Support Palestine in DC 2019
Rally Sunday, Mar. 24, Noon at the White House
Lafayette Square, 1600 Pennsylvania Av. btw. 15th St., NW & 17th St., NW nr. G St., NW
Blue, Orange, Silver Metro to McPherson or Red to Metro Ctr.
event graphic, descriptions & contacts
(http://alawdaror.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Al-Awada_Flyer_2019.pdf)
https://facebook.com/events/322305558560731/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/supportpalestineindc2019
https://twitter.com/Resistance48/status/1090039594383372288  
(216) 285 0223 http://alawdaror.org  #SupportPalestineInDC2019
m.me/Resist48     

Clean Coney Is. Beach w/ Sea Shepherd NYC & NY Climate Save Movement
Sunday, Mar. 24, Noon to 2:00PM on Coney Is. Beach from
Boardwalk and Stillwell Ave nr. D, N, F, Q Stillwell stop;
maps https://osm.org/go/ZcttMBkFy
https://goo.gl/maps/V2WbVCpFWFJ2
event & series https://facebook.com/events/753424748383873/
nyc@seashepherd.org https://facebook.com/pg/SeaShepherdNYC/events
https://facebook.com/pg/NYclimatesave/events
www.twitter.com/seashepherdnyc  m.me/NYclimatesave
http://thesavemovement.org https://twitter.com/climatesavemvmt

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Our Damn Selves: Fundraiser for Make The Road NY
Sunday Mar. 24, Noon to 6:00 PM at Brooklyn Bazaar
150 Greenpoint Av. btw. Franklin St. & Manhattan Av.
G to Nassau
https://goo.gl/maps/fvA5XAdv3Mx
https://bkbazaar.com/event/our-damn-selves-for-make-the-road/
https://maketheroadny.org/attend-an-event/
https://pixel.facebook.com/events/2176091509104011/

Gillibrand Presidential Campaign Kickoff Rally

Sunday Mar. 24
Trump International Hotel & Tower New York-Central Park

nr. #1, A, C, D, N, Q, R, F stops & 57th St. cross town bus

please check start and ending time and ask exact location
https://www.facebook.com/events/2165144916938822/
https://www.mobilize.us/kirstengillibrand/event/88230/

Koch Lies, the Planet Dies
Sunday, Mar. 24, 1:00 to 2:00 PM on Koch Plaza
in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Av. near E. 83rd St. & #4, 5, 6, C stops
https://goo.gl/maps/kyJxS6ZamsL2
event https://facebook.com/events/996569590528662/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/350NYC/events
https://facebook.com/pg/foodandwaterwatchNY/events/
m.me/RiseandResistNYC info@riseandresist.org
http://riseandresist.org http://twitter.com/RiseNResistNYC
m.me/350NYC 350nyc@gmail.com http://350nyc.org
https://twitter.com/350NYC m.me/foodandwaterwatchNY
(347) 778-2743  eweltman@fwwatch.org http://foodandwaterwatch.org 

Join Rise and Resist in calling for urgent action to end our climate emergency and demanding the rejection of climate denial and delay.

We are rallying at Koch Plaza to call out the chief funder of climate denial, the lie that is responsible for our climate emergency. More than two decades ago, David Koch began pouring a fortune into lies about climate change and lining the pockets of climate-denying politicians. Climate-denial paralyzed government response and two decades later we are on the cusp of disaster.

We are also calling out the latest and perhaps the most destructive iteration of climate denial, which is the claim that we cannot afford to take on climate change. Of course we can. We have the means and the technology; all we need is the will. Climate disasters will cost even more than climate solutions. And we have no choice. We must do it now or there is no later.

Join us at Koch Plaza, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. near 82nd. Nearest subway is the 86th Street Station on the 4/5/6 line. There are no accessible subway stations nearby.

Rise and Resist
We are taking direct action together for equality, justice, and human rights. We are rising against oppression and tyranny. We are building a better world.

350 NYC
We're building a global movement to help prevent climate chaos. Let's make NY fossil fuel free!
350nyc.org & https://www.facebook.com/fossilfreenyc

Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable.

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ready steady go
Community in Action
Sunday March 24, 2-4 pm
Monday April 29, 7-9 pm
place TBA
WHERE secret! NYC
CONTACT
Savitri D · savitrid.nyc@gmail.com · 3476938857
http://www.revbilly.com/
This is a fast, deep dive into the HOW WHAT WHY of non-violent direct action, creative skills for the street, and what to expect if you get arrested. Learn to take care of yourself and build community in action with Savitri D
2 hours!
Savitri D has been staging interventions and creative actions on the street, in malls, banks, museums and contested sites since 2001.
She is the Director of Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir.
contact her at savitrid.nyc@gmail.com
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 . 20th Anniversary of Criminal US/NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia - No War on Venezuela!
Never Forget 1999! - On the 20th Anniversary of the 78 Day US/NATO Criminal Bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) - No War on Venezuela!
Sunday, March 24 | 2 - 4pm
Rally at United Nations (Ralph Bunche Park, 1st Ave & E. 43rd St)
US/NATO out of Serbia! Hands off Venezuela! Abolish NATO! Kosovo is Serbia! (UN Resolution 1244)

 . Also, make a trip to Washington, DC, to participate in a national
mobilization to oppose NATO, organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition and No2NATO2019, Washington, DC, Lafayette Park (across from the White House),
Saturday, March 30, from 1 PM no2nato2019.org
Reserve a seat on the NYC to DC bus to join March 30 protest
 
 . Honor Malaysia Goodson for International Women's Month Honor Malaysia Goodson for International Women's Month
Wednesday, March 27 | 9am
On the sidewalk of MTA Headquarters before the 10am MTA Board Meeting
Located at 2 Broadway in lower Manhattan
Near the accessible 4/5 Bowling Green Station
R,W to the South Ferry/ Whitehall Street station

Malaysia Goodson is the 22-year-old African-American mother who in January fell to her death down the New York subway stairs.

We will be ending International Women’s Month by using the occasion of the monthly MTA Board meeting to honor the memory of Ms. Goodson, who managed to save her 1-year-old even as she fell.

The station where Goodson fell has no elevators. She was going down the stairs but that station only has escalators that go up. Goodson did what so many parents are forced to do: struggle up and down the New York subway stairs with a child and stroller — and hope for the best.

Rally speakers will share their stories and honor Ms. Goodson by adding their voices to accessibility rights advocates who have been calling for elevators and ramps in the subway for years. Our gathering will make sure her name is not forgotten!

Join us Wednesday at 9:00 AM at 2 Broadway. At 10 AM, some participants will go into the MTA board meeting to speak at the public comments section of the meeting.

For more information, email The People's MTA (thepeoplesmta@gmail.com)

Facebook: @pplsmta // Twitter: @ThePeoplesMTA // Instagram: @ThePeoplesMTA

 

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March against racism, bigotry, and xenophobia
Rally: United Against Islamophobia
Sunday Mar. 24 from 2:30 to 6:00 PM
Broadway & W. 46th St. (Duffy Square nr. Red Steps)

https://facebook.com/events/317816625599376/
(https://facebook.com/ShuraNewYork/photos/a.1478924719083529/1987591211550208/?type=1&theater)
(646) 665-7599  m.me/CAIRNewYork info@ny.cair.com
http://www.cair-ny.org (833) 336-2769  info@masnewyork.org
http://oc-redcross.org m.me/AAFederationUS aaf@aafus.org
http://www.aafus.org

United Against Islamophobia Organized by:
- Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York
- Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) New York
- Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA)
- Muslim American Society (MAS) - New York
- Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA)
- Arab American Federation
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - New York
- Turkish American National Steering Committee

Endorsers:
- 9/11 families for peaceful tomorrows
- Al Mamoor School
- AMD FIDK (Al Misbaah Dawah Fountain of Interfaith Dialogues & Knowledge)
- American Muslims Of New York (AMONY)
- Anthony Beckford for NYC
- Ashshifaa inc
- Assafa Islamic Center INC
- Baitush Sharaf Jame Masjid
- Baitush Shsrs
- Bangladeshi American Advocacy Group
- Bangledesh Khelafat Majlis USA
- Black Lives Matter Brooklyn
- BorderLinks
- Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point Center
- Darfur People's Assn.of NY
- Deaf Muslim Association
- Equality Labs
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Hillside Islamic Center, New Hyde Park
- House of Peace, Inc
- Imam alfred Mohammed  ministry's
- Indian American Muslim Council
- Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC)
- Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
- Jewish Voices for Peace - New York
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
- Jews Say No!
- Labor for Palestine
- Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO)
- Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship
- Masjid Dar Ul Quran
- Muslim Center Of New York
- Muslim Community Network
- Muslim Peace Fellowship
- NYU BALSA
- Performing Arts Mosaic
- Refuse Fascism NYC
- South East Queens Muslim Collective Inc.
- Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
- Syria solidarity New York City
- TAKE ON HATE - NY
- The Islamic Center at New York University
- Turning Point for Women and Families
- United Against Racism and Fascism-NYC
- United Ulama Council Of USA INC
- Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia
- Women In Islam Inc
- Yemeni American Merchants Association - YAMA
- Young Progressives of America

#UnitedAgainstIslamophobia
For more info: http://www.UnitedAgainstIslamophobia.org

To endorse, please fill up this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe84GFbYYUNszELX0FgKc68z_B27XJrI76DizfLW9lPWlzlSg/viewform

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Purim Family Art Party & Parade
Sunday Mar. 24, 3:00 to 6:00 PM
in Jewish Center of Jackson Heights
3706 77th St, Jackson Heights, btw. 37th Av. & Roosevelt Av.
#7 to 74 St.-Roosevelt Av.; E, F, R to Roosevelt Av.-Jackson Hts.
map https://osm.org/go/Zct~JdI6V--?way=280533306
https://goo.gl/maps/vgi3FKdAD8x
https://facebook.com/events/609801942796919/
 
Purim is coming!

Kids, youth, parents, stewards of the resistance, lovers of delirious fun, dreamers of new worlds, and everyone else: we need all hands on deck to help build games, props, signs, and wonderful whatnot for the visual and musical spectacular of the season - THE CARNIVAL!

From the finger-painter to the careful crafter to the strategist ready to scheme, we’ll find something for you to do whatever your size and skill level. Bring your family and friends. The build will culminate in a
 == > kid-led parade [apparently same day -t.] to celebrate our neighborhood’s victory over Amazon and to call for the participatory economic development and democratic city of our wildest dreams.

ART IS RESISTANCE! JOIN US!

The Purim Carnival is brought to you by:
The Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Malkhut
Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives
DRUM: Desis Rising up & Moving
Make the Road New York
CAAAV

Don't forget to join us the following Sunday in Brooklyn for the next big event:

Kids Defend New York: A Purim Carnival
https://eventbrite.com/e/kids-defend-new-york-a-purim-carnival-tickets-57065787306
 
Featuring
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [JFREJ]

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) is a community based organization. http://www.jfrej.org. Write to info@jfrej.org with question and comments.
Chhaya Community Development Corporation

Chhaya builds the power, housing stability, and economic well-being of South Asians and Indo-Caribbean communities in New York.
Make the Road New York

¿Hablas español? Vea nuestra página en español aquí: http://www.facebook.com/SeHaceCaminoNY
Kolot Chayeinu

Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives - an unaffiliated progressive Jewish congregation in Brklyn. Cantor Lisa B. Segal, Rabbi Emerita Ellen Lippmann, founder
Midtown Workmen’s Circle School - MWCS

Midtown Workmen’s Circle School is a progressive, secular Jewish school and community that welcomes members from diverse backgrounds in New York City.
Caaav: Organizing Asian Communities

Learn more about CAAAV @ http://www.caaav.org/
Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee

The Afselokhis Spectacle Committee is the collective genius behind the annual JFREJ Purimshpil and much other magic making. Check out http://www.jfrej.org/purim for more shpil history!
DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving

DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving, founded in 2000, is a community based social justice organization of working class South Asian immigrants in NYC.
Hate Free Zone Queens

Hate Free Zone page for Queens neighborhoods: Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona. #LoveandProtectEachother #Here2Stay #Here2Fight
Malkhut

We are a new effort to build a Progressive Jewish Spiritual community in Western Queens!

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Pablo Neruda! Presente!
Sunday, Mar. 24 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm  
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch in Dweck Center
Eastern Pkwy & Flatbush Av. nr. #2, 3, Q stops
(https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/pablo-neruda-presente-central-library-dweck-20190324)

Pablo Neruda! Presente!
Documentary, dir. by Mark Eisner
US, 2004, 76 mins
Latin America’s most renowned poet and a major player in Chile’s political struggles, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) attained mythic stature in his lifetime. Narrated by Chilean fellow scribe Isabel Allende, the film traces the life, work and tumultuous times of the Nobel Laureate, from boyhood to student radicalism, early literary successes and parallel career as a consul appointed to various nations. Note: this is a film-in-progress.

Screening with be followed by a talkback with director and Neruda biographer Mark Eisner.

Return to the full list of films here.

TFW - Dance party!
Saturday, Mar. 23 from 10:00 PM until ? at Starr Bar
214 Starr St, Brooklyn, btw. Wyckoff St. & Irving St.;
L train to Jefferson (SE exit to Starr St.); M to Knickerbocker;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8uJXUw--?node=5550525387
https://goo.gl/N1P1aY
$5-$10 https://facebook.com/events/155727168662573/
https://maketheroadny.org/attend-an-event/
http://starrbar.com  https://facebook.com/pg/StarrBarBK/events/
m.me/StarrBarBK  (718) 821-1100 bookings@starrbar.com
ask correct ending time -t.

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Defend Abortion and Fight the Right in NYC!
Monday 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM in Foley Square
https://facebook.com/events/338468106791813/
m.me/NYCforAbortionRights nyc4abortionrights@gmail.com
https://facebook.com/pg/NYCforAbortionRights/events
https://abortionrights.nyc

An organization of far-right anti-abortion activists is holding their annual rally in Foley Square on March 25. They don't believe in rape or incest exceptions, and they're extra mad this year because of the RHA. Their bigotry doesn't belong in our city! So we're holding a counter-demo. We'll be there with signs, chants, and performance art calling out the danger their movement poses to pregnant people.

It's on a Monday (ugh) but if you can take a few hours out of your day to turn out with us and disrupt their bigotry, we promise that it will be a rewarding morning. :)

We will likely be meeting at Dunkin Donuts at 321 Broadway [btw. Worth St. & Thomas St. nr. #4, 5, J, A, C, R, W, 2, 3, 1 stops https://goo.gl/maps/J1T6MTLsnmo ]
beforehand at 9:00 am and then walking over to the rally location in Foley Square together. If you're running late, we'll be at Foley Square at 9:10am.

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108th Triangle Factory Fire Commemoration
Monday, Mar. 25, Noon to 1:00 PM
Greene St. and Washington Pl., NYC, a block east of the park &
nr. R, W, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #6, #1, PATH
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8UzGaU-?node=2550067206
https://goo.gl/maps/faFBPSZSGNU2
Join Workers United/SEIU (ILGWU) for the commemoration of the 108th anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire, one of the pivotal events in U.S. history and a turning point in labor’s struggle to achieve fair wages, dignity at work and safe working conditions. Outrage at the deaths of 146 mostly young, female immigrants inspired the union movement and helped to institute worker protections and fire safety laws. During the event, family members and others will read the names of workers who perished during the blaze, and flowers will be laid at the site of the fire while a bell tolls. A fire truck ladder will be raised to the 6th floor of the building, the highest point it could reach in 1911, although the fire engulfed the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors. At Washington Place and Green Street, Manhattan.

