tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78449045557023321842024-03-04T22:02:12.440-08:00CivicListBuilding community. Uplifting voices.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-33073542908651442932022-10-03T13:08:00.006-07:002023-04-08T11:54:22.042-07:00October, 2022<br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ways to Get Ready to Vote for the November 8 elections! </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px;">Interviews with two community builders: Fahoum Fahoum and Eddie Bautista.</span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Gloria Steinem.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude </strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">I'm grateful for Wild Earth, an amazing outdoor education organization, for catalyzing my gratitude practice, and for David Brownstein, their founder who is retiring; Wild Earth is seeking a <a href="https://wildearth.org/jobs" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">new Executive Director</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></em></strong><br /><br /><em><strong>The November 8, 2022 </strong>local, state, and federal elections will affect health, environment, economy, democracy, and more. Be sure you're ready to vote and can help others do so:</em><br /> <ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Check your <a href="https://vote.gov/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">voter registration status</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Find your <a href="https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">polling place</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Make a plan to vote</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Register 2 people to vote with <a href="https://www.rockthevote.org/get-involved/help-register-voters/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Rock the Vote</a> and the <a href="https://www.lwv.org/elections/increasing-voter-registration" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">League of Women Voters</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.powerthepolls.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Sign up to be a poll worke</a><a href="https://www.powerthepolls.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">r</a> (more poll workers reduces wait times and boosts turnout).</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://votefwd.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Write letters</a> to encourage likely voters to turn out.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Join in supporting Democrats <a href="https://www.mobilize.us/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">near you and </a><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">across the country</a><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;">.</a></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Make a quick, high impact <a href="https://swingleft.org/p/funds" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">donation</a> to important elections right now.<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.fema.gov/disaster/hurricane-ian" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Help Floridians</a> after Hurricane Ian.<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Savings for college? New York joins states including Massachusetts in offering <a href="https://www.nysaves.org/nytpl/fund/details.cs?fundId=1003040" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">fossil-free, socially responsible 529 investing options</a>.</li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnFollowBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnFollowBlockOuter"><tr><td align="center" class="mcnFollowBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnFollowContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="mcnFollowContent" style="border: 3px dotted rgb(245, 231, 207); padding: 10px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Conversations with community builders</span></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a href="https://youtu.be/6ckRoSL8u84" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/406d227b-85f3-fa27-bf2b-cecb84ae97b1.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1187px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong>Fahoum Fahoum</strong> connects citizens to government; we talk about how his growing up as a tennis star, as an Arab in Israel, shaped his optimism in sports as a way to bring people together. He offers three ingredients on how to bridge divides. We walk along the rail trail in Westfield, Massachusetts.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a href="https://youtu.be/-uTVkcf_RcA" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/e8089051-b383-8542-72ed-6dbd7192eca7.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1187px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong>Eddie Bautista </strong>is head of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance. We discuss: how local environmental justice (EJ) advocates can get started, how to turn challenge into opportunity, the origins of environmental injustice, and examples of organizations doing EJ.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(255, 210, 73); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Art!</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/_compresseds/56d45fd6-2e57-cab4-92d5-61761c159af2.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 3024px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">Mountain and lake; artist unknown.</span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(255, 210, 73); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote..</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."<br /><br />-Gloria Steinem</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px dotted rgb(255, 224, 162); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ways for you to take action <em>today</em>. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A new format for interviews! </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Missing CivicList from your inbox/ is your inbox a little too full? Like our <u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/civiclist" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook page today</strong></a></u> to stay connected!