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"Under the Surface: FRACKING, FORTUNES, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale" by Tom Wilber

Date: 
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 
Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street, Between 6th and 7th Ave, NYC

A Conversation and Book-Signing with Tom Wilber about his new book. Come by Revolution Books this afternoon to talk with Tom Wilber about his ground-breaking book exposing fracking in Pennsylvania and New York state.

Tom Wilber is in town because his book has been nominated for the New York Public Library's Annual Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism (one of 5 books including Katherine Boo's "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" and "Spillover" by David Quammen).

CORNEL WEST and CARL DIX in Dialogue: "Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide"

Date: 
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th Street (between Broadway and West End Ave.)
Contact: 

Revolution Books, 212-691-3345 www.revolutionbooksnyc.org

This joint fundraising event for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and Revolution Books, NYC promises to be a dynamic and substantive conversation between two people on the cutting edge of calling out all the horrors this system inflicts on people all over the world and actively involved in calling on people to stand up and build resistance to them.

From Shantel Davis to Kiki Gray: Why is NYPD Murder on the Rise?

Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
890 Flatbush Ave
Contact: 

E-mail: nycbrooklyniso@gmail.com Phone: 347-770-2476

From Shantel Davis to Kiki Gray: Why is NYPD Murder on the Rise?
featured speakers:
Natasha Davis, sister of Shantel Davis
Thenjiwe McHarris, anti-police brutality activist
Evangeline Byars, activist at Medgar Evers College
Gina Sartori, Shantel Davis Organizing Committee and ISO member

Tue., May 14, 7 pm
Flatbush Reform Church
890 Flatbush Ave
B/Q to Church Ave

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

Date: 
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 7:30pm
Location: 
Madison Av. at E. 100th St., 13th Floor
Contact: 

(212) 485-6235

A Conversation with TIME Magazine's Steven Brill
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Steven Brill
Co-CEO, Journalism Online
Writer, Time, Newsweek, New Yorker, New York Times Sunday Magazine
Founder, CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine
Tuesday, May 7 at 7:30 pm
NOT OUR USUAL LOCATION!
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hosp. Annenberg Building
1468 Madison Avenue at E.100th St., 13th floor, Rm 1301
#6 train to 96 St.; M96 or M106 cross town bus, both via 96th; buses via Madison or 5th or Lex: bus map http://ow.ly/6SK4u

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP MONTH OF ACTION PLANNING MEETING

Date: 
Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 10:00am - 6:30pm
Location: 
Barnard College's Diana Center, Room 504 (north of 116th Street on the West side of Broadway in Manhattan - see map at http://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/images/inline/campusmap.png)
Contact: 

TradeJustice New York Metro (718) 218-4523 / info@tradejustice.net

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
MONTH OF ACTION PLANNING MEETING

Join TradeJustice New York Metro, a coalition of grassroots groups from diverse movements for social justice and environmental protection for a day-long meeting to plan lobby visits, protests, teach-ins, and other actions to drag TPP out of the shadows and let Congress know that we will not tolerate another backroom trade deal for the 1%!

Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 10AM-6:30PM
Barnard College's Diana Center, Room 504
3009 Broadway on the Barnard Campus
(north of 116th Street on the West side of Broadway in Manhattan)

Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens: Why Increased Radon Levels in Natural Gas Could Be a Public Health Disaster

Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
The Cooper Union - The Great Hall: 7 East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues New York, NY 10003
Contact: 

Patrick Robbins, Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (212) 353-4253; Eric Weltman, Food and Water Watch (718) 943-9085

Could your gas stove make you sick? The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) presents a public education forum, Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens, to inform New York City residents about changes to the City’s natural gas supply. The forum will address the dangers of potentially elevated radon levels from the use of natural gas, what can be done about it, and ways to create a more sustainable energy future in which the risks of both respiratory illness and radon-induced lung cancer are eliminated.

Documentary Film: AFTER INNOCENCE

Date: 
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:15pm
Location: 
Revolution Books - 146 W. 26th St., NY, NY
Contact: 

Dan, 347-886-3815

On Monday, May 6th, Revolution Books will screen AFTER INNOCENCE, a documentary film that follows wrongfully convicted men who were later exonerated through the use of DNA evidence after spending decades in prison. AFTER INNOCENCE won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. Producer Marc Simon will participate in a Q&A panel discussion after the screening.

RESISTANCE CINEMA Presents "THE INVISIBLE WAR"

Date: 
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 1:15pm
Location: 
COMmunity Church NY Gallery Room 28 East 35th St.

RESISTANCE CINEMA
Presents
“THE INVISIBLE WAR”

Sunday April 28th, 1:15 pm
Community Church NY Gallery Room 28 East 35th St. btwn Park & Madison Aves.
Admission Free, donations appreciated

Screening: "After Innocence" + Q&A with producer Marc Simon

Date: 
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street
Contact: 

Screening of the film “After Innocence”
+ Q&A with producer Marc Simon
+ other guests TBA

PAMELA OLSON: “Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland” A conversation about her new book

Date: 
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 
Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street
Contact: 

A conversation with PAMELA OLSON about her new book
“Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland”

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