In January, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to approve a memorial dedicated to the victims of the fire. Reframing the Sky, designed by architects Uri Wegman and Richard Joon Yoo, will debut next year if supporters can raise $850,000 to cover long-term maintenance costs. Visit Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition's website to learn how you can help build the memorial.

Transnational Feminist Futures
Laura Briggs, Paige West, Zillah Eisenstein (Ithaca College), Premilla Nadasen, Linda Oalican
Monday, Mar. 25, 4:15 to 6:15 PM in
Jerome Greene Hall
435 W. 116th St., Rm. 102B, btw. Amsterdam Av. & Morningside Dr.
event graphic & description (https://socialdifference.columbia.edu/events-1/2019/3/25/transnational-feminist-futures)
Ctr. for the Study of Social Difference
https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/events
https://www.facebook.com/socialdifference   
(212) 854-5665 socialdifference@columbia.edu
Center for the Study of Social Difference co-sponsors the annual Transnational Feminist Futures roundtable conversation. This event, presented by  the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality will bring together scholars and activists for a roundtable conversation on transnational feminist theorizing and activism.

Speakers:

Professors Laura Briggs (UMASS-Amherst), Paige West (Columbia/ Barnard College), Zillah Eisenstein (Ithaca College), Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College), and Linda Oalican (Damayan Migrant Workers Association).

Moderator: Selina Makana, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.

Participants will explore the ways that transnational feminist theorizing and practices transform and reimagine contestations over issues such as human rights, constructions of patriarchies, and inclusionary/exclusionary practices of race, sexuality, and class.

A Greenwich Village Legacy: The Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
With Debbie Wells
Monday, Mar. 25 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm at Salamagundi Club
47 5th Ave. btw. E. 11th St. & E.12th St. (Location misinfo is circulating.)
maps: https://goo.gl/Wh2Ayd  https://osm.org/go/Zct8V5gLR-?node=4319632990
read event graphic at: (http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/event/a-greenwich-village-legacy-the-anniversary-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-of-1911-with-debbie-wells/)  & at (http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/debbie-wells-page0001.jpg)
apparently related artfulcircle.com artfulobserver.com artleagueli.org
description:  please let me know if you find a public regular text event description.  meanwhile read description in producer's graphic file, available upon request.  -t.

Linda Sarsour w/ Paula Chakravartty
Monday, Mar. 25, 6:30 to 8:00 PM
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts,
566 LaGuardia Pl. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH, R, W, #6 stops;
https://nyuskirball.org/events/skirball-talks-linda-sarsour/#tickets
 212.998.4941 boxoffice@nyu.edu  "
https://facebook.com/events/583540012071675/
http://apa.nyu.edu/event/skirball-talks-linda-sarsour/
https://nyuskirball.org/events/#/?event_type=skirball-talks
https://facebook.com/icnyu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/nyucmep/events https://facebook.com/pg/APAInstitute/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nyukevo/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/NYUSanctuary/events/ m.me/nyuskirball
(212) 998-4941 http://nyuskirball.org  (212) 998-4712 m.me/icnyu
http://icnyu.org l (212) 998-4343 m.me/nyucmep cmep@nyu.edu
http://nyu.edu/cmep  m.me/APAInstitute (212) 998-3700
apa.institute@nyu.edu http://apa.nyu.edu  m.me/nyukevo
(212) 998-8877 kevorkian.center@nyu.edu http://neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu
m.me/NYUSanctuary https://medium.com/@nyusanctuary

Award-winning, Brooklyn-born Palestinian American Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist Linda Sarsour delivers a lecture on migration, refugees, and the politics of sanctuary. Best known for her intersectional coalition work and building bridges across racial, ethnic, and faith communities, Sarsour has been at the forefront of major social justice campaigns both locally in New York City and nationally. She co-chaired the March2Justice and the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, and led the first “Day Without Women” in 2017 and the 2019 Women’s March on Washington. She is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, and is co-founder of MPOWER Change, the first Muslim online organizing platform. She is joined in conversation with Paula Chakravartty (NYU Gallatin and NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication).

Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms, SKIRBALL TALKS hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. This event is free and open to the public.

RSVPs will open starting February 15, 2019. PLEASE READ IN FULL REGARDING SEAT RESERVATIONS:
RSVP does not guarantee a ticket.
You can begin picking up tickets at the NYU Box Office (566 LaGuardia Pl) 2 hours prior to event. Even if you have picked up a ticket, please be aware that if you are
 == > not seated in the theater by 6:20pm, we will be opening up the theater to people in standby line. Tickets must be claimed by 6:10 pm. Unclaimed tickets will be released to those on the standby line.

Co-sponsors: Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Sanctuary, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU Center for Multicultural Education & Programs, and Islamic Center at NYU.

Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her research and teaching interests span comparative political economy, social movements and global governance, and decolonial and critical race theory. Her books include Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). Recent publications include a special issue on “Mediatized Populisms: Inter-Asian Lineages” for the International Journal of Communication (December 2017) and “Infrastructures of Empire: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies” for Media, Culture and Society (2016). Her current research focuses on racial capitalism and global media infrastructures, and migrant labor mobility and justice. Chakravartty is a member of the NYU Sanctuary Coalition and the NYU Coalition for Fair Labor. She serves on the executive board of the NYU Association for University Professors (AAUP), and is affiliated faculty at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, South Asia at NYU, and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near Eastern Studies.

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Indocumentales - I'm Leaving Now (Ya me voy)
Lindsey Cordero Armando Croda,Andrew Lim
Monday, Mar. 25, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
King Juan Carlos I Center Auditorium
53 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan & Thompson, next to Judson Church
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH, R, W, #6 stops; Public · Hosted by CLACS at NYU  https://facebook.com/CLACS.NYU/events/ m.me/CLACS.NYU  (212) 998-8686 http://clacs.as.nyu.edu clacs_nyu

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (CLACS), Cinema Tropical, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations / What Moves You?,  present a screening of I'm Leaving Now (Ya me voy), as part of the Spring edition of INDOCUMENTALES - a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country through compassionate representation and critical dialogue.

The series is free and open to the public. All screenings are followed by panel discussions meant to bring together filmmakers, scholars, activists, policy makers, and community representatives concerned with the fortification of immigrant rights.

Post-screening discussion with  filmmakers Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda, and Andrew Lim, Director of Quantitative Research at New American Economy. Moderated by World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN) Executive Director, Shamina de Gonzaga.

About the film:

I'm Leaving Now (Ya me voy) (Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda, Mexico/USA, 2018, 74 mins. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Felipe has come to a crossroads. After 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and collecting bottles on the street in his spare time and sending the bulk of his earnings home to his family in Mexico, he's decided to return to his wife and the children he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs his family of his homecoming, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the US, continuing to earn.

Shot over two years in the heart of Brooklyn’s immigrant community, I'm Leaving Now (Ya me voy) is a searingly intimate portrait of one undocumented worker on the margins. A blend of documentary with some fictional elements, the film allows the rhythms, emotions and sounds of Felipe’s life and the city to drive the story, utilizing a structure and a style often not seen in documentaries. Impressionistic, cinematic and with the city as its soundscape, the film pushes the boundary of how documentary can capture the lives of the unseen, ultimately elevating this one lonely man’s story into a lyrical meditation on themes of family and home, loneliness and love. As Felipe debates whether to stay or go, the film builds to a heartbreaking portrait of the struggle and drama that exist in the lives of the often invisible figures toiling away in the kitchens, hotel rooms and construction sites of our biggest cities. Eschewing politics, the film is political nonetheless – a quiet and unforgettable snapshot of one man held in suspension between a world of endless work and a faraway home

About the Directors:

Lindsey Cordero is a Mexican filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Cordero's work focuses mainly on immigration, survival and identity of undocumented Mexicans living in New York. She is director of the documentary I'm Leaving Now (Ya me voy) which is world premiering at Hot Docs April, 2018. Cordero is producer of the feature film EN EL SEPTIMO DIA (2017) written and directed by Jim McKay, which had its international at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival and will be released in theaters June, 2018. She worked as additional editor and sound mixer on the documentary feature HAVANA MOTOR CLUB (2015) directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. She is co-director of the TV documentary FIRMES, MEXICANS IN THE BRONX (Nat Geo Latino, 2013) about a group of Mexican undocumented immigrants who left the gang life behind and formed a Lowrider car club in the Bronx, NY. Cordero received the 2015 Princess Grace Film Honorarium for her film I’M LEAVING NOW (Ya Me Voy). She holds a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and an MFA at from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Armando Croda - is originally from Mexico and living in Brooklyn NYC, he has been working in art and film in the US, Europe and Mexico for the past decade. He is currently finishing his new feature documentary “Ya me voy”, he was additional cinematographer and editor of the documentary “Havana Motor Club” (2015) about Cuba’s top drag racers and their quest to hold the first official race since the revolution that recently premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Co Director, cinematographer and editor of the documentary Co-director, cinematographer and editor of “Firmes, Mexicans in the Bronx”(Nat Geo Latino, 2013) about undocumented Immigrants who have left the gang life behind and formed a Lowrider car club on the East Coast. Croda also completed the feature film, “Victorio” (2008) as Co-Director and Editor, which was awarded Opera Prima at the Guanajuato Film Festival, and screened in various festivals in Europe and Latin America, including Valencia, Huelva, St. Petersburg, Havana and selected for the Human Right competition in Bilbao film festival.

About the series:
INDOCUMENTALES began in May of 2010 as Indocumentales: the US/Mexico Interdependent Film Series with screenings and panel discussions at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and other venues throughout the five boroughs including the Americas Society and Cervantes Institute in Midtown Manhattan, the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem, the Casita Maria Center for the Arts in the Bronx, the Beacon Center for the Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the Queens Museum in Corona, New York. It since traveled across the U.S., as well as to Mexico and Canada, engaging diverse communities in reflecting on their relationship to the questions posed in the films.
 
CLACS at NYU
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU is a nexus for scholars, students and community in New York and beyond.

Events with CLACS at NYU

MAR11
Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism

MAR14
Honoring Marielle Franco-with Marcia Tiburi and Adjoa Jones

NBK Night School Series w/ Democratic Socialists of America NYC
Apparently always Mondays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Av., Brooklyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.;
L Train to Dekalb Av. or M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
maps & transit: https://goo.gl/maps/kfFmfuH4Vrn
https://goo.gl/CZ85GX https://osm.org/go/Zct8r97Ql-?node=5550519331
DSA listings https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/
questions https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ http://m.me/nycdsa
venue https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace
https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

. Gender & Capitalism
Monday Jan. 14, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/349259645815969/

. Socialists and the Working Class
Monday, Jan. 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/253836285333562

. Poor People’s Movements
Monday Feb. 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/268176130498747/

. Unions and the Labor Movement
Monday, Feb. 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/237606560244178/

. How Capitalism Makes Us Sick
Monday, March 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/178216109720968/

. The Rent Is Too Damn High
Monday, March 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/738821516464360/

. Education is a Right
Monday, April 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1853390398107811/

. Mass Incarceration
Monday, April 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/395574424312518/

. Foreign Policy and Imperialism
Monday, May 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/274200386538495/

. Israel-Palestine
Monday, May 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/256808268356519/

. Climate Change
Monday, June 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/236842033653922/

. The Russian Revolution
Monday, June 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/32837960459167

. The Lenin Controversy
Monday, July 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/271877923440185/

. Third World Revolutions
Monday, July 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1413696395432517/ .

. The Coup in Chile
Monday, July 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1937917946514411/

. The Limits of Social Democracy
Monday, August 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/238710980333532/

. Today's Socialist Strategy
Monday, August 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/286535555296574/

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. Spring Compost Kick-off Workshop on

Tuesday Mar. 26, 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. (Rain date Friday, Mar. 29)
6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden (on E. 6th St.)
Register  http://spring-compost-kick-off.eventbrite.com
kathryn@lesecologycenter.org  (212) 477-3155
https://twitter.com/lesecologyctr/status/1107655451213262848
(https://eventbrite.com/o/nyc-compost-project-hosted-by-les-ecology-center-13297911311)
 212.477.3155  info@lesecologycenter.org

Join us for our Spring Compost Kickoff!  Not sure what to do with all those kitchens scraps? Wondering how to pick up where you left off before you hibernated for the winter? Learn how to convert your yard waste and kitchen scraps into a rich, organic fertilizer in this hands-on workshop. The basics of composting will be discussed with troubleshooting techniques specific to composting in NYC.

For any questions about this event, please contact Kathryn Robling at

 . Compost Workday
Thursday Mar. 21, 1:30 to 3:30 PM
East River Park Compost Yard
Free.  Register? https://compostworkday.eventbrite.com
https://eventbrite.com/e/compost-workday-tickets-58434725838
by NYC Compost Project Hosted by LES Ecology Center
peter@lesecologycenter.org kayla@lesecologycenter.org
(https://eventbrite.com/o/nyc-compost-project-hosted-by-les-ecology-center-13297911311)
 212.477.3155  info@lesecologycenter.org
https://twitter.com/lesecologyctr/status/1107680794762534912
Help out at a compost workday and get a tour of the East River Park Compost Yard! Volunteers will sift and bag compost while getting a behind-the-scenes look at how we process organic waste into rich finished compost for community gardens and parks.

This volunteer and tour opportunity will take place on
Thursday, March 21 from 1:30pm - 3:30pm at the East River Park Compost Yard.

FAQs
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
Participants must be 18 years or older to attend.

How do I get to East River Park Compost Yard?
The East River Compost Yard is located within East River Park. Detailed directions can be found here. The site is the lot directly south of the amphitheater. The entrance is on the side facing the FDR not the waterfront

What will volunteers be doing?
Volunteers will help with sifting and bagging finished compost. Using a shovel, kneeling, squatting, or lifting 30 pound compost bags might be among the physical activities. Volunteers should let the site coordinator know if they have a physical limitation before tasks are assigned. Gloves, tools and materials will be provided.

What should I wear?
Please wear sturdy closed-toed shoes (preferably hiking boots, rain boots, or work boots; please note that during heavy periods of rainfall, the yard can get muddy), and clothes you don't mind getting dirty. Dress appropriately for the weather.

What should I bring?
Water bottle and small snack if desired. Pack on the light-side!

How can I register my group?
Please select the number of tickets you need upon registration and provide relevant information for each attendee.

Is there a maximum for group size?
Groups are limited to up to 10 people. Any larger groups will need to reach out to info@lesecologycenter.org

I am organizing a volunteer day on behalf of my company, can my group be included?
No. Please reach out to Devleopment Manager Kayla Donley at kayla@lesecologycenter.org to learn more about corporate volunteer oppotunities.

What if I am late?
Please give yourself an extra 15 minutes to navigate to the park. We recommend looking up directions the day before for a smooth commute. We will start promptly at 1:30 pm. In the case that you are late, please make sure you sign in before joining in on the activities.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email peter@lesecologycenter.org with inquiries related to this event.

