Environment

NON-VIOLENCE: NO HIGHER CALLING : Let's stand against all violence

Posted Wed, 03/13/2013 - 4:00pm by Anonymous
Date: 
Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 2:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Contact: 

kkarthikk@gmail.com

Given the all the violence we have witnessed in the US recently, I want to share with you a movement that inspires me. I invite you to join me.

About Non-Violence: No Higher Calling
“The Wright brothers appeared crazy before they flew. I have this crazy idea – a world without violence. With all the violence in the world this idea may appear to be hoping for Utopia, but we need to dream, and we will get there.” - H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Link: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/582752185087629/

Protest: Tell Queens Rep. Crowley to Vote NO! on Fast Track for TPP @ B-Day Fundraiser

Posted Wed, 03/13/2013 - 3:30am by Anonymous
Date: 
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: 
Dream Downtown Hotel, 355 West 16th St (Between 8th and 9th Avenues), Manhattan, New York City
Contact: 

TradeJustice New York Metro / OWS TradeJustice Phone: (718) 218-4523 Email: info@tradejustice.net Web: http://tradejustice.net

Congressman Joseph Crowley, a consistent supporter of job-killing ,environment destroying free trade agreements, is holding his annual birthday fundraiser to rake in corporate cash from the companies who want to ensure that he will continue pushing free trade agreements that endanger our jobs, our health, and our environment.

Link: 
http://tradejustice.net

New York City Friends of Clearwater - Monthly Meeting

Posted Tue, 03/12/2013 - 11:15pm by mbralow
Date: 
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Tribeca Whole Foods, 270 Greenwich St., NYC

Dear Friends - Friday night NYCFC will have Christine Blachley the NY coordinator of the Lakota Solidarity Project will speak at our monthly meeting. Please come 7pm at the Tribeca Whole Foods at 270 Greenwich St.

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Environmental Activism Since 1969

New York City Friends of Clearwater, Inc. is a chartered sloop club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. We support Clearwater by teaching to protect the Hudson River and related waterways and shores, including New York Harbor through education, advocacy, and celebration.

Earth Hour

Posted Fri, 03/08/2013 - 7:15pm by mbralow
Date: 
Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 8:15pm - 9:15pm
Location: 
Hudson River Playground at Horatio Street, NYC

Plan Ahead for March 23rd: Earth Hour
earth hour

At 8:30pm on Saturday, March 23rd, people all over the world are "turning off the lights" to highlight climate change. What will you or your organization do to highlight the developed world's use of energy?

OWS Environmental Solidarity Meeting

Posted Thu, 03/07/2013 - 9:16pm by mbralow
Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
60 Wall Street, NYC

fyi... everyone is welcome. please come join us.
as always, apologies for any duplications.
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What: OWS Environmental Solidarity Working Group Weekly Meeting

Where: The Atrium at 60 Wall Street

When: 5:30pm , Friday, 8 March 2013

All are welcome.

Greetings, friends,

This is just a reminder that OWS Environmental Solidarity will be meeting this Friday, 5:30 at the Atrium at 60 Wall Street. There is
a lot to discuss. There are some unique projects underway, and we'd welcome your feedback, ideas, and support.

“FUN”DRAISER AGAINST FRACKING

Posted Thu, 03/07/2013 - 9:16pm by mbralow
Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave & 8th St., Brooklyn , NY
Contact: 

germainia@juno.com

“FUN”DRAISER AGAINST FRACKING

Sponsored by Brooklyn for Peace and Park Slope United Methodist Social Action Committee

Friday March 8: 8-10PM

Park Slope United Methodist Church

6th Avenue and 8th Street in Brooklyn

$10.00 buys your ticket to help save the planet

Music, entertainment, Raffles, Door Prizes!

Music by: Rotation, Peter Silsbee, The Ban Fracking Orchestra, and Kathleen Payne

Poets: Melanie Goodreaux, Pam McAllister, Cheryl Grau

Iraq Now: Reparations, the Right to Heal, and the Question of International Solidarity

Posted Thu, 03/07/2013 - 2:15pm by Brecht Forum
Date: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 7:30pm
Location: 
The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Sts): A, C, E to 14 St. (south exits to 14th & 8th Av.; L to 8th Av. (at 14th); #1, 2, 3 to 14 St.(south exits to 12th St. & 7th Av.); PATH to Christopher St. (nr. Hudson St.); F, M to 14 St (at 6th Av.); B, D to W. 4 St. (north exits to Waverly & 6th Av.); maps below)
Contact: 

212-242-4201, brechtforum@brechtforum.org ; directions http://bit.ly/bierxE ; map http://bit.ly/bzOKJp

Iraq Now: Reparations, the Right to Heal, and the Question of International Solidarity
March 20th, 2013 7:30 PM
Co-Sponsor: Center for Constitutional Rights, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) & War Resisters League

Iraq Now: Reparations, the Right to Heal, and the Question of International Solidarity

Link: 
http://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=12452

Cuomo in Brooklyn!

Posted Thu, 03/07/2013 - 1:15am by mbralow
Date: 
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 11:15am - 12:15pm
Location: 
Leon Goldstein Performing Arts Center, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY

Governor Cuomo is in Brooklyn this morning!

Join us in urging him to ban fracking now!

He'll be there to deliver a speech about the budget, and we're going to be there to great him with signs, banners, and leaflets.

Today -- Thursday, February 28

Meeting at 11:20 am

Kingsborough Community College
Leon Goldstein Performing Arts Center
2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn

For more information, call Alex Beauchamp at Food & Water Watch: (720) 436-4465

Eric Weltman
Senior Organizer
Food & Water Watch
68 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-943-9085
eweltman@fwwatch.org

Panel: “From Urban Homesteading to a New Ecology of Low-Income Housing”

Posted Wed, 03/06/2013 - 11:16pm by mbralow
Date: 
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
66 West 12th St., NYC
Contact: 

Gabriela Rendon perezreg@newschool.edu Frank Morales moralesf@newschool.eduThe New School

``re-ignite and erect a novel 21st century NYC Urban Homesteading Program for those truly in need``

Panel: “From Urban Homesteading to a New Ecology of Low-Income Housing”
Friday March 8, 2013 fr/ 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
66 West 12th St., Room 404, btw. 5th & 6th Aves.; http://goo.gl/maps/H0buR; http://newyork.hopstop.com
perezreg@newschool.edu or Frank Morales moralesf@newschool.edu
The Design and Urban Ecologies Graduate Program School of Design Strategies presents:
A Panel Discussion
“From Urban Homesteading to a New Ecology of Low-Income Housing”

Link: 
http://ow.ly/inD7I

Peace Action NY Discussion - Alliance for a Green Economy NY (AGREE NY)'s Plan for Clean Energy Economy

Posted Wed, 03/06/2013 - 11:16pm by mbralow
Date: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Goddard Riverside Community Center, 593 Columbus Ave., NYC

Peace Action Manhattan's next monthly forum:

Tim Judson of
Alliance for a Green Economy NY

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 7:00 PM

Goddard Riverside Community Center
593 Columbus Avenue (at 88th Street)

Free & open to the public

Tim will present AGREE NY's plan to mobilize New York's grassroots for clean energy and
to close the nuclear power plants at Indian Point.

Please update contact information even if you are not becoming a member.

We thank you for your interest in our cause.

Peace,

Florindo Troncelliti & Jerry Moss
Acting Co-Chairs, Peace Action Manhattan

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