There will be a free screening of Burning the Future:  Coal in America, written and directed by David Novack.  The documentary examines coal from cradle to grave, taking a look at its extraction through brutal mountaintop removal and the pollution caused by coal-fired electrical generation and its impacts on our air, soil, water and climate.  It is also a story of struggle between the coal industry and the residents of West Virginia, who are trying to save their mountains, forests, streams and the hollows in which many families have lived for generations,

Defend the RNC 8!
The Struggle for Justice After the RNC

Wednesday, April 29 - 7pm
Coffman Student Union Room 324
University of Minnesota
300 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis

at the Blue Nile Restaurant
2027 Franklin Ave E, Mpls

CRASS Zine Project

Never mind the scenesters. The revolution needs zinesters!

The CRASS Zine Project is looking for graphic artists, writers, illustrators, editors and contributors of all kinds.

The Starbucks Problem:
Renewing the Labor Movement in the Economic Crisis

THURSDAY
April 30th
7:00pm
Carnegie 006
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave.
St. Paul 55105

In the aftermath of the police riot in Dinkytown last weekend, a dozen people were arrested, one house is being evicted, and scores more are suffering the after-effects of injuries inflicted by police.  The University is setting up a website asking students to turn snitch, and the police and corporate media are - just like after the RNC - acting as if minor property damage justifies as full-on violent police attack of our neighbors and friends.

Teatro del Pueblo Presents...

May Day For Ray!

Protest the ongoing involuntary outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford wherever you are.

But if you can join us in Minneapolis/St. Paul that would be best!

• Friday, 1 May 2009 we will be in State Capitol Rotunda, St. Paul, Minneapolis, from 10 am to 2 pm. News conference at 11 am.

• Saturday we will have a strategy workshop, please e-mail for information about that to action@mindfreedom.org.

• Sunday we will use theater to leaflet at the enormous May Day Parade.

¡Únete con el bloque anticapilatista en este primero de mayo!

Marcha para derechos inmigrantes y trabajadores
Viernes, primero de mayo; 3pm Lake St. y Bloomington Ave, S. Minneapolis
debajo de las banderas rojas y negras 5-8 Festivo de la calle a Nicollet Ave y 28º St. Minneapolis.

Por más que un siglo, se celebraban el primero de mayo como un dia festivo de los
trabajadores. El día internacional de los trabajadores es una
celebración de nuestra fuerza y nuestras luchas, un día para

All Out for the Anti-Capitalist Bloc MAY DAY 2009! 

March for Immigrant and Workers Rights

Friday, May 1^st 4pm Lake St. and Bloomington Ave. S. Minneapolis

Look for the red and black flags!

5pm-8pm Street Festival at Nicollet Ave. & 28th St. Minneapolis 

Because of a firecode problem at the original space, the show has been moved to another location in South Mpls and will start at 7:00pm.  Email kkohlhase@gmail.com for the new location.

Teatro del Pueblo Presents...

Exciting news!  The RNC 8 have been asked to carry the lead banner at the head of Heart of the Beast's 25th annual Mayday parade.  In both a solidarity and fashion statement, the 8 will be decked out in matching Defend the RNC 8 t-shirts.

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Room 125,  Nolte Center for Continuing Education, University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus

Cost: Free and open to the public; refreshments will be served!

Come to the next Coldsnap open meeting! Learn more about how we go about providing legal support to the radical community, and how you can get involved.

Thursday, May 7, 7pm
Blue Nile Restaurant
2027 Franklin Ave E, Mpls

For more information about us, check out http://www.coldsnaplegal.org or email us at coldsnap@riseup.net. For more information about yourself, request your file from the FBI.

love and solidarity,

Coldsnap Legal Collective

Reading and Concert:
Poet Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary, with a performance of labor songs by the Twin Cities Labor Chorus

Thursday, May 7, 7 p.m.
Rondo Community Outreach Library, 461 North Dale Street

On Saturday, May 9th local Somalis are organizing an event in response to the FBI's targeting of their community.  It is critical that othere attend in solidarity with them.  The FBI's racist profiling of Somalis is unjust and we have an important role to play.  Come to this event as an act of solidarity and to learn what you can do to support our Somali sisters and brothers. 

Voices from Somali Minnesotans:  A Community Response
Saturday, May 9th from 4- 8pm @ Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. S.

5:00pm -- Performances by Teresa Ortiz, Kyle "Guante" Myhre, Juliana Hu Pegues, Tatiana Ormaza, Grupo Quetzal, AB Capoeira Senavox,  Fire Dancer

On Mothers day May 10^th at 2:00 pm a press conference will be held to announce that several south side residents are pledging to fight to keep their homes, and resist evictions brought on by the current foreclosure crisis. 

With the support of Minnesota Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign

RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR FONG LEE
Unarmed man killed by Minneapolis cops

Monday, May 11, 8:45 a.m.

Federal Courthouse

316 N Robert Street, St. Paul

Parking/transportation

Shuttle buses will be available starting at 8:00 a.m. from

Lao Family Community of Minnesota,

320 W University Ave, St. Paul

OR meet at 8:00 a.m. at

Joseph’s Grill,

--Please post widely--Last Minute Support Event Tonight

That's right, it's never to early to press the flesh for your campaign, so

WED. MAY 13, 7:30 pm Bollier discusses his book Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own
at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 HENNEPIN AVENUE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MN 55408

Walker Church 3104 16th Ave S. Minneapolis.

Childcare will be available. Please email us at twincitiesearthfirst at hushmail.com to let us know ages of your little rebels and when you are coming.

Monday May 18th 6:30 Free Meal

7pm-9pm History of EF! nationally and locally, updates from the road, maybe a short film or two, and a discussion of local issues, including the current battle against a Canadian oil pipeline being fought in Northen Minnesota on the Leech Lake reservation and how we can help.

There will be a free screening of SAVING FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, a film about the impacts of clear-cutting old-growth forests in North America, which after the logging machines depart, are either left as wastelands that erode away or transformed into sterile, monocultural tree plantations made devoid of understory by means of herbicides.  Not only are the globe's forests the lungs of the planet by providing the oxygen we breathe, but there is growing evidence that coastal forests in particular function as its heart as well by pumping moisture that brings rainfall to the interior of the

Tuesday May 19th 5-10 pm

Walker Church 3104 16th Ave S. Minneapolis.

Childcare will be available. Please email us at twincitiesearthfirst at hushmail.com to let us know ages of your little rebels and when you are coming.

Useful skills for the forest or the cities. Anti-opression, Blockading, the Green Scare, Consensus and Facilitation, Native Solidarity, and more.

Be sure to check the TC-IMC calendar for exact workshop schedule.

For Immediate Release:

5/22/2009

What’s next for the immigrant rights movement?

CRASS Presents: A Community Anti-Oppression Workshop

Sunday, May 24
Noon-4pm
1050 Selby Avenue, St. Paul (E of Lexington)

Join EWOK! for a potluck and screening of The Camden 28, a documentary about 28 people arrested in a sting operation after destroying destroying records at a local draft board office during the Vietnam War. 

When: Sunday, May 24, 4pm

Where: Mayday Books, 301 Cedar Ave S, Mpls

Cost: $5-15 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds

All proceeds benefit recent political arrestees in Indiana. For more info, see:

http://www.midwestgreenscare.org/

Monday, May 25, 7pm
Arise Books & Resources Center (in the meeting room)
2441 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis

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Tuesday, May 26 @ 8 am Rally & Speak Out @ 5th Street Plaza, Hennepin County Government Center, Downtown Minneapolis, 9 am Attend Trial, Judge & room number to be announced