New York Rat’s 3rd issue hits the streets

Posted April 6th, 2005 by k.see

Copies of the 3rd issue of NYC Rat, the Radical Anarchist Tabloid, are available at locations around NYC or through the collective. (Email newyorkrat[at]riseup.net)

The newest issue includes a wonderful cover illustration by Cristy Road and a centerfold poster for the upcoming Mayday festivities. Articles include Teenage Lobotomy, a piece on AntiRacistAction, the Libertad School Collective, a great “Know Your Rights” comic strip,
and a wealth of resources troughout and in their Anarchist Black pages.

Download the Mayday poster below…

Mayday poster - New York Rat8.5 x 11 inch JPG (400K)

11 x 17 inch JPG (700K)

Full-sized PDF on NY Rat page (6MB)

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  1. ksee Says:

    Some of those locations are
    Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen St
    MayDay Books, 1551st Ave
    and plenty of cafes and businesses in BKLYN and Manhattan.

    Write to them if you are outside of the city. They are more than happy to send a stack of them to you!

  2. Lucky Parsons Says:

    A New World in our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Festival

    http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm

    Schedule -

    Thursday, April 28th

    All Day Workshops at the Times Up! Space
    5-7pm The Bee Hive Collective http://www.beehivecollective.org/ will
    be a giving a presentation of their Plan Pueblo Panama Poster in
    Washington Square Park (the rain location would be close by in an NYU
    building)
    6pm Bike repair workshop at Time’s Up Downstairs
    6-8pm Afro-Punk http://www.afropunk.com/ screening followed by Q&A
    with director James Spooner at the Time’s Up Space
    7:30-10:30pm Folk Punk / Punk show with Defiance Ohio, The Good Good,
    Bent Outta Shape 141 South 5th St. Apt. 1SE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
    between Bedford & Driggs

    Friday, April 29th

    10am-6pm Workshops at St. Marks Church in doors and out doors
    12pm Workshops at ABC No Rio in the Gallery
    7pm Critical Mass bike ride Union Sq. North (East 18th St between
    Broadway & Park Ave.)
    8pm Show with Japanther, Rude Mechanicals Orchestra, & Majesty location TBA

    Saturday, April 30th

    All Day Workshops at the Times Up! Space 4pm Beginners Welding Workshop
    10am-6pm Really Free Market at St. Marks Church outside only
    10am-8pm Workshops at Cooper Union
    1:30-4:30pm Anarchist Soccer Tournament East River Park
    Nighttime Show

    Sunday, May 1st

    Actions TBA
    12pm Anti-Nuke March and Rally starts on 1st Ave. and 50th St. North,
    rally at the Heckscher Ball fields in Central Park from 2-6 pm.
    Sponsored by United For peace and Justice
    http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2788
    2-6 pm The 19th Annual Squatters Mayday Celebration in Tompkins Square
    Park hosted by Black Kat http://www.blackkat.org/
    More actions will be announced soon.

    Confirmed Bands -

    Defiance Ohio – folk punk http://defianceohio.terrorware.com/
    Leftover Crack - (acoustic) Squat-core Ska-Punk http://www.leftovercrack.com/
    Majesty – political Brooklyn hip-hop
    The Rude Mechanicals Orchestra – protest march band
    Japanther – electronic punk http://www.tapesrecords.com/secretsight.html
    Hiretsukan - Hardcore punk http://www.hiretsukan.com/
    The Good Good - Brooklyn
    Bent Outta Shape – NY punk
    Bread & Roses – Boston folk punk
    Ryan Harvey – riot folk (political folk singer) http://www.ryanharvey.cjb.net/
    Luminescent Orchestra – gypsy music http://www.lumii.org/
    Latterman – political L.I. punk http://www.lattermanband.com/
    Guadalupe – punk

    Confirmed Speakers and Presenters -

    Andy Stephanian of Long Island Animal Defense League
    http://www.animaldefense.info/ and Former Animal Liberation Front
    prisoner
    Ashanti Alston of Critical Resistance & Anarchist People of Color
    former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army prisoner
    http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther.html
    The Bee Hive Collective http://www.beehivecollective.org/
    Jamie Moran from Friends of Jeff Luers http://www.freefreenow.org/
    Professor Lebbeus Woods
    http://www.cooper.edu/architecture/faculty/faculty/woods.html
    Marc Krupanski of the Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project
    Marina Sitrin a NYC-based activist, writer and lawyer who has just
    finished writing a book on autonomous social movements in Argentina
    Mountain Justice Summer http://mountainjusticesummer.org/
    The Toy Shop Collective http://www.toyshopcollective.com/
    The Visual Resistance Collective http://www.visualresistance.org/wordpress/

    Confirmed Workshops and Presentations -

    Architecture and Anarchy
    Bicycle Maintenance
    Bridging the Generational Divide
    Challenging Patriarchy
    Computer Security Workshop
    Direct Action
    Discussion of the Beehive Collective’s Plan Pueblo Poster
    Do It Yourself Music
    Free School Education
    History of Anarchist May Day
    Health/Nutrition/Exercise
    Mountain Top Removal
    Punk and activism
    Radical Mental Health
    Radical Sex and Make Your Own Sex Toys
    Radical social change in Argentina
    Security Culture
    Silk-screening
    Stencil Making
    Supporting Political Prisoners
    Welding

    Locations -

    Times Up! Space - http://www.times-up.org/
    St. Marks Church - http://www.stmarkschurch-in-the-bowery.com/index.html
    ABC No Rio - http://www.abcnorio.org/
    141 South 5th St. Apt. 1SE
    Cooper Union
    Tompkins Square Park
    Bluestockings Bookstore - http://www.bluestockings.com/

    Endorsers -

    Times Up! http://www.times-up.org/
    Bombs and Shields http://bombsandshields.blogspot.com/
    The Mutual Support Network http://nyc.freeevents.org/
    The NYC Rat http://www.dominantfiction.com/newyorkrat.htm
    The Dispossessed Network http://dispossessednet.mahost.org/
    The Autonomous Space Collective
    Free Sense

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