A Walkathon Fundraiser for Develop—Don't Destroy Brooklyn and the Community's fight against Ratner's Skyscraper/Arena Project. November 13, 2005 -- Walk for our Neighborhoods in support of the DDDb Legal Fund. The WALKATHON is an opportunity to put your feet in motion to help fund the DDDb legal campaign against Bruce Ratner's megadevelopment proposal and eminent domain abuse. Help DDDb reach its monetary goals and raise awareness to unite our communities instead of dividing and destroying them. Join us in walking a path within our historic community and tracing the proposed project site. I have set up a team (the Progressive Cabal) to participate in this event. To sign up to walk or to sponsor one of my team members (or the team in general, like I did) please visit my Team Page.

Start:
Wed, 11/16/2005 - 5:30pm

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

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 or call 212.909.9663.
WWW.DrumMajorInstitute.org

Start:
Wed, 11/16/2005 - 5:30pm

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 on

Wednesday, November 16
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The Tank @ chashama

Featuring a roundtable discussion with:
Patrick Healy, The New York Times
Evelyn Hernandez, El Diario La Prensa
Jonathan Mandell, Gotham Gazette
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Ben Smith, The Politicker

To RSVP, please email dmi-at-drummajorinstitute.org (replace -at- with @) or call 212.909.9663.

Start:
Wed, 11/16/2005 - 7:00pm

A message from Tony Simone, Policy & Field Director for the northeast regional office of People For the American Way:

Volunteer to Stop Alito!

Haven't signed our petition to stop Alito yet?

Sign now!
SaveTheCourt.org/StopAlito

Dear Activist,

In the last week, PFAW activists and our coalition partners have gathered thousands of signatures opposing Samuel Alito's nomination, and made thousands of calls to senators urging them to vote against confirming him.

You can help block Alito's confirmation by mobilizing other activists in our New York phonebanks!

Where: PFAW NY office

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 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 (at) drummajorinstitute.org or call 212.909.9663. The Tank @ chashama 208 West 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. 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

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 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 (at) drummajorinstitute.org or call 212.909.9663. The Tank @ chashama 208 West 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. 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

Start:
Thu, 11/17/2005 - 6:00pm

Citizens Union and Baruch College are hosting a
NYC Council Speaker Debate

November 17, 2005 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Baruch College
55 Lexington Ave. - Baruch College Conference Center at 24th Street - 14th Floor

On January 4, the 51 members of the New York City Council will meet to
select the next Speaker. The debate for this position usually occurs
far from the public eye. This event adds a new and valuable dimension
to the selection process by providing an open forum where candidates
for the office of City Council Speaker can express their views on a
wide range of topics which affect all New Yorkers, including housing,

Start:
Thu, 11/17/2005 - 7:00pm

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Where:Belmont Lounge, 117 East 15th Street (between Irving Place and 4th Ave.)

Join us at the Democracy for NYC Monthly Mixer as we mix and mingle and discuss a progressive agenda for 2006.

Click here to RSVP

Admission: $5 per person
Admission price benefits Democracy for NYC. It's a good cause, so bring a friend.

Cash bar and food served all night.

Start:
Fri, 11/18/2005 - 9:00pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Mike Blaxill, 917-327-6376

Drinking Liberally NYC Announces
ROCKING LIBERALLY HURRICANE RELIEF CONCERT
at Sin-e

Featuring Man In Gray, The Song Corporation,
Morning Theft, Stereoscope and The Will

Sin-e will host Drinking Liberally's "Rocking
Liberally – Hurricane Relief Concert" with Man In
Gray, The Song Corporation, Morning Theft,
Stereoscope and The Will

Rocking Liberally will raise funds for New
Orleans Musicians Clinic, which is a hands-on
organization who has the names and addresses of
local musicians because they have them all coming

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Sat, 11/19/2005 - 5:00pm

A message from DFNYC member David Robinson:

Hello all -
Our next Any Soldier street drive, held in partnership with the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture and Old First Reformed Church, is scheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 19 in front of Old First on 7th Avenue at Carroll Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Please come by if you can to write a letter or postcard to our neighbors in uniform and to donate nonperishable, canned or microwaveable food, personal care products, winter gloves/hats/blankets or any of the other items listed on the attached flyer.

