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December 27, 7 pm $5 - $10 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds! "Fidel," an award-winning documentary by Cuban-American journalist, Estella Bravo, is a portrait of the Cuban leader. The film spans a period of 40 years from Castro's early childhood and college days to his Presidency of Cuba and includes interviews with Harry Belafonte, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Sydney Pollock, and others. Released from prison after serving two years of a fifteen-year sentence, Castro took a ragtag army of volunteers and recruited farmers, women, and working people into the mountains to fight a decade-long guerilla war that led to the overthrow of American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and the victorious Cuban Revolution of 1959. (91min., 2001) ANSWER Meeting Also: a political update on recent events in Palestine Thursday Dec
20 - 7 pm Join us for discussion and organizing! Venezuela
at a crossroads Thursday Dec
6 - 7 pm Agenda Join us for discussion and organizing!
Thursday Nov 29, 7 pm November 29, 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations vote to divide Palestine, supposedly into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. There was no consultation before the vote with Palestinians who made up 70% of the population. The UN vote and the war that followed created the state of Israel on 78% of Palestine, made refugees of 750,000 Palestinians, and led to a struggle which continues to the present day. In the 1970s, November 29 was designated “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” by the UN. Occupation 101 is a thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Join us for a movie showing and discussion. 2006 (85 minutes). The movie will be shown on a large screen with amplified sound. $5 - $7 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Thursday Nov 15, 7 pm Hear Speaker Gloria La Riva from San Francisco & the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five; plus a short film: Mission Against Terror Sponsored by ANSWER Chicago, Mexico Solidarity Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, Chicago Caravan Committee, Chicago Cuba Coalition & the National Committee to Free the Cuban 5. To read more about the Five's case: www.freethefive.org Oct 27 Chicago
Report Back & Discussion * Reports
from Oct 27: Over 100,000 marched nationwide, tens of thousands in
Chicago 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line - Kimball Stop) Join us! No War on Iran! Help Organize
for Oct 27! 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Agenda Join the anti-war movement today!
Organize
for Oct 27 Mass Anti-war March!
Agenda Join the anti-war movement today!
3334 W. Lawrence #202 This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's–one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time. In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. A David Zeiger Film (84 Minutes). Movie shown on a large screen with amplified sound. Join us! Eyewitness Report from Sept 20
Mass Protest
to Defend the Jena 6 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Agenda The Jena 6 are six African American high school students from Jena, Louisiana, who have been falsely charged with second degree attempted murder and other similar charges for allegedly roughing up a white racist classmate in December 2006. A few months earlier, racist students hung nooses on public school grounds in a tree reserved for whites only. The case is a racist injustice and shines a light on the institutional inequality built into the U.S. "justice" system. One of the Jena 6, 17-year-old Mychal Bell, was convicted in June by an all-white jury of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. Bell faced up to 22 years in prison. Two weeks ago, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana ruled that Bell was wrongly tried as an adult. The court nullified his conviction. It was a legal victory. But the struggle for justice is not over. The remaining five—teenagers as young as 15-years-old—have been indicted and await trial. And Mychal Bell is still being refused bail. ANSWER Chicago activist John Beacham joined an ANSWER Coalition delegation to Jena for activities in support of the Jena 6. Stop the Legal Lynching! Free the Jena 6! Chicago
Report Back: * Eyewitness
reports from protest: Over 100,000 marched, 5,000 people die-in &
200 civil disobedience arrests 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line - Kimball Stop) Join us! ANSWER Public Meeting Thursday Sept
13, 7 pm Agenda 3) Logistics Update & Chicago Bus info: Sept 15 March on Washington Anti-war Meeting Thursday Sept 6, 7 pm Agenda At
the meeting you will also be able to ... Join us for this very important meeting: only the people can stop the war. At the meeting you can also volunteer for Sept 15 outreach. If you cannot make the meeting, but would like to volunteer click here. Anti-war Meeting Thursday
August 30, 7 pm Agenda At
the meeting you will also be able to ... Join us for this very important meeting: only the people can stop the war. At the meeting you can also volunteer for Sept 15 outreach. If you cannot make the meeting, but would like to volunteer click here. Chicago Movie Premiere
ANSWER Chicago Office Click here for directions
"Welcome
to New Orleans" We have all seen the news pictures from New Orleans. This movie goes further and tells the story about the major breakdown through the eyes of a local activist, a 58 year old former member of the Black Panthers who stayed during the hurricane. He became a local hero in the days after the flooding and is now running a grassroots organization, Common Ground Collective.
