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9 September 7 PM Doug Blackmon on "Slavery By Another Name"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:28:34 -0400

Start: 2008-09-09 19:00

End: 2008-09-09 21:30

Join us at Christ Church United Methodist in Troy where we're co-sponsoring a talk and book signing by Doug Blackmon, New York Times bestselling author of "Slavery By Another Name" at 7 PM on Tuesday, September 9!

Filled with archival photographs, "Slavery by Another Name" is the true account of the re-enslavement of African Americans from the end of the Civil War until World War II.

Contrary to public understanding, emancipation did not end slavery for hundreds of thousands of people in the southern U.S. African Americans were arrested for minor offenses, often for no offense at all, and sentenced to hard labor in coal mines, lumber camps, farms, and mills across the South. Most were never released from deplorable working and living conditions.

Body of War w/ filmmaker Dee Dee Halleck

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:41:13 -0400

Start: 2008-09-12 19:00

End: 2008-09-12 21:00

Tomas Young, 25 years old, was paralyzed by a bullet to his spine after serving in Iraq less than a week. Body of War follows Tomas as he comes to terms with his disability and finds his own unique and passionate voice against the war.

NOWTOPIA - Practical Rebellion & A New Politics of Work

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:11:43 -0400

Start: 2008-09-15 19:00

End: 2008-09-15 19:00

How do the Open Source software movement, bicycle sub-culture, guerilla gardening, and the Burning Man Festival fit together?

Author and Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson connects these dots as he profiles the social networks that are cooperating outside of economic regulation and laying the foundation for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.

Plus an installation by the Rhizome Collective.

Co-sponsored by Troy Bike Rescue and the New York Bicycling Coalition.

Valet bike parking available!

Chiwoniso

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:32:48 -0400

Start: 2008-09-16 19:00

End: 2008-09-16 21:00

One of the most exciting talents in African music today performs entrancing and uplifting songs with ancient soul and modern spirit.

Backed by the mesmerizing interlocking melodies of the mbira and the deep grooves of an all-star lineup featuring some of Zimbabwe and South Africa's top musicians, Chiwoniso's voice resounds with defiant strength and profound tenderness. Her new recording, “Rebel Woman,” has just been released by Cumbancha.

$10; children 16 and under free.

Hear Chiwoniso's music.

Empty Cage Quartet

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:43 -0400

Start: 2008-09-20 20:00

End: 2008-09-20 22:00

One of the most powerful and original jazz groups to emerge from the West Coast, Empty Cage Quartet explores imaginative new ways to integrate a diverse mix of musical influences ranging from shuffle swing to free jazz blowouts, minimalist percussion loops to complex modernist gestures, robotic grooves, odd-meter marches, heavy rock, and nearly everything in between.

$10.

Hear Empty Cage Quartet on MySpace.

See Empty Cage Quartet on YouTube.

Doug Henwood: The Crisis of Neoliberalism

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:47:26 -0400

Start: 2008-09-26 19:00

End: 2008-09-26 21:00

More than twenty years ago, convinced that the 1980s experiment with free-market economics was a financial and social disaster and that much writing on economics was dry and dated, Doug Henwood founded the critically-acclaimed Left Business Observer.

Invited here as part of the Capital Region Social Forum, he’ll be addressing the current crisis of neoliberalism.

Read Henwood's review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.