Come on Down, Stay the Weekend, Enjoy the Community Picnic!

An attempted police evacuation is expected at dawn on Saturday the 21st. The
residents of the Woodwards Squat have resolved collectively to lock arms in
the event of such a forced attempt and will continue their peaceful,
non-violent occupation until their five demands are met. Your presence on
Saturday morning is essential to keep the squat alive! Bring a blanket or
sleeping bag and stay the weekend or just come up the ladder to talk with
people about social housing issues throughout the day. Support outside of
the Woodwards building is equally important all weekend long.

If you are unable to make it on Saturday, come down on Sunday the 22nd for a
community picnic between 1 at 3pm. It's a potluck protest in support of the
people inside & a celebration of the first week of occupancy!

The Anarchist Youth Network (Britain and Ireland) is the only youth
organisation, created by young people, which isn't trying to recruit you to
a sad outdated political party.

In their own words...

VOX CONTRARIUM

-celebrating voices of dissent-

September 12 -- October 17

Featuring work by:

Tahira Faune Alford, Simona Aru, Fred Askew, Max Blechman, Chris Cardinale, Nick Cooper, Amalia Cordova, Brad Farwell, Fly, Diane Greene-Lent, Peter Holderness, Ryan Inzana, Steffie Kinglake, Peter Kuper, Mac Mcgill, Lina Pallotta, Kevin Pyle, Nicole Schulman, Seth Tobocman, Jordan Worley

OPENING: Thursday September 12 at 7:00pm

VIEWING HOURS: Sundays 1:00 -- 3:00pm

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:00 -- 7:00pm

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street (between Clinton & Suffolk)

212.254.3697 --- http://www.abcnorio.org

Exhibition funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts

The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement

Billboard Liberation

Look up! Billboards have become as ubiquitous as human suffering, as
difficult to ignore as a beggar's outstretched fist. Every time you leave
your couch or cubicle, momentarily severing the electronic umbilicus, you
enter the realm of their impressions. Larger than life, subtle as war, they
assault your senses with a complex coda of commercial instructions, the
messenger RNA of capitalism. Every time you get in a car, or ride a bus, or
witness a sporting event, you receive their instructions. You can't run and
you can't hide, because your getaway route is lined to the horizon with
signs, and your hidey-hole has a panoramic view of an 8-sheet poster panel.

There are a million stories in the Big City, and as many reasons to want to
hack a billboard. We have our reasons, and we don't presume to judge yours.
In this manual, we have made a conscious effort to steer clear of ideology
and stick to methodology. The procedures outlined here are based on our 20
years' experience executing billboard improvements professionally, safely,
and (knock wood) without injury or arrest. In most cases, is should not be
necessary to follow the elaborate, even obsessive precautions we outline
here. A can of spray paint, a blithe spirit, and a balmy night are all your
really need.

hydrarchist writes:"

From December we began to see a new form of political intervention,
after the cacerolazos are born the assemblies, soon the interbarrial
of assemblies, and now the phenomenon of the "assemblies okupas". In
the heat of economic and political crisis the search of collective
solutions is urgent . Little by little the necessity was growing to
create our own spaces and to solve the serious problem of the house.

Join the Growing Protest at Joint Session of US Congress on Wall St.

A joint session of Congress will convene Friday, September 6, 2002, 11:00 a.m., at the Sub-Treasury Building at Wall and Broad Streets, in a hyperpatriotic war rally, in the name of "solidarity with New York".



Groups opposed to the lockstep frenzy will get together at the SI
ferry terminal on the southern tip of Manhattan, at 10:00 a.m., and then see how close we can get , with or without a permit under current negotiation.



This is the same Congress that passed the draconian "USA PATRIOT" Act, an unconstitutional statute which declares the repeal of the Bill of Rights, and which follows the 1996 Anti-Terrorism act and various omnibus "crime" bills, along with a series of fascist executive orders and court decisions, which are giant steps toward fascism.



The central theme will be opposition to Bush's war, particularly the developing Iraq attack. The war hysteria cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.



Pledges of participation and have already united groups as diverse as Another World is Possible (NYC), the Greens (including NY Governor candidate Stanley Aronowitz, and the International Action Center. The list is growing, and hopefully will include YOU!

Anonymous Comrade writes "

(Based on an article by Erik Wijk in Aftonbladet, translated by Vivi Löfstedt and Mike, roughly updated by the author.)

The events in Gothenburg came as a shock for most Swedes, who of us has actually been able to digest what happened? Since then something more shocking has been going on, namely the Gothenburg trials, the biggest judicial scandal of our time, where people can be found guilty without any apparent logic, with unreliable police witnesses, with falsified or non-existent evidence, preferably in groups, hopefully even with political connections. And they are given hard sentences.

Louis Lingg writes "On August 19 the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development transferred ownership of eleven of the twelve remaining squatted buildings on New York's Lower East Side to the Urban Homestead Assistance Board (UHAB), a nonprofit housing development agency. UHAB, in turn, will provide assistance in expeditiously completing renovation of the buildings, and will then turn the properties over to the tenants. The buildings will become low-income limited-equity tenant-owned and managed buildings.

Negotiations for this 'deal' began in 1999 when the Giuliani administration was still in office, but were delayed by the events of September 11. By early August 2002 the New York City Council, the Borough President and Mayor Bloomberg had all approved the 'deal.'

Urban affairs journal City Limits has posted Squatters Rites, an article examining how an almost two-decades long stand-off was finally resolved. The New York Times is also covering the story."

McDonald's Workers Resistance writes "OCTOBER 16TH 2002...
"Slaves who are ready to put up with anything are
spared nothing by the tyrants" - Georges Darien

On October 16th 1918, the people of Hungary began to
establish councils in their workplaces and
communities. They seized land from wealthy
landowners, occupied factories and freed prisoners.
Within a month Budapest was run by ordinary people for
the benefit of the many. Like too many courageous
struggles for freedom, the Hungarian councils republic
was eventually repressed and destroyed, only the
vision lingers on...

On October 16th 2002, a small proportion of the 1.5
million people employed by McDonalds around the world
will take our first tentative steps towards a better
world. This is an attempt to explain what's going to
happen, where this day of action came from, why it's
taking place and what we hope to achieve.

Chuck Morse writes "The following review appeared in the second issue of The New Formulation: An Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books (Vol. 1, # 2, June 2002). The complete text of this issue is available at: http://flag.blackened.net/nf/index.htm
Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II

Review by Chuck Morse

+++ Review of The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization Edited by Eddie Yuen, George Katsiaficas, and Daniel Burton Rose (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002) & On Fire: The Battle of Genoa and the Anti-capitalist Movement By various authors (London: One-Off Press, 2001) +++

What was remarkable about the movement that erupted in Seattle 1999 was not so much that previously adversarial sides of the progressive opposition--the "teamsters and turtles"--had started working together or that old revolutionary flags were flying once again. These things had happened at various times in recent history to no great effect. What was extraordinary was the dialogue that emerged between members of the revolutionary, ideological Left (anarchists and communists) and activists whose primary interest lay in pragmatic, bread-and-butter reforms. These two tendencies have long been divided and often regarded one another suspiciously, but somehow the anti-globalization movement created a political space in which they could come together and jointly imagine a movement that is utopian and yet faithful to the demands of day-to-day activism.