Today is a huge day, with many important events occurring throughout the country. In addition to Tea Party-led protests against the recently uncovered pattern of maliciously partisan actions by the IRS,, today is National Press Day. Sponsored by Remember 1986, an organization dedicated to stopping our government from repeating the mistakes of the past, the...
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Subject: S.744 National Day of Action Media Advisory Citizens of New Jersey and New York to hold a press conference to denounce comprehensive amnesty bill (S. 744) and call on Congress to remember the lessons of the the failed 1986 amnesty. NEW YORK, NY – The citizens of New York and New Jersey join in a...
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April 6, 2013, Jersey City, NJ. NY ICE and their supporters counter-protested the push for legislative amnesty in Liberty Park, Jersey City. The above footage is from that Jersey City counter-protest. The footage will show Jersey police ushering NY ICE away from where they were standing, but the area was a public park. A NY...
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At the risk of oversaturation, I’m posting info on another NY ICE protest which will be taking place tomorrow morning much closer to home. Even though it’s very early, hopefully some of you can make it.
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It’s difficult to find humor in an event as tragic and consequential as Hurricane Sandy, which left thousands of people temporarily homeless and hundreds dead from Port-au-Prince to Breezy Point. However, some local comedians, including my friend Robert George, are attempting to use the gift of humor to help out some of those whose...
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One of the chief distinctions between the anti-Israel rally and the slightly smaller, yet equally exuberant, pro-Israel counter-demonstration held in Times Square this weekend was the sentiments expressed by the participants. While the former vocalized their antipathy towards Israel and the United States and demanded ordinary Israelis be punished-through measures such as the BDS...
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Note: For those of you that would like to help the residents of Oakwood Beach who have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy, my friend Tracy Diaz has established a chipin called the Oakwood Beach Rescue Fund, which will assist some of the people impoverished in this storm’s aftermath. One of the tragedies of Hurricane...
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Update: Blood drive in Southern Brooklyn – Saturday 11/10/2012, 12-6 PM, Kings Plaza Shopping Center, 5100 Avenue U, Brooklyn, New York 11234. Volunteer opportunity this Saturday, courtesy of Rockaway Recovery. The details are listed below. Local businesses and news media are doing what they can to help out those who’ve been heavily-impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
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Understand that America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, your fifty languages, and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you...
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Update to the Update: The Atlantic has some remarkable pictures of the storm. More Hurricane Sandy photos and videos, courtesy of GizModo. The New York Daily News is tracking Sandy. Atlantic City is living up to its name, and parts of the Bronx appear to be underwater. Connecticut is also being hit pretty hard....
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