Despite the cold temperatures you can once again find many In Our Hearts zines and pamphlets including some new additions at the now cage-free Liberty Square!

Come say hi! We will be there tonight through the general assembly which starts at 7pm.

Due to the holiday we will not be receiving as many donations as normally so all are encouraged to contribute food / ingredients before 4pm or a dish later. We expect to have a great, delicious meal in any case!

Watch First the Dishes Then the Revolution  by Jeff Stark and get an idea about what Grub is.For now Grub is being hosted at 136 Lawrence St. between Fulton and Willoughby , Brooklyn, NY (map) Watch for updates!Join us for Grub: a free and open community dinner held on the first and third Sundays of every month.We plan to be able to serve approximately 50 people, so it’s first come first serve. There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99% of the food we sha…re is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of grocery stores.

Most importantly Grub is about building a stronger and more supportive community, so feel free to come early and hang out. We need help gathering, cooking and preparing food for Grub (culinary skill not necessarily required). Volunteers are welcome to bring vegetarian (freegan and vegan is preferred) food and make their own dishes or help out with the preparation in general.

And as we’re sure you always already do, please go out of your way to talk to strangers and to welcome new people. That’s why we’re here.

Please come as early as 3:30pm if you would like to help us prepare the meal!
All are asked to make a contribution.

Check in with us on Facebook for to RSVP.

We will have a table and lots of relevant zines at this awesome event!

Please join Occupy Wall St. to connect the colonial occupation of Manhattan to Occupy Wall Street— an occupation of already occupied land. We are taking action on this day, on the 121st anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, in order to initiate an open dialogue with indigenous Americans, to raise local and national awareness of ongoing Native struggles, and to recognize that the injustices and inequalities we all currently confront are the bricks and mortar of conquest and settler colonialism. Conditions of capitalist exploitation are predicated upon the acquisition of territory and the dispossession and dehumanization of indigenous peoples. The American political economy of greed is forever implicated in settler nationalism.

Standing as allies with indigenous Americans, we seek to un-settle our consciousness.

Un-settling “occupation” calls us to remain cognizant that our movement unfolds on land seized by force, and compels us to take action in support of indigenous peoples—peoples for whom occupation has not been a choice, but a lived experience of oppression.

Join us for a conversation about how Occupy Wall St. can move toward a radical un-settling of “occupation”—in vision and in action—and build a movement that is more expansive, more inclusive, more conscious, and more just.

Janice Richards, Oglala Lakota, Activist and Educator
Jake Little, Oglala Lakota, Activist and Educator
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota, Activist, Artist, Host of First Voices Radio
Firewolf Nelson-Wong, Diné, AIM Member and Activist
Demelza Champagne, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Activist and Scholar
Members of AMERINDA: American Indian Artists, Inc.
Gloria Miguel, Kuna, will perform excerpts from her one-woman play,
“Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”

As a movement striving to voice the experiences of the 99%, we must make space for those most marginalized by the mechanisms of settler colonialism: the original inhabitants of the land. Dismantling the rhetoric of colonialism enables us to subvert imperialist structures of power. By listening to indigenous perspectives on “occupation,” we move closer to creating a safe space for indigenous peoples to connect to the movement, and finding roads down which indigenous and non-indigenous collaborators can walk together, fight together, and engage in transformative intellectual, emotional, and direct action exchanges.

Take the 2,3,4,5,N,R,Q,B,D Trains to Atlantic Ave-Pacific, the C Train to Lafayette, or the G Train to Fulton.

Questions? Email ljamsterdam@gmail.com.

CHARAS served the low-income, activist, and artist communities of lower east side for over 20 years, providing artist’s space, performance and gallery space, after school programs, workshops, English classes and meeting space for countless neighborhood organizations. In 1999, despite a community use restriction & widespread opposition, the building that housed CHARAS was auctioned off to private developer Gregg Singer, who immediately moved to evict them. After a hard fought battle, CHARAS was evicted on December 27, 2001. The building, still zoned for community use, has sat vacant and derelict ever since. This Sunday, it’s time CHARAS gets their community center back! Event Page

CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center was founded in 1965 by Latino youth leaders of notorious New York City gangs who resolved to organize to improve the Lower East Side. CHARAS was born from the awareness of the need for change, namely by addressing the broader issues impacting the community such as racism, police brutality, the lack of economic resources, services, quality education and housing.

