\nPeaceWorks Rochester Community Calendar

Time:

10:45am

Location:

at Workers United (750 East Avenue).

Description:

PAY EQUITY FOR ALL WOMEN
EVENT: Rochester Equal Pay Day this Tuesday April 2, 11:45 AM at Workers United (750 East Avenue)

This is an open invitation to advocates of Pay Equity for ALL women and your colleagues, friends and family to the:
ROCHESTER EQUAL PAY DAY Rally/Press Conference this Tuesday April 2
Equal Pay Day
April 2 at 11:45 AM
at Workers United (750 East Avenue).

We have a line up of great leaders speaking from City Hall, ABC, NOW, AAUW, IBERO, La Cumbre and others! Also a radio station broadcasting and inviting major TV media outlets. Whatever you can do to increase our turnout would be deeply appreciated. Feel free to join us with friends!
WEAR GREEN to represent equal pay for all women

Light snacks will be provided
FREE and open to the public

For all the details visit PayEquityCoalition.com

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Equality is a social, economic issue. Basing women’s current wages on salary history promotes pay inequity. NY can make asking for salary history illegal. Join us on Equal Pay Day, April 2! Details at http://payequitycoalition.com/
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Time:

11:45am - 1:00pm

Location:

Workers United (750 East Avenue)

Description:

Please join the Equal Pay Day Rally

on Tuesday, April 2

, at Workers United (750 East Avenue) from 11:45-1.

Speakers will include Rochester advocates and leaders from community organizations. The event is sponsored by the Pay Equity Coalition of Rochester and will include light refreshments.

For more information, contact advocate@latinapayequity.com

Time:

7:00pm

Location:

DOWNTOWN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 121 NORTH FITZHUGH STREET ROCHESTER

Description:

Wednesday, April 3rd, 7:00 PM

“Venezuela, U.S. Intervention: the Monroe Doctrine rebooted”

presented by

Dan Kovalik, Author and human rights defender

Daniel Kovalik is Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy.

Described as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States,” Dan has worked on cases arising out of severe human rights abuses by The Coca-Cola Company and Drummond & Occidental Petroleum in Colombia.

He was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in
Colombia.

Dan’s presentation couldn’t be more timely. Members of the Trump administration have openly talked of using the Monroe Doctrine against Venezuela. Don’t miss this presentation!

DOWNTOWN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
121 NORTH FITZHUGH STREET
ROCHESTER

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Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

Bring Them Home Vigils

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

Starts at the Liberty Pole, ends at the Hotel Cadillac

Description:

No More Business as Usual Housing Rally
Rochester Housing Coalition Kicks off Tenant Spring: 2 and half Months of Actions to Win Key Housing Reforms to Prevent Homelessness and Evictions

Who: Rochester Housing Coalition (City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester, Rochester Homeless Union, VOCAL-NY, Citizen Action of NY, House of Mercy, St. Joseph's House of Hospitality) other tenant and homeless advocates

What: A march, a Moment of Silence for the 89,000 homeless in New York State, a disruption of business as usual, and Press Conference

Where: Starts at the Liberty Pole, ends at the Hotel Cadillac

When: Thursday, April 11, Starts at 1 ends by 2pm;

Why: To Elevate the Solutions to the Housing Crisis, Announce Tenant Spring (10 weeks of Action) and the Rochester Housing Coalition

Housing Crisis in Five Key Stats
89,000 homeless people in New York State and growing (19% increase in homelessness in Rochester)
1 in 4 Rochester residents move in a year
62% Rochester residents are rent burdened
Over 9,000 eviction cases in Rochester City Court every year
Rochester has shortage of 28,000 affordable homes for people living in poverty

5 Key State Reforms Reforms/Solutions for 2019: Universal Rent Control and Welfare Reform
End No Fault Evictions
Enable Rochester Local Option for Rent Stabilization
Reduce Employment Sanctions
Raise Public Assistance Rental Supplement
Enact right for tenants to bring their Landlord to Court for Better Conditions

