On the Calendar this week (click or scroll) - or see as a list in date order!
Dec 8 - Tenant Organizing Training, 1:00-3:00pm, Sunnyside Reform Church, 48-03 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, Queens RSVP
Dec 9 - Rally to End Solitary in NYC, 11:50am, NYC City Hall steps RSVP
Dec 9 - Tell Schumer: Stop Fracking, noon, TBA, New York, NY 10017 RSVP
Dec 9 - Vigil Mondays for Palestine, 5:00-6:30pm, 720 West 181st Street at Congressman Espaillat's office MORE
Dec 9 - Statewide Climate Justice Committee meeting, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 9 - Webinar: NYCLU's Day 1 New York State Legislative Agenda, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 9 - National Call for Medical Debt Abolition, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 10 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 10 - Nationwide Walkout for #ERANow, noon-12:30pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 10 - Protest: tell Fox to stop hurting America, noon-1:00pm, Fox Headquarters, 48th Street and 6th Avenue, NYC MORE
Dec 10 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 4:00-5:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 10 - Vigil for Palestine, 5:00 pm, Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue/West 168th Street, just west of Ft. Washington Avenue MORE Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Dec 10 - Tenant Housing Clinic, 6:00pm, CUNY in the Heights, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY
Dec 10 - Citizen Action Teach-In: How NYers Can Fight the MAGA Agenda, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 11 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 11 - Join home care workers to protest 24-hour workdays at @govkathyhochul’s Department of Labor, 11:00am, 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn NY RSVP
Dec 11 - Meditation Sit vs. Chase Bank Climate Terrorism, noon, 1:30pm, East 46th Street at Vanderbilt Avenue, on NW corner
Dec 11 - Day of Action vs. NYS Sentencing Laws, noon-1:00pm multiple locations RSVP
Dec 11 - Third Act All-In Call, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 12 - Statewide Day of Action for Renewable Heat Now!, various times and locations RSVP
Dec 12 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 12 - Peekskill, NY: Westchester Says Pass the HEAT Act NOW, Hochul!, 11:00-noon, Gazebo, 3 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 RSVP
Dec 12 - Discussion about the UN Plastic Treaty, 5:00-6:15pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 13 - DSA party - Mingle All The Way!, 6:00-9:00pm, SILO, 99 Scott Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn 11237). This event is 21+, IDs will be checked at the door. RSVP
Dec 13 - Conversation with Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell and movement leader Marshall Ganz, about what it takes to build lasting power rooted in working class communities, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 14 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 1:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 14 - DSA Field Kickoff: Canvass for Zohran, 2:00-3:00pm, various locations RSVP
Dec 10 - Protest: tell Fox to stop hurting America, noon-1:00pm, Fox Headquarters, 48th Street and 6th Avenue, NYC MORE
Dec 10 - Citizen Action Teach-In: How NYers Can Fight the MAGA Agenda, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Jan 18 - The People's March, 10:00am-8:00pm, Washington, DC 20024 RSVP
Jan 20 - We Fight Back! National Day of Action honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., 11:00am, Washington Square Park, NYC RSVP
Tell Congress to strengthen, not cut, SNAP nutrition benefits in the Farm Bill
Congressional leaders are looking to pass a Farm Bill before the end of the year. But House Republicans are proposing a $30 billion cut to SNAP funding. Tell Congress to strengthen, not cut, SNAP nutrition benefits.
President Biden has 56 days left in office and what he does in those days could define his human rights legacy. Help us send 5,000 letters to President Biden urging him to take action on key human rights priorities: Stop arms transfers to the Israeli government and demand a permanent and immediate ceasefire; Commute the death sentences of the 44 people on federal and military death row; Transfer cleared Guantánamo detainees; Free Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier; Restore access to asylum and sanctuary at the U.S. border. President Biden can make ALL of these things happen in the next 56 days without Congress or anyone else... he just needs to hear the strength and commitment of our collective voices.
Postal management and the Postal Board of Governors (BOG) have announced a plan to slow the mail down, for the second time in three years. We need to make sure that the Postal Regulatory Commission and the BOG hear our voices before the Postal Service starts slowing down the mail. Add your voice!
