Progressive Democrat Issue 51: BROOKLYN/QUEENS GROUPS AND EVENTS
ALL NYC:
Supreme Court Phone Banking This Sunday: While Alito’s chances currently appear to be better than Miers’s, the situation in the Senate remains highly fluid. And this is important enough that we want to influence the outcome.
This Sunday, we’ll be phone banking progressives in states with moderate Republican Senators, asking these constituents to demand that their Senators conduct a thorough investigation of Alito’s record.
Where: Offices of People for the American Way – NY
149 Fifth Ave. at 21st St. – 7th Floor
When: Sunday, 11/13
2 PM – 6 PM
RSVP: ACTNewYork@gmail.com
Please bring your cell phone and charger if you can. If you don’t have one, we’ll have extras. We’ll provide a script and all the information you’ll need to speak comfortably about the issues.
RSVP: ACTNewYork@gmail.com
CRITCAL MASS BICYCLE MOVEMENT! Critical Mass is a bicyclist movement (NOT an organized group!) that holds weekly protests all over the world to protest pollution. Rides are the last Friday of every month starting in Union Sq. Park North, 7PM! At a DFNYC meeting attended by Norm Seigel, Norm used Critical Mass as an example of the kind of activism that NYC needs most and the way Bloomberg is trying to squelch our rights and our voices. Critical Mass deserves our help. According to Bloomberg, my inclusion of this in my newsletter is probably illegal. Well, I refuse to let Bloomberg tell me what I can and cannot write in my Newsletter.
http://www.times-up.org/cm.php
And see their NYC calendar for Bike Workshops and other rides (including ones outside Manhattan). http://www.times-up.org/calendar/calendar.php
There is more you can do to support Critical Mass. This comes from a reader in Manhattan:
To help keep people involved in Critical Mass, people who might be sacred off because of renewed aggressiveness by the police, I have started a pledge drive that sponsors arrestees. This is a great way for people to stay involved in Critical Mass, stay on top of the issue, and use the NYPD and Bloomberg's tactics to work for us not against us. I am pledging $2 per arrestee, and the money will go to the Legal Aid Society. Pledges are made on the honor system. The more bicyclists the cops arrest the more money for defending civil rights is raised.
7000 local Wal-Mart screenings! Find one near you: The grassroots response to the new Wal-Mart documentary has been incredible. Thanks to you and our many partners, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices" will debut next week in over 7,000 living rooms and community centers across the country—a true groundswell.
MoveOn is co-sponsoring the screenings on Tuesday, November 15th with a focus on legislative solutions. But you can also find a Wal-Mart house party any day next week with different themes, ranging from health care to small businesses, and meet up with folks from many different sectors in your community.
Can you join us at a screening in your neighborhood?
Click here to get your own advance copy of the movie, and support this grassroots effort.
The Media and the '05 Elections: Join The Politicker, Gotham Gazette, and the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy in a conversation about the role of the media in the 2005 New York City elections. Wednesday, November 16 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The Tank @ chashama; 208 West 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.
Featuring a roundtable discussion with: Patrick Healy (The New York Times), Ben Smith (The Politicker), Evelyn Hernandez (El Diario La Prensa), Jonathan Mandell (Gotham Gazette), Andrea Batista Schlesinger (Drum Major Institute for Public Policy)
To RSVP, please email dmi@drummajorinstitute.org
To get to The Tank by subway take the 1, 9, B, D, F,
V, N, Q, R, W A,C, or E trains to 34th Street.
WWW.DrumMajorInstitute.org
BROOKLYN EVENTS:
Save our Neighborhoods! Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Walkathon: November 13, 2005 -- Join with us, your neighborhood organizations, Senator Velmanette Montgomery and neighborhood leader Chris Owens as we Walk for our Neighborhoods in support of the DDDb Legal Fund.
Joy and I will be walking with a progressive team. Please join us in walking or please donate to our efforts.
Democracy for America Meetings: CLICK HERE!
