Environment

Left Forum 2013

Date: 
Friday, June 7, 2013 - 4:00pm - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Pace University in New York City
Contact: 

Clean Up The Beach Ride

Date: 
Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 9:15am
Location: 
Meet at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 9:15am
Location: Grand Army Plaza

Ride your bike out to Fort Tilden to volunteer to clean up the beaches in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

We will ride our bicycles out to Fort Tilden, to volunteer to clean up the beaches when we arrive from 11AM to 3PM.

Tasks include removing debris and moving sand.

It is recommended to bring boots, and work gloves (though gloves may be provided).

"Under the Surface: FRACKING, FORTUNES, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale" by Tom Wilber

Date: 
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 
Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street, Between 6th and 7th Ave, NYC

A Conversation and Book-Signing with Tom Wilber about his new book. Come by Revolution Books this afternoon to talk with Tom Wilber about his ground-breaking book exposing fracking in Pennsylvania and New York state.

Tom Wilber is in town because his book has been nominated for the New York Public Library's Annual Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism (one of 5 books including Katherine Boo's "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" and "Spillover" by David Quammen).

Urban Sonic Space Ride: 2nd Night

Date: 
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan

Event Date/time:
Sat, 05/11/2013 - 8:00pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park
Two shows by popular demand!

Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of pioneering space rockers Hawkwind's "Space Ritual" double live album as we recreate the concert experience by bike!

Recorded shortly after the last manned Apollo Mission to the Moon in December 1972, this music will give us many cosmic opportunities to view stars, planets, and the skyline of NYC like never before.

Saturday 5/11/2013 8PM Tonpkins Square Park, Manhattan

A brief history of Hawkwind:

Urban Sonic Space Ride: 1st Night

Date: 
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan

Urban Sonic Space Ride: 1st Night
Location: Tompkins Square Park
Two shows by popular demand!

Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of pioneering space rockers Hawkwind's "Space Ritual" double live album as we recreate the concert experience by bike!

Recorded shortly after the last manned Apollo Mission to the Moon in December 1972, this music will give us many cosmic opportunities to view stars, planets, and the skyline of NYC like never before.

Friday 5/10/2013 8PM Tonpkins Square Park, Manhattan

A brief history of Hawkwind:

LENNY FOSTER: NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES AND LEONARD PELTIER

Date: 
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Casa de las Américas 182 East 111 St. (Lex. Ave & 3rd Ave.), New York, NY
Contact: 

nyclpdoc@gmail.com 646 429-2059

Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier.

Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Indian inmates in ninety-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.

LENNY FOSTER: NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES AND LEONARD PELTIER

Date: 
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Casa de las Américas 182 East 111 St. (Lex. Ave & 3rd Ave.), New York, NY
Contact: 

nyclpdoc@gmail.com 646 429-2059

Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier.

Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Indian inmates in ninety-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.

LENNY FOSTER: NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES AND LEONARD PELTIER

Date: 
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Casa de las Américas 182 East 111 St. (Lex. Ave & 3rd Ave.), New York, NY
Contact: 

nyclpdoc@gmail.com 646 429-2059

Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier.

Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Indian inmates in ninety-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP MONTH OF ACTION PLANNING MEETING

Date: 
Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 10:00am - 6:30pm
Location: 
Barnard College's Diana Center, Room 504 (north of 116th Street on the West side of Broadway in Manhattan - see map at http://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/images/inline/campusmap.png)
Contact: 

TradeJustice New York Metro (718) 218-4523 / info@tradejustice.net

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
MONTH OF ACTION PLANNING MEETING

Join TradeJustice New York Metro, a coalition of grassroots groups from diverse movements for social justice and environmental protection for a day-long meeting to plan lobby visits, protests, teach-ins, and other actions to drag TPP out of the shadows and let Congress know that we will not tolerate another backroom trade deal for the 1%!

Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 10AM-6:30PM
Barnard College's Diana Center, Room 504
3009 Broadway on the Barnard Campus
(north of 116th Street on the West side of Broadway in Manhattan)

Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens: Why Increased Radon Levels in Natural Gas Could Be a Public Health Disaster

Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
The Cooper Union - The Great Hall: 7 East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues New York, NY 10003
Contact: 

Patrick Robbins, Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (212) 353-4253; Eric Weltman, Food and Water Watch (718) 943-9085

Could your gas stove make you sick? The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) presents a public education forum, Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens, to inform New York City residents about changes to the City’s natural gas supply. The forum will address the dangers of potentially elevated radon levels from the use of natural gas, what can be done about it, and ways to create a more sustainable energy future in which the risks of both respiratory illness and radon-induced lung cancer are eliminated.

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