Donald Trump has brought on tech moguls Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as unpaid, outside consultants to run an effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with reducing federal spending. Please sign the petition to Congress: Defend your Constitutional right to approve all spending and spending cuts.
Please add your name: Stop Trump from adjourning Congress indefinitely and recess appointing his entire cabinet
Senate Democrats are working to confirm as many of President Biden's judicial nominees as they can before Republicans take over on January 3. Sign a petition to your U.S. Senators: Confirm Lauren McFerran to another term on the National Labor Relations Board.
HR 9495 was temporarily blocked, but MAGA House leaders plan to ram it through next week, and we need to keep the pressure on. Call your Representative and tell them to vote NO on HR 9495!
Join the “Not Above the Law” Rapid Response Team
Four Things New York Lawmakers Must Do Before Trump Takes Office
TAKE ACTION: Tell state leaders to protect New Yorkers from the incoming Trump Administration.
Learn about hosting a Worth Fighting For Community Gathering
Dec 9 - Tell Schumer: Stop Fracking, noon, TBA, New York, NY 10017 RSVP
Dec 9 - Statewide Climate Justice Committee meeting, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 10 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 11 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 11 - Meditation Sit vs. Chase Bank Climate Terrorism, noon, 1:30pm, East 46th Street at Vanderbilt Avenue, on NW corner
Dec 11 - Third Act All-In Call, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 12 - Statewide Day of Action for Renewable Heat Now!, various times and locations RSVP
Dec 12 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 12 - Peekskill, NY: Westchester Says Pass the HEAT Act NOW, Hochul!, 11:00-noon, Gazebo, 3 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 RSVP
Dec 12 - Discussion about the UN Plastic Treaty, 5:00-6:15pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 16 - Rally urging Governor Hochul to Deny the Iroquois Pipeline Expansion, noon-1:00pm, War Room, Capitol Building, Albany RSVP
Jan 3 - Pro-Climate Visits to New Congressmembers, noon-1:30pm, Longworth House Office Building, 1 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003 RSVP
Jan 22 - Join us at the NYS Capitol to mobilize and lobby for our Fund Climate spending agenda, which would put communities at the center of the energy transition, 10:00am-4:00pm, Underground Concourse, New York State Capitol, 263 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Jan 28 - Advocacy Day & Rally to Reduce Fossil Plastic Packaging in New York, 10:00am-4:30pm, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 85 Chestnut Street, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Jan 29 - Renewable Heat Now Albany Rally and Lobby Day, 10:00am-4:00pm, New York State Legislative Office Building, 198 State Street, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Please comment:: Renewable Heat Now in the New York State Energy Plan
Melinda Janki fighting to stop ExxonMobil drilling for oil in Guyana. “There is no way this earth can survive with a fossil fuel industry.”
Tell Hochul’s NYS Energy Planning Board, enforce the state’s climate and jobs law instead of following the will of corporate polluters ruining our planet and making it harder to live in New York.
Winter 2024 Grassroots Lobby Effort to Defend NY's Climate Law, many dates and locations RSVP
Sign Up for Summer of Heat 2025
Sign a petition telling President Biden and the Congress to Act on Climate before Trump Takes Office
Dec 14 - DSA Field Kickoff: Canvass for Zohran, 2:00-3:00pm, various locations RSVP
Dec 10 - Nationwide Walkout for #ERANow, noon-12:30pm, zoom RSVP
The ERA will update the US Constitution to enshrine equal rights under the law regardless of sex, protecting the people against discriminatory federal and state laws. It will be a vital tool to combat discrimination, prevent the rollback of equal rights, and pave the way for legislative progress. The amendment is ready to be added to the Constitution and is awaiting publication. Tell President Biden to instruct the US Archivist to certify and publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment.
Urge President Biden to do everything he can to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution to ensure his legacy includes enshrining gender equality. Call (202) 456-1111, text (302) 404-0880 and email the White House and demand that the ERA becomes reality. EVERY DAY. And ask your friends and community to do the same.
