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Engaging Artists Workshop: Artist as Activist

Judson Memorial Church 239 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

Paula Segal of 596 Acres and artists whose practice bridges the gap between art and activism will talk about their work during a workshop at Judson Memorial Church.

Free

The New New York Activists: Urban Green Innovators

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue 10029, New York, NY, United States

To mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, the Museum of the City of New York will discuss how citizens, entrepreneurs, and policy makers are making an impact on our city's environment, today and for the future.

Free

NextGen Climate Get Out the Vote

Help us call identified pro-climate action voters in the battleground states to ensure they know when, where, and how to vote!

Free

NYC Votes Get Out the Vote Phone Bank

Campaign Finance Board 100 Church Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

NYC Votes runs a Get Out the Vote program reminding New Yorker to head to the polls and vote on Election Day. GOTV will run from Sunday, November 6 through Tuesday, November 8. Call new voters to encourage them to vote in the General Election.

Free

Healthy Food for Upper Manhattan General Meeting

CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy 55 West 125th Street 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States

Join members of Upper Manhattan's food community, including healthy food advocates, activists, consumers, producers and scholars to discuss our food environment. This session's panel will focus on youth food justice programs that empower youth to make a positive change in Upper Manhattan's food environment.

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NY Renews: the NYC Town Hall

Friends Meeting House 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY, United States

NY Renews is an unprecedented statewide coalition of 90+ organizations fighting for climate policies grounded in equity and justice for communities and working people.

This year we are asking all New York State elected officials to stand with their constituents and their communities and not with the big polluters. It's time to tackle the climate crisis and pass the nation’s most ambitious climate legislation, the New York Climate and Community Protection Act -- a bill that will move New York’s economy off of fossil fuels entirely in the next 34 years, create thousands of good jobs, and give real protection to workers and low-income communities.

Free

Citizen’s Climate Lobby Brooklyn Chapter Startup Meeting

Videology Bar & Cinema 308 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization pushing for political action on climate change.

Come join us as we (re)start up CCL's Brooklyn chapter, and get to work pushing for sensible climate action policy at the local, state and national level.

Free

March for Science New York City

The March for Science is a celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and the incredible and immediate outpouring of support has made clear that these concerns are also shared by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue, which has given policymakers permission to reject overwhelming evidence, is a critical and urgent matter. It is time for people who support scientific research and evidence-based policies to take a public stand and be counted.

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People’s Climate Movement

Washington D.C. Washington D.C., DC, United States

Join the Peoples Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate.

Everything we have struggled to move forward in the United States is in peril. Our loved ones feel under siege, and those in power in Washington are advancing a dark and dangerous vision of America that we know is untrue. To change everything, we need everyone.

Free – $100

Climate, Jobs and Justice Accountability Forum

Ethical Culture Society Concert Hall 2 West 64th Street, New York, NY, United States

Let's translate the energy of the People's Climate March and the Trump resistance into political impact in NYC: join a mass people's interview of NYC Mayor de Blasio, Public Advocate James and Comptroller Stringer. Come learn about the issues, and then hear our city's leaders' views, question them on the big issues, hold them accountable, and urge them to take the bold policy action we need!

Free

A Tool for Justice: Fútbol as a Social Arena

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

The role of sports as a social tool is marked by the ways in which athletes challenge the structure of the game through their own…