Actions for Week of February 21, 2021
Turn the concrete jungle green, invest in our NY, and get ourselves a new mayor
Monday, February 22 (and subsequent Mondays)
PHONE BANK TO INVEST IN NY
Help empower other New Yorkers to reach their legislators and urge them to end unfair tax breaks for wealthy people. If we’re going to get past this, we need a real recovery!
Wednesday, February 24th
MAYORAL CANDIDATE FORUM - FIXING THE CITY'S FINANCES
4 PM
Covid and related shutdowns are worsening the city’s fiscal problems. Join this forum to find out how each mayoral candidate plans to solve this problem, and how they intend to fund the fixes.
Thursday, February 25
NYC CLIMATE BRIEFING- HOW WE (AND OUR REPS) CAN SUPPORT GREEN NEW DEALS
Noon
Find out how to fight climate change in NYC and assure we don’t end up like Texas (snowed in, no power, and drowning). (We are co-sponsoring this with NY Renews)
COPING WITH STRESS
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Meeting ID: 832 3493 9450
Passcode: 801821
We’ve now been shutdown for nearly a year. We’re all stressed, tired, and struggling to cope. Hear from an expert on stress to find out how to better balance and manage your life during this crisis.
Speaker: Karen Alter-Reid, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist in CT and NY specializing in traumatic stress.
Saturday, Feb. 27
KICK OUT THE TRAITORS PHONEBANKING
1 PM -3PM
Team up with Field Team 6 to call voters in Florida to unseat Congressman Gimenez. He flipped a blue seat to red, and then voted to overturn the November election results. Because somehow the votes for his race were fine, but the same voters on the same ballot at the top of the ticket were ….wrong?
FUN!
Scotland snow/sand lorries
Scotland let the winter sanding and salting truck drivers name their machines. The results were hilarious.
Robot life on Mars
Follow Perseverance the rover at the link.
Also NASA was able to get a shot of the rover as it dangled from its jetpack, and another from the orbiter circling the planet.
Music at the Morgan
Over 500 digitized music manuscripts.
Test your pandemic brain
Are you smarter than a Neanderthal?
Also…. Pitchers and catchers report this week! Yay!