Time:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

Durand Eastman Beach Meet at Durand Eastman Beach (1342 Lake Shore Blvd.) and park in the farther e

Description:

Flower City Park Clean-Up
Durand Eastman Beach - April 13 / 9 am – 12pm
Rochester has more than 3,500 acres of nationally recognized parks where community members can explore, play, enjoy entertainment and seek solace amongst natural beauty. Seneca Park Zoo Society is partnering with the City of Rochester’s Department of Recreation and Youth Services to sponsor a series of park clean-up events’ along the Genesee Riverway Trail. All volunteer events take place on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tools, gloves, and snacks will be provided. Please dress for the weather and bring water to stay hydrated.

Get outside, get active, and get involved in making Rochester a greener, cleaner City!

When: Saturday, April 13
Where: Durand Eastman Beach
Meet at Durand Eastman Beach (1342 Lake Shore Blvd.) and park in the farther east parking lot towards Log Cabin Road.

Deb Muratore
Seneca Park Zoo Society

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St., Rochester, 14604

Description:

Sierra Club - Rochester Regional Group's
"20th Annual Environmental Forum"
&
the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce's
"Trends Speakers Series"

partner to bring you:

Title: A Free Enterprise Solution to Climate Change
Who: Bob Inglis, former Republican Congressional House Representative from S. Carolina
Date: Wed., April 17, 2019
Time: 5:00-8:00pm, see below for details
Where: Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St., Rochester, 14604
Suggested Donation: $10. You decide based on your budget and the value you place on this event. All are welcome!
Co-sponsors: Citizens' Climate Lobby, UofR College Republicans, Mothers Out Front, Rochester People's Climate Coalition, Pachamama Alliance of Rochester
Facebook event here FY enjoyment and updates, but please officially register here
Registration required in advance, donation optional: http://bit.ly/041719Inglis

Program Timeline:

5:00 - 5:45p – Tabling Expo
6:00 – 7:30p – Keynote address with Q&A
7:30 – 8:00p – Tabling Expo (same organizations as pre-Keynote)
Does your organization want a table?

First come, first served, space is limited.
Cost: $50 for non-profits, $100 for businesses / for-profit organizations
Contact: Michele.Hefferon@GreaterRochesterChamber.com
This year, your Sierra Club Regional Rochester Group is proud to announce that we are working with new partners to bring to Rochester a new conversation about climate change, one that will engage audiences that were previously hard to reach.

Through our membership in Rochester People’s Climate Coalition, we are working with our allies Mothers Out Front, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, the Pachamama Alliance, and others. This year, the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and the University of Rochester College Republicans are first-time collaborators on our Earth Day event! This is hopeful news as it illustrates that climate change has become an issue of great concern for people across economic belief systems and across the political aisle, and it gives us an opportunity to explore promising solutions that arise there. It also enables our local climate movement to engage with bipartisan and other conservative audiences that might not take seriously a Sierra Club or other “progressive” or “environmental” voice. While we live in dishearteningly divided times, this is an incredible opportunity for the Sierra Club to lead on bridging those divides and finding common ground towards solutions that work for everyone.

Please join us and former Congressman Bob Inglis (Republican, South Carolina) for a discussion about climate change and a promising path forward to solving this great global crisis.

As Executive Director of republicEn.org, Inglis works to bring together Americans to lead the way on a free-enterprise solution to climate change, showcase #EcoRight ideas and momentum, call upon American greatness, and summon in lawmakers the courage to work together on this important issue.

Inglis has said, "Policies based on bedrock conservatism could harness the power of free enterprise while being acceptable to many progressives. America could lead the world to solutions on climate change. We can get there. On climate change and many other issues, we just need to ask our leaders for solutions rather than scapegoats, for light rather than heat, for courage rather than outrage."

Takeaways from this interactive presentation will include:

1. With a true level playing field (void of subsidies for various fuels and renewables), free enterprise can deliver the innovation to solve climate change.

