The Iron Rail

Ladies Night Summertime Hiatus

2010-06-03T15:51:00.000-05:00

FYI--I'm sure everyone is probably already aware but, Ladies Night is currently taking it's summer break and will return in July. Please stay tuned in for updates and message us with any and all of your event ideas!ladiesnight.ironrail@gmail.com<3<3<3

FRIDAY: Second Line for Healthcare & Education!

2010-04-08T09:41:00.000-05:00

Second Line for Healthcare & Education! Friday, April 9, 5:30 pm, Lafayette Square Park in New Orleans Please spread the word... re-mail & forward! More press = betterrrr There's going to be a big, crazy second line in the CBD on Friday: the Stooges Brass Band, the Free Agents Brass Band, and a level of ass-shaking the business district hasn't seen since the Second Line to Reopen Charity. We're

SRLC Welcoming Committee BBQ, this Saturday!

2010-04-02T13:06:00.002-05:00

Have you heard about the SRLC Welcoming Committee? We are a coalition of New Orleans individuals and groups (including the Committee to Save Charity Hospital) coming together to welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee to New Orleans by letting them and the world know what we think of Republican governor Bobby Jindal's ruthless assaults on Louisiana healthcare and education. We're

More new records, mostly downtown.

2010-03-24T17:15:00.004-05:00

A few new records down at ye olde Ironne Raille:--(DOWNTOWN):JAWBREAKER - Dear You dlpJAWBREAKER - Etc. dlpLIFETIME - Hello Bastards lpLIFETIME - Jersey's Best Dancers lpSHELL SHAG - Rumors in Disguise lpGET RAD - What the Fuck Happened to Common Sense? lpMAGRUDERGRIND - Rehashed lpHIS HERO IS GONE - Monuments to Thieves lpHIS HERO IS GONE - 15 Counts of Arson lpCURSED - Last Session 7"THE

NEVER FORGET.

2010-03-15T11:38:00.002-05:00

March 14, 2010: The day one of my all-time favorite newspaper comics, Mary Worth, led off with a quote from Emma Goldman. ...Amazing. I don't know what else to say. (click comic for full-sized version)

What is anarchism?

2010-03-10T12:53:00.000-06:00

What is anarchism? The first in a series of radical discussion groups will be held this Sunday, March 14th at the Iron Rail located at 511 Marigny St. The group is free and open to the public and will begin promptly at 7.30pm.

We're not in this alone.

2010-03-08T10:19:00.002-06:00

I just dropped off a good pile of classic Revelation Records hardcore and a few other odds and ends down on Marigny Street. Here's the lowdown, bidip bo!:GORILLA BISCUITS - Start Today lp + s/t 7"Everything you need by one of the best bands to ever come out of New York. Hardcore kids love them, skinheads love them, pop punks love them--even rudies like SKANKIN PICKLE love them. Better watch out,

New records downtown and uptown!

2010-03-03T08:58:00.004-06:00

I just dropped off tons of new records on Marigny Street:KOWLOON WALLED CITY - Gambling on the Richter Scale lpThe 10"s I grabbed are already gone, and I think we're down to one copy of this LP. Great stoner metal stuff from San Francisco that even a person like me who hates that s can love. I'm trying to get these guys to come down in the fall. Get with it.SALOME lpSuper heavy, female / demon

IRON RAIL CLEANING PARTY SAT FEB 20

2010-02-18T17:35:00.006-06:00

What is it to be clean? Cleanliness? What is it to cleanliness? What is to clean? What cleanliness? When you think of the Rail, does your nose twitch? Do the hairs inside your nostrils curl as if burnt? Do you, upon thinking of the Rail, perform an adorable bunny-rabbit-esque maxillofacial shrug, an instinctive aversive mouth-encompassing wince, twisting your mardi-gras-chapped lips across your

Ladies' Night

2010-01-08T19:12:00.001-06:00

Ladies' Night at the Iron Rail will be reading the Coming Insurrection as a group to be discussed at our 2/25 meeting. As usual, anyone who feels like a lady is strongly encouraged to join us. You in no way need to be apart of our regular meetings to get in on the book discussion.A pdf of the document can be found here: http://tarnac9.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/thecominsur_booklet.pdfLadies'

Anarchist Authors, Plays, and Movies Coming Soon!

2009-12-27T22:49:00.002-06:00

TUESDAY, DEC 29thMovie, 8 pm... The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation. Free! Free All Prisoners! http://3blackpanthers.wordpress.com/SUNDAY, JANUARY 3rdAnarchism and Fiction!!! 7pm! Free!quoting the (gorgeous) flyer: "A Brief and Arguably Entertaining Evening WithMargaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers. Discuss the role ofstorytelling in the anarchist

BIG GAY REBEL MOVIE NITE: Friday, Dec 18

2009-12-17T16:55:00.002-06:00

Friday the 18 at ye olde Ironne Raille, get a big flaming megadose of unapologetic unvanilla queerness courtesy of late brit icon of same, Quentin Crisp. Adapted from Crisps's memoirs, John Hurt (note: not Mississippi John Hurt) demolishes taboos and titillates the modern audience in this uproarious 1975 award-winning flick... an ultra-rarity too hott to miss. 7:30 pm... free to everyone, except

Climate Ground Zero to speak at the Rail

2009-12-13T13:49:00.000-06:00

Monday, December 14! 7:30 PM! Film, presentation, all type of thing. Free & open to the publick... Click image for larger flyer One of the presenters writes: **** Climate Ground Zero doea non-violent direct action in west virginia against mountaintop removal in appalachia. climate ground zero uses a variety of tactics, from rallies and marches and sit-ins to lockdowns to mining equipment

Buy Stuff, Wrap It Up, Give It Away. Ask to borrow it the next week.