</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Anne Frank.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></em></strong><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/ukraine" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Give</a> to the Ukrainian Children's Emergency Fund. </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Write to Congress to<a href="https://www.votervoice.net/iframes/TCEDU/Campaigns/95217/Respond" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"> enact gun background checks</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Support</a> a Ukrainian citizen fleeing the war.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Find <a href="https://www.volunteermatch.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">volunteer opportunities</a> in your community today.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-shooting-sports-foundation/lobbying?id=D000054336" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Find out how</a> a prominent gun lobbying organization pressures Congress.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tell Your U.S. Senators to <a href="https://act.everytown.org/sign/Confirm_Dettelbach_ATF/?source=etno_action_atf_director&refcode=etno_action_atf_director&utm_source=etno_action_atf_director&utm_medium=o&utm_campaign=action_atf_director" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">confirm Steve Dettelbach</a> As The Next ATF Director.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Find your <a href="https://bridgingdivides.princeton.edu/ecosystem-map" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">local political bridge-building</a> organization here.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.fcnl.org/act/young-adult-advocates/advocacy-corps" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Young people: earn $3,000</a> as an Advocacy Corp member with FCNL </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Increase voting turnout using a proven method with <a href="https://votefwd.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">VoteForward</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take a <a href="https://braverangels.org/events/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">depolarizing </a>workshop with Braver Angels.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">College students: <a href="https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/obama-chesky-scholarship/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">apply</a> to be a Voyager public service fellow by June 14.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/monthly-calling-campaign/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Hold Congress (and yourself) accountable </a>by making monthly calls with Citizen's Climate Lobby.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tell banks to <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/iframes/TCEDU/Campaigns/93655/Respond" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">stop financing</a> the fossil fuel industry!</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.nphm.org/civiclove" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Fall in civic love</a> with these 36 questions.</li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? 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word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Interviews with community builders</span></em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a href="https://youtu.be/KbIHclQAB7g" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/34361c73-4c2c-ba56-3573-6f324697dbaa.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 500px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="500" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong>Peter T. Coleman</strong> is author of <em><a href="https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">The Way Out</a><a href="https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization.</a></em> We take a walk outside and explore why and how <em>movement</em> and <em>being outdoors </em>can help us to "unfuck America."</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/gq2oGqcxVQc" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14179037" height="241" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/8f9925ec-be8b-80b1-8a02-af2ed078e815.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 241px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong>Monica Guzman </strong>is Digital Director of <a href="https://braverangels.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Braver Angels</a> and author of<em> <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691561/i-never-thought-of-it-that-way-by-monica-guzman/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">I Never Thought of It That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times</a></em> In part 1, we talk about how to make a habit of being curious; the power of asking how, not why; how to turn an assumption into a question, and allowing people to surprise you. She shares the example of someone she interviewed for her book.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/Z_iwmsrTNRY" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="14179033" height="248" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/e8106868-9ecb-df9b-9f2d-4a01bc721d5a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 248px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong>Keith Marks</strong> is Director of <a href="https://nextstagearts.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Next Stage Arts Project</a> in Putney, Vermont. We talk about arts in rural communities, and how arts can reflect the world we're living in now. We address how you know if what you're doing is working, and how "we are the government." 