What is anarchism?

What is anarchism? The first in a series of radical discussion groups will be held this Sunday, March 14th at the Iron Rail located at 511 Marigny St. The group is free and open to the public and will begin promptly at 7.30pm.

We're not in this alone.

I just dropped off a good pile of classic Revelation Records hardcore and a few other odds and ends down on Marigny Street. Here's the lowdown, bidip bo!:

GORILLA BISCUITS - Start Today lp + s/t 7"
Everything you need by one of the best bands to ever come out of New York. Hardcore kids love them, skinheads love them, pop punks love them--even rudies like SKANKIN PICKLE love them. Better watch out, better take care, you're headed for the dragon's lair.

YOUTH OF TODAY - all three lps.
Break Down the Walls, Can't Close My Eyes, and We're Not in This Alone. Not my personal favorite, but no one can deny the keen fashion sense of Ray "of Today" Cappo who would later go on to form SHELTER and BETTER THAN A THOUSAND. Put on your white high tops, bleach that flat top, and let's take care of business.

CHAIN OF STRENGTH - The One Thing That Still Holds True lp
Probably one of the best records on Revelation along with the INSIDE OUT 7". One of the best straightedge bands ever? I think so.

JUDGE - discography dlp
More militant straightedge hardcore, this time shorter and more straightforward, almost punk. Classic stuff. Members of YOUTH OF TODAY, PROJECT X, GORILLA BISCUITS, SIDE BY SIDE, etc.

MOUTHPIECE - Can't Kill What's Inside lp
The discography from one of the last youth crew bands.

V/A - New York Hardcore: The Way It Is compilation lp
Classic NYHC comp from 1987/1988 with YOUTH OF TODAY, SICK OF IT ALL, NAUSEA, WARZONE, GORILLA BISCUITS, BOLD, and more.

SHAI HULUD - That Within Blood III-Tempered lp
Heavy, hardcore from Florida for people who still remember the late nineties.

HIMSA - Ground Breaking Ceremony lp
More "metalcore" back before the term was bastardized by a bunch of jock neanderthal death metal turds. This time from Seattle and, or course, more political.

ICEBURN / ENGINE KID split lp
Come see what Greg Anderson and Steve O'Malley had to do to get all of those straightedge tattoos. Sunn O))) fans will cringe.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - People of the Sun 10"
You know I had to grab these. Political, heavy loud rock / hip hop crossover before that became such a terrible idea.

INK & DAGGER - Experiments 7"
Vampire hardcore punk stuff from Philadelphia. Ex-FRAIL and one dude who would go on to co-create the TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW.

KISS IT GOODBYE - Choke 7" + Preacher 7"
Heavy, chaotic hardcore from ex-members of DEADGUY before folks went on to start PLAYING ENEMIES. Great stuff for anyone into the early HYDRAHEAD RECORDS catalog.

SINCE BY MAN - We Sing the Body Electric lp
Milwaukee screamo for people who like SEVEN DAYS OF SAMSARA, WAIFLE, FUNERAL DINER, etc.

IRON LUNG - Sexless // No Sex lp
The band that can rekindle the spirit of power violence. Heavy, fast, slow. Whatever, man. For fans of SPAZZ, CHARLES BRONSON, ENDLESS BLOCKAGE, IRON AGE, etc.

BARONESS - Red Album dlp
Newest release from this Savannah, Georgia metal stoner dudes.

BLACK TUSK - Passage Through Purgatory lp
More Savannah, Georgia heaviness. D-beat crust metal stuff. Ex-members of HAMMURD SHIT (pre-A HANGING).

ALCEST - Souvenirs d'un autre monde lp
Post-rock, shoe gaze, almost 90s throwback stuff from Neige (PEST NOIRE). For fans of JESU, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, etc.

GET RAD - Say Fuck No To Rules, Man lp
Youth crew-ish, straight ahead hardcore from folks in SEVEN DAYS OF SAMSARA and PROTESTANT.

