Today! Screening of “Chasing Ice” with Dr. Debra Tillinger Saturday, March 19th @ 1:30pm PATAGONIA, 72 Greene StreetThe 350NYC Climate Education Group presents “Chasing Ice” followed by a discussion with Dr. Debra Tillinger. WATCH THE TRAILER Discussion After the Movie
Join us after the movie for a discussion with Dr. Debra Tillinger who will bring us up to date on the latest information regarding ice-melt and sea level rise. Dr. Tillinger teaches a course on climate change at the American Museum of Natural History.Read a description of the movie here.
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Open Mic Fundraiser For Democracy Spring Saturday, March 19 @ 4 – 6pm
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W 64th St
Come join us this Saturday for this fun Open Mic fundraiser for Democracy Spring
to ensure that everyone is able to participate in the march and/or sit in this April.
One hundred percent of the proceeds will be going to Democracy Spring. Tickets are $10.00 online or $10.00 cash at the door.
Light refreshments will be available.
On April 2nd, people will march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to the Capitol in Washington D.C. to join over two thousand people for a mass sit-in to get money out if politics by getting Congress to take urgent action.(April 11th to April 16th) If you’re interested in signing up for this mass civil disobedience, you can do so here: www.DEMOCRACYSPRING.org.
(From Sierra Club) Right off the coast of Long Island lies one of the biggest untapped renewable energy resources in the country: offshore wind. The wind off our shores could power millions of homes and create thousands of jobs, making New York into an undisputed leader in the transition to clean energy. But it’s only gonna happen if the Governor hears from us!
LIPA wants to bring more power to the South Fork, and they’re trying to decide whether to supply it with dirty new gas peaker plants, or with affordable, job-creating offshore wind energy. It’s up to us to make sure the Governor and LIPA choose renewables over fossil fuels, for the sake of the climate and the economy. The March 21st LIPA board meeting will be the last chance to weigh in before a decision is made, and they’re inviting the public to testify. RSVP HERE
Our Common Home
Thursday, March 24th
The Great Hall @Cooper Union
Artists, educators, scientists, poets and architects convene to share perspectives on a multifaceted and holistic path forward in protecting our planet. This free, public gathering will be an important moment in recognizing the role of values, ethics, science and spirit in addressing the complex tasks facing Our Common Home.Presented by Urban Green Council, Natural Resources Defense Council, International Center of Photography, The Poetry Society of America, Continuing Education and Public Programs of The Cooper Union, and The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.
More information is available here.
http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/our-common-home
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Hosted by Brooklyn for Peace – WITH Sean Sweeney, Murphy Institute Professor and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, and Kim Fraczek, Montrose 9 Resister and Sane Energy Project.
Fracking has been banned in New York State. There is a glut of oil and gas on the market. The price of fossil fuels has collapsed. Yet Big Energy is building more pipelines, compressor stations, storage facilities, and waste sites than ever before.
With the active connivance of government, the oil and gas corporations are leveling forests, seizing farmland, and threatening our water supply, binding us to an energy system that will ultimately kill us.
Come learn how workers, farmers, and ordinary people are fighting back to protect their families and the planet — and how you can help build the growing resistance.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1047598768640473/
Don’t Fuel the Refugee Crisis Thursday, March 31
All Saints’ Church at 7th Avenue & 7th Street in Park Slope, two blocks from the F and G trains. sponsored by 350 Brooklyn
What are the connections between climate and conflict? How is climate change exacerbating existing tensions in the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia and elsewhere? What are the connections between our domestic energy policy at home and the refugee crisis that is currently unfolding on the nightly news? Please join us to hear presentations from three incredible speakers followed by action-oriented discussion.
Speakers:
Neil Bhatiya is a Fellow at The Century Foundation and the Climate and Diplomacy Fellow at the Center for Climate and Security. He is the author of A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN.
Nina Macapinlac is the Coordinator of Alumni Organizing for the Responsible Endowments Coalition.
Sophie Robinson is a producer of The Age of Consequences, a documentary that’s been described as “The Hurt Locker” meets “An Inconvenient Truth,” http://theageofconsequences.com/
On April Fuels Day, Exxon will announce that as a result of the investigation by the NYS Attorney General, it has agreed to make a number of changes to reduce climate change impact. The event will be at noon in midtown Manhattan. Check for details to follow on 350nyc.org.
