1ST Meeting – The Harlem/Manhattan Chapter of the Coalition for Public Education/Coalicion por la Educacion Publica

1st Meeting

The Harlem/Manhattan Chapter
Coalition for Public Education/
Coalicion por la Educacion Publica

Event: First (1st) Harlem/Manhattan Chapter Meeting

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Day & Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Location:

Metropolitan AME Church

58 West 135th Street

(Corner of Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Avenue) and West 135th Street)

Discussion Topic:

Effective Organizing to Improve and Defend our Public Schools.

Transportation:

Train: 2,3 to West 135th Street
Bus: Bx 36, M7 or M102 to Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Avenue) and West 135th Street

Contact:

Mark A. Torres
Co-Chair, Coalition for Public Education/Coalicion por la Educacion Publica
Tele: 646-696-8485 or

Email: harlem120@msn.com

(Mr. Torres is also a Member of People Power – “Independent Politics for Independent People.”)

Putting the Negro Leagues in Play

clipped from www.nytimes.com Putting the Negro Leagues in Play By STUART MILLER The Strat-O-Matic Game Company, an old warhorse in an age of computer-driven fantasy leagues and high-tech video games, usually relies on detailed statistics to create ratings and tendencies for hitters and pitchers. But in creating a new 103-card Negro leagues set for its board game, Strat-O-Matic found that the data was not easy to come by. Coverage of Negro leagues games was spotty, especially because many black newspapers were weeklies. Although stories abound about Josh Gibson’s prowess or Satchel Paige’s wizardry, much of what has been handed down borders on folklore. Yet Hal Richman, who founded Strat-O-Matic in 1961, was determined. Enlarge This Image Strat-O-Matic After years of research and statistical interpretation, Strat-O-Matic has a new 103-card Negro leagues set.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/sports/baseball/08strato.html

George Wein & Newport All-Stars at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 11/17-22

clipped from www.allaboutjazz.com George Wein & Newport All-Stars at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 11/17-22 SOURCE: Carolyn McClair Public Relations GEORGE WEIN & THE NEWPORT ALL-STARS PERFORM AT DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA NOVEMBER 17 – 22, 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM NEW YORK, NY – George Wein is a legend off the stage, but he’s made quite a name for himself on the stage as well. Catch a rare performance by the jazz impresario on Tuesday, November 17 – Sunday, November 22, at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm when George Wein brings his Newport All-Stars to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th & Broadway. Joining Wein at Dizzy’s are Howard Alden (guitar), Winard Harper (drums), Jay Leonhart (bass), Randy Sandke (trumpet), Lew Tabackin (tenor saxophone) and some very special guests.

Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide

November 06, 2009

NY: Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide

Allied Sister and Brothers!!

I really hope you can come out and support! And, remember – if you can’t attend the event, you can still help us reach our goal of raising $5,000 to distribute this unique Survival Guide!

Imagine learning that someone you love has just been sentenced to prison – where do you turn? What should you expect? How do you keep yourself and your family together?

Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide, on November 14, 2009 – a unique reference created BY and FOR people with incarcerated loved ones. And now YOU have an OPPORTUNITY to make sure that information gets into the hands of those who need it most! Don’t miss this exciting event!

FREE! IS RAISING $5,000 TO DISTRIBUTE OUR “SURVIVAL GUIDE” FOR FAMILIES AND WE NEED YOUR HELP! IF 100 PEOPLE DONATE JUST $50 EACH WE WILL REACH OUR GOAL QUICKLY! ALL DONATIONS OF $25 OR MORE WILL RECEIVE ONE TICKET TO OUR SURVIVAL GUIDE LAUNCH PARTY AND YOUR OWN COPY OF OUR SURVIVAL GUIDE! (You can request that your copy be sent to a family member of your choice, or to a low-income member of FREE!)

The Survival Guide Launch Party will be held November 14th, 2009, from 4-7pm, at La Pregunta Arts Cafe, 1528 Amsterdam Avenue, Harlem, NY (btw 135th/136th Streets).

Featuring live entertainment, a Prison Art Auction by Inside Out Art, Inc., this event is also an opportunity to announce leadership transitions as our Founder and Acting Director, Kym Clark, steps aside, and we welcome Marion Rodriguez back into the Organizer position, and other members step forward to carry various torches of our work! Bid farewell to Kym, Happy Birthday to Cheri, Kym and Denise, and make your very first donation to Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment – FREE!

Go to: www.freefamilies.us and click on the CHIPIN widget to donate, or to http://survivalguide.chipin.com/free-survival-guide-launch-party. BE SURE TO INDICATE THE NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY TICKET AND GUIDE when you donate!

DON’T WANT TO DONATE ONLINE? Make checks payable to our Fiscal Sponsor, “Brecht Forum”, and write “FREE Families Rally” in the memo section.

Mail to: Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment
c/o Fortune Society
Long Island City, NY 11101

Please drop us an email at prisonfamz@gmail.com or leave a phone message so we can look out for your donation. 718-706-0195.