And a couple of classics:

REVERSAL OF MAN - Revolution Summer 10"
Long out of print 10" from one of the best "screamo" / emo violence bands ever. This one includes their EARTH CRISIS hating hit "Get the Kid With the Sideburns."

V/A - 403 Chaos: Florida Fucking Hardcore compilation cd
Probably my favorite compilation ever. At the time of its release, unreleased songs from ASSUCK, CAVITY, COMBATWOUNDEDVETERAN, REVERSAL OF MAN, HOT WATER MUSIC, DISCOUNT, OMEGA MAN, 1912, etc. Pretty much all the best bands from Florida in 1997.

And I also grabbed some copies of the BURNING FIGHT book:

"While Steven Blush's American Hardcore was an excellent examination of the pioneers of the hardcore punk movement, after reading his book one gets the impression that hardcore died in 1986. Although that particular era of hardcore may have ended in 1986, an influx of new bands took the genre to new places, which is where Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound picks up.

Nineties hardcore sparked profound change and debate across musical, social, spiritual, and political landscapes. Many of the ideals that were ingrained in hardcore since its beginning were taken in new and often controversial directions. Inspired by the music and the community that developed around the scene, many immersed in hardcore’s ethical and social movements such as straight edge, animal rights, D.I.Y., spirituality, and a host of other issues debated these beliefs and implemented them into their own lives, eventually taking what they learned outside the hardcore scene and influencing the broader culture. At the same time, many of the ideologies that united people ended up dividing them in the long run, which eventually led to the splintering this era of hardcore by the decade's end.

Burning Fight draws upon the memories of many who played influential roles in the scene and understand what made this era of hardcore so unique in its ability to synthesize music and ideology into what for many felt like was a powerful counter-cultural movement, where change was just around the corner.

The book features several sections with input from over 150 musicians, zine-makers, D.I.Y. practitioners, activists, and hooligans from this era. As well as several band oral histories including 108, Unbroken, Los Crudos, Inside Out, Burn, Shelter, Endpoint, Groundwork, Integrity, Swing Kids, Vegan Reich, Avail, Spitboy, Deadguy, Texas is the Reason, Split Lip, Ressurection, Damnation A.D., Rorschach, Coalesce and many others."

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I'm moving a small stack of indie rock stuff uptown to the Hey! Cafe site sometime this week (ANCIENT HEAD, SCREAMING FEMALES, etc.), so look for an update on that.

And as soon as I collect another payout, I'll be making that No Idea order to grab those re-releases of the old LIFETIME and JAWBREAKER records.

New records downtown and uptown!

I just dropped off tons of new records on Marigny Street:

KOWLOON WALLED CITY - Gambling on the Richter Scale lp
The 10"s I grabbed are already gone, and I think we're down to one copy of this LP. Great stoner metal stuff from San Francisco that even a person like me who hates that s can love. I'm trying to get these guys to come down in the fall. Get with it.

SALOME lp
Super heavy, female / demon fronted doom from Virginia. Kat also sings in AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED these days. Grab this awesome record and get ready for the BR show they're doing on March 20th!

POLLUTION Nasty DNA lps + 120608 tapes
Harsh hardcore from New York with folks from UNEARTHLY TRANCE. A modern version of Black Flag / Born Against / Rorschach?

TOMBS lp + TOMBS / PLANKS split lp
Killer black metal influence hardcore from New York with ex-ANODYNE. The split with PLANKS has a tight silk screened cover. And PLANKS rules--HIS HERO IS GONE style hardcore from Germany.

ASRA lp
Brutal grindcore for fans of NAPALM DEATH, MAN IS THE BASTARD, DISCORDANCE AXIS, etc.

DEAD FRIENDS lp
Florida hardcore for people still craving that old 90s emo sound--Palatka, End of the Century Party, etc.