For more info go to ANSWER Meeting
Thursday August 9, 7 pm Agenda On May 6, Chicago-area anti-war activists Jeff Zurawski and Sarah Hartfield rode their bikes to a pedestrian bridge on the I-355 tollway near Glen Ellyn. They unfurled a banner that read "Impeach Bush and Cheney—Liars." They also displayed an American flag upside-down. Two weeks after this incident, the DuPage County Sheriff’s office filed criminal charges against the activists. Police arrested Zurawski at his home. He spent seven hours in jail. Jeff and Sarah were charged with reckless conduct and unauthorized display of a sign in view of a highway. Almost three months later the County is still pursuing the false charges against the two activists. It is clear the county is prosecuting Sarah and Jeff because their anti-war politics. Join us on August 9 to find out how you can get involved! 2) Help plan Chicago outreach for Sept 15 Two find out more about Sarah and Jeff's case
follow these links ... At
the meeting you will also be able to ... At the meeting you can also volunteer for Sept 15 outreach. If you cannot make the meeting, but would like to volunteer click here. Anti-war Planning Meeting
Thursday August 2, 7 pm Agenda At
the meeting you will also be able to ... Join us for this very important meeting: only the people can stop the war. At the meeting you can also volunteer for Sept 15 outreach. If you cannot make the meeting, but would like to volunteer click here. Cuba Movie Showing:
¡Salud!
3334 W. Lawrence #202 Find out what puts Cuba on the map in the quest for global health …
¡Salud!, 93 minutes, is produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field (The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter; Freedom on My Mind) and co-produced by Gail Reed. For more info visit the ¡Salud! website at http://www.saludthefilm.net/ns/main.html $7 - $10 Donation Requested. ANSWER
Chicago
Meeting
Join us for a discussion of Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" in which he details the failures of the profit-driven U.S. healthcare system. We'll be talking about the state of health care in the U.S. and how the people can fight for change. Thursday July 12, 7 pm Also: Update on Sept 15th Protest in Washington D.C. ANSWER Chicago
Meeting
Your energy and input is needed. Join us as we talk about the ANSWER Coalition proposal for the movement to unite for a million strong march in Washington DC. We'll also be talking about the anti-war turn up the heat campaign in Chicago. To read the ANSWER Coalition proposal and sign-on click here Thursday June
28, 7 pm Also: Report back from Pride March! ANSWER Chicago
Meeting
Thursday June 21, 7 pm Also: Help with preparations for Chicago Pride Parade. We'll be putting together placards and banners for the march. March with ANSWER Chicago and Gay Liberation Network
in
Chicago Pride Parade For more info call 773-463-0311 Equal Rights for LGBT People, Immigrants,
Women and all! Join us! We'll have banners, placards and bullhorns for pro-people, anti-war chanting. ANSWER Chicago Public Meeting
Neo-colonialism
in the Philippines U.S.
imperialism & the struggle against it Thursday June 14, 7 pm Description of talk, "Neo-Colonialism
in the Philippines"
Special
Documentary on Palestine
PEOPLE AND THE LAND airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of the documentary form itself, PEOPLE AND THE LAND examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S. (1997, 57 minutes) Produced by Tom Hayes, Raid Bahhur $5 - $10 Donation Requested. Food and Drink Provided Anti-war
Discussion: the people can end the war!
