=20
to promote Jihad for Love an internationally=20
acclaimed documentary about gay Muslims around the world.

To ensure that all of NYC comes out to support=20
the A Jihad for Love launch - we will be working=20
the streets, cafes, bars, clubs, events, schools,=20
gyms, parks, religious centers, subway stops with posters and postcards.

We want to reach many communities - especially=20
Muslim, Arab, South Asian, Iranian, GLBT…

Volunteers would assist in promotion, publicity,=20
and special events. Unpaid internships are=20
available with incredible potential to learn the=20
ins and outs of the independent film scene in NY=20
as well as community organizing and outreach.

To be part of a fabulous team working on the=20
release of one of the most exciting films of 2008, please email:
Shaheen, Director of Outreach, NYC Muslim Community, at

Please include a paragraph stating why you want=20
to come on board. If you have a resume please include.

A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the=20
holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be=20
upon him), Islam today is the world’s second=20
largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay=20
filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds=20
of this dynamic faith discovering the stories of=20
its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay=20
Muslims. Produced by Sandi DuBowski (director of=20
the award-winning Trembling Before G-d), A Jihad=20
for Love was filmed over 5 1/2 years, in 12=20
countries and 9 languages, “A Jihad for Love”=20
comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a=20
hostile and war-torn present, this film seeks to=20
reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad,=20
which can mean ‘an inner struggle’ or ‘to strive=20
in the path of God’. In doing so the film and its=20
remarkable subjects move beyond the narrow concept of ‘Jihad’ as holy war.

***************************************************************************=
*****
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

THURSDAY, JUNE 12 ( 6:30 - 8:30 PM)

for the Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and=20
Gay Writing from the Antilles book launch party!

The party will happen at the Caribbean Cultural=20
Center , 408 West 58th Street (between 9th - 10th=20
Avenues), in New York City . This is a *lovely*=20
space. (See www.cccadi.org.) The evening will=20
definitely be a *Caribbean* good time!

More news to come — but again, please save the=20
date and tell others! Thank you, and looking forward to seeing you,

Thomas
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Thomas Glave
Associate Professor, Dept. of English
State University of New York
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Tel. 607 777 2894
Fax 607 777 2408
http://english.binghamton.edu/cwpro/Faculty/Glave.htm

New Glave books for 2008:
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay=20
Writing from the Antilles (editor; Duke University Press; spring)
The Torturer’s Wife (fiction; City Lights; fall)

***************************************************************************=
***
The L.A.V.A.A Group-Our Bodies Our Boundaries: A workshop series

OUR BODIES:OUR BOUNDARIES
A free 6 week workshop!
When? Every Wednesday beginning May 14th 2008 - June 18th from 6:30-8pm
Where? The Audre Lorde Project (Click here for directions)
Who? The L.A.V.A.A. Group Inc.
What? A**Free 6 week workshop on STD, AIDS AND Domestic Violence

I. Intro: A brief introduction to all of the=20
topics that we are going to cover in our=20
workshops. Also, a discussion on self-esteem and=20
why it is important to learn about safe sex practices and HIV prevention.

II. Our Bodies, Our Boundaries: A discussion on=20
ways to negotiate boundaries with partners and=20
what to do if those boundaries are violated. We=20
will role play conversations on negotiating boundaries.

III. STD’s/STI’s: What each STD is/does, its=20
symptoms, what to do if you think you have an=20
STD, treatments, and consequences of ignoring=20
symptoms. We’ll learn ways you can protect=20
yourself against STD’s, and we’ll also learn what=20
type(s) of sexual contact can lead to specific=20
infections. Safe sex packets will be given out=20
and we’ll learn how to use a condom, female condom, and dental dam properly.

IV. HIV 101: How to protect yourself from=20
contracting HIV. Overview of the history of AIDS=20
and its current treatments. Where you can get=20
tested, confidentiality, and how to deal with a=20
friend that just found out that he/she has contracted HIV.

V. Domestic Violence: We will look at different=20
hypothetical situations together and discuss the=20
best method of action to take with each=20
situation. We will also learn the following: how=20
to deal with cops and medical professionals that=20
don’t take same sex DV cases/complain ts=20
seriously, what to do if you are in an abusive=20
relationship and fear for your safety, how to get=20
an emergency restraining order, file a police=20
report , and if necessary, get temporary sole=20
custody of children. We’ll also learn what steps=20
to take if you are being sexually harassed at school or work.

