Friday 11/1 – Thursday 11/7
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2 SATURDAY The mainstream media hasn’t examined the agenda behind post-9/11 changes to laws regarding our civil liberties, and this failure is the subject of today’s CMW conference, Propaganda: War, Terror & U.S. Empire. Speakers include locals like UIC education professor Bill Ayers and David Schippers, the attorney representing FBI whistleblower Robert Wright (who was told to stop discussing terrorist cells and 9/11), as well as folks like University of Massachusetts communications professor Sut Jhally, who’ll talk on “The Selling of Patriotism,” and Matthew Rothchild, editor of the Progressive, who’ll give the keynote address. The day wraps up with a panel discussion on media activism featuring many of the conference speakers. Admission is $35, $10 for students and others of limited means. Registration starts at 8:15 AM; the conference runs from 9 to 5:30 at Loyola University’s Crown Auditorium, 6525 N. Sheridan. For more information call 773-604-1910 or see www.chicagomediawatch.org.
DuSable Museum founder Margaret Burroughs, art collector and patron Ruth Horwich, building preservationist Marian Despres, sculptor Ruth Duckworth, and social psychologist and architect Doe Thornburg are among the ten octogenarian and nonagenarian movers and shakers who will discuss how living in Chicago has shaped their lives at today’s Chicago Humanities Festival panel “My Life in the City,” part of the festival’s “Growing Up Female” series. It’s from 10 to 11:30 at the Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N. Clark; tickets are $5. The Humanities Festival runs through November 10. For more information call 312-494-9509, go to www.chfestival.org, or see the festival schedule in Section Two.
5 TUESDAY Since 1998 the Chiapas Media Project, based in Chicago and Mexico, has provided video cameras to 47 communities in Chiapas and Guerrero and trained some 200 kids to use them. Twenty of the students now have the technical skills to teach others, which might allow the CMP volunteers to bow out of the endeavor by next year. The CMP will hold a benefit for the project tonight, where it’ll screen the videos Zapata’s Garden, Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s Indigenous Community Police, and Song of the Earth: Traditional Music From the Highlands of Chiapas; the films will be followed by a Q&A session with CMP director Alexandra Halkin and production coordinator Carlos Efrain Perez. It’s from 7 to 9 at HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo (312-362-9707), and admission is $3. For more information call 773-583-7728 or visit www.chiapasmediaproject.org.