2. A carbon tax needs to be structured so it is 'revenue neutral' meaning you cut taxes somewhere else or you dividend the money back.

3. The tax swap also has to be border adjustable so that it is applied on imports. Then you get China and rest of the world in on the deal.

Join us. This promises to be groundbreaking-- the biggest Earth Day event in Rochester ever. The Rochester climate movement is alive, growing, and making a difference here in our community! Come see and learn with us.

Registration required in advance, donation optional: http://bit.ly/041719Inglis

Time:

6:00pm

Location:

Brockport Downtown – 161 Chestnut Street Rochester, NY 14604 Room 148

Description:

Cruel and Unusual: Solitary confinement as torture in the U.S. prison system
A call to action

April 18th at Brockport Downtown – 161 Chestnut Street Rochester, NY 14604 Room 148
6 to 8:30 p.m. with refreshments available 6 to 6:30 – no registration fee required.

Solitary confinement serves as a core mechanism of our racist and classist system of mass incarceration. Currently this affects 80,000 to 100,000 inmates in the United States alone. What impact does this practice have on inmates’ mental health? What does structural racism have to do with mass incarceration? Hear from those who have lived experience from the perspectives of a formerly incarcerated individual and a social worker who was in charge of a solitary unit at Rikers Prison. Learn about alternatives to long term solitary and visions for transformed systems of incarceration.

Participate in a virtual reality experience to glimpse what it's like to be held in Solitary Confinement (a 6 x 9 space) for 22-24 hrs a day for months, years and decades with no human contact or interaction. The voices and noises you hear are real people.

A full-size replica of a typical solitary confinement cell will be on display during this event to give participants the chance to experience the effects of isolation.

Workshop facilitators:

Victor Pate - employed by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture as the NY Statewide Campaign Organizer for The Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement. Victor became involved in the Criminal Justice arena after experiencing and overcoming the many obstacles faced by the formerly incarcerated coming home and striving to regain a foothold on life.

Sandra Bernabei, a social worker and community organizer with the Antiracist Alliance, who brought the undoing racism® workshop to over 18,000 New York City social workers. She’s on the NY regional leadership team of The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, working to build a broad based movement for undoing racism and for the elimination of racial disparities in human services.

Mary Buser, social worker and author of award-winning book, Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail, worked in the Rikers Island Mental Health Department. She served as Assistant Chief of Mental Health in the 500-cell Punitive Segregation Unit. Post Rikers, she has been an outspoken advocate for the incarcerated, especially the mentally ill and those in solitary confinement.

* Moderated by Melanie Funchess - Director of Community Engagement at the Mental Health Association of Rochester

E-mail bkasper@brockport.edu for more information or leave a message at 585-395-5509

Organized by the Rochester Social Welfare Action Alliance and presented by Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement.

Sponsored by: the Student Social Work Organization and the Department of Social Work at the College at Brockport; New York State Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement; the National Religious Campaign Against Torture; Police Accountability Board; United Christian Leadership; the Flying Squirrel; Rochester Poor People’s Campaign; Roc/ACTS – and funded by a grant from the National Homelessness Social Work Initiative

Time:

6:00pm

Location:

Greece Baptist Church 1230 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY 14626

Description:

Come watch Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin Beat a Gun into a Gardening Tool
Thursday, April 18, 6:00pm
Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY 14626

The Beating Guns Tour is a 90-minute event that will feature music, art, and stories of people impacted by gun violence, culminating with an invitation for the audience to take the hammer and transform a gun into garden tools. The tour kicks off on March 9 in Philadelphia, stopping in more than 35 cities. Claiborne and Martin have also launched the Disarming Network to help people connect with safe spaces to disable guns according to Federal ATF guidelines.

With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the people of the US own nearly half the world’s guns. America also holds the record for the most gun deaths—homicide, suicide, and accidental gun deaths—at around ninety a day and about thirty-three thousand per year.

Inspired by the biblical prophets’ call to “beat swords into plowshares,” Claiborne and Martin will tour the country this spring with a forge and other blacksmithing tools.

