Car-Free Parks Celebration Ride
Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 to 9:00 AM from 563 Columbus Av. near W. 87th St. 
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/xyKj1i9emBv 
descriptions: https://facebook.com/events/219017258680478 (212) 629-8080 www.bikemonth.nyc  Public · Hosted by Council Member Helen Rosenthal and Transportation Alternatives Manhattan Activist Committee  manhattan@transalt.org
http://transalt.org/manhattan   https://facebook.com/pg/TransAltManhattan/events/  https://facebook.com/CouncilMemberHelenRosenthal 

IT'S OFFICIAL. CENTRAL PARK! #CarFreeParks!

In January, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared Brooklyn’s Prospect Park car free. And in June, Manhattan is getting its own big car-free backyard. On May 1, join us to celebrate Central Park’s entire loop road finally being made car free!

On the first day of Bike Month, May 1, 2018, join Transportation Alternatives for a Bike-to-Work Ride to celebrate #CarFreeParks. Meet your neighbors and fellow New Yorkers who bike, including Council Member Helen Rosenthal:

7:30AM GATHER   Outside Council Member Rosenthal's district office at
563 Columbus Avenue, near [West] 87th Street

8AM WHEELS DOWN  Take a fun group ride (approx. 1.6 miles) along the
western side of the Central Park Lower Loop.

8:30AM CELEBRATE!  At the southwest corner of the park, fuel up before work with free coffee, breakfast, and inspiring words from the council member.
 
Biking over from another part of Manhattan? Hop on a feeder ride near you!

6:15 AM LOWER MANHATTAN 
East 14th Street and 1st Avenue, southwest corner @ 6:15 a.m. (Ride leader is Chelsea S. Yamada)

7:00AM UPPER EAST SIDE
E. 72nd Street and 5th Avenue, on Central Park side @ 7:00 a.m. (Ride Leader is Bob Bannan)

7:15AM HARLEM
W. 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, northwest corner (Ride leader is Reed Rubey)

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Fight Together! Strike to Win! May Day NYC 2018
Tuesday May 1 fr/ Noon to 5:00 PM at Union Sq. South/E.14th St.
nr. L, N, Q, R, W, #4, 5, 6, F, M, PATH, #1, 2, 3, A, C, E stops & 14th St. bus lines;
https://facebook.com/events/2004671003192915/
https://facebook.com/pg/MayDayUnionSquare/events
Public · Hosted by May Day Union Square

Great Return March Contingent at May Day Union Square
Tuesday, May 1, Noon from Union Square, NYC
nr. L, 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, F, PATH, 1, C, E stops & 14th St. bus lines;
https://wp.me/p2cx3f-6kS
https://facebook.com/events/171091086943098/

May Day Union Square March: https://facebook.com/events/2004671003192915/

    From: "Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network" 
    To: nyprotest@lists.riseup.net
    Subject: [New post] 1 May, NYC: Great Return March Contingent at May Day Union Square
   
Every year on May 1, International Workers Day, migrants and workers come together to celebrate the victories of organized labor and build the movement of oppressed people resisting capitalism and imperialism around the world.

This year for May Day, join Within Our Lifetime, the NY4Palestine coalition and supporters of the Palestinian struggle for liberation as we mobilize as a contingent to lift up the martyrs of the #GreatReturnMarch and celebrate the ongoing legacy of Palestinian workers resisting zionist occupation and fighting for self-determination and to reclaim their land.

We will also be doing a teach-in on the #GreatReturnMarch and what May Day means to the Palestinian struggle. Stay tuned for more information and help us spread the word by inviting your friends to this event page!

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 . Great Return March Contingent at May Day Union Square
Tuesday May 1, Noon to 5:00 PM fr/ Union Sq. nr. E. 14th St. & L, #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, W, F, M, PATH, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E stops; transit  https://goo.gl/d7dLbr
http://samidoun.net/event/nyc-transnational-great-return-march/all/
https://facebook.com/events/171091086943098/
featuring:  Within our Lifetime, United for Palestine,  American Muslims for Palestine - NJ Chapter,  Students for Justice in Palestine at City College,  May Day Union Square,  Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College,  Jews for Palestinian Right of Return,  Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,  NY4Palestine,  Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition,  Labor for Palestine

 . May Day Union Square https://facebook.com/events/2004671003192915/

Every year on May 1, International Workers Day, migrants and workers come together to celebrate the victories of organized labor and build the movement of oppressed people resisting capitalism and imperialism around the world.

This year for May Day, join Within Our Lifetime, the NY4Palestine coalition and supporters of the Palestinian struggle for liberation as we mobilize as a contingent to lift up the martyrs of the #GreatReturnMarch and celebrate the ongoing legacy of Palestinian workers resisting zionist occupation and fighting for self-determination and to reclaim their land.

We will also be doing a teach-in on the #GreatReturnMarch and what May Day means to the Palestinian struggle. Stay tuned for more information and help us spread the word by inviting your friends to this event page!
 

NYC Freedom Cities May Day + Immigrant Worker Justice Tour 2018 !
Tuesday, May 1 fr/ 12:30 to 4:30 PM
March at 2:00PM from Washington Sq. Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/193849377887044/
https://facebook.com/pg/NYWorkerFederation/events  http://nyworkerfederation.org
nyworkerfederation@gmail.com   https://facebook.com/pg/MillionHoodies/events  https://millionhoodies.net  http://twitter.com/millionhoodies  http://enlaceintl.org  
https://facebook.com/pg/enlaceintl/events  (503) 295-6466  info@enlaceintl.org 
https://facebook.com/pg/BAJIpage/events (347) 410-5312   info@blackalliance.org http://blackalliance.org

NYC FREEDOM CITIES MAY DAY + 7th ANNUAL IWJ TOUR 2018
https://goo.gl/forms/DNa9XKEMV5wzUb2f2
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On May Day, join the Freedom Cities Movement as we carry on the legacy of the Immigrant Worker Justice Tour in our struggle for freedom and liberation!

Freedom Cities is about making entire cities, towns, and communities safe for immigrants, Black people, Muslims, Queer+Trans folks, workers, and all oppressed communities. Our liberation is inherently tied together, it's all of us or none of us!

We all deserve to live with dignity and have the opportunity thrive without fear of physical or economic violence at the hands of the corporations, vigilantes or government.

Rally and March | Washington Square Park
Rally: 12:30PM
March: 2:00PM
(route TBA, we will join with Fight Together! Strike to Win! May Day NYC 2018 afterwards!)

 

Current Endorsers/ Patrocinadores:

Enlace
New York Worker Center Federation
Million Hoodies
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Co-op Cafe
ICE Out of Courts- NYC
Families for Freedom
Immigrant Defense Project
Decolonize This Place
Rhiza Collective
LawAtTheMargins
Retail Action Project
SOA Watch
New Economy Project
NYC Democratic Socialists of America
Food Chain Workers Alliance
International Women's Strike NYC/ Paro Internacional de Mujeres NYC
Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City
Queens Neighborhoods United
Coalition To End Broken Windows
Hater Free NYC
ICE-FREE NYC
Copwatch Patrol Unit - CPU"
Adalah-NY
People's Cultural Plan
Adalah-NY
New York Communities for Change
UNO: United Neighbors Organization

#IWJTOUR18
#FUCKICE
#SafetyIs
#FREEDOMCITIES
________________________________
1 de Mayo 2018: CIUDADES LIBRES NYC + 7mo TOUR DE JUSTICIA de IWJ

Para Patrocinar: https://goo.gl/forms/DNa9XKEMV5wzUb2f2

¡El Primero de Mayo, únase al Movimiento de Ciudades Libres, quienes continuará la tradicion de la Gira de Justicia para Trabajadores Inmigrantes, en nuestra lucha por la libertad y la liberación!

Ciudades Libres, se trata de hacer ciudades enteras, pueblos y comunidades seguras para inmigrantes, negros, musulmanes, personas queer + trans, trabajadores y todas las comunidades oprimidas. Nuestra liberación está inherentemente unida, ¡somos todos o ninguno de nosotros!

Todos merecemos vivir con dignidad y tener la oportunidad de prosperar sin temor a la violencia física o económica a manos de las corporaciones, los vigilantes o el gobierno.

Rally y Marcha | Parque Washington Square

Rally: 12:30 p.m.
Marcha: 2:00 p.m.

Para Patrocinar:

``Action details to be announced``

May Day March Together
March on Tuesday May 1, 3:30 PM from Cadman Plaza 
[usually means the north field, near Mayor Gaynor Memorial, btw. Middagh St. & bridge steps; A, C Train to High St. (west escalator to Cranberry Walk is marked "St. George Hotel"); #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.; F to York St.; R to Court St.-Borough Hall; 4, 5 to Borough Hall; A, C, G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/vZ3GXGiAimx
event graphic https://goo.gl/owHacz 

May Day is marked as a spring celebration by many, it is also known as International Workers’ Day, and is seen as a day to celebrate and promote advances for the working class. Many people have the day off from work in other countries, and take part in marches for workers’ rights and for other social issues on May Day.Join us May 1st as we march from Cadman Plaza to Foley Square.Solidarity action for worker’s rights, oppressive policies and immigration reform.
#MayDay2018 #NSCMayDay2018 #YouCantDeportAMovement
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May Day Celebration
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 fr/ 5:30 to 7:30pm
Washington Square Park
http://psc-cuny.org/sites/default/files/May Day Flyer 2018.pdf
https://facebook.com/events/803421809854089  
featuring 32BJ SEIU,  District Council 37, Afscme,  Fair Immigration Reform Movement, 
Laborers Local 78,  Laborers Local 79 - New York City,  The New York Immigration Coalition,  Make the Road New York,  Reform Immigration FOR America,  UFT - United Federation of Teachers, 

This year’s NYC May Day celebration will be an opportunity for New Yorkers to come together in solidarity and safety. Please join our coalition of labor, immigrant rights, faith, and allied organizations to say in one voice that we are partners in power. To demand good jobs and the right to organize. To demand Congress protect workers rights and immigrant rights. #MayDay2018

PSC members will meet at Thompson St. and West 4th St. (south side of the park). Look for our red and white signs. Members who can volunteer to help carry signs from the PSC office (61 Broadway, 15th Foor) to the rally site please email PSC Organizing Director Deirdre Brill at dbrill@pscmail.org .
 

Other May Day Events:
May Day Rally at College of Staten Island
Sticker Day at Bronx Community College
60 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012
Washington Square Park

Inside the Male Brain: Toxic Masculinity and #MeToo
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 fr/ 6:30 to 8:00 PM (doors 6pm) at Brooklyn Historical Soc.
128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton St. nr. R, 2, 3, A, C, 4, 5, G stops
map & transit https://goo.gl/maps/QtwF99Kek9S2
$5
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http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html

With sexual misconduct and mass shootings at the fore of the national conversation, take a deeper look into the cultural, psychological, and sociological forces driving deleterious male behavior. Michael Kimmel, one of the world’s leading experts on men and masculinity and executive director of SUNY Stony Brook Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities is joined by Columbia University psychology professor Geraldine Downey and journalist Alexis Grenell to discuss upending expressions of toxic masculinity from workplace harassment to violence in public spaces.

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

Inside the Male Brain: Toxic Masculinity and #MeToo
Tuesday, May 1
Doors: 6:00 pm
Event: 6:30 pm [ask correct ending time -t.]
$5 General Admission / Free for Members
Brooklyn Historical Society

BHS Members: to reserve tickets at the member price, click on "Tickets" and enter your Member ID on the following page after clicking on "Enter Promotional Code." For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk
at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

 @brooklynhistory

Founded in 1863, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) functions as a library, museum, and urban education center dedicated to the people of Brooklyn, providing opportunities for civic dialogue and thoughtful engagement.

Phone: 718.222.4111, ext. 250

www.brooklynhistory.org

 
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Below was excerpted from a periodic calendar by Bill DiPaolo & Time's Up!   Please subscribe directly. -t.

https://times-up.org/calendar  https://times-up.org/events-list-signup
212.802.8222  timesup@panix.com

***MANHATTANWORKSHOPS***

OUTDOORBIKE REPAIR CLASSES
** Every Tuesday, 6:30pm-8:30pm
LaPlaza Cultural Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C
Comelearn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at thebike mechanic repair classes. Subjects are covered in a four-weekrotation beginning the first week of every month:
1st Tuesday-Basics for Beginners
2nd Tuesday- Brakes and Gears
3rdTuesday- Cups, Cones, and Bearings
4th Tuesday- Wheels andSpokes
**

1stFRIDAY FIX-YOUR-OWN-BIKE AL FRESCO
Friday, April 6,3:00pm-6:00pm
Friday, May 4, 3:00pm-6:00pm
La PlazaCultural Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C
Openshop--you use our tools and stands to work on your bike. Experiencedmechanics will be present to answer questions, but you do the work.Since we are in a community garden you will have to bring your ownparts. Bike workshops are free, but we strongly encourage you to makea donation or become a Time's Up member to help support our efforts.

***BROOKLYNWORKSHOPS***

FIXYOUR OWN BIKE WORKSHOP

99South 6th Street, off Bedford Avenue under the Williamsburg Bridge

**Sundays & Wednesdays-5:30pm-8:30pm

Openshop--you use our tools and stands to work on your bike. Experiencedmechanics will be present to answer questions, but you do the work. Bike workshops are free, but we strongly encourage you to make adonation or become a Time's Up member to help support our efforts. Ifyou have a big project in mind, please be considerate of the time andplan ahead.

******************

CRITICALMASS - MANHATTAN

Friday,April 27, 7:00pm

Friday,May 25, 7:00pm

UnionSquare Park-North

CriticalMass happens the last Friday of every month around the world. Thisfun group bike ride helped change New York City into the bicyclefriendly city that we see today. Strap some music to your bike andcome on out. More info here.Good resource for other critical mass rides and info here.

CENTRALPARK MOONLIGHT RIDE
Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park

Friday,April 6, 10pm

Friday,May 4, 10pm

Meetsthe 1st Friday of every month at the Columbus Circle entrance toCentral Park. Enjoy the tranquility of the park and its beautifulponds and waterways. A nature lover’s dream.

PEACEBIKE RIDE
1Bowling Green, Museum of the American Indian

Sunday,April 15, 2pm

Sunday,May 20, 2pm

Thethird Sunday of every month please join us for a leisurely, peacefulride to some of downtown Manhattan's peace sites, including: TibetHouse, Anthroposophical Society, Former residence of John Lennon andYoko Ono, Point Thank You, Teardrop Park, The Irish Hunger Memorial,Art from the Berlin Wall, Robert Wagner Park, The Labyrinth forContemplation, Fritz Koenig's “The Sphere,” St. Paul's Chapel,the site of the Mother AME Zion Church (“first church in NYC builtand led by Afro-Americans”) and the African Burial Ground. Greatride for kids and cyclists new to group rides. Route subject tochange, not all sites are visited on every ride. DRESS FOR THEWEATHER! co-sponsoredby PeaceMuseum NY

Rise and Resist Meeting
Apr. 24, May 1, May 8 & every Tuesday in The Church of the Village
201 W. 13th St. at 7th Av.; #1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, M, PATH to various 14th St stops; L to 6th Av. or to 8th Av.; N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/xhUPHVAiNFr
event description https://facebook.com/events/398929070581585/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/
https://facebook.com/groups/RiseandResistNYC/events/

Rise & Resist meets every Tuesday from 7:00PM to 9:00PM. Doors open at 6:30.

We've developed a flat, all volunteer group united in anger, organized into working groups, and committed to direct action. We're focusing on everything from policy and data analysis to organizing protests to ensure that we have the largest impact possible.

We need people with all skills and interests. Whether you are an artist or a software developer or just somebody who wants to get involved, everybody’s contribution is valuable.

The meetings are at the Church of the Village (201 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011). The space is wheelchair-accessible via the entrance on 13th Street. There is an elevator.

Transportation: The nearest subway stops are the 14th Street stop on the 1/2/3/F/M/L, or the 14th Street stop on the A/C/E (this one is accessible).

Contact: info@riseandresist.org

An agenda will be sent out via email ahead of time. If you are not yet on our email list you can sign up using this form: http://eepurl.com/cCzq1X

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://riseandresist.org

If you haven't liked our Facebook Page, please click here:
https://www.facebook.com/RiseandResistNYC/

And if you haven't joined our Facebook group, please click here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/762691670546792/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiseandResistNY

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.

The Life and Works of Karl Marx: Book Talk with Sven-Eric Liedman
Tuesday, May 1 from 7.00 to 9:00pm at Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave. btw. E. 37th & E. 38th
trip planner https://goo.gl/xed2i8
Free.  REGISTER (ask whether req'd):  https://goo.gl/9JBy3F 
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Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages of global history. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, a difficult and sometimes tragic family life, his far-sighted journalism, and his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels.

Building on the work of previous biographers, Liedman employs a commanding knowledge of the Nineteenth Century to create a definitive portrait of Marx and his vast contribution to the way the world understands itself. He shines a light on Marx’s influences, explains his political and intellectual interventions, and builds on the legacy of his thought. Liedman shows how Marx’s masterpiece, Capital, illuminates the essential logic of a system that drives dizzying wealth, grinding poverty, and awesome technological innovation to this day.

Compulsively readable and meticulously researched, A World to Win demonstrates that, two centuries after Marx’s birth, his work remains the bedrock for any true understanding of our political and economic condition.

Following the discussion, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

About the Author

Sven-Eric Liedman, Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, has been reading and writing about Karl Marx for over fifty years. His textbook on political ideologies (originally titled From Plato to Lenin in 1972, rechristened From Plato to the War Against Terrorism in 2014) has been through fourteen editions.

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The Counterrevolution with Bernard E. Harcourt
Tuesday May 1, 7:00pm at Book Culture-112th
536 W. 112th St. btw. Broadway & Amsterdam Av.;
#1, B, C, 2 or 3 train to various 110th St. stops;
M4 bus via Madison Av. & CPN/110th/Cathedral Pkwy.
http://bookculture.com/event/112th-counterrevolution-bernard-e-harcourt

(212) 865-1588 http://bookculture.com/upcoming-events

Join us at Book Culture on 112th as Bernard E. Harcourt discusses The Counterrevolution on Tuesday, May 1 at 7:00pm.   A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans.

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States--one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror.

The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles--bulk intelligence collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda--have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, is the tyranny of our age. Seeing it clearly is the first step to resisting it effectively.

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and a professor of political science at Columbia University. The author of several books, including The Illusion of Free Markets and Exposed, he lives in New York City.

Event address:
536 W 112th St
Can't make it? Reserve a signed copy by calling our store today: 
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Hardcover)
By Bernard E. Harcourt
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541697287

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The Life and Works of Karl Marx: Book Talk with Sven-Eric Liedman
May 01, 2018 from 7.00 to 9.00pm in Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave. at E. 38th; #4, 5, 6, 7, S Train to Grand Central-42 St.;
B, D, F, M to 42 St.-Bryant Park; N, Q, R, W to 34 St.-Herald Sq.; PATH to 33rd;
cross town buses at 34th & 42nd;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/VQcu2a4mM2P2
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Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages of global history. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, a difficult and sometimes tragic family life, his far-sighted journalism, and his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels.

Building on the work of previous biographers, Liedman employs a commanding knowledge of the nineteenth century to create a definitive portrait of Marx and his vast contribution to the way the world understands itself. He shines a light on Marx’s influences, explains his political and intellectual interventions, and builds on the legacy of his thought. Liedman shows how Marx’s masterpiece, Capital, illuminates the essential logic of a system that drives dizzying wealth, grinding poverty, and awesome technological innovation to this day.

Compulsively readable and meticulously researched, A World to Win demonstrates that, two centuries after Marx’s birth, his work remains the bedrock for any true understanding of our political and economic condition.

Following the discussion, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

About the Author
Sven-Eric Liedman, Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, has been reading and writing about Karl Marx for over fifty years. His textbook on political ideologies (originally titled From Plato to Lenin in 1972, rechristened From Plato to the War Against Terrorism in 2014) has been through fourteen editions.

TICKET INFORMATION

Once you purchase your ticket(s), which you can do so here, you will receive an order confirmation email from Eventbrite on behalf of Scandinavia House. Your e-tickets will be attached to your order confirmation email. Make sure to print them out and bring them to the event. Or go green and download the Eventbrite app on your smart phone!

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Books
9781786635044-f_medium
A World to Win
by Sven-Eric Liedman

The Young Karl Marx: Film Screening and Q&A
Tuesday May 1 fr/ 7:00 to 10:00 PM Goethe-Institut New York
30 Irving Pl. at E. 17th St. nr. Union Sq East & 3rd Ave
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/qBmQEncqd8D2
descriptions  http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/the-young-karl-marx-free-film-screening/ 
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series https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/ney.html info-newyork@goethe.de
venue event listings https://goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/ney/ver.cfm 
https://facebook.com/pg/goetheinstitut.nyc/events  https://twitter.com/GI_NewYork  https://twitter.com/rosaluxnyc http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/newsevents/  info@thebrooklyninstitute.com http://thebrooklyninstitute.com     212 4398700

As part of the Marx Now series of events, Goethe-Institut New York, Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Reserach are hosting a free screening of The Young Karl Marx, Raoul Peck’s bio-pic of the 26-year-old Marx as he flees political repression, meets Friedrich Engels, and helps found the international socialist movement. Following the film, BISR faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Anthony Alessandrini will take the stage to talk about the film and conduct an audience Q&A. To RSVP, email
program-newyork@goethe.de .
 [ask whether any admission cost or RSVP required.  -t.]

School Choice and Integration in NYC
Wednesday, May 2 fr/ 9:00 to 11:00 AM
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 W 13th St. btw. 5th & 6th Aves., nr. L, F, M, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E stops  & buses via 14th St. or E.9th St. or W.8th St.
https://milanoschool.org/event/school-choice-and-integration-in-nyc/  www.events.newschool.edu/event/school_choice_and_integration_in_nyc (https://eventbrite.com/e/school-choice-and-integration-in-nyc-tickets-44232930887) https://twitter.com/Insideschools/status/974384087484989440
https://facebook.com/events/2081406702139312/
Nearly 40 percent of New York City kindergartners take advantage of school choice to enroll in schools other than their zoned neighborhood school. Does this exodus make the school system more integrated or more segregated? Senior research fellow Nicole Mader of the New School's Center for New York City Affairs will present her research findings, based on student-level zone assignment data for 700,000 pupils over 10 years. Our report will show the demographic characteristics of who leaves and who stays and compare the current situation to what the system would look like if everyone attended their zoned school.

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with:
 - NYS Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa
 - New School Professor Maya Wiley, co-chair of the city's school diversity working group
 - Dennis Morgan, PTA president of PS 180 in Harlem and a member of the Community Education Council for District 3.

Clara Hemphill, director of education policy and editor of InsideSchools, will moderate.

Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy
College & University
For more than 40 years we have offered master's degrees that are innovative, principled and practical - in keeping with the mission of The New School.

The Center for New York City Affairs is an applied policy research institute at The New School dedicated to improving the effectiveness of government and other organizations in their work with urban families and communities.

www.centernyc.org
Insideschools.org

social.newschool.edu

Multifaith Strategies for Nonviolent Direct Action
Wednesday, May 2 at 9 AM - 5 PM
The Interfaith Center of New York (``God Box``)
475 Riverside Dr Suite 540,
interfaithcenter.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/1882329748504628/
THE 35TH RABBI MARSHALL T. MEYER RETREAT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
#MMR35
Public · Hosted by Micah Institute and The Interfaith Center of New York

Our diverse faith traditions call us to engage in nonviolent action for social justice. Transformative change often grows out of conversations among these traditions, as in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s description of the nonviolent struggle for racial equality: “Christ furnished the spirit and the motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method.”

In the spirit of Dr. King, please join us to explore diverse faith-rooted strategies for nonviolent direct action. The conference will include both interfaith dialogue and hands-on civil disobedience training. It will contribute to the Poor People’s Campaign’s upcoming 40 Days of Moral Action, and to the Micah Institute’s ongoing efforts to transform New York City for love and justice.

Religious leaders and community activists from all backgrounds are welcome to participate. A suggested donation of $20 is requested to help pay for meals and conference expenses. We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Hanadi Doleh, Program Associate for Community Partnerships, at 212.870.3547 or hanadi@interfaithcenter.org.

Click here for a printable flyer: http://interfaithcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/May-2-Multifaith-Nonviolent-Action-Conference.pdf

Keynote Speaker Rev. Claudia De la Cruz, Co-Chair of the NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, will deliver her address "Rediscovering Dr. King through Nonviolent Action Today."

A keynote response and reflection will be offered by Dr. Betty Reardon.

Additional speakers will be announced soon.
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The Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary educates and equips faith leaders to fight poverty and injustice.

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* Protest U.S.-Ukraine War on DonbassREMEMBER ODESSA, DEMAND JUSTICE
4 Years Since the Massacre of Anti-Fascists in Ukraine
PROTEST Wednesday, May 2 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM
U.S. Army Career Center Times Sq.
7th Ave. & Broadway, btw. W. 43rd St. & W.44th St. nr. N, Q, R, W, #1, 2, 3, 7, S, B, D, F, M, A, C, E stops & cross town buses via 42nd or via 49th 
map & trip planner https://goo.gl/maps/5BeKjXMX34B2 
https://facebook.com/events/157410388280480/

 - End the cover-up: justice for Odessa massacre victims
 - Stop U.S. aid and weapons to Ukraine
 - End the war and blockade against Donbass
 - Stop blaming Russia for the crisis created by Washington

International Action Ctr. & Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine
http://iacenter.org/  https://facebook.com/pg/UkraineAntifaSolidarity/events 
https://facebook.com/pg/International-Action-Center-1912781252072726/events   http://www.no2nato.org 212-633-6646  iacenter@iacenter.org  http://www.iacenter.org

On May 2, 2014, neo-Nazis attacked activists in the city of Odessa, Ukraine. More than 40 anti-fascists were shot, beaten to death, and burned alive in the House of Trade Unions. The massacre came less than three months after a violent, U.S.-backed coup overthrew the elected government of Ukraine and installed a right-wing dictatorship.

The Odessa attack was a precursor to the outrage in Charlottesville, Va., last year, when white supremacists invaded that city and murdered anti-racist protester Heather Heyer. The Odessa killers continue to walk free, despite ample video and photographic evidence of their guilt. Instead, victims who survived were put on trial – just as young African American man DeAndre Harris has been put on trial after surviving a white supremacist attack in Charlottesville.

Washington’s puppet government in Kiev has blocked the investigation of the Odessa massacre and covered up the facts. President Trump and Congress recently removed the last restrictions on selling heavy weaponry to Ukraine. The Ukrainian army and fascist military gangs have already killed more than 10,000 people in the Donbass mining region, where people refused to accept the rule of the ultra-right oligarchs and Nazi gangs. Enough is enough!
 

Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine — The Ukrainian People's Tribunal to investigate the crimes of the regime of Petro Poroshenko in the Donbass has put forth charges against eight represe...

Featuring
Information, activism & resistance to U.S. militarism, war & corporate greed, linking with struggles against racism & oppression within the United States.

Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine
Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine is a committee of the International Action Center in the U.S.

Earth Celebrations Ecological City Puppet & Costume Workshops
Losaida Inc. Center- 710 East 9th St. (btwn. Aves C & D)
Event description & any changes:
https://facebook.com/pg/EarthCelebrations/events
https://facebook.com/events/1905089839821320/ 212-777-7969 mail@earthcelebrations.com http://www.earthcelebrations.com

MARCH
WED March 28 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT March 31 from Noon to  4:00 PM

APRIL
WED April 4 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 7 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 11 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 14 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 18 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 21 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 25 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 28 from Noon to  4:00 PM

May 2018
WED May 2 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT May 5 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED May 9 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Anti-Assad film, talk: "Syria: The Impossible Revolution"
Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 to 9:00 PM
2431 Morris Av. at Fordham Rd.; #4, B, D to Fordham Rd stops;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/Dm8n54E8Fcv
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/1yTXSf
(https://facebook.com/newdaybronx/photos/pcb.1740243722701458/1740243666034797)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SyriaTheImpossibleRevolution
https://twitter.com/RonanLTynan  https://twitter.com/annedaly19
venue (917) 669-5803 newdaybronx@gmail.com www.newdaychurch.nyc/english

Movement to Protect the People /MTOPP Monthly Meeting
7:00 PM on first Wednesday of each month at
89 Sterling St, Brooklyn, btw. Washington & Bedford Aves.
B, Q Train or Franklin Av. Shuttle to Prospect Park (at Lincoln Rd. & Ocean Av.);
#2, 5 to Sterling St. (at Nostrand Av.);
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/yKEcMmjYjNC2

Wednesday, May 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday,  Jun. 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Jul. 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Aug. 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Sept. 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM

description & any changes  https://facebook.com/events/172059533428080/
https://facebook.com/pg/mtopp.plg/events/  http://mtopp.org
Stay up to date with MTOPP! Help us save Brooklyn.
We are organizing against the impending rezoning project
against the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Please come out and be apart of the Solution of Saving our Garden!

Every month same time and place

MTOPP meeting

1st Wednesday of the Month

Place: 89 Sterling St, Brooklyn N.Y. 11225 at 7 pm
All are welcome

 . NY Jericho Walk as part of the National Day of Action
Thursday, May 3 fr/ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at ``26 Federal Plaza`` Javits Fed. Bldg. 
at Broadway & Thomas St., nr. Worth St. & Duane St.; check also Foley Sq. side of bldg.;   J, #4, 5, 6, R, W, 2, 3, A, C, N, Q, E, PATH stops;
transit:  https://goo.gl/maps/CaSj2jqbDVD2  http://url.ie/zb2p
description https://facebook.com/events/441638126280121/    Hosted by
New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City

https://facebook.com/pg/NewSanctuaryCoalitionNYC/events/
http://newsanctuarynyc.org/events-actions/ 

 . Evening vigil 5:00 PM at ICE Immigration Jail
201 Varick St. btw. Houston St. & King St. nr. C, E, A, B, D, F, M, #1, PATH stops
& Houston St. cross town bus; transit  https://goo.gl/maps/weog1F2deYz
[ask correct ending time]

Join the New Sanctuary Coalition Thursday at 11 a.m. for a special
Jericho Walk at 26 Federal Plaza as part of NSC's National day of Action.

Come together with faith leaders, immigration activists, and community members for this march in silence and prayer, and to stand in solidarity with all those opposing deportation and detention. Starting at the same time across time zones, groups across the country will organize a peaceful action known as the Jericho Walk.

The Jericho Walk is a silent interfaith prayer and act of solidarity. The walk draws inspiration from the Battle of Jericho, in which the community marched around the city of Jericho seven times, causing the city walls to fall. The Jericho Walk of today is a silent, peaceful, and prayerful walk to bring down the walls of our unjust immigration system and is open to people of all or no faiths. The New Sanctuary Coalition has organized Jericho Walks nearly every Thursday since 2011, typically surrounding the federal immigration buildings in New York City. Now we want to encourage Jericho Walks across the country where other immigrant activists and families have been targeted.

26 Federal Plaza houses the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices and immigration courts. It is a site of extreme trauma for immigrant communities. Our brothers and sisters come into this building with a real fear that they can be picked up and taken away from their families at any time. During the march, we walk in prayerful silence and pause at the front of the building where we raise our hands in prayer.

*** Following the Jericho walk, there will be an evening
vigil at 5:00 p.m. at 201 Varick Street. ***
. . .

New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC National Day of Action
Thursday, May 3 fr/ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Nationwide
http://twitter.com/hashtag/nationaljerichowalk2018
https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/status/986778380208046080
(https://istandwithravi.org/2018/04/13/join-the-may-3rd-national-day-of-action-with-jericho-walk-toolkit/)   
https://istandwithravi.org/category/action-alerts/ 

The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC is planning a National Day of Action on
May 3, 2018 to stand in solidarity with all those opposing deportation and detention. Starting at the same time across time zones, groups across the country will organize a peaceful action known as the Jericho Walk.

The Jericho Walk is a silent interfaith prayer and act of solidarity. The walk draws inspiration from the Battle of Jericho, in which the community marched around the city of Jericho seven times, causing the city walls to fall. The Jericho Walk of today is a silent, peaceful, and prayerful walk to bring down the walls of our unjust immigration system and is open to people of all or no faiths. The New Sanctuary Coalition has organized Jericho Walks nearly every Thursday since 2011, typically surrounding the federal immigration buildings in New York City. Now we want to encourage Jericho Walks across the country where other immigrant activists and families have been targeted.

Join us! If you’re interested in organizing a Jericho Walk on May in your community, please let us know and download Jericho Walk Toolkit to start planning.
. . .

The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC is an interfaith network of congregations, organizations and individuals, standing publicly in solidarity with families and communities resisting detention and deportation in order to stay together.

The General's Son: Miko Peled Talk Confirmed!
Thursday, May 3 fr/ Noon to 2:00 PM at City College of NY/CCNY in
North Academic Center/NAC Rm. 0/201 on Amsterdam Av. btw. W.136th & W.138th
transit:  https://goo.gl/zz1R6u

PINNED POST   Students for Justice in Palestine at City College  2 hrs ·
ATTENTION !    Our May 3 event with Miko Peled will go AS PLANNED! Thank you all so much for your help in advocating for SJP's right to have this event.We also thank Palestine Legal for their amazing work, dedication, and commitment to protecting student's rights, and without them we wouldn't be able to provide the CCNY community with a great educational experience.We appreciate the CCNY administration's apology, and their current efforts to make the event happen.
Make sure you RSVP.  Click ``GOING`` button at
https://facebook.com/events/156128811732502/permalink/160212697990780
[ No FB acct.?  I'd try:  ccnysjp@gmail.com http://sjpccny.webs.com
Revised Event Graphic https://goo.gl/ebY1gH
https://facebook.com/events/156128811732502/
https://facebook.com/pg/citycollegesjp/events
Letter to CUNY from civ. rights orgs is at https://bit.ly/2vTKoY1 
[do let me know if link gets blocked. -t.]
https://palestinelegal.org/news/2018/4/25/cuny-cancels-pro-palestinian-event

EVENT NOW CONFIRMED ! : Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son and Injustice, was born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well-known Zionist family. Miko Peled is a writer and human rights activist born and raised in Jerusalem. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights on all of historic Palestine.

Palestinian Food Will be Served

Students for Justice in Palestine at City College — ATTENTION !!! Our May 3rd event with Miko Peled will go AS PLANNED! Thank you all so much for your help in advocating for SJP's right to have this eve...

Rebecca Black Haredy — Is this open to the public? Are tickets required? Thank you

The official page for Students for Justice in Palestine at City College.

CUNY Rising Bronx Hearing
Thursday, May 3, 2018 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Bronx Community College Nichols Hall, Room 104
#4 to Burnside Av.; D to Tremont Av.; transit:  https://goo.gl/oGTaM1

www.bcc.cuny.edu/Directions/?page=Campus_Map
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/cuny-rising-bronx-hearing
https://facebook.com/events/408467882952215/ 
yshafritz@nycommunities.org

 . NY Jericho Walk as part of the National Day of Action
Thursday, May 3 fr/ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at ``26 Federal Plaza`` Javits Fed. Bldg. 
at Broadway & Thomas St., nr. Worth St. & Duane St.; check also Foley Sq. side of bldg.;   J, #4, 5, 6, R, W, 2, 3, A, C, N, Q, E, PATH stops;
transit:  https://goo.gl/maps/CaSj2jqbDVD2  http://url.ie/zb2p
description https://facebook.com/events/441638126280121/    Hosted by
New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City

https://facebook.com/pg/NewSanctuaryCoalitionNYC/events/
http://newsanctuarynyc.org/events-actions/ 

 . Evening vigil 5:00 PM at ICE Immigration Jail
201 Varick St. btw. Houston St. & King St. nr. C, E, A, B, D, F, M, #1, PATH stops
& Houston St. cross town bus; transit  https://goo.gl/maps/weog1F2deYz
[ask correct ending time]

Join the New Sanctuary Coalition Thursday at 11 a.m. for a special
Jericho Walk at 26 Federal Plaza as part of NSC's National day of Action.

Come together with faith leaders, immigration activists, and community members for this march in silence and prayer, and to stand in solidarity with all those opposing deportation and detention. Starting at the same time across time zones, groups across the country will organize a peaceful action known as the Jericho Walk.

The Jericho Walk is a silent interfaith prayer and act of solidarity. The walk draws inspiration from the Battle of Jericho, in which the community marched around the city of Jericho seven times, causing the city walls to fall. The Jericho Walk of today is a silent, peaceful, and prayerful walk to bring down the walls of our unjust immigration system and is open to people of all or no faiths. The New Sanctuary Coalition has organized Jericho Walks nearly every Thursday since 2011, typically surrounding the federal immigration buildings in New York City. Now we want to encourage Jericho Walks across the country where other immigrant activists and families have been targeted.

26 Federal Plaza houses the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices and immigration courts. It is a site of extreme trauma for immigrant communities. Our brothers and sisters come into this building with a real fear that they can be picked up and taken away from their families at any time. During the march, we walk in prayerful silence and pause at the front of the building where we raise our hands in prayer.

*** Following the Jericho walk, there will be an evening
vigil at 5:00 p.m. at 201 Varick Street. ***
. . .

New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC National Day of Action
Thursday, May 3 fr/ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Nationwide
http://twitter.com/hashtag/nationaljerichowalk2018
https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/status/986778380208046080
(https://istandwithravi.org/2018/04/13/join-the-may-3rd-national-day-of-action-with-jericho-walk-toolkit/)   
https://istandwithravi.org/category/action-alerts/ 

The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC is planning a National Day of Action on
May 3, 2018 to stand in solidarity with all those opposing deportation and detention. Starting at the same time across time zones, groups across the country will organize a peaceful action known as the Jericho Walk.

The Jericho Walk is a silent interfaith prayer and act of solidarity. The walk draws inspiration from the Battle of Jericho, in which the community marched around the city of Jericho seven times, causing the city walls to fall. The Jericho Walk of today is a silent, peaceful, and prayerful walk to bring down the walls of our unjust immigration system and is open to people of all or no faiths. The New Sanctuary Coalition has organized Jericho Walks nearly every Thursday since 2011, typically surrounding the federal immigration buildings in New York City. Now we want to encourage Jericho Walks across the country where other immigrant activists and families have been targeted.

Join us! If you’re interested in organizing a Jericho Walk on May in your community, please let us know and download Jericho Walk Toolkit to start planning.
. . .

The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC is an interfaith network of congregations, organizations and individuals, standing publicly in solidarity with families and communities resisting detention and deportation in order to stay together.

Protest Sean Hannity's Lies
Thursday May 3 fr/ 5:30 to 6:30 PM at Fox News/News Corp./Celanese Bldg.
1211 6th Av. btw. W. 47th & W. 48th; B, D, F, M Train to 47 - 50 St./Rock. Ctr.; N, R, W
to 49 St. (at 7th Av.); #1 to 50 St. (at 7th); C, E to 50 St. (at 8th Av.); #7 to 5 Av (at
W.42nd); M to 5 Av. (at 53 St.); cross town buses via E.49th or W.50th or via 42nd St.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/SJx3XMioZpu
descriptions  https://twitter.com/riseandresistny/status/991662879001796608
https://facebook.com/events/2101953920026371/ 
https://facebook.com/RiseandResistNYC/events 
https://facebook.com/groups/RiseandResistNYC/events/
 
Sean Hannity's Lies: Brought To You By...
Please join us in calling for a boycott of the following Hannity sponsors:
Gillette, Advil, Progressive Insurance, Mitsubishi, Mr. Clean, Claritin. Their money enables Hannity’s lies to spread hate, fear and misinformation that divides the country. Without these sponsors, he’d be just a loudmouth on a barstool.

We'll be marching, chanting, and reading a fraction of Hannity's lies outside the Fox News Building.

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.

The Inaugural Dr. Jack G. Shaheen Memorial Lecture: Ralph Nader
Thursday, May 3, 6:30 to 9:00 PM at NYU Kimmel Ctr.
60 Washington Sq South, 10th Fl., btw. Thompson St. & LaGuardia Pl., nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH, R, W, #6 stops & cross town buses via Houston St. or W.8th or E.9th
REGISTER:  http://bit.ly/ShaheenNaderRSVP  
(http://apa.nyu.edu/event/the-inaugural-dr-jack-g-shaheen-memorial-lecture-ralph-nader/)
https://facebook.com/events/2083864791846423/
Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Co-sponsored by the NYU Division of Libraries, NYU Abu Dhabi, Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Program, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU Iranian Studies Initiative, Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity & Strategic Innovation, NYU Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Ottoman Studies at NYU, Jadaliyya, NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, and NYU Program in International Relations.
https://facebook.com/pg/nyukevo/events/  kevorkian.center@nyu.edu http://neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu  (212) 998-8877  https://twitter.com/nyukevo https://facebook.com/pg/IranianStudiesInitiativeNYU/events/
https://twitter.com/apa_institute

In celebration of the life and work of the late Dr. Jack G. Shaheen (September 21, 1935 – July 9, 2017), the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies co-host the Inaugural Dr. Jack G. Shaheen Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Ralph Nader on Thursday, May 3, 2018. The prominent Arab American political activist and presidential candidate called Dr. Shaheen a friend and col (View

"Facing terrible injustice while seeking reform of U.S. immigration laws."
Speaker:  Ravi Ragbir 
Thursday, May 3 fr/ 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Bethany Baptist Church
275 West Market St, Newark 
maps & transit https://goo.gl/KkvT4F www.panynj.gov/path/full-schedules.cfm
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/8v36Nt
https://facebook.com/events/1749771321712519/ 
(646) 395-2925 info@newsanctuarynyc.org  http://www.newsanctuarynyc.org
https://facebook.com/rragbir1/events

Bethany Baptiste Church Lecture Committee and New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City Present

"Facing terrible injustice while seeking reform of U.S. immigration laws."
Speaker: Ravi Ragbir
 

The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC is an interfaith network of congregations, organizations and individuals, standing publicly in solidarity with families and communities resisting detention and deportation in order to stay together.

David Faris on It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
Thursday, May 3, 7:00 PM at Book Culture-Columbus
450 Columbus Ave. btw. W.81st & W.82nd, nr. B, C, 1 stops &
M79 cross town via E.79th & W.81st; 86th St. bus;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/6QjtHGPSQfM2

http://bookculture.com/event/columbus-harpers-presents-david-faris-its-time-fight-dirty
(212) 865-1588 http://bookculture.com/upcoming-events

Join Book Culture on Columbus and Harper's Magazine on
Thursday, May 3 at 7:00pm as David Faris discusses It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics at Book Culture on Columbus!

To be published before the 2018 midterm elections, an accessible, actionable blueprint for how Democrats can build a lasting majority

The American electoral system is clearly failing--more horrifically in the 2016 presidential election than ever before. In It's Time to Fight Dirty, David Faris expands on his popular series for "The Week" to offer party leaders and supporters concrete strategies for lasting political reform--and in doing so lays the groundwork for a more progressive future. With equal parts playful irreverence and persuasive reasoning, It's Time to Fight Dirty is essential reading as we head toward the 2018 midterms . . . and beyond.

David Faris is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the author of Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt and Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society After 2009. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is a regular contributor to "The Week." He lives in Chicago.

John R. MacArthur is the president and publisher of Harper's Magazine. An award-winning journalist, he has previously written for The New York Times, United Press International, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of the acclaimed books The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy, and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. He lives in New York City.
Event address:
450 Columbus Ave
New York, NY 10024
Can't make it? Reserve a signed copy by calling our store today:
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Support the NYC Poor People's Campaign: NCMR Fundraiser
Thursday May 3 fr/ 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Poco - NYC Restaurant  
33 Avenue B at E. 3rd St.;  F to 2 Av. (east exit to 1st Av. & E. Houston);
J, M to Essex St. (at Delancey); B, D to Broadway-Lafayette (at Houston);
L to 1 Av. (at E.14th St.); R, W to 8 St.-NYU; cross town buses via 8th St. or Houston St.; 
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/4NsGsZV3qu82
https://facebook.com/events/919406801573903  https://twitter.com/nysppc
https://facebook.com/pg/NYSPPC/events  http://poorpeoplescampaign.org
Hosted by NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Support the New York City Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival as we raise money for our 40 Days of Action for New York State.

50 years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is taking up his vision, bringing together people across the country who are organizing to build a broad and deep national moral movement — led by the poor, impacted, clergy and moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings — to unite our country from the bottom up. They are challenging four interconnected evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism, and ecological destruction. In the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will launch with
40 days of moral actions, from May 13 until June 21 , in at least 25 states and Washington D.C.

Please join us at Poco restaurant at 33 Ave B at [East] 3rd St. in New York City
from 7:00-9:00PM to learn more about the campaign and the 40 Days of Action.

NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Taking up Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to unite the poor and dispossessed from across the US and the world in a fight for dignity for everyone!

 

Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner: 
The Politics of Race and Class in American Literature
Five Sessions, May 3 to May 31, 7:30 to 9:30 pm at The Brooklyn Commons,
388 Atlantic Ave. btw. Hoyt St. & Bond St.; A, C, G Train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; #2, 3 to Hoyt St. (at Fulton); #4, 5 to Nevins St. (at Flatbush & Fulton); F to Bergen St.; D, N, R, B, Q to Atlantic Av.-Barclay Ctr.;
Thursday, May 3 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 10 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 17 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 24 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 31 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
https://facebook.com/events/2034499260098578/
venue 347-987-4966 http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/events-list
Marxist Education Project Indigenous People’s Reading Group
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/  marxedproject@gmail.com http://marxedproject.org
 
William Styron’s historical novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press, featuring the work of 10 different critics. But other African-American writers praised Styron for his work, most notably James Baldwin, who predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years to come. That has remained the case to this day.