 

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Linda Sarsour w/ Paula Chakravartty
Monday, Mar. 25, 6:30 to 8:00 PM
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts,
566 LaGuardia Pl. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH, R, W, #6 stops;
https://nyuskirball.org/events/skirball-talks-linda-sarsour/#tickets
 212.998.4941 boxoffice@nyu.edu  "
https://facebook.com/events/583540012071675/
http://apa.nyu.edu/event/skirball-talks-linda-sarsour/
https://nyuskirball.org/events/#/?event_type=skirball-talks
https://facebook.com/icnyu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/nyucmep/events https://facebook.com/pg/APAInstitute/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nyukevo/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/NYUSanctuary/events/ m.me/nyuskirball
(212) 998-4941 http://nyuskirball.org  (212) 998-4712 m.me/icnyu
http://icnyu.org l (212) 998-4343 m.me/nyucmep cmep@nyu.edu
http://nyu.edu/cmep  m.me/APAInstitute (212) 998-3700
apa.institute@nyu.edu http://apa.nyu.edu  m.me/nyukevo
(212) 998-8877 kevorkian.center@nyu.edu http://neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu
m.me/NYUSanctuary https://medium.com/@nyusanctuary

Award-winning, Brooklyn-born Palestinian American Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist Linda Sarsour delivers a lecture on migration, refugees, and the politics of sanctuary. Best known for her intersectional coalition work and building bridges across racial, ethnic, and faith communities, Sarsour has been at the forefront of major social justice campaigns both locally in New York City and nationally. She co-chaired the March2Justice and the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, and led the first “Day Without Women” in 2017 and the 2019 Women’s March on Washington. She is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, and is co-founder of MPOWER Change, the first Muslim online organizing platform. She is joined in conversation with Paula Chakravartty (NYU Gallatin and NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication).

Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms, SKIRBALL TALKS hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. This event is free and open to the public.

RSVPs will open starting February 15, 2019. PLEASE READ IN FULL REGARDING SEAT RESERVATIONS:
RSVP does not guarantee a ticket.
You can begin picking up tickets at the NYU Box Office (566 LaGuardia Pl) 2 hours prior to event. Even if you have picked up a ticket, please be aware that if you are
 == > not seated in the theater by 6:20pm, we will be opening up the theater to people in standby line. Tickets must be claimed by 6:10 pm. Unclaimed tickets will be released to those on the standby line.

Co-sponsors: Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Sanctuary, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU Center for Multicultural Education & Programs, and Islamic Center at NYU.

Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her research and teaching interests span comparative political economy, social movements and global governance, and decolonial and critical race theory. Her books include Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). Recent publications include a special issue on “Mediatized Populisms: Inter-Asian Lineages” for the International Journal of Communication (December 2017) and “Infrastructures of Empire: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies” for Media, Culture and Society (2016). Her current research focuses on racial capitalism and global media infrastructures, and migrant labor mobility and justice. Chakravartty is a member of the NYU Sanctuary Coalition and the NYU Coalition for Fair Labor. She serves on the executive board of the NYU Association for University Professors (AAUP), and is affiliated faculty at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, South Asia at NYU, and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near Eastern Studies.

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 . Tuesday, 3/19 @ 12PM: The Housing Justice for All campaign will host a
vigil for 89K homeless New Yorkers. And our Civil Rights Union leadership team will be deamding passage of criminal justice reforms.  War Room, NYS Capitol, Albany.  (929)320-7824 jawanza@vocal-ny.org

 . Wednesday, 3/20 @ 6PM: We will be joining
JustLeadership for a Town Hall on closing Rikers Island. At BRIC, 647 Fulton St. [G to Fulton; C to Lafayette; B, Q, #2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays]
RSVP [? -t.] to devante@vocal-ny.org [ask correct ending time -t.]

 . Wednesday, 3/20 @ 6PM: Register here for informal Happy Hour
Teach-In on Marijuana Legalization!  Grab a drink with the VOCAL crew and learn about what NY needs to do in order to legalize in a way that repairs harm instead of causes it. Cherry Tree Tavern Trains: B/Q/R/N/D/2/3/4/5 Atlantic Ave/Barclays Center.  [please confirm what time this event is.  cuz it says same time as above entry *and* there was already an unrelated logistics typo in this very mailing..as so often in VOCAL newsletters.  sorry, know no contact, so call VOCAL. -t.]

 . Thursday 3/21 @ 5:30 PM: Register for town hall on voting rights -- including restoration of voting rights for people on parole. Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom,
250 Joralemon St. [nr. #4, 5, 2, 3, R, A, C, F, G stops] Nick@vocal-ny.org
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?&id=2108  (ask correct ending time -t.)

 . Register to get on the bus! Demand Marijuana Justice for NYS,
Wednesday, Mar. 27.  (929)320-7824,
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?id=2071 
(ASK CORRECT BUS & EVENT TIMES -t.)

 . No More Drug War & End Overdose in NY Legislative Awareness Day,
April 8, Register.     [possibly in part about naloxone funding?  ask clarfication. -t. ]

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Kids These Days: The Criminalization of Youth in New York
Ella Antell
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 5:30 to 7:00pm
Museum of the City of NY
5th Av. btw. E. 103rd & E.104th nr. #6, 2, 3, Q stops, 106th St. cross town bus
& M102, M103, M104 via CPN/110th & 5th Av.
Free. Registration required.
https://mcny.org/event/kids-these-days-criminalization-youth-new-york  https://facebook.com/events/401458670402234/
pd@mcny.org  917.492.3492  

From West Side Story to American Gangster, New York City’s youth have been at the center of debates about crime and minority communities in the city for generations. Since the beginning of the 20th century, ideas about juvenile delinquency have also driven changing attitudes toward policing, as officials’ focus shifted from the children of European immigrants to African American and Puerto Rican youth after World War II.

Join Ella Antell, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, to gain historical perspective on how New York got to the recent era of “broken windows” policing and the school-to-prison pipeline.

Educators will learn about sources available to support their students’ learning in the Museum and online. Participants will leave with resources for the classroom and a CTLE certificate for 1.5 hours of professional development.

This event is geared towards educators but open to all with interest in the topic. Guests welcome.

Light refreshments will be served.

Free with RSVP

Hack the Canon: Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Rights
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 6:00 PM at Barnard College in
Milstein Ctr. Rm. 103 https://goo.gl/maps/hGzBuBWRsnE2
(https://barnard.edu/events/hack-canon-reproductive-justice-and-reproductive-rights)

This edit-a-thon teaches the fundamentals of creating and editing in Wikipedia, while increasing access to information around reproductive justice and reproductive rights. Traditionally, the reproductive rights movement has focused on securing legal rights for individuals to obtain reproductive health services. Here, we focus on the tenets of reproductive freedom and autonomy developed by women of color. By creating and improving Wikipedia entries, we aim to correct the omission of marginalized communities from scholarship and general knowledge. We seize this opportunity to counterbalance inequity with diverse voices from within Barnard’s community. No experience is necessary to participate. Registration is encouraged but not required. Illustration by Suze Myers ’16

Information mwisner@barnard.edu

(ask correct ending time -t.)

ASSEMBLIES
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019 from 6:15pm
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room [ask correct enting time -t.]
http://heymancenter.org/events/11-13-assemblies/
http://heymancenter.org/events/semester/spring-2019/
http://heymancenter.org/visit/   http://heymancenter.org/people/type/staff/

Robin Celikates,  Institute for Advanced Study
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Nandini Sundar, University of Dehli
in conversation with
Thomas Dodman, Columbia University
and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University
reading and discussing
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler
== > RSVP to  gmp2142@columbia.edu  Open to the public.
Registration required  First come, first seated

DIRECTIONS TO HEYMAN CENTER VIA NEXT DOOR IAB/SIPA BLDG.:   Enter International Affairs Building at 420 W. 118th St. btw. Amsterdam Av. & Morningside Dr. Take elevator to 6th Floor and exit the building through the southern doors. The entrance to East Campus will be at the far left (southeastern) corner of the courtyard. Take the stairs up to East Campus. Check in with the guard and walk through the courtyard to the Heyman Center.

The ``13/13 Seminar Series`` also has the support of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Maison Française.

On One-Year Anniversary of Gaza March of Return, Oppose the Artwashing of Israeli Apartheid in NYC

Israeli Apartheid Week 2019
Protest Batsheva Dance Company, Cultural Ambassadors for Israel
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Howard Gilman Opera House,
30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, btw. Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.; G to Fulton; B, Q, #2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays; C to Lafayette; A to Hoyt-Schermerhorn;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct5cRQL?way=250979163
https://goo.gl/maps/LkcitrG1e6T2
https://adalahny.org/civicrm/mailing/view?&id=575
https://facebook.com/events/371845463655000/
https://facebook.com/pg/AdalahNY/events/ m.me/AdalahNY
https://adalahny.org/page/79/contact-us joecatron@gmail.com announcements@campaigns.adalahny.org

Great March of Return protesters dance dabka in the line Israeli sniper fireThe same week as the one-year anniversary of Gaza’s Great March of Return, Batsheva Dance Company will be performing in NYC as a willing participant in the Israeli government’s Brand Israel public relations campaign that uses art and culture to divert attention from Israel’s violent repression of the Palestinian people, including Israel’s war crimes and crimes against Palestinian protesters in Gaza.

Batsheva’s North American tour is being promoted by the Israeli government’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Batsheva Dance Company is “perhaps the best known global ambassador of Israeli culture.”  Batsheva refuses to disavow its close partnership with the Israeli government. Batsheva’s NYC host, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), rejected Adalah-NY’s request to meet to discuss its complicity in the Brand Israel campaign and Israel’s decades of denial of Palestinian freedom.

So we’ll protest! Join us in calling on Batsheva and BAM to end their complicity with Brand Israel. Help mark the one-year anniversary of Gaza’s Great March of Return here in NYC, and come participate in the 15th annual Israeli Apartheid Week.

Like and share the Facebook event and invite your friends!
photo: Great March of Return protesters dance the dabka in the line of Israeli sniper fire
Visit us online at adalahny.org or Contact Us.
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The Palestinians Who Built Israel: Andrew Ross and Lamis Deek
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, The People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves.
nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
https://facebook.com/events/2171990819510720/ m.me/WOL.Palestine  
https://facebook.com/pg/WOL.Palestine/events/ newyorkcitysjp@gmail.com

(https://withinourlifetime.squarespace.com/home/2018/2/28/within-our-lifetime) https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events/  m.me/VersoBks

+44 20 7437 3546 https://versobooks.com/events https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” [utilizing] some of the best-quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine’s largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labour, have been used to build out the state of Israel—in the process, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine–Israel conflict in a new light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labour be recognised.

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross is available from Verso on March 26: https://versobooks.com/books/2926-stone-men

Speakers:
Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and a social activist. A contributor to the Nation, Village Voice, New York Times, and Artforum, he is the author of many books, including, most recently, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City and Nice Work if You Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. He lives in New York.

Lamis Deek is a human rights attorney, activist and strategist.


Nerdeen Kiswani is a Palestinian organizer from NYC. She’s the founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime - United for Palestine, a youth organization that has been organizing the Palestinian diaspora in NYC for the past 3 years. She has been centrally involved in multiple coalitions for Palestine both locally in NYC, building multiple Palestine student organizations in different universities and participating in the national student movement in the US, and internationally, having participated in conferences around the world and across the US to further the Palestinian struggle.
Featuring

Verso Books
Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine=

WOL is a Palestinian led organization made up of dedicated youth, students, and community members building the movement for Palestine in NYC.

More Events at The People's Forum
MAR18 Black Reconstruction
MAR20 Reclaim Pride Coalition Weekly Meeting
MAR22 Marx's Capital Volume I (1)

Poughkeepsie Poor People's Hearing
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Cunneen-Hackett Art Gallery
12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
https://www.facebook.com/events/2285466091735900/ with
NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival;
Kairos Center; Labor Religion Coalition of New York State;
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival;
Repairers of the Breach

Jennifer Eberhardt: Biased (with Wes Moore)
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 7:00 to 8:00PM
https://strandbooks.com/event/jennifer-eberhardt-biased
https://facebook.com/events/2276526185901818/
https://facebook.com/pg/vikingbooks/events/
https://google.com/search?q=Jennifer+Eberhardt%3A+Biased
apparently relevant m.me/iamwesmoore  wes@theotherwesmoore.com
http://RobinHood.org http://twitter.com/iamwesmoore

You don’t have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward.

Eberhardt works extensively as a consultant to law enforcement and as a psychologist at the forefront of this new field. Her research takes place in courtrooms and boardrooms, in prisons, on the street, and in classrooms and coffee shops. She shows us the subtle—and sometimes dramatic—daily repercussions of implicit bias in how teachers grade students, or managers deal with customers. It has an enormous impact on the conduct of criminal justice, from the rapid decisions police officers have to make to sentencing practices in court. Eberhardt’s work and her book are both influenced by her own life, and the personal stories she shares emphasize the need for change. She has helped companies that include Airbnb and Nextdoor address bias in their business practices and has led anti-bias initiatives for police departments across the country. Here, she offers practical suggestions for reform and new practices that are useful for organizations as well as individuals.

Unblinking about the tragic consequences of prejudice, Eberhardt addresses how racial bias is not the fault of nor restricted to a few “bad apples” but is present at all levels of society in media, education, and business. The good news is that we are not hopelessly doomed by our innate prejudices. In Biased, Eberhardt reminds us that racial bias is a human problem—one all people can play a role in solving.

Join us as Jennifer discusses her groundbreaking look at the conscious and unconscious elements that shape prejudice with Wes Moore, CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation.

Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is a professor of psychology at Stanford and a recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “genius” grant. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. She is co-founder and co-director of SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), a Stanford Center that brings together researchers and practitioners to address significant social problems. (Photo: Nana Kofi Nti)

RefuseFascism NYC Organizing Meeting
Wednesday Mar. 27, 7:00 pm
Asian American Artists Workshop
112 W. 27th St., 6th Fl., btw. 6th & 7th Aves.; #1 Train to 28 St. (at 7th Av.); R, W to 28 St. (at Broadway nr. 5th & 6th Aves.); F, M, PATH to 23 St. (at 6th); B, D, N, Q  to 34 St.-Herald Sq. (exit to W.32nd & 6th); #2, 3 to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W.32nd & 7th); C, E to 23 St.; A to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W.33rd & 8th);
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9BufIV-?node=2549960825
https://goo.gl/maps/ZyJWoNSYEZR2
NYC [at] refusefascism.org
https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascismNYC/events/
https://refusefascism.org/events m.me/RefuseFascismNYC

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Book talk: ‘Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel’
Thursday Mar 28, Noon in Columbia Univ. Knox Hall
606 W. 122nd St. btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops,
M60 bus & cross town buses via 125th or 116th or CPN/Cathedral
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4obsVq?way=271917008
https://goo.gl/maps/DCuDSs37wU92
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/FE1A5v   (http://www.palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-spring-2019-1/cracks-in-the-wall-beyond-apartheid-palestineisrael) (https://academicsforpalestine.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/cracks-in-the-wall-beyond-apartheid-in-palestine-israel-book-launch-with-ben-white)
https://goo.gl/HTEiaE = (https://gallery.mailchimp.com/eadf837f867ec8d3df247b75d/_compresseds/408557a7-7768-4c3f-9f3d-0bacbb6e3586.jpg) Public ·
Hosted by Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University
https://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-spring-2019-1
http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events/ (212) 851-2992
https://facebook.com/pg/CUPalestine/events/ palestine@columbia.edu
m.me/CUPalestine http://columbia.edu/cu/palestine
https://twitter.com/CUpalestine   https://benwhite.org.uk/events/ 
apparently relevant https://facebook.com/PlutoPress/videos/1848827345139058/

ask correct ending time -t.