Please join us to mark the Ten Year Anniversary of the Eviction of Charas Community Center with music, food, friends and a community speak out! Dance, speak out, and help us to create a community center in the street. One day the developer’s blue wall will come down, and that community center will be back inside where it belongs. With a General Assembly and performances by Great Small Works, Hungry March Band, Rev. Billy & the Church of Stop Stopping, the Peoples Mic and kid friendly activities including face painting, dance, and art making! Its a Potluck! Bring a dish to share!

CHARAS/ El Bohio Holiday Party and Community Potluck! Sunday, December 18 12pm – Rally at Tompkins Square Park 12:30pm – Process to CHARAS 605 East 9th Street (bet. aves. B & C)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th at 12PM
DUARTE SQ. PARK, 6th AVE & CANAL
PROTECT & CELEBRATE THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
… FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
OCCUPY

Join artists, musicians, and local community members for an
all-day performance event in support of Occupy Wall Street’s
re-occupation of space in downtown Manhattan.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION and right to assemble are sacred human freedoms. Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope, revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced. To Occupy is to embody the spirit of liberation that we wish to manifest in our society.

On Saturday, December 17th – the 3 month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the birthday of Bradley Manning, and the 1 year anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi – the act that sparked the Arab Spring – Occupy Wall Street will liberate another space.

Occupations create space for community, values, ideas and a level of meaningful dialogue absent in the present political and social system. They have allowed us to realize that we cannot fix our crises isolated from one another. We need collective action, and we need civic space. We are creating that civic space.

Outdoor public space plays a crucial role in this civic process and encourages open, transparent organizing in our movement, unbeholden to a broken political system. As we saw in Liberty Square, outdoor space invites people to listen, speak, share, learn, and act. It is a source of inspiration and empowerment.

Over the last month we have seen a series of coordinated attacks on occupations across the nation in an attempt to stop the growth of a movement for social and economic justice. Outdoor space is a threat
because it is a visible form of dissent– a visible challenge to the system, visibility that screams liberation.

We occupy to liberate. We move forward in the grand tradition of the transformative social movements that have defined American history. We stand on the shoulders of those who have struggled before us, and we pick up where others have left off. We are seeking a better society for us all.

Join us as we liberate space and deepen this moment into an enduring movement.

From their Kickstarter page:

 Have you been to a Rubulad? We can always spot the first-timers because their mouths are hanging open. They say “I didn’t know places like this really existed. I read about the Factory, but I had no idea there was anything like this in New York anymore.”

If you have, then you understand why our people keep coming back, month after month and year after year. Each month we hire artists to create an unforgettable, elaborately handmade landscape on a theme, on top of the art from the month before. We book musicians and DJs who get the floor moving. Filmstrips, cabaret, puppets. And we draw a diverse crowd that’s ready to dance.

Now we have to move from our home of the past six years.

We need a new home to build our collection back into the amazing forest of art it once was. We cannot raise enough by running parties in other spaces – with rental costs, and compensating musicians and artists for their work, it’s impossible to get ahead. Venues are scarce. We need you to bring Rubulad back to life!!

It’s a bitch to move in New York. Now imagine moving our whole collection and facilities.

• Storage
• Helping hands
• First, last plus commercial deposit
• A head start on building out a new space including major work like plumbing and electrical

It all adds up, bigtime. Your donation will not only get you a limited edition Rubulad t-shirt or piece of original art, but will also keep the party alive. This is our only fundraising appeal – and if every single person on our list gives $20, we will be ahead of our goal!