As always, if you can donate some time to help during the day, especially if you can give me a ride home especially after the drive, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm 10 minutes away from the church, but car services are often unwilling to take me with all the donated items. so If you have a car and can help me out at or about 5:30pm on Saturday, you would be a lifesaver.

Start:
Sun, 11/20/2005 - 2:00pm

PHILIPSTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY SUNDAY, November 20 from 2 to 4 PM at DESMOND FISH LIBRARY Meeting Room (enter through the main library entrance) Rte. 403 at Rte. 9D, Garrison
We will watch the film WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
By Robert Greenwald (director of Outfoxed, Unconstitutional, and Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq War)
There is no shortage of statistical data testifying to Wal-Mart’s mammoth scale: Wal-Mart is the world’s largest corporation, the world’s largest employer and China’s sixth largest export market. Wal-Mart is rezoning America, setting wage standards and conducting diplomacy with other nations -- overtaking all its rivals as the world-transforming economic institution of our time. With a non-union, low-benefit, high turnover workforce of more than 1.2 million U.S. workers, Wal-Mart exerts a powerful downward pressure upon both the wages it pays directly and those of its competitors. Wal-Mart is a veritable engine of income inequality: it is therefore the most important social policy innovator in the United States today.
Is Wal-Mart the template for our future?
“An engrossing, muckraking documentary about the retail giant that's been called ‘the world's largest, richest and probably meanest corporation.’

Start:
Tue, 11/22/2005 - 10:30am

Local groups join to announce opposition to Bush's radical pick, Alito, to the Supreme Court

What: Anti-Alito Press Event
When: 10:30 AM, Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Where: City Hall Steps

Join Progressive Organizations, Elected Officials & other leaders as part of a national campaign to Voice Opposition & Defeat Bush's extreme nominee.

Sponsored by People For the American Way and its coalition partners in Americans for Fair Courts* (upon approval from organizations)

Members & Supporters include:
Citizen Action NY
Code Pink Women for Peace/New York
Empire State Pride Agenda
Gay Men's Health Crisis
NAACP NYS
NARAL Pro-Choice NY
NOW-NYC New Democratic Majority
National Council For Jewish Women
Planned Parenthood NYC

Start:
Mon, 11/28/2005 - 7:00pm

Should the City Council term-limits be extended? Done away with all together? Or kept as is? Come hear all sides of this timely and hot-button issue and ask questions of the panelists

When: Monday, November 28, 7 - 8:30 pm

Where:LGBT Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th Street

Panelists include:

Councilmember Gale Brewer, sponsor of legislation to extend term-limits

Councilmember Bill Perkins, critic of term limits

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union

Harry Kresky, Esq. Council to the NYS Independence Party

Deborah Goldberg, Esq., Brennan Center for Justice, Moderator

This event is sponsored by:
Out People of Color Political Action Club
Stonewall Democratic Club/NYC
Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats
Village Independent Democrats
Lambda Independent Democrats
Village Reform Democratic Club
Downtown Independent Democrats
Remember Stonewall, Inc.

Start:
Tue, 11/29/2005 - 7:00pm

The Sierra Club and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund along with nine Brooklyn Associations will hold the first citizens' Town Hall Meeting for the Brooklyn Bridge Park.

When: Tuesday, November 29, 7 PM
Where: Congregation Mt. Sinai, Brooklyn Heights (intersection of Clinton, Tillary Street, and Cadman Plaza West)
Directions by Subway: one block east of the 2/3 subway station at Clark Street or three blocks north on Court Street from the 4/5 subway station at Borough Hall.

The purpose of this meeting is to present a real park plan for Brooklyn's waterfront, and to answer the community's questions about how to get back to a real park for Brooklynites - NOW.