The Survival Guide was made possible in part by the North Star Fund, and the New York Foundation, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

City and state clash over plan for Deegan exits

Nov. 9 hearing will give public a chance to weigh in

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Bernard Stein in Government, Transportation

Efforts to relieve congestion on the Major Deegan Expressway have touched off a turf war between state traffic engineers and the city’s planners over the future of the Harlem River waterfront in Mott Haven.

City planners fear that the state’s redesign of the Deegan will torpedo their ambitious plan to build housing, parks, office buildings and a hotel on the waterfront, completed last summer when the City Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand Concourse.

A spokesman for the Department of City Planning warned Community Board 1 that the state Department of Transportation’s plan to lengthen exit ramps will wall off the shoreline, discouraging waterfront development.

Residents will have the opportunity to weigh in at a public hearing scheduled for Nov. 9 at Hostos Community College.

The hearing, will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. in the Savoy Multi-Purpose Room, 120 E. 149th St. at Walton Avenue, second floor.

There will be two 20-minute presentations of information, one at 4:30 p.m. and the other at 7 p.m. Public comments and statements will be taken throughout the hearing, and project staff will be available for informal discussions.

A version of this article appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the Mott Haven Herald.

City and state clash over plan for Deegan exits

City and state clash over plan for Deegan exits

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INDIAN ROAD EVENTS

INDIAN ROAD EVENTS     SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8th 12 – 2PM, Will Teez Bike Club The Inwood Cycling Club meets every Sunday outside of the Indian Road Café.  Show up any time after 11am.  We’ll head out a bit after noon, leaving plenty of time to get properly caffeinated, hydrated and schmooze. Meet your neighbors, Rep Your Hood and get your ride on. Everybody’s welcome, come one come all.   1 – 3PM, Medleys and Mimosa Brunch with Stephen Kennedy Murphy This week we feature songs of The Knack including “My Sharona” and “Oh Tara.” (Just kidding-not sure what the featured songs are this week)   3:30 – 5:00PM, We host a closing reception for “subway artist” Enrico Miguel Thomas (on the mezzanine)   MONDAY thru FRIDAY 4 – 6PM, Happy Hour at the bar   MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th 7PM, Indian Road Knitting Circle Come on in, have a drink, and knit yourself that piano tie that you’ve always wanted.   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th 8 – 10PM, Trivia Night with Dr. Jordan & The Evil Mr. Philoptikos   Come on out and join up with your friends and neighbors for a night of raucous fun and great prizes, including tickets to Broadway and sporting events.   THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th 8:45 – 10:15PM, LIVE MUSIC – Orville Davis “Take a taste of Rock and Roll, mix it with a little Rhythm and Blues, top it off with a little Country and Western, stir it up and you’ve got Honky Tonk With Attitude. This is the music Orville Davis brings to the public.”

Bellevue Natural-Birth Center, Haven for Poor Women, Closes

clipped from www.nytimes.com Bellevue Natural-Birth Center, Haven for Poor Women, Closes By A. G. SULZBERGER and NICK PINTO The Bellevue Birth Center was celebrated as a landmark achievement for the natural-birth movement in New York City when it opened in 1998. The luxurious natural-birth center, designed to feel more like a home than a hospital, was the only one of its kind dedicated not to Manhattan’s trend-conscious set, but to poor, mostly immigrant women on Medicaid. But last month, as Carolina Palmgren prepared to give birth to her first child there, she learned from a midwife that the center at Bellevue, a city hospital, had been quietly closed. “The upsetting thing is that there was no notice,” said Ms. Palmgren, 31. The closing has provoked complaints about a lack of public notice that it was being considered, as well as about the declining number of natural-birth options in the city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/nyregion/07birth.html

Charles Barron May Run For Council Speaker

clipped from gothamist.com Charles Barron May Run For Council Speaker According to Runnin’ Scared, City Councilman Charles Barron is considering challenging Christine Quinn to be Speaker, saying, “I would be an excellent speaker…We need someone to be a check on the Mayor, not a deputy mayor.” He noted that the Speaker and Council chairs for the finance and land committees are white, so if a non-white Council member doesn’t throw her or his hat into the ring against Quinn, he will. He added, “You only need 26 votes.

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: ‘NEXUS NEW YORK: LATIN/AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MODERN METROPOLIS,’ through Feb. 28. A bright light at the top of Museum Mile, the city’s premier Latino art center has reopened after a makeover with a dense, episodic and absorbing visual history of the Latino art presence in New York in the first half of the 20th century. As much an archival display as a standard art show, it focuses on luminous, culture-changing personalities, from the Mexican-born art impresario Marius de Zayas, who teamed up with Alfred Stieglitz to bring the first Picasso show to New York; to Joaquín Torres-García, a Uruguayan who arrived here in 1920 and saw proto-Pop Art everywhere; to the Chilean Roberto Matta, who served as a dynamic agent for Old World Surrealism in the New World. In addition, El Museo now has its first permanent-collection gallery, with an installation, “Voces y Visiones,” that reaffirms historical connections to the nearby East Harlem neighborhood. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem , (212) 831-7272, elmuseo.org. (Cotter)