2009-12-12T22:44:00.006-06:00

It's almost chrissmas, or whatever it was you celebrated as a kid. You so gotta buy your people their presents from the Iron Rail, and support this place's existence! Don't make us have to rise from the dead, too!Everyone loves a good book, a nice pin, a zine, a 2010 Slingshot Organizer, or their very own Palestinian Kuffiyeh.Don't mess this up or Jesus will hunt you down and burn you alive with

Free Tuesday Movie Night waxes strong: Your Tuesdays belong to the Rail

2009-12-07T13:49:00.004-06:00

Dec 8th Desperate living Dec 15th Disney in espanol (7:30 pm) Dec 22th TBA(random Christmas something) Dec 29th The angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation Jan 5th El Topo/The Mole (7:30 pm) Jan 12th Cannibal the musical (must be seen to be believed) Jan 19th Ay carmela (7:30 pm) All movies are FREE! and

A Coming-Winter-Storms Letter............

2009-12-04T23:34:00.005-06:00

Winter sky is dirty laundry, planet desaturated; Starlings leave the trees en masse. Out past the roof's angle, birds pepper cloudbank. Swirling shreds of spilled tobacco, their bodies become an amoebic jumble, twisting like smoke into... is that... a pattern? A shape? Impossible! The vast flock tightens, coalescing, forming the unmistakeable sillhouette of an....IRON RAIL NEWSLETTERThis is the

Protest tonight @ Tony Moran's

2009-12-04T12:39:00.003-06:00

ROC-NOLA writes: Restaurant Workers Continue Protests in front of Tony Moran’s Restaurant This week we will be holding another protest in front of Tony Moran’s Restaurant to increase public pressure and awareness of workers’ demands. Please come stand with us this Friday night to demand that this restaurant finally respond to demands for payment of wages withheld, and to allegations of a

Reclaim The Streetz! Monday, Nov. 30, 8pm

2009-11-27T02:14:00.004-06:00

On the 10th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, and with hometown heroes Lil Wayne and Lil Boosie headed to prison, you are invited to a Reclaim The Streets that demands nothing from power. Instead, we seek to create a space in our city where the police and prison system that has failed to protect us from the policies of the WTO and neo-liberal globalization, while disproportionately

Get Your Massage! Pay What You Can! Love The World Again!

2009-11-20T16:54:00.003-06:00

ASHER is back at the Iron Rail, giving massages!This Saturday, November 21, from 2-6 p.m.Asher is a certified, professional masseuse who is generously donating his skills to help raise funds for our ambitious but impoverished little infoshop/spa. He's got a chair and everything. He went to school for this, but more importantly, he's just great at it. Those who he's touched rave about him, and

Donate To The Free Store!

2009-11-16T16:51:00.001-06:00

Dozens of poor and homeless people people come into the Free Store Lobby of our bookstore/library every day to get clothes, shoes, food, books, personal items, etc...Winter is arriving, and people have been asking for warm clothes and blankets. We are appealing to all those who would donate items to Goodwill to bring them to our space instead to provide items that the poorest are desperate for.We

PROTEST! SHIRTS! FUNDRAISER! TOTALITOILETARIANISM!

2009-11-13T09:47:00.005-06:00

I've got... I've got an idea, I mean, something pretty far-out we could get into. I'm thinking: You, and me, and an IRON RAIL NEWSLETTER ***** The 2009 New Orleans BookFair was a roaring success, and the Rail is re-equipped with books-as-commodity plus sufficient smackeroos to get our telephone turned back on. The health meter's recharged, some dents are out of the armor, and we're ready to

The Only Good Cop Is A .................

2009-11-09T12:16:00.007-06:00

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the New Orleans Bookfair was in full swing, with blocks of tables full of local independent, radical, and alternative literature. A cop had been cruising the streets of the outdoor fair, stopping to stare at punk-looking musicians and the kids in the bouncey castle (pedophiles on the force?), making several passes as the otherwise festive day unfolded.Like a hyena

TUESDAY FREE MOVIE NIGHT REBORN

2009-11-01T15:04:00.009-06:00

7:30 p.m., the first & third Tuesdayz of the month. Don't buckle beneath relentless crushing despair and put an end to your empty life just yet... instead, visit the Iron Rail to enjoy FREE MOVIES in Spanish (with English subtitles) and stick around afterwards for Spanish convo. Burnish those language skills like you've been meaning to! NOV 3 El día de la bestia (1995, España) Dirigida por Álex

Critical Resistance Halloween Haunted House this weekend!

2009-10-30T18:23:00.000-05:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO FRIENDS, ALLIES & SUPPORTERS: CRITICAL RESISTANCE IS HOSTING A HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 & 31, 6:30 pm-9:30 pm $2.00 PER PERSON (FUNDRAISER FOR CRITICAL RESISTANCE) @ DOTS FASHION CENTER 2903 ORLEANS AVE (N. DUPRE AND ORLEANS) FOOD AND DRINKS FOR SALE!!!!!!!! BRING THE KIDS AND HAVE A SPOOKY GOOD TIME WITH C.R. FROM ALL OF US AT CRITICAL

PROTEST! New time! Keep the heat on wage-stealing TONY MORAN'S ! Time to escalate!

