Sunday, August 12th: The Art of Protest
The Art of Protest The Laundry Room (143 W. 116th St., Manhattan) 12-3pm Free Led by Kathleena Howie-Garcia Be the change you want to see. Using the tradition of protest art, this workshop allows you to make posters that enable you to do just that. Acting as the conscience of our community when leaders, institutions, [...]
Thursday, July 5th: QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today
QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today New Museum (235 Bowery, Manhattan) 7pm + Free museum admission from 7-9pm Free Gearing up for the 2012 International AIDS Conference this July in Washington DC, QUEEROCRACY will present a workshop about AIDS today and the activism necessary to guarantee access to AIDS treatment and [...]
Sunday, May 20th: Let the Doughnut Do the Talking: Food as Activism
Let the Doughnut Do the Talking: Food as Activism Metropolitan Community Church of New York (446 W. 36th St., Manhattan) 12:30pm Free Join Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan of Our Hen House as they discuss the multitude of ways we can each change the world for animals through food activism. Whether it’s baking compassionate cupcakes [...]
Saturday, May 12th: 2012 Brooklyn Food Conference
2012 Brooklyn Food Conference Brooklyn Technical High School (29 Fort Greene Pl., Brooklyn) 9am-6pm Free On May 12, 2012 over 5,000 people are expected to attend this free, all day event filled with keynotes from notable food activists, workshops, panel discussions, food demos, family programming, art and much more. The 2012 Conference will help strengthen [...]
Sunday, April 22nd: Grace Lee Boggs: ‘The Next American Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here?’
Grace Lee Boggs Tishman Auditorium at The New School (66 W. 12th St., Manhattan) 6-8pm Free For the last seventy years Grace Lee Boggs, the legendary “movement organizer”, philosopher and community journalist has helped us reimagine our cities and other potential spaces of democracy by focusing on the notion of, “bringing neighbors back to the [...]
Saturday, June 11th: World Naked Bike Ride
World Naked Bike Ride East River Park & Delancey St. (just S. of W’burg Bridge), Manhattan 3pm gathering, 6pm start Free JOIN THE FUN in making streets safe for our beautiful, yet vulnerable bodies. WE RIDE IN CELEBRATION of the end nuclear energy, auto & oil dependence. WE RIDE IN SOLDARITY with people world-round indecently [...]
Thursday, June 9th: Free ‘Battle for Brooklyn’ Screening
Battle for Brooklyn The Myrtle Avenue Hill in Ft. Greene Park (enter at Myrtle and N. Portland, Brooklyn) 8:30pm Free A group of people in Rooftop’s beloved Brooklyn come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project—a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy their homes and neighborhood—in this epic tale of how far people [...]
Thursday, June 2nd: Susan Rosenberg & ‘American Radical’
American Radical Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm Free Susan Rosenberg got active in the 1960’s. By the early 80’s, she was living underground as a fugitive due to her liberation activities and association with M19CO. In 1984, she was sentenced to 58 years in prison for possession of explosives. Yet, 16 years later, Bill [...]
Sunday, May 29th: Will Potter Discusses ‘Green Is the New Red’
Will Potter Discusses Green Is the New Red Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm Free While encouraging us to “go green”, our government is also using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists. Join journalist Will Potter for a reading from “Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege,” his guided [...]
Monday, March 28th: Indigenous Women Resist Mining in Guatemala
Indigenous Women Resist Mining in Guatemala Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm $5 suggested donation Join members of national Tz’ununija’ indigenous women’s movement and folks from the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) for a presentation and discussion about women-led indigenous resistance to mining and other large scale development projects affecting their [...]