Claiborne and Martin build their case with a revealing overview of the history of guns and gun marketing in America, alarming statistics, and stories of devastated lives and restorative justice. They debunk common myths and offer ideas for common sense change. They address:

• Fear in America: Americans cling to their guns, ready to kill their neighbor at the slightest sense of fear. This has created a world in which a homeowner answers his door with a gun and shoots at a 14-year-old boy who stops to ask directions after missing his school bus.

• Corporate Accountability: The industry that creates one of the most dangerous products available enjoys total immunity when it comes to any responsibility for harm done.

• Millions of Guns in America: An average of just under 9.5 million guns are manufactured per year here—25,912 guns per day. Though there’s almost one gun per person in the U.S., only 32 percent of households have guns. “Some folks have a lot of guns.”

• Gun Capitalists: Businessmen invented the gun market, “making guns as commonplace as sewing machines.” The early gun empire families were motived by money and “moral agnosticism.”

• Forgotten Victims: An estimated 73,000 people per year are shot and survive, many of them injured in life-altering ways.

• The Changing NRA: Less than 5 percent of gun owners belong to the NRA. A recent survey found that 74 percent of NRA members support universal background checks on all gun sales, compared to 84 percent of guns owners in general and 90 percent of Americans.

• Gun Control Myths: The idea that any gun control measure will lead to all guns being taken is just one myth the authors debunk. “Banning semiautomatic weapons or high capacity magazines that allow guns to shoot one hundred rounds per minute does not lead to taking away hunting rifles or even a handgun purchased for self defense.”

Tired of waiting for legislative action on common sense gun laws, Claiborne and Martin say “we will not wait on politicians to turn death into life.”

About the Authors:

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. His books include Red Letter Revolution, and his classic The Irresistible Revolution. He has been featured in a number of films including “Another World Is Possible” and “Ordinary Radicals.” Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.

Mike Martin is the founder and executive director of RAWtools, which partners with communities in an effort to repurpose weapons for creative and productive uses. Mike learned to blacksmith in order to turn guns into garden tools and is passionate about connecting people to nonviolent skills like restorative justice and conflict mediation. He is trained for restorative justice facilitation and encourages everyone to explore how they can connect to similar efforts in their community. He blogs at RAWtools.org. Beating Guns will be his first book.

Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
by Shane Claiborne and Mike Martin
Brazos Press
$19.99 paper ISBN: 978-1587434136
Pub Date: March 5, 2019
Beating Guns

Contact: Steve Gretz 585-301-8917

Description:

Hey peeps!

It's almost May and the Squirrel is hosting a spring clean up of the grounds around the Squirrel. We'll have sidewalk chalk for the kiddos, we've got a few shovels, bags, and a rake or two. Dress for the weather and bring a pair of gardening gloves as well as a rake or garbage picker-upper. We'll offer some food stuff as well!

Please join us!

Sat., April 27, 2019
10:00am - 4:00pm
FSCS (285 Clarissa St.)
Rochester, NY

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

All day event

Description:

Celebrate Earth Day 2019 at Seneca Park Zoo to learn about environmental sustainability and the simple actions you can take to help make a difference for wildlife and wild places.

Visit a variety of stations throughout the Zoo to learn how local organizations are focusing on sustainability and meet with docents about the actions your Zoo is taking to create a sustainable earth.

– Get a tree sapling or native western NY seeds for a butterfly garden from Diamond Packaging to take home (limited quantities available)
– Learn about the Zoo’s award-winning partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Capstone students to restore pollinator habitats along I-390
– Find out how The Good Food Collective is providing individuals and families with access to this area’s best local, sustainable food year-round.
– Meet representatives from GreenSpark Solar to discover how they’re working towards changing the way we think about where our electricity comes from.
– View samples of invasive aquatic and terrestrial plant and insect species with Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM)
Enjoy animal experiences throughout the day:

10:30 a.m. – Otter Experience
11:30 a.m. – Rhino Experience
1:30 p.m. – Polar Bear Experience
2:30 p.m. – Elephant Experience

Deb Muratore
Seneca Park Zoo Society
2222 St Paul Street
Rochester, NY 14621

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd. Rochester, NY 14626.

