¡Ya Basta! No Slave Wages in our Communities!

What: Join the fight against sweatshops in Bushwick and Ridgewood and march with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), I.U. 460/640, and its supporters. The union will be distributing leaflets in Spanish and Chinese during the march to raise awareness among workers.

New York, NY. The New School chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is joining with community organizations from around the country to build the Iraq Moratorium and is calling for students, workers, and faculty to participate in the first of a series of escalating monthly actions to end the occupation of Iraq. The first demonstration will be held on Friday, September 21, 2007. Participants are asked to assemble at 12:00 p.m. at the New School for Social Research on 65 5th Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets) in lower Manhattan. Once assembled, participants will march north up 5th Avenue to the Empire State Building (350 5th Ave.) to demonstrate outside the office of Lockheed Martin, a corporation that in 2005 reaped more than $19.4 billion in military contracts from war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Friday, September 21st @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Leslie James Pickering "Mad Bomber Melville"
In "Mad Bomber Melville," Leslie James Pickering reveals Sam Melville, the man responsible for a spree of pre-Weather Underground bombings at Manhattan skyscrapers and a key organizer of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising (in which Melville was killed). Pickering will read and show archived television news clips. Pickering co-founded the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office and is the author of "Earth Liberation Front 1997-2002."

What: Rally sponsored by Teamsters Local 805 and the Teamsters Joint Council 16 to support Fresh Direct Workers' organizing drive with Local 805.

When: 8:00AM-10:00AM Friday, September 28.

Where: Borden Avenue and 23rd Street, Long Island City. Take the 7 train to Hunters Point or the G to 21 Street. Then walk south down 21st street, follow the walkway underneath the BQE and over the railroad tracks. Then continue on to Borden Avenue.

PARADE WITHOUT A PERMIT

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH @ 7PM
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK @ THE FOUNTAIN

Queers, Allies and Everyone affected by the NYPD’s anti-assembly rules:
Join us in the streets as we challenge these rules!

Sunday, September 30th @ 7PM - $5 to $10 Suggested
Performance: The Welfare Poets
We are celebrating. Kenneth Foster Jr., an innocent person on death row, had his sentence commuted just hours before he was to be executed. His murder by the State of Texas was prevented by the thousands of activists and supporters. Come listen to the hip hop collective the Welfare Poets, along with other artists, and come talk with exonerated prisoners and folks from the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. We'll be raising spirits and raising money for the continued fight against the death penalty.

Thursday, October 4th @ 7PM - Free

Reading: Cathy Wilkerson "Flying Close to the Sun"

While part of the Weather Underground, Cathy Wilkerson blew up and escaped from
her parents' Greenwich Village townhouse. In "Flying Close to the Sun: My Life
and Times As a Weatherman," Wilkerson provides an honest and intimate
assessment of her involvement in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and
the Weather Underground. For the past 20 years, she has been a teacher of
teachers in New York City schools.

THIS COMING SUNDAY, October 7th, we will be hosting an NYC consulta for
the upcoming anti-World Bank/IMF actions in Washington, DC. Included:

Background information (What is the IMF, anyway? Why do we bother to
protest them?)

Tuesday, October 9th @ 7PM - $5 to $20 Suggested
Screening: "Harlan County, U.S.A." (1976, 100 minutes)
Barbara Kopple's Oscar winning "Harlan County, U.S.A." documents a year-long coal miner's strike and ensuing battles between workers, scabs and company thugs. Come watch the film and join the discussion which will follow. This is a benefit for families of miners killed in the recent calamity at the non-unionized Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah.

LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB / ANARCHIST FORUM

--------------> The History of Radical Resistance on the LES Contributors to the book Resistance The October Anarchist Forum >>>>On Tuesday, October 9, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's
Anarchist Forum will present a panel of radical activists and authors who
wrote essays for the new book “Resistance: A Radical Social And Political
History Of The Lower East Side.” The panel will explore the connections
of the Lower East Side of Manhattan to the radical movements of the last
150 years. The panel and their special interests are Village Voice
reporter, Sarah Ferguson-housing and community; multitalented Richard
Kostelanetz-art and writing; editor Clayton Patterson-politics and
experimental art; Living Theatre producer and performer, Hanon Reznikov
-theatre; and WBAI host, Bill Weinberg-radical media. Emma Goldman and
Dorothy Day will no doubt be mentioned. As is always the case at the
Anarchist Fora, the speakers will also listen to the audience and respond
to their comments and questions