This May, the MEP's Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel, the Beacon Press anthology "William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond," and Baldwin's essay in defense of Styron. We will discuss the many profound questions concerning race, class, the rendering of historical presentation, and claims on aspects of our shared history that are raised in the novel and its criticism. This class forms part of the MEP's commemoration of the half-century since the pivotal year of 1968.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP has grown out of an enthusiastic call for greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world - peoples who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists settled and brought capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in September 2014 where she introduced "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States."

Sliding Scale: $45 / $55 / $65
no one turned away for inability to pay

Community
The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

Below was excerpted from a periodic calendar by Bill DiPaolo & Time's Up!   Please subscribe directly. -t.

https://times-up.org/calendar  https://times-up.org/events-list-signup
212.802.8222  timesup@panix.com

***MANHATTANWORKSHOPS***

OUTDOORBIKE REPAIR CLASSES
** Every Tuesday, 6:30pm-8:30pm
LaPlaza Cultural Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C
Comelearn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at thebike mechanic repair classes. Subjects are covered in a four-weekrotation beginning the first week of every month:
1st Tuesday-Basics for Beginners
2nd Tuesday- Brakes and Gears
3rdTuesday- Cups, Cones, and Bearings
4th Tuesday- Wheels andSpokes
**

1stFRIDAY FIX-YOUR-OWN-BIKE AL FRESCO
Friday, April 6,3:00pm-6:00pm
Friday, May 4, 3:00pm-6:00pm
La PlazaCultural Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C
Openshop--you use our tools and stands to work on your bike. Experiencedmechanics will be present to answer questions, but you do the work.Since we are in a community garden you will have to bring your ownparts. Bike workshops are free, but we strongly encourage you to makea donation or become a Time's Up member to help support our efforts.

***BROOKLYNWORKSHOPS***

FIXYOUR OWN BIKE WORKSHOP

99South 6th Street, off Bedford Avenue under the Williamsburg Bridge

**Sundays & Wednesdays-5:30pm-8:30pm

Openshop--you use our tools and stands to work on your bike. Experiencedmechanics will be present to answer questions, but you do the work. Bike workshops are free, but we strongly encourage you to make adonation or become a Time's Up member to help support our efforts. Ifyou have a big project in mind, please be considerate of the time andplan ahead.

******************

CRITICALMASS - MANHATTAN

Friday,April 27, 7:00pm

Friday,May 25, 7:00pm

UnionSquare Park-North

CriticalMass happens the last Friday of every month around the world. Thisfun group bike ride helped change New York City into the bicyclefriendly city that we see today. Strap some music to your bike andcome on out. More info here.Good resource for other critical mass rides and info here.

CENTRALPARK MOONLIGHT RIDE
Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park

Friday,April 6, 10pm

Friday,May 4, 10pm

Meetsthe 1st Friday of every month at the Columbus Circle entrance toCentral Park. Enjoy the tranquility of the park and its beautifulponds and waterways. A nature lover’s dream.

PEACEBIKE RIDE
1Bowling Green, Museum of the American Indian

Sunday,April 15, 2pm

Sunday,May 20, 2pm

Thethird Sunday of every month please join us for a leisurely, peacefulride to some of downtown Manhattan's peace sites, including: TibetHouse, Anthroposophical Society, Former residence of John Lennon andYoko Ono, Point Thank You, Teardrop Park, The Irish Hunger Memorial,Art from the Berlin Wall, Robert Wagner Park, The Labyrinth forContemplation, Fritz Koenig's “The Sphere,” St. Paul's Chapel,the site of the Mother AME Zion Church (“first church in NYC builtand led by Afro-Americans”) and the African Burial Ground. Greatride for kids and cyclists new to group rides. Route subject tochange, not all sites are visited on every ride. DRESS FOR THEWEATHER! co-sponsoredby PeaceMuseum NY

Town Hall Meeting: Reclaim Pride
Friday May 4 fr/ 7:00 to 9:00 PM in
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Ctr
208 W. 13th St. btw. Greenwich & 7th Aves.;  L Train to 8 Av.; A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, F, M, PATH to various 14th St. stops; N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; cross town buses via 14th St. or via 9th St./Christopher St.
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/houY3QMtXTy
event graphic  https://twitter.com/ReclaimPrideNYC/status/991360714676887552
 https://facebook.com/events/371506243343153/
 Public · Hosted by Reclaim Pride Coalition  https://twitter.com/ReclaimPrideNYC
 http://bit.ly/rpcindividual  https://facebook.com/pg/reclaimpridenyc/events 

Join us Fri 5/4 at 7pm at the LGBT Center for a Town Hall moderated by Ann Northrop!

We will be discussing the ongoing and historic problems of the hyper commercialization and corporate coopting of NYC Pride, as well as the over policing of the Pride March and police as participants in the March.

We will also discuss new and unacceptable changes to the March since last year such as limiting all contingents to 200 people, requiring that marchers wear HOP-issued wrist bands, and drastically changing the Pride March route.

Finally we will present and talk about the RPC Demands delivered this week to Mayor de Blasio, Police Commissioner O’Neill, and Chris Frederick, the head of Heritage of Pride, the organizer of the NYC Pride March since 1984. Links to the RPC Demands to HOP and the NYPD are below. Let’s take back NYC Pride!

RPC HOP Demands:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFsfGlAX3kOE-sXlgY4cmoTL40o1DKYTWhL5HJUxLHk/edit?usp=sharing

RPC NYPD Demands:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f9ZyupxeWjXf1w-CuoRFChg6LSJnuSajuiapDaAoETM/edit?usp=sharing

Find out more about the Reclaim Pride Coalition and how to join at ReclaimPrideNYC@gmail.com

WHAT: Reclaim Pride Town Hall Meeting
WHEN: Friday, May 4 from 7-9pm
WHERE: LGBT Center at 208 W. 13th St.

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Feminist Goddesses & Rebel Saints
Friday May 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Catland
987 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, btw. Bogart St. & Evergreen Av.;
L Train to Morgan Av.; M, J to Flushing Av.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/TWPGpUnPCJJ2
descriptions
https://eventbrite.com/e/feminist-goddesses-rebel-saints-tickets-44604137175
https://facebook.com/events/1572420922876424/
https://facebook.com/pg/CatlandBooks/events   (718) 418-9393 http://www.catlandbooks.com/   https://twitter.com/CatlandBooks

Surefooted and strong, capable and potent; these women are archetypes that we need now more than ever. While feminism is a relatively new concept in the scope of human history, women have been rebelling for as long as they have been subjugated. Their stories come from across the globe and are woven through every faith, and prove that the lineage of women who dare to reclaim their power is deep, storied, and strong.

Join Catland Books & co-owner Melissa Madara as we explore these stories and fairy tales. In this workshop, we will discuss the importance of narrative for healing, what the function of storytelling is to the human mind, and re-tell the myths & accounts of true icons of feminine soverignty. Join us as we speak their names, retell their myths, conjure their memories, and celebrate their lives.

$15

Melissa Madara is a co-owner at Catland, a folk witch & an herbalist. Her work deals with the healing power of storytelling, divination, and mastery of the natural world. She is a teacher at Catland Books and numerous other metaphysical spaces in NYC, and available for herbal consultations, tarot, and spellwork questions by appointment.

More Events at Catland

MAY2Witchcraft 101: The Basics

MAY3Stitch & Witch - A Knitter's Circle

MAY5Cult of Spirits : A Performance Installation
May 5 - May 6 · 42 people are going

 
The Dragon and the Hydra: RAM Study Group
Friday May 4 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at The Base
1302 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, at Stockholm St.
Public · Hosted by Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement - NYC and The Base
https://facebook.com/events/596865800666704/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events
https://facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events 

This week we're reading Black Liberation Army fighter, Russell Maroon Shoatz's text, "The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods."

This text is an outline of different struggles against European colonialism and slavery in the last couple hundred years. It highlights the contrasts between decentralized forms of struggle with those that are centralized, and is meant to argue for the effectiveness of the former.

please just watch quick trailer & thank me later: https://youtu.be/DkT_SaVE8d0

Mixing Marx With Madness
Friday May 4, 7:30 to ~ 9:15 at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St. btw. Rivington St. & Delancey St./Kenmare St.; J Train to Bowery;
B, D to Grand; F to Delancey St. or to 2 Av. (west exit to Christie/2nd Av.); M to Essex (?);
#6 to Spring St.; R, W to Prince St.;  transit  https://goo.gl/maps/KcVkWH6ruFx 
http://dixonplace.org/performances/mixing-marx-with-madness/
http://dixonplace.org/category/all-events/  https://twitter.com/dixonplace 
https://facebook.com/pg/dixonplace/events  (212)2190736 contact@dixonplace.org http://dixonplace.org/accessibility/ 
A new musical where multi-cultural mythology stories interact with modern day law. Three female lawyers pick up a case of Gods vs Goddesses tearing through a small town in Idaho. The lawyers use well-known philosophers such as Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, and Hannah Arendt to plead the case and attempt to change the minds of a town that is stuck in its ways.

about the artists

Janelle Lawrence (Book, Music, and Lyrics) received her BFA in Musical Theatre from Manhattanville College. In her performance career she has appeared in Vieux Carre with direction and appearances by Austin Pendleton, It Will All Work Out by Chris Wells songs by Jeremy Bass, Priscilla Queen of the Desert with Piper Theatre Productions and more. As a writer, composer, and lyricist Janelle has had her musicals Subliminal, ‘Tis the Season, and Group Therapy at various theaters in the NY area. Janelle is the artistic director of Broad Views on Broadway, a non-profit theatre company she runs that is dedicated to providing equal opportunity and representation of new theatre pieces. She is currently in residency with the 92Y Musical Theatre Development Lab: Collective as well as the Roundtable representative of the Musical Theatre Factory.

Ariel Leigh (Director) is beyond excited to work with the fine goddesses/gods of Mixing Marx with Madness! Recent credits include directing Two Gentlemen of Verona (A Swashbuckling Comedy!) with the C.A.G.E Theater Company, White Rabbit Tales: Tales for Adults for the Spotlight On Festival, co-creating Dave’s Friends Sketch Group at the PIT and The Tank, & co-creating Doing The Thing for the Boulder Fringe Festival. Ariel also sings at cabaret venues including Don’t Tell Mama, Elektra Theater, and Daryl Roth Theater. Thanks to the cast, crew, family, and friends!
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

110 minutes

Credits
Book, Music, Lyrics by
Janelle Lawrence
Directed by
Ariel Leigh
Music directed & Accompanied by
Dominic Frigo
Choreographed by
Janelle Lawrence
Co – Arranged by
Kerryn Prieto & Janelle Lawrence
Produced by
Janelle Lawrence
Associate Produced by

http://www.workersunitefilmfestival.org/festival-calendar-2018

 . CountMeIn - Stop Non-Union Construction in NYC!
Friday, May 4 from 8:30 to 10:30 PM at Cinema Village
22 E. 12th St. btw. 5th Av. & University Pl.
descriptions (https://eventbrite.com/e/program-2-stop-deadly-non-union-construction-now-countmein-the-cost-of-construction-tickets-45349924846)
https://facebook.com/events/2118996098356264/
film http://www.cavelightfilms.com https://facebook.com/thecostofconstruction/

 . The Cost of Construction 
Program 22 -Stop Non-Union Construction #CountMeIn
Tuesday, May 15, 6:00 PM at Empire State College / Van Arsdale Labor Ctr.   
325 Hudson St., 3rd Fl. btw. Van Dam St. & Charlton St.; #1 to Houston; C, E to Spring St.; A, B, D, F, M to W.4 St.; PATH to 9th St. or Christopher St.
transit https://goo.gl/maps/PLwAnCdrmkF2
descriptions  (https://eventbrite.com/e/program-22-stop-non-union-construction-countmein-encore-presentation-cost-of-construction-tickets-45423103726)
https://facebook.com/pg/nylecet/events  (212) 452-9300 info@gnylecet.org
http://www.gnylecet.org  Encore Presentation by Workers Unite Film Festival, Inc. 

Friday, May 4
8:30PM - #CountMeIn - Stop Non-Union Construction in NYC Now!
v
Bullies - (5 min) An animated short about how the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) seems to conspire to raise rents, pocket taxpayer money, and allow unsafe working conditions on construction sites across the state.

Bowery Tenants Fight Back - (5 min) - This fast-paced short details the fight between longtime residents of a small apartment building in Chinatown, having to contend with both gross negligence by the city as well as the greedy actions of their slum landlord, who tries to force them out.

The Cost of Construction - (90 min) The Cost of Construction investigates a string of controversial deaths that took place on the Las Vegas strip between 2007 and 2008 with a focus on the tragic accidents that occurred on MGM's CityCenter, the most expensive private construction project in U.S. history. The film follows two very personal stories of families dealing with the loss of their loved ones for over three years. A gruff Ironworker who loses his brother and a housewife who loses her son. Both take on a system that is hard to navigate and filled with blame, money and partisan politics. Yet they don't stop until they can make sure this won't happen to other families.

DRAFT DODGING: POEMS FOR THE CONSCRIPTED
w/ Nick O’Leary  Helena Pennington, Kyle Whalen
Friday, May 4, fr/ 10:00 PM at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St. btw. Rivington St. & Delancey St./Kenmare St.; J Train to Bowery; 
F to Delancey St. or to 2 Av. (west exit to Christie/2nd Av.); M to Essex (sometimes); 
#6 to Spring St.; R, W to Prince St.;  transit  https://goo.gl/maps/KcVkWH6ruFx  
$12 advance tix w/ IDNYC card
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10267272   
http://dixonplace.org/performances/draft-dodging-poems-for-the-conscripted/ 
other events at venue: http://dixonplace.org/category/all-events/ 
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171  https://twitter.com/dixonplace https://facebook.com/pg/dixonplace/events  (212)2190736 contact@dixonplace.org
 
When a national draft is reinstated, the lines between dream and reality begin to blur as four friends are forced to decide whether to enlist or resist. Meanwhile, a company of ballerinas prepares for their upcoming season, a ghostpoet is haunted by his own verse, and baseball is cancelled as sinkholes sprawl across the homeland. Gently surreal and hauntingly familiar, DRAFT DODGING: POEMS FOR THE CONSCRIPTED conjures a not-so-distant future that investigates the space between the dystopias in our dreams and the dystopia outside our door.

about the artists

Nick O’Leary is a New York based director of theater and live events. Born and raised in New England, he has developed new work with the American Repertory Theater (MA), Guerilla Opera (MA), Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY), Dacha Theatre (WA), Exquisite Corpse Company (NY), The 24 Hour Plays (NY), Rising Sun Performance Company (NY), as a guest artist at Dartmouth College (NH), and more.

Helena Pennington is a dramaturg and creative producer based in New York City. In addition to her freelance work, Helena has worked with Playwrights Horizons (NY), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (DC), Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY), McCarter Theatre Center (NJ), Rising Sun Theatre Company (NY), the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (OR), and more. Reed College.

Kyle Whalen is a Chicago-based playwright. His work has been developed by the Actors Theatre of Louisville (KY), American Theatre Company (IL), Dandelion Theatre (IL), Commission Theatre (IL), and Fresh Ground Pepper (NY). He has also worked with Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA), The Goodman (IL), Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (IL), Sideshow Theatre Company (IL), The House Theatre (IL), Strawdog Theatre (IL), The New London Barn (NH), and more. Kyle is currently the literary manager of Commission Theatre in Chicago. University of Oklahoma.
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 10pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
§ tickets

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

Credits
Director
Nick O’Leary
Dramaturg
Helena Pennington
Playwright
Kyle Whalen

PLEASE CHECK SOURCES OR LOOK UP EVENT TITLES FOR BETTER INFO. -T.

https://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/events-post/ https://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/volunteer/
cait@gowanuscanalconservancy.org
volunteer@gowanuscanalconservancy.org

All activities are outdoors. Be sure to wear closed-toed shoes (boots preferable), clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, and sunscreen/hat if needed. Bring a water bottle, we will have water to refill. Volunteers under the age of 18 must also have a parent/guardian sign the volunteer waiver.To sign up for the events below, please email . Volunteers under the age of 18 must also have a parent/guardian sign the volunteer waiver, here.

April 22, 11:00 am – Earth Day at the Salt Lot

– Join us on Earth Day for planting and stewardship at our canal-side Salt Lot location

May 5, 10:00 am – Riverkeeper Riversweep at the Salt Lot
– Tree stewardship as part of Riverkeeper’s Hudson River Area-wide Riversweep [ask correct ending time. -t.]

May 19, 11:00 am – EXPO Gowanus & Plant Sale at Thomas Greene Park (Degraw Street and 3rd Avenue)
– Planting, applying mulch, and tree stewardship as part of EXPO Gowanus, a festival of science, art, and sustainable design

June 3, 10:00 am – Gowanus Tree Network Tree Stewardship, Degraw btw Hoyt & Bond, 8th St btw 3rd and 4th St, 4th Ave btw 7th & 8th St, President btw 3rd & Nevins, Nevins btw Sackett & Union
– Tree stewardship with various block members of the Gowanus Tree Network

June 23 – Location TBD

July 7 – 10th Street Stewardship
– Tree Stewardship on 10th Street in Gowanus, in partnership with the 10th Street Block Association.

August 19 – Location TBD

Check back for Fall 2018 dates!

NYC Cannabis Parade & Rally 2018
Saturday, May 5, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM fr/ Union Sq. Park
L, N, Q, R, #4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; F, PATH, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E to various 14th St. stops; 14th St. cross town buses;
trip planners http://mta.info ,  https://goo.gl/qkmrc2
transit surprises http://mta.info/weekender 
event descriptions  http://cannabisparade.org
https://facebook.com/events/254003415125240 (347)9034367 info@cannabisparade.org https://facebook.com/pg/cannaparade/events
 
The NYC Cannabis Parade is the longest running public demonstration for the reform of drug policy in New York City and around internationally the World. With roots as far back as the early 70's, this event have gone by many different monikers, but our purpose remains the same, to spread awareness throughout the world! In 1999, the Global Marijuana March / Million Marijuana March brand exploded and has since turned into a annual event held in hundreds of cities across dozens of countries.

THE LINEUP

Speakers
Council Member Rafael L Espinal Jr. - City Council District 37 (Brooklyn)
Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried, -State Assembly District 75 (Manhattan)
Council Member Donovan Richards - City Council District 31 (Queens)
Arnaud Dumas de Rauly - Chief Strategy Officer, The BLINC Group
Dana Beal - Founder, Global Marijuana March; Ibogaine activist
Doug Greene - Legislative Director, Empire State NORML
Jacobi Holland - Co-Founder, Jade Insights and Cannabis Tech Group
Jeanne Van Duzer Lang - Chief of Staff, Patients Out of Time
Joy Beckerman - President, Hemp Industries Association (HIA)
Kat Brezler - Co-Founder, The People For Bernie Sanders
Kim Volman - CEO, Citiva
Michael Zaytsev - CEO & Co-Founder, High NY
Michael O'Malley - Owner, Curved Papers, Inc.
Michael P. Whiter - Iraqi Veteran and Marine
Rick Cusick - Board Member, National NORML
Shira Adler - Author, The ABC’s of CBD: The Essential Guide for Parents (And regular folks too)
Stuart Appelbaum - President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)
Stu Zakim - Communications Director, Marijuana Business Association
Tanya Osborne - NYC/Bronx Market Leader, Women Grow
Howie Hawkins - Green Party of New York State
Leland Radovanovic - Founder, Baruch Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Performers
Lord Digga Da Highsman
Immortal Technique
Chiefrocker Busybee
Rob Cantrell
Squala Orphan
Davey Fresh
Ishmael levi

Masters of Ceremony
Joseph A. Bondy, Amanda Reyes, Nelson Guerrero and Jake Plowden - Cannabis Cultural Association

Connect on Social Media:
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/cannaparade/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GanjaNYC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cannabisparade
Website: https://www.CannabisParade.org/
Other GMM Events: http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

The NYC Cannabis Parade is always the first Saturday in May.  More details to be announced as they become available!   For more information regarding: sponsoring, volunteering or participating please visit

 

 
     ``environmental justice, hyper-real estate speculation, 
      land use and community land trust as a solution to 
     displacement through community ownership and 
     stewardship.``

Jane's Walk SBX: Environmental Justice to Community Land Trust
Saturday May 5 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
271 Alexander Ave, Bronx, at E.139th St.;
#6 Train to 3 Ave.-138 St.;  #4, 5 to 138 St.-Grand Concourse 
transit:  https://goo.gl/maps/VZdwyqkWEmM2
event descriptions https://facebook.com/events/1836502963060524/
https://facebook.com/pg/southbronxunite/events/  southbronxunite@gmail.com http://southbronxunite.org   https://twitter.com/SouthBronxUnite 

This Jane's Walk sponsored by South Bronx Unite for the 5th consecutive year will lead participants through Mott Haven to experience this community of rich and vibrant culture through the lense of environmental justice, hyper-real estate speculation, land use and community land trust as a solution to displacement through community ownership and stewardship.

Background Video - "Taking Back the Bronx" https://youtu.be/tDdfuFS76GQ

South Bronx Unite
A coalition of residents, organizations, & allies working together to improve & protect the social, environmental, & economic future of the South Bronx.

Earth Celebrations Ecological City Puppet & Costume Workshops
Losaida Inc. Center- 710 East 9th St. (btwn. Aves C & D)
Event description & any changes:
https://facebook.com/pg/EarthCelebrations/events
https://facebook.com/events/1905089839821320/ 212-777-7969 mail@earthcelebrations.com http://www.earthcelebrations.com

MARCH
WED March 28 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT March 31 from Noon to  4:00 PM

APRIL
WED April 4 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 7 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 11 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 14 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 18 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 21 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 25 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 28 from Noon to  4:00 PM

May 2018
WED May 2 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT May 5 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED May 9 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Raoul Peck`s  ``The Young Karl Marx`` Film, Talk & May Day Celebration
Saturday, May 5, 2018 in Freedom Hall w/ NYC Freedom Socialist Party/FSP
113 W. 128th St. btw. 7th Av./ACP, Jr. Blvd. & Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Av.;
#2, 3 to 125 St. (at Malcolm X); A, C, D to 125 St. (at St. Nicholas Av.);
#4, 5, 6 to 125 St. (at Lex.); M60 bus via RFK Triboro & 125th; 125th St. cross town
buses; weekend trip planners  http://mta.info ,  https://goo.gl/maps/UcnxDvorfam  ; 
announced transit disruptions  http://mta.info/weekender 
1:00 PM brunch / program 2:00 PM; donation $5.00 (or $10.00 incl. brunch);
child care or work exchange: (212) 222-0633 nycfsp@gmail.com www.socialism.com

probably updated publicity...  (http://us5.forward-to-friend.com/forward/preview?u=1df2f51e18d817919a1845ecf&id=a460c79926)

May 5th May Day Calendar Announcement

FSP NY <nycfsp@gmail.com>

Calendar Announcement

May 5, 2018

Attention:  Calendar Editor

From:  Freedom Socialist Party
           Freedom Hall
           113 W. 128th St., Harlem
           New York, NY 10027

Contact:  Betty Maloney
               (212) 222-0633 (office); (917) 623-7628 (cellular)

For Release:  Immediately

Do not use after:  May 5, 2018

Re:  May Day Celebration – The Young Karl Marx Film Showing and Discussion

New York City, Saturday, May 5, 2018, 2:00PM

This film from acclaimed director Raoul Peck provides a look back to the future of Marx’s legacy. Using the power of film to depict the contradictions of capitalism and exploding class struggle in Manchester, England, Peck lays before us the world we live in today. After the movie, join in the discussion of how we can organize together and equip ourselves with Marxist theory to build our future. 