Art spaces like Monster Island and Surreal Estate are closing down all around us. The pressures of the real estate market are not new. But everything fun doesn’t have to disappear.

photo by E.A.R

What People are Saying About Us

“When I was a fresh face in the city, Rubulad was the first slice of night that I felt at home in. It was more than a party, it was a community. Hundreds of vital projects, performers and inspired conversations emerged from that community.” -William Etundi, TheDanger.com

“Rubulad stands for no-holds-barred creative freedom to carve our own space in a frequently limiting city. Their resilience, fierce independence, radical inclusivity, commitment to the arts, whimsical creativity, and welcoming attitude have been continually inspiring to me in my ten years of creating nightlife events. Rubulad is what people have in mind when they picture wildly creative underground nightlife in NYC, a happening emblematic of the city whose real-life existence is actually endangered.” – Miss Scorpio, geminiandscorpio.com

“Rubulad is one of the most important ingredients in New York City nightlife. For more than the last decade, it has been a creative hot bed of innovative music and art, as well as a showcase and springboard for local, national and international artists. It has nurtured my craft and served as a celebratory meeting place for friends new and old.” – Taylor Kuffner (Zemi17), artistic director of the Gamelatron

“I grew up in NYC, but Rubulad was my first introduction to any cultural underground and truly DIY institution in The City. As a kid living on my own in Brooklyn, their events opened up a world of possibilities to me for what sort of universe a group of dedicated people could create for those around them and inspired me to begin dedicating my time towards exploring the warehouse spaces of Brooklyn, eventually working on projects like Silent Barn and SHOWPAPER specifically so that others could discover that same sort of magic I had found on Flushing over five years ago. I always felt that Silent Barn was a little sibling to Rubulad’s mission of mixing the perfect batch of art, community, and chaos.”- Joe Ahearn – Silent Barn // Showpaper // Clocktower Gallery http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1008830584/rebuilding-the-silent-barn

“January 2000. The beginning of a new millenium. First kiss, first dance, some absinthe and romance. Now, we’re married with a kid who is almost seven. Thanks, Rubulad!” - Laura & Mark

Even the cabbies love us.

“My cab driver last night has been picking up from your various locations for many years, not knowing they were all yours. He then asked about 3rd Ward, Danger, Winkel, and various other parties that have been part of the community that you started and supported and incubated really. I told him that you trained and inspired most all of those other event organizers, and he was not surprised. Then he said ‘I think I would like that lady. Whenever I’m working on a Friday or a holiday, I check her space first for fares. Her crowds are the nicest, most respectful people in Brooklyn party-goers. They talk to me like a person. Tell her I wish her well and good fortune this year.’” – Maureen Flaherty

*** See our bio for further links and interviews about Rubulad’s past, present, and future…

Grub- a community dinner. photo by Jessie Roberts.

top photo credit – Jenene Bernstein.

The Free Literature Table is once again bringing radical ideas to the people. Today we are back in Union Square. Tomorrow we maybe back downtown near Liberty Square. and then possibly in Brooklyn. To find out where we are exactly you can follow us on Twitter#IOHNYC.

Join us this Sunday for Grub: a free and open community dinner held on the first and third Sundays of every month.

at 136 Lawrence St. between Fulton and Willoughby , Brooklyn, NY (map)

7pm is dinner (come as early as 3:30pm to help prepare dinner.)

We expect to have food for at least approximately 50 people, so it’s first come first serve. There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99% of the food we share is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of or directly donated by local grocery stores.

Most importantly Grub is about building a stronger and more supportive community, so feel free to come early and hang out. We need help gathering, cooking and preparing food for Grub (culinary skill not necessarily required). Volunteers are welcome to bring vegetarian (freegan and vegan is preferred) food and make their own dishes or help out with the preparation in general. Let us know if you want to be part of it, we’ll be starting around 3:30pm.

And as we’re sure you always already do, please go out of your way to talk to strangers and to welcome new people. That’s why we’re here.

Please come as early as 3pm if you would like to help us prepare the meal!
All are asked to make a contribution to the meal.

Watch First the Dishes Then the Revolution by Jeff Stark and get an idea about what Grub is.
Check in with us on Facebook for the most up to date info.