CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Sixth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference!

Host: NYC Grassroots Media Coalition
Date:Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Time:7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:NACLA office
Street:38 Greene Street, 4th floor (corner of Grand Street), SoHo

Come out and help organize the most important media gathering in NYC! Get to know grassroots media makers and social justice organizers from around the city while working to change our city's media landscape. Network, learn about media, and make friends!

We're looking for people to join our core organizing team. Starting in January, you'll work closely with staff and other organizers to make this the most diverse and exciting GMC yet. We particularly need people with event organizing, design, and web skills, but we welcome everyone. So come & learn about the organizing process and meet the rest of the group.
The NYC Grassroots Media Conference organizing committee actively seeks participation from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, classes, and physical abilities.


Phone: 8023098146
Email: jbatten517@gmail.com

December ralleys, NYC, workers rights and protect rent stabilization!

-Sunday, December 7th - Children's Vigil
Join JFREJ, children of domestic workers, and children taken care of by domestic workers on the steps of City Hall to show how much our families care about the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights. During the holidays, and during this time of financial crisis, let's show legislators that our whole families care about the caretakers in our lives. Let's show them that we need a bill that protects the women whose work makes all other work possible.

To RSVP, click here.

Children's Vigil
Sunday, December 7th, 11:30am-1pm
Steps of City Hall, Manhattan
Take the R,W,4,5,6 to City Hall

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Tuesday December 9th - City-Wide Rally to protect rent-stabilized housing
Join JFREJ and the Housing Here and Now Coalition to speak up for low-income housing during this time of financial crisis. When the rent in a vacant apartment can be raised to $2,000 a month, landlords can raise the rent to anything they want. This is known as "vacancy decontrol." The state legislature can end this, saving 100,000 regulated apartments already on the verge. Hold politicians accountable: end vacancy decontrol.

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City Wide Rally to Protect Rent-Stabilized Housing
Society for Ethical Culture, 2 w. 64th st at Central Park West
Take the 1 train to 66th or the A,B,C,D to Columbus Circle

JFREJ RISK TAKER AWARDS in NYC! FUN! You should come!

Please join Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) for the 12th Annual Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk-Taker Awards

Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! will MC the event and together we will celebrate the recent election victories and risk-takers who have been doing this work for the long haul and chart the course ahead.

This year JFREJ will be honoring:

Ann Cook: Long-time political activist & Co-Director of the Urban Academy in the Julia Richman Educational Complex.

Deborah Meier: Acclaimed educational reformer, writer, and one of the founders of the modern small schools movement.

Mikey Weinstein: a leader in the fight against the growth and spread of Christian evangelicalism in the military, Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Families for Freedom: A multi-ethnic grassroots organization run by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation in the greater New York Area. They are also a leader in the New Sanctuary Movement.

When: Thursday, November 20th, 6-9pm | Reception 6pm| Program 7pm

Where: Congregation B'nai Jeshurun|257 West 88th Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue)

For additional information or to purchase tickets please contact Helena Tubis at helena@jfrej.org or 212.647.8966 x14

Venezuela Film Festival

This looks fantastic and quite unique. I can't go, but maybe you can. Also keep an eye on the program for the Tribeca Film Festival, which also promises to be good. I will definitely try to make a few of those:

100% VENEZUELA IS BACK!
NYU-VENEZUELAN FILM FESTIVAL, SECOND EDITION
April 23-27, 2008
at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South (between Sullivan &Thompson Streets)

http://www.nyu.edu/kjc/100_Venezuela/

Left Forum Update

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Left Forum 2007
Forging A Radical Political Future
March 9-11

www.leftforum.org
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Dear Friends,

Left Forum 2007 - FORGING A RADICAL POLITICAL FUTURE takes place this weekend, MARCH 9-11, at Cooper Union.

Conference information is on our 98 panels and plenaries is available at www.leftforum.org. We also want to let you know about the other events we have planned.

FILM FESTIVAL: On Friday, March 9, we are hosting an indy film festival at NYU. It is free and open to all - please tell your friends.
WHAT: Film Festival
WHEN: Friday 12 to 5 pm
WHERE: NYU, 721 Broadway, Between Waverly Place and Washington Place, Room 006

COCKTAIL PARTY: Immediately preceding our Opening Plenary, (which begins sharply at 7pm on Friday evening) please join us and your fellow Forum participants at a cocktail party. We ask for a contribution of $5 each to help defray the costs.
WHAT: Cocktail Party
WHEN: Friday, 5 to 6:30 pm
WHERE: Peter Cooper Suite, Cooper Union

SATURDAY EVENING PERFORMANCES AT 8PM:
We're very excited to be offering two cultural performances that are free and open to the public:
1. Karen Finley's "George and Martha"; a solo performance detailing an illicit affair between George Bush Jr. and Martha Stewart.
WHAT: Karen Finley performing "George and Martha"
WHEN: Saturday 8 pm
WHERE: New York University
19 W4th Street between Green and Mercer, Room 101

2. Readings from Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, with Amy Goodman, Anthony Arnove, Staceyanne Chin, Brian Jones, Deepa Fernandes, and Erin Cherry, and others.
WHAT: Voices of a People's History of the United States
WHEN: Saturday 8 pm
WHERE: Cooper Union's Great Hall
7 East 7th Street (at 3rd Ave)

Of course, the focus of the Forum remains our plenaries, panel discussions, and bookfair. Our full program is online at: http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/program.html

Check it out! We hope to see you March 9-11 at Cooper Union in New York City! Please come early enough to allow for the lines at registration.



Solidarity,

Left Forum

212.817.2003
www.leftforum.org

Left Forum - NYC

I will be attending the Left Forum 2007 conference at Cooper Union this weekend. They have an impressive roster including Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!; AK Press author Marina Sitrin; Anarchist Anthropologist David Graeber; Howard Zinn; and also people from The Nation, the Black Radical Congress, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and many more. I'll be mostly going to the Latin America and Social Movement panels, but I will be around. If anyone else is going or interested in going, do let me know: louis [at] tuftsprogressives [dot] org. See you there! -Lou