Progressive Democrat Issue 79: BROOKLYN/QUEENS GROUPS AND EVENTS

ALL NYC:

Sack Santorum Phone Banking in Central Park:
Sat, 06/17/2006 - 3:00pm
ACT new york will be calling independent voters in Pennsylvania to help lay the groundwok for the defeat of Senator Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania. Meet at the Southwest corner of Sheep Meadow (east of 67th and Central Park West) Bring a cell phone if you can, If you can't, For more information check website www.actnowny.org


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.

And see their worldwide calendar for Bike Workshops and other locations.

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.


BROOKLYN EVENTS:

Benefit for Reproductive Rights Justice In South Dakota
Sunday June 11 7:30-10:30pm

Cattyshack
249 4th Avenue
(between President & Carroll)
(R to Union St or F to 4th Ave/9th St.)
Brooklyn - Park Slope, nyc

MC'd by Missile Dick Chicks Sparkle & Candy Can
DJ Winter, Co-founder of Sister NYC

Special Guest:
Jennifer Baumgardner
Annie Tummino, lead plantiff in EC case against FDA
Music by Amy Clarke

Video Clip of the film "Speak Out: I Had An Abortion"
Raffles @ 9pm & 9:45pm, and More!
$10

RSVP appreciated: feminist9-at-yahoo.com (replace -at- with @).

All proceeds go to Cecelia Fire Thunder, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and Planned Parenthood of South Dakota.


New Democratic Majority in Brooklyn: Please join your hosts Marjorie Gersten, David Michaelson and Michael Bouldin on Thursday, June 22nd, 7 PM at Ozzies, 249 5th Avenue, between Carroll Street and Garfield Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
At this next meeting we hope to be talking to some candidates for Assembly in Brooklyn, including Wellington Sharpe and Bill Batson (the only two who have so far expressed interest…more to follow, we suspect).

I will be a co-host of this meeting. We meet the 4th Thursday of every month at the 5th Ave. Ozzie’s in Park Slope, 249 5th Ave (intersection of 5th and Garfield) at 7 PM.


Democracy for America Meetings: CLICK HERE!
To help Dmeocracy for NYC petition to get candidates on the ballot, please go here.

Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) (mostly covers Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington). http://www.cbidems.org/

June 6 to July 10 is Petitioning season for soliciting signatures on designating petitions for our endorsed candidates to qualify them to run in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary. I urge you to work with CBID to circulate petitions.


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.