Direct Action / Civil Disobedience

Rochester Unconventional Action
announces the first in a series of workshops and information sessions
for local activists during the Month of May.

The first session is "Know Your Rights"
a basic information program open to all activists
in Rochester interested in the civil liberties of protest participants.

Monday, May 5 from 6:30-7:30 pm
at the AntiWar Storefront
658 Monroe Avenue (near Oxford St.)

Speaker:
Gary Pudup, Executive Director
Genessee Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union
http://www.gvclu.org/

We will have NYCLU handouts and lots of practical advice.

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Meeting information for Unconventional Action - Rochester

Meetings are now the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, 5PM, at the Anti-war Storefront located at 658 Monroe Ave.

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Want to go to the conventions?

What: Meeting for Unconventional Action - Rochester
When: Sunday, April 20th, 5PM
Where: Antiwar Storefront Crisis Center — 658 Monroe
Ave.
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Meetings are now the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, 5PM, at the Anti-war Storefront located at 658 Monroe Ave.

Current agenda items are:

*Syracuse Report Back
*Workshops/skill shares for May
*Bus Report Back
*Bail Fundraisers

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A history of the Chicago events

Source: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/about/mayday.html

Not many people know why May Day became International Workers Day and why we should still celebrate it. It all began over a century ago when the American Federation of Labour adopted an historic resolution which asserted that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1st, 1886".

In the months prior to this date workers in there thousands were drawn into the struggle for the shorter day.

Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs Co-founder, to give lecture at SUNY Albany

Speaker: Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs Co-founder
Thursday, April 17, 7:30 pm Humanities Building, Rm.
132

Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will give a
> presentation about the history of the movement and
> the many things it has accomplished around the
> world. He will show a dvd about his work in Africa
> and talk about how to start a Food Not Bombs group.
> Keith has spent over 500 days in jail for feeding
> the hungry.

What: Meeting for Unconventional Action - Rochester
When: Sunday, April 6th, 5PM
Where: Antiwar Storefront Crisis Center — 658 Monroe
Ave.
Join our mailing list:
lists.rocus.org/listinfo/unconventional-action-rochester
More Information: UnconventionalAction.org or
www.myspace.com/UpstateUnconventional

Current agenda items are:

*Affinity Groups
*Rochester IMC coverage of events/indymedia role and
other media aspects

Have agenda items?

Last night I had my first encounter with the inside of a holding cell.

I was whisked away from the protest marking the 5th anniversary of the War in Iraq by a police man who undoubtedly arrested me for the sole purpose of scaring the crowd back onto the streets. At first I didn’t realize what had happened. I was one of the people who wasn’t supposed to get arrested. I hadn’t lain down in the streets or spray painted any circled A’s on the IRS building.

So the Rochester Against War (RAW) meeting wasn’t too bad this past Saturday. (I’ve gotten really frustrated and left a few times before.) It felt like a lot of people wanted workshops around knowing their rights and civil disobedience. (Of course it took a good hour to get to that discussion and then it was only about a half an hour long with at least one proposal to put off the discussion till the following week; I wasn’t having that.) Speaking of which, RAW will be hosting a longer discussion on civil disobedience and direct action this Saturday, April 5th, at noon.