MARJORIE'S OZZIE’S MEETUP: Next meetup in November. 249 5th Ave at Garfield, Park Slope, best subway is R to Union, east one block, and down three blocks. I also recommend getting Marjorie’s very informative newsletter which you can get by contacting her at: johnkerry57@covad.net
Independent Neighborhood Democrats: Contact me or Devin Cohen: devincohen@msn.com if you are interested. http://www.indbrooklyn.org/
Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) (mostly covers Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington. http://www.cbidems.org/
Lambda Independent Democrats (Brooklyn’s gay and lesbian organization) for meeting info contact LID@LIDBrooklyn.org.
DRINKING LIBERALLY: An informal, inclusive weekly Democratic drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't a book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to talk politics. Here are our local Brooklyn groups:
Park Slope: First Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward, Commonwealth, 497 5th Ave (at 12th Street). Hosted by Emily Farris and Peter Wohlsen, parkslope (at) drinkingliberally.org
Williamsburg: Every Tuesday, 8:00 pm onward the Levee, 212 Berry St. (corner of N. 3rd). Hosted by Elana Levin and Michael Freedman-Schnapp, williamsburg (at) drinkingliberally.org
To find your nearest Brooklyn Democratic club, please CLICK HERE.
QUEENS:
Democracy for America Meetings: CLICK HERE!
Queens Jefferson Democratic Club: Our meetings are normally held the first Thursday of every month, @ 8:00 p.m. (the doors open @ 7:30 P.M.) except for July, August, and months in which a holiday falls on the First Thursday. Meetings are held at the Auburndale American Legion Hall, 198-09 33rd Ave Flushing, New York 11358 (just off Francis Lewis Blvd. near 33rd Avenue).
Queens County Young Democrats: for information CLICK HERE.
DRINKING LIBERALLY: An informal, inclusive weekly Democratic drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't a book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to talk politics. Here are our local Queens groups:
ASTORIA: Third Wednesday of each month, 7:30 pm onward. Cassidy's, 34-16 Broadway (at 35th Street). Hosted by Bob Chamerda, astoria (at) drinkingliberally.org
To find your nearest Queens Democratic club, please CLICK HERE.
Supreme Court Phone Banking This Sunday: While Alito’s chances currently appear to be better than Miers’s, the situation in the Senate remains highly fluid. And this is important enough that we want to influence the outcome.
This Sunday, we’ll be phone banking progressives in states with moderate Republican Senators, asking these constituents to demand that their Senators conduct a thorough investigation of Alito’s record.
Where: Offices of People for the American Way – NY
149 Fifth Ave. at 21st St. – 7th Floor
When: Sunday, 11/13
2 PM – 6 PM
RSVP: ACTNewYork@gmail.com
Please bring your cell phone and charger if you can. If you don’t have one, we’ll have extras. We’ll provide a script and all the information you’ll need to speak comfortably about the issues.
RSVP: ACTNewYork@gmail.com
CRITCAL MASS BICYCLE MOVEMENT! Critical Mass is a bicyclist movement (NOT an organized group!) that holds weekly protests all over the world to protest pollution. Rides are the last Friday of every month starting in Union Sq. Park North, 7PM! At a DFNYC meeting attended by Norm Seigel, Norm used Critical Mass as an example of the kind of activism that NYC needs most and the way Bloomberg is trying to squelch our rights and our voices. Critical Mass deserves our help. According to Bloomberg, my inclusion of this in my newsletter is probably illegal. Well, I refuse to let Bloomberg tell me what I can and cannot write in my Newsletter.
http://www.times-up.org/cm.php
And see their NYC calendar for Bike Workshops and other rides (including ones outside Manhattan). http://www.times-up.org/calendar/calendar.php
There is more you can do to support Critical Mass. This comes from a reader in Manhattan:
To help keep people involved in Critical Mass, people who might be sacred off because of renewed aggressiveness by the police, I have started a pledge drive that sponsors arrestees. This is a great way for people to stay involved in Critical Mass, stay on top of the issue, and use the NYPD and Bloomberg's tactics to work for us not against us. I am pledging $2 per arrestee, and the money will go to the Legal Aid Society. Pledges are made on the honor system. The more bicyclists the cops arrest the more money for defending civil rights is raised.