MEHKAGO NT lp
Old school grindcore with a crusty / d-beat thing happening as well. Supposedly members of TORCHE and SHITSTORM. Is that true?

ANCIENT HEAD lp
Weirdo, psychedelic, indie rock stuff with ex-members of MAJORITY RULE, DARKEST HOUR, CITY OF CATERPILLAR, VERSE EN COMA, etc. Pat from GHASTLY CITY SLEEP is in this band.

CITY OF SHIPS / SOUVENIER'S YOUNG AMERICA split lp
Epic, heavy stuff for folks into ISIS, EARTH, CULT OF LUNA, GRAILs.

LITANY FOR THE WHALE - Dolores lp
Pageninetynine throwback type stuff from Santa Rosa.

NUX VOMICA / THE MAKAI split 10"
Crust punk / metal from Portland plus Swedish thrash / metal from Chico. Gel up that hair and grab your spikes and studs.

ROT IN HELL / THE PROCESS split 7"
Sick, "holy terror" hardcore from the UK. ROT IN HELL was one of the only bands we liked from the UK. Great dudes, sick music. They're doing stuff with DEATHWISH now, and I should have their LP on A389 shortly.

AUSTRASIAN GOAT 7"
French black metal on NOXIOUS NOIZE RECORDS. I grabbed a few more of these from Christion. Now go to town.

Plus, a literal FUCK TON of used stuff, including some amazing out of print stuff like...

- that old FOOD NOT BOMBS comp (the one with Anomie, Palatka, Holocron, etc.)
- TEM EYOS KI lp and 7"
- PALATKA - The End of Irony lp
- DETESTATION lp
- RACEBANNON - In the Grips of the Light lp
- BLEED - Bully Complex lp

I also dropped off a small pile of new stuff down at the Hey! Cafe over the weekend...

GOOD LUCK - Into Lake Griffy lp
Just back in print. Matty Pop Chart (Mt. Gigantic), Ginger (One Reason), and Mike (K-10 Prospect) doing amazing, poppy, emo stuff.

I HATE MYSELF - 10 Songs lp
Speaking of emo--here's the definitive emo band, and their best record.

ABE FROMAN lp
Last few copies of this bad boy. Killer, sloppy, political pop punk from Matty Pop Chart and Erin Tobey and friends.

AMERICAN CHEESBURGER / RELIGIOUS AS FUCK - split lp
I grabbed a few more copies of this amazing hardcore record, so all you uptown hermits could check it out as well. Cheeseburger's playing here in a couple of weeks. Religious as Fuck is brutal, straight forward hardcore (for fans of Left for Dead, Asshole Parade, Negative Approach, and so on).

THIS IS MY FIST - A History of Rats lp + split 7" with FIFTH HOUR HERO
One of the best pop punk records out there and their newest split 7". Female fronted, Bay Area awesomeness. Even Andy Gibbs likes this band.

THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB - all the big ones!
Dance Party with... 10", Front Seat Solidarity lp, Three Way Tie for Fifth lp, and the newest Convertible lp. Finally restocked these bad boys.

I also dropped off copies of the NUX VOMICA / THE MAKAI split 10", the SALOME lp, and a few cheap used records from GAMEFACE and THEY WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD.

And I moved the last couple of copies of THE SCREAMING FEMALES Power Move lp uptown. And I brought by some overstock copies of the black metal zine OAKENTHRONE.

I'll be back at the uptown spot Saturday night to restock all the Thou stuff that's gone. And I'll be hitting the downtown store that night as well for the same and also to work in a big ol' mess of REVELATION RECORDS hc stuff--all the classics--CHAIN OF STRENGTH, GORILLA BISCUITS, JUDGE, YOUTH OF TODAY, etc. I also grabbed a few copies of the BURNING FIGHT book which I'll drop in both stores.