2009-10-27T15:57:00.011-05:00

NEW TIME! Meet up Thursday, October 29th at/outside Tira Misu 55, a bar at 123 Carondelet, at seven thirty P.M. to organize and plan. From there, we'll march over to the location of the protest: TONY MORAN'S "Italian" restaurant on Bourbon st. near the corner of Bourbon & Conti. Tony Moran's management have been demanding workers do hours of prep while off the clock, have CONSISTENTLY STOLEN

Blog Updated with New Links

2009-10-22T16:01:00.004-05:00

The links on the right side of the blog have been updated and revised. We've added some new organizations to the list. Some we just forgot to list, and some are new groups: -common ground health clinic -nola bookfair -restaurant workers organization (ROC) -staylocal.org -v.o.t.e. nola Check them out. And check out the video of the first ROC protest, on Bourbon St.

B the change you wan2 C in the Rail

2009-10-21T18:55:00.000-05:00

What? You don't like the Rail lately? Hey, me neither! It's gotten way too full of whatever it is you dislike. I totally agree. But... rather than abandoning the Rail to become even more full of whatever it is you dislike, why don't we work together to put more of what you like into the Rail? That way, quality folks such as yourself will be drawn like shy volunteer-minded hummingbirds to the

PUT DOWN THE CAMERA, PICK UP A BRICK

2009-10-16T14:18:00.004-05:00

From windows, I see lights flashing and maybe somebody's takin pictures...HEY LISTEN... do you have photographic imagez of or pertaining to thee Iron Rail? Newer? Older? Whenever? Us (derrick) tabling? The outside of the space? The inside of the space? The big Kimya Dawson love-in? The Rail defiantly open during police curfew? Something expecially clever written on the open-door chalkboard?

Sample Questions for Obama

2009-10-15T14:24:00.001-05:00

**** for immediate release:While some celebrated and some sulked over President Obama's dazzling-fast Big Easy swing-through, STUDENTS FOR CHANGE, a New Orleans pressure group, sought to engage the president in meaningful dialogue.Hundreds of people waited in line at UNO this morning for the privilege and honor of being granted an audience with the president. STUDENTS FOR CHANGE was there, its

Ladies' Night Back with a Vengeance

2009-10-13T10:12:00.000-05:00

Ladies' Night at the Iron Rail is starting back up this week for the Fall and we have a new format. Bring a drink, bring a project, bring yourself. Our goal is to create a space where rad ladies can meet and scheme.Every Thursday from 7:30 to 10:30. Come and go as you please. Only folks who feel like ladies are invited but, they are invited really hard.Holla.ladiesnight.ironrail@gmail.com

Another Irregular Yet Charming Update

2009-10-10T11:29:00.003-05:00

*Check out our re-designed website homepage at http://www.ironrail.org*We have the new 2010 Slingshot Organizers.They come in small and large, for $6 and $10 respectively. We have lots of colors available. These make great gifts for x-mas, birthdays, etc...*We got in the new Rolling Thunder magazines, issue #8, which includes looks at anarchism in Chile and San Fransisco, as well as in-depth

3 New Orleans Banks Glued Shut, in style

2009-09-30T14:22:00.001-05:00

THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMUNIQUE FROM THE NOPFP. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST OR PROMOTE IT WHEREVER, VERBATIM. --le bloc On Friday, September 25, the ATMs and doors of three banks in New Orleans' French Quarter were sealed shut by the New Orleans Political Fashion Police. Fuck banks. So ugly. These actions were in solidarity with the occupiers at UC Santa Cruz and our comrades in Pittsburgh

HONOR, AID, RESIST

2009-09-29T13:47:00.009-05:00

It's a tragedy when people die, when anyone dies. It's a tragedy when people who lived genuinely anarchist lives and believed in resisting authority die, and sadder when and their death prompts allies to collaborate with police. The police-- especially the NOPD-- are enemies of the people. This is not only true when you're wearing a "Stop Snitchin'" t-shirt, in ironic homage to black communities

YOU DEMAND, WE SUPPLY

2009-08-30T12:54:00.004-05:00

I try to get the word out.Having just mass-mailed a newsletter with no subject line and committed whatever passes for a faux pas in the horrid twilit dork-a-verse that is "Facebook," I cannot but eagerly anticipate what will go wrong with this fuckin' blog posting. Perhaps I will inadvertantly include my social security number? Perhaps I will CC my employer? Anyway, to the crux:ASHER is back at

Ice Castles

2009-08-29T11:08:00.004-05:00

"Ice Castles"Patricia Prieur Plauche-PerrimanI must say I'd never considered getting one of these hairstyles myself before, but have long admired the immensely complex, cathedral like structures that adorn the heads of our servants, cashiers, and kitchen staff! While in the company of my peers I pretended to share in their derision of these splendorous creations, I secretly had the utmost

YOU KNOW WHAT'S WONDERFUL?

2009-08-28T13:09:00.007-05:00

The talented Asher putting his strong, soft hands on you, and massaging you. That's wonderful!Seriously, the dude has a gift. He went to school for this, but more importantly, he's just great at it. Those who he's touched rave about him, and this is YOUR CHANCE to find out why!...because Asher is AT the Iron Rail, today, Friday, with his actual professional massage chair, giving people massages!

Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial BBQ Blockparty

2009-08-16T23:05:00.001-05:00

This Sunday 8/23 marks the 82nd anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant Anarchists who were very likey convicted of a crime they did not commit.In their memory, we're drinking, grilling, and dancing in the streets at the Iron Rail!Free food, good times, cheap drinks! All proceeds to benefit political prisoners via the Anarchist Black Cross Federation.Tell your

Show at The Iron Rail on August 14th! 7:30pm.

