Just today I acctually went to Freedom Uprising festival at the Santa Monica College bell tower. It was cool, they had a few performers there, some food, a bunch of workshops. Just a cool little place to chill out.

I went to the Pasedena Anarchist Federation thing on the Iraqi war fanniversery and we all took an area and passed out pamphlets, stood infront of supermarkets, etc, it was their "mobilize like cats, not sheep" protest strategy.

I've been to a few meetings at the Anarchist Cafe that they do every so often, and I've been to a couple things at the Black Book Anarchist Bookstore, as well as a few random Food Not Bombs gatherings. On friday got invited to a vegan potluck at a new anarchist space, The Gaian-Mind in Longbeach, but unfortunatly could not attend.

I might go to the Mayday Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Authoritarian gathring thing tomorrow in LA, if I can gather some gas money or find a carpool. I went to the Zapatista Festival last Saturday too, and I've done a few random marches at times.

On friday I went to a critical mass bike ride. Critical mass is bicyclists things done all around the world. It's where bicyclists get together (usually on the last friday of every month) and ride through the streets during rush hour together. It's to show that bikes are a good source of alternative transportation. Also some people protest in need of bike paths, and others want to show car drivers that bicyclists are part of traffic. Then there are a couple people who do it for the sake of being assholes, but there are very few of them.

It was really fun. I did it 4 years ago too. We get both honks of anger and honks of support from car drivers. It's a really fun expirience if you're a bike rider. Even more fun if you want to meet new people in your town.

[url]www.critical-mass.org[/url] see if your town has one.

How can you differ between a honk of anger and a honk of support?

[QUOTE=TheNowhereman42]How can you differ between a honk of anger and a honk of support?[/QUOTE]
Sometimes you can see the person in their car. If they wave happily or shout "woohoo!" out of their car, it's for support. Other then that I just assume it's pissed off people.

the finger is a good sign of a honk of anger

Ah cool cool, I'd go to one in LA, but I'd have to drive to it so that would kind of defeat the purpose. I'd love to be able to bike everywhere, but my school is 20 minutes away and if I ride the bus I have to wait in the freezing cold for an hour or get there late.

[QUOTE=TheNowhereman42]Ah cool cool, I'd go to one in LA, but I'd have to drive to it so that would kind of defeat the purpose. I'd love to be able to bike everywhere, but my school is 20 minutes away and if I ride the bus I have to wait in the freezing cold for an hour or get there late.[/QUOTE]
A couple of people biked to the critical mass in my town from far far away. It took them 4 hours to get there, they claimed. As soon as they got to the meeting spot, one of their tires popped. I felt so bad for the guy :(

I do bike everywhere because I'm too poor for a car, I have no interest in driving, I was raised to hate cars, and I don't really have anywhere to go that I can't bike, walk, bus, or freeload a car ride from a friend to.

That's really cool.

During the bike ride we all got into single file (probably 40 people) and biked through the vallet parking at this nice hotel. I heard some kids laughing, and saw the vallet parkers being confused. good times.

That really sounds fun, actually. Except I'm not really to much of a biker.

i live in a rural area so i cant really bike everywhere but if i lived in the city i def would

Do anti-black seminars count?

Haha, I live on Cape Cod, so its just a bunch of old rich people. Id probably have to drive an hour to go to any sort of protest, a d seeing as Im 14, I dont see that happening any time soon. But Id definatly go to any sort of anarchist/anti war meetings that popped up.

I had a mosh party thing in school. it was great i had like 30 kids moshing about, and when teachers came they tried to stop people but were to scared of getting hurt so they just said stop! then the bell rang to go to your class (we have a 10 min class switch), and we all just grabbed our bags and went to class teachers didnt do anything! it was grewat were gonna do it again on the last day of school.

also on the last day of school we have 27 people ready to march into school wearing punk & goth style clothes and we have a american flag that we have spraypainted a anarchy logo on. and the princible said we could have an american flag on a pole brought in to the school.

well thats it sorry for the long post.

I did not have the chace to do lot of event like this because i'm 15 and the only place were these things happens in Quebec is montreal and i'm about 1 hour far from montreal by car. But i had the chance to go to the manifestation about the money that the governement did not spend on scholarship but nothing really happened, we just walked like 2 hours and thats all.

I was in Dissent's G8 protests, that was fun. I was in the protests in London about DSei, got arrested there, for being 'equipped with intent to cause criminal damage'! I had a permanent marker and some spray paint for God's sake! I was arrested under the Terrorism Act. Apparantly a permanent marker is a 'tool of terrorism'. Are they going to arrest every person who has a pen because he might use it to sign for a delivery of dirty plutonium?!

To anyone protesting in Britain, if the police detain you (not arrest) and make you move from place to place and other stuff they shouldn't be able to do, if they say anything about Section 60 or Section 44, then yes, it's a bummer, but they can do all those things. It means they can blockade any road at any time for whatever reason, they can search people for weapons without suspicion, they can move whole groups of people as long as there are over twenty of them, they can confiscate anything that could be used to hide a person's identity, they can detain you for up to 6 hours, but if they don't tell you why by 20 minutes, that's 'against the rules'.

