IOWA
Des Moines
Celebrate the Publication of Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs. Meeting for the Pathfinder Fund.
Speakers: Lawrence Mikesh, Young Socialists, member, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 in S. Paul; Joanne Murphy, volunteer with Pathfinder Reprint Project.
Sun., May 27. 4:00 p.m. dinner, 5:00 p.m. program.
3720 6th Avenue, Des Moines. Tel: (515) 288-2970.

ILLINOIS
Chicago
Stand Up to Police Brutality.
Speakers: Patty Love, mother of Robert Russ, murdered by Chicago police
in 1999; John Whitfield, member, Chicago Teachers Union, taking on the
cops who roughed up his son; Mary Johnson, long-time activist in fight
against police brutality and death penalty; Arrin Hawkins, Young
Socialists, meatpacker and member of United Food and Commercial Workers
Union.
Sun., May 27, 4:00 p.m. reception, 3:00 p.m. program.
1212 N. Ashland, 2nd Floor.
Donation: $5. Tel: (773) 342-1780.

AUSTRALIA
Sydney
East Timor: Canberra's Complicity in War Crimes Exposed.
Speaker: Ron Poulsen, Communist League, member, Maritime Union of Australia. Showing of SBS Dateline program on September 1999 massacres of East Timorese independence supporters.
Sun., May 27, 4:00 p.m. Donation: $4.
176 Redfern St., Redfern, 1st floor. Tel: 9690 1533

NEW ZEALAND
Christchurch
Oppose U.S. Anti-China Military Drive!
Sat. May 26, 7:00 p.m.
Gloucester Arcade, 129 Gloucester St.
Donation: $3. Tel: (3) 365 6055.

CANADA
Montreal
Quebec Government Scapegoats Immigrant Workers for Health-care Crisis,
Denies Health Insurance to Recent Immigrants.
Sun., May 26, 4:30 p.m.
4613 St-Laurent. Tel: (514) 284-7369.