350 Art Help Needed in Brooklyn

Email from Sarah Camp of 350.org:

"350.org will coordinate 20 public art pieces in ecosystems and communities impacted by climate change—our sinking coastlines, endangered forests, melting glaciers, and polluted cities—that are massive enough to be seen from space. Each public art piece will be photographed by satellite. The images will be displayed across the Internet and on Google Earth, as well as distributed to mainstream media outlets around the world.

Here’s how you can help:

Near Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the artist Molly Dilworth will be creating a large painting atop a roof in NYC with a design imagining the new borders of New York Harbor after a +7 meter rise in sea-level—once completed, the roof will be photographed by satellite. The special paint will create a solar-reflective coating engineered to decrease solar heat absorbed by the building...

Molly needs your help to create this climate masterpiece! Volunteers are needed from Nov. 1-5 to assist in painting the roof. Painting will be going on between 9am-5pm each day, and you can sign up for a shift of anywhere from 2 to 8 hours on any of those days. No experience needed!

Please note: ...Volunteers should dress warmly and in work clothes.

...Please contact Molly at madilworth@yahoo.com and write “Volunteer” in the subject heading. Include which days/hours you’d like to help out, and she’ll follow up with further instructions and information about the building’s location.

More About Molly Dilworth's Current Painting in Time Square:
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/7697 "

Eco Justice Essay for Mass Distribution/Consideration... & Marcellus Protest

A Proposal to the Youth Environmental Movement is an essay that I wrote for students and youth that are somehow ecologically involved or concerned, even if on the outermost peripheral of what you might call Green, or wanting to be, even. It's ten pages long and it's also for anyone totally involved, so please comment and spread it to where you think it should go, if you think it should go somewhere. It is most relevant within the next month or two.

The Marcellus Protest is going to be on November 3rd in Pittsburgh and it's not unrealistic to find a ride there so just ask me on Facebook or at shannonayala@rocketmail.com if you want to find a way there.

Marcellus Protest Website
Invite people on Facebook.

A Proposal for the Youth Environmental Movement

Emergency Call to to Action is a march that will start at Columbus Circle and rally at Fox News, holding Fox accountable or a major attribute to the recent tragedies and injustices involving LGBTQ, Muslim and immigrant people, this Saturday at 11AM.

Black Farmers, Urban Gardeners & New Young Farmers

Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference

"Growing Health, Wealth, & Justice in Our Communities

November 19-21, 2010
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

"Our farmers are in peril:
In 1920, over 14% of U.S, farmers were African American.
In 2007, less than 2% of U.S. farmers are African American.
Only 110 of more than 56,000 farmers in New York State are African American.

Our communities are malnourished:
Nationally, the typical low-income neighborhood has 30 percent fewer supermarkets than higher-income neighborhoods.

Our health is suffering:
Nearly 50% of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives.
About four out of five African American women are overweight or obese.
In 2007, African Americans were 1.4 times as likely to be obese as Non- Hispanic Whites.
Deaths from heart disease and stroke are almost twice the rate for African Americans as compared to Whites.

Help forge food, farming and policy solutions for the Black Community. Attend the Black Farmer and Urban Gardeners Conference."

Young Farmers and Role of Higher Education

A Chance To Ask Hard Questions

This is a 350 blast that is worthy of everyone's attention:

Dear Friends,

A last-minute addition to the weekend's festivities: Representatives from the White House have asked if they could talk with some of the people organizing events across the country.

At 5 p.m. tomorrow, Jon Carson, who is Chief of Staff at President Obama's Council on Environmental Quality, will answer some questions that you might want to raise about how the Administration plans to combat climate change. We won't have long to talk with him, so we're going to have to cull down the questions to two or three.

But we're very eager to hear what he has to say--in part because he was the National Field Director for the Obama campaign in 2008. That is to say, he understands movement building, and we need to get his thinking on how we might keep this 350 ball rolling ever faster! No need to go easy on the guy: tough questions are probably best, because we've obviously got a lot of work to do.

So visit this link to learn about how to join the call and submit your questions: www.350.org/whcall
And here's the basic dial-in info:
When: The call will start at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST
Conference call number: (201) 793-9022
Conference room number: 9465206
Mostly, just be pleased that the White House has begun to respond to the movement you're creating. Just as with the announcement last week about solar panels, your input makes a difference.

Thanks,
May Boeve, US Campaign Director

Strike! October 7th in NYC

Yesterday, a day to defend public education called Strike! October 7th ignited students and allies in common struggle across the country. Although there may not have been actual strikes in New York City, as there were in California and else where, there were actions such as a die-in at Hunter College, a boycott of the college senate at Bronx Community College, and later, a march went through Harlem to CCNY.

LGBTQ Vigils

All around the country there were vigils for LGBT suicides. Here is what happened at City College.