PLEASE JOIN US Commissioner Helen Diane Foster invites you to the unveiling of the agency’s public information campaign, “Fair Housing for All - 2015,” and a panel discussion on important fair housing issues. Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 9 AM to 12 PM Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building 163 West 125th Street, 2nd Floor […]
White Plains History Roundtable: Education, Race, and Student Consciousness Wednesday, April 22, 7:00pm The White Plains History Roundtable is an educational, participatory, and social event where participants learn about events from White Plains’ past, examine primary source materials from the Library’s White Plains Collection, and engage in discussion with their fellow attendees. This Roundtable will […]
Have you registered for the YWCA White Plains’ 2015 Stand Against Racism?? If not, this is a friendly reminder to do so. Please also share the attached flyer with your friends and colleagues! RSVP: ywcastand.eventbrite.com The focus this year is on Racial Profiling. It will be a discussion of the issues from a present-day […]
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also marks 45 years since the first five nuclear powers agreed in Article VI of the NPT to undertake good faith negotiations for the elimination of their nuclear arsenals. It is long past time for the world’s people to […]
Israeli Racism and Apartheid: An Insider's View A Talk with Parliament Member Haneen Zoabi Friday, April 24 at 8pm in Kimmel Room 804 NYU Students for Justice in Palestine is honored to host Haneen Zoabi for a discussion about Israeli Apartheid from the perspective of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Haneen Zoabi MK, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and […]
Israeli Racism and Apartheid: An Insider's View A Talk with Parliament Member Haneen Zoabi Friday, April 24 at 8pm in Kimmel Room 804 NYU Students for Justice in Palestine is honored to host Haneen Zoabi for a discussion about Israeli Apartheid from the perspective of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Haneen Zoabi MK, a Palestinian citizen of Israel […]
Clearwater Celebrates in Yonkers with “Earth Grooves” Concert April 25 YONKERS, NY–Hudson River Sloop Clearwater will hold a unique concert showcasing the music and dance of indigenous people at the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church here in celebration of Earth Day, and also the organization’s growing partnership with the Yonkers waterfront. “Earth Grooves” will […]
JOIN US IN COMMEMORATION OF EARTH DAY! Dr. Richard Seager, the Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University will speak on the science, the dangers and the challenges of climate change. Dr. Seager’s research interests include the causes of multiyear droughts around the world and how climate change […]
In February, SAPE asked many of our allies to sign a letter to Governor Cuomo, Commissioner Martens and Commissioner Zucker asking them to conduct a health review prior to issuing permits for the Spectra AIM project (letter attached). Although the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a conditional certificate approving the project on March 3, 2015, the New York […]