RNC NYC Fundraising Concert and Trip (August 18th General Communiqué)

Hi,



As many of you may have already heard, we're going to

New York to protest the Republican National Convention

on August 29th.



To raise funds to get buses and people down there,

Artists Against War is putting on concerts in Toronto

on the 18th and 19th of August and in Montreal on

August 25th (with a third concert in New York itself.



The Montreal concert takes place at The Green Room

(5386 St-Laurent, corner St-Viateur, officially known

as the Mile-End Cultural Centre) with 12 acts on two

stages and costs $10 for the whole night.



The show features Randboro, Chariot of Shame, Danny

Michel, Dwayne Morgan, Rita BiGheat, Demon's Claws,

Wood (Ivan Freud, Dave Lines of Motherfunkers and

Dylan Maxwell of the Green Party), Gods of Taste, the

Dead Dolls Dancers, David Fennario and more to come.



We're still looking for people to help out with

postering, etc.



Please contact Gary St-Laurent at gslmtl@yahoo.ca for

more details.  Also, you can check out

www.artistsagainstwar.ca



All funds raised will go to renting buses to bring

people down.



For those interested in the trip itself, the first

meeting of the NYC Organizing Committee will be held

at 6pm on THURSDAY (Aug 19th) at the Casa del Popolo

(St. Laurent). We need help with:



(1) postering and publicity

(2) co-ordination with NYC

(3) filling the bus

(4) getting the bus

(5) finances



etc. Please come and help out!



Please contact Matt Jones at pimentrouge@sympatico.ca

for more details.



Hope to see as many of you at the concert and in NYC

as possible,



Jason C. McLean

Chaos Organizer - The infringement Festival (Montréal)

www.infringementfestival.com



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