Meet Ingeborg Blundell: Midwife, nurse, and abortionist. Join us as we reveal the secret history of reproductive healthcare in Bay Ridge.
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District Leaders: How To Reform The Party
Join us for a (boozy) talk with local activist, attorney, and District Leader candidate Mark Hanna as we discuss what a District Leader actually does. Along the way we’ll explore party machine politics, corruption, and reform in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and beyond!
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There Are No Accidents
Explore how corporations fail to keep us safe and blind us to dangerous, and profitable, conditions in our built environment. Local author and journalist Jessie Singer takes the lessons from her latest book, There Are No Accidents, and helps us apply them to our own neighborhood of Bay Ridge.
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The Lawmaker Of Bay Ridge
With nearly fifty bills passed, we sit down with State Senator Andrew Gounardes to ask how a bill becomes a law in Albany. Where do the ideas come from? What is the process for writing a bill? How does he manage to keep up during long legislative sessions at the State Capitol? Join us as we learn how our State Senator accomplishes the one job so many other politicians ignore: legislating.
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Give Us Shelter
Over 120 of our neighbors are homeless and in city shelters at any given time. But we have zero shelter beds in our neighborhood to help them. We are not doing our fair share. But we have a plan, and a petition, to change that. Join us for a 40 year history of NIMBY tactics and hyper-local stats as we explore what it would take to provide shelter in Bay Ridge
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Resign Malliotakis
A deep-dive into Nicole Malliotakis’s legislative history. We’ll explore into a very unusual bill that leads us on a journey back to the 1970s. We’ll unravel a web of land-grabs, NIMBYism, political backstabbing, racism, and legal maneuvers to keep Staten Island segregated.
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Reforming Our NYPD
2020 was a year that nobody should forget. The unjust deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd prompted a nationwide […]
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Black Lives Matter: How Bay Ridge Politicians Voted On Police Reform
How have our local politicians in Bay Ridge voted on police reform and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement?
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The Origins of Bay Ridge For Social Justice
Our profiles of Bay Ridge activist groups continues! Meet Bay Ridge For Social Justice, one of the most radical (and important) groups in our neighborhood. Join Yasmine, Sherry and Danielle as we explore the groups early days opposing injustice and bigotry in our neighborhood.
“Who Keeps Us Safe?” A Community Education Forum on MLK Jr. Day
Join your neighbors for the 5th Annual MLK Jr. March for Visibility Against Hate in Bay Ridge. This year, instead of a march, there will be an in-depth forum with speakers and workgroups dedicated to exploring community safety and how policing affects disenfranchised communities.
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