Description:

Free Course Shows People How to Help Reverse Global Warming

Project Drawdown is a recent comprehensive scientific study of global climate solutions, which found that the level of greenhouse gases can be drawn down and global warming reversed by scaling up existing methods and technologies. “Drawdown Solutions: Getting into Action” is a free, 4-session multi-media, interactive learning experience that helps each person find their own role in reversing global warming.
The free course will be offered 6:30-9:00 p.m. Tuesdays April 23, April 30, May 7, and May 28 at Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd. Rochester, NY 14626.
Participants will develop skills to communicate effectively about reversing global warming, explore the climate solutions that most interest them, develop a project that helps implement a solution in their own community or context, and become part of a growing global community that is changing the conversation about global warming. Participants report moving from discouragement to activated hope in the face of global warming and climate change.
The course will be presented by Drawdown Ambassadors of Pachamama Alliance in conjunction with Greece Baptist Church.
Free advance enrollment is requested by emailing greecebaptist@gmail.com
Or call Brandon Arva at 225-6160.

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Description:

Inspirational Gathering

When: the last Friday of every month, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
The first gathering: April 26, 2019

Where: Rochester Bahá’í Center, 693 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14607:
During our first gathering, we will collectively decide about the place for next gathering.

What: Inspiring Stories, 9 minute max/person, 10 stories max (voluntarily):
Inspirational story, idea, talent, prayer, silent prayer…

Refreshments are served 8:30 – 9:00 pm
You do not have to bring any refreshments but you can

RSVP: please replay by email: vr1weareone@gmail.com

TRANSFORMATION FROM -ꚙ to +ꚙ

WAR PEACE
HATE LOVE
SORROW JOY
DISUNITY UNITY
DISCORD HARMONY

DANCING FROM EXCLUSIVE CIRCLES TO AN INCLUSIVE CIRCLE

Inspirational Gathering Mission

To start a process of a transformation: how can we start this process? By gathering together regardless of our interests and stories, by voluntarily sharing an inspirational story, idea, talent, prayer, silent prayer, by being an exemplary in both listening and respect toward achieving a transformation from old stories and interests to one born anew.

Inspirational Gathering Vision:

On this joyous occasion of the Spring Equinox, I bring you good news; there is going to be a great gathering of the members of Human Family, regardless of the race, region, nationality and gender to share with one another their inspirational stories and ideas through conversation, speech, essay, poetry, art, music and video. This idea is beyond right and wrong, beyond race and religion, beyond power and politics. This is about an inspiring process between U, I and US. This is about inspiring, listening and deep respect. The name of this movement is VR1 and we will be like rays of SUN. Our mission is to bring unity to every town. This will begin with small monthly gathering and hopefully with your support will grow to involve other communities around the world. This is an idea whose time has come.

Sincerely,
Hooshmand M Kalayeh

Time:

All day event

Description:

Hey peeps!

It's almost May and the Squirrel is hosting a spring clean up of the grounds around the Squirrel. We'll have sidewalk chalk for the kiddos, we've got a few shovels, bags, and a rake or two. Dress for the weather and bring a pair of gardening gloves as well as a rake or garbage picker-upper. We'll offer some food stuff as well!

Please join us!

