Past Announcements

From LiberateRochester

• 1/24/07 Weekly meetings are no longer being held at Bodhi's. Check the Rochester Anarchist Forum page for the current location.

• 1/2/07 Quick fact: It costs more to incarcerate someone for a year than to send them to Harvard University for a year. pages to prisoners

• 11/03/06 Due to some spam problems, I've added a CAPTCHA (distorted letters thing) to the wiki. If you aren't logged in and try to add a link to an external site, you'll have to do the CAPTCHA. You can get around this by logging in. --Chris Acheson

• 10/30/06 The Rochester Anarchist Forum will have a presentation and discussion at the first meeting of every month, starting on November 1st. This month's topic will be on market anarchism and local currencies.

• 10/24/06: REPOST! On Friday, October 27th, at 7PM, (Just in time for Halloween!) Rochester Indymedia, in conjuction with TV Dinner, will be screening the documentary Hell House. "Hell Houses are the evangelical Christian Church's answer to a haunted house, a Fundementalist fright night meant to scare the bejesus out of any nonbeliever." Hell House is directed by George Ratliff and is 85 minutes long. (Since this will be Halloween Critical Mass, all participants are enticed to dress-up!) Both screenings will take place after Critical Mass. You do not have to ride in CM to attend.

• 10/21/06: The weekly Rochester Anarchist Forum meetings will be moving from Java's to Bodhi's Cafe & Lounge starting on Wednesday, October 25th. Bodhi's is located at 274 North Goodman Street, in the Village Gate Square.

• 10/17/06: National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality

What: Screening, Speak-out, and Open Mic against Police Brutality and state repression

When: Sunday, October 22, 2006; 6-9PM

Where: Friends Helping Friends, 333 Child Street, Rochester, NY

Come hear speakers, musicians, artists, and fellow Rochesterians as we speak out against police brutality and state repression in Rochester and around the United States.

A screening of "CopWatch: A know your rights training video" will also be shown with discussion afterward. Rochester Food Not Bombs will be serving a meal.

http://www.october22.org/

• 10/15/06: Root Force: Demolishing Colonialism at its Foundations

An Innovative Participatory Presentation

Friday (10/20) at 7pm Indymedia Space (1115 E. Main Street, Door #1)

http://rootforce.org

The Problem:

the Earth is being killed. We are losing cultural and biological diversity at Astounding Rates,and despite all our efforts,these rates are only accelerating. The Earth is being murdered by a global system that tortures and murders every human or nonhuman that it cannot dominate. This system kills hundreds of thousands a year in wars for oil and water. It tortures millions of nonhuman animals a year in laboratories and factory farms. It destroys indigenous communities, dispossesses small farmers, enslaves workers in fields and factories, and poisons every living thing with chemicals and radiation.

The question is, what are we going to do about it? Root Force is an innovative campaign making the connection between ecocide and Genocide, creating a framework in which diverse actions target those who enable oppression. this can be achieved by focusing on specific, winnable projects in Latin America. we invite you to come and support root force on our road tour.

• 10/8/06: On Tuesday, October 10th, the Rochester Anarchist Forum has called for a meeting to discuss actions to take in coalition with other folks on anti-police brutality day. October 22nd was the negotiated national day of protest in 1996 when the October 22nd Coalition formed. The October 22nd Coalition came out of a "need to meet the intensifying nationwide epidemic of police brutality with resistance on the national level." The meeting will be held from 7-9PM at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality at 402 South Avenue. The meeting is free and open to anyone concerned about police and state repression.

• 10/8/06: Monday, October 9th, is Columbus Day. Columbus, a slave trader for the Portuguese before he set sail for the Americas, contributed to the genocide of some 80-100 million indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. In some countries, like Venezuela, they celebrate Indigenous Resistance Day in opposition to Columbus and his legacy of domination, oppression, and colonialism. Information: Transform Columbus Day | Christopher Columbus and the Indians by Howard Zinn

• 9/30/06: On Monday, October 2nd, there will be a Youth March for Equitable Education Funding. It will meet at West Main Street and Fitzhugh at 4PM. (Taken from the Metro Justice website.)

• 9/30/06: On Sunday, October 1st, Rochester Food Not Bombs will be having its first serve at Manhattan Square Park in downtown at 11:30am. If you would like to help cook, please show up at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality at 402 South Avenue at 9AM. R-FNB wish list: food and spices, silverware and plateware (light, hard plastic dishware would be great!), large water cooler capable of holding hot beverages, literature, and a transparant, plastic sheet to lay over lit. in the case of snow, sleet, or rain.

• 9/30/06: On Saturday, September 30th, RAIR is sponsoring a march and rally for inmigrant rights: 2:00pm at the Liberty Pole (East Ave. and Main St.), marching to the Federal Building

• 9/15/06: On Friday, September 29th, at 7PM, Rochester Indymedia, in conjunction with TV Dinner, will be showing one of two possible films. We Are Traffic: A movie about Critical Mass documents the history of CM in all of its glory! The documentary is 50 minutes and was directed by Ted White. The other option is a film titled Taken for a Ride, which "reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets." The film is 52 minutes long and was directed by Jim Klein.

• 9/15/06: Also, on Friday, October 27th, at 7PM, (Just in time for Halloween!) Rochester Indymedia, in conjuction with TV Dinner, will be screening the documentary Hell House. "Hell Houses are the evangelical Christian Church's answer to a haunted house, a Fundementalist fright night meant to scare the bejesus out of any nonbeliever." Hell House is directed by George Ratliff and is 85 minutes long. (Since this will be Halloween Critical Mass, all participants are enticed to dress-up!) Both screenings will take place after Critical Mass. You do not have to ride in CM to attend.

• 9/7/06: On Friday, September 8th, the Rochester Labor Film Series will be showing Sir! No Sir! at the Eastman House Dryden Theater, 900 East Avenue, at 8pm.

• 9/5/06: On Thursday, September 14th, there will be a Public Forum on Bus Fare Changes at the Gleason Auditorium, Bausch & Lomb Library, downtown. Time: 4:30pm - 6pm This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact: the Bus Fareness Committee at 325-2560. Metro Justice flyer

• 9/3/06: Rochester Independent Media Center and TV Dinner are co-sponsoring a screening of i, a documentary dealing with Argentina IMC and the Indymedia Network. September 9th, 7pm at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave, Rochester, NY. Come Join us for a House Party after the film/discussion at 247 Weldon Street. Folks are gathering around 10pm Saturday night.

• 9/1/06: Rochester FNB has weekly meetings at 6:30PM on Wednesdays at Java's Cafe. (For a map to Java's, see the link below.)

• 8/24/06: Rochester Food Not Bombs will hold its second meeting at Java's Cafe on Wednesday, August 30, at 6:30 PM.

• 8/24/06: Albany (NY) Skill Share, 9/23. A day-long skill share of workshops, community, and good food. registration is at 8 Elm Street, Albany. Albany Skill Share Website with last year's pics The website has info on workshops, times, lodging, etc. email oehlda2000 at yahoo dot com dot au for info.

• 8/22/06: Alia is totally awesome.

• 8/17/06: Rochester Food Not Bombs will hold its first meeting at Java's Cafe on Wednesday, August 23, at 6:30 PM.