VI. Closing: Review, short, ungraded quiz,=20
graduation with certificates, small party.

If you are interested in participating in our 6 week workshop please EMAIL =
US.

** Donations are always appreciated! Donate=20
today and keep these workshops available!

email -

Linnet V Caban-Brown
President/Founder
The L.A.V.A.A. Group, Inc
Lesbians Against Violence And Aggression

****************************************************************************
PRIDE Carnival Boricua 2008

SAVE THE DATE FOR "CARNAVAL BORICUA 2008"

Saludos a todos/as:

The Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop=20
Empowerment (PRIDE) and Club Atlantis cordially=20
invite you to "Carnaval Boricua 2008". Please=20
join PRIDE, their friends and supporters to our=20
Carnaval, the event will take place on Friday=20
June 13, 2008 at Club Atlantis starting at 10:00 PM.

We have a great evening prepared for everyone=20
with "Go Go Boys" and our own star "Josie Monroe,=20
with Darylin La Fontaine as the mistress of ceremony.

Tickets are on sale now for a donation of $10.00,=20
all proceeds will go to fund raise the "2008=20
PRIDE Awards" in November, so come down and enjoy=20
with the PRIDE family, supporters and friends.

How to get to Club Atlantis:

Take the E or F train to 74th Street Roosevelt=20
Avenue and walk to 76th & Roosevelt, the address=20
is 76-10 Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights.

Looking forward to see all of you at Carnaval Boricua 2008.

Luis A. Robles

President & Chair

Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment

***************************************************************************=
**********

PANDORA

Greetings!

Thank you for supporting Pandora's fundraiser=20
last Wednesday, April 30th, 2008. It was great to=20
see how many of you who came by and shared your=20
encouraging thoughts. The fundraiser was a complete success, thanks to you!

PANDORA'S is a multi-media theater production=20
that gives voice to the Latina/o LGBTQI=20
experience. The show features Ten diverse=20
monologues that will promote greater=20
understanding of what it means to be Latina and=20
queer for audiences of all sexual identities.=20
PANDORA'S will premiere on July 2nd - July 6th,=20
2008 at the Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, at=20
the heart of New York's theater district.

For anyone who missed the fundraiser, you will=20
have an opportunity to support by attending the=20
show. Tickets go ON SALE May 15th, 2008. To=20
purchase tickets, please visit www.theatrerow.org.

We are looking for cast & crew. If you know=20
anyone interested in applying for any of the=20
positions listed, please follow directions below:

-PANDORA'S AUDITIONS-

Sister Outsider Entertainment is seeking=20
Latina(o)/Filipino actors with stage experience=20
for our production of Pandora's.

We're holding auditions on Wednesday, MAY 7TH=20
from 2 - 7PM & Thursday, MAY 8TH, 2008 from 3 -=20
8PM and CALL BACKS will be from 10 to 2PM on=20
Friday, May 9TH. To schedule an appointment to=20
audition, please email us your resume/headshot by=20
MAY 7TH by 12PM EST to fernanda.coppel {AT}=20
sisteroutsider.biz. In the subject line of the=20
email, please put: PANDORA'S AUDITIONS. We will=20
call you to schedule an appointment. You should=20
be available during the times listed above and be=20
prepared with a two-minute dramatic and comedic monologues.

For more information go to www.sisteroutsider.biz.

The following roles are open for casting:

CIORA
A Colombian woman struggles with redefining familia as
she prepares her body for motherhood. Colombian,
Bilingual, indigenous looking, 30s, loves to dance.

BE ALL YOU CAN BE
On the eve before she is to report for a second=20
tour in Iraq, a Dominican army sergeant decides to go AWOL. Dominican, 20's

ID, Please!
An underage Filipina always confused for Puerto=20
Rican tries to enter the nightclub only to=20
discover that her closeted aunt is working the door. Late teens, Filipina

CLUELEZ
On the fast track to success, this third=20
generation Puerto Rican will let nothing get in=20
her way, even if it means turning in her=20
girlfriend to the INS. Puerto Rican, mid to late 30's.

CONFIDENTIALITY
When the parents of a teenage patient threaten to=20
send her to "ex-gay" reparative therapy, her=20
counselor finds herself caught between her=20
professional code of ethics and the truth of her=20
own experience. Puerto Rican, mid 20's.