Shared Security: Re-imagining US Foreign Policy Tuesday, April 5th @6:30pm New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St – Ceremonial Hall
The Monks of the New England Peace Pagoda initiated their 15th annual “Walk for a New Spring”, a 56-day journey from Leverett, MA to Washington, DC. This year they are carrying the document “Shared Security, Re-Imagining US Foreign Policy”to the Capital and sharing it with communities along the way.
350NYC and the New York Society for Ethical Culture invite you to join us for a potluck dinner to welcome them to NYC when they arrive on April 5th on their way to DC.. Sister Clare Carter and Timothy Bullock will give a presentation on “Shared Security” followed by a discussion wtiht the walkers.
In Albany, on May 14, 2016, thousands of people will stand in the way of the fossil fuel industry in North America as part of the global 350.org initiative Break Free 2016. The New York State Capital has been a key center for fossil fuel distribution and bad decisions for our economy and our futures, against the wishes of the people of the City of Albany.
Representing a coalition from across the northeast, we will gather with frontline communities, including EzraPrentice Homes, and others living in the oil train blastzone for an act of mass civil disobedience against oil trains. We will also stand against fracked gas pipelines (including NED, AIM and Constitution), and other fossil fuel projects, like the Pilgrim Pipeline. Many of us will participate in direct action, and many more will come to rally and stand in solidarity. How you participate is up
to you, but please be there.
Break Free Action Schedule:
Wednesday May 11th through Friday May 13th: Training Camp –
Build action and organizing skills to take back to your community.
Saturday May 14th: Mass Action to Stop “the Bomb Train”
Donate to 350NYC’s LED campaign and cut carbon now!
Our latest Sustainability Project seeks to provide LED lightbulbs for an entire building of low income seniors in NYC. There’s no easier path to immediate carbon reduction while also helping our neighbors reduce their electric bills.If every New Yorker switched just one compact fluorescent bulb to an LED bulb, NYC would collectively cut over 125 million pounds of carbon emissions per year!Cut Carbon Now!www.gofundme.com/LightingTheWay
FOSSIL FREE NY STATE!
Testimonies from the February, 2016 Legislative Forum in Albany on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (A.8011A/S.5873) Capital Tonight piece about the legislation with Liz Krueger and Bill McKibben.
Assistant Assembly Speaker Felix W. Ortiz (D-Kings) and Senator Liz Krueger (D-New York) have introduced the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (A.8011A/S.5873) that would require the State Comptroller to divest the Common Retirement Fund (CRF) from fossil fuel holdings by 2020. Please contact your representatives and ask them to co-sponsor A8011 & S5873: Demand an end to fossil fuel investments! Assembly Switchboard (518 455-4100) and State Senate (518 455-2800).
Call Schumer: 202-224-6542
Call Gillibrand: 202-224-4451
Demand that they stand with Cuomo and the People of NYS to push FERC to halt the AIM Pipeline.
Read Cuomo’s letter that FERC is ignoring: tinyurl.com/CuomoToFERC
For more info: https://sape2016.org
Stop the Pilgrim Pipeline!Watch the webinar to learn the status and threat of the Pilgrim Pipeline with a capacity for 400,000 barrels of oil per day (half of Keystone) through NY/NJ and for possible export through New York Harbor.
The resolution calls upon the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOT to re-license Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Your help is needed! More info here
350NYC Meetings
UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL 350NYC AND NYC GRASSROOTS ALLIANCE MEETINGS
ARE HELD AT THENEW YORK SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE (NYSEC) 2 WEST 64TH STREET
NY NY 10025
(NEAR COLUMBUS CIRCLE)Next monthly meeting is Wed. March 23rd @ 7- 9pm NYSEC, Elliott Library Room #507Sustainable Solutions Working Group 7 – 9 PM Wednesday, April 13th
Meeting Room #508
(2nd Wednesday of each month)City Divest Working Group 7 – 9 PM Wednesday, April 20th
Meeting Room #508
(3rd Wednesday of each month)
Climate Ed Working Group Saturday, March 19th @ 1:30pm
Screening of “Chasing Ice” followed by discussion
with Dr. Debra Tillinger
Patagonia, 72 Greene Street, NYC
Email 350nyc@gmail.org to get on our listserv.
Affiliated Meetings NYC Grassroots Alliance Monthly Meeting 7 – 9 PM Monday, April 4th
2 West 64th Street, NY, N Y.
Meeting in the Social Hall
(1st Monday of each month)
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