Actions for Week of August 15, 2021

Voting should be easy. The GOP wants it to be hard. And NY isn’t immune.

Tuesday, August 17
Stop Voter Purges
5 PM-6:30 PM

Team up with the ACLU to alert Florida voters that they have been removed from the voting rolls (sometimes without realizing it). Let them know what has happened and explain how they can fix it. We can’t let the GOP win by cheating.

Thursday, August 19
Board of Elections Forum (in person or Zoom)
7 PM
Dressel Hall
88th between 1st and 2nd

The Board of Elections keeps failing. Are you mad about it? Want to do something? Join Sen. Liz Krueger and Joanna Zdanys (Brennan Center for Justice) for a forum on improving our elections,

Friday, August 20
Virtual Coffee with Carolyn Maloney
8-9AM.

Chat with our Congresswoman about what’s going on in Washington (or isn’t) and what we’d like her to do to fix it.

Sunday, August 22
August UWS MoveOn/Indivisible Monthly Meeting with Brad Lander
3 – 4:45pm EDT

Soon to be Comptroller Brad Lander will talk with us and take questions about his plans for being NYC’s chief financial officer.

FUN

Sneaky birds!
Help feather, er line a nest! Seems only fair, since we use feathers for pillows and comforters.

What classical Greek and Roman statues really looked like
Hint: they weren’t white

A tuna robot reveals the art of gliding gracefully through water
It looks like a fish and swims like a fish, but it’s also a model that could inspire future underwater vehicles.

Free access to one million British and Irish newspaper pages
There are more in the archive, behind a paywall).

Reclaimed wood turns into art
The wood is worked and burned to celebrate nature.