STAGE
Playwright Readings
You â€" and every part of your opinionated self â€" can be heard tonight. Northwest Playwright Alliance allows you to be a part of the early stage of the artistic process by local playwrights. The program provides a format for local playwrights to have their plays read by actors and to receive feedback from the audience. Tonight, check out Play, by Dan Erickson, directed by Mary Ann Valentine; The Chore, by Nick Stokes, directed by Tim Hoban; Books on Tape, by William Missouri Down, directed by Jac Royce; The Home Front, by John Allis directed by Anders Bolang; and The Trip, by Richard Bliss, directed by Mays Salamah. â€" Suzy Stump
[Broadway Center Rehearsal Studio, 7 p.m., no cover, 915 Broadway, Tacoma, www.northwestplaywrights.org]

LECTURE
David Bacon
Reporter, writer and photographer David Bacon will speak on globalization and how it creates migration and criminalizes immigrants Monday, 7 p.m., at King’s Books. After bedpans, almost nothing is less sexy than migration. But, like bedpans, migrant workers put up with the sort of crap most of us would rather not deal with.

Bacon states, on truthout.org:

“Migrant Rights International estimates that over 170 million people today live outside of the countries in which they were born. They're not just moving from Mexico to the US, but from developing countries to developed ones all over the world.

“What do they find when they arrive with dreams of a better life?

“They become part of an immigrant workforce with conditions and wages at the bottom, denied the most basic rights â€" no unemployment insurance, no medical care, no social benefits of any kind. They have no right to a job. Not only can they be fired at a moment's notice, like most workers, but for them the very act of working is a crime. They are denied the right to be a resident of a stable community, to live here at all.” â€" Michael Swan
[King’s Books, 7 p.m., no cover, 218 Saint Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.8801]

LINK: Rockaraoke and more in the clubs tonight.
LINK: Check out a flick on local screens.
LINK: Let’s eat Japanese tonight.

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