OBAMA FUNDRAISER AT ARTBREAK OCT 25

HEALTH INSURANCE: WHAT ARTISTS NEED TO KNOW

HEALTH INSURANCE: WHAT ARTISTS NEED TO KNOW

Tuesday, September 2, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Brooklyn Public Library Business Library Branch
280 Cadman Plaza West at Tillary Street

In this seminar, industry professionals will discuss the importance of health insurance for artists and freelancers and the various options available for finding affordable health care in New York City. Learn the differences between low cost public plans, private insurance and discount plans and leave this seminar with a clear understanding of the type of health insurance that is right for you.

Please RSVP for seminars at www.brooklynartscouncil.org

The BAC/Independence Professional Development Seminars for the Arts series is generously sponsored by the Independence Community Foundation.

LGBT activist groups, ASWAT and GALZ International Fundraising Tour - New York Tentative Schedule

Dear Friends

Here is our tentative schedule for the New York tour:

Tues 09/09: Definate event: UNDP Lunch discussion 1:00 - 2:00 or 2:30?
Wed 10/09: Tentative in process: NYU Discussion
Thur 11/09: Definate event: Human Rights Watch Lunch discussion 1:00 - 3:00
Frid 12/09: Definate event: Astraea Funders Meeting 1:00 - 2:00 or 2:30?
Sat 13/09: Tentative in process: Gay and Lesbian Centre
Mon 1 5/09: Definate event: Astraea Community event 1:00 - 2:00
Definate event: Audre Lourde Project event 7:00 - 9:300

We hope to see you all

Best Wishes

Fadzai Muparutsa
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe

Deliver petitions to Fox headquarters w/ Color of Change & MoveOn.org (July 23)

Dear New York Area ColorOfChange.org member,
More than half a million people have joined the effort to call on Fox to end their race-baiting and fear-mongering! It's an amazing response. We're taking the campaign to the next step: at Fox News Headquarters in Manhattan, hip hop artist Nas--who has a new track calling out Fox's racism and fear-mongering--will join ColorOfChange.org members and our allies to deliver the petitions and our message in front of news cameras. Click here to RSVP:
http://colorofchange.org/foxdelivery/?id=1842-66047
Where: News Corp. Building (home of Fox News), 1211 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave), @48th St in Manhattan
When: Wednesday, July 23rd at 2pm, gathering at 1:45pm
Who: Nas with ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org members deliver over 620,000 signed petitions to FOX
More Info: We'll gather in the plaza on 48th St., just north of the Fox building, a couple hundred feet west of 6th Ave.
You can help make history. Never before has Fox or any other media organization been confronted by this many Black voices and allies. Participating is easy. Just make your way to 48th St and 6th Ave.
This won't be the end of our campaign. If other media outlets cover us delivering over half-a-million petition signatures, FOX's advertisers will get the hint that it's not a good idea to associate their products with Fox's hate-speech. But we need a crowd to make this event as powerful as possible.
We hope you can join us. To RSVP, click here:
http://colorofchange.org/foxdelivery/?id=1842-66047
Thanks and Peace,
-- James, Gabriel, Clarissa, Andre, Kai and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
July 22nd, 2008

3rd Annual Gender Equality Festival (July 19)

Friends of Girls for Gender Equity -

Summer is upon us! Let’s celebrate our work for equality with a festival in the park!

Join us for the Third Annual New York City Gender Equality Festival, a celebration of arts and activism, taking place Saturday July 19th in Von King Park , Central Brooklyn . This is a free public event open to New Yorkers of all ages and genders. Over 100 community artists, organizations, and local politicians will participate, offering inspirational performances and important information on every day activism, ending police violence, reproductive justice, and more. Come participate in education, community interaction, resource sharing, and the arts!

3rd Annual Gender Equality Festival
Saturday July 19, 2008
10 am - 3pm, FREE!

Von King Park ( Tompkins Park ), Bedstuy, Brooklyn
Between Tompkins + Marcy at Lafayette
Subway: G to Bedford-Nostrand, A/C to Nostrand
Bus: B43 to Lafayette + Tompkins, B44 to Lafayette , B53 to Tompkins Ave.

Bring your family and friends to celebrate a day of Singers, Dancers, Poets, Community, Raffles, and more! Then join us afterwards…

For an After Party Fundraiser!
Get Down 2 Get Up, feat. DJ Ingie Pop & Tikka Masala
Doors at 9pm, Sliding scale
Donation: $10 - $5, 21&up with ID

At Sputnik Bar, 262 Taaffe Place , Brooklyn
G train to Classon Ave.

