Happy September! We are meeting, as we do on the second Tuesday of every month, at 6:30pm at Various/Artists (19 Essex St). A tenant rep from Stop FEC Demolition will be joining us to think through our next iteration of the stencils we revived for Homes for People, Not for Profit (stay tuned for more details).
We have a packed month ahead of us! Hope to see you at one (or more) of the events below:
Abolition Block Party Year 5
Join abolitionist organizers across New York City for the fifth annual Abolition Block Party on Saturday, September 12, 1–6pm, in Crown Heights’ Brower Park! As always, there will be free food, music, performances, workshops, and more. Masks will be provided and required.
This year’s theme, “Attica is Everywhere: From Crown Heights to the Golan Heights, All the Walls Must Fall!”, commemorates the Attica Prison uprising (September 9, 1971) and the Gilboa Prison break (September 6, 2021), in which six Palestinian prisoners dug their way to temporary freedom using spoons.
In the face of intensifying state repression, we draw courage from people who steadfastly resist their captivity, whether in the open-air prison of Gaza or the concentration camps of Amerikkka. In the face of draconian “terrorism” and “conspiracy” charges leveled against our antifascist comrades, we refuse to retreat.
Here in New York City, our “affordability” mayor has repudiated defunding the NYPD, while the city hemorrhages billions on four skyscraper jails. Also looming: the demolition of public housing and the construction of casinos on public parkland. Right here, right now, we must unite against any enclosure of the commons — borders, prison walls, private extraction — both near and far.
Hosted by Survived and Punished NY, Critical Resistance, Another World, Art Against Displacement, and Brooklyn Jail Support, with the participation of more than 30 organizations and collectives across New York City.
NY Art Book Fair 2026
This month, we’re thrilled to participate in the NY Art Book Fair for the third year in a row, especially on the occasion of NYABF’s 20th, and Printed Matter and MoMA PS1’s 50th, anniversaries. We plan to debut a new zine about our ongoing Homes for People, Not for Profit project, which revives Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 1985 Homeless at Home project, in anticipation of a collaborative window installation at Printed Matter this fall.
Find us at Booth A5 inside the zine tent, in the left corner nearest to the entrance. As usual, our table will feature zines and ephemera created by our members and comrades, including Brooklyn Jail Support and Research and Destroy, and we will donate all tabling proceeds to mutual aid efforts in New York City and Gaza.
We’re disappointed that for the first time in its history, NYABF will be charging a $10 entry fee across all three days to “alleviate a myriad of rising production costs.” We wish that this year’s sponsors, Nike and Warby Parker, could have at least supported Free Sunday, as has been the case in previous years (prior to 2020, NYABF was entirely free, aside from opening night). That said, “no one will be turned away for lack of funds.”
Thursday, September 24, 7–10pm ($60)
Friday, September 25, 12–7pm ($10)
Saturday, September 26, 10am–7pm ($10)
Sunday, September 27, 12–6pm ($10)
Location: MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens)
Zine* Together at Asia Art Archive in America
We’re honored to be included in Asia Art Archive in America’s Zine* Together, which opens on Thursday, September 17, and runs through March 31, 2027:
Zine* Together is the first exhibition of its kind to examine Asian American zines not only as objects, but as actions — creative, collective, and relational. Drawing from Asia Art Archive in America’s Reading Room collection, this exhibition highlights collaboratively produced zines from 2010 to the present, alongside newly commissioned projects and prompts that trace zine-making as a mode of shared authorship and community building.
Zine* Together, itself a collaborative project, is organized by Claire Kim, Susanna Chang, Sarula Bao, Michelle Yee, Elizabeth Chung, Mary Y. Yang, Chen Luo, and Tasnima Tanzim.
RSVP for the opening here!
Speaker Menin: Stop Violence Against Women!
Home care workers, the Ain’t I a Woman?! Campaign, and their supporters will be returning to City Hall on Saturday, October 3, to demand that City Council Speaker Julie Menin bring the original No More 24 Act to a vote.
RSVP for the rally here; see you there!
Relatedly, the Peter Kwong Immigrant Workers Learning Center is hosting two roundtable discussions featuring the Marxist feminist scholar Silvia Federici and organizers from the No More 24 campaign:
Sunday, September 13, 4:30–6:30pm
Woodbine (414 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York)
Sunday, September 27, 4:30–6:30pm
Church of the Village (201 W 13th St, New York)
RSVP for roundtables here.