"The State planners have hijacked our park" said Judi Francis, a 25 year resident of Brooklyn Heights and President of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund. "They have turned what was supposed to be a park into a real estate development project and they are now trying to rush this development through to satisfy the interests of commercial
enterprise. The community has developed a great park plan that is affordable, is accessible to all Brooklynites, and has the recreational and cultural elements that the community has long desired. We can build that community-developed plan now."

"Brooklyn is the least served borough in terms of land dedicated to parks in all of New York City" said Ken Baer, Chair of the Sierra Club's Atlantic (NYS) Chapter. "Our goal is to help the citizens of Brooklyn secure a real park. The plan that the State has developed, with luxury housing located inside the park, does not serve the needs of Brooklyn, and it is a plan we reject. The community has a plan that has many outstanding features and is the plan we will discuss on November 29th."

Refreshments and baby sitting available.

Start:
Tue, 11/29/2005 - 8:00pm

Quantum Shift: A benefit concert for the warmth of South Asian earthquake survivors

Suphala in concert with Yoko Ono, Edie Brickell, Sean Lennon, and Harper Simon

plus special guests

Mazz Swift, Dana Leong, Domino, reading by Suketu Metha, DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra), and DJ Nickodemus (Turntables On The Hudson)

Tuesday November 29th, 2005 at

Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, NYC at Canal Street www.canalroomlive.com

Tickets: $30 in advance at www.ticketweb.com

VIP Tickets: $101 & up includes VIP entry with open bar and hors d'oeuvres

Suphala will physically and personally deliver ALL net proceeds to earthquake survivors.

Start:
Wed, 11/30/2005 - 7:00pm

Dear Friend,
There will be a Ben for Congress volunteer meeting on Wednesday, November 30.
WHEN: 11/30 @ 7:00pm
WHERE: Campaign Headquarters, 17 Maple Row, Crompond, NY 10517
This will be an informal get-together where we willvery briefly keep you up to date on what has been going on in the campaign. We'll cover community service events, volunteer opportunities, and voter contact. The rest of the time will be spent getting to know each other, eating, and drinking. Please bring friends!

Start:
Wed, 11/30/2005 - 6:00pm

John Ashcroft Protest

When: Wednesday, November 30th, 6pm
Where: Broadway between 115th & 116th Street
Subway: 1 to 116th Street

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is speaking at Columbia University on Wednesday, November 30th.

In response, a wide coalition of student and New York City activist groups are joining together to welcome Ashcroft back to New York with a large rally/protest directed at Ashcroft's record of civli rights and liberties abuses. Wheter your passion is the USA Patriot Act, the death penalty, repdoductive rights, torutre, LGBT rights, drug policy, free speech, or civil rights in genral, Ashcroft has done enought wrong to accommodate everybody! Come join the fun! Bring signs, chats, and mostly bodies...

Speakers include:
Donna Lieberman, NYCLU Exec. Director
NY City Councilman Bill Perkins (TBC)
Diverse coalition of student activists
More TBA...

For more information, email: ashcroftwelcomingcommittee -at- gmail.com (replace -at- with @)

Start:
Wed, 11/30/2005 - 6:30pm

Cindy Sheehan at Coliseum Books

Start:
Wed, 11/30/2005 - 6:30pm

Cindy Sheehan at Coliseum Books

Start:
Thu, 12/01/2005 - 12:00pm

December 1, 2005
12:00 – 5:30 PM
Cronin Building Auditorium
St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center
170 West 12th Street (Manhattan)

Workgroup of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Planning Unit of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will sponsor the summit Entre Hermanos: Conversations between and about Latino Men, HIV, and Sexual Health

Participating Organizations: HIV Arts Network, Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), Exponents, Inc., Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Latino Commission on AIDS, Aid for AIDS, William F. Ryan Community Health Center, NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, and Hispanic AIDS Forum.

The event is free.

For the entire itinerary of the event or more information, call Doneley Meris at HIV Arts Network: (212) 385-4945 or doneleymeris-at-hotmail.com (replace -at- with @).