Medea on Trial A Conversation with Margaret Atwood and Lisa Dwan
Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM in
The Forum Building nominally at 605 W 125th St.; there's an edge along Broadway btw. W.125th & W.129th; ask community affairs for a useable map or the location of physical entrances...or suggest C.U. developers have google update streetview;
event https://facebook.com/events/2223704434565303/
Public · Hosted by Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

``Havana Today`` screening
Thursday, Mar. 28, 6:30 to 8:30 PM in Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at
``41 Cooper Square`` on 3rd Ave. btwn E. 6th St. & E. 7th St.
[nr. #6, R, W, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via W.8th or E.9th or via Houston St.]

Havana Today: Impressions of a City in 16 Chapters, a film co-directed by Cecilia Ricciarelli and Diego Malquori, assistant professor of philosophy at The Cooper Union, is narrated in sixteen fragments, or variations, that together make up a whole. Some of the fragments are stories about the fantasy and imagination of a life divided between revolutionary struggle and survival. Others are interviews with artists, intellectuals or passers-by, which reveal their relationship with this city. Others are composed of collages of images that speak for themselves. The film was inspired by a film project imagined in the ‘60s by Cesare Zavattini and was an official selection at 23 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, 24ème Cinéma du Réel, Paris, and 2 Festival Docúpolis, Barcelona.

Following the screening, Professor Malquori is joined by Pablo Massip, who served as director of photography on Havana Today, and historian Michelle Chase to discuss the film and the current situation in Cuba.

Located in the

Havana Today: Impressions of a City in 16 Chapters
+ Q & A w/ Prof. Diego Malquori, Pablo Massip
Thursday, Mar. 28, 6:30–8:30 PM in
`41 Cooper Square` Bldg's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium,
physically 3rd Ave. btw E. 6th & E. 7th Streets
nr. #6, R, W, B, D, F, M & crosstown bus via W.8th St. or E.9th St. or Houston St.
https://osm.org/go/Zct8WFrn1-?way=241833326
https://goo.gl/maps/THYCGqpA67C2
(https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/havana-today-screening)
https://eventbrite.com/e/havana-today-tickets-58674668513
http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions)             
Havana Today: Impressions of a City in 16 Chapters, a film co-directed by Cecilia Ricciarelli and Diego Malquori, assistant professor of philosophy at The Cooper Union, is narrated in sixteen fragments, or variations, that together make up a whole. Some of the fragments are stories about the fantasy and imagination of a life divided between revolutionary struggle and survival. Others are interviews with artists, intellectuals or passers-by, which reveal their relationship with this city. Others are composed of collages of images that speak for themselves. The film was inspired by a film project imagined in the ‘60s by Cesare Zavattini and was an official selection at 23 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, 24ème Cinéma du Réel, Paris, and 2 Festival Docúpolis, Barcelona.

Following the screening, Professor Malquori is joined by Pablo Massip, who served as  director of photography on Havana Today, and historian Michelle Chase to discuss the film and the current situation in Cuba.

Havana Today
by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Free
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Havana Today: Impressions of a City in 16 Chapters, a film co-directed by Cecilia Ricciarelli and Diego Malquori, assistant professor of philosophy at The Cooper Union, is narrated in sixteen fragments, or variations, that together make up a whole. Some of the fragments are stories about the fantasy and imagination of a life divided between revolutionary struggle and survival. Others are interviews with artists, intellectuals or passers-by, which reveal their relationship with this city. Others are composed of collages of images that speak for themselves. The film was inspired by a film project imagined in the ‘60s by Cesare Zavattini and was an official selection at 23 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, 24ème Cinéma du Réel, Paris, and 2 Festival Docúpolis, Barcelona.

Following the screening, Professor Malquori is joined by Pablo Massip, who served as director of photography on Havana Today, and historian Michelle Chase to discuss the film and the current situation in Cuba.

Please note seating is on a first come basis; an RSVP does not guarantee admission as we generally overbook to ensure a full house.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)
 

Thu, March 28, 2019

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium

41 Cooper Square

 . JFREJ Purimshpil Preview Show 5779
Thursday, Mar. 28, 7:00 to 10:00 PM
East Midwood Jewish Center
1625 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11230
https://facebook.com/events/395521574342141/
Public · Hosted by Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [JFREJ] 
https://facebook.com/pg/SpectacleCommittee/events
http://spectaclecommittee.com m.me/JFREJNYC
(212) 647-8966 info@jfrej.org http://www.jfrej.org m.me/SpectacleCommittee

 . JFREJ Purimshpiel 5779
Saturday, Mar. 30, 8:00 PM to 3:00 AM
East Midwood Jewish Center
https://jfrej.org/event/save-the-date-purim-2019/  Public · Hosted by Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [JFREJ] 

Aftselakhis events
MAR 24  Purim Family Art Party & Parade
MAR 27    Hamentaschen Bake
MAR 28    JFREJ Purimshpil Preview Show 5779
MAR 30    JFREJ Purimshpiel 5779
MAR 31    Kids Defend NYC: A Purim Carnival

JFREJ events
FEB26    Black History Month Tour: Sarah's Fire
MAR3    JOC Caucus Havdalah Brunch
MAR4    JOCTA Presents: Torah, Radical Discourse, and Adaptive Change
MAR24    Purim Family Art Party & Parade
MAR27    Hamentaschen Bake
MAR28    JFREJ Purimshpil Preview Show 5779
MAR30    JFREJ Purimshpiel 5779
  
MAR31    Kids Defend NYC: A Purim Carnival

Brooklyn Liberation Flicks: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Thursday, Mar. 28, 8:00 to 10:00PM in Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford St. btw. Lafayette Av. & Fulton St.;
G to Fulton; C to Lafayette; B, Q, 2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays;
#2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins;
https://goo.gl/maps/DhUdTEAMLxE2
https://facebook.com/events/321366252061829/                      
Public · Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL

In the midst of the most recent attempt by the United States to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela, the Party for Socialism and Liberation Brooklyn, presents a timely free screening of the 2003 documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a film detailing the 2002 failed coup attempt against Hugo Chavez in real time. The result is an expose of imperialist entitlement and a testament to the people's revolutionary will.

Join us on Thursday, March 28, 7:00 pm at 85 South Oxford St, Basement - as we watch this story unfold and learn from an all-too-relevant history of the fight back struggle in Venezuela. Following the screening, stay for a discussion on our solidarity work here in building an anti imperialist struggle in Brooklyn!

This will be a potluck style event- so ==> bring a snack, beverage or dish if you can- we'll have the popcorn!

Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL
The official page of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. To get the latest news and views of the PSL, go to http://www.LiberationNews.org

Events with Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL
APR 9 Liberation Forums
APR 19 Marxist Study Group - Every Third Friday!
MAR 23 Breaking the Chains: Women’s Socialism Conference

 . Vigil vs. Saroop & Son Live Poultry Mkt
Friday, Mar. 15, Noon at
2164 Webster Ave, Bx., btw. E. 181st & E. 182nd;
B, D to 182-183 St.; #4 to 181 St. https://goo.gl/maps/K6u9pD9wj6P2
https://facebook.com/events/251242402477589/  ask correct ending time. -t.
 
 . Morning Candlelight Vigil
Saturday, Mar. 16, 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM
Kikiriki Live Poultry Inc
334 Linden St, Brooklyn, (11237), btw. Myrtle & Irving Aves.
M, L to Myrtle-Wyckoff;
map https://osm.org/go/Zct_BCsyt--?node=5568294654
https://goo.gl/maps/3DZ7UB5HtXo
https://facebook.com/events/380765749391151/

 . Vigil for Animals
Sunday, Mar. 24, 2:30 to 4:30 PM NEW TIME
from Kikiriki Live Poultry Inc (location above)
https://facebook.com/events/2294820590787676/
Please research actions Sunday, apparently both at
Kikiriki Live Poultry, 334 Linden St....& later at
Tiba Live Poultry, 905 Wyckoff Ave
btw. Hancock & Weirfield;  L to Halsey;
https://goo.gl/maps/KzjppM4d4Ro
Publicity is or was giving conflicting time info.  -t.

 . Morning Candlelight Vigil in Williamsburg
Friday, Mar 29, 5:30 to 7:30 AM at 7 Seas Grocery,
235 Bushwick Ave. btw. Meserole St. & Montrose Av.
L to Montrose; https://goo.gl/maps/nc9HXeaiwmF2
https://facebook.com/events/2082705868516274/

[Publicity for some above actions involves some of sources below. -t.]
NYC Save Mvmt., The Save Mvmt., Bushwick Animal Save, linden street, brooklyn nyc, Harlem Animal Save, Belmont Animal Save,NYC Save Movement Tour, Sunset Park Animal Save, 2nd Avenue, brooklyn nyc
https://facebook.com/pg/NYCsavemovement/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/savemovement/events/ (https://facebook.com/pg/Bushwick-Animal-Save-linden-street-brooklyn-nyc-244407089603145/events/)
https://facebook.com/pg/HarlemAnimalSave/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/Belmont-Animal-Save-331960980976623/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/nyc100savegroups/events (https://facebook.com/pg/Sunset-Park-Animal-Save-2nd-Avenue-brooklyn-nyc-1038553146305198/events)

 

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Candlelight Vigil in Williamsburg
Friday, Mar. 29, 2019 at 5:30 AM – 7:30 AM
[Leaving from] 7 Seas Grocery
235 Bushwick Ave., btw. Meserole St. & Montrose Ave.,
mid-block, next to L Train `Montrose Ave` stop;
maps https://goo.gl/maps/qnVBPyrFdss
https://osm.org/go/Zct8m5mvT?m=&way=551951665

Join us for our 2nd Vigil At New Lee’s Poultry Market slaughterhouse located in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Over 15,000 birds are killed at this location every single day.

At our 1st vigil held at New Lee’s we were aggressively confronted by more than 15 NYPD officers. We need the community to get more involved in order to be taken seriously. Please invite your friends, sister, brother and mother! This event is vegan and non-vegan friendly.

WHERE & WHEN:
5:30am-5:45am
7 SEAS GROCERY group check in, distribute candles, flowers, bundle up and head out. A ==> few blocks away from slaughterhouse.

•••••6:00am -7:00am
NEW LEE’s POULTRY MARKET 360 JOHNSON AVENUE {snip}
[ btw. White St. & Bogart St.; maps (https://osm.org/go/Zct8sFMq?way=279649105) (https://goo.gl/maps/W97uKnkNCHm) ]
[Bear] witness to thousands of chickens stacked in crates on slaughterhouse trucks outside of facility and also inside.

NYC Save Movement — We hope that March 29 is a good day to meet up! Please let us know if we can make a better date 💜 we need our community involved. Thank you
…

FeaturingNYC Save Movement
We bear witness to the suffering of animals waiting to be slaughtered in NYC, by being present in the face of injustice and trying to help. We shine a spotlight on the appalling truth in order to raise awareness to the general public. To feel their suffer

The Save Movement

The Save Movement is a worldwide network of Save groups bearing witness to farmed animals and promoting veganism and love-based, grassroots activism.
Bushwick Animal Save, linden street, brooklyn nyc

Bushwick Animal Save, part of the worldwide Save Movement, world to end violence, oppression, captivity of animals through bearing witness
Harlem Animal Save

Harlem Animal Save, part of the worldwide Save Movement, works to end violence, oppression, captivity of animals through bearing witness

Belmont Animal Save, part of the worldwide Save Movement, strives to end violence, oppression, captivity of animals through bearing witness and “erecting glass walls” at Bronx area Saroop & Son Live Poultry Market.

Sunset Park Animal Save, part of the worldwide Save Movement, works to end violence, oppression, captivity of animals through bearing witness.

Dawn Candle Vigil at Slaughterhouse

Book talk: ‘Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel’
Thursday Mar 28, Noon in Columbia Univ. Knox Hall
606 W. 122nd St. btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops,
M60 bus & cross town buses via 125th or 116th or CPN/Cathedral
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4obsVq?way=271917008
https://goo.gl/maps/DCuDSs37wU92
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/FE1A5v   (http://www.palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-spring-2019-1/cracks-in-the-wall-beyond-apartheid-palestineisrael) (https://academicsforpalestine.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/cracks-in-the-wall-beyond-apartheid-in-palestine-israel-book-launch-with-ben-white)
https://goo.gl/HTEiaE = (https://gallery.mailchimp.com/eadf837f867ec8d3df247b75d/_compresseds/408557a7-7768-4c3f-9f3d-0bacbb6e3586.jpg) Public ·
Hosted by Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University
https://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-spring-2019-1
http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events/ (212) 851-2992
https://facebook.com/pg/CUPalestine/events/ palestine@columbia.edu
m.me/CUPalestine http://columbia.edu/cu/palestine
https://twitter.com/CUpalestine   https://benwhite.org.uk/events/ 
apparently relevant https://facebook.com/PlutoPress/videos/1848827345139058/

ask correct ending time -t.

The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Film & talk, Friday Mar. 29, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves., nr. A, C, E, #7, #1, 2,
3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd;
maps: https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c--
https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
$6 to $15
https://marxedproject.org/event/the-working-class-goes-to-heaven/
https://facebook.com/events/639090789854550/
https://marxedproject.org/events/ (917) 306-8066
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events
https://peoplesforum.org/calendar/category/classes/
m.me/MarxistEducationProject marxedproject@gmail.com
m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095
https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC
FINAL FRIDAY FILMS CONTINUE MARCH 29

If this Italian drama were any less well told, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. In any manufacturing situation, it simply doesn’t pay to be the fastest and hardest working person on the assembly line. In the first place, you probably can’t keep up the pace you’ve set. In the second place, you make all your co-workers a) look bad and b) have to work harder; they will not thank you for this.

Lulu Massa (Gian Maria Volonte) is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. While employees are told to care for and rely on their machines, they see radical students outside the factory campaigning for higher pay rates and less work. Lulu lives with Lidia and her son. He puts his lack of interest in sex with her down to the pressures of the job.

Lulu loses a finger in a work accident, which the workers blame on the faster times. Shocked, he adopts the students' analysis and takes strike action to end piece work, against the unions’ policy, which is for simply an increase in piece work rates.
During that time, he visits a colleague who shows him not only the error of his own ways, but the horror of his whole working situation. When he goes back to work, Massa tries to organize a union.
–adapted from the allmovie guide, 2011

Film with Discussion

Music by Ennio Morricone

Breaking the Chains Study Group
Friday, Mar. 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in
Justice Center en El Barrio
1637 Park Ave. btw. E. 115th & E. 116th; #2, 3 Train to 116 St. (at Malcolm X/Lenox);
#6 to 116 St. (at Lex.); C to 116 St. (at Frederick Douglass Blvd.); cross town bus
via 116th St.;
maps https://goo.gl/maps/UkKrEjxFoEp
https://osm.org/go/Zc4onJcH?node=2714216785
event https://facebook.com/events/2572386122836782/   Public · Hosted
by Justice Center en El Barrio and Party for Socialism and Liberation
https://facebook.com/pslweb/events/ https://m.me/pslweb
info@pslweb.org http://www.PSLweb.org
https://m.me/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio
https://facebook.com/pg/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio/events

Work is enormously powerful and something we do every single day. Under capitalism, we must work to survive and that work can be stultifying, overwhelming and even painful. It can also be a source of pride.

