Last week, NRA president Wayne LaPierre told an extremely credulous crowd that he believes paid protesters fighting the Trump administration are making $1500 per week. Sadly, this isn't true (though if it is, please give me some money), but if everyone out there is making conservative activists this crazy, you're doing something right. Keep it up at the following events this week:
Journalism in the Age of Trump
If the president is defining journalism as one of the evils plaguing the country, something has gone seriously wrong. Listen to a panel of journalists (Bill Moyers, the New York Times' Dean Baquet, EmergingUS Jose Antonio Vargas Vice News' Shawna Thomas and Slate's Jacob Weisberg) talk about the role and responsibility of the press in this new age in America. Get there early, because it's first come, first seated.
FREE, Monday, February 27th, 7:30 p.m., New York Public Library, 476 5th Avenue
Get Organized Brooklyn: Full Group Meeting
Brad Lander's #GetOrganizedBK has been meeting regularly since the early days after Trump was elected, so here's another chance for you to jump in if you want to be a part of it. Tonight's meeting will focus on defending public education first, and then will be followed up by breaking into smaller working groups.
FREE, Monday, February 27th, 6:30 p.m., Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 Garfield Pl
Resist Trump Tuesdays!
As has been the case since he was named minority leader, it's important to keep showing up at Chuck Schumer's office to tell him to fight the Trump administration's plans tooth and nail. The New York City chapter of Indivisible will be dropping by Schumer's office today to talk to his staffers and ask them questions about Schumer's plans, and relay their concerns as his constituents. Sound like you? Join in on a visit then.
FREE, Tuesday, February, 28th, noon/4:30 p.m., Chuck Schumer's Manhattan office, 780 3rd Avenue
What's On Tap? featuring Commissioner Nisha Agarwal
What's the latest on the city and immigration, aside from the fact that turnstile jumping can lead to deportation? Find out at a happy hour with Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, Nisha Agarwal, who'll discuss what she's been doing in the de Blasio administration and the impact Trump's immigration agenda is having on the city.
FREE, Tuesday, February 28th, 6 p.m., Juniper Bar, 237 West 35th Street
Building a Feminism for the 99%
The Women's Strike is coming up fast (March 8th will be here before you know it), so here's a chance to get involved and help make it happen. Whether you want to find out more about the protest or help plan it, this meeting with other "feminists, students, workers, professors and international activists" is where you want to be if you have ideas or just want to show solidarity.
FREE, Tuesday, February 28th, 6 p.m., The Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
Using Your Privilege to Resource the Resistance
Ever feel like there's more you can be doing to help resist the Trump administration besides just taking to the streets? Here's a night devoted specifically to talking about how you can best use your money, your class privilege and other resources you have to further the goal of supporting progressive ideas and movements.
FREE, Tuesday, February 28th, 7 p.m., North Star Fund, 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1800
Disability Day Of Mourning
Republican changes to the ACA, a plan that's widely seen as handing money from poor to rich and has been pegged even by some Republicans as a plan that will cover fewer Americans than the ACA, will invariable hit disabled people hard. As will the Trump administration's general attitude towards helping pretty much anyone. Join the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network in a vigil for disabled people lost to violence from their caretakers last year and then gear up for the fight ahead in a worse healthcare climate.
FREE, Wednesday, March 1st, 5:30 p.m., Washington Square Park
Demystifying Government: Executive Shenanigans
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the question of how America got to be the alligator-filled toilet it currently is? Want answers on how got to that point? Great, because this is an evening where wonks, lawyers and even a comedian will help explain the various facets of how things like executive orders work and how they're implemented by administrative agencies, the two major parties' shifts on foreign policy, and other governing factors you might find yourself curious about. Plus there will be cookies for sale for $1, with the money going toward a TBD local non-profit.
FREE, Wednesday, March 1st, 7:30 p.m., Cloud City, 85 North 1st Street
Trumpland: an Exhibition Opening by Salim Hasbini
Want to re-live the empty, nightmarish hours in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States? You can do that while also raising some money for the ACLU at the release party for Trumpland, a zine made up of photographs taken in the city in the aftermath of that surprise victory. Meet the photographers, have a drink (have a few drinks) and don't forget to pick up a copy of the zine so that you can get some money in the coffers of the ACLU.
FREE, Thursday, March 2nd, 6 p.m., Lomography Gallery, 41 West 8th Street
Rally for a #FairWorkWeek & Fast Food Worker Empowerment
Andrew Puzder may have taken his burger and gone home and fast food workers will (eventually) get a $15 minimum wage in the city and state, but there's still work that has to be done on their behalf. Today's rally at City Hall will focus on ending the practice of last-second scheduling changes in the fast food industry, so that employees can actually you know, live their lives, without worrying about being suddenly summoned to work.
FREE, Friday, March 3rd, 9 a.m., City Hall
The Occasionalists Present Eve Of Destruction Live Karaoke For The Resistance
I don't know about you guys, but I, for one, enjoy karaoke. Getting drunk and screaming into a microphone and everyone has to listen to you for three minutes or so at a time? What's not to love!? Bonus points if while you do it you're benefitting the ACLU and Brooklyn immigration-rights group DRUM, which is exactly what you'll be doing if you take in this evening of live band karaoke.
$10, Friday, March 3rd, 7 p.m., Union Hall, 702 Union Street
March 4th for Standing Rock
The Water Protecters' camp at Standing Rock may be gone, but since the Dakota Access Pipeline project was revived by the Trump administration, the fight against it will continue. A week before a mass nationwide action against the pipeline, the city will host a rally and march from the New York Public Library to Trump Tower in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and their right to clean water.
FREE, Saturday, March 4th, 1 p.m., New York Public Library
People's March for Education Justice - NYC
Hoo boy, Saturday is going to be a busy day around Trump properties. In addition to the march against the Dakota Pipeline ending at Trump Tower, a march demanding that Andrew Cuomo give the state and city billions in promised education funding, end the state's reliance on testing and invest more in social workers and other support staff for schools statewide will start at the Trump International Hotel. Keeping up pressure on Andrew Cuomo is a backdoor way of increasing pressure on Donald Trump, by reminding him to keep acting like a liberal in the run up to his probable run for presidency.
FREE, Saturday, March 4th, 9:30 a.m., Trump International Hotel and Tower, 1 Central Park West
Building Resistance Propaganda Party
Ain't no party like a propaganda party cause a propaganda party lives forever through its messaging. Sorry, sorry. Anyway, drop by the Interference Archive on Sunday for a chance to learn all about a bunch of groups who are fighting the Tump administration, and pick up their various propaganda in the form of stickers, flyers, buttons and other message-spreading goods. Maybe zines? Probably at least one organization will have a zine.
FREE, Sunday, March 5th, noon, Interference Archive, 131 8th Street, Brooklyn
Women’s Strikes: Past, Present, and Future
If you can't make the other Women's Strike planning and information day, or you just want to stay involved, here's another chance for you. This evening's meeting will focus on the history of women's strikes worldwide in order to learn from them, a group chat about the best ways to accomplish the goals of the upcoming strike, and some time to make signs for next Wednesday's strike.
FREE, Sunday, March 5th, 6 p.m., Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Avenue