THE BORDER MADE ME GAY
On her 21st birthday, a college student yearns=20
for the mother who returned to Mexico without=20
her. Chicana, early 20's/late teens.

TWENTY-FOUR
Just as she is set to marry her boyfriend of=20
thirteen years, a Chicana finally reveals her=20
love for her best friend. 30's, Chicana, Indigenous.

PATRIA
Stuck between two worlds, Patria is given an=20
ultimatum either get married or be deported back=20
to her patr=EDa (country). Honduran or Central=20
American, Indigenous and/or of African descent, mid to late 20's.

MANGO BREAD
A Puerto Rican/Chicano (FTM) man grapples with=20
feminism and male privilege as he seduces his=20
lover with his culinary talents. Mid to late=20
20's, Chicana/Puerto Rican, Transgender.

-TECHNICAL CREW-

We are looking to hire the following positions.=20
If interested, please email by May 12, 2008 --a=20
resume/cover letter to jasmine {AT}=20
sisteroutsider.biz. In the subject line of the=20
email, please put: PANDORA CREW. For more=20
information go to www.sisteroutsider.biz .

Set Asst. / Construction Assistants (3) PAID

Lighting Designer (1) PAID

Stage Hands (2) PAID

Prop Master (1)
Seeking enthusiastic trainee with some knowledge=20
of theater. Position is excellent for college=20
students. NO PAY, but an opportunity to gain=20
theatrical experience and work with field professionals.

Stage Manager (1) PAID

Asst. Stage Manager (1)

Production Interns (2)
Interns must have some knowledge of theater, be=20
available to work all shows and to meet for=20
several meetings prior to festival. NO PAY, but=20
an opportunity to gain theatrical experience and work with field profession=
als.

Ushers (4)
Seeking individuals with a love for theater to=20
work at least a minimum of four shows in June. NO=20
PAY but an opportunity to gain theatrical=20
experience and work with field professionals.

Sincerely,

Sister Outsider Entertainment
www.sisteroutsider.biz
www.sisteroutsider.biz/pandoras.php

*******
The Audre Lorde Project
Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit=20
& Transgender People of Color communities
85 So. Oxford St. * Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel: 718-596-0342 * Fax: 718-596-1328
Web: www.alp.org * Email: alpinfo {AT} alp.org
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From: ConnorsPatrick1 {AT} aol.com
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:51:21 EDT
Subject: [PAFNYCalendar] May 12- Anthropology in service of the state -
Profs Abu El-Haj & Morris

Alwan for the Arts Presents:

Anthropology in the Service of the State
A Panel Discussion with Rosalind Morris and Nadia Abu El-Haj
Moderated by Joseph Massad
Monday, May 12, 2008. 7:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public

Since its inception Anthropology has been at the forefront of the
colonial project. In today’s world, in spite of the self critical
assessment the discipline has engaged in and the refreshing new works
that have been published as a result, many anthropologists have continued
the discipline’s old colonial tradition: this has taken the form of
anthropologists as "heroic soldier thinker" embedded in army
units on the front lines of battle employing their cultural knowledge for
the pacification of occupied societies as well as coauthoring
counter-insurgency manuals with military generals. In the Human Terrain
Project, a program developed by the Pentagon, Human Terrain
Anthropologists marshall ethnographic knowledge in the field to advise
troops while being escorted by the military or, in fact, being armed
themselves. Other mercenary anthropologists are under contract with the
likes of Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our panelists will address
this nexus of power-knowledge, its wider history beyond the current
active territory of the Middle East, looking analytically at examples
where the human sciences have been compromised in the service of
occupation and oppression of people.

Rosalind Morris is professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and
author of Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern
Thailand and New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography and the
Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures

Nadia Abu El-Haj is associate professor of Anthropology at Barnard
College and author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and
Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.

Joseph Massad is associate professor of Middle Eastern studies at
Columbia University and author Desiring Arabs, The Persistence of the
Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians and Colonial
Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan.

Alwan for the Arts [one block east of Bowling Green –t.]

16 Beaver (between Broad and Broadway) 4th Floor New York, NY 10004
Tel.: 212 967 4318 Fax: 212 967 4326 info {AT}
alwanforthearts.org

TRAINS: 4, 5 to Bowling Green J/M/Z to Broad St. R,W to Whitehall
St.1 to Rector St. or South Ferry 2, 3 to Wall St. A, C line to
Broadway-Nassau

BUSES: M1, M6, M9, M16, M20.

