This Saturday, thousands of people will join hands along waterways around the country, including in Liberty State Park, for a “Hands Across the Sand” event designed to raise awareness of the dangers of offshore oil drilling. The event was founded last fall by Florida surfer and restaurant owner Dave Rauschkolb, and after a successful gathering [...]
Organizing for America (OFA), the community organizing project of the Democratic National Committee that was formed after President Obama was inaugurated last year, is gearing up for the 2010 Congressional midterm elections, with events planned all over the country Saturday. The goal, OFA says, is to “get as many as possible of the 15 million [...]
Several Jersey City artists will join colleagues from elsewhere in Hudson County Wednesday night in Hoboken for the Art, Culture and Community Forum 2010. The theme for the panel discussion is “the artist as citizen,” and it will be moderated by Hoboken artist Craig Wallace Dale. The forum announcement says it will explore topics like [...]
As part of the ongoing reFORM Mondays, USA campaign for immigration reform, local immigration and deportation defense attorney Ian Hinonangan is inviting interested parties to his law office this evening for a “legislative action” day. Tonight’s program will focus on the economic benefits to be reaped by comprehensive immigration reform, and it will be capped [...]
Ian Hinonangan straddles two worlds in his daily life. He is an immigration and deportation defense attorney, and he’s also the owner of the Lenapeeps Art Gallery in Bergen Hill and the Downtown cafe The Warehouse. Tonight, Hinonangan is launching a project that incorporates both selves — “reFORM Mondays, USA,” a six-month series of talks, [...]
Have you ever been so peeved with something going on in your neighborhood, on your block or in City Hall that you’ve wondered how to personally get involved, but shied away when the process seemed perhaps too daunting to undertake? A free forum being held on Thursday at City Hall aims to help folks like [...]
“What do we want?” cried Joyce Willis on the bullhorn. “Cleanup!” was the response from the crowd of fifty or so residents and activists gathered at 900 Garfield Ave., the site of toxic chromium deposits and the flashpoint of a political battle that has pitched the community against property owner PPG Industries and the city. [...]
Early in February, while checking the streams of Facebook status updates of my acquaintances, I came across an interesting tidbit: Someone had joined the group “Save the Jersey Journal.” Since then, the group has grown quickly as the fate of the 142-year-old newspaper remains uncertain.
- At last night’s City Council Caucus, Jersey City’s assistant business administrator John Mercer gave a presentation on the proposed “green” ordinances that first surfaced in the middle of last month on a Council agenda. The four proposals will be back on the agenda at Wednesday’s Council meeting. One of the proposals would refund money [...]
The morning of the protest began early, with excitement and anticipation of “the big turning point” event — the January 27th march on Washington to stop the war. I’d sort of lost count of the number of trips to D.C. and other large protests I’d been to since before the war even began. Each time, [...]
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