Coincidental to my diary just below, I got this email right after posting about evolution: I wanted to let you know about the "Darwin's Legacy" event at the American Museum of Natural History, to be held Thursday, December 1, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. The AMNH invites you to "[e]xplore Darwin's legacy and impact with Michael Ruse, Florida State University, author of The Evolution-Creation Struggle; Ronald Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of The Creationists; Edward Larson, University of Georgia, author of Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion; and James Moore, Open University, United Kingdom, coauthor of Darwin. The panel will be moderated by Robert Bazell, Chief Science Correspondent, NBC News." Tickets are $15; $13.50 for museum members, students, and senior citizens. For more information, visit the AMNH website.

Start:
Sat, 12/03/2005 - 7:00pm

Join DFNYC Corps (Democracy for NYC's community service committee) as we

Move Against Aids

A five-hour Dance-a-thon benefiting GMHC

Also benefiting Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

Click read more to register or donate to DFNYC team members.

Start:
Sat, 12/03/2005 - 7:00pm

Join DFNYC Corps (Democracy for NYC's community service committee) as we

Move Against Aids

A five-hour Dance-a-thon benefiting GMHC

Also benefiting Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

CLICK HERE to register or donate to DFNYC team members. Please donate to team members who have not yet raised $75. Each team member needs to raise $75 to participate.

Start:
Sun, 12/04/2005 - 2:00pm

PHILIPSTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY
SUNDAY, December 4 from 2 to 4 PM at DESMOND FISH LIBRARY Meeting Room (enter through the main library entrance) Rte. 403 at Rte. 9D, Garrison
We will watch the film
INVISIBLE BALLOTS - A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud
Discussion afterward - we will also distribute materials describing the pros
and cons of electronic voting versus paper ballot/optical scan voting
machine.
THIS MEETING IS PART ONE OF “WE WANT OUR VOTES COUNTED ACCURATELY

Start:
Tue, 12/06/2005 - 7:30pm

What: Code Pink invites you to: Protest Against Senator Hillary Clinton's Continuing Support of the War in Iraq

Who: Code Pink New York, Grandmothers Against the War, Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Veterans for Peace and other local peace and justice groups

When: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday December 6th

Where: Outside Crobar, 530 West 28th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)

[transit: C, E to 23d St.; A, LIRR to 34th St.-Penn Sta.; M23, M34 bus; #1 to 28th St.; #2, 3 to 34th St.-Penn Sta.; or even B, D, F, N, Q, R, V, W, PATH to 34th St.-Herald Sq. (6th Avenue) & then walk/bus]

Costuming & Signs: Protesters will be wearing large theatrical ears and pink gear. Please wear pink, bring signs that say

"Hillary, you're not listening; Bring the Troops Home Now."

Start:
Wed, 12/07/2005 - 6:30pm

The Honorable Adriano Espaillat
New York State Assemblymember
Invites you to attend a Town Hall Meeting

Will Washington Heights and Inwood Be Displaced?
Discuss the issue that affect you!
RENT! RENT! RENT!

Panelists: Ken Rosenfeld, Director Legal Services, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation; Adrienne Holder, Director, Legal Aid Society; Bertha Lewis, ACORN, Fix It Now Campaign, Carlos Ramos Vargas, Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College; Vicki Been, Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy NYU School of Law (Invited), David R Shuffer, Jr, Director of Organizing Training – INCO, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (Invited)

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Place: St. Elizabeth Auditorium
612 West 187th St (Bet Wadsworth and St. Nicholas Ave)

Co-sponsored by: NYS Senator Eric Schneiderman, NYC Councilman Miguel Martínez, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Legal Aid Society, Hunter College (Puerto Rican Studies), Washington Heights/Inwood Coalition, CUNY School of Law, Community Board #12, Dominican Studies Institute, West Harlem Coalition, St. Elizabeth Church, Community Preservation Corporation, West 162nd Street Block Association, Post Ave. Block Association, St. Elizabeth Church, Union Comunal, Parent Association P.S. 173, Latinas en Acción, Yeshiva University

For more information please contact Aneiry Batista at 212-544-2278 or email ANEIRYB-at-YAHOO.COM (replace -at- with @).