BIKE: Hudson Rvr. Greenway, East Rvr. path, Liberty St., Broadway,
Water St.

AREA MAPS AT:
http://tinyurl.com/e8

————————————–

Looks like NYU film school…

From: "Freegan.info" <ask  at 
freegan.info>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 16:36:40 -0400

Documentary: *No Such Thing as a Free Lunch*
*by Tate LeFevre** *(Anthropology)

Freegans, a group of anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist activists=97best
known for eating food found in the garbage=97struggle to represent
themselves and their mission in the mainstream media.

Monday May 12, 2008, 7:30 PM
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
(Between University Place and Greene Street)
Theater 101
No ID is required and the event is free and open to the public.

part of
DOCS ON THE EDGE:
A Student Documentary Showcase from the 2007-2008 Video Production
Seminar Presented by the Department of Anthropology and the Program in
Culture and Media at New York University

Monday May 12, 2008
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
(Doors open at 5:30)

Also playing:

*Henington Press*
*by Neal Solon* (Cinema Studies)
For decades, David Harris has run his Brooklyn print shop using some of
the same basic tools his father and grandfather did. Now, this family
business, which opened in 1912, and the technology it employs are on the
verge of disappearing.

Grannies Against the War
*by Nina Krstic* (Cinema Studies)
A group of elderly women explore what it means to be anti-war activists
in present-day America, as they work tirelessly to inspire youth action
and re-define what it means to grow old.

*Mystery Shop*
*by Anoosh Tertzakian* (Cinema Studies)
Thirty-year-old Grant Captanian inherited an Upper East Side building
overflowing with treasures and trash his father collected for over 50
years.  Day after day, Grant attempts to free himself from his
father’s legacy with his makeshift "Mystery Shop" that the
neighborhood can’t live without.

*Singer With the Band*
*by Heather Weyrick *(Anthropology)
*The TV series Life Goes On was a turning point for filmmaker
Heather Weyrick.  *
*It was the first time she saw a family like hers on TV=97a family that
included *
*developmental disability.  Through the experiences of her sister
Stefanie, *
*and the star of Life Goes On, Chris Burke, Heather explores what
television *
*can teach us about diversity and what it is like to be a performer with
a *
*developmental disability.

*
Erotic Lines
*by Carolina Larrain* (Cinema Studies)
*After turning fifty, Carolyn Weltman gave up her office job
and dedicated herself *
*to making erotic art.  Erotic Lines explores Weltman’s history
and dedication *
*while revealing her personal creative approach to this distinct art
form.*

Please ask friends to try nyprotest
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From: Joanwile263 {AT} aol.com Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:32:06 EDT
Subject: FUND RIASER FEATURING JAZZ FOR PEACE WITH ME ON VOCALS

Dear Friends: Please note information below about a special jazz
performance this coming Tuesday (featuring me on vocals) by the Jazz
for Peace ensemble. I would love to see you there and am going to
spend the next three days warming up my pipes and getting my “chops”
in shape. Half the proceeds go to the Granny Peace Brigade and half
to the Jazz for Peace organization. Joan

TUESDAY MAY 13, 7:00 PM TO 9:30 PM, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, Bowery &
Bleecker Street
SALUTE TO GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST THE WAR & THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE

Grandmothers Against the War was founded 4-1/2 years ago by Joan
Wile, a grandmother of 5. Among their many activities, they were
arrested and jailed when trying to enlist at the Times Square
recruiting center in Oct., 2005. They’ve traveled to Europe and to
Washington to press the ant-war case. They hold vigils,
demonstrations, protests, all sorts of actions, and do shows written
mostly by Joan. In short, these are some hip grannies.

JOAN WILE’s book, “GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST THE WAR: GETTING OFF OUR
FANNIES AND STANDING UP FOR PEACE,” has just been published by
Citadel Press, and is now available in all book stores and online at
amazon.com.

Music by The RUSSELL BRANCA QUINTET Russell Branca - bass, Jerome
Sabbagh - sax, Tom Beckham - vibes, Heather Bennett - piano, ken
salters - drums

“DECONSTRUCTING THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK”
With a special guest appearance by vocalist Joan Wile!

