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Dave Chapelle is Back?

Chappelle Performance
Come watch Dave Chappelle perform for a fund raiser for Kevin Powell, a democrat running for Brooklyn’s 10th congressional district, as a part of the movement to laugh George Bush out of office and elect new leaders.
@ Eugene – 33 W. 24 Street (map)
Start: 7:00pm Wednesday, July 9th

Cool Party w/ Proceeds to Obama

Red, White, and Green
Tonight, Move Forward Music presents this awesome hip-hop party to kick-off Independence Day weekend, with part of the proceeds from all live performances going to the Barack Obama campaign. Featured in the show are Def Squad rapper, Keith Murray, James Watts, and many more, in addition, the entire show will be hosted by DJ Peter Rosenberg from Hot 97.
Where: The Knitting Factory
Time: 8:00 pm Thursday, July 3rd

Barack is back!...

A Special Evening with Senator Barack Obama

Generation Barack Obama is presenting a special evening with Senator Barack Obama in New York. This event will be the largest fundraising rally to date for the 2008 presidential election. Over 3,000 people are anticipated in attendance at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday, June 22nd. Various ticket levels will allow general admission as well as preferred seating with the opportunity to attend a pre-reception with Senator Obama. Generation Barack Obama is a group of young professionals (ages 25-40) across America that wants to take an active role in changing their country for the better.

Hammerstein Ballroom
311 W. 34th St.
Manhattan, NY
Price Ranges: $100 general admission, $250 premium balcony seating, $500 private VIP reception with Senator. To purchase tickets go to https://my.barackobama.com/gbonyc

anti-torture play

2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Amateur actors and activists stage anti-torture play in front of the Times Square Military Recruiting Station.

(good times -ed)

Move On Rocks The Veto

6PM

MoveOn.org members rally against veto of the Iraq troop withdrawal bill; Union Square, Broadway and 14th Street.

Hillary R Clinton, Ya'll

5PM
Senator Chuck Schumer with a Special Appearance by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
92 St Y
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Lexington Ave at 92nd St
$25

”Chuck” Schumer & Hillary R Clinton get down tonight at the 92nd St Y. Not that way. [uncool kids]

Post-Millenial Black Madonna

6-9PM
Postmillenial Black Madonna
@ Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn!
Free

If it is the artist's role to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled, then the Black Madonna may be considered the artist's patron saint. Be among the first to experience Paradise, part one of the Post-Millenial Black Madonna exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts tonight for an evening of art and live poetry as performed by an all-star team of young poets from UrbanWord NYC. Light refreshments and drinks will be served.

Absurdistan

7PM
The Writers Studio presents Gary Shteyngart
@ Housing Works Bookstore Café
126 Crosby St b/w Houston and Prince
212-334-3324

Gary Shteyngart appears at Housing Works to discuss his most recent novel, Absurdistan. Misha, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, buys a passport in Absurdistan in an attempt to return to his beloved adopted home - the USA. Hilarity ensues. Absurdistan was a national bestseller, one of The New York Times Best Books of 2006, and named a best book of the year by Time Magazine and The Washington Post.

Radical Living Papers

6PM
Radical Living Papers
@ Passerby
436 W 15th St
212-627-5258

A history of the free, alternative, counter-culture and underground press (1965-75) curated by Eva Prinz, Dan Donahue, and Thurston Moore.

Kamp Katrina

7PM
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series: Kamp Katrina
@ Barbes
376 9th St @ 6th Ave
Park Slope, BK

The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series screens the first and third Monday of every month at Barbes, in Park Slope. This week they show Kamp Katrina, a cinema verite documentary about the colorful eccentric Miss Pearl who attempts to provide safe harbor to displaced residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Kamp Katrina is followed by the screening of two short films about post-Katrina New Orleans.

Death of a President

6:30PM
Death of a President
@ Pioneer Theatre
E 3rd Street, b/w Aves A & B
212-591-0434
$10

Celebrate President's Day by watching a fictionalized documentary on the assasination of our beloved George W. Bush on October 19, 2007. Whether "despicable" (Hilary Clinton) and "tasteless" (NPR) or "breathtakingly original" (Toronto Film Festival) - no one will argue that the film is not provocative.

African Diaspora Film Festival

2PM, 4:30PM, 6:50PM, 9:15PM
The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
718-636-4100
$10 per film

Catch the best films produced by the African diaspora - films produced by artists of African descent - at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through February 21st. This afternoon enjoy beautiful films about the Masai of Kenya, one of the seminal figures in the postcolonial studies, the 19th century Malcolm X, the legal implications of reparations or a young boy's journey to literacy. All films are with English subtitles or in English. A party follows the last film of the day. Read more on the film festival here.

