I. 5/22 PARTY ON THE ROOF!
II. 5/25 Disorientation Guide Planning
III. Summer Organizing
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I. 5/22 Party on the Roof!
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FRIDAY MAY 22 on the ROOF of the 210 COOK ST LOFTS (L to Morgan, get out at the Bogart St exit, walk a few blocks to Cook and make a right.)

Celebrate your graduation, the end of the wildest semester, or the beginning of the endless summer. There will be drinks, pranks, surprises, and chaos, with BANDS:
[WHACK] chaotic classical/klezmer influenced instrumental punk mayhem http://myspace.com/whack6
[ESKALATORS] Probably not the first ones to make a joke about starting a band called eSKAlators, but definitely the first band to actually do it. Party pop-punk with at least a dozen members. Tied(with WHACK) for best party band in Brooklyn http://myspace.com/neverbreakdown
[ADVAITA VERA] All female garage-psychadelica/grunge. [Meaghan Linick's band!!] One of their first shows, catch them early so you can brag about it when they get huge.
http://www.myspace.com/advaitavera
[MY BOY] Upbeat indie rock with david byrne on vocals http://www.myspace.com/thisismyboy

Pre-show BBQ (vegan friendly) at 7, bands start around 9, party lasts all night. $5-10 Suggested donation. We’ll probably work something out where if you donate the full $10 you can drink for free all night. No one turned away for lack of funds. All money goes towards the legal aid of our classmates and friends. Please do not BYOB, cheap drinks will be provided.

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II. 5/25 Disorientation Guide Planning Meeting!
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Summer means it’s that Disorientation Guide Time! The Disorientation Guide is a tradition at NYU began in 2002 by NYU Inc. student organizers, and Students Creating Radical Change have published a new edition annually since.

What is a Disorientation Guide, you ask? That’s up to us! Last year’s had articles about a variety of subjects, including radical history, privilege, student government, unions, the Global University, Washington Square Park, the Trustees, and radical faculty. It was also the first to be published online as well as in print: http://www.campusactivism.org/displayresource-757.htm

This year, we’re hoping to make the most captivating, most graphically pleasing, most scintillating, and overall best Disorientation Guide yet. To make this happen, we need your help!

This Monday, 5/25, come to 93 Montrose Ave. in Brooklyn (L to Montrose, JMZ to Lorimer, or G to Broadway) to brainstorm about the direction this year’s Guide will take and set up some kind of timeline for the summer. There will be booze and good times for all, but don’t pre-game and try to be on time. We’d love to see new faces - we’re friendly, for realz.

Also, if you can’t come this time, drop us a note at takebacknyu at gmail.com telling us what you can/would like to do (we’d appreciate anything from vague suggestions to articles, art, and layout to car use and outreach to potential advertisers). If you’re in the city, it’d also be helpful if you’d mention when you can make meetings so we can schedule them appropriately.

Love and Rage,
The ‘08 Disorientation Guide Crew

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III. Summer Organizing
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Summer means that little is going on at NYU but we are not dead. Here’s a non-exaustive list of some of the stuff TBNYU! folks are working on other than the Disorientation Guide:

Save 123!
The 123 space is a community space that houses after school programs, screenprinting/darkroom workshops, a feminist group, Food Not Bombs’ kitchen, political prisoner support nights and Books Through Bars, a lending library, a zine distro, the Freegan Bike Workshop, Cop Watch and more. The space is currently facing eviction. Read about what’s going on: 123evictionblog.wordpress.com. You can also volunteer for any of the aforementioned programs - check 123communityspace.org

Guerrilla Gardening
Join forces with fellow guerrilla gardeners to re-claim neglected plots of land and create new community greenspaces.  Whether you’re an experienced gardener or somebody who’s never picked up a spade before in his or her life, you can come destroy bourgeois notions of property and cultivate a sense of ownership among yourself and your community. Email Colin via tackledspoon at gmail.com

Transportation Alternatives
“Our Mission is to reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives.” It’s Bike Month! That means tons of great programs and bike sales around the city. Check http://www.transalt.org/ for more information.

Bluestockings
A rad feminist bookstore/cafe on the Lower East Side, staffed by volunteers. Get a discount if you volunteer, and hang out with rad folks. bluestockings.com

4th Street Food Co-op
Manhttan’s only member-run food co-op. Students always get a discounts, working members get even more. http://www.4thstreetfoodcoop.org/

And a few things outside the city:
Supporting Tiga and Hugh, good friends and rad environmental activists, one of who was hanging out with TBNYU! for a hot minute: http://mostlyeverything.net/
Hearting the Bash Back! folks, radical queer folks who are being sued: http://bashbacknews.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/adf-fuckers-suing-bash-back-lansing-bash-back-and-jesse-does/
the Earth First! Rendez-Vous

Have a kickass summer,
Take Back NYU!