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text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A major workshop series for advocates: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG-rDDKxdQOQIkdPJcWxBu3AMDapagmsg3B_c_whFTiAUzsA/viewform" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">the Advocacy Academy@Teachers College, September 8 & 9, 4-7pmET. Register today</a>! </span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Academy is online, free, interactive, open to the public, and will feature:</span></span><br /> <ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">NY State Senator Jessica Ramos</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">NY State Assembly Member Khaleel M. Anderson</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Citizens Committee for NYC CEO Rahsaan Harris, and many more amazing people! </span></span><br /> </li></ul></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span></span><br /> </div><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top">I'm devoting this issue to a big event, the workshop series I've put together with work colleagues: the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG-rDDKxdQOQIkdPJcWxBu3AMDapagmsg3B_c_whFTiAUzsA/viewform" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Advocacy Academy@Teachers College</a>, Columbia University on September 8 & 9, 2021 4-7pm:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG-rDDKxdQOQIkdPJcWxBu3AMDapagmsg3B_c_whFTiAUzsA/viewform" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="13847228" height="459" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/a271d5e5-f367-f2d4-a0cb-290faeb1aaa7.png" style="border: 0px; height: 459px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 650px;" width="650" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://bit.ly/tc_advocacyacademy21?mc_cid=d2a4f88c46&mc_eid=0abf783cab" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><strong>Register here!</strong></a><br /><br />The Advocacy Academy is Teachers College's premier event to provide space to take civic action. This year's event, "How to Effectively Advocate Amid the Pandemic" will feature workshops for advocates and non-profit leaders from across Columbia University and New York to boost advocates' skills on how to take action with the communities they care about. The event is online, free, and open to the general public.<br /><br />Day 1 is about internal advocacy: how to know yourself, sustain yourself, build coalitions around you.<br /><br />Day 2 is about external advocacy: how to engage with communities and elected officials.<br /><br />See full agenda below.<br /><br />We'll also hold a monthly Interest Group, a free space for advocates to workshop their own ideas and build coalitions. It'll be every second Tuesday of the month, at 12pmET, via zoom. <a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/advocacy/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Register here.</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(255, 210, 73); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><strong>Advocacy Academy agenda</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top">DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2021- INTERNAL ADVOCACY<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><strong>4:00-4:30pm: Welcome & Keynote</strong></em><br /><em>Welcome Remarks: </em>Cameron Arnzen, TC Student Senate Vice President, Ph.D Candidate, Politics and Education<br /><br /><em>Keynote Speaker:</em><strong> </strong>Dr. Isabel Martinez '10, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><strong>4:30-5:15pm: Learning and Unlearning: Practices for Continued Personal Development</strong></em><br /><em>Facilitators</em>: Alana Crosby, Assistant Director, Graduate Student Life and Development, DJ Jeffries, M.A. Candidate, Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><em>5:15-6:00pm: Your Brave Truth</em></strong><br /><em>Facilitator</em>: Tonya Ingram, Poet, Author, and Health Advocate<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><em>6:00-6:45pm, Getting Connected to TC Communities</em></strong><br /><em>Facilitator</em>: Marion Bakhoya, TC Student Senate Vice President, Ed.D Candidate, Applied Physiology<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><em>6:45-6:55pm, Conclusion</em></strong><br />Denise Boneta, Director, Graduate Student Life and Development</li></ul><br />--<br /><br />DAY 2: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021- EXTERNAL ADVOCACY<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>4:00-4:30pm: Welcome & Keynote</strong><br /><em>Welcome Remarks:</em> Joey Uy, Student Assistant, Government Relations<br /><br /><em>Keynote Speaker</em>: Rahsaan Harris '99, CEO of Citizens Committee for NY<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>4:30-5:15pm How to be an effective storyteller</strong><br /><em>Facilitator:</em> Christina Torres, Ph.D. Candidate, Science Education<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>5:15-6:00pm How to advocate with underserved communities</strong><br /><em>Facilitators:</em> Mondaire Jones, US Representative<br />Jessica Ramos, NY Senator<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>6:00-6:45pm How to mobilize your community</strong><br /><em>Facilitator:</em> Khaleel Anderson, NY State Assembly Member<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>6:45-6:55pm Conclusion</strong><br />Matthew J. Camp, Director, Government Relations<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://bit.ly/tc_advocacyacademy21?mc_cid=d2a4f88c46&mc_eid=0abf783cab" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Register today!</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px dotted rgb(255, 224, 162); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-24633260729040983172021-07-21T12:55:00.002-07:002021-07-21T12:55:37.718-07:00July 2021<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ways for you to take action <em>today</em>. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A video of my Braver Angels discussion with my Republican cousin Kathy on the topic of statue removal, and my reflections on the experience.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Dwight Eisenhower.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude </strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">I’m grateful for my cousin Kathy, a Republican political strategist who generously participated in a <a href="https://braverangels.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Braver Angels</a> Family Divides dialogue with me this month. Although we sometimes see things differently, Braver Angels offered tactics to help us explore our differences, which helped deepen our relationship to accommodate political disagreement.