Saturday, May 5, 2018, 2PM. Latin American brunch served at 1:00PM. Door donation $5.00, Brunch donation $10.00. Freedom Hall 113 W. 128th St., Harlem, between Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox) & 7th Ave. Subways #2 & 3 to 125th St. For childcare or work exchange, call or email two days ahead: (212) 222-0633 or nycfsp@gmail.com. Hosted by Freedom Socialist Party www.socialism.com

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      "picnic connections and movement scheming"

Free U-NYC's 6th Anniversary May Day Celebration!
Saturday, May 5 fr/ 4:00 to 7:00 PM Prospect Park entrance off  
Grand Army Plaza btw. Prospect Park West & Flatbush Av. 
https://facebook.com/events/1484427298350929/   Public · Hosted by 
Free University - NYC  https://facebook.com/pg/FreeUniversityNYC/events/  http://freeuniversitynyc.org  https://twitter.com/FreeUnivNYC 
: FreeUniversityNYC@gmail.com  freeupress@gmail.com

We're turning 6! Join Free University-NYC and friends for a day of celebration, inquisitive thinking, and dreaming as we honor six years of education for liberation since the first sprouting of Free U on the 2012 May Day General Strike.

4-7pm | Prospect Park | Grand Army Plaza entrance
Snacks! Imagination! Radical Education! CAKE!
Food & picnic offerings welcomed ♥

Cover photo from Alec Dunn, via Just Seeds: https://justseeds.org/graphic/liberation/

Free University - NYC — It's almost our birthday! Join us in Prospect Park this Saturday for picnic connections and movement scheming.

Free University - NYC is a collective educational experiment. In solidarity with students, laborers, debtors, and families, we offer a public space for the 99% to disengage from an unequal system and imagine a model for alternative education.

A People’s History of the World
Sundays, Apr. 15, Apr. 22, Apr. 29 & May 6 [ask whether other dates -t.]
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM in Downtown Newark on Orchard Street
http://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world-2/all/
revsgroup@gmail.com   info@marxedproject.org
Convened by Branden Rippey
Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The goal of the course is to apply Harman’s Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history, why Marx stated that the history of all prior societies has been the history of class struggle, and how that history of class struggles has shaped class and race relations today and provide us with valuable lessons for combating capitalism during our current stage of human development.

Branden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark, New Jersey, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus), and is active in socialist politics.

Sliding Scale: $60 / $70 / $80
$5 or $10 per session. No one turned away for inability to pay

MEP Classes in Newark: A short walk from Newark Penn Station

PLEASE CHECK PRICES AND UPDATES:
https://eventbrite.com/o/wafa-ghnaim-9573730260  https://tatreezandtea.com/
https://facebook.com/pg/tatreezandtea/events/  https://twitter.com/tatreezandtea
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 . The Language of Palestinian Tatreez Embroidery: A Lecture by Tatreez & Tea
Friday Apr. 27, 6:00 PM at Blue: the Tatter Textile Library
https://facebook.com/events/2029922853914935/
(https://eventbrite.com/e/the-language-of-palestinian-tatreez-embroidery-a-lecture-by-wafa-ghnaim-of-tatreez-tea-tickets-34522716374)  ask correct ending time -t.

 . Traditional Palestinian Embroidery: Celestial Palestine
Saturday, Apr. 28, 11:00 AM at BLUE: Tatter Textile Library
https://facebook.com/events/1690648944362500/
 (https://eventbrite.com/e/celestial-palestine-traditional-star-motifs-in-metallic-threads-tickets-43315441652) 

 . Palestinian Embroidery 101: Botanical Gardens of Palestine
Sunday, May 6, Noon at City Tower
https://facebook.com/events/2092424217644532/
(https://eventbrite.com/e/palestinian-embroidery-101-botanical-gardens-of-palestine-tickets-41194386519)

 . Palestinian Tea Time: Embroidered Tea Towel
Saturday May 26 [? ...please check date because there is conflicting publicity. -t.]
Noon at City Tower  https://facebook.com/events/157222328302162/

 . Palestinian Tatreez Embroidery: Tea Towel with Waste Canvas
June 17 [? ...please check date because there is conflicting publicity. -t.]
(https://eventbrite.com/e/palestinian-tatreez-embroidery-tea-towel-with-waste-canvas-tickets-41973030464)

Wafa Ghnaim will be presenting designs from her self-published digital book, "Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora" 

Palestinian tatreez embroidery is a centuries-old folk art, traditionally passed from mother to daughter over a cup of tea. Wafa and her sisters grew up learning the time honored folk art and tradition of embroidery from their mother, Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. Researching over thirty years worth of oral history interviews, recorded demonstrations, lectures, journal entries and photographs from her and her mother, Wafa documents, decodes and preserves the patterns, meanings and oral history of over a dozen traditional Palestinian embroidery designs passed on for generations between women in her family in her book, Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora.

After releasing the book in 2016, Wafa founded her nonprofit venture Tatreez & Tea, to provide educational resources, namely through workshops, lectures and publications, to preserve Palestinian tatreez embroidery, folk arts and storytelling traditions in the diaspora. Tatreez & Tea provides a series of classes and educational opportunities that focuses on preserving the indigenous, endangered art of Palestinian embroidery.

For generations, Palestinian women have gathered together with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Over time, and after the exodus of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948, embroidery has become an endangered art that has been subjected to decades of cultural appropriation. But embroidery represents more than just a village craft of old Palestine — it became the primary form of communication for Palestinian women who used needlework as a way to express their opinions, share their stories, and document their protest of occupation, war and violence.

To learn more about the project, please visit http://www.tatreezandtea.com.

The mission of TATTER is to promote the consciousness of cloth by considering, and celebrating cloth's intrinsic and essential relationship in human life - through portals that include but are not limited to: art, shelter, comfort, science, commerce, and culture. To learn more about Tatter, its workshops, and its Textile library called BLUE, visit www.tatter.org.
 

 RELATED  https://youtu.be/ce9d38Z9sng

Below was excerpted from a periodic calendar by Bill DiPaolo & Time's Up!   Please subscribe directly. -t.

https://times-up.org/calendar  https://times-up.org/events-list-signup
212.802.8222  timesup@panix.com

Bicycle Tour of LES Community Gardens
Meet with your bicycle Sunday, May 6 at 1:00 PM [ask correct ending time -t.]
in front of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
(155 Avenue C between E. 9th and E.10th Streets).
Bicycle tour of East Village community gardens. The East Village has the highest concentration of community gardens, started and maintained by the people using sustainable solutions that then become part of everyday city life. Did you know that recycling started in the gardens and now community composting is being studied and introduced across boroughs? Cyclists will tour the gardens, and when go in when gardens are open. Must have a bicycle.

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Pirate Bike RRRide at Earth Celebrations Ecological City Pageant
Saturday, May 12, Noon-6:00 PM
Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th St, between Ave C and Ave D
Dress up as a pirate and join our bike pirate ship armada at the Earth Celebrations Ecological City Pageant. Ecological City is an ecological art and climate action project engaging the Lower East Side community through creative strategies, co-creating a theatrical pageant, to develop and bring together climate resiliency and ecological sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront, connecting local efforts with city and global climate changes. http://www.earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project

The Loisaida Center
710 E 9th St. at Ave. C
http://loisaida.org/events/

 . Dome Building Workshop at Loisaida
Sunday May 6, 2:00 PM; event info https://goo.gl/k9to88 https://goo.gl/zfRu42

 . Charas is alive on Spaceship Earth: Reception + Performances
Wednesday May 9 at 6:00 PM; event graphic & descriptions:  https://goo.gl/vyKKPT  https://goo.gl/UGs3qy  https://goo.gl/8tsjVc  please look up trailer

 . Carlos Chino Garcia's Oral History + CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Eath
Friday May 11, 6:00 PM; event graphic https://goo.gl/NpbKfZ  = (https://i2.wp.com/loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/may11Chino_Matthew_.jpg?w=612)
 
 . The 2018 Loisaida Festival
Sunday May 27, 11:00 AM
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/wA9aFc
https://facebook.com/events/332261590592507/

                 ``...40 days of moral actions, from May 13
                  until June 21, in ... 30 states ...``

Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action Training
w/ NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Sunday May 6 fr 2:00 to 6:00 PM in
The Riverside Church in the City of New York
490 Riverside Drive  [or, more likely, physically 91 Claremont Av. btw. W.120th & W.122nd.] #1 Train to 116 St.; A, C, D to 125 St. (at St. Nicholas Av.); M60 bus; 125th St. bus lines;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/n5T2RXLxRRA2
 == > RSVP at http://bit.ly/NYCPPC5-6   [consider asking whether required -t.]   https://facebook.com/pg/NYSPPC/events/ https://twitter.com/nysppc
http://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

On Sunday, May 6, from 2:00 6:00pm - join us for a meeting and training about the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Learn about the story, structure, and vision of the campaign, and how you can take part. The second portion of the meeting will be a training in Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action, for those who intend to participate in the 40 Days of Action.

50 years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is taking up his vision, bringing together people across the country who are organizing to build a broad and deep national moral movement — led by the poor, impacted, clergy and moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings — to unite our country from the bottom up. They are challenging four interconnected evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism, and ecological destruction. In the Spring of 2018, the Campaign will launch with
40 days of moral actions, from May 13 until June 21, in at over 30 states and Washington D.C.

We hope you'll join us.

RSVP: bit.ly/NYCPPC5-6

Sunday, May 6
2-6pm
The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Dr
New York, NY 10027

Childcare and light refreshments will be provided.

Learn more about the Poor People's Campaign, and take the pledge to join here: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

Youth Justice launches the
2018 #NYCClimateJusticeYouthSummit
Sunday, May 6 at UPROSE
166A 22nd St., Brooklyn, btw 3rd & 4th Aves.; R Train to 25 St.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/gjxsNLUPcUv 
event graphic & descriptions https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcEBu0uX4AAuue0.jpg
https://twitter.com/UPROSE/status/991076061143322624

https://www.uprose.org/new-events/ https://twitter.com/UPROSE info@uprose.org
(718) 492-9307

Feminist Book Club
Sunday, May 6, 2018 fr/ 2:30 to 4:30 pm at Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St., nr. F, J, D, #6, R & Weekend N Local
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/JKZAfTgG6GJ2
event descriptions, contacts, etc.

http://bluestockings.com/event/feminist-book-club-20/?instance_id=187549
http://bluestockings.com/event/feminist-book-club-9/
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/
https://facebook.com/pg/bluestockingsnyc/events/
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/
The Feminist Book Club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claims to any particular feminist platform. We read theoretical texts, literature and primary works. All are welcome inclusive of gender, political persuasion, and familiarity.For more information, email feministbookclubnyc@gmail.com.

Christian Communism, Heresy & the Primitive Church

 . Sunday, Apr. 22, fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, Apr. 29 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 6 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 13 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 20 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
at Woodbine, 1882 Woodbine St. btw. Woodward & Onderdonk Aves.; M to Seneca Av. or Forest Av.; L to Myrtle-Wyckoff;

trip planners http://mta.info , https://goo.gl/maps/vcmLwMM35MP2

svc. changes list http://mta.info/weekender

event description  https://facebook.com/events/182439285834963/

In 2018 we would like to start meeting and thinking together again at Woodbine. Last year, we hosted our Notes from the Swamp series, to go beyond outrage and find a way forward in the era of Trump. The best counter to a mad, nihilistic world is a thoughtful and courageous coming together, to find common paths through today's terrain. We have nothing to lose but our illusions, and worlds to gain.

Sunday’s presentation will be an exploration of the heterodox history of communism, and an interrogation of Christianity as a site of revolutionary inquiry.

LJ Frezza will give an introduction on two millenarian communes from upstate New York: The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (AKA The Shakers) and The Oneida Community. He'll cover their shared and divergent beliefs, in particular their views on sin and the coming Millennium. He'll also focus on the enactment of communism within their societies, their navigation of capitalistic relations with outsiders, and how they viewed their unique sexual relations as integral to their success as communists.

Brian McCarthy will talk about eschatology and the eremitic form of life in the early church, with some re-manifestations in later Christian mysticism, contemporary political practice, and Wilhelm Reich's "The Murder of Christ: The Emotional Plague of Mankind" (1953).

Johnny will discuss a semi-monastic commune founded on the Solentiname Islands of Nicaragua by Ernesto Cardenal. This discussion will focus on the unique features of life on the islands and the interruption of this experiment by the Sandinista revolution. Many of the inhabitants including Cardenal relocated to join the FSLN: this moment posed questions about political violence and exposed the tensions between the "base" and the church hierarchy. These issues will be also explored along with the influence of liberation theology writ large.

Zach will investigate the concept of love (agape) comparatively in Paul and John Climacus (John of the Ladder), with an eye to its perversely abysmal nature and think about what that might mean in terms of (revolutionary) community.

SUGGESTED READINGS:
--“The Art of Liberation in a Utopian Nicaraguan Community” - Silvia Benedetti, 2018: https://hyperallergic.com/425536/the-art-of-liberation-in-a-utopian-nicaraguan-community/
--“Christ’s Rabble: The First Christians Were Not Like Us” - David Bentley Hart, 2016: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/christs-rabble
--“The Shakers” - from The Communistic Societies of the United States, Charles Nordhoff, 1875: http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/csus/csus13.htm
--“The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford” - from The Communistic Societies of the United States, Charles Nordhoff, 1875: http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/csus/csus19.htm

The Center for Anti-Violence Education's annual fundraising event, The Prom You Always Wanted will be on
Sunday, May 6 from 5:30 to 8:00pm at Bowery Hotel, located at
335 Bowery btw. E. 2nd St./Bond St. & E. 3rd St., nr. F, D, R, Weekend N Local & J stops;
weekend trip planners http://mta.info  https://goo.gl/PYpdt3
service changes http://mta.info/weekender
event descriptions  https://facebook.com/events/172636573534912/
https://mailchi.mp/caeny/help-us-make-this-the-best-prom-ever-volunteer-today
(718) 788-1775 https://facebook.com/CAENYC/events 

We're seeking enthusiastic volunteers willing to help make this the best Prom ever! There are a variety of roles to fill, including: set-up/tear-down, registration, event runners, raffle ticket sales, and general event support.

Volunteer support is needed from 4:30-8:30pm.
Please contact us today to join us at this magical event.
Email info@caeny.org and put "Prom Volunteer" in the subject.

Interested in attending Prom as a guest or making a donation?  There's still time to do so! Click the event photo below.
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This is truly the prom many of us wished we could have had in our youth: no judgments, no dress code, just dancing, delicious food, and a common goal to help break cycles of abuse and violence.

Join us for an evening of fun, all tickets include hors d'oeuvres and open bar all night!

The event will feature a live dj, a photo booth, a live auction and a crowning ceremony for best prom attire and best dancer.

Attire: Come as you are. Fun, festive, mysterious. Masks encouraged, but not required.

Ticket Levels:

** Help CAE or yourself avoid Processing Fees. Contact us at
718-788-1775 for further details**

Premier Sponsor

- 20 VIP Tickets*
- 4 In-office workshop on violence prevention**

- Logo on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event
- Logo and hyperlink on event home page
- Pre and post event acknowledgement via social media

- Naming opportunity ( Your name will be featured alongside CAE's)

- Signage at the event

- Listing on invitation

Emperors and Empresses

- 15 VIP Tickets*
- 3 In-office workshop on violence prevention**

- Logo on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event
- Logo and hyperlink on event home page
- Pre and post event acknowledgement via social media

- Verbal recognition at the event

- Listing on invitation

Kings and Queens

- 10 VIP Tickets*
- 2 In-office workshops on violence prevention* *
- Logo on e-blasts and continuous projection during event
- Listing on invitation

Dukes and Duchesses

- 8 VIP Tickets*

- 1 In-office workshop on violence prevention* *
- Logo on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event

- Listing on invitation

Count and Countesses

- 6 VIP Tickets*
- Listing on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event

- Listing on invitation

Viscounts and Viscountesses

- 4 VIP Tickets*
- Listing on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event

- Listing on invitation

Baron and Baronesses

- 2 VIP Tickets*
- Listing on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event

- Listing on invitation

Knights and Dames

- 1 VIP Ticket*
- Listing on e-blasts and on continuous projection during event

- Listing on invitation

* Access to exclusive VIP section with dedicated bar.

**In-office workshop options include: violence prevention and self-defense for adults or youth and/or a parent-training workshop that teaches strategies for discussing violence prevention and safety with children. In-home or at school also available.

 . Rally & March for Accessibility: 72nd St. B/C Station
Monday, May 7 fr/ 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM in or near
72nd St IND Station nr. B & C Lines
1 W. 72nd St. at Central Park West
https://facebook.com/events/200814207389568/
www.transitcenter.org/events/  https://facebook.com/pg/transitctr/events/ 
https://goo.gl/55kKdM  (www.transitcenter.org/events/unhealthy-commute-transit-challenges-facing-new-york-citys-healthcare-sector/)
https://twitter.com/TransitCenter https://www.facebook.com/pg/transitctr/events

 . RELATED EVENT:  An Unhealthy Commute
Wednesday, May 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in TransitCenter
1 Whitehall St https://facebook.com/events/170870663598436/

On ​Monday,​ ​​May​ ​7 ​at 10:​0​0 am, we invite you to join the Access Denied​ ​campaign, ​Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, elected officials, disability activists, and ​residents for a rally at the closure of the ​72nd Street B/C station.

The station will undergo an overhaul as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative and will be entirely closed for months but will not be made accessible for people with disabilities and seniors.

​Residents, seniors, and disabled riders ​​are ​up in arms ​over the lack of ADA​ access​ included in the station renovation and the absence of meaningful community input​ in the closure. We're calling on the ​MTA to stop overhauling stations without adding ADA accessibility and to produce a clear plan to reach 100% station accessibility for all New Yorkers.

#ShutDownChase in New York City
Monday, May 7 from 11:00 to 3:00 PM in
Grand Central Terminal Main Concourse
nr. #4, 5, 6, 7, S, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/9EsPbFPSvZn
descriptions & contacts https://facebook.com/events/163085581022892/
https://facebook.com/pg/SeedingSovereignty/events/ http://seedingsovereignty.org 
https://twitter.com/SeedSovereignty https://saneenergy.org 646-387 3180
https://www.facebook.com/pg/350NYC/events https://twitter.com/350NYC
 http://350nyc.org  https://facebook.com/pg/saneenergyproject/events/ 
https://facebook.com/pg/AmericanIndianCommunityHouseInc/events (331) 901-0011
https://facebook.com/nychange/events http://www.nycommunities.org
(347) 410-6919   https://twitter.com/nychange http://www.ran.org (415) 398-4404
ran@ran.org https://facebook.com/pg/rainforestactionnetwork/events/ 
https://twitter.com/RAN https://twitter.com/dirtyenergy
https://facebook.com/pg/pcmny/posts/ http://meetup.com/NYC-Grassroots-Alliance

Join us in New York City as we work to #ShutDownChase and #defundtarsands for good.

We'll be meeting at 11amEST in the middle of Grand Central Station (you'll spot us with lots of signs and banners!).

*Please bring signs, posters, banners and friends as we march to let JPMorgan Chase know we mean business when it comes to defunding tar sands*
 
JPMorgan Chase is one of the most destructive businesses on the planet. Since Trump took office Chase has quadrupled its investments in tar sands oil and increased its financing of coal by over 2,000%. Yeah, the hurricanes may be brewing and the wildfires raging, but the 1% gotta make more money, right? Enough is enough! This planet is worth more than shareholder dividends and bankers bonuses.

We are calling for New Yorkers to show up in a MAJOR way alongside of others around the country for a national day of action that makes it clear to JPMorgan Chase: financing climate disaster and abuses of Indigenous Rights is not acceptable business practice. It's time to take our fight to JPMorgan Chase’s front doors, right here in NYC.

JPMorgan Chase & its CEO Jamie Dimon are funding destruction to our communities, we need to stand up and show them we won't tolerate threats to our clean water and air.
 

    ``why mass starvation should be understood as a war crime``

Starvation as Strategy: The War on Yemen
Discussion with Martha Mundy and Alex de Waal
Monday, May 7 fr/ 5:00 to 7:00 PM at NYU Hagop Kevorkian Ctr.
255 Sullivan St. at Washington Square South nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, PATH, #1, R, W, 6 stops
(http://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/spring-2018/starvation-as-strategy--the-war-on-yemen.html)
https://facebook.com/events/1845777888787523/
(212)8171876 pcp@gc.cuny.edu https://facebook.com/pg/placeculturepolitics/events
(212) 998-8877 kevorkian.center@nyu.edu http://neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu https://facebook.com/pg/nyukevo/events/  https://twitter.com/nyukevo

Yemen is the defining famine of our generation. Until the 1980s, the scourge of famine killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. Nowhere is this pattern more evident than in the conduct of the war in Yemen.

Join Martha Mundy and Alex de Waal as they discuss why famine has returned, how it is being used as a strategy of conflict in Yemen, and why mass starvation should be understood as a war crime. 

Panelists:
Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press, 2018).

Martha Mundy is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and founding member of the Thimar research collective (www.athimar.org).  She has carried out field and archival research in Yemen, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and written on issues in the anthropology of law, the comparative sociology of agrarian systems, and the anthropology of kinship and family. 

Brooklyn-Wide B4G Community Meeting
Monday, May 7 fr/ 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Jack
505 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, at Fulton St.; C to Clinton-Washington (at Fulton); G to Clinton-Washington (at Lafayette);
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/VWHURVvQWoq      Public · Hosted by
Before It's Gone // Take It Back - B4G and Equality for Flatbush : E4F

https://facebook.com/events/1541753422617047/

Launched in 2015, Before It's Gone // Take It Back - B4G is the 1st Brooklyn-wide campaign to stop the displacement of #Brooklyn tenants, homeowners and small businesses due to gentrification.