7000 local Wal-Mart screenings! Find one near you: The grassroots response to the new Wal-Mart documentary has been incredible. Thanks to you and our many partners, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices" will debut next week in over 7,000 living rooms and community centers across the country—a true groundswell.
MoveOn is co-sponsoring the screenings on Tuesday, November 15th with a focus on legislative solutions. But you can also find a Wal-Mart house party any day next week with different themes, ranging from health care to small businesses, and meet up with folks from many different sectors in your community.
Can you join us at a screening in your neighborhood?
Click here to get your own advance copy of the movie, and support this grassroots effort.
The Media and the '05 Elections: Join The Politicker, Gotham Gazette, and the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy in a conversation about the role of the media in the 2005 New York City elections. Wednesday, November 16 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The Tank @ chashama; 208 West 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.
Featuring a roundtable discussion with: Patrick Healy (The New York Times), Ben Smith (The Politicker), Evelyn Hernandez (El Diario La Prensa), Jonathan Mandell (Gotham Gazette), Andrea Batista Schlesinger (Drum Major Institute for Public Policy)
To RSVP, please email dmi@drummajorinstitute.org
To get to The Tank by subway take the 1, 9, B, D, F,
V, N, Q, R, W A,C, or E trains to 34th Street.
WWW.DrumMajorInstitute.org
BROOKLYN EVENTS:
Save our Neighborhoods! Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Walkathon: November 13, 2005 -- Join with us, your neighborhood organizations, Senator Velmanette Montgomery and neighborhood leader Chris Owens as we Walk for our Neighborhoods in support of the DDDb Legal Fund.
Joy and I will be walking with a progressive team. Please join us in walking or please donate to our efforts.
Democracy for America Meetings: CLICK HERE!
MARJORIE'S OZZIE’S MEETUP: Next meetup in November. 249 5th Ave at Garfield, Park Slope, best subway is R to Union, east one block, and down three blocks. I also recommend getting Marjorie’s very informative newsletter which you can get by contacting her at: johnkerry57@covad.net
Independent Neighborhood Democrats: Contact me or Devin Cohen: devincohen@msn.com if you are interested. http://www.indbrooklyn.org/
Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) (mostly covers Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington. http://www.cbidems.org/
Lambda Independent Democrats (Brooklyn’s gay and lesbian organization) for meeting info contact LID@LIDBrooklyn.org.
DRINKING LIBERALLY: An informal, inclusive weekly Democratic drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't a book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to talk politics. Here are our local Brooklyn groups:
Park Slope: First Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward, Commonwealth, 497 5th Ave (at 12th Street). Hosted by Emily Farris and Peter Wohlsen, parkslope (at) drinkingliberally.org
Williamsburg: Every Tuesday, 8:00 pm onward the Levee, 212 Berry St. (corner of N. 3rd). Hosted by Elana Levin and Michael Freedman-Schnapp, williamsburg (at) drinkingliberally.org
To find your nearest Brooklyn Democratic club, please CLICK HERE.
QUEENS:
Democracy for America Meetings: CLICK HERE!
Queens Jefferson Democratic Club: Our meetings are normally held the first Thursday of every month, @ 8:00 p.m. (the doors open @ 7:30 P.M.) except for July, August, and months in which a holiday falls on the First Thursday. Meetings are held at the Auburndale American Legion Hall, 198-09 33rd Ave Flushing, New York 11358 (just off Francis Lewis Blvd. near 33rd Avenue).
Queens County Young Democrats: for information CLICK HERE.
DRINKING LIBERALLY: An informal, inclusive weekly Democratic drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don't need to be a policy expert and this isn't a book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it's not taboo to talk politics. Here are our local Queens groups:
ASTORIA: Third Wednesday of each month, 7:30 pm onward. Cassidy's, 34-16 Broadway (at 35th Street). Hosted by Bob Chamerda, astoria (at) drinkingliberally.org
To find your nearest Queens Democratic club, please CLICK HERE.
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