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« Tuesday March 11, 2008 »
Tue
Start: 16:00
End: 16:00

Call to Action Against the G8 Summit
Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to
Climate Change

The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido,
Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation
meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various
Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social
movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor,
fisherfolks and civil society from all over the world who are resisting

Start: 06:30
End: 08:30

Slavoj Žižek --- "RESIST, ATTACK, UNDERMINE... WHERE ARE WE 40 YEARS AFTER '68"
Tuesday, March 11th 6:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th street)
Proshansky Auditorium
[B, D, F, V, N, R, Q to 34th St.-Herald Sq.; #6 to 33rd St.; #2, 3 to 34th St. (at 7th Ave) --t.]

"Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." -New Yorker

"Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism." -The Times

Start: 19:00
End: 21:00

Join Queers for Economic Justice, and our Beyond Marriage project, as we support this important book.

Nancy Polikoff discusses and signs her book:
BEYOND (STRAIGHT AND GAY) MARRIAGE: VALUING ALL FAMILIES UNDER THE LAW
The First Title In The Beacon Press Queer Ideas Series

MARCH 11, 2008
RECEPTION 6:00 PM, PROGRAM 7:00 PM
LGBT CENTER, 208 W. 13TH ST. http://www.gaycenter.org/about/location
NEW YORK CITY
212-620-7310

Gay rights activist and American University law professor Nancy Polikoff writes that "marriage as a family form is not more important or valuable than other forms of family, so the law should not give it more value." She criticizes the conservative "marriage movement" for blaming all social problems on the decline of life-long heterosexual marriage.

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