501. Phone Bank for Clean Money, Clean Elections (Issues & Projects/Old Action Items)
Citizen Action
11 Park Place (down near City Hall)
6-9 pm
January 29 & 31, February 6, 7, 12 & 13, 2008
Citizen Action will calling people in targeted State Assembly...
502. NY State Board of Elections Chooses New Voting Machines (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Update 2/6/2008: On February 4, State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O'Connor
ordered the NY State Board of Elections to add the Liberty touch-screen voting machine
to the list of approved machines. The Liberty machine is all electronic...
503. Real Rent Reform campaign kickoff (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
Ready for real reform of the rent laws? West Side Neighborhood Association (WSNA) members will be joining community and tenant advocates from across the City at the Real Rent Reform campaign kick-off meeting! ...
504. Astoria DFNYC Food Pantry Volunteers (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
Friday, January 25, 2008, 6:00pm
Holy Trinity
31-18 37th Street
(37th Street and 31st Avenue - main entrance to the undercroft is on 37th Street)
The Astoria DFNYC Linkup, NYC for Edwards and the Queens County Young Democrats
will be he...
505. Bush's Last Dance - The Final State of the Union Watch Party (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Doors 8:00pm, Speech at 9:00pm DCTV - 87 Lafayette St, btw Walker & White (below Canal) Subway: 6,A,C,E,N,Q,R,W to Canal Street Join DFNYC, Living Liberally, Generation Engage, Metro and the NY YoungRepublicans for ...
506. Remembering Martin Luther King 2008 (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
(A message from DFNYC member Michael Minn)
In celebrating the life and work of civil rights pioneer
Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) for what would have been his
79th birthday, the sound bite you will probably hear
most frequently will ...
507. Electoral College Reform -- Common Cause forum (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
Common Cause New York2008 Archibald Cox Memorial Lecture SeriesElectoral College Reform: National Popular Vote, A Practical Plan?7:30 pm, Tuesday, January 22CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave. @ 34...
508. NY Impeach Bush Group Brooklyn Meetup (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
January 22, 2008, 7:30pm
Nascent Cafe
143 Nevins St.
Brooklyn, NY
The New York Impeach Bush Group will be having a meetup in Brooklyn
on Tuesday evening, January 22 at the Nascent Cafe (www.thenascent.com),
to discuss Rep. Wexler's ef...
509. Demos of Potential New Voting Machines for NYC (Events/Other Events (Not Sponsored by DFNYC))
In response to the U.S. Dept. of Justice's lawsuit against the state
of New York for failure to comply with the "Help America Vote
Act" (HAVA), the state is accelerating a plan to get
disabled-accessible "ballot marking devices&...
510. Are you sure you're registered to vote? - VotePoke.org (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
(A message from DFNYC member Michael Minn)
In states without same-day voter registration (which is most states,
including New York), there is always the potential that a voter may go
to the polls and find, much to their surprise and dismay, tha...