Bamako

1:30PM, 4:00PM, 7:20PM, 9:40PM
Bamako
@ Film Forum
209 W Houston b/w 6th Ave & Varick
$10.50

Critics are praising the vibrantly beautiful Bamako for its ability to explore African debt and the International Monetary Fund while maintaining a pleasant focus on Malian daily life. If that ain't enough to sell you, how about this: Danny Glover. (118 mins)

Who Killed the Electric Car?

8PM
Movie Night: Who Killed the Electric Car?
@ Time's Up! Space
49 East Houston Street

Who Killed the Electric Car? is the 2006 documentary film exploring the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology. So, who, really, killed the electric car? Take a wild guess.

Bring a White Girl Night

10PM
Bring a White Girl Night
@ APT, downstairs
419 W 13th St
$6

DJ/producer Prince Paul (Handsome Boy Modeling School, De La Soul) hosts DJs that make you say TGIM. In commemoration of Black History Month and to promote racial harmony, Prince Paul’s Monday Night Ill-Out at APT brings you Bring a White Girl night. That's right. Women and men of any race, feel free to bring along a white girl of your own for the same savings at the door before midnight.

John Oliver at Comix

8PM, 10:30PM
John Oliver
@ Comix
353 W 14th St
212-524-2500
$20

John Oliver, hilarious correspondent on The Daily Show, delivers cerebral and uncompromising material confronting the most surprising subjects, from politics to penguins, in his original style that proves it is possible to be hilarious and thought provoking in equal measure.

Operation Homecoming

8PM
Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience
@ Film Forum
209 West Houston Street
$10.50

Robert Duvall, Beau Bridges, and Aaron Eckhart help bring the powerful accounts of men and woman serving overseas to the screen. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, the film offers a personal and human side to the remote images and cold statistics of the war permeating today’s media. Filmmaker Richard Robbins is on hand at the 8PM show to discuss the film.

Can Women Think???

2-4:30PM
The Controversy About Women in Science: A Sober Look
Columbia University
The Heyman Center
116th St and Broadway

Remember when Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard, made those comments questioning women's abilities in the sciences? And then everybody got their panties in a bunch? And then he resigned? That was fun. Hear more about this controversial issue from Virginia Valian of Hunger College. A Panel discussion will follow.

Ralph Nader in Person

4:45PM, 7:20PM, 9:55PM
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man
@ IFC Center
323 6th Ave
212-924-7771
$11.00

Come tell Ralph Nader what you think of him at the opening of what The New Yorker calls a "fascinating documentary portrait", An Unreasonable Man. The only available showing left is at 9:55PM, so snatch up tickets soon!

Terry McAuliffe

Terry McAuliffe
@ Barnes & Noble - Union Square
33 E 17th St b/w Broadway and Park Ave

Time to wonk out: former Democratic National Committee chair and fiery fundraiser Terry McAuliffe reads from his new memoir, What a Party!: My Life among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals.

Drinking Liberally

7:30PM
Drinking Liberally
@ Commonwealth
497 5th Ave at 12th St, Brooklyn
Free

"Promoting democracy one pint at a time."

War, Journalism, and the Mid-East

7PM
Robert Fisk
@ New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th St
212-874-5210 ext. 144

Robert Fisk is the author of The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. In conjunction with his talk, On War, the Middle East, and Journalism.

Street Space

6-8PM
Enrique Penelosa
@ Union Square Ballroom
27 Union Square West
$45

Enrique Penelosa, former mayor of Bogota, speaks about what happens when you give street space back to people. This poses a good question considering we live in NYC, the most compacted place on earth. Tonight, think about that while you enjoy beer, wine and light hors d'oeuvres.

Greene Dragon

2PM Greene Dragon
Stop by for a mock dethroning of a
look-alike President Bush puppet
by the Anti-Bush street theater group Greene Dragon
Washington statue in Union Square.

RNC in NYC

8AM Republican National Convention
GOP/Madison Square Garden
1.212-356-2004

In case you have been under a rock the
Republican presidential nominating convention
takes place in NYC this week.
(Stay very far away - ed)

Go deeper check out ny mags
convention page
We would have put together a comprehensive guide to this
but the whole thing sucks so why in W's name would we -ed)

America 2014: An Orwellian Tale

4PM America 2014: An Orwellian Tale
The short guerilla theater action with author Jonathan Greenberg's
reading of the satirically-revised Patriotic Citizen's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; Bethesda Fountain, Central Park.
(reading is at 5pm)

RNC NYC Tours

8AM-5PM RNC NYC Tours -
All tours start and finish @ NYC & Company
Visitor Information Center 810 Seventh Avenue
b/t 52nd + 53rd streets.