As women, we know about hard work. We work hard at our jobs and then work even harder to keep our homes organized and care for our children and elders. This "second shift" is not recognized by the capitalist system. In fact, this form of "women's work"is devalued.

Join us as we study the latest issue of Breaking the Chains, "Working to Survive, Struggling for Dignity" and explore the relationship between work and women in the capitalist society.

Events with Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL

 

ready steady go
Community in Action
Sunday March 24, 2-4 pm
Monday April 29, 7-9 pm
place TBA
WHERE secret! NYC
CONTACT
Savitri D · savitrid.nyc@gmail.com · 3476938857
http://www.revbilly.com/
This is a fast, deep dive into the HOW WHAT WHY of non-violent direct action, creative skills for the street, and what to expect if you get arrested. Learn to take care of yourself and build community in action with Savitri D
2 hours!
Savitri D has been staging interventions and creative actions on the street, in malls, banks, museums and contested sites since 2001.
She is the Director of Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir.
contact her at savitrid.nyc@gmail.com
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Punk Rock Karaoke for Anti-Fascist Fund!
Friday, Mar. 29, 8:30 PM to 1:30 AM at Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, 11206, btw. Bogart St. & Morgan Av.; L to Morgan Av.;
maps http://tripplanner.mta.info  https://osm.org/go/Zct8sLOUZ--?way=279651067   https://goo.gl/maps/TGAUu8jgiHL2  http://mta.info/weekender
$10 suggested donation | 21+ | Proceeds go towards supporting anti-fascist activists facing legal problems of personal harassment.
event https://facebook.com/events/318239672128171/   Public · Hosted by
Punk Rock Karaoke Northeast and Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC
https://facebook.com/pg/PunkRockKaraokeNortheast/events/  m.me/PunkRockKaraokeNortheast http://punkrockkaraoke.com
https://macc.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events
m.me/MACCnyc info@macc.nyc
venue (718) 366-6311 m.me/pinebox.rockshop

 == > CATALOG: punkrockkaraoke.com/catalog

This benefit is for a fund administered by Action Against Fascism & Xenophobia - for those facing legal & other problems resulting from their activism against fascism & the far right in the five boroughs, and also in neighboring cities.  There are currently a number of comrades with legal and medical bills that need help, and along with Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC anarchx feminist sub-group, we are proud to offer our solidarity to them.

Punk Rock Karaoke Northeast is a DIY, fundraising event that benefits a different community group each time. We feature a custom catalog of over 800 songs from bands like:

Against Me!, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Buzzcocks, Choking Victim, The Clash, Circle Jerks, Crass, Cub, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Devo, Flogging Molly, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Jawbreaker, Joy Division, Minor Threat, The Misfits, NOFX, Operation Ivy, Pixies, The Pogues, Ramones, Rancid, Screeching Weasel, Sex Pistols, Sleater-Kinney, Tacocat, The Smiths, The Specials, Stiff Little Fingers, Wire, X, X-Ray Spex, and much much more!

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2019 Gaza 5K + Dabke Party | NYC
Saturday, Mar. 30, 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
from Grecian Shelter in Prospect Park
https://getinvolved.unrwausa.org/event/2019-nyc-gaza-5k/
Public · Hosted by UNRWA USA [United Nations Relief Works Agency]

Fifth annual NYC Gaza 5K + Dabke Party!

What is the Gaza 5K?

The Gaza 5K is an annual walk/run hosted by UNRWA USA. The Gaza 5K was created in 2012 to fund UNRWA's Community Mental Health Programme (CMHP) and make access to mental health care a reality for all Palestine refugee children in the Gaza Strip.

What does the money do?

Your fundraising allows UNRWA to employ CMHP counselors, locally recruited from the refugee population, to provide psychosocial support to address the mental health needs of refugee children and families in the Gaza Strip who suffer from trauma due to repeated Israeli military assaults and the continued blockade.

What impact can my fundraising have?

Counseling offers kids in Gaza a safe space to express their emotions and fears and a way to learn valuable coping skills.

Our goal for the 2019 NYC Gaza 5K is to raise $350,000 which can employ 25 CMHP counselors in Gaza for the year to provide approximately 3,000 individual counseling sessions for 750 refugee students and 600 group counseling sessions for 700 refugee students.
We've raised 7% Our Goal $350,000
UNRWA's Community Mental Health Programme changes lives and restores hope for children impacted by trauma.

From New York to Palestine, no person should ever have to suffer constant distress. You can improve quality of life for refugee children in the Gaza Strip, despite the current US administration's decision to defund UNRWA, by signing up and fundraising for the NYC Gaza 5K.

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Everyday Antifascism: History and Practice
Saturday, Mar. 30, 1:00 to 4:00 PM
Redeemer Episcopal Church Astoria
3014 Crescent St, Astoria, btw. 30th Rd. & 30th Av.
https://goo.gl/maps/J8dsxYdXWJr
event https://facebook.com/events/2074853949236967/
Public · Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America and Outlive Them NYC
https://facebook.com/pg/outlivethemnyc/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nycdsa/events/ m.me/outlivethemnyc outlivethemnyc@gmail.com http://twitter.com/outlivethemnyc
m.me/nycdsa info@socialists.nyc http://www.socialists.nyc
http://twitter.com/nycDSA

 . Frontline Antifascists Assemble!

Saturday Mar. 16

 - Public Assembly & Purim Party 11:00 AM Thomas Paine Park [Foley Sq.]
 - Permitted Rally Noon Foley Square
 - Unity March to Washington Square Park
https://facebook.com/events/2027597773954768/ 
Public · Hosted by Outlive Them NYC

...They think the Jews are conspiring with the Muslims and the Mexicans, the Black and the Brown, the Queer and the Genderqueer, and all manner of undesirables to make white supremacy history again...

...Let's prove them right!

Be the Nazis' worst nightmare, and join the Outlive Them NYC Coalition and Muslim-Jewish Antifascist Front at Thomas Paine Park, across from DHS/ICE headquarters in downtown Manhattan, this Saturday, March 16th at 11AM.

In the spirit of Purim, we call on all frontline antifascists and antiracists -- Jewish or not -- to join us as we drown out the names of our oppressors, lift up the voices of the oppressed, and march together with people around the world, united for a future without fascism!

Why now?

Far Right activity is growing in our city:  Hate crimes have risen 120% compared to this time last year. White nationalists are actively recruiting in all five boroughs.

Racial, religious, gender, and sexual minorities are targeted in the streets of cities and towns across the country. Anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and virulently racist incitement comes from the highest levels of government downtoyourlocalp police precinct.

Yet that violence continues to be met with impunity and indifference by the authorities – the same authorities that put kids in concentration camps and black and brown youth in caskets.

From the streets where we live and play to the places we work and pray, we are assembling to defend all of our communities from those who would exterminate us. Join us, on March 16th and beyond, in the fight for a better and more beautiful world -- a future without fascism -- where everyone is free to live with dignity.

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Bring your banners, signs, songs, groggers, your art, and your people, and join us for a public assembly to stand united with all of the communities directly impacted by this violence – and to build power and strategize for victory over the far-right and fascists of our day.

To our allies in other communities:  Bring your voices, your people, and your people's power to this day of action, in coalition with neighbors, coworkers, and comrades from all corners of our city. We also ask any organizations that share this vision to sign on and turn out in numbers.

The following day, we will be co-sponsoring a day of popular education and community building for young Jews and young allies. There will be speakers, workshops, local groups tabling, and light refreshments. Contact OLT NYC for more information.

In solidarity,

Outlive Them NYC

Outlive Them NYC is an all-city coalition of anti-fascist Jews, allies, and accomplices organizing to defend all our communities from those who would exterminate us.

#JewishSpring
#JewsFightBack
#PurimPeoplePower

#GroggerBloc
#HamansGonnaHate
#Hate_Stops_Here

#OutliveThem #OLT

Outlive Them NYC

More Events at Outlive Them NYC
MAR16March Against Racism and Fascism
MAR29Outlive Them NYC Solidarity Shabbat
MAR30Everyday Antifascism: History and Practice

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No to NATO — Yes to Peace FESTIVAL
April 3-4, 2019, Washington, D.C.

See way more useful & likely updated version at source:
 == >  https://worldbeyondwar.org/notonato/

https://facebook.com/events/597421017354062/

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is coming to Washington, D.C., on April 4. We’re organizing a peace festival to unwelcome them.

Wednesday, April 3 at St. Stephen’s Church, 1525 Newton St NW, Washington, D.C. 20010:
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Screenprinting for Justice Workshop with The Sanctuaries DC, and Nonviolent Action Prep with Nadine Bloch of Beautiful Trouble (munch on vegan snacks, make art, and plan for the April 4 protest). If you’re a nonviolent activism trainer and want to help, please fill out this form.
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: Keynote Speeches + Biting Comedic Entertainment with Lee Camp (Full list of speakers)
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: Spoken word by Eleanor Goldfield and live music by Eric Colville & Ryan Harvey & Megaciph.
5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: Screenprinting, Art Exhibits & Activity Booths + Vegan Food & Drink

REGISTER TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

Thursday, April 4
Plans include a procession from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to a rally at Freedom Plaza, and nonviolent demonstrations outside the NATO meeting. Plans are subject to change when we learn when and where NATO is meeting. Tentatively, we plan to meet at the MLK Memorial at 11 a.m. and hear speakers until noon. At noon we will set off to Independence Ave, then up 17th Street to a right on Constitution Ave., up 15th Street to a right on Pennsylvania Ave, then two blocks to Freedom Plaza.  We will be there until 3 p.m. for a rally with speakers and music. (Full list of speakers)

Other No to NATO events in Washington DC:
Saturday, March 30 @ 1:00 p.m. Rally at Lafayette Park
Saturday, March 30 @ 7:30 p.m. Songs of Struggle
Sunday, March 31 Concert for Peace and to End War
Sunday, March 31 Anti-NATO Conference
Monday, April 1 Meeting of the International Network “No to War – No to NATO” at the AFSC Office 1822 R St. NW 10:00 to 3:00
Tuesday, April 2 No to NATO – Yes to Peace and Disarmament Counter-Summit
Thursday, April 4 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Black Alliance for Peace program at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 N Capitol St., NE, Washington D.C. “No Compromise, No Retreat in the Fight to End Militarism and War”

Lodging for the nights of 2nd and 3rd is available.

Other No to NATO events elsewhere:
March 21-27   Solidarity trip to Belgrade
March 30  Conference and Rally in Saskatchewan
April 4  No to NATO action, Parliament Hill, Ottawa (details to be announced)
April 4  No to NATO events in Oslo, Norway
April 7  Conference in Florence, Italy
Monthly: NATO protests in Toronto

Why? NATO is coming to DC to mark 70 years since its creation on April 4, 1949. NATO is the largest military alliance in the world with the largest military spending (roughly three-quarters of the world total) and nuclear stockpiles. While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has violated international law and bombed Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya. NATO has exacerbated tensions with Russia and increased the risk of nuclear apocalypse. The notion that supporting NATO is a way to cooperate with the world ignores superior non-deadly ways to cooperate with the world.

Our Message: War is a leading contributor to the growing global refugee and climate crises, the basis for the militarization of the police, a top cause of the erosion of civil liberties, and a catalyst for racism and bigotry. We’re calling for the abolition of NATO, the promotion of peace, the redirection of resources to human and environmental needs, and the demilitarization of our cultures. Instead of celebrating NATO’s 70th anniversary, we’re celebrating peace on April 4, in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech against war on April 4, 1967, as well as his assassination on April 4, 1968.

The Case Against NATO:

While Donald Trump once blurted out the obvious: that NATO is obsolete, he subsequently professed his commitment to NATO and began pressuring NATO members to buy more weapons. So, the notion that somehow NATO is anti-Trump and therefore good would not only be silly and practically amoral on its own terms, it is also at odds with the facts of Trump’s behavior. We are planning an anti-NATO / pro-peace action at which opposition to the militarism of NATO’s dominant member is welcome and necessary. Here are the Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO no matter what Trump does.

NATO has pushed the weaponry and the hostility and the massive so-called war games right up to the border of Russia. NATO has waged aggressive wars far from the North Atlantic. NATO has added a partnership with Colombia, abandoning all pretense of its purpose being in the North Atlantic. NATO is used to free the U.S. Congress from the responsibility and the right to oversee the atrocities of U.S. wars. NATO is used as cover by NATO member governments to join U.S. wars under the pretense that they are somehow more legal or acceptable. NATO is used as cover to illegally and recklessly share nuclear weapons with supposedly non-nuclear nations. NATO is used to assign nations the responsibility to go to war if other nations go to war, and therefore to be prepared for war. NATO’s militarism threatens the earth’s environment. NATO’s wars fuel racism and bigotry and erode our civil liberties while draining our wealth.

NATO Expansion Over the Years:

Read a statement by No to War — No to NATO.

Read a statement by the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases.

Read How Much Does the U.S. Pay for NATO?

Read What’s NATO Ever Done? Nuclear-Armed Terrorist Organization creates enemies

We must say: No to NATO, Yes to peace, Yes to prosperity, Yes to a sustainable environment, Yes to civil liberties, Yes to education, Yes to a culture of nonviolence and kindness and decency, Yes to remembering April 4th as a day associated with the work for peace of Martin Luther King Jr.

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, ‘What about Vietnam?’ They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.” —MLK Jr.

“You can’t help people being right for the wrong reasons. This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity. It is an expression of a lack of self confidence.” —Arthur Koestler

Spread the word on social media:

Facebook event.

Sponsoring Organizations and Individuals:

CODE PINK,
World BEYOND War,
Timothy Guiles,
JÃrgen Hassler,
Dr. Michael D. Knox,
Vivek Maddala,
Paraic McEneaney,
Joan Russow,
George Summers,
Bill Stansbery,
John Tischhauser,
Zen Space Makers Carpentry Cooperative,

Endorsing Organizations:    {snip}

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Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution
KaeLyn Rich
Saturday, Mar. 30, 2:00 p.m. Wakefield Library
4100 Lowerre Pl, Bronx, NY 10466 at E.229th nr. White Plains Rd.
map https://goo.gl/maps/GPhiEdVi7tC2
https://nypl.org/events/programs/2019/03/30/author-talk-kaelyn-rich
venue (718) 652-4663 Fully accessible to wheelchairs // For all ages
Stonewall50 Author Talk

ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.

KaeLyn Rich, author of Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution, will be discussing her book and how to get involved  in social justice and be inclusive in everyday life.  There will be a short activity as well as light refreshments. While this program is focused toward teens and tweens, all are welcome to attend!