2009-08-07T14:06:00.001-05:00

Larry Bang Bang | Roman de Milk + Wodka | Clementines Psychedelic Salon | Larry's Tattoo Performance-Larry Bang Bang plays international country/trash/comedy-Roman de Milk + Wodka is a Swiss artist showing off his pop-brut-art-Clementines Psychedelic Salon shows off a variety show hosted by Clementine (the saucy and sailor-mouthed cowgirl), that features an eclectic mix of music, storytelling,

Our New Books, Records, and other cool stuff

2009-08-07T13:58:00.002-05:00

We have been hard at work, pushing paper for the revolution.-We finally made a new record order after months of delay. So come by and look through the new stuff. You know we keep it cheap, too.-We have handcrafted reusable menstrual pads made locally and perpetually extremely popular. Awesome!-We got in a bunch of pins with cool political images and words on them. Come by and get them before they

July Is For Lovers, Not Movies

2009-07-11T14:05:00.002-05:00

There will be no Tuesday movie nights for the month of July. Summer hiatus. They will return in August.But please continue to visit the Iron Rail and check out all the super cool books, CDs, and vinyl we have available. You know we have something that you want, so come get it!

PLAN B STOLE OUR FILM PROJECTOR...

2009-07-01T11:17:00.004-05:00

...& by thus doing, effectively force-cancelled last night's Iron Rail movie night and all future movie nights until such time as it's convenient for them to return it. This is hurting the recovery!!

BIG SQUISHABLE PENGUIN

2009-06-26T11:23:00.004-05:00

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Movie Night

2009-06-23T15:19:00.002-05:00

TONIGHT (Tuesday) 8:00PM (FREE)MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2008)More than a simple portrait of an artist, this documentary aboutcelebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is also an examination of industrialization and globalization. Known for finding strange beauty in large industrial vistas, Burtynsky searches for great shots on trips to China and Bangladesh. In contrast to his

NO BLEND BUT SANTA'S BLEND

2009-06-15T20:10:00.009-05:00

At right, a recent photograph of the Iron Rail Collective. Yes, there we all are at our weekly 8 p.m. Wednesday meeting. But what's missing from this rollicking good time? YOU, that's what! Your input, ideas, and helpfulness! The summer is here, and there are all kinds of fun and interesting projects afoot. Our collective meetings are open to all, and it would be great to meet you. Join in and be

MOVIE NIGHT

2009-06-15T18:10:00.003-05:00

Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974)Tuesday 8:00 PM FreeUganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew's request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations, his goal of eradicating Israel, his views on economic policy, and his views of Nixon, Kissinger, and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a

FILLING THE ANTICAVITY

2009-06-09T14:53:00.005-05:00

Robb! Controller of the past & future Aboveground Zine Archive & international I.R. advocate. Derrick! A man who CAN INDEED be bothered to get on his rusted granny bike with two bald tires etc. etc. and table shows 8 nights a week. Both, both these tireless star employees of the tiresome Iron Rail franchise TOGETHER! Both! Both synergistically grace the pages of June 2009's ANTIGRAVITY (one word

MOVIE NIGHT IS BACK

2009-06-08T22:13:00.003-05:00

Film nights have been resurrected over the weekend. Our film this week is a documentary about crazed Catholic janitor Henry Darger, who spend his life, like many Catholics, writing thousands of pages of insanity no one will ever read. But come see the movie!June 9: In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)By day, Henry Darger was a reclusive janitor who had few -- if any -- friends. But at night, he

MOVIE NIGHT CANCELLED

2009-06-02T17:33:00.001-05:00

until further notice.We don't have a computer to play them on. I apologize for the short notice, but I thought I would have a desktop I could put together to play it on tonight, but it powers off randomly (as in every minute or so) I no longer have a laptop, so unless someone steps up with one, there are no more movies.

YOU LIKE MIKE

2009-06-01T11:24:00.004-05:00

This is not a picture of Mike; this is a picture of Charles Mingus, a hero of mine and the subject of a short film being shown tomorrow (Tuesday) night at eight.If you know collective member Mike, you are likely as fond of him as I am. Mike has been an anchor-- a cornerstone-- of the Rail's existence for quite a while now.WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO DO WITHOUT HIM? For serious, we are

Movie Night

2009-05-31T15:45:00.003-05:00

Tuesday, June 2 8:00 PM (FREE)Francis Bacon (1988) / Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 (1968) Francis Bacon himself was perhaps even more fascinating than his paintings...or at very least he was an amazing presence and a great raconteur. He gets progressively more drunk as the principal interview proceeds; a man who was already brutally honest reaches inspired levels of candor

On the Condition of the Upper Class in New Orleans

2009-05-24T10:56:00.004-05:00

An Emergency Report to the Rhodes Trust The Most Executive Secretary of the Rhodes Trust of the United States of AmericaSir Henry Elsworth D'Ascoygne, O.B.E.I admit to certain feeling of apprehension when I first learned of my post here, and the transition from Matabeleland was not without it's difficulties - but, why, after all, it's delightful to reside in Louisiana! In reality, it is simply

VEGAN BRUNCH at the IRON RAIL: this MONDAY!!!!

