3 New Orleans Banks Glued Shut, in style

THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMUNIQUE FROM THE NOPFP. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST OR PROMOTE IT WHEREVER, VERBATIM.       --le bloc

On Friday, September 25, the ATMs and doors of three banks in New Orleans' French Quarter were sealed shut by the New Orleans Political Fashion Police. Fuck banks. So ugly.
These actions were in solidarity with the occupiers at UC Santa Cruz and our comrades in Pittsburgh. We also did this for New Orleans, in the initial phase of our project to expel capital from our beautiful home.
This ain't no fall trend. Increasingly, righteously bad behavior becomes a part of our everyday routine. Thinking, talking, making - these things are insufficient in a society that co-opts any and everything except that which attacks directly.
There is no reason to be scared. You, too, can fight.

Dressed to kill,

The New Orleans Political Fashion Police
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NO BLEND BUT SANTA'S BLEND

At right, a recent photograph of the Iron Rail Collective. Yes, there we all are at our weekly 8 p.m. Wednesday meeting.

But what's missing from this rollicking good time?

YOU, that's what! Your input, ideas, and helpfulness!

The summer is here, and there are all kinds of fun and interesting projects afoot. Our collective meetings are open to all, and it would be great to meet you. Join in and be a part of the ever-evolving, defiantly streaky-haired Iron Rail!

And be sure to catch Tuesday's excellent movie...

EXCERSIZE

Get a pen... or since you're on a computer, open a new text document. List the five objects, services or experiences in your adult life that have given you the most pleasure. Go on, write 'em down.

If you have had an exceptionally rewarding time on earth, list ten.

OKAY, THAT WAS PART ONE. Now list the five (or ten) most expensive objects, services or experiences you have paid money for... including houses, cars, university degrees, marriage ceremonies, divorce settlements and taxes.

Do those lists overlap?

Mine kinda do, more than I expected they would.

WHAT HOBOS LIKE US CAN DO

Let me break it down for you. Let me make it clear for you. Let me drop elucidatory gems on this shit as best I can. We do AWESOME when we table. Note: "Table" as a verb in this context means "sit behind a table repping Iron Rail, spreading subversive writing."

We could always table more. We could do operas, we could just cold table lunchtime at a college, we could table cultural events-- art openings, lectures, parades, anything where people are. Now, it would help if we had more handbills we could hand out while tabling, to bring people in to the space. We're working on that.

In the meantime, people-- you, me, everybody-- want answers to why modern existence is such a hideous nightmare. Those are answers our po-faced prescriptive 'zines and bajillions of Derrick Jensen books can provide.

Following, please find a list of December musical performances it would be cool to table. THANK YOU for keeping the Iron Rail alive.

12/09 - Zoroaster @ Hi Ho (METAL)
12/11 - Haste the Day @ Cypress (HARDCORE)
12/13 - Metrnome the City @ Circle Bar (INDIE)
12/13 - Zydepunks @ Saturn Bar (PUNK)
12/17 - Further Reasoning @ Howlin Wolf (PUNK)
12/18 - Ritual Killer @ The Bar (METAL)
12/19 - Benjy Davis @ Howlin Wolf (INDIE)
12/20 - Soul Rebels @ Dragon's Den
12/20 - Meadow Flow @ Dragon's Den (INDIE)
12/20 - Bywater Market @ Markey Park
12/20 - Mod Night @ Saturn Bar
12/23 - Meriwether @ Howlin Wolf (INDIE)
12/27 - Capitol Offense @ Dragon's Den (PUNK)
12/30 - Revolutionary Youth @ Neutral Ground (PUNK)

More information about these specific shows as well as a superabundant superabundance of other crap can be found superabundantly at noladiy.org. Also, the really good person to get ahold of if you're down to table any of these shows, or any other musical concert, is flyerstorm AT yahoo DOT com. He's got the hookups.

JAKES ON THE BLOCKS WE OUT-CLEVER

Here is a video showing a pair of pigs skulking along in a St. Paul poor people march. Keen eyes may spot other items of interest as well, and by 'items,' I mean awesome ion-beam sweethearts, and by awesome ion-beam sweethearts I don't really mean much at all because I'm too burned out to formulate a properly tedious and convoluted inside joke.

Please, stop breaking in late at night and stealing our gold coins.

Upcoming Fundraisers to Secure Our Net Worth:

(Last minute! February 22 @ Dragons Den SIX PM! Local music from The Silent Game, Party Time, and Magic Legs. The show will be DONE by EIGHT PM! BED TIME FOR PUNK!)

March at the store!:
- 1st 7PM = Blair Gimma (internet sweetheart) + Jon Crocker (San Francisco)
- 9th 4PM = Madeline Adams (Plan It X) + Nana Grizol (folks from Defiance Ohio and Neutral Milk Hotel)
- 17th 4PM = Peter Young (convicted eco-terrorist, Green Scare political prisoner)
- 26th 7PM = Captain Chaos (Chris Clavin) + Eric Ayotte (Gad About Film Fest) + The Let Down (Hope's wood elf guild of bards and nomads)

In misanthropic solidarity,
Bjõrn

http://www.myspace.com/musicblair
http://www.myspace.com/joncrocker
http://www.myspace.com/madelinesongs
http://www.myspace.com/nanagrizol
http://www.myspace.com/supportpeteryoung
http://plan-it-x.com
http://www.throughtheconcreterecords.com/documents/fuckmyspace1.html