Our celebration will stretch into the night with the sounds of DJ’s Ingie Pop & Tikka Masala, at Sputnik, as we celebrate movement building through music.

http://www.ggenyc.org/co-events.php

For more information on these events, or to sponsor or volunteer, contact - Meghan Huppuch at 718-857-1393 or sisters@ggenyc.org .

Asia Catalyst presents 'HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in China' A Panel Discussion @ the LGBT Center in NYC

Thursday July 17th, 7:30pm-9pm

In the last few weeks before the launch of the Beijing Olympics and the XVII International AIDS Conference, hear from two Chinese AIDS activists about the successes and continuing challenges people with AIDS -- and the activists who advocate for their rights -- face on the front lines of the epidemic in China.

Li Dan won the 2006 Reebok Human Rights Award and, with Asia Catalyst's support, has opened the first legal aid center for people with AIDS in China. Gao Qi is the director of China AIDS Information Network and a leading expert on treatment access in China. Joe Amon is the director of HRW's HIV/AIDS Program, and Prof. Jerome Cohen is the leading expert in the US on Chinese law. Join us for a lively discussion.

Speakers:
Li Dan, Co-Founder and Head of China Orchid AIDS Projects and Korekata AIDS Law Center
Gao Qi, Ph.D., Director, China AIDS Information Network
Joseph Amon, HIV/AIDS Program, Human Rights Watch

Moderator: Professor Jerome A. Cohen, NYU School of Law

Locale: The LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St (between 6th and 7th Aves), Room 310
Admission: Free

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UNDERGROUND a collaborative exhibition @ ArtBreak Gallery - Opens SAT 7 June

Rally in New Brunswick to End Detention Abuse in Middlesex County (Thursday, May 15)

END DETENTION ABUSE IN MIDDLESEX

CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL!

RALLY Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm at the Middlesex County Freeholder
Meeting

Innocent immigrants are suffering in jails all across America! In
2007,
311,213 were illegally detained. Immigrant detainees do not have
access to
basic human rights—like due process, a jury trial or even adequate
medical
care. No mandatory standards exist.

Right here in Middlesex County, where over 150 immigrant detainees are
held,
the county is making over $6 million a year off of their suffering.
On March
2nd a Cuban detainee held in detention at Middlesex County Jail died
from
medical neglect. Over 90 detainees wrote a petition to protest his
death and a
week later detainees signed a 2nd petition protesting conditions
inside
Middlesex County Jail. Don't let their brave actions be go
unnoticed!

Take a stand for civil rights for all!
SAY NO TO ABU GHRAIB AND GUANTANAMO IN OUR BACKYARD!

Join NJCRDC to demand the
Middlesex County Freeholders
stop profiting from the suffering of innocent people.

Terminate the Contract NOW!

Meet on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm
Middlesex County Freeholders meeting
Administration Bldg, 75 Bayard St, New Brunswick

­­­For more information on New Jersey Civil Rights Defense
Committee,
including how our actions led to the termination of the detention
contract at
Passaic County Jail go to http://www.nj-civilrights.org


Please help by distributing the flyers you can download on our
website.

May 1 NYC - MASS RALLY for IMMIGRANT & WORKER RIGHTS

Thursday May 1st
12 p.m. Gather at Union Square
14th Street and Broadway
4 p.m. Rally & March

May Day 2008 is critically important. Will the optimism and hope expressed around the Presidential elections translate into an end of immigrant raids & deportations? Will it bring an end to the foreclosures of homes, the lowering of gas and food prices, or an end to lay-offs?

Whatever the outcome in November, the May 1st Coalition for Immi­grant and Worker Rights will be marching once again on May Day, International Workers Day, to say no to all the attacks against workers here and around the world.

We call on the progressive community, the anti-war movement, the women's & lgbt movement, and especially on the labor movement, to come out for May Day 2008. March for solidarity, because an injury to one is an injury to all!

We say:
Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, Arab, White—In Unity there is strength.
ICE raids are racist, anti-union, and violate immigrant & US workers civil rights & divide families.
Jobs & homes, not lay-offs & foreclosures. Stop demolition of public housing in New Orleans & everywhere.
No war in Iraq, bring the troops home now.
Political asylum for Victor Toro, No deportation of Flor Crisóstomo.
Money for levees in New Orleans, not for militarizing the US/Mexico border.
Repeal NAFTA. US trade agreements force migration & lay-offs.

Rally called by
May 1st Coalition for Immigrant & Worker Rights
www.may1.info 641.715.3900 Ext. 97869#