Dec 13 - DSA party - Mingle All The Way!, 6:00-9:00pm, SILO, 99 Scott Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn 11237). This event is 21+, IDs will be checked at the door. RSVP
Dec 22 - DSA’s first-ever Holiday Twitch Stream, 2:00-6:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 9 - National Call for Medical Debt Abolition, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 18 - Community meeting "How to Fix Health Insurance Problems" with AM Anna Kelles. Learn about how Community Health Advocates can help you navigate the complexities of health insurance, medical billing and more. 11:00am-noon, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 RSVP
The incoming Trump administration and Republican majority in Congress pose grave threats to our already broken health care system. Project 2025 proposes unraveling the Affordable Care Act, gutting Medicaid, and further privatizing Medicare. Commit to keep up the fight for Medicare for All in 2025
Tool for practicing how to have conversations about Medicare4All
TAKE ACTION: Tell lawmakers to say no to mask bans in New York
Public Health and Healthcare professionals and workers are responding. If you are a worker or professional in the healthcare or public health (e.g., doctor, nurse, therapist, dental, MPH, or have some professional work standing in those areas regardless of degrees) please see the two sign-ups below. Gregg Gonsalves initiated organizing here, and there is another specifically for people self-identifying as Jews who are also public health and healthcare professionals.
Tell Mayor Eric Adams: Stop Trying to Take Medicare Away from NYC Retirees
Single Payer News - useful articles, regularly updated by Tim Frasca.
And now with a PODCAST too!
Dec 8 - Tenant Organizing Training, 1:00-3:00pm, Sunnyside Reform Church, 48-03 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, Queens RSVP
Dec 10 - Tenant Housing Clinic, 6:00pm, CUNY in the Heights, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY
Dec 9 - Webinar: NYCLU's Day 1 New York State Legislative Agenda, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
In anticipation of ICE raids and repression, the ACLU and NYCLU websites have some resources to help answer questions and quell anxiety with at least the illusion of some control. ICE officials may roll right over these rights, but it's probably worth knowing they exist. WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE STOPPED BY IMMIGRATION OFFICERS:
Protect Immigrants. The 5th Circuit is hearing a case to repeal DACA. This would devastate millions. Biden has the power to act. Demand he protects DACA recipients. RSVP
Dec 9 - Rally to End Solitary in NYC, 11:50am, NYC City Hall steps RSVP
Dec 11 - Day of Action vs. NYS Sentencing Laws, noon-1:00pm multiple locations RSVP
Dec 16 - Communities Not Cages: Defiant Hope Statewide Day of Action, noon-1:00pm, various locations RSVP
Jan 28 - Parole Justice Advocacy Day, Jan. 28, Albany RSVP
Dec 8 - Tenant Organizing Training, 1:00-3:00pm, Sunnyside Reform Church, 48-03 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, Queens RSVP
Dec 14 - SURJ NYC Community & Action Safety 101 class (two days), 1:00-4:30pm, location TBA RSVP
Dec 9 - Vigil Mondays for Palestine, 5:00-6:30pm, 720 West 181st Street at Congressman Espaillat's office MORE
Dec 10 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 4:00-5:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 10 - Vigil for Palestine, 5:00 pm, Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue/West 168th Street, just west of Ft. Washington Avenue MORE Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Dec 14 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 1:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 17 - Arms Embargo Now Campaign Call, 7:00-8:30pm, zoom RSVP
Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Soldiers in the center of Hebron
Urge Your Council Member to Call on Speaker Adams to Introduce a Ceasefire Resolution in NYC
As Israel’s genocide continues to decimate Gaza, and its war of aggression in Lebanon continues unabated, it is encouraging to see elected officials stand against continued support of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This week, 19 Senators – nearly 40% of Senate Democrats – voted to support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval blocking weapons to Israel. While it is important to hold members of Congress accountable when they make the wrong decision, it is equally as important to thank them when they make the right one.
Resources for Peace - use them NOW!
Tell the Senate: Don’t attack the student movement for Palestinian rights.
