week of events from 3/10 through 3/16

7/29/2019 Week of Events from 3/10 through 3/16

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IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF March 10March 16

Petition: Save NY Public Libraries from Developers Destructionhttp://signon.org/sign/save-new-york-city-libraries?source=c.em.mt&r_by=6817161

Petition: Move to Amend the Constitution, Money is not Speech at movetoamend.org

Go to strikedebt.org, Rolling Jubilee, help fellow citizens hounded by debt!

One Million Moms for Gun Control @http://onemillionmomsforguncontrol.org/

Sign the petition to ban weaponized drones at http://bit.ly/OGIQ3S

****************************************************************************************************Victories!!!

Gov. Cuomo delays fracking decision due to public pressure.

Shell Oil announced it will not drill in the Arctic in 2013.

President Obama signed 23 executive orders to further gun control.

Strike Debt spent $5,000 for $100,000 of medical debt owed by 44 people in upstate NY

Albany County Legislature Approves Proclamation to Bring U.S. Troops Home fromAfghanistan, Cut the Military Budget, and the Invest the Savings at Home

Thailand's Prime Minister announced her country will end the trade of ivory in Thailand*********************************************************************************************************

Ongoing petition for Darfur: brooklynforpeace.orgDarfur CommitteeAct for Sudan****************************************************************************************************Sunday, March 10, 12-4 PM, Smiling Hogshead Farm, 26 Davis Ct, LI City QueensVolunteer at Urban Farm

Sunday, March 10, 1-5 PM, Catholic Worker, 36 East 1st Street, NYC (212) 254-3697 x 27Food Not Bombs, Cook vegetarian meals w/donated food to be served at Tompkins Sq Pk

Sunday, March 10, 2-4 PM, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square So., NYC

Unorganized Workers Assembly

Sunday, March 10, 2-5 PM, Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, NYCThe Greek Crisis and the Response of the Left-$10 brunch-meeting 3 PM

Sunday, March 10, 2-5 PM, Columbia Intl Affairs Bldg., 420 W. 118th St., Rm 409 NYCWomen in Cuba, Woman and Revolution

Sunday, March 10, 3 PM, Columbia Intl Affairs Bldg., 420 W. 118th St., Rm 409 NYC PrOccupy Wall Street Alternative Banking Meeting
http://signon.org/sign/save-new-york-city-libraries?source=c.em.mt&r_by=6817161http://onemillionmomsforguncontrol.org/http://onemillionmomsforguncontrol.org/http://bit.ly/OGIQ3Shttp://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=1ieFKosDygnA9IKRLZQc3ghttp://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=1ieFKosDygnA9IKRLZQc3ghttp://bit.ly/OGIQ3Shttp://onemillionmomsforguncontrol.org/http://signon.org/sign/save-new-york-city-libraries?source=c.em.mt&r_by=6817161


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Sun, March 10, 3-5 PM, Silent Barn Studios, 11 Stanwix Street, Brooklyn596 Acres, meeting on public lands

Sun. March 10, 4-5:30 PM, Atrium 60 Wall Street, NYCHealthcare for the 99 percent meeting

Sunday, March 10, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street Brooklyn

Fix your bike workshopTimes Up****************************************************************************************************Mon. March 11, 11 AM-1:30 PM, TKTS Booth 47th & Broadway NYCWalk to UNSecond Anniversary of Fukushima DisasterProtest nuclear power/radiation

Mon. March 11, 5-7 PM, Inst Urban/Minority Educ, 2090 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. NYCThe Criminalization of Our Youth NYCoRE Inquiry to Actionseries

Mon, March 11, 5-8 PM, Brooklyn Tech High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl. @DeKalbSchool Closings Protest

Mon, March 11, 5:30-7:30 PM, Project Reach, 39 Eldridge Street, 4th

floor NYCStand Up, Fight Back Teaching Young Children to Take a StandNYCoRE, Occupy DOE

Monday, March 11, 6:30-8:30 PM, ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, NYCFix your bike workshopTimes Up

Monday, March 11, 7 PM, LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, NYCSandra Schulman reads from her book Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

Monday, March 11, 7:30-10 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYCOccupy Wall Street Movement Monday

****************************************************************************************************Tues., March 12, 5-7 PM, Hudson High School, 351 West 18th Street, NYCWhat does mayoral control got to do with it? Inquiry to Action Workshop

Tues., March 12, 5-7 PM, Google Offices, 111 8th Avenue, NYC @ 15th StreetLeafleting against Cornell Technion Partnership (drones)

Tues., March. 12, 6-8 PM, Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, NYCHonoring Native Treaties

Tuesday, March 12 6:30 PM, LaNacional, 239 West 14th Street (near 8th Avenue), NYC

Sane Energy Project Panel on Electric CarsSuggested donation $7-$10

Tuesday, March 12 6:30-7 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYCOccupy Labor Outreach Committee

Tuesday, March 12, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street BrooklynFix your bike workshopTimes Up