Next up is probably another small NO IDEA order to grab the represses of the LIFETIME and JAWBREAKER records and maybe a couple of other odds and ends (the new CURSED 7", the OMEGAS 7", maybe that GET RAD lp). After that, I need to buckle down and do a big EBULLITION order, restock a few things, and grab some newer hardcore and power violence stuff.

I hope that sounds good to you.

IRON RAIL CLEANING PARTY SAT FEB 20

What is it to be clean? Cleanliness? What is it to cleanliness? What is to clean? What cleanliness?

When you think of the Rail, does your nose twitch? Do the hairs inside your nostrils curl as if burnt? Do you, upon thinking of the Rail, perform an adorable bunny-rabbit-esque maxillofacial shrug, an instinctive aversive mouth-encompassing wince, twisting your mardi-gras-chapped lips across your teeth, rolling your chin back into your neck?

When you think of the Rail, do you think of dirty linoleum? Do you think of dirty linoleum's waxy, woody, grassy close-up smell? The grittiness of it, felt even through your shoes, its age-stratified gneiss detaching in scraps, pilling like old sweatpants? When you think of the Rail, do you think of the sour stink of accumulated dust? Do you picture the immeasurable nose-choking motes of must, thick in the air as superkrewe confetti, spangling like doubloons where the sun angles through the Rail's windows? Do you smell displeasing smells when you think of the Rail? Do you smell the humid, cabbagey scent of grease-stiff hair? The mammalian, ovine, sour-stale acridity of jeans worn weeks without washing? Do you think of the vegetal, salty-yeast tang of urine? The almost medicinal pungency of sweated-out wine in armpits whose flora flourishes unregulated? Footsmell? Do you think of stickinesses on surfaces that ought be frictionless, irregular patches of unlooked-for adhesion marking spillage, seepage, or christ only knows?

We fitna change that, we gwine clean the Rail. Help us do This Saturday Feb 20th starting at noon. It's a CLEANING OF THE IRON RAIL.

We have some supplies; bring more supplies! We have some enthusiasm; add yours!
Bring food and drinks and a positive mental attitude! Help us make better the poor old Iron Rail. We're gonna totally sparklize

Ladies' Night

Ladies' Night at the Iron Rail will be reading the Coming Insurrection as a group to be discussed at our 2/25 meeting. As usual, anyone who feels like a lady is strongly encouraged to join us. You in no way need to be apart of our regular meetings to get in on the book discussion.

A pdf of the document can be found here: http://tarnac9.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/thecominsur_booklet.pdf

Ladies' Night is a "NO BOYS ALLOWED" space for radical ladies. We meet every Thursday at 7:30 at the Iron Rail, 511 Marigny. Here's what we're doing in the next several weeks:

1/14 Film Screening: Cannibal Woman of the Avocado Jungle of Death (BYOB)
1/21 Skillshare: Mardi Gras Masks with Jen (Materials provided)
1/28 Skillshare: Artisan Bartending with Ali ($5 for booze)
2/4 Zine Workshop: Work on your own or contribute to the group’s!
2/11 ***EARLY MEETUP*** 4 PM Ladies’ Afternoon: Muses Pre-Party and Carnival Mass 2/18 Mardi Gras Hangover Detoxxx: Share with us your favorite way to take care of yourself and relax!

To get in on our google group, please email us at ladiesnite@googlegroups.com, or call Gina P. at 954.294.7377

Anarchist Authors, Plays, and Movies Coming Soon!

TUESDAY, DEC 29th
Movie, 8 pm... The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation.
Free! Free All Prisoners! http://3blackpanthers.wordpress.com/

SUNDAY, JANUARY 3rd
Anarchism and Fiction!!! 7pm! Free!
quoting the (gorgeous) flyer: "A Brief and Arguably En­tertaining Evening With
Marga­ret Killjoy, editor of Mythmak­ers & Lawbreakers. Discuss the role of
storytelling in the an­archist movement. Learn about novelist assassins,
post-colonial african squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on
to write childrens’ stories. Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka
have to say about anarchism!"

