Thanks to 350BK for these actions:

ACTION 1: Tell Trader Joe’s: skip single use plastics.
Sign a petition urging Trader Joe’s to move away from single use plastics! TJ’s can take meaningful steps right now to decrease single-use plastic packaging, including offering dry goods in bulk, allowing customers to bring their own reusable containers to fill, and switching all storebrand product packaging to cardboard, paper, glass, and aluminum.

ACTION 2  Rally behind local, communally developed climate projects supporting disadvantaged communities.
Check this New York State Senate Bill to see if your State Senator has signed on to cosponsor the Climate and Community Protection Fund. If not, use this one-click tool to send a message and express your support.

ACTION 3: Stop by the 350Brooklyn Table on Earth Day.
On Saturday, April 22, we’ll be at the Earth Day Block Party street fair between 1 – 5pm. Visit us at the North Flatbush BID celebration on Bergen between Flatbush and 5th Avenue. Enough with virtual conversations—let’s see each other face to face! And we’ll have 350BK tee-shirts for sale.

A special screening of Crossings with filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, Women Cross DMZ Executive Director Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ Board Chair Aiyoung Choi, and filmmaker, philanthropist, and social justice activist Abigail Disney. Crossings documents the historic journey of 30 women peacemakers across the DMZ in 2015, and the role of women in ending America's longest-running war.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Doors open at 6:30pm and light refreshments will be available. For more information, email info@womencrossdmz.org or visit www.womencrossdmz.org.

Fridays For Future NYC, Sunrise Movement NYC, and Treeage will host an Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 22. We will come together from 1-3pm at the "Alice in Wonderland" Statue in Central Park with speakers, music, sign-making activities, food, and more. We are so excited to see everyone who has worked hard this budget season advocating for a green NYC with the Climate Justice and Jobs Package, and so grateful for the intergenerational network of local climate work we get to be a part of.

We will assemble at the usual spot: the corner of 86th Street and 4th Ave with the subway elevator. If the weather is inclement, we will be inside the subway station on that side.

For more information, contact (646)824-5506 or peaceactionbayridge@yahoo.com.

XR-NYC is escalating its calls upon JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America to stop funding fossil fuels with three days of direct action. You can find more information here. Note that there are support roles that are as valuable as actions that risk arrest.

Presented by JNC TV, moderated by Simone Chun of the Korea Policy Institute. Join us for a critical discussion with Noam Chomsky regarding the disastrous implications of Washington's military encirclement of China on the future of the Korean Peninsula. Register here or watch on Youtube Live.

Again this year, the 6.15 US Committee for Reunification of Korea plans Peace in Korea supporters to meet at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and sign everyone's wishes with 2 flags before starting the march. We will later deliver one each of the signed flags to the South and North Korean Mission to the UN. We will march to the South Korean Mission and continue to that of North Korea in order to form a human chain. 2 Missions are 1,100 feet apart. People's hand-to-hand chain will symbolically make 2 Koreas reunited notwithstanding the US keeps Korea divided and conquered since 1945. 

We will prepare "One Korea" flags and vests printed in 'No More War', 'Korea is One', 'Stop the War Drills', for all participants. We need a minimum of 200 people to make the human chain connected. We welcome any ideas to bring more participants to the event. After the human chain, we will come down to Ralph Bunche Park to have happy hours singing, chanting, or dancing. We will prepare sandwiches and Gimbob (Korean seaweed roll) to refill energy before going to the subway. Participants can take the vest home as a souvenir if they like.

For more information, please contact  soobokkim000@gmail.com or daintymira@gmail.com.

Join John McDonagh and Veterans for Peace on April 30th at 3:00 p.m. for a special benefit performance of "Off the Meter, On the Record" at the Principles G.I. Coffeehouse. Owned by Marine Veteran Katie Bishop, Principles is much more than just a place to get a great cup of coffee. It is a welcoming space created to develop a community that includes veterans, queer folk and all other people who are not expressly welcome in regular society. Katie Bishop begged, borrowed and borrowed some more to be able to create this magical place, and this benefit performance of "Off the Meter" is a small way of fellow veterans showing their support.

John McDonagh knows New York City better than most. He has been driving a New York City yellow cab for 40 years, and used that experience to write and perform a one-man play called "Off the Meter" about his observations of a changing New York City. "Off the Meter" was produced by The Irish Repertory Theatre and was directed by the Irish Rep's founder Ciaran O'Reilly. McDonagh has performed his play throughout the tri-state area and recently returned from a successful tour of Ireland. John also produces and hosts Radio Free Eireann with co-host Malachy McCourt, a weekly radio shows heard on Pacifica station WBAI, New York.

NOTE: Tickets are on a sliding scale.

Join Adalah Justice Project to hear from three leading Palestinian organizers: Mohammed El-Kurd, Fayrouz Sharqawi, and Basel Al-Adra.

Together, we'll dive into the structure of the illegal Israeli settlement project, its material impacts on Palestinians in Jerusalem and Masafer Yatta, and how New York is involved in it all.

The in-person portion of the event will take place at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, NYC, while the online portion will be accessible via Adalah Justice Project’s YouTube channel. We will provide detailed instructions on how to access the online portion of the event to all registered participants.

Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Why we should not dump radioactive wastewater: Study session with Dr. Makhijani and Dr. Amano.

