This comes from MoveOn.org:

We Can't Afford to Wait Vigil

Columbus Circle, Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10023
Wednesday, September 2nd, 7:00 PM

Let's keep the momentum going!

Residents of all five boroughs of New York City are gathering to share their own experiences with the current health care system, and to urge Congress to enact real reform this year, which includes a public option.

I am missing Yvette Clarke's town hall meeting because I am working from home to try and finish some analysis for a grant deadline tomorrow. But I will try to make this rally on Wednesday. We need a good turnout to show our support for Healthcare reform.

Very cool; I can't find a link on their site - sent by email, and the URL is personalized - but here's something you should go to if you'd like to lobby against changes in the Clean Air Act. Here's a message from the event host:

Message from your host, Jim R.: Coal industry lobbyists are trying to slip a provision into Obama's clean energy plan that would repeal a key part of the Clean Air Act. This would bring about a whole new generation of dirty coal power and make New York's pollution problems even worse. But not if Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has anyt...(more)hing to say about it. She's one of the very first senators to speak out publicly against rolling back the Clean Air Act. We're gathering to show Senator Gillibrand that we applaud her leadership, and that we stand with her -- for a clean energy future, and against a weakened Clean Air Act and 100 new coal plants.

To learn more, go here. The event takes place on Thursday - as of this writing, that's tomorrow.

Manhattan - 49th St. and 3rd Ave, 780 3rd Ave. (Map)
New York, NY 10017
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Today is the culmination of MoveOn.org's national bake sale, a grassroots effort to help put Barack Obama into the White House. The idea is very simple and beautifully non-cynical: a bunch of people organize over the internet, bake cakes, cookies, and other goodies, sell them to a sympathetic public, and then donate the funds to MoveOn's PAC. We Americans have held bake sales at least since the Civil War, and it's right and fitting and proper that this tradition has now become a nation-wide, technology-driven effort.

Here in Williamsburg, there were several such events, and I decided to check out one of them.

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Moveon.org, the Progressive activist powerhouse, is presently in some hot water with the usual suspects for having the astonishingly poor taste of telling the truth, in the New York Times, no less.

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