1968/2008

Come to a meeting about the 68/08 Issue of AREA Chicago at 2129 N Rockwell at 6pm on Tuesday June 24th, 2008. You must RSVP for this meeting at areachicago@gmail.com. Bring ideas for the issue and a willingness to contribute time and energy to this project.
More info:
The project Blog http://1968.areachicago.org featuring 10 guest correspondents from […]

Retour sur mai 68 at the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago
http://fcc.uchicago.edu/events/mai68.html
See especially:
May 5
4:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis
KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)
“Art is What Makes Life More Interesting than Art: May ‘68 and Militant Cinema”
Immediately following the discussion there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), […]

The University of Chicago Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) and the Platypus Affiliated Society present a film
screening-discussion on political tasks of labor and community
organizing today in light of problems inherited from the 1960s:
Finally Got the News: the Detroit League of Revolutionary
Black Workers/Revolutionary Union Movement (1970)
Thursday, April 10 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall room 101
http://platypus.uchicago.edu
FINALLY GOT THE […]

Introducing SDS:
Students for a Democratic Society
Film screening and discussion:
Columbia Revolt 1968
Thursday, March 6 7PM
University of Chicago
Harper Memorial Library room 103
1116 E. 59th St.
Come discuss the tasks for student political
organizing today, in light of the ’60s:
- What role in political and social change can
students play?
- How can students act politically beyond protest,
election campaigns and community service?
A […]

1968 Confidential!
How they lived, What they dreamed, what they did & how they organized in that world historic year!
SDS Activists to Tell All!
Michael Klonsky, Marilyn Katz,Franklin Rosemont, Susan Eanet, Michael James,Muhammad Ahmad!
at 2:30 pm
Saturday, November 10
Beginning at 10 am…Panels…Speakers…Discussion
War & Peace…Building a New Movement…Saving the Planet…Abolishing Prisons…Ending Racism …Building Our Own Media…Gay Rights & Human […]

The 49th Street Underground is a local anti-capitalist reading group that has been doing an excellent job in recent years surveying challenging questions and histories related to the contemporary left. This series they have been doing about the Soviet Union is really important, because they are showing that they need to have a clear understanding […]