Action Calendar - week of October 22nd, 2023
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Oct. 22 - Meet and Greet in East Quogue for Michael Iasilli, 4:00-6:00pm, in person RSVP

Oct. 23 - Empowering Voters Through Public Campaign Finance, 6:00pm, 90 Penn Avenue, Massapequa, NY RSVP to administration@lipc.org - FLYER

Oct. 24 - The one and only public hearing on the Adams administration’s proposed rules that weaken Local Law 97, 11:00 am, online TESTIFY

Oct. 24 - Met Council housing clinic, 6:00pm, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY    

Oct. 24 - Reception in support of Senator Rachel May, with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, 5:00-6:30pm, The Fitz at Oh My Darling, 321 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 RSVP

Oct. 25 - Panel: The Art of War Resistance, Judd Foundation Gallery, 101 Spring Street, NYC RSVP at (212) 228-0450

Oct. 26 - Empowerment and Self Defense Workshop, 6:00-8:00pm, 59 E. 4th St., 7th Fl. (Buzzer #14) RSVP

Oct. 26 - Universal Healthcare Forum, 7:30-9:00pm, Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474 RSVP

Oct. 26 - Voter Registration Drive in Throggs Neck Houses with AOC, 5:30-8:30pm, Throggs Neck Houses, Bronx, NY 10465 RSVP

Oct. 27 - One Fair Wage report release, 12:45-2:00pm, Assembly Hearing Room #1923, 250 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 RSVP

Chapter Doingsback to top

Oct. 24 - Reception in support of Senator Rachel May, with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, 5:00-6:30pm, The Fitz at Oh My Darling, 321 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 RSVP

Climate Crisisback to top

Oct. 29 - Energy Justice Alliance Climate Justice Cafe, 4:30-6:00pm, Casaroma Cafe, 391 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY RSVP

Nov. 19 - HOW TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE forum, 3:00-5:00pm, Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road, Bronx RSVP

Tell the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) we need stronger Fuel Economy standards to help cut down carbon dioxide.

Join a Virtual Lobby Visit for the People’s Climate Justice Budget

Tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Land Management to revoke the improperly obtained permits for the Donlin Gold Mine and begin a thorough and Tribal-led process of environmental review

Urge countries to restrict fossil finance and boost clean energy

Tell President Biden and Secretary Buttigieg to start measuring greenhouse gasses emitted on our highways and roads now!

Write your Congressperson to Cosponsor The Earth Act to Stop Climate Pollution by 2030 (HR 598), aka The Earth Bill. This federal flagship bill creates mandates in law for an industry-led transition to 100% renewable electricity, zero-emission vehicles, and regenerative agriculture by 2030. Learn more and Pledge support today: www.EarthBill.org

Urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency and reject fossil fuels now.

Please call NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli at 518 474-4044 and say: "Stop Funding Climate Destruction. Anything less than full oil and gas divestment is not acceptable!

Tell President Biden to block the Willow Project (The Willow Project would allow drilling in the Arctic, and is set to produce 576,000,000 barrels of oil over the next three decades, almost guaranteeing unsustainable temperature increases due to climate change)

Tell Governor Hochul and Commissioner Christian to REJECT National Grid’s $3.8 Billion Rate Hike proposal for fossil fuels

Tell Costco: dump Citibank credit card processing

Join this letter campaign asking the governor to deny the renewal of the permit for the gas-fired power plant used by Digihost Technologies for cryptocurrency mining, based on the increased emissions and lack of alignment with the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

Urge universities to divest from fossil fuels now.

Tell Governor Hochul - Put NY HEAT in the Budget!

Urge Governor Newsom to sign into law two globally-important bills that will force big companies to fully disclose their climate emissions and climate-related financial risks.

In a few days, 6 young climate heroes will face off against 32 governments in a historic battle to protect their rights from climate chaos. They are ready to put up a brave fight against an army of government lawyers resisting urgent emission cuts – a tidal wave of support would really fire them up as they march into court. Click to show your support and leave a message.

It’s time for President Biden to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY. Add your name to Sunrise Movement’s petition to tell the President: we are out of time and excuses.

Send a letter to state regulators, telling them to design a cap-and-invest system that centers environmental justice

Tell your electric company to STOP using your money to block critical, common-sense action on climate!

Please contact your Members of Congress and urge them to support and co-sponsor Fossil Free Finance Act, S. 1138, that will require big banks to stop financing greenhouse gas emissions.

Thirty-nine senators just sent a letter to the EPA to request a withdrawal of its recently proposed historic standards aimed at slashing harmful climate pollution from power plants. Tell them to hold the line on strict emission standards!

Call Mayor Adams TODAY and urge him to fully enforce Local Law 97 to create jobs, lower utility bills, and cut pollution. (877) 386-0172

Email Regulators: New Pollution Caps Must ID False Energy Solutions as What They Are

"Economy and Infrastructure Roundup”, produced by the Economy Working Group of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank. Filled with relevant climate information.