<br /><br />We discussed the decision to remove certain statues from civic places and ended up finding some common ground. Watch the discussion and read my reflections below.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></em></strong><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Hold the House & the Senate for Democrats: <a href="https://swingleft.org/p/strategy" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Act with SwingLeft</a> to move “from resistance to persistence”<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Three ways to take action to support democracy: <br /> 1) <a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/ARXkO2re6E67VBqShGhgRg2?ms=votingprinciples" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">CALL</a> your senators now and tell them to<br /> support the For the People Act <br /> 2) <a href="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5950/c/10065/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14127&_gl=1*upvimk*_ga*MjQwNTE5ODUxLjE2MjY0NTM0MjY.*_ga_DDCEP0D6KM*MTYyNjQ1MzQyNS4xLjAuMTYyNjQ1MzQyNS4w&_ga=2.225588250.1695811568.1626453426-240519851.1626453426&okay=true" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">WRITE</a> to your Senator to support the For the <br /> People Act<br /> 3) <a href="https://www.forjohn.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjw3MSHBhB3EiwAxcaEu-2KNbpkC8luWwJ_BYMVeOwFAACtxAU_g3aOncWq5N08UakGQxBUlBoCqEQQAvD_BwE" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">DONATE</a> to Martin Luther King Jr.’s family’s<br /> initiative to support voting rights #ForJohn on<br /> the anniversary of John Lewis’s death<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tell your Congressperson to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/letter/write_pentagon_infrastructure/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">prioritize</a> health care, clean energy, and education-- not weapons.<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Save your friends’ and families’ lives: <a href="https://www.vaccines.gov/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">get vaccinated now</a><br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Ready to run for office? Do it with <a href="https://newamericanleaders.org/programs/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">New American Leaders</a><br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Learn <a href="https://northstarfund.org/event/north-star-fund-giving-project-info-session-2021/?utm_source=North+Star+Fund+Email+News&utm_campaign=0dac2cf47c-EMAIL_Cmnty_News_July_11_21_GP_CFF&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a84219a762-0dac2cf47c-118851310" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">more</a> about Black-led organizing in NYC, directly support this work, and strengthen your own leadership on July 27th with the North Star Fund<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take a course on <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/the-science-of-generosity-do-goodfeel-good" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">The Science of Generosity</a>: Do Good…Feel Good<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Get a funded NYU-Wagner fellow to work at your pro-democracy or social justice organization (contact leadinitiative@nyu.edu)<br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tell Your U.S. Senators: <a href="https://act.everytown.org/sign/Senate_Justice_in_Policing_Act_2021/?source=etno_action&refcode=etno_action&utm_source=etno_action&utm_medium=o&utm_campaign=action" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act</a><br /> </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Live on Earth? Put your investments & retirement into <a href="https://fossilfreefunds.org/funds?dsc=false&srt=c2f5coogutweight" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">environmentally friendly mutual funds like these</a>.<br /> </li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(255, 210, 73); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><strong>Bridging Divides with Kathy Camp</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">My cousin Kathy, a Republican political strategist, graciously agreed to engage in a discussion moderated by <a href="https://braverangels.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Braver Angels</a> co-founder Bill Doherty. We discussed our views on the often polarizing topic of civic statue removal. Bill offered tactics for us to be better listeners and find common ground. The discussion was followed by reflections by a panel of "red" and "blue" Braver Angels observers. Watch the video <a href="https://youtu.be/26w2Cu2Q044?t=404" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a> and read my reflections below.</span></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a class="" href="https://youtu.be/26w2Cu2Q044?t=404" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/caad1a4f-3df9-7da0-4351-344b58a7c5c7.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1189px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Synopsis of the discussion</strong><br /><br />Kathy and I both "came in hot" in the first round of discussion (which starts at <a href="https://youtu.be/26w2Cu2Q044?t=936" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">15:36</a>), the way debaters from the left and from the right on TV might, exhaustively issuing all of our opinions at once.<br /><br />Kathy said that taking down statues can be a slippery slope, is erasing history, and that it's up to families to teach their children about the meaning of a statue. She argued that the left assigns too much meaning to statues, which are inanimate objects that represent a point in history.<br /><br />I argued that we're surrounded by reminders of primarily White figures, that many of these statues were put in place to tell only that group's story, and the statues' presence subsumes a fuller discussion of history: history isn't being erased, it hasn't been fully written. I argued for a tearing down of assumptions and for a true telling of the story of racism in America.