In the September/October 2004 edition of High Times entitled, "How to get Arrested," Jason Flores-Williams wrote the lead article entitled, "A Call to Resistance," a guide for people looking to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention In May 2004, he was arrested leading a die-in staged on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to protest the invasion of Iraq by the US. After the convention protests, Flores-Williams became disillusioned with protest politics and completed his J.D. degree at Rutgers Law School.