Join us for a Brooklyn-wide B4G Meeting to plan for upcoming actions, find out ways to get involved and updates from different orgs across the borough.

Monday, May 7
6:30pm -8:30pm
at JACK 505 1/2 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238
(Between Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave)
Refreshments Served
info: B4G@equalityforflatbush.org or call /text (646)-820–6039
https://www.facebook.com/events/1541753422617047/

BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK (B4G) is a project of Equality for Flatbush : E4F for more info : www.beforeitsgone.co

Here are also the current E4F Working Groups/Teams to Join: Here is the form: https://goo.gl/forms/QLM1vPttvNojRnKk2

Police Accountability Working Group (PAW)
Translation/Language Accessibility Team
The Fundraising Committee
Administrative & Office Team includes Graphic Designers & Artists
Social Media & Online Outreach Team includes building the content for www.beforeitsgone.co
B4G Organizers: focused on supporting Tenants, Small Businesses & Homeowners
Real Estate Watch : Investigative Research and Resource Team:
Equality for Flatbush Video Strike Force for Videographers & Filmmakers
League of Extraordinary Lawyers

Please Fill the Volunteer Information Form: https://goo.gl/forms/kfYVB4h1I5neV8Wx1

If you have questions please contact me at B4G@equallityforflattbush.org or at 646 820-6039

If you are a BROOKLYN residential or commercial TENANT or HOMEOWNER experiencing harassment or need housing, legal or
organizing resources
Contact : B4G@equalityforflatbush.org or call /text (646)820–6039
En Español: EnEspanol@equalityforflatbush.org or call/text (513) 445-8532
En Kréyol: EnKreyol@equalityforflatbush.org or call/text (707) 200-3692

Featuring
Before It's Gone // Take It Back - B4G
Community
BEFORE IT'S GONE //TAKE IT BACK:Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is a neighborhood & web-based response to the crisis of gentrification

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a people of color-led, multi-national grassroots organization
Equality for Flatbush : E4F
Community
We do anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn

The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
at Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Av. btw. Hoyt St. & Bond St.
A, C, G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; #2, 3 Train to Hoyt St. (at Fulton St.); #4, 5 to Nevins St. (at Flatbush Av. & Fulton); F to Bergen St.; D, N, R, B, Q to Atlantic Ave.-Barclays Ctr.
Monday, Mar. 26 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Apr. 2 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Apr. 9 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Apr. 16 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Apr. 23 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Apr. 30 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, May 7 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, May 14 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, May 21 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Jun. 4 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Monday, Jun. 11 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
http://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-china-1911-1949/all/  https://facebook.com/events/155661128582324/ http://marxedproject.org/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events
https://facebook.com/pg/RevolutionsStudyGroup/events
https://facebook.com/pg/thecommonsbrooklyn/events
Public · Hosted by Marxist Education Project and Revolutions Study Group
 
Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement, slaughtered militant workers and peasants, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war, interrupted by a Japanese invasion, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed, ending with Chiang's fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list.

THE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.
 
The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

The Revolutions Study Group has met in NYC for more than eight years and continues with the Marxist Education Project (MEP).

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    Tuesday, 5/8   Get on the Bus to Albany to Lobby for Marijuana Legalization. Where: Bus departing from Union Square at 6:30 AM. Travel: Q,N,4,5,6,R,L to Union Square. RSVP: Contact Nick at 347-259-4835 or nick@vocal-ny.org

    Tuesday, 5/8, 6:00PM   Join us for a Happy Hour Teach-In to learn about the bail system in NY and raise money to bring Black mothers home from Rikers Island to spend Mother's Day with their families!  Where: Kings Beer Hall, 4th Ave and St Marks, Brooklyn. Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. [or #2, 3 to Bergen] RSVP [consider asking whether required -t.] on
https://facebook.com/events/326242064568154/

    Wednesday, 5/9, 5:00PM   Our weekly participatory defense meeting where people with open court cases are invited to share knowledge and resources about navigating the criminal court system. Where: VOCAL-NY, 80A 4th Ave, Brooklyn, btw. Bergen St. & St. Marks Pl.. Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. RSVP [ask whether required. -t.] Contact Jay Del Aguila,
347-873-0098, jaydel@vocal-ny.org

    Tuesday, 5/8, 6:00PM   Join us for a Happy Hour Teach-In to learn about the bail system in NY and raise money to bring Black mothers home from Rikers Island to spend Mother's Day with their families!  
Kings Beer Hall, 4th Ave and St Marks, Brooklyn. Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. [or #2, 3 to Bergen] 
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/BNquJF5NvbC2  
RSVP [consider asking whether req`d -t.] to   
https://facebook.com/events/326242064568154/
apparently relevant:  http://nomoremoneybail.org/  www.bit.ly/BAILOUTMAMASNYC

https://facebook.com/pg/VOCALNY/events/  https://twitter.com/VOCALNewYork

    Tuesday, 5/8   Get on the Bus to Albany to Lobby for Marijuana Legalization. Where: Bus departing from Union Square at 6:30 AM. Travel: Q,N,4,5,6,R,L to Union Square. RSVP: Contact Nick at 347-259-4835 or nick@vocal-ny.org

    Wednesday, 5/9, 5:00PM   Our weekly participatory defense meeting where people with open court cases are invited to share knowledge and resources about navigating the criminal court system. Where: VOCAL-NY, 80A 4th Ave, Brooklyn, btw. Bergen St. & St. Marks Pl.. Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. RSVP: Contact Jay Del Aguila,
347-873-0098, jaydel@vocal-ny.org

The Art of MARCH: A NYCLU Flights and Rights Program
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 fr/ 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd St. btw. Park & Lex Aves.; F, Q to Lexington Av.-63 St.; N, R to Lexington Av. (at 60th); #4, 5, 6 to 59 St. (at Lex);
transit:  https://goo.gl/maps/JjeMwRtizzQ2
($30) EVENT tix:  https://bit.ly/2IgiYNk  (https://action.aclu.org/event/nyclu-associate-council-flights-and-rights-and-society-illustrators)
event graphic & descriptions
https://nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/nyclu_may8flyer_v4.pdf https://nyclu.org/en/events/art-march-nyclu-flights-and-rights-program
($15) EXHIBIT graphic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZpGgpvU0AAVaOK.jpg:large
http://cbldf.org/2018/02/the-art-of-march-a-civil-rights-masterpiece/ https://societyillustrators.org/exhibits/march  https://twitter.com/SOI128

Join the Associate Council of the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Society of Illustrators (SOI) for a unique event celebrating the SOI's exhibit The Art of MARCH: A Civil Rights Masterpiece. Enjoy drinks, a private viewing of the exhibition and hear from our engaging panelists of artists and organizers on voting rights.

The Art of MARCH: A Civil Rights Masterpiece walks visitors through the story of Congressman John Lewis's experience in the civil rights movement as depicted by the pen of MARCH trilogy illustrator Nate Powell. This landmark exhibition of Congressman Lewis's celebrated graphic novel memoir, co-written with Andrew Aydin, takes visitors on a visceral tour of the movement, illuminating pivotal moments, people, and philosophies.

Learn more about the Society of Illustrators and The Art of MARCH.

Tickets cover admission to the Society of Illustrators and a donation to the NYCLU. Purchase tickets
    . .

Rise and Resist Meeting
Apr. 24, May 1, May 8 & every Tuesday in The Church of the Village
201 W. 13th St. at 7th Av.; #1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, M, PATH to various 14th St stops; L to 6th Av. or to 8th Av.; N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/xhUPHVAiNFr
event description https://facebook.com/events/398929070581585/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/
https://facebook.com/groups/RiseandResistNYC/events/

Rise & Resist meets every Tuesday from 7:00PM to 9:00PM. Doors open at 6:30.

We've developed a flat, all volunteer group united in anger, organized into working groups, and committed to direct action. We're focusing on everything from policy and data analysis to organizing protests to ensure that we have the largest impact possible.

We need people with all skills and interests. Whether you are an artist or a software developer or just somebody who wants to get involved, everybody’s contribution is valuable.

The meetings are at the Church of the Village (201 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011). The space is wheelchair-accessible via the entrance on 13th Street. There is an elevator.

Transportation: The nearest subway stops are the 14th Street stop on the 1/2/3/F/M/L, or the 14th Street stop on the A/C/E (this one is accessible).

Contact: info@riseandresist.org

An agenda will be sent out via email ahead of time. If you are not yet on our email list you can sign up using this form: http://eepurl.com/cCzq1X

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://riseandresist.org

If you haven't liked our Facebook Page, please click here:
https://www.facebook.com/RiseandResistNYC/

And if you haven't joined our Facebook group, please click here:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiseandResistNY

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.

Industrial Workers of the World mtg.
NYC IWW General Membership Branch · Monthly Meeting
MAR 13 Tue 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
APR 10 Tue 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
MAY 8 Tue 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
[Facebook Instant] Message us or email nyc-iww@wobblycity.org for location details.
https://facebook.com/events/945156288978522/

Join the IWW NYC GMB on the second Tuesday of each month to learn more about how you can get involved in working class struggles throughout NYC! Learn more at wobblycity.org.

Want to join the IWW? Visit http://wobblycity.org/join , or join in-person at our next meeting!

Un ataque a uno es un ataque a todos
An injury to one is an injury to all
Ein Angriff auf Eine(n) ist ein Angriff auf Alle

NYC Industrial Workers of the World/IWW Meetings
On Second Tuesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Apr. 10, May 8, Jun. 12 & Jul. 10, 2018
Message us or email nyc-iww@wobblycity.org for location details.
https://facebook.com/events/945156288978522/  https://twitter.com/IWWNYC
https://facebook.com/pg/nyciww/events (718) 696-9407 https://wobblycity.org 

Join the IWW NYC GMB on the second Tuesday of each month to learn more about how you can get involved in working class struggles throughout NYC! Learn more at wobblycity.org.

Want to join the IWW? Visit wobblycity.org/join, or join in-person at our next meeting!
 

Fight for Delbert
Wednesday May 9 from Noon to 5:00 PM
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Three South Penn Square, Philadelphia
https://goo.gl/maps/b6VUNu3X1bk
https://facebook.com/events/1026153507548997/
https://facebook.com/pg/Mobilization4Mumia-1942562889217412/events/
Public · Hosted by Mobilization4Mumia
Delbert is experiencing disturbing symptoms that are eerily similar to what our brother, Phil Africa, experienced before passing away in prison. Delbert tells us that he’s having vision problems, he’s seeing spots and he’s also urinating nearly every hour. This system is hell bent on killing off MOVE people and we know it. May 13, 1985 proves that. Delbert has always been seen as a “leader” and we can see why this system would want to get rid of him. When you understand the pressure the parole board has on them to release the MOVE 9, it’s not hard to see why officials would want to take somebody like Delbert out before they have to give in and release MOVE. We are informing people of what’s going on because we want these officials to know that we’re aware and making everybody else aware of what’s going on. We’re exposing their diabolical plot and thereby putting some protection on our brother.
Also we're encouraging people to contact SCI-Dallas where Delbert is housed
(570) 675-1101 let them know that this situation is being watched very closely.
ONA MOVE
THE MOVE ORGANIZATION

About Mobilization4Mumia
This page is dedicated to organizing events with the aim of winning freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal,one of today's most well known political prisoners.

The New U.S.-Russian Cold War—Who is to Blame?
Stephen F. Cohen & Michael McFaul 
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 fr/ 5:00 to 7:00pm in 
Columbia Univ. Casa Italiana/Italian Academy Teatro
1161 Amsterdam Ave., 2nd Fl., btw. W.116th & W.118th
nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops; transit https://goo.gl/maps/bVZwuhFGpQv
(https://eventbrite.com/e/the-new-us-russian-cold-warwho-is-to-blame-registration-45245382156)
http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/new-us-russian-cold-war
http://harriman.columbia.edu/content/program-events-0
Please join The Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a debate between Stephen F. Cohen (Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University) and Michael McFaul (Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University) on “The New U.S.-Russian Cold War: Who is to Blame?"

Registration is required. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

This event is part of the Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Series. Support for this event is provided by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

U.S.-Russia relations are at their worst since the Soviet era. The two countries remain at odds over policy towards Syria, Ukraine and questions of global leadership. Rather than engage in a “reset” of U.S.-Russia relations during the Trump administration, relations have deteriorated as the U.S. has tightened its sanctions regimes and the current investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections has further inflamed tensions. News cycles in both countries are dominated by negative stories and images of the other side.

How did relations between the Untied States and Russia deteriorate to this point and who is to blame? Is the current “New Cold War” or “Hot Peace” the result of an aggressive and resurgent Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin, that has made confrontation with the West a central component of its foreign policy and attempts to garner domestic popular support? Or should the United States and its allies be blamed for not treating Russia as an important power in the post-Cold War era and instead continuing to push Westernizing organizations (such as NATO) and influences (Liberal democratic values) into Moscow's orbit? Are the two sides misunderstanding and misrepresenting one another or do they simply have incompatible national interests that can never be reconciled? And what should be done to ease tensions and find a new basis for normalizing relations?

Copies of Professor McFaul’s latest book From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) will be available on-site for purchase.

Michael McFaul is Professor of Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post. Dr. McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). He has authored several books, including From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia; Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should, How We Can; with Kathryn Stoner, Transitions To Democracy: A Comparative Perspective; with James Goldgeier, Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War; and Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. His current research interests include American foreign policy, great power relations, and the relationship between democracy and development. Dr. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1991.

Stephen F. Cohen — who grew up in Kentucky, received his BS and MA degrees from Indiana University and PhD degree from Columbia University — is Professor Emeritus  of Russian Studies and Politics at New York University and Princeton University. He is author of several well-known books, including Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia; The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin;  and Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. His Why Cold War Again? will be published in 2019.  A longtime media commentator, Cohen writes regularly for The Nation magazine. He is recipient of several awards, including two Guggenheim fellowships for his scholarly work. He is also a member of the Board of the American Committee for East-West Accord (eastwestaccord.com).

Co-Chaired by Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute) and Joshua Tucker (NYU Jordan Center).

REGISTRATION INFO   Click here to register. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first seated basis. Registration does not guarantee admission to the event. We recommend that you arrive early to sign in.

Questions about the event should be directed to: Carly Jackson, Program Coordinator, Harriman Institute
crj2116@columbia.edu

Press inquiries should be sent to: James Devitt, Director of Public Affairs, New York University
(212) 998-6808
james.devitt@nyu.edu

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    Tuesday, 5/8   Get on the Bus to Albany to Lobby for Marijuana Legalization. Where: Bus departing from Union Square at 6:30 AM. Travel: Q,N,4,5,6,R,L to Union Square. RSVP: Contact Nick at 347-259-4835 or nick@vocal-ny.org

    Tuesday, 5/8, 6:00PM   Join us for a Happy Hour Teach-In to learn about the bail system in NY and raise money to bring Black mothers home from Rikers Island to spend Mother's Day with their families!   Kings Beer Hall, 4th Ave and St Marks, Brooklyn. Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. [or #2, 3 to Bergen]
RSVP [consider asking whether required -t.] at
https://facebook.com/events/326242064568154/

    Wednesday, 5/9, 5:00PM   Our weekly participatory defense meeting where people with open court cases are invited to share knowledge and resources about
navigating the criminal court system. Where: VOCAL-NY,
80A 4th Ave, Brooklyn, [btw. Bergen St. & St. Marks Pl.]
Travel: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. [or #2, 3 to Bergen St.]
RSVP [consider asking whether req'd -t.]: Contact Jay Del Aguila,
347-873-0098, jaydel@vocal-ny.org

[please ask correct ending times -t.]

Earth Celebrations Ecological City Puppet & Costume Workshops
Losaida Inc. Center- 710 East 9th St. (btwn. Aves C & D)
Event description & any changes:
https://facebook.com/pg/EarthCelebrations/events
https://facebook.com/events/1905089839821320/ 212-777-7969 mail@earthcelebrations.com http://www.earthcelebrations.com

MARCH
WED March 28 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT March 31 from Noon to  4:00 PM

APRIL
WED April 4 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 7 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 11 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 14 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 18 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 21 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 25 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 28 from Noon to  4:00 PM

May 2018
WED May 2 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT May 5 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED May 9 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Loisaida Center
710 E 9th St. at Ave. C
http://loisaida.org/events/

 . Dome Building Workshop at Loisaida
Sunday May 6, 2:00 PM; event info https://goo.gl/k9to88 https://goo.gl/zfRu42

 . Charas is alive on Spaceship Earth: Reception + Performances
Wednesday May 9 at 6:00 PM; event graphic & descriptions:  https://goo.gl/vyKKPT  https://goo.gl/UGs3qy  https://goo.gl/8tsjVc  please look up trailer

 . Carlos Chino Garcia's Oral History + CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Eath
Friday May 11, 6:00 PM; event graphic https://goo.gl/NpbKfZ  = (https://i2.wp.com/loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/may11Chino_Matthew_.jpg?w=612)
 
 . The 2018 Loisaida Festival
Sunday May 27, 11:00 AM
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/wA9aFc
https://facebook.com/events/332261590592507/

 . An Unhealthy Commute: NYC Transit Crisis' Heavy Toll on Health Care Sector
Wednesday, May 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in TransitCenter
1 Whitehall St., btw. Stone St. & Bridge St., just SE of Bowling Green; #4, 5 to Bowling
Green; R, W to Whitehall St.-South Ferry; #1 to South Ferry;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/vqAugbwaVBN2
descriptions (http://transitcenter.org/events/unhealthy-commute-transit-challenges-facing-new-york-citys-healthcare-sector/) 
https://facebook.com/events/170870663598436/ www.transitcenter.org/events/  https://facebook.com/pg/transitctr/events/  https://goo.gl/55kKdM  (www.transitcenter.org/events/unhealthy-commute-transit-challenges-facing-new-york-citys-healthcare-sector/)  https://twitter.com/TransitCenter 
https://facebook.com/pg/transitctr/events  646-395-9555 info@transitcenter.org

 . RELATED EVENT:  Rally & March for Accessibility: 72nd St. B/C Station
Monday, May 7 fr/ 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM in or near
72nd St B & C (IND) Station
1 W. 72nd St. at Central Park West  https://goo.gl/maps/o4B1YFeSUwS2
https://facebook.com/events/200814207389568/

On ​Monday,​ ​​May​ ​7 ​at 10:​0​0 am, we invite you to join the Access Denied​ ​campaign, ​Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, elected officials, disability activists, and ​residents for a rally at the closure of the ​72nd Street B/C station.

The station will undergo an overhaul as part of the MTA's Enhanced Station Initiative and will be entirely closed for months but will not be made accessible for people with disabilities and seniors.

​Residents, seniors, and disabled riders ​​are ​up in arms ​over the lack of ADA​ access​ included in the station renovation and the absence of meaningful community input​ in the closure. We're calling on the ​MTA to stop overhauling stations without adding ADA accessibility and to produce a clear plan to reach 100% station accessibility for all New Yorkers.

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Gotham's Black Radical Past (and Future?)
Margaret Stevens
Wednesday, May 09, 2018 fr 6.30pm at CUNY Grad. Ctr.
365 Fifth Ave, 9th Fl., btw. E. 34th & E. 35th nr. B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E stops & 34th St. bus; (ask ending time)
map & trip planner  https://goo.gl/maps/iNfRDPbJfcE2
w./ The Gotham Center for New York City History
https://versobooks.com/events/1747-gotham-s-black-radical-past-and-future
https://gothamcenter.org/current-events.html  gothamcenter@gc.cuny.edu
(212) 8178460 https://facebook.com/pg/nycscholars/events/
http://gothamcenter.org http://twitter.com/nycscholars 

New York has often been a headquarters for social, political and economic reform. And the city's internationalism often gave movements here a more radical tinge. How did that global perspective shape far-left and progressive black activism in
20th C. America? And what should we learn from this radical past?

Margaret Stevens talks about her new book, Red International and Black Caribbean, which re-situates black radical New York during the interwar period within the global anti-colonial struggle. Christopher Tinson speaks about his new work, Radical Intellect, the first history of the NYC-based Liberator magazine, exploring the internationalist dimension of black journalism in the 1960s and '70s. ​Nikhil Singh, author of the new Race and America's Long War (examining the "War on Terror" in the context of U.S. racial foreign policy history), talks about black radicalism today. Premilla Nadasen (author, Household Workers Unite, and consultant on the National Domestic Workers Alliance “We Dream in Black Project”) joins and moderates.

Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update
Wednesdays at 7:30 PM on May 9, July 11, Sept. 12, Nov. 14, & Jan. 9 in
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St.
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1 & PATH Train
map & transit https://goo.gl/maps/2J7dSEiReBm
description https://facebook.com/events/1907297862858157/
Public · Hosted by Democracy at Work NYC and Democracy at Work. 
https://democracyatwork.info/calendar  https://twitter.com/democracyatwrk  https://facebook.com/pg/democracyatwrk/events/   info@democracyatwork.info
https://facebook.com/pg/DemocracyAtWorkNYC/events  https://twitter.com/profwolff  https://youtube.com/user/democracyatwrk

These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month. Then Wolff analyzes several major economic issues. Our goal is to develop all participants’ understanding and ability to explain current economic events and trends to others. When time permits, we open the floor to questions and comments.

Requested Fee/Donation: $10 per person. If you access the videos of these monthly updates posted on YouTube and our websites, we ask you to join our attendees who contribute at least $10 at each event to help defray costs of producing, video-taping, and distributing these videos. Please contribute via our donate page. Contributions to Democracy at Work are tax deductible (we will gladly provide receipts at the event).

 

      ``...voting rights cases pending before the U.S. Supreme
       Court and recent litigation and legislative...``


In Defense of Voting Rights: National and State Efforts to Protect the Right to Vote
Thursday, May 10, 6:30 to 8:30 PM at 42 W. 44th St. btw. 5th & 6th Aves.
nr. #7, B, D, F, M, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus;
$10.  Register: http://www.nycbar.org/votingrights
Event graphic & descriptions:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbuOUhBUQAAD4Lo.png:large
https://twitter.com/NYCBarAssnNews/status/989544765078327302 https://facebook.com/events/160105234665458/
https://facebook.com/pg/NewYorkCityBar/events/ 

Thursday, May 10, 2018 | 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Program Fee: Free for Members | $10 for Non-Members

Learn about national and New York efforts underway to protect #votingrights on
May 10, with @JessicaHuseman & panelists from
@Demos_Org, @NYCLU, @NAACP_LDF & more.

Description:
This panel discussion will focus on national and New York State efforts to protect voting rights, with a particular focus on voting rights cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and recent litigation and legislative proposals in New York.