<br /><br />Bill then offered three ways to bridge divides (at <a href="https://youtu.be/26w2Cu2Q044?t=2328" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">39:48</a>)<br /><br /><em><strong> 1) Start soft<br /> 2) Discuss one point at a time; hand the ball back<br /> 3) Listen for areas you agree on</strong></em><br /><br />Kathy and I implemented these tactics in the second round (which starts at <a href="https://youtu.be/26w2Cu2Q044?t=2592" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">43:12</a>). It felt different and better. Although I still wanted to "win," I felt less anxious about getting all of my points across, and was more open to hear what Kathy had to say. We agreed that the statues represent "who's heard" and how they can cause or stifle debate.<br /><br />We came up with some possible solutions, including having education and reflection about the meaning of statues, adding statues of Black heroes in civic spaces, and perhaps making statues out of biodegradable materials as a way to honor life's impermanence.<br /><br /><strong>"Not looking to win, looking to explore"</strong><br /><br />I often post workshops offered by Braver Angels. Since I hold myself to <em>do</em> everything that I post in CivicList, I felt it was time to try it out. I was moved by the Angels' call to explore, rather than win.<br /><br />I thought it was a worthwhile practice, because it helped Kathy and me be vulnerable; whereas family debates tended to be stoic, and preempted deeper exploration of politics and ourselves, having the structured dialogue helped us open up a bit and not be afraid to discuss a sensitive topic. As a result, I think we prioritized our relationship over the politics of the day, and grew closer.<br /><br /><strong>"Seeing each other as s citizen, not a side"</strong><br /><br />I hope to remember to implement Bill's tactics when discussing complex political issues with folks, because maintaining and improving relationships is the most important thing we can do for each other in our short time on this planet.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a class="" href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2019/10/03/3-decades-3-banners-students-adorn-butler-facade-with-names-of-female-authors-amid-cores-100th-anniversary/" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/2d61e8cc-0149-9844-2a1a-e8d5afc50550.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 960px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2019/10/03/3-decades-3-banners-students-adorn-butler-facade-with-names-of-female-authors-amid-cores-100th-anniversary/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Not just one guy.</a> Photo by Aliya Schneider</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote...</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.</em><br /><br />Dwight Eisenhower</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-66211254165182455902021-06-10T19:08:00.004-07:002021-06-13T19:06:03.101-07:00June 2021<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to take community action <em>today</em>. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">An interview West Harlem community leader Ken Miles.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by George Carlin.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude </strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">I'm grateful to spend time outside with less fear of catching Covid; for conversations with artists in Inwood; for bike rides; and for wifi.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></em></strong><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/joansdemocracycafe/event/384348/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Help save democracy</a> by mobilizing voters to reach out to Senators Sinema and Manchin to pass the For The People Act (S1/HR1).</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">And <a href="https://votingrightslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Voting-Rights-Lab-HR1-S1-Brief-March-2021.pdf" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">learn</a> why this legislation is vital to the future of our country. </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take action to <a href="https://swingleft.org/events/t/vapb?source=homebanner&utm_source=homebannert&utm_medium=ws" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">turn Virginia blue</a>!</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Write friendly postcards to Pennsylvania Democrats to <a href="https://turn-pa-blue.myshopify.com/products/vote-your-way-postcard-kit-contains-50-postcards-pre-addressed?utm_source=pl_20210607_01&emci=18e45c53-7dc8-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=53c1e1d4-7dc8-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=18838869" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">turn PA blue</a>!</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tell Your U.S. Senators to Take Bipartisan Action on <a href="https://act.everytown.org/call/Senate_2021_background_checks_call/?source=etno_hp_hero&refcode=etno_hp_hero&utm_source=etno_hp_hero&utm_medium=o&utm_campaign=hp_hero" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Gun Background Checks</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://vote.nyc/election/june-primary-early-voting-day-1" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Vote on June 22</a>! The New York City primary election is June 22; voters will choose candidates for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, Borough President, & City Council. Early voting starts June 12.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">More <a href="https://vote.nyc/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">resources</a> to help you vote.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Watch CivicList interviews with mayoral candidates <a href="https://youtu.be/Hu7WE0Py7xQ" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Kathryn Garcia</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/x4k1Dz44Vk4" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Eric Adams</a>; with City Council candidates <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyuC8B8zIM" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Dan Cohen, Johanna Garcia</a>, <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Abigail Martin and Nantasha Williams</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4g1WfXY_cc" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">.