2009-05-23T20:20:00.000-05:00

DELICIOUS AND HOLISTICALLY SATISFYING VEGAN BRUNCH! FUNDRAISER!FUN! MONDAY, MAY 25th... a day many workin' stiffs have off from theirjobs. from 11 AM to 1 PM... show up at 11 to make sure you get the bestfood! It's a VEGAN BRUNCH FUNDRAISER SOIREE at the Iron Rail (511 Marigny),to benefit Iron Rail's woman/genderqueer LADIES' NIGHT and byextension the impoverished,

EXCERSIZE

2009-05-19T17:03:00.005-05:00

Get a pen... or since you're on a computer, open a new text document. List the five objects, services or experiences in your adult life that have given you the most pleasure. Go on, write 'em down. If you have had an exceptionally rewarding time on earth, list ten. OKAY, THAT WAS PART ONE. Now list the five (or ten) most expensive objects, services or experiences you have paid money for...

Movie Night

2009-05-17T15:22:00.002-05:00

Tuesday 8:00 PM, FREEQueimada (aka Burn!) (1969) In Gillo Pontecorvo's epic drama, secret agent and scoundrel Sir William Walker stirs up a revolution in a Caribbean colony. On a mission to help Britain gain control of a Portuguese sugar cane island, Walker incites the locals to rise up against colonist rule. But a

MOVIE NIGHT

2009-05-10T09:14:00.002-05:00

Tuesday, May 12 8:00 PM (FREE)El Ángel Exterminador (1962) - Luis BuñuelAfter a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to the people they actually are ...This quietly hysterical

Movie Night

2009-05-04T18:49:00.002-05:00

We regret terribly that we cannot show the scheduled film, The Garden. It hasn't been officially released and the makers terms for showing it are astounding and well beyond our budget. So perhaps next year. In the meantime, we will show the excellent 1996 Spanish Civil War drama, Libertarias. Here's a summary from imdb:As social commentary, Libertarias succeeds incredibly well. Despite the

MOVIE NIGHT

2009-04-27T07:59:00.006-05:00

Tuesday 8:00 PM - FREEMODERN TIMES (1936)The idea of the film was apparently given to Chaplin by a young reporter, who told him about the production line system in Detroit, which was turning its workers into nervous wrecks. In the film, Charlie becomes literally trapped in the machine and, in one of his finest patches of comic invention, is battered and buffeted by an automatic feeding machine

Officer Tony Coniglione, NOPD - a missed connection (m4m, Marigny)

2009-04-26T18:47:00.001-05:00

I must say it's funny how such a small amount of marijuana can land you in so much trouble! But, as I lay in a pool of vomit and urine in the processing center of Orleans Parish Central Lockup watching the seventy inch TV's displaying people even less fortunate than myself and enjoying the symphony of backed up toiletry - you occupied my thoughts the entire time. Perhaps it was your marathon

Earth Day/ Was the worst day / Now we sip ice tea when we thirs-tay

2009-04-23T13:09:00.005-05:00

Did you purchase stupider, less useful types of lite bulbs? Did you drive in your car and buy them, and throw away the packaging? Fuck "Earth Day." Only Mary Worth is real. Seriously, the only positive impact an individual can have upon our environment is by direct attack on the industrial infrastructure itself. The earth day sort of "change begins with my personal habits" shit is just

Ladies' Night!

2009-04-13T22:51:00.001-05:00

Starting this week, the Iron Rail will be open late night on Thursday evenings for women and trans folk only. The idea is to create a safe space for ladies that will allow them a few hours every week to work on projects, share ideas, and build support networks. Please bring a dish. Or don't.WHO: Ladies & Trans Folk onlyWHAT: Potluck/Meet-up/Reading circle/Artists' forum/Terrorist cellWHEN:

TUESDAY MOVIE

2009-04-11T08:24:00.002-05:00

Tuesday, April 14 8:00 PM FREEIDIOCRACY (2006)To test its top secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down and so relentlessly stupid that they're the smartest people around. Mike Judge and

TUESDAY FILM NIGHT

2009-03-30T13:35:00.002-05:00

TUESDAY MARCH 31 8:00PMValerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)After a young girl receives a pair of bewitched earrings, her world is turned topsy-turvy. Soon, vampires and lascivious priests disrupt the girl's sleep, ravaging her innocence and awakening the woman within. From one of Czechoslovakia's top New Wave directors, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders blurs the line between fantasy and reality

TUESDAY FREE MOVIE

2009-03-23T09:38:00.002-05:00

Orpheus (1950)Jean Cocteau's 1950 film is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus andEurydice; the film updates the action to post-war Paris, with Orpheus as afamous but dissatisfied poet. Cocteau turns the everyday world into a magical realm: mirrors turn to pools which are portals to other worlds, and car radios pick up coded messages from the underworld. Orpheus is nominally about a

TUESDAY FILM NIGHT

2009-03-16T20:03:00.003-05:00

March 178:00 PM - FREESOLYARIS (1972) Director Andrei Tarkovsky's science fiction cult classic presents an uncompromisingly unique and poetic meditation on space travel and its physical and existential ramifications. Scientist Kris Kelvin travels to the mysterious planet Solaris to investigate the failure of an earlier mission. When his long-dead

WE SURROUND THEM!!!!

2009-03-13T06:54:00.012-05:00

The Mighty, Mighty D-BLOC has made an offer you can't refuse! If any collective member can get their picture on Glenn Beck's website as an adherent to his Twelve Virtues and Nine Principles (12/9 for short - and no I don't think Mr Beck means that to be mathematical) - he'll commit to the largess of purchasing you a drink, at your choice of locations.Having had the pleasure of being anointed with

MY DELICATE CRIME-DETECTOR IS VIBRA-TING VIOLENTLY

2009-03-10T15:15:00.017-05:00

...and the indicator points towards the Iron Rail.Here are some month-of-March Popular Music Concerts that it might behoove the Rail to table.To learn more about any of these shows and other local events I recommend visiting NOLADIY.org. If you'd like to table something not on this list... anything from an opera to lunch hour at an institution of higher learning... that'd be cool too. For more

Tonight's Film

2009-03-10T08:29:00.003-05:00

Sans SoleilTuesday March 10, 8:00 PM"He wrote me ...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco in Chris Markers dreamlike collection of meditations on time and memory.