About the Author: KaeLyn Rich is a staff writer for the popular queer women's website Autostraddle.com. A queer feminist, direct action organizer, nonprofit lifer, and sexuality educator, she is the Assistant Advocacy Director of the ACLU of New York, the former community affairs coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York. She lives with her spouse, their new baby, and a house full of furkids. (Quirk Books,

 

The Whole Truth - Global Day of Action
Saturday, Mar. 30, 5:00 to 6:00 PM from a Starbucks at
229 7th Ave, btw. W. 23rd St. & W. 24th St.
nr. #1, F, C, E stops (weekend PATH probably still not running below 33rd St., but pls. check);
maps https://goo.gl/maps/j1YrE1nDMsq
Public · Hosted by Direct Action Everywhere New York City

Since 2015, DxE has been investigating and exposing Whole Foods. Whole Foods' advertisements lead customers to believe that their farms are wonderful sanctuaries for nonhuman animals. However, that could not be further from the truth. There is no humane way to kill and exploit someone. This month, we will walk in to speak the truth about this animal abusing corporation. Whole Foods has a lot of power which means they have the power to create historic, meaningful change for nonhuman animals by recognizing that it is always wrong to exploit them.

We need all hands on deck for this action, which we will cover during the briefing. There will be signs, speak outs, chanting, and more!

The meet up location will be at the Starbucks located at
229 7th Avenue, NY.

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NYC Feminist Zine Fest 2019
Sunday, Mar. 31, Noon to 6:00 PM at Barnard College
3009 Broadway btw. W.116th & W.120th
nr. #1, A, C, D, M60 & 125th St. cross town buses
https://feministzinefestnyc.com
https://facebook.com/events/775327482838523/

The Ambiguities of the “Personal is the political and the Political is the personal” with Harriet Fraad
Afternoon Seminar at the People’s Forum
Sunday, Mar. 31, 2019, starting from 10:00 AM to Noon, then break
for lunch & resume 1:00 to 3:00PM
$25 to Register  (https://peoplesforum.org/event/the-ambiguities-of-the-personal-is-the-political-and-the-political-is-the-personal/)

https://peoplesforum.org/calendar/category/classes/
https://peoplesforum.org/instructor/harriet-fraad/
This one-day course will explore how structural changes in US capitalism since the 1970s have transformed North Americans’ intimate life: our sexuality, relationships, marriages, families, and job expectations. These more personal areas have been neglected by rigorous Marxian analysis. In the US, the personal is a far more compelling arena for intervention than electoral politics but can be considered in a greater context in terms of redefining the political and what practice can be transformative for our everyday lives. This exploration is crucial to reaching out to Americans. The course will uncover the ways that that political , economic and personal realities constantly and mutually shape one another. We will attempt to unravel some of the ambiguities between our intimate worlds and the shaping a politics of the future.

Dr. Harriet Fraad is the host of WBAI’s radio program, “ Interpersonal Update: How Capitalism Hit’s Home.” Her blog is called Capitalism Hit’s Home and she writes about the interactions between Global capitalism today and US personal life. Her latest article, “The Work of Sex”, can be found in Knowledge Class and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, Routledge 2018. Dr. Fraad is both a Mental Health Counselor and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City.

 

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Kids Defend NYC: A Purim Carnival
Sunday, Mar. 31, 2019 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM
East Midwood Jewish Center
1625 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11230
(https://eventbrite.com/e/kids-defend-new-york-a-purim-carnival-tickets-57065787306)
https://facebook.com/events/2231484787118528/
https://www.kolotchayeinu.org/
Sliding scale $5-$15 per person.

Purim is coming! Kids, youth, parents, stewards of the resistance, lovers of delirious fun, dreamers of new worlds, and everyone else: we can’t wait to see you for the visual and musical spectacular of the season!

Kids are experts on what is fair - and the city’s back-room deal with Amazon wasn’t it. Kids helped a powerful grassroots movement boot Amazon out of Queens, and now it’s time to THROW A PARTY!

Join us for a wild, visionary Purim spectacle; games and activities to help us dream together; and a raucous klezmer band. What would YOUR family do with the city’s now vanquished $5 billion giveaway to Amazon? Make a park? Invent flying bikes? Build a giant roller coaster that throws free cotton candy? Maybe all of the above? Let’s dream it at the carnival! Come dressed in your best costume for defending NYC!

No one turned away for lack of cash or costume. Hamentaschen and water included in admission! Additional food will be available for purchase. EMJC is a kosher space and any outside food must be kosher.

The Purim Carnival is brought to you by:
The Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Malkhut
Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives.

Want to volunteer? E-mail Jen if you can help out! jenabrams370@gmail.com

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Launch Books on Corporations, Science & Public Health 
with Marion Nestle, Sheldon Krimsky, Mary Holland, Jonathan H. Marks, Mitchel Cohen, Moderated by Mark Crispin Miller
Sunday, Mar. 31, 3:00 to 5:00 PM in NYU Furman Hall
245 Sullivan St. at W.3rd St.
nr. A, C, D, E, F, #1, R, Weekend N Local & #6;

(http://i2.wp.com/nospray.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAR-31-FLYER.jpg) https://foodpolitics.com/2019/02/nyu-book-release-event/

``Illuminations on Market Street`` Launches March 24, 31, April 7

 . Launch Ben Shepard novel, `Illuminations on Market Street`
Sunday, Mar. 24
Doors open 3:30; 4:00 PM event in Judson Memorial Church
239 Thompson St. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South
(https://judson.org/events/2019/3/24/illuminations-on-market-street-book-launch-event)

 . On Sex and Loss, a Conversation about Illuminations on Market Street with Benjamin Heim Shepard and Emily Gallagher
Sunday, Mar. 31, 7:00 to 9:30 pm at Bluestockings Books
(http://bluestockings.com/event/on-sex-and-loss-a-conversation-about-illuminations-on-market-street-with-benjamin-heim-shepard-and-emily-gallagher/)
https://z-upload.facebook.com/events/558978297935637/
(https://google.com/search?q=Illuminations+on+Market+Street)
Benjamin Heim Shepard, author of Sustainable Urbanism and other non-fiction works, and Emily Gallagher discuss Shepard’s first novel, Illuminations on Market Street. The story begins in San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. A story about AIDS and sex, acting up and praying for the dead, this is a story about living and fighting in the face of insurmountable challenges.

 . Launch Ben Shepard novel, `Illuminations on Market Street`
Sunday, Apr. 7, 4:00 PM at LGBT Ctr. Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
208 W. 13th St #210, btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Av.
On AIDS Activism, Sex, and Estrangement a book launch for Illuminations on Market Street, the new novel by Benjamin Heim Shepard.
Shepard traces the story of a young caregiver  in San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. A story about AIDS and sex, acting up and praying for the dead, this is a story about living and fighting in the face of insurmountable challenges insurmountable challenges as one writer searches for his own story.

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LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE: NY's 34th Annual April Fools' Day Parade & 3rd Annual Trumpathon
Monday, Apr 1, 2019, Noon to 3:00 PM from 59th St. & 5th Av.
nr. N, R, W, F, Q, E, M, #4, 5, 6, 1, A, B, C, D stops & 57th St. cross town bus;
event https://joeyskaggs.com/april-fools-day-parade-press-release/
https://facebook.com/events/255639785369986/
printable mask http://bit.ly/trump_mask
previous year's parade https://vimeo.com/263760309
Hosted by Joey Skaggs m.me/joeyskaggs.prankster @artoftheprank

For those who have not yet seen Art of the Prank, the award-winning feature documentary by Andrea Marini about Parade Committee chair and artist-activist-satirist Joey Skaggs, it is now available on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD:
 == > http://artoftheprank-themovie.com .

Parade starts at 5th Ave & 59th St and heads down 5th Avenue. There will be one stop at Trump Tower at E. 56th.
 
The New York April Fools’ Committee is Proud to Announce
NEW YORK CITY’S 34th ANNUAL
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PARADE
“LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!”
 
New York’s irreverent April Fools’ Day Parade, poking fun at the past year’s displays of outrageous hype, hypocrisy, deceit, bigotry, and downright foolishness, returns! For the 34th year, the public is invited to bring outrageous floats and dress up in colorful costumes to reflect the folly of the nuttiest politicians, crooked corporate leaders, silly celebrities and whoever else has proved to be a total fool in the past year.

The theme for this year’s parade is “LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!” The parade will begin at Fifth Ave and 59th Street at 12 noon, Monday, April 1, 2019, rain or shine. The parade will include the 3rd Annual Trumpathon, continuing the ritual of amassing the world’s largest gathering of masked Trump look-alikes. The procession will march down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park for the climactic crowning of the King of Fools.

The parade’s Grand Marshall is again President Donald Trump, who will be wearing flaming pants and pushing his Trump Kool-Aid Cart. He will be leading the “Imagine This” Marching Band which will be playing “Gimme Some Truth” by John Lennon. Color commentary will be provided by Kid Rock, Rosanne Barr, Representative Steve King, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Megyn Kelly.

Chased by a mob of fact-checkers screaming, “Liar, liar, pants on fire!” Trump will steer the parade to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue where the crowd of Trump look-alikes will toast his greatness while drinking his Kool-Aid.

The parade continues with the Up-Against-the-Wall float featuring Mitch McConnell desperately trying to get around it, over it or under it, followed by the Immigrant Kids in Cages float. The kids will be put up for adoption at the end of the parade. Next is the Democratic Clown Bus float filled with presidential wannabes. This is trailed by the Singing Canary Cage float featuring Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. The duplicitous General Michael Flynn follows with the Saudi Nuclear Missile float. Then comes the Sackler Family float dispensing free OxyContin. Bringing up the rear will be the Deviant Catholic Clergy Orgy float driven by the Pope. All float operators have agreed to the Bird Box Challenge and will be driving blindfolded. Weaving in and out of the crowd will be Sean Hannity whispering into his phone to Trump, Jussie Smollet looking for sympathy, Roger Stone flipping Nixon’s victory sign, Alex Jones screaming himself into apoplexy, and Rush Limbaugh promoting lies, hate and disinformation.
The public is encouraged to participate, in or out of costume, with or without floats. Our satire knows no bounds. Floats should be no wider than 10 feet and no longer than 30 feet and can be self-propelled, towed, pushed or pulled. Customized bicycles, tricycles, baby carriages and helium balloons are welcome. If it rains, marchers are encouraged to decorate umbrellas with slogans.

Says organizer Joey Skaggs, “Let’s stand together against greed, corruption and social injustice while we still have the freedom to do so.”

As the parade enters Washington Square Park, the festivities will begin. Facebook will host the Personal Information Buy-Back Booth. To atone for his sins of user exploitation, Mark Zuckerberg will announce that he has agreed to pay for Trump’s Wall. Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani will be promoting future pardons for the Trump family. Melania Trump will be selling her new line of insulting fashions in the spirit of Zara’s “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” coat.

There will be no Black Face Fashion this year [> -t.]. To raise money for Trump’s legal fees, the Donald J. Trump Foundation will sell reproductions of the portrait he purchased with Foundation funds. Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanagh will be serving beer. At the Altered Embryo Consultation Booth He Jiankui of Shenzen China’s University of Science and Technology will help couples genetically design their unborn babies. At the Washington Square Fountain, at sunset, a Gigantic Trump Effigy will be set ablaze á la Burning Man. The Parade Committee assumes no liability for damages caused by satire.

Funding this year is provided by the NRA and Putin’s Favorite Oligarchs. Musical performances are sponsored by Billy McFarland of Fyre Festival fame. Trump’s “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” Flaming Trousers will be auctioned to raise money for next year’s parade.

This year’s King of Fools will be nominated by the crowd in
Washington Square and will reign through March 31, 2020.

Print a Donald Trump look-alike mask here: http://bit.ly/trump_mask. Organizers will have hundreds of extra masks available. Please tweet @artoftheprank and invite friends to join this spectacular event! See last year’s parade coverage: https://vimeo.com/263760309.
For those who have not yet seen Art of the Prank, the award-winning feature documentary by Andrea Marini about Parade Committee chair and artist-activist-satirist Joey Skaggs, it is now available on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD: http://artoftheprank-themovie.com.
Contact: Joey Skaggs, Committee Chair, 212-254-7878, info@joeyskaggs.com, http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com, Facebook, Twitter

Shake Loose: A Celebration of Sonia Sanchez
Monday, Apr. 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Ave. at W.135th St.
nr. #2, 3, (B) & C stops or Bx33 bus via Madison Av. Bridge & W. 135th St
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4oz3fzM-- https://goo.gl/maps/1qQo7mNneU72
(https://eventbrite.com/o/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture-1711628110) https://nypl.org/events/calendar?location=64 https://twitter.com/SchomburgCenter
https://facebook.com/pg/SchomburgCenter/events https://nypl.org/locations/schomburg
(212) 491-2200 (917) 275-6975

(https://eventbrite.com/e/shake-loose-a-celebration-of-sonia-sanchez-tickets-54182612653) https://facebook.com/events/1894766157302852/   Public · Hosted by
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Join us for an evening of poetry and performance as we honor Sonia Sanchez, the legendary poet, activist, and Schomburg Society National Ambassador.

FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED
Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. We generally overbook to ensure a full house. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early.

GUESTS
Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING
Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS
Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Ayofemi Kirby at
 == >  ayofemikirby@nypl.org

Please note that professional photography and video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.

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Françoise Vergès, Capitalocene, Waste, Race and Gender
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 7:00 PM in new Cooper Union bldg. on
east side of 3rd Av. btw. E.6th & E.7th; free & public;
maps (https://openstreetmap.org/way/241833326#map=17/40.72851/-73.99026) https://goo.gl/maps/KgxX22SHess
(https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/francoise-verges-capitalocene-waste-race-and-gender)
https://readymag.com/u23078901/1282394/9/
https://facebook.com/events/303715543627193/
ask correct ending time -t.

IDS Lectures at Cooper Union Spring 2019
Tuesdays, March 26 - May 7
7:00 pm unless specified. Free & public. Ask location, but sometimes in
"41 Cooper Square" Bldg., physically 3rd Av. btw. E.6th & E.7th
nr. #6, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M);
listings https://twitter.com/IDSCooper/status/1106949992743350272
https://readymag.com/u23078901/1282394/
(https://artandeducation.net/announcements/243603/ids-public-lecture-series-spring-2019)
http://ids.cooper.edu https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions
https://facebook.com/pg/cooperids/events m.me/cooperids

March 26
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Parting Ways: Excavating a Point of Entanglement

April 2
Françoise Vergès, Capitalocene, Waste, Race and Gender

April 9
School of Echoes Los Angeles, Naming the Moment: Fighting Gentrification, Defending Community, and Building Dual Power

April 16
Chad Elias, Atmosphere As Cultural System

April 23
Jill Fraley, Modern Property's Risks for Environmental Destruction

April 30
Coco Fusco, The Unbearable Promise of Utopia

May 4 (Saturday)
Mika Rottenberg, TBD

May 7
Emily Jacir, TBD

All lectures are free and open to the public, and take place on Tuesdays at 7pm, unless otherwise specified.

The IDS Public Lecture Series
The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

The IDS Public Lecture Series, designed as an introduction to some of the most pressing questions driving contemporary thought and practice, consists of lectures by artists, theorists, scientists, activists, writers, and other practitioners involved in the arts from positions that embody an interdisciplinary approach or that imply new uses for disciplinary traditions. The IDS lectures are organized by Leslie Hewitt and Omar Berrada.

