Dear all, Please join us for our next Statewide Bail Reform Briefing & Strategy call THIS FRIDAY (March 13) at 2pm. Register for the call here. These calls are happening weekly (Fridays at 2pm) through April 1st. Bail reform has already spared thousands - likely tens of thousands - of New Yorkers from pretrial jailing. Yet after less than six weeks, the New York Senate […]
The Westchester County Airport Master Plan Supplement Meet the Planners Make Your Voice Heard Participate in Interactive Exhibits Learn what’s on the Horizon for the Airport Be Part of Westchester County Future Thursday, March 19th 4pm – 7pm Location: Westchester County Center 198 Central Avenue White Plains, NY 10606 Sincerely, Crystal Collins Assistant to […]
Join Dr. Davis, Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center for this year's Mary Edwards Memorial Lecture. When: Thursday March 19, 2020 at 4:30 Where: Red Room of Student Services Black women have higher rates of premature […]
Dr. Suzanne Burger is a clinical psychologist in Westchester who participated in counseling survivors of 9/11 and served on the American Red Cross’ Disaster Mental Health Team during Hurricane Sandy. Suzanne will provide information about our natural fight/flight/freeze responses to threat and offer evidence-based tools for reducing reactivity and anxiety during this critical time. There […]
The community forum that was to take place next Wednesday at 7pm at WESPAC is now a statewide virtual forum using Zoom. You must sign up here in order to receive the Zoom meeting information:
Now a Zoom meeting. Please scroll down for Zoom details: Tuesday, April 7th, 2020, from 7pm to 8:30pm A Discussion of Arundhati Roy's My Seditious Heart Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the […]
The Benefits and Challenges of Running a Food Cooperative Tuesday, April 14th at 7pm via Zoom Fran Sanhueza, former General Manager of the Bushwick Food Cooperative, will talk about the challenges of running a small cooperative business in New York City. Bushwick is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Fran will discuss how they have dealt with […]
April 21 Day of Action includes a rally/car protest at Bedford prison. People can participate in their cars or by zoom with signs in the window saying "COVID + Prison = Death and #CuomoLetThemGo” TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020, Starting at 1:00 pm • DAY OF ACTION • COVID + Prison = Death • #CuomoLetThemGo • Virtual and […]
Presented by the Advocacy and Social Action Committees of Temple Israel of New Rochelle Stronger Together Solidarity Fair for Climate Justice and Tikkun Olam– the repair of the world Sunday, April 26, 2020 at Temple Israel of New Rochelle Exhibit Hall Opens: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Guest Panel on Climate Justice: 10:30 am Light […]
From: Scott Paltrowitz <[email protected]> Subject: May 6 socially distant action in Yonkers for #HALTsolitary Date: April 29, 2020 at 12:14:58 PM EDT To: Scott Paltrowitz <[email protected]> We are holding a series of socially-distant in-person actions, car actions, and virtual rally on May 6 at 10 am across the state to demand passage of the #HALTsolitary Confinement Act. One of the actions […]