Climate News - a source for all things climate

Educationback to top

File an appeal to the Department of Education to cancel your student debt MORE

House Republicans want to gut education at all levels. Send a direct message to your representative demanding they reject education cuts now.

Did you make any significant life or financial decisions after you were promised student debt relief? The The Debt Collective is gathering stories to pressure the administration. TELL YOURS

Electionsback to top

Oct. 23 - Empowering Voters Through Public Campaign Finance, 6:00pm, 90 Penn Avenue, Massapequa, NY RSVP to administration@lipc.org - FLYER

Oct. 26 - Voter Registration Drive in Throggs Neck Houses with AOC, 5:30-8:30pm, Throggs Neck Houses, Bronx, NY 10465 RSVP

Oct. 29 - WFP phonebank for Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress, noon-3:00pm zoom RSVP

There’s a battle playing out before 2024 that we can’t risk ignoring: this November’s general election for New York City Council. MORE

Fair Wagesback to topNew!

Oct. 27 - One Fair Wage report release, 12:45-2:00pm, Assembly Hearing Room #1923, 250 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 RSVP

Healthcareback to top

Oct. 26 - Universal Healthcare Forum, 7:30-9:00pm, Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474 RSVP

How Corporations Privatized Medicare

Are you an elected official or political candidate, or do you know one? If so, take the Patients Over Profits pledge today to reject corporate health care money

Are you an elected official or political candidate, or do you know one? If so, take the Patients Over Profits pledge today to reject corporate health care money

Demand CDC use ALL the tools to beat SARS-CoV-2

Sign up to join one of the Patients Over Profits Special Volunteer Teams RSVP

Organizations: please submit input for the NY Health Act to be included in the 2024 People's Budget Priorities. Due by September 1st.

Tell Ellis Medicine: support our nurses and Invest in Safe Patient Care!

Urge President Biden and Congress to leave our Medicare alone.

Will you join us in extending your gratitude to every Medicare for All cosponsor for their support?

Call 311 and tell Mayor Adams that public nurses deserve equal pay with private nurses!

Tell Congress: Pass Medicare for All, Now!

Bernie: At a time when every other major country on earth guarantees health care for all, it is time for the U.S. to do the same. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my latest op-ed in the Guardian that addresses our dysfunctional health care system, and then sign my petition to say you support a Medicare for All, single-payer system.

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

Housingback to top

Oct. 24 - The one and only public hearing on the Adams administration’s proposed rules that weaken Local Law 97, 11:00 am, online TESTIFY

Oct. 24 - Met Council housing clinic, 6:00pm, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY    

Immigrant & Native Rightsback to top

Sign an open letter telling Mayor Adams that we’re stronger together and that we won’t accept scapegoating or demonizing new arrivals to our country.

Job Openingsback to top

NMIC is offering a Security Guard Course starting 10/16/2023 MORE

NY Renews Is Hiring for three positions: Coalition Organizing Fellow, Digital Organizing Fellow, and Social Media Fellow

UCSB Central Coast Labor Center is looking for an Executive Director

Long Island Progressive Coalition is hiring for two positions: Communications Coordinator and Community Organizers

Councilmember Shahana Hanif is looking for a Constituent Services Director! MORE and a part-time team member to assist with outreach in the Kensington community MORE

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offers internships in both her Washington D.C. and District offices.

NMIC is offering a Home Health Aide program three-week training that provides employment MORE And a security program with a three-week long remote training FLYER - MORE

Restoration Farms is seeking an assistant field manager and 2 summer apprentices to join our team for the 2023 season

Assembly Member Sarahana Shrestha has three openings: Chief of Staff, Communications & Outreach Director and Constituent Services Director

Citizen Action is hiring!

The Mason Tenders are offering job training

Listings from the Idealist

Wikimedia is looking for a variety of positions

Jobs listed in City and State

Other groupsback to top
Israel/Palestineback to top

NYPAN endorses the Ceasefire Now Resolution in Congress urging the Biden Administration to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire. We encourage all our supporters to reach out to their members of Congress and demand they sign onto this resolution. You can do that here.

Or text CEASEFIRE to 30403 to be connected to your member of Congress' office via phone and urge them to support a #CeasefireNOW.  PLEASE DO THAT NOW!

Nov. 1 - Forum: Not On Our Dime! Act, 6:00-8:00pm, Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center, 6206 6th Avenue Brooklyn RSVP

Jan. 18 - Screening of “Israelism”, 7:00pm, zoom SAVE THE DATE! - MORE - TRAILER When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns.

Under cover of Gaza war, settlers are working to fulfill state goal of Judaizing Area C

Please sign on now to become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Ceasefire Now Resolution.

