Events
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05 / 20
Start: 6:35 pm
End: 8:35 pm
The Fund-raiser Schmooze-Fest at Cipriani 23rd Street (at 5th Ave) is pricey but fun; features "the wire" creator David Simon, NYC Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito; California lawyer, activist donor Steve Phillips. As an activist-blogger you can get cut rate tickets. Bargain hard; DMI wants you to attend. How low will they go?. Call 646-274-5700. email: 2008benefit@drummajorinstitute.org | ||
05 / 21
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05 / 22
Start: 6:05 pm
End: 10:05 pm
Get there early. Doors open at 6PM. Bring Picnic dinner. Music (from the Brooklyn Phil) fireworks (Grucci) special bridge lighting. If the weather is good, the place, in DUMBO, by the River under the Bridge is magic. Full details of this and more are here including the first free Friday Night movie on May 23rd -- Enchantment, a 2007 Disney confection. (with free popcorn) | ||
05 / 23
End: 1:00 am
Start: 23.05.2008 - 18:00
End: 26.05.2008 - 01:00
The Theater for The New City, 155 1st Ave., presents the 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts . (scroll down for schedule)
Friday, May 23rd, 6pm - 1am
Saturday, May 24th, 10am - 1am 10am - 6pm - OUTSIDE ON E. 10th STREET - Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors!
2pm - 5pm - INSIDE - Performances for Kids and by Kids
Sunday, May 25th, 6pm - 1am | ||
05 / 24
End: 1:00 am
Start: 23.05.2008 - 18:00
End: 26.05.2008 - 01:00
The Theater for The New City, 155 1st Ave., presents the 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts . (scroll down for schedule)
Friday, May 23rd, 6pm - 1am
Saturday, May 24th, 10am - 1am 10am - 6pm - OUTSIDE ON E. 10th STREET - Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors!
2pm - 5pm - INSIDE - Performances for Kids and by Kids
Sunday, May 25th, 6pm - 1am | ||
05 / 25
End: 1:00 am
Start: 23.05.2008 - 18:00
End: 26.05.2008 - 01:00
The Theater for The New City, 155 1st Ave., presents the 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts . (scroll down for schedule)
Friday, May 23rd, 6pm - 1am
Saturday, May 24th, 10am - 1am 10am - 6pm - OUTSIDE ON E. 10th STREET - Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors!
2pm - 5pm - INSIDE - Performances for Kids and by Kids
Sunday, May 25th, 6pm - 1am Start: 12:05 pm
End: 6:05 pm
Manhattan's melange of culture is most mixed on the Lower East Side. Come visit the Loisada Festival this Sunday. I plan to get there in the late afternoon. Look for the table of CODA, the neighborhood's left political-social action group which will be between 8th & 9th Streets (on C obviously). | ||
05 / 26
End: 1:00 am
Start: 23.05.2008 - 18:00
End: 26.05.2008 - 01:00
The Theater for The New City, 155 1st Ave., presents the 13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts . (scroll down for schedule)
Friday, May 23rd, 6pm - 1am
Saturday, May 24th, 10am - 1am 10am - 6pm - OUTSIDE ON E. 10th STREET - Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors!
2pm - 5pm - INSIDE - Performances for Kids and by Kids
Sunday, May 25th, 6pm - 1am | ||
05 / 27
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05 / 28
Start: 8:00 am
End: 10:00 am
Join us on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 as the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy hosts the latest installment of our 'Marketplace of Ideas' series featuring Sara Flocks, Co-Founder of Young Workers United.
In 2007, San Francisco became the first place in the nation to guarantee paid sick days to every person employed full- or part-time in the city. Sara Flocks and her organization, Young Workers United, led the successful effort to pass the law by ballot proposition. Under San Francisco’s law, employees may use the leave for personal illness or to care for a sick family member. The policy is projected to increase workplace productivity, decrease employee turnover and reduce the spread of disease. Following San Francisco’s first-in-the-nation policy, Washington D.C. also mandated paid sick leave in 2008 and Congress is considering a bill to establish a national paid sick leave policy.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008
8:00-10:00 a.m.
The Harvard Club
35 West 44th Street (bet. 5th & 6th Avenues)
light breakfast will be served
Space is limited. Admission is free. RSVP and registration are required.
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05 / 29
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05 / 31
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
United For Peace & Justice's fundraising 15-Mile bike ride through upper Manhattan "Pedal for Peace" pushes off at 11AM at Central Park North (110th Street) & Adam Clayton Powell Bl'vd; Registration at 10 AM. Register online on or site.
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06 / 5
Start: 12:06 pm
End: 2:06 pm
New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse has written a really interesting, well researched book: The Big Squeeze. He's on book tour and will read and speak at Demos 220 Fifth Ave (26/27th St) 5th Floor at Noon on June 5, 2007. If fair wages and good working conditions are issues on your agenda, go.
Below, the blurb:
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker takes a fresh, probing, and often shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by tens of millions of American workers as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled.
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06 / 6
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06 / 7
Start: 10:05 am
End: 6:05 pm
This is one of the more wonderful events in NYC: The Housing Works Bookstore Street Sale Tens of thousands of books for $1. Some serious good buys for book lovers and dealers, some trash. Add Huge crowds, t-shirts, snacks, vintange clothing $20 for a large, carefully packed bag and you have a uniquely NY scene. See you there early.