For Tickets ($8.00) and Info: joanwile {AT} grandmothersagainstthewar.org
Russellbranca {AT} yahoo.com tel. 718-843-0515

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Thursday, May 22nd @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Indigenous Voices Series
Screening: Christopher McLeod “In the Light of Reverence” (2001, 90 minutes)
Ancient, sacred lands have been claimed and reshaped by American industry and
society. McLeod’s “In the Light of Reverence” documents the cultural and
spiritual clashes between Native Americans and non-native users (such as rock
climbers, new age practitioners, mining companies) over these lands. Hosted by
WBAI’s Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Indigenous Voices is a monthly series about ethnic
identity, sovereignty, and the possibilities for Indigenous peoples to direct
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Sunday, May 18th @ 4PM - Free
Knitting: Dyke Knitting Circle
Come in and knit, make new friends, drink some tea, and learn a craft at a
self-help and member-led group event. The Dyke Knitting Circle is open to all
levels of experience and meets each third Sunday of the month. Bring yarn and
needles. Contact for more information.
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Friday, May 16th @ 8PM - $5 Suggested
Performance: Mahina Movement “Speak the Fire!”
Let’s celebrate the release of the Mahina Movement’s debut album “Speak the
Fire,” which offers words that encapsulate courage and the state of the nation,
which tunes up harmonies that twist with passion and fight, which alights
melodies tied to flesh and dug from the earth. Mahina Movement’s songs and
poems are a mix of folk, rock and rhymes in English, Spanish, and Tongan
simmered with indigenous roots.

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Tuesday, May 13th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Liza Bear “Beyond the Frame”
Liza Bear’s “Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers,” provides
insights into some of the most intriguing figures of world cinema from the
recent past, among them: Gillian Armstrong, Milos Forman, Takeshi Kitano, Wong
Kar-wai, and Agnes Varda. This original collection contains edgy dialogues with
more than 50 filmmakers from 23 countries.
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The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) Presents

Seminars in the City

QUEER MIGRATIONS

Facilitator: Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University

DATES: 6/2, 7/7, 8/4 (first Monday of the month,
June-August)

6-8 PM

LGBT Community Center

Room 101

208 West 13th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue)

New York, NY 10011

(212) 620-7310

QUEER MIGRATIONS

Migration has been crucial to the formation and fostering of many queer
communities in the United States; however, population movement has only
recently come into prominence in queer studies in this country and
internationally. This series of seminars will introduce the participants
to this dynamic field of scholarship through a discussion of case studies
from the past and present. Our readings will include essays by John
D’Emilio, Eithne Lubheid, Adi Kuntsman, Kath Weston, Susana Pe=F1a and
others as well as the illustrated autobiography/graphic testimonial
Sexilio/Sexile  by Jaime Cortez. Our main objective is to understand
the importance and interaction of sexuality with traditional as well as
emerging themes such as ethnic/racial assimilation, transnationalism, and
homeland politics.

The free reading group will meet at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West
13th Street, in room 101 from 6 to 8 PM on the first Monday of each month
from June to August.  To RSVP and obtain a course reading packet
contact CLAGS by phone (212-817-1955) or by email (clags AT gc.cuny.edu).
CLAGS strives to make all of its events accessible to our members. ASL
interpretation can be provided for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or
more working days prior

Seminars in the City is supported by the New York Council for the
Humanities.
        
        
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AIDS/Art Conf; Seminars in the City (summer)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:11:04 -0400
From: "Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)" <clags
{AT} gc.cuny.edu>

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and Visual AIDS

Present

AIDS/ART/WORK

Friday, May 30th, 2008
9:30 AM-5:00 PM
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34 and 35 Street)
New York, NY 10016
Rooms 9206/9207

This one-day conference will explore the pasts, presents, and futures of
AIDS art, AIDS activism, and AIDS prevention, and the connections between
them.  In a series of panels and a culminating roundtable,
AIDS/Art/Work will look at the often productive, sometimes uneasy
relationships between art inspired by AIDS and HIV/AIDS prevention,
focusing on the following concerns:

1. An AIDS Art Movement?
How is AIDS art and AIDS activism historicized and how has the process of
archiving both the activism and the cultural production changed it? What
are the processes and purposes of documenting what is essentially
ephemeral from an art historical perspective or from the perspective of
the history of social movements? As grassroots responses became
institutionalized what happened to the art? Is the institution (i.e. the
museum, the university, the archive) the new movement?

