Announcement

We're Having a Party!!!!

creidy — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:53:36 -0400

Baltimore's Indypendent Reader has two amazing reasons to celebrate. Firstly, we are releasing our first national issue. This issue documents The City from Below Conference. The conference took place right here in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27-29, 2009. As sponsors, we were much more than simply delighted when The City from Below Conference turned out to be an incredible success! The editors of The Indypendent Reader were honored to come together with the organizers of City from Below to put together an extended issue. We're very proud of this issue and entirely excited to have it circulate the country. The Indypendent Reader editors and the conference organizers find it absolutely necessary that we celebrate the release of our first national and extended issue that revels in covering the groundbreaking City from Below Conference.
There is a second reason we're throwing a party. We're now celebrating our three-year anniversary. The Indypendent Reader has been very proud to have been a part of your lives for these past three years. As a progressive, independent newspaper we have tried to create a space and a forum for readers, activists, editors, Baltimoreans, and people of all stripes and persuasions to “become the media”. We hope that you will come kick up your heels and celebrate the past three years with us.
At our release/anniversary party we will have refreshments, a cash bar, and radical games. Live music will be provided by Baltimore's very own beans!
Overall, we would love you to come out and enjoy the evening with us. There is no door fee though we greatly appreciate donations. We are still an independently funded and operated project that greatly relies on generous donations in order to exist. Your donations will help our next three years be even better and continue to allow us to sponsor important events like The City from Below Conference.
So, come out and have a drink with us! Relax and listen to the tunes of beans . We can envision a better world together and enjoy one another's company.

Aware and Outraged: Silence is For Suckers — An Evening with Ron Kipling Williams

nickpetr — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:48:55 -0400

Aware and Outraged: Silence is For Suckers
An Evening with Ron Kipling Williams

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 8pm.

$5 Donation

Hamilton Art Gallery
2927 Hamilton Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21214

A Portion of the Proceeds Will Go to Support the Hamilton Arts Collective

Join award winning performance artist, journalist and community activist Ron Kipling Williams for an evening of radical spoken word performance.

Williams blends almost twenty years of performance and activism to give his

“ed-utational” perspective on some the critical social issues in the world today.

Through his lively and thought-provoking performances, he makes a clarion call to speak truth to power, to break down all boxes and barriers, and to create a world of social justice and human rights for all.

Williams has been hailed by his peers as, “One of the most important, and perhaps one of the most dangerous performance artists in the twenty-first century.”

This performance contains strong language and themes, not suitable for those who are easily offended.

The 7th Annual Ric Pfeffer Lecture Presents Arun Gupta:

nickpetr — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:19:15 -0400

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE NEW DEPRESSION
o How global capitalism's tremors match the waning of US hegemony
o How neoliberal policies led to cascading economic disasters
o What deeper crises neoliberals failed to stave off
o What to fear and hope for in the aftermath of the crisis

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7-9 p.m.

2640 Space / Red Emma's
2640 St. Paul Street
Arun Gupta has been an editor of The Indypendent (New York) since 2000 and
was an editor of The Guardian (New York) from 1989-1992. He was active in
the anti-apartheid divestment and Central America solidarity movements in
the 1980s and studied philosophy, history and mathematics at the
University of Maryland. He is currently writing a book on the decline of
U.S. hegemony.

Ric Pfeffer, in whose honor this lecture series was established, worked as
a lawyer with OSHA at the Department of Labor, where he made notable
contributions to worker safety. At the time of his retirement due to
illness, he was developing a standard that would have established a single
universal process for managing and monitoring worker health and safety in
all of the nation's workplaces—a project long supported by the labor
movement.

The Ric Pfeffer Lecture is a program of Research Associates Foundation.
To make a tax deductible contribution to the Ric Pfeffer Lecture, send a
check payable to "Research Associates Foundation" and mail to Research
Associates Foundation, P.O. Box 39448, Baltimore, MD 21212.
Information: 410.466.7344 or Pfefferlecture@gmail.com

Recent article by Gupta in The Indypendent:
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/03/19/the-great-unraveling/

Authors of The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA come to Baltimore Nov. 4, 2008

nickpetr — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:55:01 -0400

KEVIN FUNK and STEVEN FAKE are co-authors of the forthcoming book, The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA, to be released in October 2008 by Black Rose Books.
They are activists and political commentators whose writings have been published in such media as Foreign Policy in Focus, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, ZNet, and Black Commentator; they have been interviewed on Sirius Radio and other outlets. More info on the book and authors: http://www.scrambleforafrica.org/main/

The authors are on tour with their book. They will be in Baltimore on Nov 4th. See below for event details.
Nov. 4, 2008 @ 2pm
(Tuesday)
Barnes & Noble - Power Plant
Inner Harbor
601 E. Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 385-1709