In an attempt to rise out of sweatshop conditions, workers have engaged in strikes and protests, and have filed lawsuits complaining of minimum wage and overtime violations. 24 workers from 2 wholesale warehouses in Brooklyn were fired in the past month in retaliation for their union membership and immigration status. Workers need your support as they struggle to enforce minimum wage and demand their right to organize regardless of immigration status.

Pizza and Peace - Tuesday 1/30 7:00 PM. March 19 Peace Actions Coalition Planning Meeting

Meet with representatives of other New York peace groups and activists planning a weekend of coordinated antiwar actions and events to protest the start of the 5th year of the Iraq War. We are working on our own actions - a large-scale Wall Street civil disobedience, a weekend of events and presentations at Judson Memorial Church, a bike for peace, an outdoor yoga meditation for peace, peace-themed musical programs at different venues - as well as coordinating and publicizing the actions of other groups.

CIVIL LIBERTIES ADVOCATES SPEAK OUT AGAINST NEW ASSEMBLY RULES, CITY COUNCILMEMBER MENDEZ VOWS TO REVERSE NYPD RULE CHANGE

What: Rally to Resist NYPD's New Public Gathering Rules
Who: Civil liberties organizations, City Councilmembers, bicycling advocates
Where: One Police Plaza
When: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 12:00 noon

At the meeting we will continue to plan for the US Social Forum, The Northeast Anarchist Consulta, local solidarity actions and solidarity actions with The Other Campaign.

International Martial Arts Center

Professor Chomsky will comment on and respond to Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in which Pinter excoriated the United States as being 'brutal, scornful and ruthless.' Professor Chomsky's lecture will be preceeded by a screening of Pinter's speech.

Wednesday, February 7th @ 7PM - Free
Release Party: Stephen Duncombe "Dream"

An electrifying new vision of progressive politics by Stephen Duncombe, "Dream:
Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy" is a twenty-first-century
manifesto for the left. How can we draw upon popular fantasies to create alternative
politics through imagination and spectacle? What practical lessons can we learn from
corporate theme parks, video games, celebrity culture and Las Vegas? Duncombe
proposes that popular fantasy can help us make a new political future possible.

Anarchist Soapbox Social
New York City, Feb. 9, 2007
Third Annual Soapbox Social
Fund-raising Dinner
for the Institute for Anarchist Studies
Friday, February 9, 2007,
7:30 p.m. at Alwan for the Arts,
16 Beaver St., 4th floor, New York City

Pizza and Peace
Tuesday 2/13 7:00 PM
March 19 Peace Actions Coalition Planning Meeting

Meet with representatives of other New York peace groups and activists planning a weekend of coordinated antiwar actions and events to protest the start of the 5th year of the Iraq War. We are working on our own actions - a large-scale Wall Street civil disobedience, a weekend of events and presentations at Judson Memorial Church, a bike for peace, an outdoor yoga meditation for peace, peace-themed musical programs at different venues - as well as coordinating and publicizing the actions of other groups.

"A New Political Alignment for Anarchism"

Sounds like an Anarchist Forum that most NYMAA folk would like to attend, especially since the Curious George Brigade will be facilitating the discussion. It's going to be Tuesday night (2/13)at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street and the details are below:

The IWW will be marching to END WAGE SLAVERY and to defend workers' right to organize on Monday February 19, 2007.
The march will begin at 10am and proceed through the industrial areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Ridgewood. More details to come.

Movement for Justice in El Barrio will present a New York city wide premiere of our all-new interview with Subcomandante Marcos! The interview includes a special message for historically marginalized peoples struggling for social justice, including women, gays, lesbians, transgendered and indigenous peoples and a special message to the Other Campaign in New York!

Seminar,
"May Day Becomes America’s Forgotten Holiday”
Donna Haverty-Stacke (Hunter College, CUNY)
With comment by Richard Greenwald (Drew University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Place: The Tamiment Library on the New York University Campus. The address is 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor (West 4th Street between LaGuardia and Greene Streets), New York, NY 10012.

Northeast Anarchist Consulta in Preparation for May Actions:

Calling All Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians,
Converge at the Northeast Anarchist Consulta this February 24th and 25th
to strategize and organize for a massive Week of Resistance this May, from
our participation in May Day (May 1st) and the movement for migrant
workers' rights to the Biotech Convention (coming to Boston May 6-9) and
the movement in defense of the earth.

4th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference, Saturday Feb 24th

"Media and Movements Beyond Borders"
Saturday February 24th, 2007
New School University
65 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street)

Fresh from the people's battle in Oaxaca, two
anti-authoritarian eyewitnesses will discuss what they
experienced on the ground as well as thoughts for
carrying the struggle forward. The pair's activities
centered on Santa Lucia del Camino, which was where
beloved journalist Brad Will was murdered. Footage of
the street battles in Oaxaca will be screened.