Speakers:
Ezra Rosenberg, Co-Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Perry Grossman, Senior Staff Attorney, New York Civil Liberties Union
Deuel Ross, Assistant Counsel, NAACP LDF
Chiraag Bains, Director of Legal Strategies, Demos

Moderator:
Jessica Huseman, Reporter, ProPublica

Sponsoring Association Committee:
Civil Rights Committee, Philip Desgranges, Chair

 

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Moving Beyond Janus Workshops:
http://nycclc.org/news/2018-03/moving-beyond-janus-workshops

Is your local prepared for the upcoming Janus decision? Join the NYC Central Labor Council, the Murphy Institute at CUNY, and the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR for a series of six workshops focused on the fundamental skills and strategy necessary to strengthen our unions in this crucial moment.

Workshops will be held twice a month beginning on March 29. Please see the session listing & attached documents below for more information.

Sessions can be attended individually, but locals are strongly encouraged to choose participants who can attend all six. Sessions run $50 per person, or pre-pay for all six for a discounted rate of $200.

Pre-payment & registration is required for each workshop.

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
Are We Ready for Janus? The Basics of How & Why We Have to Talk to Our Members.
Thursday, March 29, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/are-we-ready-janus-basics-how-and-why-we-hav...

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
Tools and Skills Needed for Internal Organizing
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/tools-and-skills-needed-internal-organizing-...

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
Messaging & Communication Tools
Thursday, April 26, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/messaging-and-communication-tools-apr-26-2018

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
If We Don't Talk to Our Members, The Bad Guys Will
Thursday, May 10, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/if-we-don%E2%80%99t-talk-our-members-bad-guy...

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
New Employees Matter More Than Ever
Thursday, May 24, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/new-employees-matter-more-ever-may-24-2018

Moving Beyond Janus Workshops
Cultural Change for the Long Run
Thursday, June 7, 10AM - 12PM
Cornell
16 East 34th Street
6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
http://www.nycclc.org/event/cultural-change-long-run-jun-07-2018

If we don’t talk to our members, the bad guys will
Thursday May 10, fr/ 10:00 AM to Noon in Worker Inst. at Cornell
16 East 34th St. 6th Fl.
https://goo.gl/Bf5E4N  = (www.nycclc.org/sites/default/files/attached-files/events/If we don’t talk to our members%2C the bad guys will/beyondjanus-eventdescription.pdf)
https://goo.gl/mt1S4g  = (http://nycclc.org/event/if-we-don%E2%80%99t-talk-our-members-bad-guys-will-may-10-2018)
https://goo.gl/ez8n85  = (www.nycclc.org/sites/default/files/attached-files/events/If we don’t talk to our members%2C the bad guys will/beyondjanusregistration.pdf)  https://twitter.com/workerinstitute  https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/nyc-conference-center
(866) 470-1922

Anti-labor organizations throughout the country are behind the Janus case, and are raising money to persuade our members to drop their Union membership. We will look at their history, practices and messaging and make a plan to inoculate our members and community against the attacks.

Sessions can be attended individually, but locals are strongly encouraged to choose participants who can attend all six. Sessions run $50 per person, or pre-pay for all six for a discounted rate of $200.

Pre-payment & registration is required for each workshop.

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SAVEAmericanStar : Pack the Court for Mr. Kamara !
Thursday, May 10 fr/ 2:30 to 4:30 PM Kings County Civil Court
141 Livingston St., Room 604, at Boerum Pl./Adams St.;
A, C, F Train to Jay-Metrotech; #2, 3 to Hoyt St. (at Fulton); #4, 5 to Borough Hall (on Joralemon); R to Jay-Metrotech; G to Hoyt-Schemerhorn;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/kNXCN4Qywnm

event descriptions  https://facebook.com/events/571848373185768/
Public · Hosted by Before It's Gone // Take It Back - B4G and Equality for Flatbush : E4F

For over a year Mr. Mohammed Kamara, a small business owner has been in a legal battle with his landlord, Pastor Denzil Vaughn of Lanney Leonard Shand to stop the eviction and displacement of his store. American Star Hardware has been located at 1386 St Johns Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for over 20 years. In February 2018, 674 people throughout New York City and across the country came together to raise $25,322 to help Mr. Mohammed Kamara, buy the building and save his business. Despite this tremendous community effort and securing a financial investor, Mr. Kamara's landlords, Pastor Denzil Vaughan and Lanney Leonard Shand Trust are refusing to allow Mr. Kamara to buy the building and save his business from displacement.

Please PACK THE COURT & SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for Mr. Kamara & all small businesses fighting displacement in #Brooklyn
May 10 2018
Brooklyn Housing Court
141 Livingston Street
2:30 p.m in Room 604
WEAR YOUR B4G ‘BROOKLYN IS NOT FOR SALE’ OR a BLACK SHIRT TO COURT!**

Also Please Sign & Circulate Widely: Petition to #SaveAmericanStar Hardware Store, a fixture in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn community for over 20 years !!
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/991/733/345/

Tell Pastor Denzil Vaughn & Lanney Leonard Shand Trust to DO THE RIGHT THING and sell the building at
1386 St Johns Place to Mr. Kamara! Crown Heights is one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn, with one of the highest rates of evictions and closures of small long-time businesses. Large real estate developers want nothing more than Pastor Denzil Vaughn of Lanney Leonard Shand Trust to sell the building to them, in order to build yet another towering hi-rise full of luxury condos. The only way to stop the rapid gentrification of Brooklyn is for us as a community to come together to stop the displacement of residents and small businesses like American Star Hardware Store We, the community are calling on Pastor Denzil Vaughn of Lanney Leonard Shand Trust to DO THE RIGHT THING and sell
1386 St Johns Place to Mr. Kamara.

Here is the GO FUND ME fundraising campaign created by Mr. Kamara's neighbors: https://www.gofundme.com/help-mohammed-keep-his-business

#SaveAmericanStar #WeLoveAmericanStar #WeLoveMrKamara #BrooklynIsNotforSale #CrownHeightsIsNotforSale #LanneyLeonardShandTrust #PastorDenzilVaughn

BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification campaign of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack
 
BEFORE IT'S GONE //TAKE IT BACK:Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is a neighborhood & web-based response to the crisis of gentrification

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a people of color-led, multi-national grassroots organization
We do anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn

 Kings County Civil Court  Kings County Civil Court  Kings County Civil Court

Drum Dark Money Out of Politics! Rebekah Mercer Action
Thursday, May 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM
Gather at Verdi Sq. nr. W. 72nd St. and Broadway
https://facebook.com/events/377786516070955/

Had enough of “dark money” dominance in our government? You are not alone!

Join scores of your fellow fed-up New Yorkers as we launch the first in a series of street actions to “Drum Out Dark Money Donors!” Bring your own acoustic percussion instrument of any sort, or just a simple pot and wooden spoon, as we make a lot of noise against Big Money Fascism.

Our first target/expose is Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire heiress and a dark money political donor of the first order. Politico has dubbed her the most powerful woman in Republican Party politics, and the Washington Post reports that she is referred to as The First Lady of the Alt-Right.

Rebekah Mercer lives in the Heritage Building at Trump Place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, overlooking the Hudson River. She values personal privacy and keeping a low profile. However, we’re going to disrupt her “business-as-usual”.

Join us to “make a whole lotta’ noise” as we march to her New York City residence, to call her out to her neighbors for who she really is, and what she really does to corrupt democracy and subvert social, economic, racial, and climate justice in the U.S. and around the world. All are welcome!

Some background on Rebekah Mercer:

During the 2016 election cycle, she and her family donated over $25 million to radical right-wing candidates, most prominently Donald Trump. She has been a top behind-the-scenes advisor to Trump during his election campaign, transition period, and presidency. She initially introduced Steve Bannon to Trump, and was instrumental in getting Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney General.

For more than a decade, Rebekah and her father (hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer) have bankrolled radical right-wing candidates like Trump, propaganda outlets like Breitbart News, political data and communications firms like Cambridge Analytica, think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Goldwater Institute, faux advocacy groups like Reclaim New York, and Steve Bannon film projects.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer )

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.

Cards Against Inhumanity: A Postcard Party!   
Come write reminders to Dems to VOTE in Special Elections
Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 to 8:30 PM
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 W. 13 St. btw. Greenwich & 7th Aves.; L Train to 8 Av.; A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, F, M, PATH to various 14th St. stops; N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; cross town buses via 14th St. or via 9th St./Christopher St.
transit https://goo.gl/maps/RPwFfko7U2s
descriptions https://facebook.com/events/1031215340375616/
Public · Hosted by Rise and Resist  https://goo.gl/SFFTJA
https://riseandresist.org/new-events https://twitter.com/riseandresistny  info@riseandresist.org 

Have fun and help elect Progressives! Join the "Postcards to Voters" amazing army of over 17,000 volunteers across the country as we write postcards to Democrats, completely by hand, using guidelines created by "Tony the Democrat" (also a volunteer). We remind Dems to get out to vote in individual Special Elections.

We wrote over 347,000 postcards for Doug Jones and over 180,000 for Conor Lamb, as well as tons of postcards for State Senate and Rep seats, etc. We are on our 77th campaign and have won well over half, and most losses were in very red areas and we gained ground! Come learn the basics so you can then work from home or over coffee or cocktails with friends. We’ll bring the stamps, pens, addresses and postcards, and even give you some to take home.

https://postcardstovoters.org/

Questions? Email Sarah at ==>  SQONNY@gmail.com

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.

Sharon Smith's Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital
Women's Liberation & Socialism discussion group
365 5th Ave. Rm. 5489 btw. E. 34th & E. 35th
nr. B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. bus;

  . Thursday, Apr. 26 fr/ 7:00 PM at CUNY
  . Thursday, May 10 fr/ 7:00 PM at CUNY

 
ALL ARE WELCOME - whether or not you've read all or part of the book, and whether or not you're CUNY affiliated (just bring some form of ID to get in the building)  Public · Hosted by Hunter College Socialists and International Socialist Organization (NYC)

The era of Trump has also proven to be the era of the Women's marches, the #MeToo and #Timesup movements against sexual assault - specifically in the work-place, and even a resurgence in direct action in defense of abortion clinics. Now is a critical time for marxist-feminists, and those interested in marxist-feminism, to learn from the history of the women's movement, to debate theory and strategy, and to participate in the process of building a movement which can fight all forms of gender-based oppression, as well as contribute to a broader resurgence in Left and working class politics in the U.S. Join the Hunter College branch of the International Socialist Organization for a three part study group on Sharon Smith's Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital - available here from Haymarket Books (with free e-book):
(https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/423-women-and-socialism-revised-and-updated-edition)

Part 1
April 12, 7pm, at Sinergia (2082 Lexington Ave, Fl. 4)
Chapter 1 - Women's Liberation: the Marxist Tradition
Chapter 2 - The Origin of Women's Oppression
Chapter 3 - Modern Women's Movements

alternate reading/listening for those who don't have the book:
https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/12/origin-family-private-property
https://socialistworker.org/2008/09/05/roots-of-womens-oppression
http://socialistworker.org/2013/01/31/marxism-feminism-and-womens-liberation
http://wearemany.org/a/2012/06/originsofwomensoppression

Part 2
April 26, 7pm, ROOM 5489 - CUNY Grad
Chapter 4 - Mainstream Feminism: from Women's Liberation to "Power Feminism"
Chapter 5 - From Radical Feminism to Separatism
Chapter 6 - Women and the Family: The Domestic-Labor Debate

Part 3
May 10, 7pm, ROOM 5489 - CUNY Grad
Chapter 7 - Black Feminism and Intersectionality
Chapter 8 - Feminism and Radicalism in the Age of Neoliberalism
Chapter 9 - Combating Gender and National Oppression in Revolutionary Russia
Conclusion - Where do we go from here?

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Revolution in the Air with Max Elbaum and Kazembe Balagun
Thursday, May 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Verso Books
20 Jay St, Brooklyn, Suite 1010, btw. Plymouth St. & John St.; F to York St.; A, C to High St.-Brooklyn Bridge; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.; R to Court St.-Borough Hall;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/11Uq6wa2fm52
event descriptions (https://versobooks.com/events/1801-revolution-in-the-air-with-max-elbaum-and-kazembe-balagun) (https://facebook.com/VersoBks/photos/gm.208052246459311/1906074192759202/?type=3&theater)
https://twitter.com/netflixandrebel/status/988914951636094976
https://facebook.com/events/206436833287519/
Public · Hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - New York Office and Verso Books
https://facebook.com/pg/rosaluxnyc/events info@rosalux-nyc.org
https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events  http://www.rosalux-nyc.org

Will be Livestreamed from Facebook!

Fifty years ago, the world was set ablaze with protests against racism, against capitalism, against imperialism, in what came to be known as the Protests of 1968. Now, Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che and Kazembe Balagun of the Rosa Luxembourg Siftung discuss what went went wrong during the heady years of '60s radicalism, and what lessons we can learn for today.

Max Elbaum has been involved in peace and anti-racist movements since joining students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960s. Through the 1970s and 1980s he participated in campaigns defending affirmative action and opposing U.S. military interventions in the Third World while writing extensively for the radical press and taking part in then-widespread efforts to construct a new U.S. revolutionary political party. In the 1990s, he was the editor of CrossRoads, a magazine featuring dialogue and debate among socialists and radicals from different left political traditions.

Max is the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Kazembe Balagun is a writer, curator and activist originally from Harlem, currently living in the Bronx. For much of the 1990s he was a member of the direct action/ people of color led Student Liberation Action Movement, as well as Critical Resistance East. For seven years he was Director of Education at the Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School, and has organized programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Maysles Cinema, and The Marxist Education Project. His writings can be found in Imagine Socialist USA (Harper Collins), Conversations with Octavia Butler (University of Mississippi Press) and most recently Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the Radical Left 1970-1979. He currently works as a Project Manager United Nations/North America at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office.

Film Screening at KCBC: "Saving Jamaica Bay"
Thursday May 10 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Kings County Brewers Collective
381 Troutman St, Brooklyn, New York 11237
transit https://goo.gl/maps/BeGBCzfTvML2
https://facebook.com/events/1659353610766787/
https://facebook.com/pg/kingslandwildflowers/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/KCBCbeer/events/  info@kcbcbeer.com http://kcbcbeer.com 
https://facebook.com/pg/nycaudubon/events/
Join us during spring migration at Kings County Brewers Collective to learn about the many conservation issues threatening migratory birds as we screen "Saving Jamaica Bay" on Thursday, May 10. The screening will be followed by a Q + A panel with "Saving Jamaica Bay" filmmaker Dan Hendrick, NYC Audubon ecologists, and KCBC brewer Pete Lengyel.
Ages 21 and up. Limited to 150. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, email njackson@nycaudubon.org.
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The story of New York's forgotten national park --
and how it could save us all.

Saving Jamaica Bay tells the story of how one community fought government inaction and overcame Hurricane Sandy to clean up and restore the largest open space in New York City, which had become a dumping ground for garbage, sewage and bullet-riddled mobsters. Narrated by Academy-Award winning actress Susan Sarandon, Saving Jamaica Bay underscores the importance of citizen action and the role of urban nature in protecting our cities from the effects of climate change.

Asad Haider with Sarah Jaffe and Bill Fletcher Jr.
Thursday, May 10, 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince St. btw. Lafayette St. & Mulberry St.; R, W to Prince (at Broadway); #6 to Spring St. (at Lafayette) or to Bleecker (at Mulberry & E. Houston); B, D, F, M to Broadway-Lafayette; J to Bowery;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/wno8K8K1LAo
descriptions (http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mistaken-identity-asad-haider-sarah-jaffe-and-bill-fletcher-jr-prince-street)  (http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mistaken-identity-asad-haider-sarah-jaffe-and-bill-fletcher-jr)
https://facebook.com/events/364708234028888/   (212) 274 1160

Whether class or race is the more important factor in politics is a question at the heart of today’s most contentious debates. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider, co-founder of Viewpoint Magazine, turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead marks a retreat from solidarity. Haider appears in conversation with lifelong activist and syndicated columnist Bill Fletcher Jr., and Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble.

[ask correct ending time -t.]

Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner: 
The Politics of Race and Class in American Literature
Five Sessions, May 3 to May 31, 7:30 to 9:30 pm at The Brooklyn Commons,
388 Atlantic Ave. btw. Hoyt St. & Bond St.; A, C, G Train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; #2, 3 to Hoyt St. (at Fulton); #4, 5 to Nevins St. (at Flatbush & Fulton); F to Bergen St.; D, N, R, B, Q to Atlantic Av.-Barclay Ctr.;
Thursday, May 3 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 10 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 17 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 24 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Thursday, May 31 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM
https://facebook.com/events/2034499260098578/
venue 347-987-4966 http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/events-list
Marxist Education Project Indigenous People’s Reading Group
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/  marxedproject@gmail.com http://marxedproject.org
 
William Styron’s historical novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The novel made the world conscious of the slave revolt in Virginia led by Turner in 1831. Styron was a white writer from Virginia. In response to the success of Styron’s novel, an anthology of African-American criticism was published by Beacon Press, featuring the work of 10 different critics. But other African-American writers praised Styron for his work, most notably James Baldwin, who predicted that the history of the rebellion would continue to be written for years to come. That has remained the case to this day.

This May, the MEP's Thursday literature group will read Styron’s novel, the Beacon Press anthology "William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond," and Baldwin's essay in defense of Styron. We will discuss the many profound questions concerning race, class, the rendering of historical presentation, and claims on aspects of our shared history that are raised in the novel and its criticism. This class forms part of the MEP's commemoration of the half-century since the pivotal year of 1968.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP has grown out of an enthusiastic call for greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world - peoples who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists settled and brought capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in September 2014 where she introduced "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States."

Sliding Scale: $45 / $55 / $65
no one turned away for inability to pay

Community
The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

see http://bit.ly/BAILOUTMAMASNYC
=  (https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact)
https://twitter.com/VOCALNewYork/status/991048936747040768

Mama's Bail Out NYCBail out Black Mama’s this Mother’s Day in NYC!VOCAL-NY is pleased to present the second annual NYC Chapter of the Black Mama Bail Out Day!  All over the country, communities are coming together to show love and support to our Black mothers who are separated from their families because of the punitive cash bail system.  Here in New York City, bail bonds companies take advantage of those who are most vulnerable—and unfortunately due to the inaction in City Hall and Albany, that won’t stop anytime soon.We need to
raise $30,000 by May 11  to pay the bail of as many mothers as we can.  Please join us and help to bring a mother home to her family!

apparently relevant:
https://www.facebook.com/events/326242064568154/ 
http://nomoremoneybail.org/

Hang Up Your Badge Officer (on this weeping cherry tree)
Friday, May 11 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at Melrose Houses,
320 E. 156th St. (btw. Courtlandt and Morris Aves.)

transit https://goo.gl/maps/EkEQKVpyLRA2  https://goo.gl/AHfKCY

event descriptions https://twitter.com/bebe6666/status/992100957684224002
https://facebook.com/events/212371776021010/
web search on "andrew kearse"  https://goo.gl/q9wgSe

This is a public call for officer Mark Weekes of Schenectady Police Dept to hang up his badge to atone for the death of Andrew Kearse and express his remorse to the widow of the man he killed on the first anniversary of Andrew’s death.

We are planting a weeping cherry tree in front of the apartment building of the widow of Andrew Kearse and hanging a symbolic police badge and police belt to make space for the officer Mark Weekes, responsible for a death of Andrew, to come forward and express his remorse.

The widow Angie Kearse, BLM community, Rise and Resist, Peace Accelerators, local community came to Schenectady Police Department on February 10th, 2018 so Angie could face and speak to the officer responsible for her husband’s death. We were greeted with an empty Police precinct. It is now the officer’s chance to come forward and take action for justice.

Come and Join us!

Directions:
2 and 5 to 3rd-ave and 149 street (7 block walk north west through Melrose Houses)

hashtags
#  #RiseandResist #BLMNY #justiceunites #justiceforAngieKearse #justiceforAndrewKearse

Policing for Integration
Featuring Monica Bell - Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Friday, May 11 fr/ 12:30 to 1:30 PM at Vera Inst. of Justice in Woolworth Bldg.
233 Broadway, 12th Fl., btw. Barclay St. & Park Pl.; #2, 3 Train to Park Pl.; A, C to Chambers; E, PATH to WTC; R, W to City Hall; #4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall;
J to Chambers;
buses via Broadway or Chambers or East Broadway or Trinity Pl./Church St.;
maps & transit  https://goo.gl/sF1v16  http://url.ie/zb2p 
description & any changes  https://goo.gl/y9XG3E =  (https://vera.org/events/neil-a-weiner-research-speaker-series/policing-for-integration)
Registration probably required, probably free, probably not yet open.
https://eventbrite.com/o/vera-institute-of-justice-10940341037 
https://facebook.com/pg/verainstitute/events/  https://vera.org/events
OR ASK lhenderson@vera.org (212) 334-1300  contactvera@vera.org  

Monica Bell is an associate professor of law at Yale Law School. Her areas of expertise include poverty and welfare law, criminal justice (especially policing and reentry), housing, race and the law, qualitative empirical methods, social inequality, and law and sociology.

Before joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2017, Bell was a Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She previously served as a Liman Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, where she worked on matters related to cash assistance to families and disabled adults, child support, unemployment insurance, homeless services, healthcare, and other legal and policy issues affecting poor women and families. Born and raised in South Carolina's Upcountry, Bell holds degrees from Furman University (Truman Scholar), University College Dublin (Mitchell Scholar), Yale Law School, and Harvard University.
For more information contact LeShae Henderson
lhenderson@vera.org

The Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series invites distinguished scholars and researchers to share their work on justice issues. The series began under the leadership of the late Neil A. Weiner, a former senior fellow and research director at Vera. Following his passing, the series was named in his honor.
 

Reconstructing Economic Development for People and Planet: Stories of Economic Democracy from Jackson to PR to the Bronx
Friday, May 11, 3:00 to 5:00 PM in Murphy Institute
25 W. 43rd St.  18th Fl., btw. 5th & 6th Aves., nr. #7, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus;    RSVP  (consider asking whether required -t.) at:  (https://eventbrite.com/e/reconstructing-economic-development-for-people-and-planet-registration-44890294078)  https://mailchi.mp/cuny/may-11th-reconstructing-economic-development

For the first time in decades, cities round the country are advancing progressive innovations and solutions to too-long-sustained poverty and inequality. In New York City worker cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and community land trusts are on the policy platform of the City Council’s progressive caucus and elected officials in the democratic party are pushing legislation for employee and worker ownership at the state and federal levels. With greater visibility and support from the public sector, some believe that these pilots and experiments for neighborhoods to drive wealth creation and capture and create equitable economic opportunities can reach into broad-based and mainstream policy.

There is an opening here to expand the horizon of what is seen as possible for genuine equitable urban economic development, and its relationship to labor, communities and the political economy. In short, we can change the conversation from mostly pushing for greater accountability and transparency in the existing economic development order, to a conversation about what should come next and what policies and institutions would be a part of getting us there.