[QUOTE=coheneran]I was in Dissent's G8 protests, that was fun. I was in the protests in London about DSei, got arrested there, for being 'equipped with intent to cause criminal damage'! I had a permanent marker and some spray paint for God's sake! I was arrested under the Terrorism Act. Apparantly a permanent marker is a 'tool of terrorism'. Are they going to arrest every person who has a pen because he might use it to sign for a delivery of dirty plutonium?!

To anyone protesting in Britain, if the police detain you (not arrest) and make you move from place to place and other stuff they shouldn't be able to do, if they say anything about Section 60 or Section 44, then yes, it's a bummer, but they can do all those things. It means they can blockade any road at any time for whatever reason, they can search people for weapons without suspicion, they can move whole groups of people as long as there are over twenty of them, they can confiscate anything that could be used to hide a person's identity, they can detain you for up to 6 hours, but if they don't tell you why by 20 minutes, that's 'against the rules'.[/QUOTE]

My Religion teacher went through the new terrorism laws today in class. Absolute bulls[SIZE="2"]h[/SIZE]it, next time I go out with fireworks on me I could end up in jail for two weeks without any reason. And if I try to run from the cops they can legally shoot me dead.

[QUOTE=asdf]On friday I went to a critical mass bike ride.[/QUOTE]

I've seen flyers around for that.

I bike as much as I can, purely because I flat out prefer to.

[QUOTE=StruckEverywhere]I've seen flyers around for that.

I bike as much as I can, purely because I flat out prefer to.[/QUOTE]

I believe Cambridge has a Critical Mass every Friday. We also had one for the DSEi protests, we held up loads of traffic and a bunch of cop-carriers.

I used to bike around loads, but there was too much maintenance to do as my bike kept falling apart, and it's not fun to run around the road every time there are no cars around in the pouring London acid rain trying to find the little hexagonal screw that keeps your pedal on your bike.

Does anyone know any protests/demonstrations coming up in England, or sites that list them?
And has anyone been to Rossport?

There was one in D.C. with Le Tigre, Bouncing Souls, Anti-Flag, and a buncha others i wanted to go to, but I couldn't... I had to go to some family thing instead.

Haven't been to a Protest or an event of the sort yet, but I want to go soon. They look very interesting, and from what i've researched online, i'd meet lots of interesting/like-minded people. It seems like a great medium to learn a lot. I was supposed to attend the annual Mumim Abu-Jamal rally in the city this past year, but went to a show instead, forgot which show.

[QUOTE=Aus Rotten]Haven't been to a Protest or an event of the sort yet, but I want to go soon. They look very interesting, and from what i've researched online, i'd meet lots of interesting/like-minded people. It seems like a great medium to learn a lot. I was supposed to attend the annual Mumim Abu-Jamal rally in the city this past year, but went to a show instead, forgot which show.[/QUOTE]

there are always demonstrations and protests going on. try googling your city and protests/demonstrations.

[QUOTE=StruckEverywhere]I've seen flyers around for that.

I bike as much as I can, purely because I flat out prefer to.[/QUOTE]
Same with me, and same with my mom. My mom is 50 years old, doesn't have a license, and hasn't driven since the 70's.

i just went to a protest yesterday. organized by the world cant wait organization. i met a lot of cool peope adn anarchists

This thread is so old.

[QUOTE=Mr.Shankly]There was one in D.C. with Le Tigre, Bouncing Souls, Anti-Flag, and a buncha others i wanted to go to, but I couldn't... I had to go to some family thing instead.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that was Operation Ceasefire hosted by Jello Biafra. That concert was actually very minor compared to the rest of the anti-war events on September 24th with over 300,000 people attending.

I also met Sam (Anti-Prefix) at the Green Festival that was held on the same day, same place.

i live in northen cali and live 45 minits away from even a movie theater so not much out here in the way of protests. i am planing on makeing my own biodiesel. my way of "sticking it to the man"

[QUOTE=jonny no-name]i live in northen cali and live 45 minits away from even a movie theater so not much out here in the way of protests. i am planing on makeing my own biodiesel. my way of "sticking it to the man"[/QUOTE]

If my american geography is correct, it probably isn't, northern cali is the part with most of the redwoods isn't it? because if it is you're surrounded by small camps of Forest Defenders from Earth First! and Green Peace Action and Friend Of The Earth. They're full of conscientous punks and other activists (well duh).

I remember this thread.

I was supposed to go to a protest 2 weeks ago, but it rained like a b[COLOR="White"]it[/COLOR]ch. BUT, theres one coming up soon.

[QUOTE=dropkickstreetpunk2]I remember this thread.

I was supposed to go to a protest 2 weeks ago, but it rained like a b[COLOR="White"]it[/COLOR]ch. BUT, theres one coming up soon.[/QUOTE]

What part of the world are you in?