</a></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take TheCity.nyc’s quiz to<a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/22330081/meet-your-mayor-nyc" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"> find your mayoral candidate</a> match.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Find out what the mayoral candidates think about <a href="https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/10/22526723/nyc-mayoral-race-early-childhood-prek-afterschool" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">education</a>.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/322918665887304/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Rally for One Million Voices</a>- to support Intro. 1867 to expand voting rights: June 17 at 11am.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Get a funded NYU-Wagner fellow to work at your pro-democracy or social justice organization (contact Erica Foldy erica.foldy@nyu.edu).</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take a <a href="https://www.advancingjustice-chicago.org/what-we-do/bystander-intervention-trainings/?fbclid=IwAR1CD1NAuPOxrMuYT02CQmLyiGfPfN8amcoHp_WcN1jAg3U6YfVvKI6pwkM" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">bystander intervention</a> workshop to combat anti Asian hate.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Keep supporting Black lives</a> one year after George Floyd’s murder.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Get <a href="https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/city-artist-corps-grants" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">grants</a> for NYC artists.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Bridge gaps with <a href="https://braverangels.org/calling-family-members-divided-by-politics/?link_id=7&can_id=3d0e13af5b4156c62ea3423b01439060&source=email-bipartisanship-in-congress-ba-newsletter-june-2&email_referrer=email_1200284&email_subject=feeling-helpless-ba-newsletter-june-8" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">loved ones</a> divided over politics (via Braver Angels).</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/whiteawake/radical-anti-bias-education-2021" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Unlearn race and class biases</a> this summer with White Awake.<br /> </li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(255, 210, 73); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><strong>Building Community with Ken Miles</strong></span><br /> </p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ken Miles was born in West Harlem, and today is Program Lead for ARISE youth development program at the West Harlem Development Corporation; he is a member of the Youth, Education & Libraries Committee at Manhattan Community Board 9 and is a Community Scholar at Columbia University where he is developing a community based culturally responsive think tank around population health, civic engagement, education and ethical tech. You can <a href="https://youtu.be/lVNvYEk_1UM" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">watch the interview here</a> or <a href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-June-2021-with-Ken-Miles-e12g3pt" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">listen to it here</a>.</span></em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a href="https://youtu.be/lVNvYEk_1UM" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/e7ca6cea-ab2f-0855-ead9-9d5cd19b63fe.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1186px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you move the needle? What do your dreams look like?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Institutions matter, and are often overlooked; I would love to be involved in building or stewarding an institution. We have a lot of great institutions that just need fresh coat of paint and I think that there's a tremendous power and significance to historical legacy, to context. So, the ability to play a role in helping build from a place of context.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>You're involved in a lot of work in the community; what are you noticing lately?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What I notice most immediately is one of my neighbors who's no longer with us, who would always sit on the stoop. You notice food bank lines, you note the ways in which the usual traffic patterns of walking in the streets have been disrupted; you note certainly from community board meetings, the increase in drug trafficking in certain areas and opportunities that are emerging because people's habits have been different. I’ve noticed-- having a chance to flyer, promoting the summer program-- the fragmentation, like how different floors in a building can be their own universe. <br /><br />I think building bridges to allow for our community to feel connected to what's happening to opportunity, to information is important. You recognize that digital helps. It's not the only way-- because people are fatigued for a multitude of reasons. Some people are caught just trying to figure out what the new normal is and adjust to that and find agency in their own lives, in the midst of this pandemic.<br /><br />Young people need opportunity, need role models, need play, in order to be a fuller version of who we know, and they know they have the possibility to become. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>There is a big NYC election coming up on June 22; what message would you want to convey to leaders?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Simply continuing to prioritize those who may historically have been at the margins. Sometimes the folks who really want to show up aren't able to. So we need to speak to the voices that may not always be in the room, and our elected officials should learn to do the same. I think that's an urgent need because their voice matters just as much and their perspective deserves to be heard and considered.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What attributes of a mayor would you hope to see?