Speakers include:

    Michael Menser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Science and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Chair of the Board of The Participatory Budgeting Project, and author of We Decide! Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy
    Gabriela Alvarez, Chef and founder of Liberation Cuisine, a catering company dedicated to preparing meals collectively with sustainable ingredients and practices. Alvarez recently took her passion for healing and organizing with food to Puerto Rico to help with relief and rebuilding efforts
    Kali Akuno, a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises and the author of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
    Yorman Nunez, Program Manager at Community Innovators Lab MIT and coordinator of Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
 
Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute, CUNY, and Democracy @ Work
 
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    May 4th, 9am-6pm: The Future of Capitalism and the Future of Work

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Our mailing address is:
The Joseph S. Murphy Institute
25 W 43rd St, 19 Fl

Save the Iran Nuclear Deal!
Friday May 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM Washington Square Park

https://facebook.com/events/1807369706233310/  

https://twitter.com/PeaceActionNY/status/994323177613484032 

https://twitter.com/PeaceActionNY  (646) 723-1749  info@panys.org  

http://www.panys.org  https://facebook.com/pg/PeaceActionNY/events/   

http://www.peaceaction.org  https://facebook.com/pg/peaceaction/events/  

(301) 565-4050 info@peaceaction.org  (310) 827-4320  info@codepink.org  

https://facebook.com/pg/codepinkalert/events/  http://www.codepink.org  

We call on Trump and Congress to reverse the catastrophic decision to pull the US out of the Iran Agreement.

Join us at Washington Square park from 5:30-6:30pm to protest this decision and send a clear message: Diplomacy not War! Save the Iran Nuclear Deal! Reverse Trump's Decision!

Speakers to be announced.
 

CODEPINK: Women For Peace — The people of Iran deserve an apology for our president’s unscrupulous behavior and a pledge to try to reverse the Iran Deal.

Peace Action New York State — If your organization would like to endorse tomorrow's action, please comment below and/or email emily.rubino@panys.org!
Peace Action of New York State is the New York affiliate of Peace Action, the largest grassroots peace organization in the country.

CODEPINK: Women For PeaceCODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations.

Peace Action
Practical, positive alternatives for peace.

Labor Goes to the Movies: Salt of the Earth
Friday, May 11, 2018, 6:00pm at 61 Broadway in 16th Floor Union Hall
btw. Exchange Alley & Rector St.; #4, 5 Train to Wall; R, W to Rector (at Trinity Pl./Church St.); #1 to Rector (at Greenwich St.); J to Broad (exit to Exchange Pl. or Wall St.); #2, 3 to Wall St. (at William); A, C to Fulton (west exits to Broadway); E, PATH to WTC stops; area map  http://url.ie/zb2p  transit  https://goo.gl/maps/iYBK1S7hCbF2    
series (http://psc-cuny.org/sites/default/files/images-for-stories/large/Miscellaneous/PSCPoster17_REV.jpg)

www.psc-cuny.org/labor-goes-movies www.psc-cuny.org/calendar/2018-05 
212-354-1252 psc@pscmail.org https://twitter.com/PSC_CUNY  AFT Local #2334 

Salt of the Earth
Based on an actual strike at a zinc mine in New Mexico, the film exposes discrimination against MexicanAmerican miners who fought to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated humanely by their bosses. Many of the artists, including director Herbert Biberman (one of The Hollywood Ten), writer Michael Wilson (clandestine author of Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia), and producer Paul Jarrico, were blacklisted and thus forced to create one of the first independent US films. By linking the oppression of the workers to the workers’ oppression of their wives, the film delivers a message that is strongly feminist as well as pro-union. Most of the actors in the film are the miners themselves and their wives. Salt of the Earth has been deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Screenings take place on Friday evenings at 6:00 pm. $4 suggested donation. Space is limited! Light refreshments served before each screening.

Take the {misinfo snipped.}. Call for directions  [ask correct ending time- t.]

The Loisaida Center
710 E 9th St. at Ave. C
http://loisaida.org/events/

 . Dome Building Workshop at Loisaida
Sunday May 6, 2:00 PM; event info https://goo.gl/k9to88 https://goo.gl/zfRu42

 . Charas is alive on Spaceship Earth: Reception + Performances
Wednesday May 9 at 6:00 PM; event graphic & descriptions:  https://goo.gl/vyKKPT  https://goo.gl/UGs3qy  https://goo.gl/8tsjVc  please look up trailer

 . Carlos Chino Garcia's Oral History + CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth
Friday May 11, 6:00 PM; event graphic https://goo.gl/NpbKfZ  = (https://i2.wp.com/loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/may11Chino_Matthew_.jpg?w=612)
 
 . The 2018 Loisaida Festival
Sunday May 27, 11:00 AM
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/wA9aFc
https://facebook.com/events/332261590592507/

NYC METROPOLITAN ANARCHIST COORDINATING COUNCIL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Friday, May 11, orientation at 6:30 PM in Verso Books
20 Jay St., Brooklyn, Suite 1010, btw. John St. & Plymouth St.;  F Train to York St.;
A, C to High St.-Brooklyn Bridge; #2, 3 to Clark St.; R to Court St.-Borough Hall;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/Q6xY5L6coZR2
event descriptions https://tockify.com/mlsupport/detail/70/1526077800000
https://mailchi.mp/macc/may-day-hurrah-for-anarchy-585247  info@macc.nyc  
http://macc.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events/  anarchism.nyc
[ask correct ending time -t.]

Join us for General Assembly at Verso.   The assembly will begin @ 7:00 PM;
orientation for newcomers begins 6:30 PM.

MACC assemblies are open to all anarchists, antifascists, anti-authoritarians and those interested in anarchist ideas and organizing so please invite your friends and share widely!

If you haven't attended before, these assemblies are an opportunity to get plugged in with MACC, its various committees and working groups, and other NYC based anarchist projects.

There is an orientation before the assembly starting at 6:30 PM for those interested in familiarizing themselves with MACC, the history, process and politics that underskirt general assemblies, and anarchist ideas.

As with all assemblies, we encourage everyone to come with ideas about what they would like to see for future campaigns or actions and what direction they'd like MACC to take in terms of building a more powerful, militant anarchist movement.

For more information contact us at info@macc.nyc.

Check out anarchism.nyc for more NYC anarchist events!

Mad as Hell: Imagining Transformative Mental Health Care Systems
Friday, May 11, 2018 fr/ 7:00 to 9:30 pm at Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St., nr. F, J, D, #6, R & Weekend N Local
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/JKZAfTgG6GJ2
event descriptions (http://bluestockings.com/event/mad-as-hell-imagining-transformative-mental-health-care-systems/?instance_id=190814)
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/
https://facebook.com/pg/bluestockingsnyc/events/

Join Project LETS, a grassroots organization specializing in peer support, to discuss building just, responsive, and transformative mental health care systems. Come imagine a world without ableism, where non-carceral responses to crisis are the norm, and all people can access high-quality support. We will be prioritizing feedback from people living with mental illnesses, trauma, and neurodivergence, and are especially interested in hearing from people of color, LGBTQ folks, people from low-income backgrounds, and people with highly-stigmatized mental illnesses. 

Birding Bonanza
Saturday MAY12 at 10 AM - 2 PM
Little Hell Gate Salt Marsh just south of Icahn Stadium in Randall's Island Park
transit https://goo.gl/maps/Beke9Kt3HdF2  
https://randallsisland.org/events/birding-bonanza-3/  (212) 830-7722 
publicprograms@randallsisland.org info@randallsisland.org (212) 860-1899

Randall’s Island Park is home to over 180 species of birds. Join us for a day of free, family-friendly bird watching! Learn about the amazing adaptations of birds as they thrive in the Island’s restored habitats.

• Explore 20 acres of natural habitat
• Guided walks with experts from RIPA and NYC Audubon
• Live birds and information on bird rehabilitation from the Wild Bird Fund
• Binoculars and bird guides provided
• Crafts, games, and refreshments
• Suitable for ages 7+ (with an adult)

Please note: last tour leaves at 12:30pm

Global Water Dances meets Ecological Cities in Loisaida
Saturday, May 12 fr/ 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
55 Avenue C, btw. E. 4th & E. 5th;
weekend trip planners:  http://mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/Nzu3emBvG2v
list of service changes http://mta.info/weekender 
event description  https://facebook.com/events/813944558789661/
http://globalwaterdancesNY.org  https://globalwaterdances.org/ 
https://facebook.com/pg/Global-Water-Dances-New-York-188912257822866/about
(347) 898-8950  info@globalwaterdances.org  https://twitter.com/gwdances 

Tidal Waters in Manhattan? Poetry? Puppets? PRocessionals through some of the Lower East Sides most wonderful Community Gardens. Join to watch, listen or perform. Site specific dancers -
rsvp [? -t.] to officeof MarthaEddy@gmail.com
Public · Hosted by Global Water Dances-New York

EVENT SOLD OUT


Two Minutes to Midnight
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Tarja Cronberg,
Saturday, May 12 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq. South at Thompson St. nr. A, C, D, E, F, PATH, #1, R, Weekend N Local or #6 stops;
 == >Wait List https://goo.gl/65GiAz  (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt4ACj04E4C7sOK0qkZNVhC95Xvyn7EKj6O3BSf9vtIEiJzA/closedform)
https://goo.gl/EdCKeL  https://facebook.com/events/186703918631422
https://facebook.com/pg/rosaluxnyc/events/ 

Join us on May 12 at Judson Memorial Church to hear
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Tarja Cronberg, and a dozen other esteemed peace activists discuss what needs to be done to move from geopolitical conflict to nuclear abolition.

Last year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its tireless advocacy work, which has thus far led to the adoption of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by 122 UN member states.

Our gathering takes place on the eve of a planned UN High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, where ICAN will continue its work in collaboration with a broad network of peace activists and organizations.

Despite all the good work, let us not forget that it is still just “Two Minutes to Midnight” on the Doomsday Clock. What can we do now to advance peace and nuclear abolition around the world?

This event will take place from 10am-4pm on Saturday, May 12, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York City.

Pre-registration is required, as Judson Memorial Church holds only 250 people. We urge you to register for this important event as soon as possible!

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Speakers include:

Reiner Braun – Co-President International Peace Bureau (Germany)

Noam Chomsky – Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T. Scholar, Anti-War Activist, Political and Social Critic, Linguist

Jackie Cabasso – Western States Legal Foundation, United for Peace & Justice

Lisa Clark – Co-President International Peace Bureau (Italy)

Tarja Cronberg – European Security Program, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Finland)

Sergio Duarte – President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, former U.N. High Representative for Disarmament (Brazil)

Daniel Ellsberg – Recipient, Right Livelihood Award, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Author, the Doomsday Machine

Joseph Gerson – President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Director, AFSC Peace & Economic Security Program

Christine Hong – University of California Santa Cruz, Korea Policy Institute

Zia Mian – Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Physicist, Activist, Recipient of Linus Pauling Legacy Award

Albert Scharenberg – Co-director, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office

Hiroshi Taka – Representative Director Gensuikyo, Japan Council Against A- & H- Bombs (Japan)

"Two Minutes to Midnight" is co-hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security of the American Friends Service Committee, the International Peace Bureau, Peace & Planet, Peace Action–New York State, and Brooklyn for Peace.

1st Annual Palestine Lives Conference
Saturday, May 12 fr/ 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Hunter College Main Campus.
Registration and Vendor Sign Up:   https://bit.ly/2Hekaoz
http://events.eventzilla.net/e/palestine-lives-conference-2138935112
$28 non-student general admission.  ASK PRODUCERS FOR LOCATION/S or allow time to search campus.  Try Hunter College West Bldg. on SW corner of E. 68th St.
& Lexington Av.; #6 Train to 68 St.-Hunter; F, Q to Lexington Av.-63 St.;
M66 cross town bus via W.65th & E.68th
transit to campus http://mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/oTQqkC6Ka2s
list of service cuts if any http://mta.info/weekender
campus http://hunter.cuny.edu/visitorscenter/68th-street-campus-map
descriptions https://twitter.com/WOLPalestine/status/992514535104892928
for event location updates, try:  palestinelives2018@gmail.com,
WOLPalestine@gmail.com,  questions@existenceisresistance.org,  
newyorkcitysjp@gmail.com https://facebook.com/events/370286486787263/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db3mUkrW4AEtRul.jpg   https://twitter.com/wolpalestine
https://withinourlifetime.squarespace.com/    http://existenceisresistance.org 
https://facebook.com/therealexistenceisresistance 
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExistenceIsResistance   
https://twitter.com/nkfarouq/status/990200739661336581

Donate https://www.youcaring.com/palestinelivesconference-1171533

As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, join us for the first ever
Palestine Lives Conference on May 12, 2018 at Hunter College. This Palestinian-led conference will feature Palestinians who have been resisting from Gaza to the west, and will serve to revitalize efforts for Palestine from the diaspora
 
Organized by: Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine, Existence Is Resistance, & Palestinian Youth Movement  
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, join us for the first ever "Palestine Lives” Conference on May 12, 2018 at Hunter College, New York, NY. This Palestinian-led conference will feature Palestinians who have been resisting from Gaza to the west, and will serve to revitalize efforts for Palestine from the diaspora

Organized by: Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine, Existence Is Resistance, & Palestinian Youth Movement - NYC chapter

 

Earth Celebrations Ecological City Puppet & Costume Workshops
Losaida Inc. Center- 710 East 9th St. (btwn. Aves C & D)
Event description & any changes:
https://facebook.com/pg/EarthCelebrations/events
https://facebook.com/events/1905089839821320/ 212-777-7969 mail@earthcelebrations.com http://www.earthcelebrations.com

MARCH
WED March 28 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT March 31 from Noon to  4:00 PM

APRIL
WED April 4 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 7 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 11 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 14 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 18 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 21 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED April 25 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT April 28 from Noon to  4:00 PM

May 2018
WED May 2 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SAT May 5 from Noon to  4:00 PM

WED May 9 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Ecological City Pageant
Saturday, May 12 from Noon to 6:00 PM from Losaida Inc. Center
710 East 9th St. (btwn. Aves C & D)
http://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project/
Earth Celebrations-Ecological and Social Change through the Arts
https://twitter.com/EarthCelebrate http://earthcelebrations.com/contact-us/ https://www.facebook.com/EarthCelebrations/

Ecological City Pageant - a celebration of climate solutions on the Lower East Side. A spectacular procession through the gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront featuring visual art and performances created through the workshops, exploring climate resiliency and ecological sustainability solutions.

VOLUNTEER - SIGN UP FOR A ROLE IN THE ECOLOGICAL CITY PAGEANT

Puppet Volunteers - carrying puppets/visuals

Parade Marshals - directing a sections of the parade ( i.e.: stick puppets, puppet on cart, costumes, programs, food/drink, crowd control…)

Costume Performers: Dress in spectacular costumes made in the workshops. *** Costume performers are required all day 9am-6pm . (they must be very reliable and commit for the rain date as well)

Sign up for a role in the pageant FB message: @earthCelebrations

MORE INFO:
http://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project/

Earth Celebrations-Ecological and Social Change through the Arts Ecological City - Cultural Climate Action Project in partnership with The Loisaida, Inc. Center, LUNGS Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens and over 50 partner groups including GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side-Housing/Resiliency), LES Ready!, Green Map, Lower East Side Girls Club, Lower East Side Ecology, Solar One, Waterfront Alliance, University Settlement, The Earth School, Sixth Street Community Center, Arts Loisaida, Theater for the New City, MOS Collective, FAB (Fourth Street Arts Block Association), East Fourth Street Block Assoc., Hunter College-School of Community Organizing and New York University. Numerous groups and residents throughout the neighborhood are invited to join.

Below was excerpted from a periodic calendar by Bill DiPaolo & Time's Up!   Please subscribe directly. -t.

https://times-up.org/calendar  https://times-up.org/events-list-signup
212.802.8222  timesup@panix.com

Pirate Bike RRRide at Earth Celebrations Ecological City Pageant
Saturday, May 12, Noon-6:00 PM
Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th St, between Ave C and Ave D
Dress up as a pirate and join our bike pirate ship armada at the Earth Celebrations Ecological City Pageant. Ecological City is an ecological art and climate action project engaging the Lower East Side community through creative strategies, co-creating a theatrical pageant, to develop and bring together climate resiliency and ecological sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront, connecting local efforts with city and global climate changes. http://www.earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project

[please also check Time's Up! online calendar & subscribe directly to mailings.  -t.]

related event announcement excerpts follow...

Earth Day Bike Ride Costume Making Event & Bike Decorating
Thursday, April 19, 4:00 PM
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, avenue C and 9th Street
Come decorate your bicycle and yourself for the upcoming earth day Polar Bear Bike Ride. You don’t have to be a polar bear, you can make any type of costume. Try to bring some costume material. We will also provide some of the basics.
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Waterfront Ice Cream Bike Ride
Saturday, April 21 , 4:00 PM
99 South 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Join us for our Waterfront Ice Cream Ride. Explore some beautiful parks along the East River, learn about the marine ecosystems swimming inside, and eat lots of ice cream!
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Polar Bear Earth Day Ride
Sunday, April 22 , 4:00 PM
Union Square North
Come celebrate Earth Day on your bicycle dressed up as your favorite animal with Time's Up. As we know earth day is every day. Let's celebrate and support New York City's new sustainable infrastructure, bike lanes, greenways and auto-free plazas. It's just the beginning.
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Street Art Bike Ride
Sunday, April 29, 12:00-2:30pm
Sunday, May 20, 12:00-2:30pm
Time's Up! Brooklyn Space 99 South 6th St., Brooklyn (under the Williamsburg Bridge)
Our gallery is on the streets, and we want to share it, pointing out famous and hidden spots throughout the city. We'll be covering the Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Tour includes NYC highlights, history and social implications of street art. Check out the ride leaders pics on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/djcatnap

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Community Garden Walking Tour
Saturday, May 5 at 3:00 PM
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, 155 Avenue C
Teaming up with Jane's Walk, we'll be touring East Village community gardens learning about activism, sustainability, and how the community reclaimed these abandoned spaces and made these wonderful vibrant community gardens. Which then became urban green, community-run sustainable places. Organic food growing, medicinal gardens, solar and wind energy, permaculture, and composting.

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Bicycle Tour of LES Community Gardens
Meet with your bicycle Sunday, May 6 at 1:00 PM
in front of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets).
Bicycle tour of East Village community gardens. The East Village has the highest concentration of community gardens, started and maintained by the people using sustainable solutions that then become part of everyday city life. Did you know that recycling started in the gardens and now community composting is being studied and introduced across boroughs? Cyclists will tour the gardens, and when go in when gardens are open. Must have a bicycle.

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Court Watch NYC Training
Saturday, May 12 fr/ 1:00 to 5:00 PM NYU Furman Hall
245 Sullivan St. Rm. 216, btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South, nr.
A, C, D, E, F, PATH, #1, R, Weekend N Local & #6 stops;

transit https://goo.gl/maps/36Zk7f6Yqz92

TO REGISTER FOR TRAINING, please RSVP through calendly link here: https://calendly.com/courtwatchnyc/training/05-12-2018
descriptions & contacts https://facebook.com/events/405147269965794/ 
https://facebook.com/brooklynbailfund/events  http://brooklynbailfund.org  
https://twitter.com/BKBailFund  https://facebook.com/pg/5borodefenders/events/
5borodefense@gmail.com  https://twitter.com/5BoroDefenders
https://twitter.com/CourtWatchNYC   (https://medium.com/@5BoroDefenders/call-for-a-moratorium-on-broken-windows-prosecutions-729e3764411a) 

Both Manhattan DA Cy Vance and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez were elected this year on seemingly progressive platforms to curtail use of bail, limit ICE courtroom ambushes, and stop prosecuting “broken windows” offenses. We voted for our District Attorneys, they promised reform, and now we are building a community-driven movement to hold them accountable.

We’re looking for volunteers to join us in building this accountability movement! By joining Court Watch NYC, you will be the eyes and ears of accountability in New York City courtrooms, collecting real-time data and the narratives of what’s actually happening in the courtrooms.

TO REGISTER FOR TRAINING, please RSVP through calendly link here: https://calendly.com/courtwatchnyc/training/05-12-2018

If you have any questions, please email us at info@courtwatchnyc.org.

**Attending a training is mandatory for anyone who wants to volunteer to monitor court shifts, however it is not mandatory for volunteering to help with data entry. If you are interested in data support, email us at info@courtwatchnyc.org.**

Court Watch NYC is a collaborative project with Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, and 5 Boro Defenders. Our mission is to build a community movement to hold New York City prosecutors accountable to their promises to reduce inequality and unnecessary incarceration in our city’s criminal legal system.
Website: courtwatchnyc.org
Twitter: @CourtWatchNYC

Caliban and the Witch Book Club and Potluck
Saturdays, Apr. 28, May 12, May 26, Jun. 9, fr/ 6:00 to 8:00 PM at UAW
256 West 38th St., 12th Fl., btw. 7th & 8th Aves., nr. A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, 7, S, N, Q, R & cross town buses via 34th or 42nd;
map & trip planners http://mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/n52m2Cc5aa42
transit surprises http://mta.info/weekender
event descriptions & any changes 
(http://socialists.nyc/events/2018/4/28/caliban-and-the-witch-book-club-and-potluck)
https://facebook.com/events/196083744332731/  https://twitter.com/nbkDSA 
http://socialists.nyc/events/?view=list  socialist.feminism[@]socialists[.]nyc

The Socialist Feminist Working Group is organizing a book club/potluck on
Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (1998) by Silvia Federici. We are reading this classic socialist feminist text as a way to explore the concepts of primitive accumulation, social reproduction, and the unpaid labor at the heart of capitalism. This text will allow us to better understand why socialist feminists have centered domestic work in their analysis of capitalist exploitation.

From AK Press: “Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.”

This is a book club and potluck, so feel free to bring drinks/snacks to share.

**If you need a copy of the book you can find a PDF copy available here -->

We will meet on four Saturdays, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm starting
Saturday, April 28  at UAW: 256 W 38th St, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

Schedule:

    Saturday, April 28
    "The Secret of Primitive Accumulation" Chapter 26 of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
    Caliban and the Witch: “Preface” (p. 7), “Introduction” (p. 11), and “All the World Needs a Jolt” (p. 21)
    
    Saturday, May 12
    Caliban and the Witch: “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” (p. 61)
    
    Saturday, May 26
    Caliban and the Witch: “The Great Caliban” (p. 133) “The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe” (p. 163)
    
    Saturday, June 9
    Caliban and the Witch: “Colonization and Christianization” (p. 219)
    “The Reproduction of Labor Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution” (2008) by Silvia Federici in Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
    Chapter 13: “Social Reproduction” in The Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014) by David Harvey

Please email socialist.feminism[@]socialists[.]nyc if you would like to facilitate our first meeting on April 28! We need at least 2 facilitators to prepare questions and provide a summary of the readings.