Downtown for Democracy

9PM Volume, Downtown for Democracy
and Vice Magazine present Deficit Disorder:
10 bands playing 10 minute sets Rogers Sisters,
Branca-Bloor Downtown for Democracy
Volume 99 N. 13th St. - Williamsburg $15

The Concert for John Kerry

7PM John Kerry for President / The Concert for John Kerry

Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Whoopi Goldberg, Wyclef Jean,
Dave Matthews Band and John Mellencamp.

Reception and Dinner @ Radio City Music Hall

Info: 1-212-213-0220 $5,000-$25,000;
Ticketmaster for lower priced performance only tickets

Unrelated - Grassroots shows.
ConcertsForKerry.org

RNC Related

As the nyc hot summer aura fades from grace to the impending
doom of an city that will be, well.., bright and loud. Sans
the two past major nyc uniting incidents, this one seems to
have most of the city unified again. Another sense of pride
outrage, a nyc sense of not in my house starts to grow in the city.
I can't wait to be out of town.

Ring Out

Light Up The Sky

Kerry RCMH Show

The Dave Matthews Band + Mary J. Blige + John Mellencamp,
Jon Bon Jovi + Wyclef Jean will perform on July 8th at the NYC
Concert benefiting the "Kerry Victory Committee 2004" at Radio City
Music Hall.

In New York, designated sections of Radio City Music Hall
will be open to the general public for the event. Tickets are
now on sale for $250 and $500. Ticketmaster at (212) 307-7171

Political Party

5/24
Where agitators and culture-shapers converge.
New York artists and activists are beginning their
resistance to the upcoming Republican convention.

Designed to represent the interior of the Senate
Chamber, the show includes the work of more
than 40 political artists from around the country.

Majority Whipped envisions the next degree of
political art show: the gallery walls turned inside
out, the whole city a gallery of creative resistance.

@ White Box Gallery
525 West 26th St.
6-8:30p; $free

The Billionaire's Ball: A Spring Bling K’Ching Thing

8PM-4AM

Three full floors of DJ's, bands, stand-up, performance,
great eats & drinks, and a fabulous silent auction of
non-NEA funded artwork.

Entertainment includes: Billionaire Follies, Late Nite Players,
and many more very special surprise guests!
RSVP recommended: ball@billionairesforbush.com

Billionaires for Bush is a do-it-yourself street theater
and media campaign that uses humor to flush out
the truth about the Bush administration's disastrous
economic policies. Billionaires for Bush is organized
as an independent 527 PAC, with headquarters in NYC
and 38 chapters nationwide.

City Stage 435 W 19th St.
$20, limited tickets available for $15

Citzenchange Fundraiser

5/12
CitizenChange presents a rollicking live auction and rock
show to raise money to help defeat George W. Bush this year.
The auction will be called by certified auctioneer Lulu
Savage and includes items such as tattoo work, guitar
lessons from local music heroes, yoga classes, designer
clothes, dinners, a guided sailing trip around Raritan Bay
& more.

The evening features musical sets by Nada Surf (acoustic),
Northern State, Matty Charles & the Valentines, Jason
Trachtenburg with special appearance by the Trachtenburg
Family Slideshow Players, & other special guests.

@ Northsix
66 North 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
7p doors, show; $20 and includes entry into a raffle.
Proceeds from the event will support John Kerry for
President, voter registration program Swing State
Summer Break and other electoral organizations.

NoRNC Training Working Group

3pm
The second Saturday of every month the NoRNC
will gather to create a regular forum for discussion
& training in direct action.

RNC Clearinghouse Meeting

7-9pm
RNC Clearinghouse Meeting to discuss working groups.
@ St. Mark's Church
2nd Ave. @ 10th St.

Reclaim the Streets Rant Off

Feeling the need to vent those built up opinions on
all the things that are bothing you in the world, NYC,
your life?
Head to KGB Bar and pay $1 a minute to let it all out.
3 min. max.
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.
7pm

Where's My Democracy?

Presented by Downtown for Democracy;
readings @ the Great Hall.
3/25
Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St. @ 3rd Ave.
Reading 1: 6:30 - 8pm
Reading 2: 9 - 10pm
$50

Daschle Book Signing

Senate Majority Leader Senator Tom Daschle
signs copies of his book "Like No Other Time."
Barnes and Noble, 600 Fifth Avenue at 48th Street
1:00 p.m.