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!

LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB / ANARCHIST FORUM

--------------------------> 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.

Join the NYC Ya Basta! group (NYMAA's anti-war working group) for a public formation training in Washington Square Park on Saturday, June 16 at 2 p.m.

Stay tuned for more information.

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!

Be a Kid Again and Help Send Folks to the U.S. Social Forum!

Host:alice and carter

Location: carter's backyard in greenpoint!
156 Dupont St, Apt 1R, Brooklyn, NY

Be a Kid Again and Help Send Folks to the U.S. Social Forum!

Host:alice and carter

Location: carter's backyard in greenpoint!
156 Dupont St, Apt 1R, Brooklyn, NY

What is the World Social Forum anyway?

Under the banner of ‘Another World is Possible,’ tens of thousands of community organizers, trade unionists, students/youth, NGO representatives, elected officials and social movements gather for a weeklong conference filled with dialogues, workshops, debates, marches, rallies, and cultural events. The WSF was created to provide an open platform to discuss alternatives to the economic plans created by multi-national corporations and the governments at the World Economic Forum. These plans often result in strategies that suppress workers and human rights, and undermine national and Indigenous sovereignty. The Forum has since become an annual event, hosting up to 100,000 people each year.

Friday, June 29th at 6:30pm
Georgy Katsiaficas:
"The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life"
"Since the modern anti-globalization movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, lifestyles, and tactics grow directly out of the autonomous social movements that emerged in Europe from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. In fact, today's infamous "Black Blocs" are the direct descendants of the European "Autonomen." But these important historical connections are rarely noted, and never understood.
The Subversion of Politics sets the record straight, filling in the gaps between the momentous events of 1968 and 1999. Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt—Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament and anti-nuclear activists, punk rockers, and anti-fascist street fighters—in a compelling and sympathetic light. At the same time, he offers a work of great critical depth, drawing from these political practices a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself."

Invitation to the Anarchist International Conference in Mexico City.

July, 8, 9 & 10th, 2007

Rebellion is riding in our hearts, millions of human beings, those who are the invisible ones, those who are the poor ones, those who are the ignorant ones rise against domination in every part of the world. Millions of people are doing their best in the struggle to defend human race and the planet; those millions of people reject integration to the world of globalisation, democracy and homogeneous pluralism. They care little about the ridiculous IT era and of the endless possibilities, because they are those to pay the price for the comfort of the privileged few. ---- The blast of rebellion has a long tradition and that eternal tradition translates into knowledge, accumulated over centuries of struggle. That knowledge gives anarchism the certainty that its path is the right one. New forms of organisation have left far behind the old forms to control rebellion, political parties, sell-out unions, schools and universities that submit to the service of those in power and the can only stare from the sidelines, in perplexity, how humanity is moving towards the liberation without leaders nor vanguards.