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I’m a steering committee member for the inclusive growth initiative for New York City, focused on making it accessible for working class families and the city that they want to see. I think that there's a lot to be said for the ways that some of our current structures don't actually afford access to those very communities in a way that maybe they were designed to initially but then fell out of step with that for a variety of reasons. We can't just presume access; we must continue to critique and continue to assess.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Are there any stories of people you've worked with that you'd want to elevate?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">During my time on the Youth, Education, and Libraries committee for Community Board 9 in West Harlem, the Teachers College Community School outgrew its space and there was a proposal on the table for a co-location at a local district school that hadn't been co-located before. There was a series of conversations--I can't have the community board take all the credit--there were avenues for facilitating those conversations--but the net result was realizing that the timeline just wasn't ideal and adequate for anyone, and in the process realizing that those district schools had needs. The district school had a need that was being overlooked quite honestly, or not heard, and you ended up having parents carefully consider their options, and effectively, one group of parents come together to advocate on behalf of another. To me it's always been a reminder in my own head--a litmus test is when you can get a parent to care about someone else's kids just as much as they might care about their own, I think that's a powerful reminder of the ways in which we can all utilize our voice to uplift and to get results.<br /> <br />That's not a quick process. It takes patience, it takes coordination. I actually believe that as much as we desire efficiency, inefficiency is a cornerstone of inclusive transformation.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you know what a community needs?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Part of that is tied to listening. Not only speaking on behalf of but creating the platforms and reducing the barriers to entry for those who can speak on behalf of themselves. Making space. Having a direction to the end results--not an exercise for exercise sake but an actual on-ramp into a process. Into a resource that helps ensure that we are creating and re-strengthening, re-stitching the social net. We know the ways the multitude of ways in which that social net has been decimated over the years and so when we go through the work of structuring and designing inclusive processes and practices, let those not be in vain. There's a shift: there's a generation out there that's seen broken promises and I think that our ability to continue forward will be contingent on our ability to engage with additional voices. If you continue to not pay attention or be aware of what those voices have to say, and if it becomes an exercise in futility, then folks will walk away from the process. We all suffer when that happens. I think that we need to understand why that needs to be a consideration and a grounding principle almost of how we design going forward.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you sustain yourself?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">That's a really important question. I’ve had probably my hardest conversations with peers during this pandemic who haven't been able to turn off, haven't been able to look away. I’ve seen a range of healthy approaches, unhealthy approaches, but the reality is there in many instances there isn't a cavalry. We know that we collectively are it.<br /><br />I’ve pretty much been in the city since the pandemic started. I think the first time I left was late September at the behest of a friend who said ‘come upstate and get away for a couple of days.’ I picked up a cycling, being outdoors, making sure to walk to the water, to Hudson piers park. That's been something I’ve tried to incorporate. And some neighbors started a random text thread at the start of the pandemic ‘hey does anyone need anything?’ and volunteering around efforts to assist community members, working with a friend of mine who formed a non-profit organization for food distribution: Breaking Bread NYC, to help aging jazz musicians who were in need of some produce.<br /><br />Leaning on our networks, being vocal, therapy as a resource is something I fully encourage for those who are able, and speaking with elders. I’ve kept a regular conversation with my grandmother during this pandemic. No exaggeration, it literally saved her life during one particular instance. I'm mindful that there's a need for us to voice our way through this and sometimes we do that so that others can know it's possible. I think there's power in sharing a journey in the hopes that eases someone else's journey and, try and incorporate some fruits and vegetables. Still working on that one.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Any good books or articles you're reading lately?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I just read Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Barracoon</em>, a testament to someone who recalls the Middle Passage. It was like a lost transcription of a conversation that happened in the early 20th century, so that was a grounding framework for just the legacy of hard times. I’ve got on my radar a book, about the Caribbean communities in Harlem and the African-American communities at the time in the 1930s and how they navigated the Depression, coming from two sets of cultural distinctive groups but making a way collectively. It was written by a sociologist in the 1990s. I’m continuing to stay abreast of conversations on equity reading about blockchain and the purported digital future and always centering back on what does that mean for community priorities. And being mindful of who shapes the future and how limited that often is. ProPublica released an expose this morning on some of the world's wealthiest, and discrepancies in the tax code.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What's a small scale action that you would suggest people take today?