In response to the Japanese government and TEPCO’s unilateral decision to dump radioactively wastewater into the Pacific as early as this summer, we should deepen our understanding on this issue and engage in actions to stop the discharge of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific. We look forward to your participation.

The "Don't Contaminate the Ocean with Radioactivity International Forum," which was held on December 17 of last year, was well-received. Dr. Arjun Makhijani, who was a guest speaker of the Forum, will hold a study session in May to explain the “Expert Panel Memorandum” that was prepared by him and four other scientists. Dr. Hikaru Amano will also take the stage to share his insights on this issue.

Those who register for the webinar will receive a copy of the study material, "Expert Panel Memorandum." Please review it in advance. Should you have any questions, please send them to koreumikaigi@gmail.com by April 23. We will do our best to answer them during the webinar, but we may not be able to answer all of them due to time constraints. Thank you for your understanding.

In addition, please do not post the "Expert Panel Memorandum" on social media or a website that can be viewed by an unspecified number of people, such as Facebook, blogs, and Twitter.

Following the April 8 NYC rally against dumping radioactive wastewater in the Hudson River and Pacific Ocean, our next step is to keep pressuring relevant parties & urge them to halt these outrageous dumping plans.

Don’t Nuke the Hudson – Stop Holtec:

Contact your NY Senators and Assembly Members and urge them to (2) co-sponsor the S5181/A5338 (aka Stop Holtec bill) ASAP and (2) have the legislation voted on the floor before May, because Holtec might start dumping radioactive wastewater as early as May 4. We need to delay the dumping schedule and ultimately halt the dumping plan.

You can see the status and co-sponsors of the Senate Bill S5181 and the companion Assembly Bill A5338 and current co-sponsors.

• Letter from Senator Schumer and Gillibrand to US NRC expressing significant concerns regarding Holtec’s recent announcement to expedite its planned release of a large amount of radioactive wastewater
  
• April 4 Announcement by the Decommissioning Oversight Board regarding water discharge at Indian Point
  

Don’t Nuke the Pacific – Stop Tepco

Please send postcards to 3 key Fukushima officials (governor and 2 mayors) to halt the dumping plan. TEPCO is building an underground tunnel in preparation for the dumping, which is schedule to be completed by the end of June. More info about the global postcard campaign or to download templates for postcards here.

Crafted in the heat of the momentous year 2020, from language found on the streets of the protest marches, in the hospitals during the Covid lock-down, and from the mouths of endangered fish in the sea, Troy Too is a contemporary dialogue with Euripides' The Trojan Women, the apocryphal play of mourning, out-rage and the dignity of lamentation. Greece’s renowned classical actor, Lydia Koniordou, brings a modern and ancient Hecuba to life in English and ancient Greek. Greek director, Avra Sidiropoulou, known for her innovative multimedia stagings of modern and classical texts, bridges the divide to bring Troy Too formally and shockingly alive in an international production that cuts across languages, cultures and centuries. We are still there, and there has as yet been no artistic reckoning. Troy Too is an enraged, lyric and poignant play of what we have survived, a poetic elegy for those who did not, an homage to those who were and are essential. This communal song of lament and praise has been lacking from public life.

Troy Too is an unusual collaboration between Theater Three Collaborative’s playwright, designers and core actors (including George Bartenieff on tape who speaks for the fish in the sea), and the Greek theater director Avra Sidiropoulou’s Persona Theater Company—and with an international, multi-racial cast. We are social justice theaters, and our visions have always encompassed the classical and the very modern. Avra directs in a highly exciting visual way, with a full musical and video score.

There are just 10 performances in the DOT theater at HERE. Troy Too is dedicated to the memory of TTC co-founder George Bartenieff. With special thanks to Basil Twist. Troy Too is published in Staging 21st Century Tragedies, and written by BFP member Karen Malpede.

Learn more about the play here.

New York is the most unequal state in the nation. A new report shows that ultra-rich New Yorkers (those with wealth over $30 million) hold a staggering $6.7 trillion in wealth. Meanwhile 8.6 million New Yorkers are poor and low-income. Inequality has cost too much and has hurt too many in New York State: when wealth concentrates at the top, it depresses economic activity and has an outsized influence over government decision-makers. Meanwhile, vital resources are kept from those who are abandoned in the midst of abundance. The health and well-being of the state depend on quickly and concretely addressing policy violence against those who suffer the effects of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the false narratives of religious nationalism.

On behalf of the 8.6 million poor and low-income people in New York, the NY State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival calls on Governor Kathy Hochul to do the following:

• Publicly acknowledge the ongoing and interconnected crises of poverty in New York State, and;
• Convene an in-person meeting with the New York State Poor People’s Campaign, including New Yorkers directly impacted by poverty, faith leaders, and policy experts, to craft a policy agenda to meet the needs of ALL New Yorkers.

Now is the time to center the needs of those impacted by poverty and demand a policy agenda that benefits everybody. We need a policy agenda that addresses the lives, struggles, agency and insights of the 8.6 million poor and low-income New Yorkers and our allies. We need a policy agenda that embodies a politics of justice and truth that can defeat the politics of death, heal the nation and move us closer to genuine democracy.

Sign this letter to Governor Hochul and join your voice with the poor and dispossessed of New York State to lead a moral revolution of values!

Stay tuned for our upcoming report on poverty in New York State, and Poor People's State of the State events!

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