Milking or fracking? The family farm or the state penitentiary? Ice cream for all or social and environmental ruin? RMO partners with agitprop dairy co-op Milk Not Jails on June 15th and 16th to highlight important choices New York state faces. Saturday June 15th: Hudson Pride Parade , Hudson, NY Sunday June 16th: Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival
As members of the The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, we are committed to fighting transphobia and transmisogyny, and working towards a world that is welcoming to people of all gender identities. As such, we must state our clear and unwavering solidarity with the boycott of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF). The official stance of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival indicates that the Festival is open only to cisgender women, and that trans women are not officially allowed on the grounds as volunteers or attendees.
Sunday, Sep. 23 in Brooklyn – TOO BIG TO FAIL – The Rude Mechanical Orchestra Release Party
It’s been five years since New York City ’s own radical marching band, The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, released its first album. Hey, we’ve been busy, what with all the occupying and shutting it down and
starting it up, the pickets and the protest marches and the parades and all the ways we try to put a little bounce in the step of the do-gooders, rabble-rousers and troublemakers trying to build a better and more just tomorrow. We just plumb forgot.
After the hard work of relaunching our website we're getting to the fun part where start putting up new content. To get everyone ready for the release of our next album, Too Big Too Fail, we've posted our self titled album for your listening and downloading pleasure. Check it out and if you like it donate a couple of bucks.
Wall Street is the world’s biggest, rottenest casino and the sociopathic suits that run it spend their days gambling with our lives and devouring the fruits of our labor like great big pinstriped locusts. Here in New York, the bankers, their political fixers and their NYPD muscle have made our city into their own private superluxury playground. Upstate, they foreclose on family farms, build more and bigger prisons and pump toxins into our water so oiligarchs can extract a few trillions-worth of hydrocarbons from the land beneath us.
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a 30-odd-piece New York City radical marching band and dance troupe. Through our music and performance, we strive to support people and communities working for social justice. We play protests, demonstrations, direct actions, picket lines, marches, benefits and events for good causes. We function as a democratic collective through consensus-based decision-making and we do not discriminate on the basis of musical ability. We formed in the spring of 2004 for the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C.