Get the BoyCat app - help end Israel’s genocide in Gaza and dismantle its decades-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid
Take Action: Tell the Senate to stop $20B Israel arms deal THIS WEEK!
Email your senators today to tell them to oppose sending $20 billion in arms to the Israeli military.
Tell your Senators today to pass the JRDs and rein in U.S. support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
UAW IEB: Divest from Israel Bonds Now!
Here's Joe Catron’s List of Palestine Actions
Lots of events in one place!
NY Renews is now looking for a Digital Organizing Fellow and an Organizing Fellow
Big Reuse Hiring for multiple compost positions very soon APPLY
+972 is looking for its first ever Audience Engagement Manager, who will play a central role in increasing the reach of our journalism during a critical time in Israel-Palestine. Apply
Dec 11 - Join home care workers to protest 24-hour workdays at @govkathyhochul’s Department of Labor, 11:00am, 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn NY RSVP
Buunni performance calendar, 4961 Broadway, New York, NY
Northwest Bronx Indivisible calendar of events
President Biden has 56 days left in office and what he does in those days could define his human rights legacy. Help us send 5,000 letters to President Biden urging him to take action on key human rights priorities: Stop arms transfers to the Israeli government and demand a permanent and immediate ceasefire; Commute the death sentences of the 44 people on federal and military death row; Transfer cleared Guantánamo detainees; Free Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier; Restore access to asylum and sanctuary at the U.S. border. President Biden can make ALL of these things happen in the next 56 days without Congress or anyone else... he just needs to hear the strength and commitment of our collective voices.
Demand the Biden administration pursue a diplomatic resolution to the war in Ukraine, call off NATO-supplied missiles striking inside Russia and avert World War III between nuclear powers
Add Your Name: Amend the Constitution on Guns
Postal management and the Postal Board of Governors (BOG) have announced a plan to slow the mail down, for the second time in three years. We need to make sure that the Postal Regulatory Commission and the BOG hear our voices before the Postal Service starts slowing down the mail. Add your voice!
Sign our petition demanding Congress repeal the anti-woman, anti-abortion Comstock Act
Sign if you agree with President Biden and Vice President Harris: Add a carve-out to the filibuster in the U.S. Senate in order to codify Roe vs. Wade into federal law.
With the stroke of a pen, five people curtailed the rights of millions when they overturned Roe v. Wade two summers ago. Tell Your Rep: Abortion is a Human Right!
With no enforceable high court code of conduct, and the Court unwilling to police themselves, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin have introduced the High Court Gift Ban Act, which will prohibit justices from receiving gifts worth over $50 each, or over $100 total, per year. Tell Congress to support and pass the High Court Gift Ban Act now!
Add your name to tell AOC you have her back and to urge other members of Congress to sign on to articles of impeachment against the corrupt justices on this court.
Donald Trump has brought on tech moguls Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as unpaid, outside consultants to run an effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with reducing federal spending. Please sign the petition to Congress: Defend your Constitutional right to approve all spending and spending cuts.
