A corrected announcement from the folks at CAPES, sigh: (For those joining in late, we're an advocacy group with the mission of discussing, disseminating and developing "Parecon", Participatory Economics, a sane and democratic alternative to capitalism and other previously attempted models, a visionary but meticulously formulated answer both to the tyranny of managers and to the incalculable battlefield carnage of market allocation. . . . But we’re not writing about all of that now, but instead about this Wednesday and the one two weeks after.) This Wednesday is the second one of the month, so it's our monthly Wednesday (Oct 11th, to be clear) to meet and plot ParEcon and its realization. We meet at Gourmand Café, 728 S. Dearborn, from 6:30pm til 8 or so. First, please bring your curiosity, questions, and complaints about Participatory Economics, for never-less-than-animated discussion. Then we've got some events to plan, to include several workshops, both scheduled and soon-to-be, perhaps including our long-pondered "Solidarity Poker Party," plus our ongoing semi-spontaneous campaign of flyering and yammering on at favorable occasions and locales about our fair city. Also: we've been in communication with Parecon co-creator, Michael Albert and will likely be going over his (quite impassioned) responses to our Parecon presentation syllabus. There'll be tater tots, beer, and participatory self-management, what more do you want? Then, two weeks after, the intrepid anticapitalist visionaries of the "49th Street Underground" www.49underground.org are trekking up from their Hyde Park lairs to join with us for a discussion of the model and its competitors starting point are two brief essays on our website, one by Stephen Shalom ( www.chicagoparecon.org/node/300) and one in response (www.chicagoparecon.org/node/301) by Robin Hahnel. Taken together, that's the length of a reasonable-sized book chapter, and they're good. Start reading now, and if you don't finish, come by anyway, because we like you. No, not you (hang on, I'm talking to that other jerk reading this) you. You should come. And that other guy too, what the hell. To sum up: This Wednesday October 11th CAPES monthly meeting That Wednesday October 25th Discussion with our friends at the "49th Street Underground" Both events happen 6:30pm at Gourmand Café, 728 S. Dearborn. Okay. CAPES www.chicagoparecon.org