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Events
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, DIY Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:00PM
Event:
Make your own naturally fermented soda! Leader: Susan
Thursday, December 4, 2008, Special Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM
Event: Economic Crisis and the Response of Radicals
Speaker: Scott P.
Friday, December 5, 2008, Author Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM
Author/Artist:
Cristy C. Road
Graphic Novel: Bad Habits: A Love Story
Saturday, December 6, 2008, 7:30PM @ Wooden Shoe Books, People's Movie Night
Movie: American Revolution 2
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Upcoming Events:
December 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, DIY Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:00PM
Event: Make your own naturally fermented soda! with Susan
Description: This hands-on workshop will show folks how to make their own naturally carbonated low-alcohol sodas from juices, sugars, and teas. Samples of finished concoctions will be on hand for tasting, and participants will leave with a bottle of flavorfully fermenting beasties to enjoy at home.Thursday, December 4, 2008, Special Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM
Event: Economic Crisis and the Response of Radicals
Speaker: Scott P.
Description: The presentation w will be a brief outline of the workings of the financial crisis and some possible effects that we'll see over the next few months/years. A report back will follow, covering recent actions against the financial system: the 'financial civil disobedience' model proposed by Catalonian anti-banking activists, organizing against the G20/WEF meeting in the U.S., and foreclosure resistance. The presentation will end with a brief explanation of a proposal to organize bank users and discussion.Friday, December 5, 2008, Author Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM
Author/Artist: Cristy C. Road
Graphic Novel: Bad Habits: A Love Story
Description: Cristy C. Road will be reading from her new graphic novel: "Bad Habits: A Love Story" (Softskull Press). Moving to New York City for Carmencita Gutierrez Alonzo, otherwise known as Car, dictated the beginning of a self-imposed mental cleansing, denoting an era of destruction and change. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF AN ABUSIVE AND MANIPULATIVE RELATIONSHIP, and Car's quest for rebirth. Consequently, rebirth was untamed and measured by shitty news, occasional breakdowns, destructive splurges, and life altering orgasms. Geographically escaping the past's trauma in order to get over the past, proves to be worthless without the additional, internal redemption. The route to heal earnestly is always winding in a world where healing without a steady paycheck, health insurance, a mainstream identity, or mental stability can often times seem impossible. That is, at least, without harsh self-doubt or unfortunate addictions. This journey of getting over trundles through wild living situations, drunks, punks, awkward mornings, semi-revelatory acid trips, complex definitins of love, complex embraces of lust, complex laws on sexual violence, and a decaying Brooklyn where every glass condo swells the cost of living for a minimum wage society. Finding solace in things like Coney Island, hair metal, and her circle of friends; Carmencita transforms her bad habits into some rendition of living, and somewhat, achieving.
Cristy C. Road is well-known graphic artist whose works cover issues ranging from class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, punk rock, and more!
Tell all your friends! Please come, it's going to be really fun!Saturday, December 6, 2008, 7:30PM @ Wooden Shoe Books, People's Movie Night
Movie: American Revolution 2
Description: A heady time of change and chains the 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. And Chicago filmmaker Mike Gray was there using his camera to document the politics of the streets. AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 is a rare cinematic treasure that captures the social upheaval that followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. From the riots that followed two disparate groups the Black Panthers and the Young Patriots (a group of poor Southern whites living in Chicago) emerge to unite against prejudice and injustice in their city. Gray s gritty no-frills style is spontaneous and purposeful suggesting a you-are-there quality that captures the excitement of the era. Shot verite style with no script hand-held camera direct sound and natural lighting the look is rough raw and real much like the city it depicted. (76 mins)Friday, December 12, 2008, Special Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 - 9 PM
Event: Benefit Reading for BuildaBridge with the New Philadelphia Poets
Description: On Friday, December 12th, 7:00-9:00 pm, the New Philadelphia Poets will hold a reading to benefit community arts nonprofit BuildaBridge at Wooden Shoe Books (508 S. 5th St. Philadelphia, PA 19147). Formed in 2007, the New Philadelphia Poets are dedicated to creating new spaces for poetry in Philadelphia and supporting the city's growing poetic community. They have previously been featured at Robin's Bookstore, Germ Books + Gallery, Brickbat Books, and the BLAM! poetry series. The reading will be followed by an open mic session. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own poems, stories, voices, instruments…anything they'd like to share! There will be a $5 suggested donation at the door, as well as wine and appetizers for a small price. All proceeds will go directly to BuildaBridge's "Painting a Brighter Future" campaign. BuildaBridge is a non-profit 501(c)3 arts education and intervention organization that engages the transformative power of the arts to bring hope and healing to children, families, and communities in the tough places of the world. BuildaBridge motivates, enlists, trains, and connects those with artistic gifts with those in greatest need. Please visit www.newphiladelphiapoets.com and www.buildabridge.org for more information.Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:30PM @ Wooden Shoe Books, People's Movie Night
Movie: Walker
Description: A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions Walker from British director Alex Cox (Repo Man Sid & Nancy) tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris) who abandoned a series of careers in law politics journalism and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and for several years dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity - and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the Contra war - the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American ultrapatriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of "manifest destiny." Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense repressed rage by Harris Walker remains one of Cox's most daring works. (94 Min)Thursday, December 18, 2008, Special Event @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7PM
Event: Disrupt Lake City!