NO LAWS WILL EVERY BE PASSED WILL ALL THIS FARTING GOING ON!

2009-03-09T20:11:00.010-05:00

So, there is a meeting this Wednesday at 8 p.m.Our collective meetings generally resemble the above, except with people smoking cigarettes.There is also an AMAZING SHOW at SIX P.M. that would be really good to attend!and on Tuesday evening the 10th, 4-8 p.m., visiting folks will present free interesting informative valuable workshops at the Iron Rail on consensus (we already rule at this)

Eternity is in love with the productions of time

2009-03-04T05:18:00.002-06:00

For those of you who saw the fantastic movie last night, Dead Man. Most of Nobody's "Indian malarkey" was lifted from William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" which I reread last night, and so many lines reflect scenes in the film ...Proverbs of Hell.In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.The road of excess leads to the palace of

FEROCIOUSLY RECURRENT

2009-02-22T15:58:00.006-06:00

The Iron Rail takes its commitments seriously.We are here to provide the community with books, 'zines, and a pleasant anti-authoritarian environment.We also carry an assortment of enticing oddments: cool reusable handmade menstrual pads, patches, earnest shirts, recordings of pop music where the singers sound wicked upset about stuff. The Iron Rail will be open and brewing hot fragrant Santa's

Tuesday Movie

2009-02-08T19:06:00.001-06:00

Feb. 10: Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa's extravagant retelling of King Lear is set in 16th century Japan and tells the story of the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, who at the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire and ruthlessly exterminating all opposition, decides to abdicate and divide his

Tuesday Movie

2009-01-31T08:06:00.002-06:00

Feb. 3: F For Fake (1974)Orson Welles' brilliant, multi-layered, free-form cinematic essay on fakery focuses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). More than

New Books and Hittin' The Streets

2009-01-21T10:35:00.005-06:00

HIT THE STREETS!Protest the Murder of Adolph Grimes III and police brutality and harrassment on the International Day of Solidarity with Greece, Saturday, January 24th. Rally and march starts from the Iron Rail at 5pm. Be there! From Greece to Oakland to Olympia to New Orleans, it's up to us to stop the police! Leaflet posted here: FromNewOrleansToGreece.docBOOK 'EM DANOWe just got in a new book

January - February Films

2009-01-18T11:37:00.003-06:00

All films FREE and Tuesdays at 8:00PM Tuesday, Jan 27 8:00PM DIVORZIO ALL'ITALIANA (1961) A dark comedy about one Baron Fefé Cefalù, a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia. He falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is illegal in Italy in the 1960s, he conspires to murder his wife, knowing that sentence would be

SUPPORT GOVERNMENT-PERSECUTED LOCAL ARTIST: SUNDAY JAN 11

2009-01-09T15:43:00.008-06:00

This is going to be quick, because I have to hurry help prepare for tonight's IRON RAIL HOLIDAY PARTY, which I neither think sounds fun nor plan to attend. If you are less of an asshole than I, contact an Iron Rail Collective member for details or swing by the Iron Rail itself before 7 p.m. I'm sure someone will give you the 411.Moving on: SUNDAY, January the ELEVENTH, (postponed from the 10th)

ATTN: Iron Rail employees, collectivists, and helpers.

2009-01-08T13:34:00.002-06:00

Here's a folder with PDFs of our work sheets. If anyone can print copies of the sales log (on regular paper) and the library cards (on cardstock, please)--go nuts. There are also a few flyers in there that you're more than welcome to print and distribute at your leisure.http://noladiy.org/IRPlease note that we're in the process of revising the text on the library cards, so don't print out too

Garbage Gate Revealed!

2009-01-05T23:40:00.006-06:00

MISTER GARBAGEAP New Orleans 2008 Though media and criminal investigations have recently cast a shadow over the industry, a new partnership announced Sunday between Sydney Torres' SDT Enterprises, FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers promises to spark a renaissance of the waste disposal industry in Louisiana while simultaneously saving local wetlands. The daring new plan was revealed ina press

SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE NOPD

2009-01-02T14:55:00.009-06:00

there is a constant catacylsm

2008-12-31T19:06:00.001-06:00

there is dylan klebold and eric harris curled side by side on my lap each with one of my nipples in their mouths, nursing, except they have snarling dog's heads and are actually biting and chewing and drinking my blood and bloating like ticks at which point I notice their tiny fat bodies have cherubic wings and they are lifting into the air and they wheeze"HAPPY 2009"the same to you, darlings,

there is a meeting: UPDATED

2008-12-24T12:24:00.014-06:00

Thanks to all who came to the meeting last Wednesday, 'Christmas eve'. There is also a meeting on Wednesday December 31st irrenonantidisunregardlessly of that being new years eve. but also in consideration of cool shit occuring this meeting is at three p.m.to repeat since I seem to have lost the gift of communication, the meeting is at 3 pm instead of 82009 is coming. Resolve to destroy.god why

Did you like the snow?

