Action Calendar - November 14th, 2022

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On the Calendar this week (click or scroll):

Nov. 14 - Single Payer Committee meeting, 7:00pm, zoom All are welcome!

Nov. 15 - Register for the Board of Standards and Appeals hearing on 22-38 Cumming Street building proposal. The calendar number is 2021-41-BZ. (You're registering as a member of the public and for organization, you can put Community, if you like.)

Nov. 15 - PNHP Forum: “Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Inequities, Innovations & Lessons, 7:30-9:00pm RSVP

Nov. 16 - #CommunitiesNotCages Statewide Rallies, noon-1:00pm, various locations RSVP

Nov. 17 - Statewide rallies urging Gov. Hochul to fulfill her promise to grant clemency to incarcerated New Yorkers - NYC rally will be held at her office, 633 Third Avenue (at 41st St) - MORE RSVP

Nov. 17 - Renewable Heat Now Power Hour, 7:00pm RSVP

Nov. 17 - Transportation Town Hall with Carmen de la Rosa, 6:00pm, Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181 Street, NYC RSVP

Committee Doings back to top

The Single Payer Committee

It normally meets on the second Monday of every month, so the next meeting will be on November 14th, at 7:00pm, and all are welcome! Zoom here

We now have SIX working groups!  More at NYHA@nypan.org

TikTok Working Group - our newest! Contact Abby Gavin, Abby@nypan.org, to jump in and create brilliant TikToks that will help move the bar on passing the Health Act - particularly with younger people - our future!

People2People Working Group - Contact Erl Kimmich, erlendkimmich@gmail.com or 646-596-0228. People2People is focused on outreach from person to person, because that is the most effective way to get the word out about supporting passage of the NY Health Act. Our Revolution is providing us with their events scheduling map (which you may remember from the Bernie campaign), so we are asking everyone to go ahead and schedule your events here. Also, we are building an advanced call team to further drive turnout to your events. Sign up for the call team here!

Research Working Group - Contact Steven Cecchini, stevenc@nypan.org. Research continues to look for information to assist Electoral with power mapping our senators, to create county tax savings numbers, and to help create forceful flyers.

Labor Working Group - Contact Jeff Mikkelson, jeff@nypan.org. Labor is developing strategies and outreach materials to amplify existing support for and overcome lingering opposition to the NY Health Act among labor unions, focusing on the large public sector unions that wield significant influence over Democratic leadership and the legislative process.

Electoral Working Group - Contact Ting Barrow, tingb@nypan.org. Electoral has begun the process of power mapping every one of our state senators, and is bent on finding the levers that will move them to #PassNYHealth as well as a strategy to use those levers with other organizations during the next session.

Medical Professionals Working Group - Contact Donald Gardner, donald@gardnerproject.com. This new working group will work on building support among medical professionals, in particular in organizations.

And we just got in 5,000 more of our latest flyer. Check it out!

Climate Crisisback to top

Nov. 15 - Rally: No Fracked Gas for Bitcoin Mining, noon-1:00pm, Office of Governor Hochul, 633 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017 RSVP

Nov. 16 - The Climate, Jobs, and Justice Package Campaign Launch MORE

Nov 17 - Renewable Heat Now Power Hour, 7:00pm RSVP

Please sign this petition demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland help reverse Steven Donziger’s contempt conviction in a case filed by a pro-Chevron judge and prosecuted privately by a Chevron law firm - for having won a huge case against Chevron for their environmental disasters.

Climate News - a source for all things climate

Electionsback to top

Georgia needs our help! Here are some ways to do that.

Nov. 15 - Text with the Working Families Party, 6:00-8:00pm RSVP Also Nov. 22, Nov. 29 and Dec. 13

Phone or text with SURJ - many events here!

Sign the petition: count every vote!

Healthcareback to top

RETIREE HEALTHCARE IN JEOPARDY! If you live in NYC:
  1. Call your City Council Member. Enter your address here to find your Council Member’s District Office phone number. Call and tell them: Protect premium-free healthcare for City employees and DON'T TOUCH Administrative Code 12-126!
  2. Write a letter to your Council Member. Use the same link as above. There is a link on the right to send an email.
  3. Share this message with your union sisters and brothers. Encourage them to join us in taking action to protect your benefits.

Nov. 15 - PNHP Forum: “Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Inequities, Innovations & Lessons, 7:30-9:00pm RSVP

Single Payer News - useful articles, regularly updated by Tim Frasca.

Housingback to top

Nov. 15 - Register for the Board of Standards and Appeals hearing on 22-38 Cumming Street building proposal. The calendar number is 2021-41-BZ. (You're registering as a member of the public and for organization, you can put Community, if you like.)

The Eviction Moratorium ended, but there is still help from Met Council on Housing. Call 212 979-0611

Church Street School for Music and Art is hiring an Early Childhood Educator

Citizen Action is hiring!

NMIC Free Home Health Aide Training in English or Spanish

Our endorsed candidate, Josh Riley, is looking for a Field Organizer

The Mason Tenders are offering job training

Beyond Plastics is looking for a Director of a new resource center

Coney Island History Project is hiring a Part time Community Engagement Coordinator. Deadline October 6, 2022

Politics Rewired is hiring!

VOCAL-NY has several open positions

NYC carpenters union will hire 65 apprentices. HERE’S HOW.

JFREJ is seeking a full-time lead organizer and a full-time Finance Director

City Council member Shahana Hanif’s office is looking for a new part-time team member to assist with outreach in the Kensington community MORE

Idealist job listings

Wikimedia is looking for a variety of positions

Jobs listed in City and State

Other group calendarsback to top
Peace & Justiceback to top

Nov. 16 - #CommunitiesNotCages Statewide Rallies, noon-1:00pm, various locations RSVP

Nov. 16 - NY Renews “Climate, Jobs, and Justice Campaign” kickoff event, noon, West Capitol Park, 80 S Swan Street, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP

Nov. 19 - Conference to advocate for peace In Ukraine, 11:00am-4:00pm, at The People’s Forum in NYC RSVP

Demand Biden extends his marijuana possession pardon to undocumented people.

Conditions in Alabama state prisons are so abysmal that the prisoners just went on a three-week prison labor strike. Alabama officials tried to force an end to the strike by restricting meals, essentially starving an end to it. Sign the petition to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm: End the cruelty in Alabama state prisons.

Demand media outlets and cable networks in the United States support protesters in Iran!

Tell Congress and President Biden to make NATO cease its nuclear war rehearsals

Tell your representatives to condemn Israel's repression of Palestinian human rights organizations

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