The 2019 IDS is organized along three general directions: “Movement and Stasis”, where we study the transformations of social space with a special emphasis on gentrification, displacement, and land rights; “Atmospheric Pressures”,where we tackle environmental issues from scientific, aesthetic, and geopolitical angles; and “Futures”, where we look to move beyond understanding our current predicament toward imagining potential futures.

``all welcome``

Pandora's Promise Film Screening
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Columbia University Lewisohn Hall
nr. Broadway steps equiv. to W.117th St.
https://osm.org/go/Zc4oa3SJM--?way=274995737
https://goo.gl/maps/9NzXwjXqEzt

https://facebook.com/events/392499211304638/
Public · Hosted by Green Owls CU
https://facebook.com/pg/greenowlscu/events

m.me/greenowlscu  greenowlscu@gmail.com http://Greenowls.org

Join Green Owls CU for food, fun, and a screening of the film
Pandora's Promise--a groundbreaking documentary about the debates regarding nuclear energy.

All are encouraged (but not required!) to bring food for the potluck. Arrive to Lewisohn Hall early to eat and mingle with us. Film starts promptly at 7:30pm.

This screening leads up to our Earth Day event on Monday 4/22–a critical discussion with Columbia Professor in Anthropology and Ecocriticism, Marylin Ivy (+ more TBA). Please email GreenOwls@columbia.edu for the 4/22 articles on Ecomodernism and Ecocriticism–the discourses through which we will be analyzing the nuclear question.

Please get on our listserv at: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-green-owls?source=direct_link&, like our page: Green Owls CU, and join the FB group: Green Owls Group.

Find more about HOO we are at: www.GreenOwls.org

"THAT'S OWL FOR NOW."

Green Owls CU
Open to "owl" who "give a hoot" about intersectional sustainability and Indigenous perspectives in the environmental movement!

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Facing the Future: Predicting and Preparing for Disease Outbreaks
Wednesday, April 03, 2019 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue at E. 104th Street
($15 at)
http://nyam.nonprofitsoapbox.com/component/events/event/61
(https://nyam.org/events/event/facing-future-predicting-and-preparing-disease-outbreaks/)
https://facebook.com/events/531391800690555/
probably free related exhibit
https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/germ-city

BQE Town Hall
Wednesday, April 3, 7:00pm at Plymouth Church
The Brooklyn Heights Association and A Better Way will be jointly sponsoring a BQE Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, April 3 beginning at
7pm at Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street.
Doors will open at 6:30pm.

Please join us for:

* An update on the fight against the DOT's proposed 6-lane, 6+ year highway on the Promenade

* Information about forward-thinking, environmentally responsible alternate plans being put forward by community leaders and concerned citizens

* Remarks from elected officials, including NYC Comprtoller Scott Stringer and City Council Member Stephen Levin

What: BHA/ABW BQE Town Hall

When: Wednesday, April 3, 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

Where: Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street

* * *

Come out to show your opposition to the DOT's disastrous and destructive plan, organize with your neighbors, and fight for the health and safety of everyone in Brooklyn.

Please RSVP to BQETownhall@gmail.com

Works of Justice: Publishing Power—Liberating Great Work
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 7:00 PM at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby St. btw. Prince St. & Houston St., nr. Lafayette St.
Free.  Event graphic, descriptions & contacts https://goo.gl/WH5nGv 
https://publishing-power.eventbrite.com
by Housing Works Bookstore Cafe  https://www.housingworks.org/events
events@housingworksbookstore.org (646)786-1100, (347) 473-7400  info@housingworks.org

In addressing the impact of mass incarceration, there is an increasing need to center the voices of those directly impacted—not only as experts, but as integrated contributors.

But for writers in prison, access to participation in the literary community is limited by not only stigma and physical restriction, but financial barriers, lack of technology, and censorship. For those who manage to publish against the odds, publicity efforts require creative strategy when book tours are impossible, interviews channel through authority review, advances are siphoned by the state, and context automatically forces categorization by the author's relationship with incarceration or crime, regardless of the work’s content.

Hosted by the PEN America Prison & Justice Writing Program, this series of conversations confronts the challenges and ethics of publishing incarcerated writers, and re-imagining the boundaries of what is possible.

Featuring:

Poet and editor Randall Horton,

Author Mitchell S. Jackson,

Vice President and Executive Editor of Scribner Kathy Belden,

Senior Editor at Knopf Tim O'Connell,

Editor of The Marshall Project's "Life Inside" Eli Hager,

& Daniel Gross, Prisons Editor at the Asian American Writers Workshop​.

Presented by Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and the PEN America Prison Writing Program, "Works of Justice" is a series exploring the relationship between writing and incarceration, amplifying work by writers in prison, and presenting challenging conversations about criminal justice in the USA.

Kathryn Belden is Vice President and Executive Editor at Scribner. Writers she has worked with include Roz Chast, Mitchell S. Jackson, Andrew Krivak, Gordon Lish, Lisa See, Jesmyn Ward, and John Edgar Wideman, among many others. Previously she worked at Bloomsbury, Four Walls Eight Windows, and Harmony Books/Crown Publishers. She is the editor of The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Jackson.

Daniel A. Gross is Prisons Editor at AAWW and a web writer for The New Yorker, where he often covers literature, culture, and criminal justice. He has reported on mass incarceration for The Guardian, Reveal, and CityLab, among others. Previously, he worked as a reporter for the BBC/PRI radio program “The World,” and contributed to podcasts like Studio 360, 99% Invisible, and Criminal

Eli Hager is a staff writer at The Marshall Project covering issues including juvenile justice, fines and fees, and prosecutors and public defenders. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and elsewhere. In 2017, Eli was named a Livingston Award finalist for his investigation into private prisoner transportation. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University.

Randall Horton is the author of The Definition of Place (2006) and Lingua Franca of Ninth Street(2009), both from Main Street Rag. His poetry prizes include the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Bea González Prize for Poetry. He has an MFA from Chicago State University and a PhD from SUNY Albany. Horton is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven. He also serves as senior editor for Willow Books and editor-in-chief for Tidal Basin Review.

Mitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications, including The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times (London). The novel won the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence, and it was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson’s honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, TED, the Lannan Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Center for Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House, among other publications. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University.

Tom O’Connell is an editor at Vintage Anchor, A. A. Knopf, and Pantheon Books. He is the editor of Cherry, by Nicholas Walker.
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Radical Potluck II
Thursday, Apr 4, 2019 fr/ 7:00 to 10:00 PM
The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street
25 12th st, Brooklyn, btw. Gowanus Canal & 2nd Av., nr. F, G, R stops
Public · Hosted by The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street

You are cordially invited to our second Radical Potluck! 2019 is a year of refocusing and re-energizing. The People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street are super excited to be sharing our studio  (which we share with a bunch of other fabulous artists and creative dissenters) with all of you to continue conversations  about the future of arts activism while enjoying food (and drink!), performances, and good ol' schmoozing!

Performer's TBA!

As at the last potluck, we’ll also dedicate a portion of the evening as a space for individuals and groups to share projects they are working on, recruit folks for upcoming actions, and give shout outs about awesome things happening that we all should know about.  Think of it like Facebook but in person, and with less Russian bots (hopefully!!)

SCHEDULE
7:00pm- 8:00pm  Eat, Drink and Be Merry!
8:00-8:45  Performances (eating, drinking, and merrymaking still allowed)
Post 8:45   Groups share pitches (eating, drinking, and merrymaking encouraged so we won’t have to take food home)
10:00pm clean-up and head back into the cold world, rejuvenated by the potluck

You are welcome to come for as long or as little as your schedule allows!   Please do bring your favorite food or libation to share.  But also, if you don’t have the time or money, don’t worry!  Just come and we’ll feed and libate you!

We look forward to continuing this event to fortify our community and cross-pollinate until we grow like wildflowers and choke the bullshit out of existence.

Hope to see you there!

DIRECTIONS
We are located at TWENTY-FIVE 12th street in Brookyln, in the old Pathmark building across from Lowes.  You should enter through the red double doors under the Retro Fitness Sign (we'll have signage out too).  Go down the hallway and through the next set of red doors, hang a right and head down one last hallway straight into our studio!  (we'll have signs there too!)

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Freedom for Every Body: Intersectional Approaches to Animality and Ecology
a seminar with Terike Haapoja
Friday, Apr. 5 from Noon to 1:30 PM in NSSR
Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought
63 5th Ave, Rm 411, btw. E.13th & E.14th, nr. F, M, PATH, N, Q, R,
W, #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E & buses via 14th St. or E.9th or W.8th
maps https://openstreetmap.org/node/2757591295
https://goo.gl/maps/JK1KKmZWabs
event & contacts www.gidest.org/events/2019/4/5/terike-haapoja
https://facebook.com/events/630802514038451/
http://gidest.org/events https://facebook.com/pg/GIDEST/events/
GIDEST@newschool.edu
 
 
"FREEDOM FOR EVERY BODY—INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES TO ANIMALITY AND ECOLOGY" is a discussion of pre-circulated material that can be found on the GIDEST website at
http://www.gidest.org/events/2019/4/5/terike-haapoja for attendees to view in advance.

Terike Haapoja (http://terikehaapoja.net) is a visual artist based in New York. Haapoja’s large scale installation work, writing and political projects investigate the mechanics of othering with a specific focus on issues arising from the anthropocentric world view of western modernism. The question of animality and the possibility of a community of difference are re-occurring themes in Haapoja's work.

In her GIDEST seminar,  through a presentation of her installation work as well as other projects, Haapoja will discuss how attempts to include nonhuman beings in social structures challenge underlying notions of humanity and personhood. Further, she proposes that only by deconstructing the human-animal binary and becoming aware of how race and animality are mutually constructed in western imaginary it is possible to fight the  forces of white suprematist capitalism. Art, in this view, is a central platform for approaching the not yet thinkable.

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APR26A Social Life of Property — a seminar with Jessica Pisano

Community Science on the Banks of Newtown Creek
Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, Noon to 4:00 PM at
Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof & Community Engagement Center -
520 Kingsland Avenue - Brooklyn,
https://communityscience_newtowncreek.eventbrite.com
https://z-upload.facebook.com/events/2409659202400560/
https://facebook.com/pg/newtowncreek/events
https://facebook.com/pg/kingslandwildflowers/events/
Free. Organizer Newtown Creek Alliance

Join Newtown Creek Alliance and a number of our academic and community partners for an afternoon symposium featuring presentations on various Newtown Creek based research and monitoring projects. As large-scale cleanup efforts progress on Newtown Creek, a diverse ecology of plants, insects, birds and marine wildlife are slowly returning to this once vibrant waterway. The afternoon will include a series of presentations, with Q&A and discussions amongst speakers and attendees. Food and drinks provided for attendees, please RSVP here.

Lectures:

Newtown Creek Water Quality Sampling Program
Dr. Holly Porter-Morgan CUNY LaGuardia, Director of the Environmental Science Program
Willis Elkins Newtown Creek Alliance, Executive Director

Newtown Creek Wide Vascular Plant Survey
Elise Heffernan Hudsonia Ltd., Biologist
Lisa Bloodgood Newtown Creek Alliance, Director of Advocacy & Education

Genetic Analysis vs. App Algorithm: How People Make All the Difference
Dr. Alison Dell St. Francis College, Assistant Professor of Biology

Buggin’ Out at Penny Bridge: Insect Survey at an Overgrown Industrial Site
Alonso Corboda CUNY Brooklyn College, Biology Department
Lisa Bloodgood Newtown Creek Alliance, Director of Advocacy & Education

On Display:

Student Highlights from Newtown Creek Urban Ecology Curriculum
With National Wildlife Federation’s Greenpoint Eco-Schools PS 110, PS 34, PS 31, MS 126

An Introduction to Urban (Soil) Contaminants of Concern
Poster Giveaway

This event is made possible with generous support from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund and the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Sat, April 6, 2019
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof & Community Engagement Center
520 Kingsland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222

Organizer Newtown Creek Alliance

Organizer of Community Science on the Banks of Newtown Creek

The Newtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek.

The Newtown Creek Alliance represents the interests of community residents and local businesses who are dedicated to restoring community health, water quality, habitat, access, and vibrant water-dependent commerce along Newtown Creek. Since 2002, the Alliance has served as a catalyst and channel for effective community action and our efforts have made a positive and enduring impact on the health and quality of life of Creek-side communities.
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Community Science on the Banks of Newtown Creek at Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof & Community Engagement Center

520 Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222

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NYC Rallies and March for Sudan
Saturday Apr. 6, 11:00 from Times Sq. Area
(Consider asking specific location. -t.)
Then marching 1:00 PM to
Rally, 2:00 PM at E. 47th St. btw. 1st & 2nd Aves.
(Dag Hammarskjold Plaza) nr. E, #7, 6, 4, 5, S
stops & cross town buses via 50th or 42nd

[If one looks up publicity for past actions, this one is almost certainly both anti-Bashir and in solidarity with South Sudan & Darfur struggles. But consider asking politics. Let me know if you find event publicity. -t.]

. . .
Date: 3/18/2019, 12:16 PM
To: new-york-city-coalition-for-darfur

Hello, Friends!

Here is some additional information about the April 6th NYC March for Sudan - prior to the 2pm-4pm gathering at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, there will be a gathering in Times Square starting at 11am and the March from Times Square to the UN will start at 1pm. We hope you will join at any point during this event. Also, the student group, STAND, is co-sponsoring the NY March for Sudan. We are grateful for everybody's participation.

We still need help in many aspects of the event, including lining up some prominent speakers, inviting press and helping to set up at 1:40pm at Dag Hamm. Plaza.

Thank you,
Eileen Weiss
NY Coalition for Sudan

NYC Rallies and March for Sudan
Saturday Apr. 6, 11:00 from Times Sq. Area
(Consider asking specific location. -t.)
Then marching 1:00 PM to
Rally, 2:00 PM at E. 47th St. btw. 1st & 2nd Aves.
(Dag Hammarskjold Plaza) nr. E, #7, 6, 4, 5, S
stops & cross town buses via 50th or 42nd

[If one looks up publicity for past actions, this one is almost certainly both anti-Bashir and in solidarity with South Sudan & Darfur struggles. But consider asking politics. Let me know if you find event publicity. -t.]

. . .
Date: 3/18/2019, 12:16 PM
To: new-york-city-coalition-for-darfur

Hello, Friends!

Here is some additional information about the April 6th NYC March for Sudan - prior to the 2pm-4pm gathering at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, there will be a gathering in Times Square starting at 11am and the March from Times Square to the UN will start at 1pm. We hope you will join at any point during this event. Also, the student group, STAND, is co-sponsoring the NY March for Sudan. We are grateful for everybody's participation.

We still need help in many aspects of the event, including lining up some prominent speakers, inviting press and helping to set up at 1:40pm at Dag Hamm. Plaza.