Last week, the Democrats once again revealed that they are a party of the war machine by voting for more war funding. This is not surprising but must be met with intensified struggle. Bring your ideas and strategies about ending the war and hear about upcoming anti-war actions. Get involved! Also: Help us put together placards for June 4 protest against occupation of Palestine. Join us for Discussion and Organizing! Dinner
and a Movie - Chicago Premier
Join
the ANSWER Coalition and the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five for the
Chicago premiere of "Posada: Terrorism Made in the U.S.A," a new
documentary by the renowned Venezuelan filmmaker Angel Palacios. Dinner will start at 6:30 pm. The movie will start at 7 pm. $5 -$10 Donation Requested. No one turned away for lack of funds. Download Leaflet. Thursday May
17 - 7 pm Topics 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for Discussion and Organizing! Thursday May
10 - 7 pm Topics Why is the Iraq War Escalating, not Ending? Join us for an important discussion on the Iraq War and how to end it. The war is a complete catastrophe for the Iraqi people. Over 700,000 Iraqis have died. The troops - made up of mostly working poor - want to come home. More U.S. troops died in April than any month since January 2005. The vast majority of people are against the war, but Washington, Congress and the Pentagon continue the military offensives and "security" crackdowns in Iraq. Who is Terrorist Luis Posada and why is Bush Protecting him? Join us for a report on anti-Cuban terrorist Luis Posada and help organize the May 11 protest against his release from U.S. prison. 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for Discussion and Organizing! Thursday May 3 - Organizing Meeting ANSWER
Chicago Meeting Topics 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for Discussion and Organizing! Special
Film Showing 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join the ANSWER Coalition
for a screening of "Maquilapolis," a new documentary about
Tijuana’s 800 maquiladoras and the women who work in them for poverty-level
wages.
ANSWER
Chicago Meeting
Join us for Discussion and Organizing!
3334 W. Lawrence #202 Call 773-463-0311 for more info $10 Donation Requested. No one turned away for lack of funds. ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202
Join us for Talks, Discussion and Organizing! “Only
the People Can Stop the Iraq War!"
Sat
March 24 - 7 pm
$5 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds. Monday March 19: 5pm - 9 pm Tuesday March 20 - 6pm
To join
ANSWER Chicago on March 20 or Volunteer
We will be marching together - people
from every community - under large anti-war banners with amplified sound and
militant chants. We need you to chant, hold banners and placards. Join us! To
volunteer click here. ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line -
Kimball Stop)
Since Aristide was overthrown the United
Nations - backed by the U.S. - has occupied the country and U.N. troops under
Brazilian leadership have brutally repressed the Haitian people. Militant
struggle has always been a part of the history of * Stop the Attacks
on Immigrants Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. Get
more info about March 17 March on Pentagon
Forum:
Women in Struggle
Thursday Feb 22 - 7 pm
ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line -
Kimball Stop) * Discussion: Iraq, Iran, Bush War Budget; Momentum
for March 17
March on Pentagon Growing The phone is ringing off the hook in the ANSWER Chicago office. People want to join the March 17 march on the Pentagon and the Chicago Buses are already filling up - a month before the protest. Join us to help strategize and organize for the March 1 7 march on the Pentagon. * Report
from Marriage Equality Protest/Update on the LGBT Struggle Help strategize and organize! March 17 – March on the Pentagon March 20, 6 pm - Assemble Ogden Elementary School parking lot (25 E. Walton Street), March on Michigan Ave. Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. Get
more info about March 17 March on Pentagon ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line -
Kimball Stop) Schedule 7 pm - Political Discussion & Organizing * Report
on Salah/Ashqar case
8 pm - Mass Mailing for
March 17 & 20 Actions Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. Get
more info about March 17 March on Pentagon
3334 W. Lawrence #202 *
ANSWER
Chicago activists * Banner Painting Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202 (Brown Line -
Kimball Stop) Schedule 7 pm - Talks, Discussion & Organizing *
Venezuela
- The Bolivarian Revolution Deepens *
Discuss Bush's State of the Union Speech 8 pm - Banner Painting Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. Get
more info about March 17 march on Pentagon ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202 1.
U.S. War Crimes: 2.
The War Budget and the War on Social Services 3.