Tuesday, March 12, 7:30, Barnard CollegeJames Room, NYCColumbia SJP Native American Council, Challenging Colonialism from US to Palestine


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Tuesday, March 12 9-10:30 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYCOccupy Christine Quinn Discussion & Strategy Session****************************************************************************************************Wednes., Mar 13, 10 AM-12 PM, 777 UN Plaza, 11th Fl, register [email protected] Forum, Physicians for Social Responsibility, US, Human Rights Now, Japan

Wednes., March 13, 10 AM-12 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 2nd fl, Oak Rm NYC

Open House, coffee, tour, speak with staff, attend class free

Wednes., March. 13, 12-1 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 1st fl, Green Rm NYCWomen of Faith series for International Womens History Month

Wednes., March.13, 4-5 PM, 3395 Crompond Rd., Yorktown Heights, NYWestchester Weekly Vigil to Close Indian Point

Wednes., March 13, 5 PM-7 PM, LaCasa Azul Book Store, 143 East 103rd Street, NYCListening to Marginal Voices: Exploring Queer Latino Identity

Wednesday, March13, 5:30-6:30 PM Central Library, 41st

St. & 5th

Ave., NYCWomen In Black Vigil for Peace

Wednes, March 13, 6-8 PM, Manhattan High School, 317 West 52nd Street, NYCNo Human Being is Illegal: Transforming New York City Schools

Wednes, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LProtest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants

Wednes., March 13, 6:30 PM, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay RidgeBook Study, The Politics of Jesus, by Rev. Obery Hendricks

Wednesday, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street BrooklynFix your bike workshopTimes Up

Wednes, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 2nd fl Green Rm NYInterfaith yoga and meditation

Wednes, March 13, 7 PM, College SI, Ctr for the Arts, 2800 Victory Blvd., Bldg 1P, Rm 1Economist Doug Henwood

Wednes, March 13, 7 PM, Goddard Riverside Community Ctr, 593 Columbus Ave., NYC

Tim Judson of Alliance for a Green Economy New YorkPeace Action Manhattan

Wednes., March 13, 8:30 PM, Hunter College, 68th St. & Lexington Ave. NYC (North bldg.Hunter SJP - Attempts to silence Palestinian supporters on US college campuses****************************************************************************************************Thursday, March 14, 5-7 PM, contact [email protected] Conference leafleting, non-military options after high school

Thursday, March 14, 6-8 PM, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., NYC (bet 34th & 35th)Shalah Talebi, author Ghosts of Revolution, Transforming Through Storytelling


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Thursday, March 14, 6-8 PM, Judson Memorial Church, 239 Thompson Street, NYCOWS Outreach MeetingOWS Outreach Working Group

Thursday, March 14, 6:30 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay RidgeBook Study, Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Thurs, March 14, 6:30-8 PM*, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LI

Protest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants *+9:30-11 AM

Thursday, March 14, 6:30-8:30 PM, 156 Rivington Street, NYCFix your bike workshopTimes Up

Thursday, March 14, 7-9 PM, All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue, NYCKOCHBUSTINGEnding the SpellExposing the Koch brothers****************************************************************************************************Friday, March 15, 12-6 PM, Marcy & Lafayette Avenue, BrooklynBed-Stuy Free StreetOccupy Wall Street

Friday, March 15, 6:30-8 PM, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LIProtest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants

Friday, March 15, 6:30-9 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYCComandante Ramona Community and Movement Coordination Assembly

Friday, March 15, 7 PM, NYU Kimmel Ct., Rm 914, 60 Washington Square So., NYCJared Malsin & Chris Hedges, Israels Deepening Apartheid****************************************************************************************************Sat., March 16, 7 AM-7 PM, Park Slope Methodist, buses from 6th Ave. & 8th St., BrooklynBus tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania

Sat., March 16, 11:45 AM-3:15 PM, Prospect Park, Grand Army PlazaWild Edibles Tour with Naturalist Wildman Steve Brill

Sat., March 16, 1-4 PM, Hostos College, 149th & Grand Concourse, BronxOccupy and Save Our Post Office

Sat., March 16, 1-5 PM, Rockaways, RSVP to Janet at (347) 724-6954 for locationFreegan Mending BrunchSewing workshop, sewing machine available & freegan food

Saturday, March 16, 3-5:30 PM, NW corner of Lafayette & Marcy Ave., Brooklyn

Bed-Stuy Food Share, Long Island Food Not Bombs

Sat., March 16, 6-8:30 PM, St. Marys Church, 521 West 126th Street, NYCBuilding solidarity across Black, Native American and Palestinian struggles

Saturday, March 13, 6:30-8 PM*, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LIProtest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants *+10-11:30 AM; 2-3:30 PM

Sat., March 16, 10 PM, Fontanas Bar, 105 Eldridge Street, BrooklynPunk Rock Karaoke, Benefit for Organizing for Occupation****************************************************************************************************


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Sunday, March 17, 2-3:30 PM, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay RidgForum & Discussion on healing our Immigration system, Speaker: Dr. Alan A. Aja, Ph.D.Brooklyn College Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies*********************************************************************************************************

ATTACK ON WATER!!! Save our Water! Ban hydrofracking!

