Action Calendar - week of November 19th, 2023
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Nov. 19 - CEASEFIRE PROTEST vs DAN GOLDMAN, noon, rain or shine at Prospect Park Entrance on Grand Army Plaza

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

Nov. 20 - Palestine and the Criminalization of Protest, 2:00-3:30pm, YouTube RSVP

Nov. 20 - Jews for Ceasefire: National Strategy Call with IfNotNow, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 22 - WFP National Phonebank for a Ceasefire Now!, 3:00-5:00pm RSVP

Committee Doings back to top

The Single Payer Committee

The Single Payer Committee normally meets on the second Monday of every month, but due to all the things happening around Gaza we're postponing the November 13th one and will meet next on December 11th at 7:00pm on this zoom and all are welcome!

Check out our latest flyer.

Resistanceback to top

Dec. 1 - Meeting with Rep. Summer Lee to help build progressive power, 6:00-8:00pm, Brooklyn (address sent after RSVP) 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.

AOC Turkey Giveawayback to topNew!

AOC Turkey Distributions this month. Please sign-up for a shift.

Climate Crisisback 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

After many years of delays and a fatally flawed Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) written by a member of the American Petroleum Institute -- a clear conflict of interest -- the Army Corps of Engineers is finally taking public comments on this dangerous violation of the sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Send your comment here!

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

Write Postcards to Voters in California and New York!

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

Dec. 6 - Medicare for All Movement Call, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

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

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.

If you're in Rep. Adriano Espaillat's district, ask him to sign on here

If you're in Rep. Jerry Nadler's district, ask him to sign on here

If you're in Rep. Dan Goldman's district, ask him to sign on 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. 19 - CEASEFIRE PROTEST vs DAN GOLDMAN, noon, rain or shine at Prospect Park Entrance on Grand Army Plaza

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

Nov. 20 - Palestine and the Criminalization of Protest, 2:00-3:30pm, YouTube RSVP

Nov. 20 - Jews for Ceasefire: National Strategy Call with IfNotNow, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 22 - WFP National Phonebank for a Ceasefire Now!, 3:00-5:00pm 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.

Videos about Gaza - courtesy of Dave Lippman

Instead of voting for a Ceasefire resolution to end the violence, the U.S. House thought it was more important to censure Rashida Tlaib — the only Palestinian-American in Congress. Please call 202-902-7660 to be connected directly with your U.S. House representative to demand a Ceasefire NOW. AND please send them an email demanding that they take action NOW to stop the violence.

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

Keep funding WIC to feed mothers and young children

Expand the Child Tax Credit to help more low-income families

Don’t rescind new IRS funding that is used to audit rich tax cheats

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!

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. 30 - New York Working Families Party Bronx Chapter Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm, zoom RSVP

Dec. 4 - New York Working Families Party Manhattan Chapter Monthly Meeting, 7:00-8:00pm, zoom RSVP

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

Nov. 19back to top

Nov. 19 - CEASEFIRE PROTEST vs DAN GOLDMAN, noon, rain or shine at Prospect Park Entrance on Grand Army Plaza

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

Nov. 20back to top

Nov. 20 - Palestine and the Criminalization of Protest, 2:00-3:30pm, YouTube RSVP

Nov. 20 - AOC Turkey Distribution, 4:30-6:30pm, Co-Op City RSVP

Nov. 20 - Jews for Ceasefire: National Strategy Call with IfNotNow, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Nov. 22back to top

Nov. 22 - WFP National Phonebank for a Ceasefire Now!, 3:00-5:00pm RSVP

Nov. 30back to top

Nov. 30 - New York Working Families Party Bronx Chapter Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm, zoom RSVP

Dec. 1back to top

Dec. 1 - Meeting with Rep. Summer Lee to help build progressive power, 6:00-8:00pm, Brooklyn (address sent after RSVP) RSVP

Dec. 4back to top

Dec. 4 - New York Working Families Party Manhattan Chapter Monthly Meeting, 7:00-8:00pm, zoom RSVP

Dec. 6back to top

Dec. 6 - Medicare for All Movement Call, 8:00pm, 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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