Sign the petition: End the Violence, Release the Hostages

Sign up! New York Jews Reject AIPAC

Tell Congress: End U.S. funding for the Israeli military’s crimes against Palestinians

New Yorkers: Stop the flow of U.S. dollars to illegal Israeli settlements

Support Israelis who refuse to take part in the destruction of Palestine

Email your Congress person to ensure that, prior to admission to the Visa Waiver Program, Israel verifiably ends its discrimination against American citizens of Palestinian origin, Arab Americans, and others who express criticism of the Occupation traveling to and from Israel

Peace & Justiceback to top

Oct. 25 - Designing Restorative Justice Alternatives: A View from the Bench, 1:00pm, zoom RSVP

Oct. 25 - Panel: The Art of War Resistance, Judd Foundation Gallery, 101 Spring Street, NYC RSVP at (212) 228-0450

Nov. 5 - Action for Health in the Americas hosts an annual spotlight on the work of our friends at EPES (Popular Education in Health), based in Santiago, Chile, 4:00-6:00pm, Home of Sheila Dauer, 280 Riverside drive #15E, New York, NY, Voluntary donation RSVP - FLYER

Nov. 8 - Merchants of Death War CrimesTribunal Public Witness Day of Action, noon, Washington, DC (more details to come) MORE

Tell Congress to pass the School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act!

Tell your congresspeople: stop fueling violence

Use this Action Tool to Urge NYC Council to End Solitary Confinement

Tell Congress: Peace Now! No More Weapons to Ukraine!

Demand Biden take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism List     RSVP  

Sign the petition demanding Ron DeSantis cannot rewrite Black history.

The nine unelected justices of the Supreme Court, serving lifetime appointments, are not required to follow the same ethics code as all other federal judges. This is unacceptable in a functioning democracy. Urge Congress to pass the Supreme Court Ethics Act now.

Sign to support Rep. Cori Bush’s Reparations Now Resolution

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund - Abortion care in South Carolina is still legal but is in danger until it is protected, federally. Your dollars directly help needy women

Stand with the Abortion Justice Act safeguard the fundamental human right to reproductive care.

Tax The Rich / Invest in Our NYback to top
Union & Laborback to top

Tell Kaiser Permanente CEO Gregory Adams to meet workers’ demands now.

Add your name today if you agree it's time for Congress to pass the PRO Act to restore the right of workers to form a union and collectively bargain for wages, benefits, and dignity at work.

Interesting Stuff for You!back to top
List in date orderback to top

Oct. 22

Oct. 22 - Meet and Greet in East Quogue for Michael Iasilli, 4:00-6:00pm, in person RSVP

Oct. 23

Oct. 23 - Empowering Voters Through Public Campaign Finance, 6:00pm, 90 Penn Avenue, Massapequa, NY RSVP to administration@lipc.org - FLYER

Oct. 24

Oct. 24 - The one and only public hearing on the Adams administration’s proposed rules that weaken Local Law 97, 11:00 am, online TESTIFY

Oct. 24 - Met Council housing clinic, 6:00pm, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY    

Oct. 24 - Reception in support of Senator Rachel May, with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, 5:00-6:30pm, The Fitz at Oh My Darling, 321 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 RSVP

Oct. 25

Oct. 25 - Designing Restorative Justice Alternatives: A View from the Bench, 1:00pm, zoom RSVP

Oct. 25 - Panel: The Art of War Resistance, Judd Foundation Gallery, 101 Spring Street, NYC RSVP at (212) 228-0450

Oct. 26

Oct. 26 - Universal Healthcare Forum, 7:30-9:00pm, Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474 RSVP

Oct. 26 - Empowerment and Self Defense Workshop, 6:00-8:00pm, 59 E. 4th St., 7th Fl. (Buzzer #14) RSVP

Oct. 26 - Voter Registration Drive in Throggs Neck Houses with AOC, 5:30-8:30pm, Throggs Neck Houses, Bronx, NY 10465 RSVP

Oct. 27

Oct. 27 - One Fair Wage report release, 12:45-2:00pm, Assembly Hearing Room #1923, 250 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 RSVP

Oct. 29

Oct. 29 - WFP phonebank for Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress, noon-3:00pm zoom RSVP

Oct. 29 - Energy Justice Alliance Climate Justice Cafe, 4:30-6:00pm, Casaroma Cafe, 391 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY RSVP

Nov. 1

Nov. 1 - Forum: Not On Our Dime! Act, 6:00-8:00pm, Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center, 6206 6th Avenue Brooklyn RSVP

Nov. 4

Nov. 4 - Black People's March on the White House, 11:00am, Rally at Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill Park) RSVP

Nov. 5

Nov. 5 - Action for Health in the Americas hosts an annual spotlight on the work of our friends at EPES (Popular Education in Health), based in Santiago, Chile, 4:00-6:00pm, Home of Sheila Dauer, 280 Riverside drive #15E, New York, NY, Voluntary donation RSVP - FLYER

Nov. 8

Nov. 8 - Merchants of Death War CrimesTribunal Public Witness Day of Action, noon, Washington, DC (more details to come) MORE

Nov. 19

Nov. 19 - HOW TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE forum, 3:00-5:00pm, Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road, Bronx RSVP

Jan. 18

Jan. 18 - Screening of “Israelism”, 7:00pm, zoom SAVE THE DATE! - MORE - TRAILER When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns.

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