BINGO for Books through Bars
Saturday, May 12 fr/ 7:00 to 10:00 PM at Mayday Space,
176 St. Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St. (L to Dekalb Av.)
trip planners http://mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/iskUo7cNjwQ2
transit surprises http://mta.info/weekender
description https://facebook.com/events/725832624284694/

Books Through Bars is an all-volunteer group that sends free, donated books to incarcerated people across the county and has been doing so for over 20 years. Join us for a fun night to raise much-needed funds for postage to mail packages of books!Bingo cards per round will be $3 each or 2 for $5.We will have many great prizes, including from the following generous supporters:
- justseeds- Verso Books
- Dr. Bronner's
- Nighthawk Cinemas
- Gristle Tattoo+Art Gallery
- Third Root Community Health Center
- Unnameable Books
- Alamo Drafthouse NYC
- Toad Style
- Human Relations
- Lapham's Quarterly
- (le) poisson rouge
- Riverdel
- Fine Foods. Dairy Free.
- Travel Bar
- LIVE from the NYPL: Roxane Gay: Not That Bad
- The Brooklyn Strategist
- Film Forum
- SHAG, a sexy shop- Body by Brooklyn    
and more to be announced!
Beer and other refreshments will be available for donation throughout the night.We will NOT be collecting books at this event, with the exception of paperback English or Spanish dictionaries which are some of our most requested items.Please spread the word! Invite your friends, comrades, and family and share the event on social media!If you cannot attend but would still like to help, you can donate funds here:
www.booksthroughbarsnyc.org/donate . Just $10 helps us send out three packages of books to incarcerated people.If you have any questions, email
info@booksthroughbarsnyc.org. To learn more about us, visit
www.booksthroughbarsnyc.org  Please invite people via {snip}

https://mailchi.mp/jerichony.org/save-the-date-may-12th-bingo-for-books-through-bars

Barricade Launch Party
Saturday, May 12 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at Verso Books
20 Jay St, Brooklyn, Suite 1010, btw. John St. & Plymouth St.
https://facebook.com/events/225268381576841/    Public · Hosted by
Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation and Cicada Press
https://facebook.com/pg/barricadejournal/events  contact@barricadejournal.org http://barricadejournal.org  https://facebook.com/pg/cicadaimprint/events

Join us for the launch party of Barricade’s inaugural issue!
Saturday May 12, 7:00 PM
Verso Books (20 Jay Street, Brooklyn)

You'll have a chance to look through the journal hot off the press (copies will be for sale), enjoy some drinks, get to know comrades from the Barricade editorial collective, and participate in a fundraiser for Anti-Fascist organizations.

Invite your anti-fascist friends and come celebrate with us!
—
barricadejournal.org
cicadapress.net

"Barricade makes an essential contribution toward transcending national and linguistic barriers in the pursuit of a true anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian internationalism."
-- Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook and Translating Anarchy

"Born of the onrush of le grand mal (seizure) in the wake of the U.S. elections of 2016, Barricade is a journal of political resistance to authoritarianism in its myriad contemporary guises, built up, as the editors proclaim, from “disassembled hopelessness and reconstituted rage.” A journal that mobilizes translation as political praxis – entangling far-flung worlds of literature, aesthetics and protest - Barricade sounds off against the downer thrum, producing a cacophony of liberating voice offs."
-- Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic

The inaugural edition features works translated into English for the first time by Walter Benjamin, Hisham Bustani, Georges Castera, Fruela Fernández, Werner Kofler, Jiři Kratochvil, and Yuriko Miyamoto, as well as an interview with Diane Rubenstein.

 IFCO invites you to join the conversation with a Cuban Pastor
 Join us for these other more informal opportunities to

"build bridges and tear down walls" with Rev. Dopico.
  . Sunday, May 13, 10:00 am   First Presbyterian Church,
124 Henry St., Brooklyn (btw Clark St. & Love Lane);
#2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.; R to Court St.-Borough Hall; A, C to High St.-Brooklyn Bridge; #4, 5 to Borough Hall; F to Jay St.-Metrotech; G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/jvKHc4o5CU92

Spirituality and Activism from a Cuban perspective (Service follows, then more informal discussion and lunch)
  . Monday, May 14, Noon   Siloam Presbyterian Church,
260 Jefferson Ave (at Marcy); A, C to Nostrand Av.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/4JUUR9vrBpo
Lunch and Informal discussion -- Cuba and the US: Race, LGBTQ, the Blockade and More.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/ifcop4p/events/ http://www.ifconews.org
(212) 926-5757  friendshipmentcaravan@ifconews.org   ifco@ifconews.org 

Urban Farm Exploration Day
May 13 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Randall's Island Urban Farm on Wards Meadow Loop
M35 to Hell Gate Circle Bus Stop
https://goo.gl/maps/o6ZBDFTaUko  (212) 860-1899
https://randallsisland.org/events/urban-farm-exploration-day-2/2018-05-13/ https://randallsisland.org/events/urban-farm-exploration-day-2/all/  publicprograms@randallsisland.org 
https://www.facebook.com/pg/RandallsIslandPark/events/

please confirm date.

CyPurr CryptoParty
Sunday, May 13, fr/ 2:00 to 4:00 PM in Brooklyn Public Library
Flatbush Av. & Eastern Pkwy.; #2, 3 & possibly Weekend #4 Local to Grand Army Plz.;
B, Q to 7 Av.;
ANY CHANGES: https://facebook.com/events/218796588662259/
cypurr@protonmail.com https://cypurr-collective.github.io

Worried that the WWW has you in its Web? Overwhelmed by indiscriminate surveillance, digital harassment, or security leaks of personal identification? You are not alone! Cryptoparties are a space for people of all technical skills to share skills and learn from each other about online privacy protection.

The CyPurr Collective is a group of some tech-minded folks who are very jazzed about cybersecurity, cats, and helping folks out with their digital dilemmas. We offer workshops for activists, journalists, educators, and everyday folks who want to up their encryption game!

Christian Communism, Heresy & the Primitive Church

 . Sunday, Apr. 22, fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, Apr. 29 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 6 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 13 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
 . Sunday, May 20 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00 PM
at Woodbine, 1882 Woodbine St. btw. Woodward & Onderdonk Aves.; M to Seneca Av. or Forest Av.; L to Myrtle-Wyckoff;

trip planners http://mta.info , https://goo.gl/maps/vcmLwMM35MP2

svc. changes list http://mta.info/weekender

event description  https://facebook.com/events/182439285834963/

In 2018 we would like to start meeting and thinking together again at Woodbine. Last year, we hosted our Notes from the Swamp series, to go beyond outrage and find a way forward in the era of Trump. The best counter to a mad, nihilistic world is a thoughtful and courageous coming together, to find common paths through today's terrain. We have nothing to lose but our illusions, and worlds to gain.

Sunday’s presentation will be an exploration of the heterodox history of communism, and an interrogation of Christianity as a site of revolutionary inquiry.

LJ Frezza will give an introduction on two millenarian communes from upstate New York: The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (AKA The Shakers) and The Oneida Community. He'll cover their shared and divergent beliefs, in particular their views on sin and the coming Millennium. He'll also focus on the enactment of communism within their societies, their navigation of capitalistic relations with outsiders, and how they viewed their unique sexual relations as integral to their success as communists.

Brian McCarthy will talk about eschatology and the eremitic form of life in the early church, with some re-manifestations in later Christian mysticism, contemporary political practice, and Wilhelm Reich's "The Murder of Christ: The Emotional Plague of Mankind" (1953).

Johnny will discuss a semi-monastic commune founded on the Solentiname Islands of Nicaragua by Ernesto Cardenal. This discussion will focus on the unique features of life on the islands and the interruption of this experiment by the Sandinista revolution. Many of the inhabitants including Cardenal relocated to join the FSLN: this moment posed questions about political violence and exposed the tensions between the "base" and the church hierarchy. These issues will be also explored along with the influence of liberation theology writ large.

Zach will investigate the concept of love (agape) comparatively in Paul and John Climacus (John of the Ladder), with an eye to its perversely abysmal nature and think about what that might mean in terms of (revolutionary) community.

SUGGESTED READINGS:
--“The Art of Liberation in a Utopian Nicaraguan Community” - Silvia Benedetti, 2018: https://hyperallergic.com/425536/the-art-of-liberation-in-a-utopian-nicaraguan-community/
--“Christ’s Rabble: The First Christians Were Not Like Us” - David Bentley Hart, 2016: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/christs-rabble
--“The Shakers” - from The Communistic Societies of the United States, Charles Nordhoff, 1875: http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/csus/csus13.htm
--“The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford” - from The Communistic Societies of the United States, Charles Nordhoff, 1875: http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/csus/csus19.htm

HEALTH for Youths and NYPD Transit District 3 Gardening at NYRP [NY Restoration Project] Riley Levin Children`s Garden
Sunday, May 13 fr/ 7:00 to 10:00 PM at Swindler Cove in Sherman Creek Park
3703 Harlem River Dr./10th Av. off Dyckman St., opposite Highbridge Park;
#1 to Dyckman St. (off Nagle Av.); A to Dyckman St. (at Broadway)
map https://goo.gl/maps/4z9DnR3u1dv
event descriptions & contacts  (https://eventbrite.com/e/health-for-youths-and-nypd-transit-district-3-gardening-at-nyrp-riley-levin-childrens-garden-tickets-39773352167)
We are pleased to partner with NYPD Transit District 3 to do gardening and harvesting at the NYRP Riley Levin Children's Garden. We will have several crops, a portion of which will be donated to local shelters. 
Free    //  by H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc.

Organizer of HEALTH for Youths and NYPD Transit District 3 Gardening at NYRP Riley Levin Children's Garden
Our organization assists at-risk youth; combats community deterioration and juvenile delinquency; and improves the quality of education, health care and life-skills training for underserved adolescents and young adults.

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Sat, May 12 8:30 AM
H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths/NYPD Transit District 3 - 5K Walk/Run
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx

UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
Monday May 14 thru Wednesday May 16 at UN Headquarters on 1st Av NYC
Please web search for related protests and talks on these and surrounding dates.

Life After Lula
Monday May 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Verso Books
20 Jay St, Brooklyn, Suite 1010,
https://facebook.com/events/2064978510441681/
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With Lula jailed, the Brazilian right has sidelined an opponent they could not defeat. As their aim returns to the working class and poor, will the Brazilian left be ready?

With Sabrina Fernandes, Jacobin's contributing editor on Brazil, a sociologist, an activist, and creator/producer of Tese Onze, a YouTube show and multimedia project tackling the challenges of the Left in Brazil.

Moderated by Ella Mahony, an assistant editor at Jacobin magazine and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Committee.

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Drivers Licenses NOW!

Monday at 10:30 AM - 3 PM Albany State Capitol

event graphic & descriptions https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc8rK55U0AAh-FT.jpg

(https://eventbrite.com/e/greenlight-day-of-action-drivers-licences-now-tickets-45597431144)

https://facebook.com/events/1662408940460923/ http://bit.ly/greenlightny https://twitter.com/peterbernstein2/status/995061514494271490

https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenlightNY
Public · Hosted by Green Light NY Driving Together : Luz Verde NY Manejando Juntos

The Green Light NY Coalition is mobilizing to Albany to say the time is NOW to pass the Drivers Licenses Bill A10273! The coalition, made up of directly affected community members, advocates, and allies, have been organizing around licenses for years. New York is behind 12 other states and the benefits in public safety, economics and community integration are clear. The time is now to pass the bill and we are calling on everyone in the community from across the state to join us in Albany and send the message to our legislators loud and clear: Our communities can not wait, our economy can not wait, pass the GREEN LIGHT NY BILL NOW!
Sponsored by 32BJ: SEIU
Time: 10:30am-3:00pm
Date: May 14
Location: Albany, NY

The details of the event are still in the works. This is a grassroots campaign and we are fundraising to ensure that the people from all corners of the state who are dedicated to this campaign can be in Albany. Everyone must sign up and/or make a donation on Eventbrite, bit.ly/GreenLightNY5-14
Please contact your local steering committee member if you have questions.
Tentative Bus Departure points:
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Lower Hudson Valley
Mid-Hudson Valley
New York City
Long Island

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La Coalición Green Light NY está movilizando a Albany para decir que es el momento de aprobar el Proyecto de Licencias de Conducir A10273. La coalición, compuesta por miembros de la comunidad directamente afectados, defensores y aliados, se han estado organizando alrededor de las licencias por años. Nueva York está detrás de otros 12 estados y los beneficios en seguridad pública, economía e integración comunitaria son claros. Ahora es el momento de aprobar la ley y hacemos un llamamiento a todos en la comunidad de todo el estado para que se unan a nosotros en Albany y envíen el mensaje a nuestros legisladores alto y claro: nuestras comunidades no pueden esperar, nuestra economía no puede esperar, pasar ¡GREEN LIGHT NY BILL AHORA!
Patrocinado por 32BJ: SEIU
Hora: 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Fecha: 14 de mayo
Ubicación: Albany, NY

Los detalles del evento aún están en proceso. Esta es una campaña de base y recaudamos fondos para garantizar que las personas de todos los rincones del estado que están dedicadas a esta campaña puedan estar en Albany. Solicitamos que las personas se registren y/o hagan una donación en Eventbrite: bit.ly/GreenLightNY5-18 Por favor, póngase en contacto con su miembro del comité de dirección local si tiene alguna pregunta.
Puntos tentativos de salida del autobús:
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Lower Hudson Valley
Mid-Hudson Valley
New York City
Long Island

#GreenLightNy #LuzVerdeNY #DriversLicensesNow

Pack The Court For The May 14 Trial
Monday, May 14 from 8:00 to 11:00 AM
500 Indiana Ave NW, Washington, DC;
Green, Yellow Metro to Archives-Navy Memorial; Red to Gallery Pl.-Chinatown
map  https://goo.gl/maps/ovm457roo612 
https://facebook.com/events/235425177006564/
http://defendj20resistance.org  https://facebook.com/pg/defendj20resistance/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/MidAtlanticGDC/events https://twitter.com/MidAtlanticGdc 
https://facebook.com/pg/ResistThis/events  info@resistthis.org  http://resistthis.org  https://twitter.com/ResistsThis

Featuring

Defend J20 Resistance
Fighting for the freedom of the 200+ defendants facing felony charges after mass arrest protesting Trump's inauguration

Mid-Atlantic General Defense Committee
The aims of this organization shall be to provide defense/relief to members of the working class. UNASHAMEDLY ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-SEXIST AND ANTI-CAPITALIST!

Resist This
Resist This is a love letter to the future. We will resist fear and despair.

Deliver Justice for E-bike Delivery Workers!
Monday, May 14 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM
Steps Of City Hall
https://facebook.com/events/583219608702364/  https://twitter.com/BikingPublic 
http://intersectionalriding.com/2016/12/14/biking-while-working-immigrant (212)
info@bikingpublicproject.org 629-8080 info@transalt.org
https://facebook.com/pg/TransportationAlternatives/events http://www.transalt.org   
https://twitter.com/TransAlt
https://facebook.com/pg/AsianAmericanFederation/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/MakeTheRoadNewYork/events/
 
** In Spanish below. En Español a continuación. **

If you live in New York City, you know how vital delivery workers are to meet the demands of delivery services every day. However, food delivery workers have been heavily targeted for utilizing e-bikes to do their jobs.

It's time to stand up for the workers who play such an integral role in our city!

Recently, the #DeliverJustice Coalition announced 5 recommendations on what the City can do to make sure that the new “pedal-assist” proposed rule by the NYC Dept. of Transportation (DOT) does NOT leave workers behind.

On Monday, May 14th join e-bike delivery workers, the #DeliverJustice Coalition, and elected officials to rally on the Steps of City Hall to urge the Mayor to provide workers with the support they deserve!

BACKGROUND:
Many food delivery workers across the city depend on e-bikes as an essential tool to keep up with the demands of delivery services and to support their livelihood. Most are immigrant workers who have been targeted by law enforcement when using e-bikes. These workers borne a disproportionate amount of the burden under this policy, which has resulted in hundreds of dollars in fines, lost wages, and confiscated property.

** October 2017: the Mayor announced a heightened enforcement policy on those who use electric bikes (“e-bikes”).

** December 2017: Approx. 200 e-bike delivery workers were joined by advocates and elected officials rallied on City Hall Steps to protest this unfair policy and demand that policies implemented by the city need to reflect sanctuary values.

** April 3, 2018: the City announced that NYC DOT would begin a rule-making process to clarify that pedal-assist e-bikes are legal to operate in NYC.

** April 24, 2018: DOT published proposed rules specifying the requirements. As proposed in the rules, the e-bikes that will be legal are not the type of e-bike that the majority of delivery workers use. As proposed, this policy will NOT ameliorate conditions for delivery workers who are criminalized on the job or legalize their e-bikes.

While this is a positive first step on legalizing one type of e-bike (pedal-assist), it is not sufficient to protect most workers, who will need support to understand and comply with the new guidelines.

Hosted by the #DeliverJustice Coalition:
Asian American Federation
Biking Public Project
Transportation Alternatives
The Legal Aid Society
Make the Road New York

For more information, please contact:
persephone.tan@aafederation.org

Learn more about our recommendations, sign & share our petition here:
https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/protect-nyc-working-cyclists

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:
Testify or submit testimony to the 5/29 DOT Hearing at 1:30pm about how the newly proposed rule on “pedal-assist” bikes will impact these workers. Details below:
http://rules.cityofnewyork.us/content/dot-notice-public-hearing-and-opportunity-comment-proposed-traffic-rules-pedal-assist

**********
¡Entregue justicia para deliveristas que usan E-bike!

Si usted vive en la ciudad de Nueva York, usted sabe que tan importantes son los deliveristas para satisfacer las demandas de los servicios de entrega todos los días. Sin embargo, los deliveristas han sido fuertemente atacados por utilizar e-bikes para hacer su trabajo.

¡Es hora de defender de los trabajadores que juegan un papel tan integral en nuestra ciudad!

Recientemente, la coalición de #DeliverJustice anunció 5 recomendaciones sobre lo que la ciudad puede hacer para asegurarse de que la nueva propuesta de regla de "pedaleo asistido" por el Departamento de transporte de NYC (DOT) no deje atrás a los trabajadores.

¡El lunes 14 de mayo únase a los deliveristas que usan e-bike, a la coalición #DeliverJustice, y a los funcionarios electos para reunirnos en los pasos del Ayuntamiento para insistir urgentemente al alcalde que de el apoyo que se merecen los trabajadores!

CONTEXTO:
Muchos deliveristas en toda la ciudad dependen de e-bikes como una herramienta esencial para mantenerse al tanto de las demandas de los servicios de entrega y para apoyar su sustento. La mayoría son trabajadores inmigrantes que han sido dirigidos por la policía al usar e-bikes. Estos trabajadores soportan una cantidad desproporcionada de la carga bajo esta política, que ha resultado en cientos de dólares en multas, salarios perdidos y propiedades confiscadas.

*** Octubre de 2017: el alcalde anunció una política de aplicación reforzada para los que usan bicicletas eléctricas ("e-bikes").

*** Diciembre 2017: Aproximadamente 200 deliveristas e-bike fueron acompañados por defensores y funcionarios electos y se reunieron en los pasos del Ayuntamiento para protestar por esta política injusta y exigir que las políticas implementadas por la ciudad necesitan reflejar los valores del Santuario.

*** 3 de abril de 2018: la ciudad anunció que NYC DOT comenzaría un proceso de elaboración de reglas para clarificar que las e-bicicletas de pedaleo asistido son legales para operar en NYC.

*** 24 de abril de 2018: DOT publicó las reglas propuestas especificando los requisitos. Según lo propuesto en las reglas, las e-bicicletas que serán legales no son el tipo de e-bicicleta que la mayoría de deliveristas utilizan. Como se propone, esta política no mejorará las condiciones para los deliveristas que son criminalizados en el trabajo o legaliza sus e-bikes.

Si bien este es un primer paso positivo en la legalización de un tipo de e-bike (de pedaleo asistido), no es suficiente para proteger a la mayoría de los trabajadores, que necesitarán apoyo para entender y cumplir con las nuevas directrices.

Auspiciado por la coalición #DeliverJustice:
Asian American Federation
Biking Public Project
Transportation Alternatives
The Legal Aid Society
Make the Road New York

Para más información, por favor contacta con:
persephone.tan@aafederation.org

Conozca más sobre nuestras recomendaciones, firme y comparta nuestra petición aquí:
https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/protect-nyc-working-cyclists

OTROS EVENTOS PRÓXIMOS:
Testifique o envíe testimonio a la audiencia del 5/29 DOT a la 1:30 pm sobre cómo la nueva regla propuesta sobre bicicletas "asistidas por pedal" impactará a estos trabajadores. Detalles abajo:
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Frules.cityofnewyork.us%2Fcontent%2Fdot-notice-public-hearing-and-opportu

 IFCO invites you to join the conversation with a Cuban Pastor
 Join us for these other more informal opportunities to

"build bridges and tear down walls" with Rev. Dopico.
  . Sunday, May 13, 10:00 am   First Presbyterian Church,
124 Henry St., Brooklyn (btw Clark St. & Love Lane);
#2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.; R to Court St.-Borough Hall; A, C to High St.-Brooklyn Bridge; #4, 5 to Borough Hall; F to Jay St.-Metrotech; G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/jvKHc4o5CU92

Spirituality and Activism from a Cuban perspective (Service follows, then more informal discussion and lunch)
  . Monday, May 14, Noon   Siloam Presbyterian Church,
260 Jefferson Ave (at Marcy); A, C to Nostrand Av.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/4JUUR9vrBpo
Lunch and Informal discussion -- Cuba and the US: Race, LGBTQ, the Blockade and More.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/ifcop4p/events/ http://www.ifconews.org
(212) 926-5757  friendshipmentcaravan@ifconews.org   ifco@ifconews.org

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Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action in Trenton Revival

Monday, May 14 at 2 PM - 4 PM  

State House Annex Steps,

131-137 W. State Street, Trenton
(https://actionnetwork.org/events/non-violent-moral-fusion-rally-direct-action-nj-state-house)

https://facebook.com/events/1236181166484603/  newjersey@poorpeoplescampaign.org  

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/index.php/events/

Public · Hosted by New Jersey Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral

We are one of over 30 states across the country and in Washington, DC heading to their state capitals on May 14 to force a serious national examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. Join us for a rally to launch the NJ Poor People's Campaign!
RSVP here:  (https://actionnetwork.org/events/non-violent-moral-fusion-rally-direct-action-nj-state-house)

All RSVP's will receive more information about the nonviolent moral fusion direct action:

Questions? Contact newjersey@poorpeoplescampaign.org.

New Jersey Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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