Spent my Thursday night at the Bug Jar, glad I got to see Declan play before he heads off on tour.  Follow his tumblr, and cop the album!  Safe travels dude!

declanryanmusic:

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to the show last night. We had a blast.

Also, update! The Richmond and Roanoke shows have switched dates. The venues are the same, but we’re now doing Roanoke on Friday 4/26 and Richmond on Saturday 4/27.

photo by bc!

ROCHESTER: WORKER JUSTICE CAMPAIGN TEACH-INs (Tomorrow!)

Join Us for our Worker Justice Meeting &

DIRECT ACTION ESCALATION CAMPAIGN TRAINING

This Saturday, May 12, 3:30-5:30pm

Flying Squirrel Community Space - 285 Clarissa St.

New workers will be joining us! We’ll engage in an action-packed training on how to launch effective direct action escalation campaigns & discuss our active worker cases. Check out our May training schedule!

Subscrbie to our listserv at  http://lists.rocus.org/listinfo/or-workerjustice

May 2012 Training Schedule

Sat, May 5: Know Your Rights & Fight Wage Theft

Are you being cheated of your wages? What is wage theft? Learn about your wage & hour rights, how protect yourself in the workplace & fight back. (Reyna Ramolete)

Sat, May 12: Direct Action Escalation Campaigns

Learn how to turn worker struggles into effective direct action escalation campaigns by strategizing demands, targets, timing, & tactics. Create campaigns that educate the community, build worker power, leverage public pressure, & gain tangible wins.  

(Mark Friedman & Ryan Acuff)

Sat, May 19: Building Sustainable Worker Power

Why should we organize into unions? How can we do it? What are the challenges? How can we overcome them? (Colin O’Malley)

Sat, May 26: Popular Education - Educate to Liberate

Learn how to educate to liberate by applying popular education methods & tools. Popular education curriculum comes out of the concrete experience of people in communities of resistance, its pedagogy is focused on group & collective learning, & it forges links between education & action. (Larry Knox & Reyna Ramolete)

ANARCHIST DAY SCHOOL @ University of Rochester (U of R SDS x Rochester Red and Black)

https://www.facebook.com/events/219278661510930/

EVERYONE OUT FOR TOMORROW’S ANARCHIST FORUM

Rochester Red and Black and U of R Students for a Democratic Society are proud to present “Another World is Possible: An Anarchist Day School”, a day-long series of workshops intended to provide broader access to the rich and varied field of anarchist ideas and practices. We’re excited to be hosting authors of new releases from AK Press, including Deric Shannon, co-editor of “The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics” and Maia Ramnath, author of “Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle”.

The event will be hosted in rooms 108 and 109 in Goergen Hall at the University of Rochester. Parking will be free during the event.


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OPENING PLENARY
12:00-2:00

Anarchist Economics

Speaker: Deric Shannon

Editor of the new book “The Accumulation of Freedom: Writing on Anarchist Economics”, Deric Shannon will discuss some of the common critiques of capitalism anarchists hold and explore the centuries-long debate about what free, egalitarian society could look like.


SESSION 1
2:15-3:30

Room 1
Especifismo: Anarchist Organization and Praxis

Speaker: Colin O’Malley

Colin O’Malley will discuss the organizational strategy used by many South American anarchist organizations (including groups like Red Libertaria in Argentina and the FARJ in Brazil) and how it can be used to shape effective anarchist organizations in the US.

Room 2
Anarchism in the Philippines, Past and Present

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Gibson

Thomas Gibson, professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester will lead a discussion about the history of anarchism in the Philippines from the late 19th century to present.


LUNCH
3:30-4:30

Food is available on campus, and some refreshments will be provided. We also encourage attendees to check out our vendors including AK Press and Thought Crime Ink!


SESSION 2
4:30-5:45

Room 1
Taking Back the Land

Speaker: TBA

Take Back the Land (http://takebacktheland.org/) will talk about its approach to the idea of “Housing as a Human Right” and why direct action is critical to expanding direct, community control over land and housing.

