Training day for volunteers participating in operation FIRST CASUALTY will be held in Astoria Park the afternoon of May 26th.
A handful of volunteers are still needed. If you have the time and inclination to be part of this innovative anti-war theater please contact Steve at youth@warresisters.org
Iraq Vets Against the War is organizing operation FIRST CASUALTY an anti-war street theater to take place on Sunday May 27. It's an ambitious plan which needs our help to succeed.
The NYMAA Reading Group will discuss Martha Ackelsberg's "Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women" on Thursday, May 31st at 6:30pm.
Location: Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow St. just below Houston. F Train to 2nd Ave., JMZ Trains to Essex/Delancey St.
To all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, believers in a better world:'
You are invited to the 3rd Gathering of Northeast Anarchists to Organise and Anti-Oppress! June 2-3, in Syracuse, New York, anarchists and anti-authoritarians from throughout the region (and those just passing through) will meet to take one more baby step toward the goal of a
functional regional network.
To all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, believers in a better world:'
You are invited to the 3rd Gathering of Northeast Anarchists to Organise and Anti-Oppress! June 2-3, in Syracuse, New York, anarchists and anti-authoritarians from throughout the region (and those just passing through) will meet to take one more baby step toward the goal of a
functional regional network.
Global Networks will be having a meeting Wed the 6th, 8:30pm at Odessa Cafe(Ave A between 6th and 7th Street...and Jonny Lox will be buying everyone chocolate cake!
Action Alert: March & Picket to demand Justice for fired IWW* Warehouse workers
In the courts and in the streets, the IWW Food and Allied Workers Union (IU460/640) is refusing to back down against EZ-Supply and Handyfat Trading's illegal union-busting. --- What: March from EZ-Supply (a.k.a. Sunrise Plus) to Handyfat, two Food Wholesale Warehouses that illegally fired 21 workers in December in retaliation for organizing a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). --- When: Saturday, June 9th 9:30am. --- Where: Starting Location: E-Z Supply, 48-01 Metropolitan Ave. Ridgewood, Queens 11385. (Just on the border of Ridgewood, Queens and Bushwick, Brooklyn). --- Directions by Subway – Take the L train to the Grand stop. Walk east on Grand (you will pass a tortilla factory and then a block later a gas station on your left). Walk over a bridge then veer slightly to the right on Metropolitan Ave. Walk on Metropolitan past a fork in the road for a total of 6 blocks until you reach EZ Supply on the left hand side of the street. A map is included below or see Mapquest.com if you need to.
Sunday, June 10th @ 7PM - $3 to $5 Suggested
Zine Extravaganza & Open Mic
Yes, yes, local zinesters are here and reading. We'll have Ayun Halliday with "East Village Inky", Josh with "Negative Capacity", Jenna Freedman with "Lower East Side Librarian", Evan Ginzburg with "Wrestling Then and Now", and Luke Romano with "Cracks in the Concrete". And yes, this is an open reading, so come give us 5 minutes of your best stuff!
--------------------------> The Habit of Freedom: Legacies of Paul Goodman The June Anarchist Forum >>>>On Tuesday, June 12, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forum will present a panel discussing the life, work and legacy of Paul Goodman. Goodman who lived from 1911 to 1972 is considered to have been a pacifist, anarchist, poet, and author of novels and plays. He has been called one of the most influential social critics of the 1960s. His famous
book “Growing Up Absurd” has been said to establish him as “the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s.” He organized against the Vietnam War. His plans for organizing social structures included keeping private cars out of Manhattan. The panel will include Taylor Stoehr, who is Goodman’s literary executor; Wayne Price, who among other things is a practitioner of gestalt therapy, that Goodman helped create; and Jonathan Lee, a filmmaker who will show a preview of his movie “Growing Up With Paul Goodman.”
Wednesday, June 13th @ 7PM – Free
Release Party: Situations
With Stanley Aronowitz and Bill DiFazio
In publishing the third issue of "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", the Situations Collective is having a party. Come out for Stanley Aronowitz (author of "Left Turn") speaking about Henri Lefebvre, Bill DiFazio (host of WBAI's City Watch) discussing his book "Ordinary Poverty", and for readings by other Situations contributors, including Dennis Broe, Ric Brown, and Ivan Zatz.
There will be a Global Networks meeting Wed June 13th at 8:30pm at Odessa (Ave A between 7th and 8th Street). It would awesome to see some new faces, hear some new voices, have some new hands to help. See you there.
This Saturday, June 16th, the Ya Basta experiment continues! If you're interested in confronting the the war machine and the words "militant nonviolence," "protective gear" or "orange" make you smile, then come get your workshop on!
