Join us this Monday, March 30th for a climate-insider double headliner: “On Climate Science and Coverage – What three decades have taught us.” Michael Oppenheimer, a veteran climate scientist, and Andrew Revkin, a longtime climate journalist, take questions from each other and the audience, exploring their learning curves, frustrations and hopes as each confronts his […]
Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky Monday, March 30th, at 6:30pm Mapleton Conference Center Good Counsel Campus (next to Pace Law) 52 North Broadway White Plains, NY 10603.* In By the Side of the Road, former West Bank settler Lia Tarachansky examines Israelis’ collective amnesia regarding the fateful events of 1948 when the State of […]
My Name is Rachel Corrie will run for 10 performances at Culture Project’s Lynn Redgrave Theater. The play is taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. Performances will be April 2-5 and April 9-12, 2015. Friday April 10, Rachel Corrie’s birthday, will be a special benefit for the Rachel Corrie Foundation. […]
Friday at 5:45pm Saudi Arabian Consul General, NYC, 2nd Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets https://facebook.com/events/412344995601995/ Anyone who wants to hold up a sign that says something to the effect of "please stop dropping bombs out of airplanes onto the land and the people of Yemen", or any similar message, let's just meet up and […]
Free Energy: A Local Family Saves by Going Solar Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 7:00pm Details: Most months, Greenburgh Nature Center Naturalist John Mancuso and his family of 5 pay nothing for electricity—that is, since the Mancuso family installed solar panels on their roof three years ago. Come hear the Mancuso family's story and […]
Big companies like McDonalds make billions in profits, while the people who work hard for them can barely support themselves or their families. Simply, the minimum wage is still too low to provide the basics. But on Wednesday, April 15, we can join the growing movement to fight for $15 an hour! What started as […]
Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007 Thursday, April 16, 2015 There will be oral arguments in Bottom v. Pataki in Room 1505 at 10 a.m. Although Jalil will not be in Court himself, he would like people to turn out and show community support. Be there by 9:30 a.m. […]
People & Stories: the White Plains Public Library Oral History Project Saturday, April 18, 10:30am – 12:00pm People & Stories seeks to facilitate deep conversations between community members and preserve previously undocumented history in a sharable, engaging way. The project is open to people of all ages who have lived or worked in White Plains […]
April 18 National Day of Action Against FAST TRACK for Trans Pacific Partnership On April 18 join the Westchester Coalition of Community, Environment, Faith & Labor and our elected leaders for a National Day of Action to oppose FAST TRACK for the Trans Pacific Partnership, the largest trade deal in history that many […]