Start:
Wed, 12/07/2005 - 7:00pm

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DECEMBER 7, 7PM

Join us at one of our many locations in all five boroughs.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Start:
Wed, 12/07/2005 - 7:00pm

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DECEMBER 7, 7PM

Join us at one of our many locations in all five boroughs.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Start:
Thu, 12/08/2005 - 7:00pm

DL21C with our Co-Hosts Ulivo USA and the NYS Young Dems Caucus of Color invite you to let loose at:

The 9th Annual DL21C Holiday Party

with special guest honorees:

- Comptroller William C. Thompson

- Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum

- Manhattan Borough President-Elect Scott Stringer

and newly elected Democrats from across NYC

Rock Candy
35 E. 21st Street (between Park and Broadway

7pm until 10pm and beyond...

Suggested Admission $5

Please RSVP for special admission at the door.

Start:
Thu, 12/08/2005 - 7:00pm

DL21C with our Co-Hosts Ulivo USA and the NYS Young Dems Caucus of Color invite you to let loose at:

The 9th Annual DL21C Holiday Party

with special guest honorees:

- Comptroller William C. Thompson

- Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum

- Manhattan Borough President-Elect Scott Stringer

and newly elected Democrats from across NYC

Rock Candy
35 E. 21st Street (between Park and Broadway

7pm until 10pm and beyond...

Suggested Admission $5

Please RSVP for special admission at the door.

Start:
Fri, 12/09/2005 - 7:30pm

An opportunity to meet Barbara Boxer and thank her for her continued courage in the U.S. Senate

On Friday, December 9th, at 7:30 p.m. Barbara Boxer will be doing a book-signing at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Nobles, located at 66th & Broadway; (212) 595-6859.

Start:
Mon, 12/12/2005 - 7:30pm

Candidate Forum

Hosted by Park River Independent Democrats

Monday, December 12
7:30pm
241 W 72nd Street, 2nd Floor

At last count, seven candidates are running to replace Scott Stringer in the New York Sate Assembly when Scott becomes Manhattan Borough President.

(The Governor will announce a special election that will take place some time in early 2006.)

Meet the candidates and learn more about them and their issues and why they want your support.

Start:
Mon, 12/12/2005 - 7:30pm

Where:The Tank - 217 East 42nd Street (b/w 2nd & 3rd Avenues). Please note the new location for The Tank.

This meeting is devoted to the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel Alito and we have arranged for one of the city's brightest civil rights attorneys, Christopher Edelson, and for Tony Simone, Policy and Field Director,People for the American Way New York, to come and speak about the impact a Justice Alito will have on your life and the things you can do about it.

Christopher will address issues of employment discrimination, police conduct (including search and seizure), federalism, the power of the executive branch and the separation of church and state. Afterwards, Tony will outline many of the opportunities that PFAW and the coalition of grassroots and progressive organizations, including NDM, have come up with to engage in this epic and winnable battle.

For those of you unfamiliar with Christopher Edelson, he began his career with the firm of Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. and worked with People for the American Way in representing clients in both federal and state courts in employment discrimination matters. In addition, Chris has successfully resolved many labor and employment matters before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).

Start:
Tue, 12/13/2005 - 7:00pm

The 2006 Elections: New Voting Machines
A Public Forum Sponsored By: Sandy Galef, NYS Assemblywoman - Vinny Tamagna, utnam County Legislator
• See demonstrations
• Ask questions
• Participate in a lively discussion
Forum Participants Include:
Joy Rosenszweig, President of the League of Women Voters
Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
Voting machine equipment manufacturer
Tuesday, December 13
7:00 PM
Garrison Firehouse
Route 9, Garrison
For More Information Please Call
Assemblywoman Sandy Galef’s office at (914) 941-1111
-or-
Putnam County Legislator Vinny Tamagna’s office at (845) 225-8690