Stop Governor Cuomo Now! Contact his website at www.governor.ny.gov/

By phone: (866) 584-6799 or (518) 474-8390 or Fax202/434-7110By mail: The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor. of New York StateNew York State State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224

Governor Cuomo wants to allow a ruthless corporation to POISON our water supply. A water filtration

system as a result of this reckless destruction will cost New York State BILLIONS.

Downstate Medical Center has laid off 400 with plans for hundreds more! Petition @http://savejobsatsunydownstate.org/ Phone Governor Cuomo at 518-474-8390****************************************************************************************************Occupy Sandy Volunteer Sites [email protected] 347-770-4520

Ascension Church Parish Hall, 122 Java Street, Greenpoint (347) 770-4520Every Day, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Avenue, Bay Ridge, BrooklynStorage space for Occupy Sandy and help with Occupy Bike ShareDaily 9 AM-3 PM St., John's Episcopal (Bay Ridge Kitchen), 461 99th St, Bay Ridge, BklyDaily, 10 AM- 5 PM, 3076 Emmons Ave. (@ Brown St) Sheepshead Bay 347-549-9708Daily, 10 AM-3:30 PM, 5710 Beach Channel Dr., Rockaway, The Action CenterDaily except Mon., 10 AM- 4 PM, 183 Beach 96th Street, Small WaterMost Days, 9:30, Pilgrim Church, 74-16 Beach Channel Dr., Rockaways (mold remediatioDaily Red Hook, 12 PM, 360 Van Brunt Street, BrooklynMonday-Friday, 11 AM-4 PM, 1128 Olympia, Staten Island 347-201-0670

Tues-Sun, 10 AM-5 PM, 112-34 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Pk., YANA, Rockaways****************************************************************************************************Legal Advice & Clinics

Urban Justice Legal Ctrs, Pubic Assistance, Rent, Food Stamps, Fair Hearings, Appeals

Thurs., March 14, 124 PM, 89-11 Lefferts Blvd., QueensRichmond Hill Legal Clinic*****************************************************************************************************Movies:

Sunday, March 10, 11:15-3:15 PM, Community Church, NY Gallery Rm., 28 E. 35th NYCResistance Cinemas American Autumn

Sun., March 10, 1:30 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYNowhere Left to Go; The Jahalin Bedouin

Sun., March 10, 3 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYCM.I.S. The Human Secret Weapon

Sun., March 10, 5 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYCSouvenir Srebenica
http://savejobsatsunydownstate.org/http://savejobsatsunydownstate.org/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://savejobsatsunydownstate.org/


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Sun., March 10, 6 PM, The Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, NYCThe Gate Keepers(film about Israeli security) discussion after, tickets $8

Mon, March 11, 6-8 PM, Caf Amrita, 301 West 110th Street, NYC180 Days Well SpentParents & Teachers collaborate on education w/o high stakes tests

Sun., March 10, 6:15 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYThe Transhumance of Peace; An Italian/Bosnian Mountain Road

Mon. March 11, 7:15-9:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue, NYCThe Ultimate Wish, Ending the Nuclear Age

Mon./Wednes. March 11, 9:15 PM indieScreen, 285 Kent Ave. @ So. 2nd Street, BrooklynChasing Ice, documentary on the worlds changing glaciers

Tuesday, March 12 8:30-10:30 PM, AMC Loews Kips Bay 15, 570 2nd Avenue, NYC3.11 Surviving Japan(Fukushima)

Thursday, March 14, 6:30 PM, Brooklyn College Student Ct., E. 27th St. & Campus RdFive Broken Camerason silencing dissent*********************************************************************************************

Books: Behind the Beautiful ForeversKatherine BooDrone Warfare, Killing by Remote ControlMedea BenjaminFuel on the FireOil and Politics in Occupied IraqGreg MuttittWill War Ever EndCaptain Paul K. Chappell, U.S. ArmyWhy Nations FailDaron Acemoglu and James A. RobinsonThe Politics of JesusDr. Obery Hendricks

****************************************************************************************************2,177 US and 1081 Other NATO deaths

In Afghanistan was killed Sgt. Jonathan Davis, 34, Kayenta, Arizona

178 Iraqi sisters and brothers were killed from Feb 10 to Feb 23.

245 Afghani and Pakistani sisters and brothers were killed.

Since 2001 there have been 253,330 brain injuries, 1700 amputations,and 104,000 PTSD cases among US troops.

Cf: www.icasualties.org

Peace Action Bay Ridge Interfaith Peace CoalitionP.O. Box 090-756, Brooklyn, NY 11209-0756

(646) 824-5506; [email protected]
http://www.icasualties.org/http://www.icasualties.org/

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