Wednesday, April 21, 7pm - Author Presentation and Book Signing
Author Jonathan Metzl will speak about his new book
THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS:
How Schizophrenia Became a
Black Disease
Jonathan Metzl is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also authored Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs.
In the 1960s, the psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia morphed from a malady suffered by sensitive white intellectuals to one of disaffected, angry black men. Psychiatric professor Metzl explores changes in the profession from the 1920s to today but focuses particularly on the 1960s, which saw violent protests against racial discrimination. Metzl details the social, political, and cultural influences behind debates within the profession about what constituted mental illness. Drawing on case studies from Michigan's now-defunct Asylum for Insane Criminals in Ionia, 130 miles from racially volatile Detroit, Metzl illustrates how schizophrenia became a racialized disease. He analyzes black cultural allusions to double consciousness, from W. E. B. DuBois to modern-day rappers who have adapted notions of schizophrenia in response to American racism or as a social diagnosis of white America itself. --Vanessa Bush - Booklist
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Sunday April 25, 4pm Discussion and Planning session for Revolutionary May 1st 1103 N Ashland "The Revolution We Need... 
The Leadership We Have" May 1, 2010 -- Push Out Big with the Campaign May 1 is the revolutionary holiday. May 1 is the day when people come together, around this tortured planet, and declare their determination to end exploitation and all forms of oppression. It is the day when they state their aim to unite millions to overthrow this system, to bring to an end the ruling state power of this system that maintains and feeds off exploitation and oppression -- and bring into being a radically new state power, working to end all forms of this oppression. And to do that as soon as conditions allow. It is a day when the revolutionary movement of today reaches out, boldly, to awaken and bring forward those who have not yet heard of this vision and this goal.
This year, on May 1, we call on people around the U.S. to find the ways to mark this revolutionary holiday with the spirit and determination it must really symbolize. In particular, we call on people to use May 1 to make a further advance in the Revolutionary Communist Party's campaign to let people know what communist revolution is really all about... to get them acquainted with the leadership of this revolution, Bob Avakian and the RCP, USA which he leads... and to draw them into this movement. May 1 should be out in the streets and neighborhoods-centered around massive distribution of the RCP's message and call to the millions who don't yet know about this revolution -- "The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have." Our special May 1 issue -- coming out on April 26 -- will carry this call, along with other materials that highlight the themes of May 1.
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Call 773.489.0930 for more information
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Saturday April 24th, 3pm Special Film Screening
featuring Paleontologist Paul Sereno Presented At the Chopin Theater 1543 West Division St, Chicago  Film Screening, Presentation and Q&A A fundraising collaboration with
Project Exploration and Revolution Books
Suggested Donation - Adults $10, students are free
In this recent film from National Geographic, paleontologist Paul Sereno introduces five new species of crocodiles that lived amongst - and even hunted - dinosaurs in Cretaceous Africa. The diverse lifestyles of these bizarre animals shed new light on the evolution of crocodiles. Sereno contrasts the ecological roles of modern and ancient crocs and explores the amazing common adaptations that have allowed crocs to survive successfully for 200 million years. When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs depicts the science as well as the process behind the discovery. Sereno's team used an array of scientific and artistic methods to bring their dynamic story to both an academic and a general audience. In addition to examining the fossil record, Sereno and his colleagues observed, filmed, and dissected modern crocodiles to understand their design and physiology. Computer tomography revealed the braincase and other internal structures of the skull. Cutting-edge artists brought the extinct crocs to life through illustration, flesh modeling, and computer animation. The resulting 144 page publication and full-length National Geographic film, released simultaneously in November 2009, have received acclaim and interest from scientists and enthusiasts around the world. read more... at PROJECT EXPLORATIONS
"I see paleontology as 'adventure with a purpose.' How else to describe a science that allows you to romp in remote corners of the globe, resurrecting gargantuan creatures that have never been seen? And the trick to big fossil finds? You've got to be able to go where no one has gone before." - Paul Sereno
In 1999 Sereno co-founded Project Exploration, a nonprofit science education organization that makes science accessible to the public-especially minority youth and girls-through personalized experiences with scientists and science. Project Exploration involves the public in the excitement of scientific discovery.
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| Just In!! - View Clips from Sunsara Taylor's National Tour
"From the Burkha to the Thong, Everything Must, And Can, Change-- WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"
Click here for her blog and view excerpts from the tour stop Q&A in Berkeley, California on March 15, 2010
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| Recommended Books and More
The Revolution We Need...
The Leadership We Have
A Message and A Call from the
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
from Revolution newspaper
(read more)
A DECLARATION:For Women's Liberation
And The Emancipation
Of All Humanity
Special Reprint from
Revolution newspaper (read more)
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International Women's Day 2010
T-Shirt - all sizes $20
[Front view][Back view - in
English, Farsi
and Spanish]
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FOREST GATE
by Peter Akinti
Set in London, Somalia and Brazil, Peter Akinti's debut is a beautifully wrought, profoundly affecting and sometimes violent novel rich in the true history of our time. As he confronts the daily trauma that confronts teenagers brought together from all over the world to London, Akinti's writing radiates honesty, an uncompromising clarity, and a refreshingly original voice. (read more)
JUST KIDS
by Patti Smith
Patti Smith's first book of prose, the
legendary American artist offers
a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable
relationship with photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of
New York City and the Chelsea Hotel
in the late sixties and seventies.
(read more)
 Why Evolution IS True
by Jerry Coyne
...a succinct and accessible summary of the facts supporting Darwinian evolution. Scientists today are finding species splitting in two, observing natural selection changing animals and plants before our eyes, and discovering more and more fossils capturing change in the past-dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs. Jerry Coyne eloquently shows that evolution does not destroy the beauty of life but enhances it.(read more)
Of Primeval Steps & Futu re LeapsAn Essay on the Emergence of HumanBeings, the Source of Women's Oppression, and the Road to Emancipationby Ardea Skybreak |
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