Robert Atkins
Alexandra Juhasz
David Roman

 2.  Looking at current contemporary art
Can AIDS activism and "AIDS art" be part of a legacy for
younger, queer artists? What changes when the work is brought from the
street into the classroom? How do younger artists and art historians
reference AIDS art in work that is politicized around the pandemic now?
What is the relationship between so called avant-garde or conceptual art
and representational art within an "AIDS art" framework? Can we
think of "utility" in ways that art isn’t usually called upon
to produce?

Richard Sawdon-Smith
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Derek Jackson
Jean Carlomusto

3. Collaborations - problems and possibilities
What is the history and efficacy or need from HIV-prevention work? How
have artists or how can artists work to create useful or effective
campaigns? How should these collaborations be fostered? How do we define
effectiveness in prevention? Has cultural production changed
post-HAART?  What threats remain and what work needs to be
done?

Paul Sendziuk
Julie Davids
Patrick "Pato" Hebert
David Gere

4. Roundtable
An opportunity to review the day’s discussions and solicit meaningful
responses from the audience. In addition, conference themes may be
addressed including:

How did AIDS change the visual art?
What role can artists play in health promotion and HIV/AIDS
prevention?
What is AIDS art now? What does it look like

Marilyn Martin
Jim Hubbard
Edwin Ramoran
Ivan Monforte

Seats and breakfasts are limited so please register at
www.clags.org befo=
re
May 22, 2008.
Academics, professionals: $30; students or unemployed $20.
For more information, contact Naveed Alam at clags AT gc.cuny.edu or
(212) 817-1955.

The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY at 34th
Street.  All events in the Graduate Center are wheelchair
accessible.  Please contact the security office at the Graduate
Center (212-817-7777) for further details.

CLAGS is committed to accessibility for all participants at our events,
so we have a SCENT-FREE policy.  ASL interpretation can be provided
for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or more working days prior to the
event. If you have other accessibility needs, please contact the CLAGS
office, with a relay operator when necessary, at (212) 817-1955 or email
us at clags {AT} gc.cuny.edu.  For more information, visit our
website,
www.clags.org.

All CLAGS events, which are free and open to the public, are co-sponsored
by the Interdisciplinary Studies Concentration in Lesbian and Gay/Queer
Studies.

Nearest subways: B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, W to 34th Street; 6 to 33rd
Street
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AIDS/Art Conf; Seminars in the City (summer)
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:11:04 -0400
From: "Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)" <clags
{AT} gc.cuny.edu>

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and Visual AIDS

Present

AIDS/ART/WORK

Friday, May 30th, 2008
9:30 AM-5:00 PM
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34 and 35 Street)
New York, NY 10016
Rooms 9206/9207

This one-day conference will explore the pasts, presents, and futures of
AIDS art, AIDS activism, and AIDS prevention, and the connections between
them.  In a series of panels and a culminating roundtable,
AIDS/Art/Work will look at the often productive, sometimes uneasy
relationships between art inspired by AIDS and HIV/AIDS prevention,
focusing on the following concerns:

1. An AIDS Art Movement?
How is AIDS art and AIDS activism historicized and how has the process of
archiving both the activism and the cultural production changed it? What
are the processes and purposes of documenting what is essentially
ephemeral from an art historical perspective or from the perspective of
the history of social movements? As grassroots responses became
institutionalized what happened to the art? Is the institution (i.e. the
museum, the university, the archive) the new movement?

Robert Atkins
Alexandra Juhasz
David Roman

 2.  Looking at current contemporary art
Can AIDS activism and "AIDS art" be part of a legacy for
younger, queer artists? What changes when the work is brought from the
street into the classroom? How do younger artists and art historians
reference AIDS art in work that is politicized around the pandemic now?
What is the relationship between so called avant-garde or conceptual art
and representational art within an "AIDS art" framework? Can we
think of "utility" in ways that art isn’t usually called upon
to produce?

Richard Sawdon-Smith
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Derek Jackson
Jean Carlomusto

3. Collaborations - problems and possibilities
What is the history and efficacy or need from HIV-prevention work? How
have artists or how can artists work to create useful or effective
campaigns? How should these collaborations be fostered? How do we define
effectiveness in prevention? Has cultural production changed
post-HAART?  What threats remain and what work needs to be
done?

