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Events for July 2009
Tuesday Jul 7, 7PM @ 2640 : Free School Pilot Session Kick-Off
We'll be posting the schedule for the summer pilot session of the Baltimore Free School on the website soon, but in the meantime, we wanted to let you know about the kick-off reception we're hosting at 2640 the week before classes get started. Come for some informal updates about the progress of the Free School project, as well as to meet the teachers who'll be organizing the first round of classes. 
Wednesday Jul 8, 7:30PM @ Red Emma's : An open information session on RESIST!
Did you know that your project might be eligible for an activist-oriented community micro-grant? Come on out to Red Emma's on July 8 to find out how you can apply for - and maybe even get - a grant designed especially for grassroots community activism. Robin Carton, the director of grantmaking at the RESIST foundation, will speak on funding, education, and community activism, and talk over the details of applying for activism grants. RESIST, in case you don't know, is a radical grantmaking foundation based on Boston that's been funding grassroots organizations and making activist projects possible since 1967! It's a fantastic resource for anyone working on community organizing, both in terms of getting funding and thinking through the ways to support a grassroots project. The event is organized and sponsored by the newly-revamped Research Associates Foundation, a Baltimore-based activist non-profit that founded the Progressive Action Center many years ago, and that's now starting a Baltimore-specific community micro-grants program to fund and facilitate activist projects in our city! Come on our and find out more about the new RAF grants, and the RESIST grants - two possible sources of funding in one night, how could you go wrong?!
Thursday Jul 9, 8PM @ Red Emma's : "Live Nude Girls Unite!"
Red Emma’s Summer Screening Series continues on Thursday, July 9th, 2009, at 8pm. We’ll be sitting down, eating some popcorn, and watching the documentary, “Live Nude Girls Unite!” “Live Nude Girls Unite!” is a brave documentary about union organizing. However, it’s a unique spin on your usual labor film (in a completely rad way!)- for, this film is a first-hand account of the dancers at The Lusty Lady who formed the only union of strippers in the entire United States. Julie Query, an activist and one of the dancers, films the disenfranchising of the dancers, their struggle to bring equality into the workplace, and their eventual success! It is an extremely clever, playful,provocative, wise, and inspiring film that examines worker rights, sex worker rights, and makes powerful arguments for equality- be it, for worker equality, gender equality, or racial equality--in honest and unpretentious ways. We’re also thrilled to announce that the great folks over at Sugar (http://www.sugartheshop.com/) are our co-sponsors for this particular screening. We hope you’ll not only come out to watch the film but also to come hear about the great work that our friends over at Sugar, the self-described, “.. lesbian owned, women and trans operated, for profit, mission driven sex store,” are up to these days. Then hopefully we can engage in a bit of discussion on Sugar and their work, “Live Nude Girls Unite!”, and anything that fits your fancy. Come out for the second night of our summer screening series! You won’t be disappointed!
Thursday Jul 16, 7PM @ 2640 : The Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army
The cutthroat revolutionary puppeteers of The Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army (a three-or-four-member troupe from Carrboro, North Carolina) are going on a one month tour to help do their part to overthrow the ruling social order. They bring with them several fine original puppet parables, plus remixes of a few—er—"standards," including:
• Donny Don’t—A puppet show about security culture
• Jack and the Beanstalk—A dramatic anti-capitalist retelling of the old fairy tale
• Little Red Riding Hood—An animal-centric look at a familiar story
• The Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army’s Guide To Landing Your Dream Job—Practical tips for weathering the storm in these trying times of economic crisis
zero to ten dollars, sliding scale.
Thursday Jul 16, 8PM @ Red Emma's : "Standing with Palestine"
Red Emma's Summer Screening Series continues on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 8pm. We will be watching the film Standing with Palestine.
We're proud to say that B'more for Palestine are our co-sponsors for the screening. When you come to the screening not only will you see a great documentary, you will also hear about the great work that B'more for Palestine does constantly around town and participate in discussion about the film, Palestine, activism,and so forth. To learn more about our co-sponsors, please visit: http://baltimorepalestine.org/
Made in 2003, Standing With Palestine looks at the growing grassroots movement in the United States in support of the Palestinian people and against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Through interviews with activists, the video shows how many Americans are no longer accepting the traditional views and official policies that have contributed to, if not caused, the worsening situation in the Middle East.
Come for discussion.
Come for a night of film.
Come to stand in solidarity.
Light refreshments will be provided. No fee, we simply hope for your presence.
Thursday Jul 23, 8PM @ Red Emma's : A Night of Film with The Starbucks Workers Union and the Baltimore IWW
The summer screening series continues with…
Have you ever left a job because your boss made your life miserable? Have you ever gone home feeling tired and beat up from work? Did you feel this way because you thought you couldn't do anything about it?
Well, you can do something about it - FIRE YOUR BOSS!
The Starbucks Workers Union is working to fire their bosses and take control of their jobs!
On Thursday, July 23,at 8pm, the Starbucks Workers Union, in collaboration with Red Emma's and the Baltimore IWW, will be screening three short documentaries. These documentaries, including “Together We Win: The Fight to Organize Starbucks”, feature all the different ways the union is organizing to fire the bosses of Starbucks. These efforts are so that the workers can have the dignity and the power that all workers deserve on the shop floor.
For this screening, Red Emma’s and the Baltimore IWW, are very proud to be hosting some of the organizers of the Starbucks Workers Union. They will be here to not only discuss the campaign and what you see in the film, but also to share their personal insights into the efforts, facilitate discussion about union organizing (and all things related), and to give direct responses to whatever questions you may have.
We hope you will join us for what promises to be an empowering, frank, and thought-provoking evening.
Thursday Jul 30, 8PM @ Red Emma's : Summer Screening Series continues with "Winter Soldier"
July is drawing to a close but here at Red Emma's we're still rolling out with great films. We hope you'll join us, on these Baltimore summer nights, for more of our Summer Screening Series!
This Thursday, we continue with the documentary Winter Soldier.
The film...
January 31, 1971. More than 125 Vietnam veterans, representing every major combat unit to see action in the war, gathered at a Howard Johnson's hotel in Detroit to heal a nation ... and themselves. They risked everything - their careers, their friendships, their families - to talk about the atrocities they had committed or witnessed in the presence of officers while stationed in Vietnam. These veterans saw themselves as winter soldiers battling against the wrongs of the war and the brutal training that had made them capable of unthinkable violence. Eighteen filmmakers calling themselves the Winterfilm Collective - including Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA), Robert Fiore (Pumping Iron) and Lucy Massie Phenix (You Got to Move) - captured this extraordinary event. Rarely seen since its 1972 Cannes premiere, Winter Soldier has been called one of the most powerful anti-war films ever made and remains to this day a remarkable plea for peace. Bonus features include a conversation with the film-makers, several shorts from 1971, the making of Winter Soldier and a stills gallery from the original negatives of Vietnam Veterans Against The War phtotographer Sheldon Ramsdell.
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