Sat., April 27, 2019
10:00am - 4:00pm
FSCS (285 Clarissa St.)
Rochester, NY

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Description:

Watch: Command and Control The long-hidden story of the day our
April 28, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa Street
Rochester, NY
Suggested Donation: $5
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/626335511125478/

About the film: From Robert Kenner, the director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., comes Command and Control, the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. Based on the critically-acclaimed book by Eric Schlosser, this chilling documentary exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal and shows what can happen when the weapons built to protect us threaten to destroy us. Filmed in a decommissioned Titan II missile silo in Arizona, the documentary features the minute-by-minute accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were on the scene that night. Command and Control reveals the unlikely chain of events that caused the accident and the feverish efforts to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States – a warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

Woven through the Damascus story is a riveting history of America’s nuclear weapons program, from World War II through the Cold War, much of it based on recently declassified documents. A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the great dilemma that the U.S. has faced since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

Website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/

Themed Programming:
This film screening is a part of our environment themed programming for March and April. Don't miss Chris Snyder's talk on communalism, anarchism, and Bookchin “Changing Cities: A Changing Climate” happening on 4/27, at 3:00pm!

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Greece Baptist Church 1230 Long Pond Road Rochester, NY 14626

Description:

Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution

Free Screening
Sunday April 28, 2019, 6:30pm
Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Road
Rochester, NY 14626

Most Americans understand and accept the reality of climate change. Nonetheless, many of us feel uncertain about what we, as individuals, can do. For many of us, solutions to climate change seem out of reach, out of scale and fatally entwined in partisan politics.
Meanwhile, the clean energy revolution is quietly underway. Electricity generated from wind and solar is increasingly more affordable than electricity generated from fossil fuels, and the growth curve for the generation and storage of renewable energy now resembles the exponential curves seen with the advent of radio, TV, and the internet. But can we meet all of our our energy needs with renewable energy? How would we do that? And, most importantly, will we do that?” Happening” chronicles my quest to answer these questions.

During the journey of making “happening”, I met many inspiring citizens, business leaders and politicians leading the clean energy revolution, but the most significant journey involved my own heart and mind. At the start of “Happening”, I was feeling pretty cynical about the value of political engagement. Three years later, I have witnessed first-hand the enduring value of politically engaged citizenry.

In spite of the turbulent political divides we are currently enduring, I feel more hopeful today than ever about our ability as Americans to combat climate change, and I am excited to share this with audiences so that they may feel this way as well.

-James Redford, director

For more info, contact Brandon Arva at greecebaptist@yahoo.com, or Sarah Mittiga at sarahmittiga@gmail.com

Time:

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location:

Flying Squirrel Community Space 285 Clarissa Street Rochester, NY

Description:

As we wrap up our two-month programming on environmental issues, Neely Kelley will give a presentation on the campaign to convert diesel school buses to electric school buses!

Mothers Out Front presents: #FuelChange for Electric School Buses!
Monday, April 29, 2019
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa Street
Rochester, NY
Suggested Donation: $5
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1236244833194578/

Mothers Out Front, in collaboration with Green For All, Clean Energy Works and Chispa are launching an exciting and scalable campaign to push local school districts to commit to replacing their retiring dirty diesel buses with clean and quiet electric school buses.

The first and most important barrier to transitioning to clean electric school buses is the cost. Electric school buses cost 2 to 3 times more than diesel buses. However, in partnership with the non-profit Clean Energy Works, this can be overcome! And school districts can save money, while ensuring their children ride safe and clean buses. This is what’s so exciting and makes these local electric school bus campaigns winnable and scalable.

Attend this #FuelChange for electric school buses information session, presented by Neely Kelley, to learn more about this exciting campaign!

You can learn more about the electric school bus campaign here: http://ny.mothersoutfront.org/electric_busTBA

About Neely:
Neely has been engaged in the climate movement since she moved to Rochester in 2013 - pushing for a swift, just, and complete transition off fossil fuels. She has worked on local and statewide campaigns pushing for large scale wind development, stopping gas infrastructure, stopping Bakken Oil trains, and ensuring low and middle income New Yorkers have affordable access to energy efficiency and community solar programs. She is now thrilled to be leading the campaign for local electric school buses. She grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, but now calls Rochester, NY home with her husband Doug and their two daughters.

About the Flying Squirrel Community Space:
We exist to provide a welcoming space that will cultivate and sustain long lasing relationships between activists, artists, and community members in Rochester so that we may work together to create positive social change.