Description: Disrupt Lake City! is made up of Midwestern anarchists and anti-authoritarians enraged not only by the current wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, and "Terror," but more deeply by the pathological militarism of nation-states and the occupations they wage - both within their borders and beyond.
Far from the coasts, and the mass movements that encompass them, the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, which is the largest small arms ammunition manufacturing plant in the world, produces roughly 90% of the small arms ammunition utilized by the US Military at any given time.
The US led war in Iraq has been raging for nearly six years - the latest in a series of wars of occupation proceeding for centuries. The current US anti-war movement has grinded nearly to a halt due to sectarianism, ineffective vigils and "speak truth to power" campaigns. It is clear to us that those in power have a concrete understanding of their influential roles in the global military industrial complex.
As people opposed to war, occupation, and state sponsored terrorism, we understand the role that logistical support operations play in perpetuating the US war effort - at home and abroad. Soldiers, supplies, transportation, communication, weaponry and ammunition are some of the many components needed to maintain wars and occupations. While counter-recruitment campaigns, port resistance actions, and physical attacks on military infrastructure have all targeted some of these logistical frameworks, the ammunition supply line has been fairly ignored. On March 21st, 2009 the 6th anniversary of the war, Disrupt Lake City! is calling for a coordinated day of direct action against the plant.
On this day anarchists and anti-authoritarians from the Midwest and beyond will gather to take a physical stand against the supply line dominating their lives and the lives of those across the globe. And, you can join them!This presentation outlines what you can do!Saturday, December 20, 2008, 7:30PM @ Wooden Shoe Books, People's Movie Night
Movie: Empire
Description: John Leguizamo is, in his own words, "young, Latin, and good looking" as the ambitious minimogul of the South Bronx drug trade in Franc Reyes' Latino twist on the urban crime saga. Reigning in his hyperactive energy, Leguizamo is like a coiled spring as the street-smart player who tries to leave the violence of his trade behind in an upwardly mobile odyssey, and Peter Sarsgaard brings a discomforting confidence to the smooth-talking investment banker trusted with his millions. Few of the other characters even register in the familiar underworld tale (though Denise Richards has fun as a bubbly, skin-deep seductress) and Reyes's flashy style is as distracting as it is energizing. It's the smoldering presence of Leguizamo that keeps the film centered through the betrayals, the bullet-riddled battles, and the slow realization that this cunning shark has just become bait in the deep seas of high finance. (90 MIn)Saturday, December 27, 2008, 7:30PM @ Wooden Shoe Books, People's Movie Night
Movie: Venezuela: Revolution From the Inside Out
Description: Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out is a voyage into Latin America's most exciting experiment of the new millennium, exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of Caracas. This introduction to the "revolución bonita" ("pretty revolution") offers in-depth interviews, unforgettable images and a lively soundtrack that will open new vistas onto this hopeful human project. As he totes his camera on bus and car trips all over Venezuela, director Clifton Ross becomes our tour guide through the Bolivarian Revolution. He sweeps us through its history and takes us to its works-in-progress on the ground. These schools, rural lending banks and cooperatives weave the fabric of Venezuela's "Socialism of the 21st Century." They show its failures and successes, its warp and woof. Through it all runs the frayed but unbreakable thread of a people in struggle. (85 Min)