Please add your name: Stop Trump from adjourning Congress indefinitely and recess appointing his entire cabinet
Four Things New York Lawmakers Must Do Before Trump Takes Office
Dec 13 - Conversation with Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell and movement leader Marshall Ganz, about what it takes to build lasting power rooted in working class communities, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 8 - Tenant Organizing Training, 1:00-3:00pm, Sunnyside Reform Church, 48-03 Skillman Avenue, Sunnyside, Queens RSVP
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Dec 9 - Tell Schumer: Stop Fracking, noon, TBA, New York, NY 10017 RSVP
Dec 9 - Vigil Mondays for Palestine, 5:00-6:30pm, 720 West 181st Street at Congressman Espaillat's office MORE
Dec 9 - Rally to End Solitary in NYC, 11:50am, NYC City Hall steps RSVP
Dec 9 - Webinar: NYCLU's Day 1 New York State Legislative Agenda, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 9 - Statewide Climate Justice Committee meeting, 6:00-7:00pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 9 - National Call for Medical Debt Abolition, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 10 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 10 - Nationwide Walkout for #ERANow, noon-12:30pm, zoom RSVP
Dec 10 - Protest: tell Fox to stop hurting America, noon-1:00pm, Fox Headquarters, 48th Street and 6th Avenue, NYC MORE
Dec 10 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 4:00-5:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 10 - Vigil for Palestine, 5:00 pm, Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue/West 168th Street, just west of Ft. Washington Avenue MORE Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Dec 10 - Tenant Housing Clinic, 6:00pm, CUNY in the Heights, 5030 Broadway, New York, NY
Dec 10 - Citizen Action Teach-In: How NYers Can Fight the MAGA Agenda, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 11 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 11 - Join home care workers to protest 24-hour workdays at @govkathyhochul’s Department of Labor, 11:00am, 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn NY RSVP
Dec 11 - Day of Action vs. NYS Sentencing Laws, noon-1:00pm multiple locations RSVP
Dec 11 - Meditation Sit vs. Chase Bank Climate Terrorism, noon, 1:30pm, East 46th Street at Vanderbilt Avenue, on NW corner
Dec 11 - Third Act All-In Call, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 12 - Statewide Day of Action for Renewable Heat Now!, various times and locations RSVP
Dec 12 - New York Climate Change Superfund Sit-In, 10:00am, New York State Capitol, 198 State Street , Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
Dec 12 - Peekskill, NY: Westchester Says Pass the HEAT Act NOW, Hochul!, 11:00-noon, Gazebo, 3 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 RSVP
Dec 12 - Discussion about the UN Plastic Treaty, 5:00-6:15pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 13 - DSA party - Mingle All The Way!, 6:00-9:00pm, SILO, 99 Scott Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn 11237). This event is 21+, IDs will be checked at the door. RSVP
Dec 13 - Conversation with Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell and movement leader Marshall Ganz, about what it takes to build lasting power rooted in working class communities, 6:30-8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 14 - Semi-weekly Vigil for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, 1:00pm, 5th Avenue and 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY MORE
Dec 14 - SURJ NYC Community & Action Safety 101 class (two days), 1:00-4:30pm, location TBA RSVP
Dec 14 - DSA Field Kickoff: Canvass for Zohran, 2:00-3:00pm, various locations RSVP
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Dec 16 - Rally urging Governor Hochul to Deny the Iroquois Pipeline Expansion, noon-1:00pm, War Room, Capitol Building, Albany RSVP
Dec 16 - Communities Not Cages: Defiant Hope Statewide Day of Action, noon-1:00pm, various locations RSVP
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Dec 17 - Arms Embargo Now Campaign Call, 7:00-8:30pm, zoom RSVP
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Dec 18 - Community meeting "How to Fix Health Insurance Problems" with AM Anna Kelles. Learn about how Community Health Advocates can help you navigate the complexities of health insurance, medical billing and more. 11:00am-noon, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 RSVP
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Dec 22 - DSA’s first-ever Holiday Twitch Stream, 2:00-6:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Jan 3 - Pro-Climate Visits to New Congressmembers, noon-1:30pm, Longworth House Office Building, 1 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003 RSVP
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Jan 13 - Single Payer Committee meeting, 8:00pm, zoom RSVP
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Jan 18 - The People's March, 10:00am-8:00pm, Washington, DC 20024 RSVP
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Jan 20 - We Fight Back! National Day of Action honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., 11:00am, Washington Square Park, NYC RSVP
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Jan 22 - Join us at the NYS Capitol to mobilize and lobby for our Fund Climate spending agenda, which would put communities at the center of the energy transition, 10:00am-4:00pm, Underground Concourse, New York State Capitol, 263 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
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Jan 28 - Parole Justice Advocacy Day, Jan. 28, Albany RSVP
Jan 28 - Advocacy Day & Rally to Reduce Fossil Plastic Packaging in New York, 10:00am-4:30pm, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 85 Chestnut Street, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
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Jan 29 - Renewable Heat Now Albany Rally and Lobby Day, 10:00am-4:00pm, New York State Legislative Office Building, 198 State Street, Albany, NY 12210 RSVP
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