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Toolkit for the Movement
Toolkit for the Movement: Guides for community defense Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters, and growing authoritarian repression, which...
A Land for All Presentation at WESPAC
We had a wonderful evening at WESPAC last night with Professor Oren Yiftachel who presented A Land for All. A Land for All is a shared movement of Israelis and Palestinians who believe that the way towards peace, security and stability for all passes through two...
From Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement
The documentary The Strike will premiere on PBS Independent Lens on Monday, February 3rd (next week!). It will be available for free streaming on the PBS YouTube channel starting on February 3rd, and it will be available on PBS Independent Lens, PBS YouTube, and PBS...
Plastic Waste Trade Watch
Plastic Waste Trade Watch January 2025 Plastic Waste Trade Watch is a monthly review of information on the international trade in plastic waste. It is produced by Basel Action Network's (BAN) Plastic Waste Transparency Project, which undertakes campaigns,...
A Long Island Public Bank
OPINIONCOMMENTARYGUEST ESSAYS Affordability solution: a Long Island public bank A bill under consideration would help tackle the affordability crisis by creating a framework for municipalities to charter public banks.Credit: Getty Images/Fly View Productions...
Rev. John Collins has passed away
Dear all, I have received the very sad news from Sheila of the passing of our great and compassionate leader, Rev. John Collins. He passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at the age of 95. The family will be planning a memorial service for him later this...
2025 Athena Film Festival!
Special Discount Tickets Available for the 2025 Athena Film Festival Our friends at Athena Film Festival just dropped their 2025 lineup, and we are PUMPED! Taking place during Women’s History Month from March 6 - 9, 2025 at NYC’s Barnard College, Athena challenges...
They Called me a Lioness
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine is proud to announce They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri as our pick for the 2025 “One Book, Many Communities” international reading campaign! In this memoir, Ahed...
3 Climate Justice Working Groups Members Resign over Hochul’s retreat on climate
Governor Hochul has announced that she is further delaying her cap-and-trade-invest program to enact carbon pricing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to pay for climate action. And while in her state of the state she says she was allocating $1 billion for climate...
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Communities Not Cages Second Look Symposium | Center for Justice https://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/events/communities-not...
Chief Judge Rowan Wilson supports the Second Look Act in today’s State of the Judiciary. “Put simply, our criminal justice system isn’t working. Maybe it hasn’t really ever worked. Prolonged incarceration is very expensive, and it does not make us safer.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/nyregion/second-look-pris...
Proud to partner with @AthenaFilmFest for their 15th year of celebrating women and leadership at @BarnardCollege, March 6-9. Tickets are now on sale: check out the amazing lineup!
https://athenafilmfestival.com/
A Land for All is based on international law and is a confederation of Palestine and Israel. Prof Oren Yiftachel was excellent yesterday in presenting this Palestinian and Israeli peace movement: https://youtu.be/KSQ1bJvWSL0?si=8PYm3Cw_iqIUu9Ed
The public banking movement is sweeping New York State.
In this powerful op-ed, David Sprintzen of @EHSLI calls for a public bank to address Long Island’s affordability crisis.
@AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie: It’s time to bring public banking to New York!
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/guest-essays/long...
🚨NEW: "Behind every slumlord harassing and neglecting tenants is a bank fueling these practices."
NYC needs a public bank that invests in communities—not speculation, writes Public Bank NYC coalition member @CooperSq’s Jodie Liedecker in @CityLimitsNews:
https://citylimits.org/2025/01/31/opinion-wall-street-fuels-...