TUESDAY, JAN 5th
Movie, 7:30 pm... El Topo/The Mole
Free! Info aqui!

TUESDAY, JAN 12th
Movie, 8 pm... "Cannibal the Musical" :x Free.

TUESDAY, JAN 19th
Movie, 7:30 pm... Ay Carmela!
If I could reliably do upside-down exclamation points, you'd probably have
already unsubscribed, because these newsletters would be frickin' littered with
'em. There'd definitely be at least 8 or nine before the title of this film.

SATURDAY, JAN 23rd
Play, Music, Didacticism... "ULYSSES' CREWMEN"
Insurgent Theater memorably kicked off 2009 with "Paint the Town" at Zeitgeist.
Now, they're coming back to Gnu Gnarlins for 2010 with another exciting,
thought-provoking original play. This new work is centered on insurrection, for
anyone who's ever contemplated the subject.

There will also be LIVE MUSIC from LOCAL MUSICIANS. If you are one and can play
without being eviction-inducingly overloud, holler back via electronical mail
and let's maybe put you on the bill.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
Movie and more, 8 pm... "RIOT ACTS: Flaunting Gender Variance in Music
Performance."
A transfabulous rockumentary! Smash the gender binary over a speaker cabinet.
With filmmaker and fearless fighter-of-the-good-fight Simon Strikeback on hand!

FURTHER RUMBLINGS..........
Beehive Collective presentation? Security culture teach-in? Social Night?
Functioning Iron Rail telephone? You'll be the first to know, compadres... stay
tuned.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
Each Wednesday at 8pm's the Rail's open collective meeting... come by and see us,
come by and be us. Now's a great time to get involved. We're maybe not
foundering quite as precipitously as previously, so bandwagon it like the
Saints! More is better always and in every regard.

Each Thursday at 7:30's LADIES' NITE! Ladies loud, boys disallowed. Skill
shares, movies, conversation and maybe a wee spot o' drinkin'. For those who
gender-identify as women. Join http://groups.google.com/group/ladiesnite for
latest info and updates, or find 'em on the Facebook.

Revolution Now? Revolution Now! <3

BIG GAY REBEL MOVIE NITE: Friday, Dec 18

Friday the 18 at ye olde Ironne Raille, get a big flaming megadose of unapologetic unvanilla queerness courtesy of late brit icon of same, Quentin Crisp. Adapted from Crisps's memoirs, John Hurt (note: not Mississippi John Hurt) demolishes taboos and titillates the modern audience in this uproarious 1975 award-winning flick... an ultra-rarity too hott to miss.

7:30 pm... free to everyone, except dudes who smell overwhelmingly like poo. Sorry. New policies.

Climate Ground Zero to speak at the Rail

Monday, December 14! 7:30 PM! Film, presentation, all type of thing. 
 Free & open to the publick...  Click image for larger flyer
One of the presenters writes:

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Climate Ground Zero doea non-violent direct action in west virginia against mountaintop removal in appalachia. climate ground zero uses a variety of tactics, from rallies and marches and sit-ins to lockdowns to mining equipment and tree-sits. we work to raise awareness and bring publicity to the issue of mountaintop removal and coal and its direct effect on carbon emissions and the growing climate crisis. mountaintop removal devastates both the environment and people of appalachia; it poisons the groundwater and headsprings for the rivers which supply drinking water for the entire northeast region, wipes out indigenous species, demolishes some of the oldest and most biodiverse mountains in the world, and brings countless health problems to the people who live near mountaintop removal and coal processing sites.

Much of climate ground zero's focus is presently on coal river mountain, the last untouched peak in the coal river valley. massey energy very recently began blasting on coal river mountain; we're working hard on actions to stop work and bring attention to sustainable wind energy as alternatives to coal. the coal river wind project aims to put wind turbines on coal river mountain instead of blowing up the mountain for coal; this would provide permanent, green jobs in contrast to the few short-term mining jobs that would be available in destroying the mountain for coal.