2008-12-11T12:55:00.003-06:00

Here's a little agit for the never-believer. We support the Greek Anarchists and their ceaseless dedication to the offensive. We encourage our comrades everywhere to confront state violence and repression with every tool at their disposal. Police Violence, senseless murders & Capitol Punishment are all elements of oppression used by the state to hold us down.Yea Yea Yea YeaHere's a little ghost

IRON RAIL FILM NIGHTS: Tuesdays, 8:00PM

2008-12-09T13:16:00.012-06:00

There's a whole Hellesponte's worth of free filmic firepower directed right at YOUR EYEBALLS, every Tuesday at 8 p.m., at the Iron Rail! Free? Free.Here's what's on tap...DEC 9: Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective (2005)Intrigued by the subject of porn after seeing Boogie Nights, a group of young Vancouverites did some research. Rather than complain about the plasticized

WHAT HOBOS LIKE US CAN DO

2008-12-02T03:47:00.013-06:00

Let me break it down for you. Let me make it clear for you. Let me drop elucidatory gems on this shit as best I can. We do AWESOME when we table. Note: "Table" as a verb in this context means "sit behind a table repping Iron Rail, spreading subversive writing."We could always table more. We could do operas, we could just cold table lunchtime at a college, we could table cultural events-- art

Palestinian Solidarity, and Our War For Liberation Through Infoshopping

2008-11-26T10:23:00.011-06:00

You can now buy sweet Palestinian-made Kaffiyehs at the Iron Rail. We support the end of Israeli apartheid and Palestinian liberation. Show your anti-colonialist sentiments by wearing this symbol of resistance. They are $14.More on Palestine:Anarchists Against the WallInternational IntifadaDecember Movie NightsDecember 2nd, 8pm: "9-to-5" with Dolly PartonNew MagazinesWe have the new issue of

Dos Americas

2008-11-23T20:41:00.002-06:00

On tuesday November 25th there is a really great film about the reconstruction of New Orleans playing at the Iron Rail! All the films that play at the Rail are of course free but I will be taking donations to send to the wonderful film makers who took the time and spent their own money to make a film that focuses on such an important issue as this one.Post-Katrina reconstruction is still in

NO ANSWER

2008-11-17T18:27:00.014-06:00

"What's your name? How long have you been in New Orleans? Where did you come from? What groups do you belong to? Are you part of an anti-war movement? What do those patches mean exactly? Are you carrying any weapons or drugs? Why do you choose this lifestyle? Have you ever been arrested?"I came across a troupe of these obviously gang-affiliated skinheads gaffling a pair of traveller kids, and

ART WARS: SWOON GOES OVER BANKSY

2008-11-10T17:30:00.004-06:00

In most contexts, one graffiti artist even partially covering or overlapping another's work means it's on, big time. Not sure that will be the case here. But has this specific thing ever happened before, anywhere? In any other city in the world, have these two international super-monsters of politically aware street art hit the same corner, the exact same spot, within weeks of each other, to the

From the dungeon...

2008-11-06T23:29:00.002-06:00

Iron Rail now has a "Facebook" page. Find us on it if you want to. Help us spread the knowledge of radical radicalism, extreme extremism, and free freedom across the land.

the islands

2008-11-06T20:35:00.015-06:00

I do still sometimes think of you. When I'm listening to Diamond Head or Grim Reaper, the kind of shit nobody else except you ever really appreciated-- and it's night-time, and maybe I'm caffeinated, it's not so hard to drift back there: Driving the beat-to-hell (but still V6 balls-out) Camry, both of us drunk as lords, wheeling wildly among the glinting neon night-time surf shops and resort

Barack Me Amadeus

2008-11-06T01:12:00.003-06:00

Hope all of you who bothered to vote for district attorneys, judges, congressmen & president don't have to answer to the whores in the office which exists because you've substantiated its actuality.The weather has changed, meeting attendance has jumped into double digits, but the Iron Rail can still use your help.Not getting all you want out of the New Orleans radical community?The Iron Rail has

SUE BUTLER KNOWS WHAT'S UP

2008-11-05T19:21:00.008-06:00

It's a very magical little piece of the week, almost. It's the time where YOU get a phone call or text message about volunteering at the Rail! Ha ha I bet a lot of you wish you could somehow "block" messages sent from certain phones. Maybe you can? I'm not too up on this stuff. Seriously there's no reason filling the schedule should be as stressful & last-minute as it has been the last few weeks.

FUCK THE VOTE

2008-11-03T18:25:00.007-06:00

Voting at all represents compromise with the illegitimate systems imposed upon us, fuck it!butif you wanted to know what your fave embarrassing-older-brother figure the D-Block would recommend voting for regarding the LOCAL stuff (and the presidency) then click here for a non-Iron Rail-approved voter guide. Again let me stress this is not related to the collective, it's just one collective

A PILLAR OF WIND

2008-11-03T02:52:00.005-06:00

I spend a couple weeks preoccupied and this place is a morgue. COME ON FOLKS. So I happen to work in an office. It's an easy "go-to" when I need something to castigate myself over, that I'm a white-collar wage lackey. Anyway my office is in a building with a really powerful elevator, and when I ascend the elevator to work and there aren't other people I like to close my eyes and experience the

Iron Rail Definitive Update

2008-10-16T17:53:00.005-05:00

We have gotten tons of cool new books in. We have movies figured out for a while, and there is some stuff you need to know. Check it out:New Books & Stuff:-More Iron Rail T-Shirts ($5-15 sliding scale)-Rolling Thunder #6-Abolition Now! 10 years of Critical Resistance-Derrick Jensen books, including Endgame-Wild Fermentation-Chainbreaker-Toolbox for Radical Sustainable Living-Red State

90s ROMANTIC COMEDY MOVIE MONTH JUGGERNAUT ROLLING FORWARD GRINDING YOU INTO BONE MEAL

2008-10-14T17:45:00.006-05:00

It's Tuesday! That means there must be a movie at the Iron Rail Library and Bookstore. It's at eight p.m. tonight, and it's the 90s romantic comedy film "She's All That."