March 17/20 Outreach Breakout Session Let’s reach out to as many people as possible in the next two months about stopping the war machine. We need creative and energetic people to help do outreach in as many places in as many ways as we can! Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. ANSWER
Chicago Meeting 3334 W. Lawrence #202
Join us every Thursday night at 7 pm for meetings to organize for March actions to stop the war. Get
more info about March 17 march on Pentagon ANSWER
Chicago Meeting
Get
more info about March 17 march on Pentagon 2006
3334 W. Lawrence #202 This holiday, celebrate with ANSWER Chicago. There will be vegan, vegetarian and meat options. Please consider bringing a holiday sweet treat to share with others. “Bread and Roses” is based on the real life Justice For Janitors campaign in 1990 in Los Angeles. The film by British director Ken Loach (director of The Wind that Shakes the Barley - winner of this years Palme d’Or at Cannes ) is a politically and socially aware film about ordinary human dignity in the face of corporate might and indifference. Loach draws naturalistic performances from a largely untried cast with Pilar Padilla - in her acting debut - revealing the spirit and defiance which characterized the workers' struggle and the plight of those eking out a living in a foreign and often hostile land After surviving a perilous journey from Mexico to the US , Maya (Pilar Padilla) enlists the help of her hard-working sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo) to secure a job among other immigrant cleaners with a non-union cleaning agency in a downtown office block. A fated meeting with Sam (Oscar winner Adrien Brody), a committed activist, leads to a guerrilla-style maneuver against their employers for standard union benefits. It is a fight which carries the risk of the loss of livelihoods and deportation from the US . ANSWER
Chicago Meeting Thurs
Dec 14, 7 pm 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Help Organize for Dec 16
Benefit to fight police brutality ANSWER
Chicago Meeting Thurs
Dec 7, 7 pm 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for discussion and organizing at this week's meeting ...
ANSWER
Chicago Meeting Thurs Nov
30, 7 pm 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for discussion and organizing at this week's meeting ...
ANSWER Weekly
Meeting - Thurs Nov 16, 7 pm 3334 W. Lawrence #202 Join us for discussion and organizing at this week's meeting ...
Phone
Banking for Antiwar Educational Forum Meet at the ANSWER Office Join us as we make hundreds of phone calls for the Nov 12 Antiwar Forum! We will have a phone script and everything else you will need in order to make the phone calls. Call 773-463-0311 for more info ANSWER
Chicago Meeting
Join us for discussion and organizing! Volunteer
Orientation for Oct 28 Volunteer Orientation ANSWER Chicago
Meeting Get involved! Join us for discussion and organizing ... At this week's meeting we'll have a talk about the people's need for housing, a report back from the protest against Bush on Oct 12 in Chicago & we'll organize to hit the streets for the Oct 28 People's Campaign to Vote to End the War on Iraq. We will also be painting a banner for the Oct 21 Vote No War House Party. For more info about the house party click here. ANSWER
Meeting - Thursday Oct 5, 7 pm For more info call 773-463-0311 or email answer@chicagoanswer.net At this weeks meeting ...
ANSWER
Meeting - Thursday Sept 28, 7 pm At this week's meeting ...
For more info call 772-463-0311 Film Showing -
"Fidel" by Estella Bravo $5
- $10 Donation. No one turned away!
Released from prison after serving two years of a fifteen-year sentence, Castro took a ragtag army of volunteers and recruited farmers, women, and working people into the mountains to fight a decade-long guerilla war that led to the overthrow of American-backed Fulgencio Batista and his takeover of Cuba in 1959. (91min., 2001) Thursday
September 7 |
On
the Anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition of Palestine
Dinner
(2)
Eyewitness Report from New Orleans on the ongoing struggle for justice
after Hurricane Katrina
The
movie will be shown on a big screen with amplified sound. The ANSWER
Office is air conditioned. Join us for this special showing of "Welcome
to New Orleans". The movie highlights the role played by Malik Rahim and
the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Rahim is
a sponsor of the 
Director
& Producer: Rasmus Holm
With
Special Guest Speaker
Two
talks & lots of discussion
Thursday
June 7, 7 pm
Topics
Thursday
May 24, 6:30 pm
(City of
Factories)
3334 W. Lawrence #202
Thursday
Dinner
& Movie - "Bread & Roses"