Paul Sendziuk
Julie Davids
Patrick "Pato" Hebert
David Gere

4. Roundtable
An opportunity to review the day’s discussions and solicit meaningful
responses from the audience. In addition, conference themes may be
addressed including:

How did AIDS change the visual art?
What role can artists play in health promotion and HIV/AIDS
prevention?
What is AIDS art now? What does it look like

Marilyn Martin
Jim Hubbard
Edwin Ramoran
Ivan Monforte

Seats and breakfasts are limited so please register at
www.clags.org befo=
re
May 22, 2008.
Academics, professionals: $30; students or unemployed $20.
For more information, contact Naveed Alam at clags AT gc.cuny.edu or
(212) 817-1955.

The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY at 34th
Street.  All events in the Graduate Center are wheelchair
accessible.  Please contact the security office at the Graduate
Center (212-817-7777) for further details.

CLAGS is committed to accessibility for all participants at our events,
so we have a SCENT-FREE policy.  ASL interpretation can be provided
for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or more working days prior to the
event. If you have other accessibility needs, please contact the CLAGS
office, with a relay operator when necessary, at (212) 817-1955 or email
us at clags {AT} gc.cuny.edu.  For more information, visit our
website,
www.clags.org.

All CLAGS events, which are free and open to the public, are co-sponsored
by the Interdisciplinary Studies Concentration in Lesbian and Gay/Queer
Studies.

Nearest subways: B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, W to 34th Street; 6 to 33rd
Street
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) Presents

Seminars in the City

QUEER MIGRATIONS

Facilitator: Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University

DATES: 6/2, 7/7, 8/4 (first Monday of the month,
June-August)

6-8 PM

LGBT Community Center

Room 101

208 West 13th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue)

New York, NY 10011

(212) 620-7310

QUEER MIGRATIONS

Migration has been crucial to the formation and fostering of many queer
communities in the United States; however, population movement has only
recently come into prominence in queer studies in this country and
internationally. This series of seminars will introduce the participants
to this dynamic field of scholarship through a discussion of case studies
from the past and present. Our readings will include essays by John
D’Emilio, Eithne Lubheid, Adi Kuntsman, Kath Weston, Susana Pe=F1a and
others as well as the illustrated autobiography/graphic testimonial
Sexilio/Sexile  by Jaime Cortez. Our main objective is to understand
the importance and interaction of sexuality with traditional as well as
emerging themes such as ethnic/racial assimilation, transnationalism, and
homeland politics.

The free reading group will meet at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West
13th Street, in room 101 from 6 to 8 PM on the first Monday of each month
from June to August.  To RSVP and obtain a course reading packet
contact CLAGS by phone (212-817-1955) or by email (clags AT gc.cuny.edu).
CLAGS strives to make all of its events accessible to our members. ASL
interpretation can be provided for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or
more working days prior

Seminars in the City is supported by the New York Council for the
Humanities.

From: evcc {AT} mailman.freethe.net Subject: [EVCC_Community] Please
Attend CRITICAL Town Hall - East Village / Lower East Side Rezoning -
Mon. May 12 6:00pm
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TOWN HALL MEETING  on
East Village / Lower East Side Rezoning
Monday May 12 6:30 pm
Public School 20 at 166 Essex Street (Btwn. Houston and Stanton Streets)
[F train to 2nd Ave; J, M, Z to Essex.  Essex is equiv. of Ave.
A.   –t.] 

** Please arrive by 6:00pm in order to sign up to speak ** PLEASE ATTEND
& SPEAK !

For over three years, the East Village Community Coalition, along with
neighborhood partners, has been working to achieve better zoning for the
East Village and Lower East Side.

Our efforts have paid off. The Department of City Planning agreed to
rezone our area. Working with our community, it prepared a plan to
protect our community, institute height caps for new buildings, and
remove incentives for institutions to build dormitories, while allowing
for growth and additional affordable housing along our wider
avenues.

This plan is now in the final stages of public review before enactment.
While the EVCC along with its partners in LESCAZ, the Lower East Side
Coalition for Accountable Zoning, wants a few improvements in the plan,
it is critical to not delay approval of the plan!