TOMBSTONES ON THE MOON

2008-10-11T16:53:00.005-05:00

I was at the lake beach it was hot and there was a sparkle on the water and the sparkle moved side to side like someone darting and skating wildly back and forth sideways while making steady progress in my direction and the sparkle was in the form of a human-shaped figure way out on the lake skittering side to side zigzagging in towards shore and the figure was made all of sparkle and so bright

90s ROMANTIC COMEDY MOVIE MONTH

2008-10-06T15:48:00.011-05:00

Some may think I'm joking, some may wish I was, and some are wiggling in their chairs with glee at the prospect: The Iron Rail is showing romantic comedy films from the 1990s throughout October. This bold and refreshing filmic initiative first manifests itself on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7th, at EIGHT P.M.:A screening of "Ten Things I Hate about You."Next week will likely be "She's All That," but we'll

NOT ANYTHING

2008-10-05T19:56:00.012-05:00

Sobriety is so awful, and it's so awful in such uncool ways. It's waiting, always waiting, and you're the only magazines to read, you're the unattractive wallpaper pattern, and you're the climate control that displeases and the TV that's loud and the receptionist who won't make eye contact. You're stuck in yourself waiting for nothing, nothing, it really sucks. I mean drinking makes one fat and

NOTES ON PRISONER SUPPORT

2008-10-04T18:23:00.013-05:00

Is there somebody in OPP you'd like to help out?Books and magazines cannot be mailed or hand-delivered or even ordered from a third-party vendor; they can only be obtained by the inmate herself ordering from the book selection on the commissary list. I'll see what I can do about getting a copy of the commissary list, but in the meantime please join me in making uninformed and overwhelmingly

The Iron Rail

Ladies Night Summertime Hiatus

FRIDAY: Second Line for Healthcare & Education!

SRLC Welcoming Committee BBQ, this Saturday!

More new records, mostly downtown.

NEVER FORGET.

What is anarchism?

We're not in this alone.

New records downtown and uptown!

IRON RAIL CLEANING PARTY SAT FEB 20

Ladies' Night

Anarchist Authors, Plays, and Movies Coming Soon!

BIG GAY REBEL MOVIE NITE: Friday, Dec 18

Climate Ground Zero to speak at the Rail

Buy Stuff, Wrap It Up, Give It Away. Ask to borrow it the next week.

Free Tuesday Movie Night waxes strong: Your Tuesdays belong to the Rail

A Coming-Winter-Storms Letter............

Protest tonight @ Tony Moran's

Reclaim The Streetz! Monday, Nov. 30, 8pm

Get Your Massage! Pay What You Can! Love The World Again!

Donate To The Free Store!

PROTEST! SHIRTS! FUNDRAISER! TOTALITOILETARIANISM!

The Only Good Cop Is A .................

TUESDAY FREE MOVIE NIGHT REBORN

Critical Resistance Halloween Haunted House this weekend!

PROTEST! New time! Keep the heat on wage-stealing TONY MORAN'S ! Time to escalate!

Blog Updated with New Links

B the change you wan2 C in the Rail

PUT DOWN THE CAMERA, PICK UP A BRICK

Sample Questions for Obama

Ladies' Night Back with a Vengeance

Another Irregular Yet Charming Update

3 New Orleans Banks Glued Shut, in style

HONOR, AID, RESIST

READ MORE ANNA KAVAN

YOU DEMAND, WE SUPPLY

Ice Castles

YOU KNOW WHAT'S WONDERFUL?

Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial BBQ Blockparty

Show at The Iron Rail on August 14th! 7:30pm.

Our New Books, Records, and other cool stuff

July Is For Lovers, Not Movies

PLAN B STOLE OUR FILM PROJECTOR...

BIG SQUISHABLE PENGUIN

Movie Night

NO BLEND BUT SANTA'S BLEND

MOVIE NIGHT

FILLING THE ANTICAVITY

MOVIE NIGHT IS BACK

MOVIE NIGHT CANCELLED

YOU LIKE MIKE

Movie Night

On the Condition of the Upper Class in New Orleans

VEGAN BRUNCH at the IRON RAIL: this MONDAY!!!!

EXCERSIZE

Movie Night

MOVIE NIGHT

Movie Night

MOVIE NIGHT

Officer Tony Coniglione, NOPD - a missed connection (m4m, Marigny)

Earth Day/ Was the worst day / Now we sip ice tea when we thirs-tay

Ladies' Night!

TUESDAY MOVIE

TUESDAY FILM NIGHT

TUESDAY FREE MOVIE

TUESDAY FILM NIGHT

WE SURROUND THEM!!!!

MY DELICATE CRIME-DETECTOR IS VIBRA-TING VIOLENTLY

Tonight's Film

NO LAWS WILL EVERY BE PASSED WILL ALL THIS FARTING GOING ON!

Eternity is in love with the productions of time

FEROCIOUSLY RECURRENT

Tuesday Movie

Tuesday Movie

New Books and Hittin' The Streets

January - February Films

SUPPORT GOVERNMENT-PERSECUTED LOCAL ARTIST: SUNDAY JAN 11

ATTN: Iron Rail employees, collectivists, and helpers.

Garbage Gate Revealed!

SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE NOPD