ClimateGroundZero.org
MountainJustice.org

Buy Stuff, Wrap It Up, Give It Away. Ask to borrow it the next week.

It's almost chrissmas, or whatever it was you celebrated as a kid. You so gotta buy your people their presents from the Iron Rail, and support this place's existence! Don't make us have to rise from the dead, too!

Everyone loves a good book, a nice pin, a zine, a 2010 Slingshot Organizer, or their very own Palestinian Kuffiyeh.

Don't mess this up or Jesus will hunt you down and burn you alive with his lazer-beam eyeballs. Write it down now so you don't forget, and you're friends never talk to you again.

Free Tuesday Movie Night waxes strong: Your Tuesdays belong to the Rail

Dec 8th Desperate living
Dec 15th Disney in espanol (7:30 pm)
Dec 22th TBA(random Christmas something)
Dec 29th The angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Jan 5th El Topo/The Mole (7:30 pm)
Jan 12th Cannibal the musical (must be seen to be believed)
Jan 19th Ay carmela (7:30 pm)

All movies are FREE! and those not otherwise marked start at 8pm. See you there!

For more details on the Spanish-language movies, check this post right here

A Coming-Winter-Storms Letter............

Winter sky is dirty laundry, planet desaturated; Starlings leave the trees en masse. Out past the roof's angle, birds pepper cloudbank. Swirling shreds of spilled tobacco, their bodies become an amoebic jumble, twisting like smoke into... is that... a pattern? A shape? Impossible! The vast flock tightens, coalescing, forming the unmistakeable sillhouette of an....

IRON RAIL NEWSLETTER

This is the bad time, the frozen hibernal heart of death's own season. It's frickin' miserable, & when the going gets tough, the prose gets purple. What to do? how to survive? Suggestions follow:

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 <-- a big daaaay RECORD SWAP! Lobby of the Rail 1PM-5PM. FREE. Remember the 80s? I don't; I'm too young. Tell me, were there cars back then? Could women vote? I'm curious about such days of yore. Were there humungous novelty frisbees that only stored like 10 songs? Is this true? LOLz! People really had those? Let us verify or disprove this cultural apocrypha by attending the massive and eagerly anticipated RECORD SWAP! at the IRON RAIL. There will be an abundance of obsolete media storage formats, ranging from the 8-track & cassette tapes of our great-grampas' days to those shinier things that are like wack, low-capacity DVDs... Compact Disks, I think my auntie calls them. Yes, all sorts of folks are pumped up about this, and for good reason. If you want FEWER RECORDS than you have, MORE RECORDS than you have, or DIFFERENT RECORDS than you have, for sure come by on Sunday to buy, sell, and trade records/tapes/etc... or be extra awesome and just give the damn stuff away! Bring a table! Browse a wide selection... so many genres, so many decades, so many different people to be.

On same daaaay....
MASSAGE! The Rail, also 3-7 pm. Pay what you can! Want to see a roomful of jaded, sullen burnouts begin giggling and squirming like they were adolescents in sex ed class? Just tell them "Asher's going to be giving massages." His hands are legendary, his training is professional, and his touch will change your life. He will be present with his massage chair giving pay-what-you-can massages. No price would be too high, for realz; Asher's wicked good at what he does. He will be on hand from Three to Seven in the PM.

And....
BOOKS 2 PRISONERS WORKNIGHT Nowe Miasto, 4-7PM This isn't at the Rail per se, but it's 100% Rail-endorsed. Books 2 Prisoners has experienced a glorious renaissance; NOW is the time to parasitically attach yourself and ride their cresting wave of mega-success!

- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15.
Iron Rail Movie Night RETURNS!... en Espanol.
Película de Disney / Some Disney Movie
8PM. FREE. Iron Rail Book Collective
Disney hace lo mejor doblado (hay que entrar a las cabezas de los jóvenes de
todas las lenguas). Entonces vengan y vuelvan a vivir una memoria sórdida de
su niñez y cantamos. Hay varios, entonces vamos a hacer el voto.
Subtitled!

- MORE/MISC:
*There was a fun party on Monday; see the details at http://nolarts.wordpress.com

*Our pals over at Hot Iron Press were kind enuf to plug the Rail & the 'Zine
Library in "ReadyMade" magazine's December issue. Kyle & Jenny are hardworking
artists who do a lot, and we appreciate the juice. To see the article for
yourself, shoplift a copy of the magazine from the Borders on St. Charles.

*People wanna start doing Iron Rail Social Nites, because... that's... a very
appealing idea. We're looking to coordinate with some other local folks, maybe
Ashe, maybe that Gay & Lesbian center over by Frenchmen. There will be food,
folks and fun. Interested in helping? Come by a meeting!

*On January 3, the Iron Rail presents Margaret Killjoy in an evening of ANARCHY AND FICTION, including readings from "Mythmakers and Lawbreakers," edited by
Killjoy hirself & newly published by AK Press. This book looks good. "Learn
about novelist assassins, post-colo­nial african squatters, writers who fought
in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories!" More details about
this event, before it happens... Print Out The Pretty Flyer.

*Also coming up soon (though dates still TBD) the Rail will host a roadshow from
Climate Ground Zero. They do non-violent direct action in West Virginia to help
stop mountaintop removal coal mining. What is "non-violent direct action"? Is
that like, levitating the pentagon? Can't wait to find out!

*Hopefully we will also soon be having a teach-in about security culture and how
best to deal with those pesky snoopy indictin'-ass federales. Details TK...

*Every Wednesday at 8pm the collective drags its constituent carcasses into the
Rail for our open-to-everyone Collective Meetings. These are a blast. New
volunteers are welcome; everyone's welcome.

*Every Thursday at 7:30pm is Iron Rail Ladies' Nite, a time and place for
females and female-identified persons only. For this week's plans or other
info, write ladiesnight.ironrail@gmail.com

Hang in there. Winter's a motherfucker all 'round.
Sunsets come at 3 pm,
wind whips off the river,
lips too chapped for kissing,
bicyclists a-shiver,
"warm" clothes smell like mold and dog pee,
heat bills eat up all your money.

When everyone you like's in jail... come volunteer, down at the Rail!

Protest tonight @ Tony Moran's

ROC-NOLA writes:

Restaurant Workers Continue Protests in front of Tony Moran’s Restaurant

This week we will be holding another protest in front of Tony Moran’s Restaurant to increase public pressure and awareness of workers’ demands. Please come stand with us this Friday night to demand that this restaurant finally respond to demands for payment of wages withheld, and to allegations of a discriminatory and segregated workplace!

The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New Orleans (ROC-NOLA) is a members-based organization dedicated to fighting for better working conditions for area restaurant workers. Members of ROC-NOLA launched a workplace justice campaign in October, and management still refuses to respond. Help us to increase our presence at these weekly actions so that they will have no choice but to answer to the demands of their workers!

We will be holding weekly actions in front of the restaurant until our demands are met, and those who still work at this restaurant get the working conditions they deserve! Dignity, respect and pay for our work is not an option!
Information about this week's action follows:
DATE: Friday, December 4th
TIME: 8:00PM (please meet beforehand at location listed below)**
WHERE: Tony Moran’s Restaurant (out front, Bourbon St. side) 240 Bourbon St

**We will be meeting starting at 7:30pm at the 100 block of Carondelet Street, near the intersection of Canal, to then walk over to Tony Moran’s Restaurant together by 8:00PM.

For more information, please contact (504) 344-9495, or rocnola@gmail.com . For additional information and footage from this campaign, please go to www.youtube.com and type in key words ROC NOLA and workplace justice.