If we want to continue to live in a low-rise, diverse, affordable
neighborhood, not dominated by institutions, it is absolutely critical to
attend this town hall and strongly support the plan and LESCAZ
improvements.  With your support we can have these protections in
place before the end of the year.

Sample testimony:
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My name is X. I live at 123 Avenue C. I wish to thank the Department of
City Planning, Community Board 3, the East Village Community Coalition,
all the members of LESCAZ, and everyone in our community who has worked
so hard to move this badly needed rezoning forward.  We live in an
extremely threatened neighborhood. This plan, along with the additional
changes sought by LESCAZ, provides vital protections to our community.
Please enact the plan, incorporating the LESCAZ improvements, as soon as
possible.
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Attached is a Community Board 3 Flyer with more details on the plan.
[partial text below; orig msg & maps avail on request, or ask
organizers.  –t.]
        
        
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Quick Facts about Rezoning in Community Board 3
CB3 Zoning Taskforce
Community Board 3 Public Hearing, May 12, 2008
What=92s Happening?
The Department of City Planning (DCP) is considering how to rezone a
large section of the Lower East Side within
Community Board 3 (CB3). This area will become a new zoning district with
new zoning codes. Zoning codes are tools that the city has used for the
last century to shape the way land is used. What=92s being proposed for
this part of CB3 is called =93contextual zoning=94 because it regulates
height, bulk, and other features to produce buildings that are consistent
with the existing context =97 look and feel =97 of the area.

How Did This Come About?
In 2005, the Board convened a Zoning Taskforce, building on earlier
efforts by the Board to rezone. Rezoning seemed like the best way to
respond to community concerns about the construction of very tall
buildings and the loss of affordable apartments. Believing that speed was
essential, the Board and its Zoning Taskforce asked DCP to create a new
contextual
zoning plan covering the largest possible area of CB3. The purpose was to
allow for population growth and development,
yet keep the Lower East Side a place where people of different income
levels can find housing and where huge buildings don=92t tower over the
landscape.

Over the years, DCP staff met with Board and Zoning Taskforce members and
heard public testimony. In 2006, the agency came back with its zoning
proposal. DCP has spent approximately 2 million dollars in preparing this
zoning. The work has included preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS).

At 111 blocks, this is one of the largest rezonings in the city.
DCP, not the Board, defined the area to be rezoned.

North: northern side of E. 13th St.
South: Grand St. east to Ludlow St.,
then Delancey St. east to Pitt St.
West: about 100 ft. east of Bowery/Third Ave.
East: Ave. D from 13th St. to Houston St., then Pitt St. south to
Delancey St.

What is the Decision-making Process Now?
Thanks to many decades of citizen advocacy, decision-making about
land use in NYC follows a fairly predictable process.
Community boards have a guaranteed role in the Uniform Land Use Review
Process (ULURP). This provides the structure for community input, but our
powers are advisory only. To be most
effective, we need to stay informed, ask good questions, and keep our
ultimate goals in mind.

In April 2008, DCP released its final Scope of Work for the DEIS. On May
5th, DCP certified that the ULURP decision-making can go forward. On May
12th, CB3 is holding a mandated public hearing to give residents and
stakeholders a chance for input as part of this process.

ULURP steps:
Step 1: CB3 has a 60-day period to conduct public hearings and make
advisory recommendations to the City Planning Commission and the Borough
President.
Step 2: After this 60-day period, the Borough President has a 30-day
period to review the project and CB3=92s recommendation,
and to make an advisory recommendation to the City Planning Commission.
The BP can hold public hearings.
Step 3: The City Planning Commission has a 60-day period to conduct a
public hearing, and approve, modify, or
disapprove an application.
Step 4: The City Council has a 50-day period to hold a public hearing and
approve, modify, or disapprove the decision of the Planning
Commission.
Step 5: The Mayor has a 5-day opportunity to veto the Council=92s decision,
and the Council has 10 days to override that veto by a two-thirds
vote.

What Did CB3 Ask For?
CB3 voted on 11 points and principles that it wanted the DCP to
incorporate in any new plan for the new zoning district. (See Board
minutes of Dec. 2006,

www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3 ) Some of our wishes have been met in the
city=92s plan;
others have not been. We recognize that rezoning is an important but
imperfect tool for controlling the future of our area. CB3 needs to
continue to push for the best arrangements we can achieve, and also work
on many other fronts, now and in the future.