 this work - or have people in your life who do - please watch and share these two trainings on Fighting Islamophobia and Anti-Arab racism from our Ready to Fight series.
Those are your first three action steps! Let us know how it goes and we'll be in touch very shortly with more ways to resist.
To Do : Dial tel:(844)-6-RESIST to tell Congress to support ACA.
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The Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF) is honored to present Hon. Melissa Mark-Viverito the Speaker of the New York City Council, who represents the 8th District, which includes much of Vito Marcantonio's old Congressional district, with the Vito Marcantonio Award. In so doing, the VMF recognizes that she has followed on the often rocky, hard path of fighting for all the people. The VMF also wants to acknowledge that Melissa, who is the first Puerto Rican and Latina to hold a citywide elected position, is a founding Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus and a member of the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus. After being elected to her first term in 2005 as Councilwoman, she sponsored and passed legislation regarding tenant harassment, building safety, greening buildings, and park conservancies. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito expanded the Earned Sick Time Act (also known as the Paid Sick Leave Law) to include 500,000 more New Yorkers. Most recently Speaker Mark- Viverito has been in the forefront of the national campaign to convince Pres. Barack Obama to grant a pardon to Oscar López Rivera, who has been in prison for thirty-five years.
Previous Recipients of the VMF Award have been Activist and Scholar Annette T. Rubinstein; Community Organizers, Pete Pascale; and American artist and activist, Ralph Fasanella.
The Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF) is an educational organization dedicated to preserving the history of the radical political tradition of East Harlem, the cultural backdrop of Italian Harlem and El Barrio and increasing awareness of the American Labor Party that Marcantonio led for years, educator Leonard Covello; and the critical role of the Left that rallied around Marcantonio.
Complete dinner will be served: appetizers, choice of entrée, dessert, and coffee/tea, nonalcoholic beverage.
You can purchase tickets in advance by going to Brown Paper Tickets by clicking onto this link; or by mailing a check made out to Gerald Meyer and mailed to 381-2n St. Bklyn, 11215, or Roberto Ragone @ 231 W 148th St. # 1R 10039.
Upcoming VMF event: Beloved Comrades: The Political and Personal Partnership of Annette T. Rubinstein and Vito Marcantonio, with Gerald Meyer and Stephen Siciliano. Sat. March 4, 3:00 to 4:45, Community Room Mulberry Street Public Library.
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This Presidents' Day weekend, the Young Democratic Socialists will gather for our annual winter conference in New York City titled Revolution at the Crossroads: Igniting the Socialist Resistance Against Trump. We did not choose the name lightly. In doing so, we call for leftists to collectively confront Trump and Trumpism at every possible opportunity. When a Trump administration attempts mass deportations of undocumented workers, when it attempts to register Muslims or roll back worker protections, when it attempts to take away reproductive, LGTBQ, civil, or any other rights, then we must militantly resist to prevent such measures.
To succeed, this must be explicitly socialist resistance. With liberalism having repeatedly shown itself incapable of combating the far right, it is now the time for socialists to openly declare our place in building the mass, multi-racial, and working class movement necessary for defeating the Trump administration. In this struggle, millennials will play an outsized role. That is why this conference comes at such a critical time-together we must create spaces for democratic and strategic discussion, spaces to gain organizing skills, and most importantly, spaces to form networks of young radicals for the future struggles ahead. These spaces will only come together if socialists come together. Join us this Presidents Weekend and help ignite the movement to defeat the Trump administration, continue the political revolution, and build the socialist alternative.
February 10th: Free Housing - We have limited free housing. You need to first register, then you will be sent an application for free housing.
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Over the last three decades, in communities throughout California and major cities nationwide, Day of Remembrance (DOR) has been commemorated on or near February 19th, when, in 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, setting into motion the exclusion, eviction, and incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, both citizens and immigrants.
DOR events, along with the pilgrimages to former concentration camps and, on a national scale, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) public hearings in 1981, played a key role in uniting the Japanese American community around the redress and reparations movement. These events and experiences brought the story to broader audiences and popularized the call for an official governmental apology, individual redress, and a community/public education fund, for the ultimate purpose of preventing a similar injustice from happening again.
 The need is greater than ever to publicly and vocally speak out against white supremacist ideology that is in conflict with our values as a nation. We strongly denounce inflammatory and racist rhetoric regarding civilian registries and concentration camps. We decry a national dialogue that dangerously courts with policies based in racism, fascism and xenophobia. We call on our fellow Americans to stand with us in solidarity of a society based on protection of civil liberties.
The best qualities of our country are embodied in our determination to uphold a nation and society that is based on respect and equality for all people. We have a history of having resisted and survived organized institutional attacks on our community and we are committed to building alliances to stand with our Muslim and immigrant friends and bring our resources to our collective defense.
The Conference will bring together the theoretical perspectives of radical political economics and the organizational experiences of those engaged in struggle on the many crucial issues confronting us today. It will, we hope, contribute to the development of an agenda that can guide all of us in the difficult years ahead.
It is assumed that all workshops will recognize the class, gender, and racial/ethnic dimensions of issues.
All URPE members, friends of URPE, and those whose work (not limited to that in educational institutions) involves the development and presentation of radical political economic theory, are invited to contribute to the presentation of radical political economic theory. The conference organizers also ask for help in soliciting input to the workshops from the activists whose work provides us with direction for our collective struggle.
Please register your interest in this conference, including nominations (or self-nominations) for workshop participants with |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| This will contribute to the organization of the conference and ensure that you will receive updates on conference plans as they develop.
Early registration: $30 per person; $15 for students.
Late registration (after March 18): $35 per person, $20 for students.
Since space for workshops is limited, participants will be asked to sign up for specific workshops - those who register early will be given preference when attendance reaches rooms' full capacity.
The registration form can be viewed and downloaded here.
The Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is incredible. Or inkredible, even, if I were able to stay as fresh as the Inklings that loiter around Inkopolis Square. After freely throwing new stages and gear in our direction while restocking Ammo Knights with ink-based weaponry to let Sheldon have a regular chance to nerd out at us, this hefty single-player campaign becomes the first paid downloadable content for the turf-splatting Nintendo Switch exclusive.
“AHOY! OCTOLING! Up and at ’em, ya lazy whiffle-whaffle! This fight ain’t over! Prepare for a royal whoopin’!” In this expansion, you play as Agent 8, an Octoling who, after waking up on a subway platform to find Cap’n Cuttlefish angrily shouting in their face, must overcome challenges in an underground test facility as they look to recover their lost memory. Cap’n Cuttlefish can remember that you were battling his protégé, Agent 3, in Octo Valley, when you were suddenly attacked by someone. But, as to how you both ended up underground together remains a complete mystery.
With a temporary truce called as you work together to make your escape, a brief tutorial section sees Cap’n Cuttlefish, as your guide, talk you through the basics. That starts with the need to recover a key to unlock an Octarian vault and technological contraptions that will equip (and confiscate) you with weapons, and soon sees you stumble upon an ominous, talking telephone.
It explains that you are in the Deepsea Metro Central Station, the antiquated device revealing that its primary function is to facilitate your journey to the promised land. After realising it isn’t communicating effectively with you, it enables contemporary speech mode and blurts out: “What is crack