Upcoming Events

Tuesday, January 20 – Film Night

Terrorizing Dissent – a documentary about police repression at the Republican National Convention in 2008.

7:30pm – $3 suggested donation
Division Avenue Arts Cooperative 115 S Division

SPANISH CLASSES @ The Bloom Collective

Every Wednesday, 6:30 – 8pm

*Starting February 4

Free and open to everyone!

Sessions will focus on politics, social movements & current events taken from the latest local & international Spanish-language news. These are informal classes for anyone, regardless of any background in Spanish. Feel free to join us any Wednesday! Starting whenever you can, for as many weeks as you like.

For more information, email JohnKroondyk@gmail.com or call (616) 460-0528

Empowering Women’s Health: a One Day Workshop
March 7, 2009

Presentations and discussions around how women can take charge of their bodies through natural modalities, education and an empowered stance in traditional healthcare settings. More details coming soon!

New Materials

Books

• Abolition Now: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against The Prison Industrial Complex

• Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Crisis

• The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal

• The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

• He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

• Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Towards Social Justice

• Columbus and Other Cannibals

DVDs

• The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships

• Generation M: Misogyny in Media Culture

• Chomsky on Anarchism

Zines

• Cracking the System

• Using Space

• Living Without Permission

New 2009 Hours at the Bloom

• Monday 4 – 7pm

• Tuesday 4 – 7pm

• Wednesday 9am – 1pm

• Thursday 1 – 5pm

• Friday 1 – 5pm

• Saturday 1 – 5pm

Looking for resources at the Bloom Collective on Israel/Palestine? We have lots of stuff.

Books

• Live From Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation

• Dishonest Broker: The US Role in Israel and Palestine

• The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid

• Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State

• Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948

DVDs

• People and the Land

• Occupation 101

• Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Interested in Volunteering with the Bloom Collective? Contact us at bloom AT mediamouse.or