Thank you,
Eileen Weiss
NY Coalition for Sudan

 . Tuesday, 3/19 @ 12PM: The Housing Justice for All campaign will host a
vigil for 89K homeless New Yorkers. And our Civil Rights Union leadership team will be deamding passage of criminal justice reforms.  War Room, NYS Capitol, Albany.  (929)320-7824 jawanza@vocal-ny.org

 . Wednesday, 3/20 @ 6PM: We will be joining
JustLeadership for a Town Hall on closing Rikers Island. At BRIC, 647 Fulton St. [G to Fulton; C to Lafayette; B, Q, #2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays]
RSVP [? -t.] to devante@vocal-ny.org [ask correct ending time -t.]

 . Wednesday, 3/20 @ 6PM: Register here for informal Happy Hour
Teach-In on Marijuana Legalization!  Grab a drink with the VOCAL crew and learn about what NY needs to do in order to legalize in a way that repairs harm instead of causes it. Cherry Tree Tavern Trains: B/Q/R/N/D/2/3/4/5 Atlantic Ave/Barclays Center.  [please confirm what time this event is.  cuz it says same time as above entry *and* there was already an unrelated logistics typo in this very mailing..as so often in VOCAL newsletters.  sorry, know no contact, so call VOCAL. -t.]

 . Thursday 3/21 @ 5:30 PM: Register for town hall on voting rights -- including restoration of voting rights for people on parole. Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom,
250 Joralemon St. [nr. #4, 5, 2, 3, R, A, C, F, G stops] Nick@vocal-ny.org
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?&id=2108  (ask correct ending time -t.)

 . Register to get on the bus! Demand Marijuana Justice for NYS,
Wednesday, Mar. 27.  (929)320-7824,
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?id=2071

 . No More Drug War & End Overdose in NY Legislative Awareness Day,
April 8, Register.     [possibly in part about naloxone funding?  ask clarfication. -t. ]

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More event listings http://bit.ly/nycprotest
 
End the Drug War to End Overdose: Legislative Awareness Day
Monday, Apr. 8 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at
New York State Capitol, State St, Albany, 12210
 == >  REGISTER: https://bit.ly/2TtPMIi
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/dA4kKB
https://facebook.com/events/290010495198702/
https://facebook.com/pg/VOCALNY/events/ http://www.VOCAL-NY.org
347-968-5054  devante@vocal-ny.orgJawanza
929-320-7824  jawanza@vocal-ny.org

On April 8, 2019, join New Yorkers all across the state in Albany for the 2019 End the Drug War to End Overdose  Legislative Awareness Day.   We are providing transportation from NYC and Western New York. Please register to reserve your seat and learn more information.

New York State Is in Crisis
Overdose now takes the lives of more New Yorkers than homicides, traffic accidents, and suicides combined. Nationally, overdose is the leading cause of death for people under 50. From 2013 to 2015, 7,213 New Yorkers died of overdose.

What Can We Do?
We can end overdose in New York by leading with compassion, following the evidence, and leveraging resources towards vital public health and harm reduction programs. New York has been a leader in responding to the opioid crisis, and is considered a national model in innovative initiatives to support harm reduction, expand the use of naloxone, and remove insurance barriers to timely and effective treatment.
 
 . HASA Community Town Hall
Tuesday, 2/26 @ 3:30PM in LGBT Ctr., 208 W. 13th St., Rm. 310,
btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Ave., nr. 8th Av., NYC
nr. L, A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, PATH, F, M, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 stops & 14th St. bus;
202-823-8568 or jason@VOCAL-NY.org  A monthly meeting on AIDS housing, making HASA work and ending AIDS by 2020!

 . 2019 End Mass Incarceration Legislative Awaresness Day
Wednesday, 2/27 bus from E. 14th St. & 4th Av./Union Sq. East
  == > https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?id=2028
347-968-5054 (929) 320-7824 devante@vocal-ny.org jawanza@vocal-ny.org
Get on Albany bus, demand passage of bills to: End Money Bail & Require Early, Open, Automatic Discovery and Speedy Trials.

 . Demand Marijuana Justice for New York,
March 27 bus to lobby Albany:  (929) 320-7824
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?id=2071

 . No More Drug War & End Overdose in NY Legislative Awareness Day
Monday, Apr. 8 bus to ALBANY
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?id=2016
(415) 8667620 john@vocal-ny.org 929-320-7824 jawanza@vocal-ny.org

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Artists Resisting Gentrification
with Catherine Green, Peter Moskowitz, William Powhida
Monday, Apr. 8 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM (doors at 6:00 PM)
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops; maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034 $5 ? $5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/artists-resisting-gentrification-tickets-52725024969)
https://facebook.com/events/1259617900848047/
venue https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-315387566
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/ 718-222-4111 http://m.me/BrooklynHistory

Artists are often deemed harbingers of gentrification or pawns in neighborhood rebranding. Yet they can also take charge of their communities’ future by bringing attention to economic pressures and pushing for protections for long-term residents. Join us for a conversation on artists taking action with Arts East NY Founder and Executive Director Catherine Green; How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood author Peter Moskowitz, and artist William Powhida.

For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

Artists Resisting Gentrification
Monday, April 8
Doors: 6:00 pm
Event: 6:30 pm
$5 General Admission / Free for Members
 

NBK Night School Series w/ Democratic Socialists of America NYC
Apparently always Mondays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Av., Brooklyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.;
L Train to Dekalb Av. or M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
maps & transit: https://goo.gl/maps/kfFmfuH4Vrn
https://goo.gl/CZ85GX https://osm.org/go/Zct8r97Ql-?node=5550519331
DSA listings https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/
questions https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ http://m.me/nycdsa
venue https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace
https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

. Gender & Capitalism
Monday Jan. 14, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/349259645815969/

. Socialists and the Working Class
Monday, Jan. 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/253836285333562

. Poor People’s Movements
Monday Feb. 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/268176130498747/

. Unions and the Labor Movement
Monday, Feb. 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/237606560244178/

. How Capitalism Makes Us Sick
Monday, March 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/178216109720968/

. The Rent Is Too Damn High
Monday, March 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/738821516464360/

. Education is a Right
Monday, April 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1853390398107811/

. Mass Incarceration
Monday, April 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/395574424312518/

. Foreign Policy and Imperialism
Monday, May 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/274200386538495/

. Israel-Palestine
Monday, May 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/256808268356519/

. Climate Change
Monday, June 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/236842033653922/

. The Russian Revolution
Monday, June 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/32837960459167

. The Lenin Controversy
Monday, July 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/271877923440185/

. Third World Revolutions
Monday, July 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1413696395432517/ .

. The Coup in Chile
Monday, July 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1937917946514411/

. The Limits of Social Democracy
Monday, August 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/238710980333532/

. Today's Socialist Strategy
Monday, August 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/286535555296574/

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 . No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger
Tuesday, Apr. 9, 6:30 pm at MCNY // Ask ending time.
(https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/Activism-on-Film-No-Vietnamese-Ever-Called-Me-Nigger) (https://mcny.org/event/no-vietnamese-ever-called-me-nigger)
An unflinching look at the inextricable link between black liberation and the anti-Vietnam movement of 1968.  Co-presented with the Maysles Documentary Center
 

Activism on Film Series at the Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Ave. btw. E.103rd & E. 104th,
#6, 2, 3, Q Train; M2, M3 or M4 via 110th/CPN & 5th Av.; M106 cross town bus;
map https://goo.gl/maps/ZtnrhUJeJFP2 https://mcny.org/events/all
https://facebook.com/pg/MuseumofCityNY/events/ https://twitter.com/museumofcityNY
(917)492.3395, (917)492.3333,  (212)534.1672,  info@mcny.org programs@mcny.org [Admission comment:  Film & talk tix $15 per event.  But please always call around to ask admission deal.  Most standing exhibits are nominally public & pay-what-you-wish.  Whereas events designated special are prohibitively expensive for local inhabitants, ever since courts began allowing an openly discussed program to gradually privatize our subsidized museums located on public land.  Increasingly the devil is in the details of each vigorously-deceptive-by-policy transaction...so don't forget to take names and to approach any discussion cautiously and litigiously.  No joke: consider recording.  More than ever, MCNY is enemy territory.  Last thing - below is excerpted.  Original web content available online or upon request  -t.]

Announcing Our New Screening Series...Activism on Film
https://www.mcny.org/activismonfilm       As new tides of activism sweep the country shaping the social and political landscape of 2019, we consider New York City’s longstanding engagement with creating and sustaining change in this non-fiction film series. Each screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers and other notable guests.

 . I Could Tell You ‘Bout My Life: Art and Incarceration
Thursday, Feb. 7, 6:30 pm at MCNY  // Ask ending time.
$15  (https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/Activism-on-Film-No-Vietnamese-Ever-Called-Me-Nigger) (https://mcny.org/event/no-vietnamese-ever-called-me-nigger)
A film directed by a formerly incarcerated teen followed by a conversation with New York-based artists Onyedika Chuke, Sophia Dawson, and Messiah Ramkissoon about the power of art to address the crisis of mass incarceration.
Co-presented with BYkids
 

 . El Pueblo Se Levanta
Thursday, Mar. 14, 6:30 pm at MCNY  // Ask ending time.
$15 (https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/Activism-on-Film-El-Pueblo-Se-Levanta) https://mcny.org/event/el-pueblo-se-levanta
trailer https://youtu.be/QOZD92qagGA
A snapshot of the dual compassion and militancy of East Harlem’s Young Lords and their fight for social justice.  Co-presented with the Maysles Documentary Center
 

Around Town

 . Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth
January 24–26
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
 == > $45 with code STORIES45 .*
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25th anniversary of Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies,
Julia Alvarez and Elizabeth Acevedo
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7 PM – 10 PM
CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
365 5th Ave btw. E.34th & E.35th
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10365816
https://facebook.com/events/2319835101569527/

PEN Out Loud Series w/ PEN America, Strand Book Store, CUNY Graduate Center,

We celebrate the 25th anniversary of Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies, a haunting fictional account of three sisters involved with a resistance movement against an oppressive government that fatally silenced them, and a story that continues to resonate today. Alvarez will be joined in conversation by National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X). Together, Alvarez and Acevedo stand as leading Latinx voices in the American literary canon, and will join us for an intergenerational conversation on craft, legacy, and literature.

Presented in collaboration with The Graduate Center, CUNY.

PEN America

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide.
Strand Book Store
Welcome to Strand, home of 18 miles obooks in NYC!

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Nathaniel Rich on Losing Earth
Tuesday, Apr. 9, 7:30 to 9:00 pm
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch in Dweck Center
Eastern Pkwy. & Flatbush Av. near Grand Army Plaza & #2, 3, Q stops
(https://bklynlibrary.org/calendar/nathaniel-rich-losing-central-library-dweck-20190409)

Copresented with Greenlight Books: Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking full-issue feature “Losing Earth: When We Almost Stopped Climate Change” in the New York Times Magazine – which has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and John Hersey’s Hiroshima and has been optioned for film – gave an account of the moment the US came tantalizingly close to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all, before the fossil fuels industry and the Republican Party fully committed to anti-scientific denialism. In his new book Losing Earth, Rich provides more of the context for what did—and didn’t—happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late. Rich presents his book with a reading and conversation, followed by a book signing. In collaboration with New York Times Live.

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Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza

Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Transgender Advocacy Day
Tuesday Apr. 9 
212-614-0023 x 115
Register : http://bit.ly/2BHJ1fJ ( = https://www.nytag.org/2019-tlgbqi-advocacy-day )  
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Monday, April 8, 2019

6:00PM-8:00PM Networking & Dinner

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

8:30AM-9:30AM - Breakfast & Networking

9:30AM-10:00AM Opening Remarks

10:00AM-11:00AM - Panel Sessions/Workshop

(a) Panel

(b) Workshop

11:00AM-11:30AM - Break

11:30AM-12:15PM - Elected Officials Visits

Group A/Group B/Group C/Group D

12:30PM-1:00PM Press Conference (Million Dollar Staircase)

1:00PM-2:00PM - Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM -Panel Session(s)/Workshop #2
REGISTER

(a) Panel

(b) Workshop:

3:00PM-4:00PM Networking & Coalition Building

4:00PM-4:30PM - Closing Remarks

Prior to Facing the Future Together: Breaking Down Barriers for TLGBQI New Yorkers advocacy day, there will be two webinars to prepare participants to thrive during their time with us.

 . 2019 Legislative Priorities Webinar
Thursday, March 28, 2019 from 12:00PM-1:00PM
We will be hosting a webinar to offer newcomers an overview of our policy platform.  Members of NYTAG’s legislative coalition will lead a presentation and discussion about the bills NYTAG is currently promoting, and how best to discuss them with lawmakers and laypeople alike.  This webinar is highly recommended for all attendees.

 . Advocacy 101
Thursday, April 4, 2019 from 12:00PM-1:00PM
The curriculum committee will be hosting an hour-long webinar to discuss the basics of advocacy with attendees.  This training will include an overview of how to talk to elected officials, how to persuasively utilize strategic storytelling, and other best practices for new advocates. 

Take a moment to register for the pre-event(s) below:

Schedule

Monday, April 8, 2019

6:00PM-8:00PM Networking & Dinner

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

8:30AM-9:30AM - Breakfast & Networking

9:30AM-10:00AM Opening Remarks

10:00AM-11:00AM - Panel Sessions/Workshop

(a) Panel

(b) Workshop

11:00AM-11:30AM - Break

11:30AM-12:15PM - Elected Officials Visits

Group A/Group B/Group C/Group D

12:30PM-1:00PM Press Conference (Million Dollar Staircase)

1:00PM-2:00PM - Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM -Panel Session(s)/Workshop #2
REGISTER

(a) Panel

(b) Workshop:

3:00PM-4:00PM Networking & Coalition Building

4:00PM-4:30PM - Closing Remarks
aDVOCACY DAY REGISTRATION
The 2019 Advocacy Day is a free event thanks to all our generous sponsors. Please fill our the registration information below to attend. Participants will receive emails with updates as the day of the event gets closer.

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Any questions or concerns can be directed at Amanda Babine, Director of Policy & Programs at: amanda@nytag.org or 212-614-0023 Ext. 115
Policy Platform
[Coming Soon]
Sponsors
We are thankful for the generous sponsorship from the following organizations and entities:

Platinum Sponsors:

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Gold Sponsors:
LGBTQ+ Caucus

LGBTQ+ Caucus
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Bronze Sponsors:

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partners
AVP Brooklyn Legal Services
Beyond Bold And Brave/Black Lesbian Conferences
Blur Communications
Brooklyn Community Pride Center
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
CK LIFE (COMMUNITY KINSHIP LIFE)
Dutchess County Pride Center
Gays Against Guns
Gender Equality New York
G.L.I.T.S.
GLSEN (NYCR-GLSEN)
GLSEN Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center
Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
Jamestown Community College
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
Latino Commission on AIDS
Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens
LGBTQ+ Caucus New York Capital Region
Manhattan Country School
MORE caucus in the United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
New York City Anti-Violence Project
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York Transgender Advocacy Group
NYSUT Association of Legal Aid Attorneys
Pride Center of Staten Island
Queeramisu
Queerocracy
Stonewall Democratic Club
The Ackerman Institute for the Family, Gender & Family Project The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center The LGBT Center
The Pride Center of the Capital Region
The Trevor Project
TLDEF
Trans Educator Network
VOCAL - NY
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New York Transgender Advocacy Group
215 W 125th Street, Suite 2
New York, NY 10027

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