General Guide
Housing
Food
Medical Care
Legal Aid
The most active legal defense group for radical leftists and revolutionaries is the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). The Center for Constitutional Rights and many community organizations (such as the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement) help working class communities of color through community self-defense programs. You can find more about the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement at: www.mxgm.org
Armed Forces/Deployment Avoidance Counseling
You probably want to contact the War Resisters League (who have their national headquarters in New York) or the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW).
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Information
Winters in New York are typically long and make travel difficult. Winters are too cold and summers are too hot.
Underground Papers
For underground news, check out the Indypendent and the New York City Independent Media Center (IMC): nyc.indymedia.org
The New York Rat, The Indypendent, The Industrial Worker, and many others are available at Bluestockings Book Shop on Allen Street in the Lower East Side.
Miscellaneous
Time's Up! (NYC Direct Action Environmental Organization) has many free events and participates in Critical Mass: www.times-up.org
Bluestockings (NYC Radical Book Shop) has free poetry readings, free music, free art, and free thinking: www.bluestockings.org
The Yippie! Museum & Cafe has $0.50 coffee and free music or poetry every Friday and Saturday night. A hangout for local SDSers and members of the Youth International Party, both young and old. Cures Not Wars runs the National Mobilization for Cannibis Liberation every month and is located on the second floor: www.yippiemuseum.org
Public Transit
Subways, Buses, Ferries, Shuttles, etc. Don't get caught jumping the turnstile, especially at locations like Union Square where the pigs have a post inside the station as well as cameras, unless you are looking for a ticket or jail time. If you're white and a college student, the racist pigs are more likely to give you a ticket than to take you to Central Booking at 100 Chambers Street. If you bend a Metrocard the right way, you can break the magnetic strip and get a free unlimited pass. Make sure not to do this inside of the station and to do it out of the view of the authorities. This is illegal, and difficult to do.
