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Donnell Library, 20 W. 53rd St. SIBERIA, 356 W. 40th St. 212-621-0629 718-670-3707 [email protected] 7-10 p.m. • Free LADYFEST EAST KICKOFF WEDNESDAY OCT 27 Visual Art Gallery Opening (follow- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ing fashion & hip hop show $10). 2:30 p.m. • Free OFFICE OPS, 57 Thames St., Bklyn FILM: “SO YOU WANT TO BE ladyfesteast.org/schedule.html PRESIDENT” AND “WAG THE DOG” Part of the "So You Want to Be FRIDAY OCT 29 President" film series. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donnell Library, 20 W. 53rd St. 6:30 p.m. to midnight • $10 to $40 212-621-0618 RIPPLE EFFECT SALON BENEFIT FOR EAST AFRICA 6 p.m. • Free Silent auction, food, panel on DAVE AND CHRISTOPHER EGGERS, AIDS & poverty, films and per- AUTHORS OF “GIRAFFES? formance salon hosted by GIRAFFES! AND YOUR DISGUSTING Ugandan actor Patrick Ssenjovu. HEAD” Performers include playwritght New series of reference books Kia Corthron, actor Deanna aimed at children but filled with ludi- Pacelli, Rwandan musician Nepo crous misinformation. Accompanied YONI MISHAL Soteri, South African actor Lucky by discussion and booksigning. Ngema and poet Bassey Ikpi. Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St. Pace University Multi-purpose Room 212-803-5892 1 Pace Plaza (enter on Spruce St.) 6:30 p.m. • $10, call for reservation THE BURNING SEASON: SATURDAY OCT 30 THE MURDER OF CHICO MENDES ------------------------------------------------------------------ AND THE FIGHT FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL REALLY REALLY COMMUNITY FREE MARKET AMAZON RAIN FOREST CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. Special Halloween Extravaganza 212-817-8215 St. Marks Church 7 p.m. • $10 SUNDAY OCT 31 CALENDAR IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ART SPIEGELMAN IN DISCUSSION 5:30 p.m. • Free THE INDYPENDENT FINAL COUNT: HIP HOP, PRISON WITH CHIP KIDD WEAR PINK Hany Abu Assad, 90 min.). New School University, 66 W. 12th St. Join Code Pink, Rhythms of Resist- has open meetings every Tuesday Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St. AND THE NEW DEMOCRACY 212-265-2877 ance and others at the Halloween at 7p.m. at 34 E. 29th St., 2nd [email protected] CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. 212-817-8215 Parade to put out an anti-war, anti- floor. 7 p.m. • Free Bush agenda message. TUESDAY OCT 26 7 p.m. • $5 suggested donation READING: "DANGEROUS FAMILIES: 339 Lafayette St. Frank Reynoso -------------------------------------------------------------------- QUEER WRITING ON SURVIVING" FRIDAY OCT 22 FREE “FREE!” 6 p.m. • Free With Mattilda, Betsy Andrew and -------------------------------------------------------------------- Showing of “Green with a WEDNESDAY NOV 3 “PEACE UNDER FIRE: ISRAEL, Kate Huh. 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I ain’t regis- killed by law enforcement, and Tamiment Library, 10th Floor, cuss the horror of life under occu- 10 p.m.-12 am• Free 6 p.m. PHILADELPHIA—A few miles southeast of the wooded ridges of Valley Forge, tered. Been too busy being unem- since that day racial profiling has HUNGRY MARCH BAND VS. RUDE Bobst Library, NYU ployed,” says a man with faded pation, the brave actions of the IS THE PENTAGON HURTING OUR 212-998-8248 where George Washington’s army spent the bitter winter of 1777-78, lies the King expanded exponentially beyond ISM, and the future of the West MECHANICALS ORCHESTRA ECONOMY? skin and broken teeth, wearing a the Black and Latino communities Bank and Gaza Strip. Galapagos, 70 North 6th St. (btw. A World Policy Institute Forum. of Prussia Mall, the largest shopping complex in the world. The Philadelphia sub- red Rocawear sweatsuit. to target Arabs, Muslims and Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St. Wythe and Kent), Bklyn New School University, 66 W. 12 St. He is proving the point South Asians. A call is put out for 212-803-5892 212-229-5808 urbs that surround its halls of Eddie Bauer, Foot Locker, and smooth-jazz Muzak expressed by ACORN team participants to wear black. 7 p.m. • Free leader Kia James a few minutes Union Square rally at 4:00 p.m., are among the places that may decide the 2004 presidential election. followed by a march to Times Square earlier and a few blocks away, at 5:30 p.m. when she says, “A lot of people BY STEVEN WISHNIA “I’m still swinging,” says Mark Wensel, 45, are so disenfranchised they SATURDAY OCT 23 don’t miss an issue a salesman from Media at the King of Prussia don’t realize their vote counts. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ennsylvania voted for Reagan and Bush I Mall. He’s a registered Republican who turned They don’t see how anything will All day • Registration: $10 (for New in the ‘80s, but went for Clinton in the against the Iraq war when no weapons of mass change their lives.” Yorkers) or $5 (non-New Yorkers) SUBSCRIBE ‘90s. Al Gore won it by 220,000 votes in destruction were found, but dislikes Kerry, say- While officially nonpartisan, BUILDING A LEFT ALTERNATIVE TO P the community group is actively 2000, a margin of 50-46 percent. The conven- ing he “tells people what they want to hear.” A WORLD OF WAR AND POVERTY registering voters in Philadelphia’s East Coast Socialist Conference tional wisdom is that the state consists of His ultimate choice may be personal, “who Antrim Caskey “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh surrounded by would you rather have a beer with?” poorer neighborhoods, on the NAC Building, CUNY, 138th Street Barbara Nichter mulling the choices. grounds that getting people and Convent Avenue. TODAY Kentucky”; two big cities balanced by iso- Another undecided voter, Barbara Nichter, involved in the political process nesocialistconference.net lated, mountainous rural counties. 56, of Drexel Hill, repeatedly describes the cam- 44, of Philadelphia. She endorsed Kerry will increase their chances of Democrats, says state party director Don paign as “frustrating.” You don’t know what is months ago, she says, because Bush is using OCTOBER “The Indypendent combines the spirit of improving their housing and 2 p.m. • Free Morabito, rely on a “four corners strategy”: true and what is not true.” She voted for Bush in faith-based initiatives “to get out of helping BLUE DRESS WALK direct action with a searing critique of schools. “You get one neighbor- Slip on a blue dress. Meet at Philadelphia, which Gore carried by better 2000 and is leaning towards him. Though she inner cities,” because “I will never vote for a hood with 100 percent turnout 59th St. & 5th Ave. corporate power.” - Naomi Klein than 4-1 in 2000, along with Pittsburgh, Erie, works in health care and likes Kerry’s position, pro-life politician,” and because in Iraq, “if and one with 20 percent turnout, bluedresswalk.com and the old coal-and-steel areas of she feels that Bush is “a better commander-in- you’re making the wrong damn decision, how which one’s getting the funds?” Allentown/Bethlehem and Scranton/Wilkes- chief. We need to be aggressive.” is it admirable to stick with it?” James asks. 2-8:30 p.m. • $10 Bill me Check enclosed Barre, which Gore won narrowly in 2000. Nancy Perkins, 44, of King of Prussia, is also “Just not Bush,” says Ken Moore, 23, of With far fewer undecided vot- BAZAAR AND FILM SHOWINGS TO Meanwhile, Republicans try to maximize frustrated with the “accusations and innuen- Havertown, who says in the debates, Bush ers than usual, says Don SUPPORT "MADE IN PALESTINE" Name turnout in the rural areas and the Pennsylvania does.” She’s divided between supporting Bush “seemed to have no clue.” “Not Bush. The Morabito, the Democrats’ state ART EXHIBITION party director, the election is Bazaar featuring clothing, books, Dutch country around York and Lancaster, the on “the terrorism situation” and disagreeing other one,” echoes Helen Smith, 80, of Address most solidly Republican part of the Northeast, with him on social issues; she’s for abortion Conshohocken, who says she has to spend more “going to be about turning out housewares, Palestinian goods, the vote.” The party has 20,000 home decor, music and much where Bush won by a 2-1 margin in 2000. rights and says “if two people love each other, than $200 a month on medicine. volunteers, making more than more! All proceeds go directly to City State Zip The key to the state may be in the why shouldn’t they be able to get married?” She Two firm Bush supporters are Ryan and 100,000 phone calls a week, he support the "Made in Palestine" Philadelphia suburbs: Bucks, Delaware, Chester gently remonstrates with her 17-year-old Jessica Swailes, a pharmaceutical-salesperson art exhibition! E-Mail Phone adds.