1. Proposed bylaws & upcoming elections for new DFNYC leadership (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
DFNYC has drafted bylaws for membership ratification and there will be elections for new leadership this spring. Click on "Read more" for details and to download the proposed bylaws.
2. Big Linkup Report: Upcoming Elections for New DFNYC Leadership (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Last Wednesday, February 3rd, Democracy for NYC combined our neighborhood Linkups into one big Linkup, with special guest Jim Dean, chair of Democracy for America. It was a well-attended evening filled with a good mix of socializing and polit...
3. DFNYC Supports Dean (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Democracy for NYC sent the following press release in reponse to the attacks directed at Howard Dean by the White House.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 20, 2009
Contact: Bernadette Evangelist 212-608-3213 bevangelist@df...
4. Taking a Stand Against Afghan War (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
The following article by DFNYC member, Chuck Zlatkin, appeared in The Indypendent, the newspaper of the nyc independent media center
Taking a Stand Against Afghan War
From the December 11, 2009 issue
By C...
5. Obituary for a Cookie Factory (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Stella D'oro is gone
On Thursday, October 8, the Stella D'oro factory was taken from the Bronx. The brand, logo, and machinery will go to a location in Ohio where unions and organized labor will not impinge on the profits of th...
6. DFNYC Endorses Yetta Kurland! (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Democracy for NYC is proud to announce that our members have voted to endorse Yetta Kurland in the Democratic primary in Council District 3. Voting opened on July 1st and closed on July 10th. Here are the results: Yett...
7. DFNYC Sponsors Queens Pride Parade (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
On Sunday, June 7, DFNYC marched in the Queens Pride parade in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Queens is proving to be a major nexus in the push to enact marriage equality in New York. Three of the seven state Senators in Queens are not fully on boa...
8. 2009 Pilot Program for New York’s Voting Machines (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
The following is a report from Wanda Warren Berry, Director, New Yorkers for Verified Voting, on the 2009 Pilot Program for New York’s Voting Machines
There is much confusion as New Yorkers anticipate the Primary and General election...
10. DFNYC Members Join March on Wall Street (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
10,000 March on Wall Street
On Saturday, April 4, 2009, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" speech, 10,000 people march on Wall Street to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and ...