Action Calendar - week of November 5th, 2023
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Nov. 5 - E-waste recycling event, 10:00am-2:00pm, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY (Avenue A between 9th and 10th Streets) rain or shine! FLIER

Nov. 6 - WFP GOTV Phone Bank, 6:00-8:30pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 6 - Healing Breakfast: fighting antisemitism and hate, with Congressman Jamaal Boman, 11:00am, Location will be provided upon registration RSVP

Nov. 8 - Demonstration outside Citibank to demand they divests from fossil fuels NOW, 8:00am, 1221 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY RSVP

Nov. 8 - Marianne Pizzitola on retirees’ fight against Medicare Advantage, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 9 - Schools Out for Ceasefire, throughout the day MORE - FLIER

Nov. 9 - Training for virtual lobby day, 7:00pm, zoom RSVP

Committee Doings back to top

The Single Payer Committee

The Single Payer Committee normally meets on the second Monday of every month, so the next meeting will be on November 13th, at 7:00pm, and all are welcome! Use this zoom

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 we will need people power to pressure leaders to improve the mess that is our current health care system.

Research Working Group - Contact Ting Barrow, tingb@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.

Check out our latest flyer.

Resistanceback to top

Nov. 12 - Webinar: The Rise of the New McCarthyism in the United States, 11:00am, zoom RSVP

Tell Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: Admit Trump lost the 2020 election!

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline - open comment period

Tell your Representative now to become a co-sponsor of the OLIGARCH Act to ensure millionaires and billionaires start paying what they owe in taxes now.

Tell corporations: Support a better world. Stop funding ALEC's extremist agenda

Sign the petition: President Biden must act and fire Trump crony Louis DeJoy from the USPS.

Climate Crisisback to top

Nov. 5 - E-waste recycling event, 10:00am-2:00pm, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY (Avenue A between 9th and 10th Streets) rain or shine! FLIER

Nov. 8 - Demonstration outside Citibank to demand they divests from fossil fuels NOW, 8:00am, 1221 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY RSVP

Nov. 15 - Launch of the 2023-2024 NY Renews Climate, Jobs, & Justice campaign, 4:00pm, BQE Trench Area Williamsburg, South 3rd Street and Rodney Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 RSVP

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

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline - open comment period

Continue the fight to #EndFossilFuels by demanding that the Dakota Access Pipeline is shut down once and for all

The Community Gardens Protection Act, Birds and Bees Protection Act, and Class C-Streams Protection Act bring together much-needed protections for our pollinators, our green spaces, and recreational waterways and streams. Send a letter to Governor Hochul to sign these crucial environmental protections into law.

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

Nov. 6 - Latino Justice PRLDEF 2023 NYC Municipal Election Latino Voter Outreach txt bank, 6:00-8:00pm, 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

Healthcareback to top

Nov. 8 - Marianne Pizzitola on retirees’ fight against Medicare Advantage, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 9 - Training for virtual lobby day, 7:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 13 - Week of Virtual Lobby days with NYHA cosponsors SIGN-UP

Urge your Congress person to sign on to the "State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023." Call (202) 224-3121 or write them HERE

Sign the PNHP petition: Protect Medicare from Corporate Greed

Pfizer announced plans to start charging $1,390 for one five-day course of Paxlovid that costs less than $14 to make. Time to #PassNYHealth!

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

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

Immigrant & Native Rightsback to top

Replace the Colonial Plaque on Shorakapkok Rock in Inwood Hill Park. Local organizers want to remove the current plaque in Inwood Hill Park, written and installed in 1954, which tells a false tale justifying European colonialism, and replace with a statement written by the leadership council of the Delaware Nation.

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

JFREJ is hiring a Development Intern! $20/hour, ~10 hours/week, November-June. Click here to apply.

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. 6 - Healing Breakfast: fighting antisemitism and hate, with Congressman Jamaal Boman, 11:00am, Location will be provided upon registration RSVP

Nov. 9 - Schools Out for Ceasefire, throughout the day MORE - FLIER

Nov. 19 - Invitation to an Online Film Salon - “Marketing the Israeli Occupation”, 3:00pm, zoom 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.

If you haven’t already, please sign on as a citizen cosponsor of the Ceasefire Now Resolution

Urgent Action Israel/Palestine

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

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

Nov. 18 - Join the Jails Action Coalition, #HALTsolitary Campaign, and allies for a public memorial action to honor people killed by New York City jails and New York State prisons, 2:00pm, Washington Square Park, NYC RSVP

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!

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

Nov. 16 - Join the Starbucks Workers United: Red Cup Rebellion, MORE HERE

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.

Working Families Partyback to top

Nov. 6 - WFP GOTV Phone Bank, 6:00-8:30pm, zoom RSVP

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

Nov. 5back to top

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. 5 - E-waste recycling event, 10:00am-2:00pm, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY (Avenue A between 9th and 10th Streets) rain or shine! FLIER

Nov. 6back to top

Nov. 6 - Healing Breakfast: fighting antisemitism and hate, with Congressman Jamaal Boman, 11:00am, Location will be provided upon registration RSVP

Nov. 6 - Latino Justice PRLDEF 2023 NYC Municipal Election Latino Voter Outreach txt bank, 6:00-8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 6 - WFP GOTV Phone Bank, 6:00-8:30pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 8back to top

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

Nov. 8 - Demonstration outside Citibank to demand they divests from fossil fuels NOW, 8:00am, 1221 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY RSVP

Nov. 8 - Marianne Pizzitola on retirees’ fight against Medicare Advantage, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 9back to top

Nov. 9 - Schools Out for Ceasefire, throughout the day MORE - FLIER

Nov. 9 - Training for virtual lobby day, 7:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 12back to top

Nov. 12 - Webinar: The Rise of the New McCarthyism in the United States, 11:00am, zoom RSVP

Nov. 13back to top

Nov. 13 - Week of Virtual Lobby days with NYHA cosponsors SIGN-UP

Nov. 15back to top

Nov. 15 - Launch of the 2023-2024 NY Renews Climate, Jobs, & Justice campaign, 4:00pm, BQE Trench Area Williamsburg, South 3rd Street and Rodney Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 RSVP

Nov. 16back to top

Nov. 16 - Join the Starbucks Workers United: Red Cup Rebellion, MORE HERE

Nov. 18back to top

Nov. 18 - Join the Jails Action Coalition, #HALTsolitary Campaign, and allies for a public memorial action to honor people killed by New York City jails and New York State prisons, 2:00pm, Washington Square Park, NYC RSVP

Nov. 19back to top

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

Nov. 19 - Invitation to an Online Film Salon - “Marketing the Israeli Occupation”, 3:00pm, zoom RSVP

Jan. 18back to top

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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