Open Air Book Fair! Saturday, June 07, 2008 at 10:00 AM
We're making our Open Air Book Fair a twice-a-year experience so you can stock up for summer. Crosby Street between Prince and Houston will be filled with thousands of books, records and CDs for a dollar a piece, plus clothing, shoes and accessories from Housing Works Thrift Shops for $20 a bag. Start: 11:05 am
End: 2:35 pm
Domestic workers have been working to pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights since 2004. Take a stand, so the 200,000 NY women whose work helps make all else possible, don't have to wait another year.
11:00 am Rally and March from City Hall in Manhattan on Broadway South of Chambers to Union Square. Take the R/W to City Hall or 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge | ||
06 / 8
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06 / 11
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06 / 12
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06 / 13
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Dear Friends,
Since our last email we have added Stephanie Low, Patti Kenner, Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan to our Host committee.
On top of that Democracy for New York City has agreed to Co-Sponsor the event.
These new hosts and DFNYC know we need to send Christine to Washington, because – by all rights – she should already be there.
In 2006, Republican Vern Buchanan beat Christine Jennings by 373 votes in Florida’s 13th District (Sarasota and Tampa). With less than one half of one percent of the vote, the tiny margin triggered great controversy (sound familiar?).
The Republican candidate ultimately won by 369 votes, although the mystery of over 18,000 “undervotes” in the district’s Sarasota County went unsolved.
Ironically, Christine was running for the Congressional seat vacated by Katharine Harris (yes, that Katharine Harris), who made an unsuccessful bid for the Senate in ’06.
Christine Jennings is a smart, self-made leader who rose from humble beginnings to become the CEO of a Florida bank. In the interest of justice, let’s help her take back this seat in 2008!
Start: 7:06 pm
End: 10:06 pm
No, seriously.
No such thing as bad luck…So
Bring your Good Luck and your Friends
For Some Fun with
US Navy Commander (ret.) Eric Massa's
2008 campaign for Congress
New York’s 29th District
Friday, June 13, 2008
Drinks & Dancing
7:00 – 10:00 PM
Jacques Rosas Studio Loft
442 West 49th Street
Space is limited
Friend $75 (If things are tight for you, $50)
REALLY Good Friend $100
GO TO: www. actblue.com/page/massa2008
This event will be broadcast LIVE on WWW.PublicSquare.TV
RSVP to Jacqui
JSamuels [at] BlueTigerGroup [dot] Com
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06 / 14
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 14.06.2008 - 09:00
End: 15.06.2008 - 21:00
MoveOn.org is hosting a nationwide bake sale this weekend to raise funds for taking back the White House and expanding Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
Learn more here. | ||
06 / 15
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 14.06.2008 - 09:00
End: 15.06.2008 - 21:00
MoveOn.org is hosting a nationwide bake sale this weekend to raise funds for taking back the White House and expanding Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
Learn more here. | ||
06 / 16
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06 / 17
Start: 6:06 pm
End: 8:06 pm
Join Chuck Schumer and Diane Benson (candidate for Congress) and a whole slew of NYC progressive activists for a fundraiser for Mark Begich for Senate. Check out this really cool invitation:
RSVP TO: Ruth_Benedict_at_comcast.net
Mark Begich is running against Republican Ted Stevens, perhaps the most corrupt politician in America today. More on Mark from his website:
Mark Begich, 46, is in his fifth year as mayor of Alaska's largest city... Under Mayor Begich, Anchorage's bond ratings have improved to among the top 5 percent in the country, some 9,200 new jobs have been created, the city enjoyed the second highest construction value in city history and property taxes dropped for the majority of Anchorage property owners between 2006-07. | ||
06 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
This one's long overdue, a NYC Kossack-Eating Liberally meetup -- post-primary and pre-Netroots Nation.
Eating Liberally will be providing tasty treats, and we're inviting Kossacks to bring dishes if they wish to. If you are bringing something, please coordinate with Kerry and Matt at Eating Liberally (email Kerry: kerry at urbaneden dot net).
And we will have a special guest!! Miss Laura will be in town and wants to see everyone!
(Exact location and start and end times to be determined, but probably from 7 PM to 10 PM at Prey, as per the usual) Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
British Folksinger Laura Marling will perform an early show at The Mercury Lounge on Houston Street. You can listen to her on her site as well as hear her debut album. She appears with a British Afro-beat-bluegrass group (is there such a combo?) Mumford & Sons which starts at 6:30. $12 in advance $14 at the door. Beer extra. There are very few seats at the Mercury Lounge. If not standing is urgent, get there early early. New Yorker snippet review is here. | ||
06 / 19
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
The annual ritual of the raising the rents (of stabilized tenants) in NYC will occur on June 19 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, at the corner of 3rd Ave. A tenant press event will occur at 4:30 and the drama itself begins at 5:30 PM. If you've never gone, you'll get an interesting and important piece of NYC culture. I suspect that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board will, as usual, raise rents, impose hardships, on low and moderate income tenants and go home. Can you remember a day when the Board tried to raise Mr. Bloomberg's rent? Oh yes, he's an owner! He gets a tax rebate. Look for screaming tenants waving signs. That's the place.
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