Room 2
Strategies for Building an Independent Media

Speakers: Andy Dillon, Ted Forsyth, and Ben Dean-Kawamura

Long-time media activists Ted Forsyth, Andy Dillon, and Ben Dean-Kawamura will lead a presentation on the history and strategies behind Rochester Indymedia (rochester.indymedia.org), a 10-year old independent media outlet dedicated to promoting community control and participation in media production.


CLOSING PLENARY
6:00-8:00

Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian Look at India’s Liberation Struggle

Speaker: Maia Ramnath

Author of Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle and Institute for Anarchist Studies fellow, Maia Ramnath will give a presentation on the anti-authoritarian elements within India’s liberation struggle, examining the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism, while highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures.

SUCCESSFUL ACTION! U of R Protests Sexist Professor!

  Minus the minor factual inaccuracy (we never left and came back), very happy with yesterday’s protest and the article!

Limbaugh-backing professor draws fire at UR by Jim Goodman, March 7, 2012.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120307/NEWS01/303070022/University-of-Rochester-Rush-Limbaugh-Steven-Landsburg?odyssey=nav|head

Thirty University of Rochester students held a protest Wednesday afternoon in the classroom of a UR economics professor who said that Rush Limbaugh provided the “requisite mockery” of a Georgetown University law student.Limbaugh generated a firestorm of criticism for calling Georgtown student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” because she testified before congressional Democrats that she wanted her college health plan to cover birth control.

The protest, which took place at Hutchison Hall, came after UR President Joel Seligman sharply criticized the professor, Steven Landsburg. Seligman’s statement, which was included in a Wednesday email of college news sent to faculty and staff, said that he is “outraged that any professor would demean a student in this fashion.”

Protesting students entered Landsburg’s room at the beginning of his mid-afternoon class.

“They formed a line between him and the class. And he continued to lecture,” said UR spokeswoman Sharon Dickman, who noted a couple of University Security officers were on the scene but didn’t need to take any action.

After about 15 minutes, the protesters left but returned about 45 minutes later for the end of the class, which Landsburg dismissed about five minutes early.

UR student Alykhan Alani, one of the protesters, said the group was not ready to discuss their concerns.

But a flier found at the protest says, “We denounce professor Steven Landsburg’s attempt to smear a gender with derogatory terms.”

The flier further says, “We are dismayed that a fully tenured academic would so carelessly sully our fine institution’s name.”

Landsburg’s comments appeared across three entries on his blog, between March 2 to March 7.

He said that that Fluke “deserves only to be ridiculed, mocked and jeered,” and that “Rush stepped in to provide the requisite mockery” with a “spot-on analogy.”

Landsburg went on to write that Limbaugh wanted to brand Fluke a “slut,” but said he disagrees with that characterization and that a “far better word might have been ‘prostitute.’ ” However. Landsburg added, that word also doesn’t fit.

“She will, as I understand it, be having sex whether she gets paid or not. The right word for that is something much closer to ‘extortionist.’ Or better yet, ‘extortionist with an overweening sense of entitlement,’ ” Landsburg wrote.

Seligman’s statement said that Landsburg has right to express his views, but took him to task for his comments.

“To openly ridicule, mock, or jeer a student in this way is about the most offensive thing a professor can do. We are here to educate, to nurture, to inspire, not to engage in character assassination,” said Seligman.

In an email to the Democrat and Chronicle, Landsburg said that Seligman wants the university to promote the free exchange of ideas, but that Fluke “didn’t even pretend to be interested in debating any of the serious issues raised by the question of when some of us should pick up the tab for others’ expenses.”

Professor Honey Meconi, director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at UR, said that Seligman’s comments were on the mark, in what she called “an eloquent defense of the necessity of civil discourse.”

Landsburg’s comments, she said, did not.

“The first blog I read jumped right into name-calling,” she said.

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TONIGHT: HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT CAMPAIGN LAUNCH #ROCHESTER #METROJUSTICE