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Come up with a really good analogy for how ranked choice voting works and tell someone. I saw someone lay out a multitude of purses on their bed or their couch, and they were explaining how they would prioritize their bag selection and why that would matter. Whatever the analogy is, just get folks to know that one and done is not it, and that that fifth choice may have as direct an implication if not more than the first choice.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/2b332ff3-677e-69d7-548d-ebf0818c5ae8.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1792px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>by Tonia Papke</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote...</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?</em><br /><br />George Carlin </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-48063781601259387622021-04-13T10:05:00.004-07:002021-04-13T10:05:32.972-07:00April 2021<p><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="templateContainer" style="background-color: #222121; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; max-width: 600px !important; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td id="templateHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="templateBody" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(34, 33, 33); border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to take community action <em>today</em>. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">An interview Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Bill S. Preston, Esq.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude </strong></span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>(<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/11/22/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">why gratitude first?</a>)</strong></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">I'm grateful that vaccines are ramping up, and that it reflects how we are looking out for each other.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></em></strong><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/72JHyO-Pc0iFyfNPylitnQ2" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Help turn PA blue</a> by writing postcards for Marty Flynn for PA Senate- by April 19</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://swingleft.org/p/virginia" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Help keep VA blue</a>: get ready for elections</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Help get out the vote <a href="https://nycvotes.nyccfb.info/events" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">with your neighbors</a> (NYC)</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Support the Asian American Pacific Islander community with <a href="https://editorialist.com/lifestyle/how-to-support-the-asian-american-pacific-islander-community/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">donations, bystander intervention training, and education</a></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Learn how to receive <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/work/2021/4/8/22374295/excluded-workers-fund-new-yorkers-unemployment-and-stimulus-checks" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">benefits</a> from the Excluded Workers Fund</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Find youth-lead and focused advocacy <a href="https://www.nyyci.org/getinvolved" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">opportunities</a> with the New York Youth Civics Initiative</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Learn <a href="https://hi.advocacy-institute.org/trainings/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Who’s Who in New York State</a> politics with the Advocacy Institute (May 20)</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Apply for up to<a href="https://www.tfaforms.com/4880656" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"> $10,000 for your community’s needs</a>, including food pantries, Covid response, elderly check-ins with the Citizens Committee for New York City</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Grants for Black-led <a href="https://solidairenetwork.org/grantmaking/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">social change organizations</a> and work to dismantle and disrupt extractive, exploitative, and oppressive systems.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.jmkfund.org/innovation-prize-2021/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Grants</a> for social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Grants for <a href="https://resist.org/grants/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">social justice</a> and for <a href="https://dysonfoundation.org/grantmaking" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">mid-Hudson Valley non-profits</a></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Take <a href="https://www.earthday.org/take-action-now/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">action</a> for Earth Day</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Join the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Citizens’ Climate Lobby</a></li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><strong>Building Community with Kathryn Garcia</strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Kathryn Garcia is running for Mayor of New York City. She is former Commissioner for the New York City Sanitation Department, and has held roles as Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Environmental Protection, Interim Chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority, and was Food Czar for New York's emergency food program during the initial phase of the Covid outbreak. You can <a href="https://youtu.be/Hu7WE0Py7xQ" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">watch the interview here</a> or <a href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-April-2021-With-Kathryn-Garcia-eu1npn" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">listen to it here.</a></em></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a class="" href="https://youtu.be/Hu7WE0Py7xQ" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/23f7bdcd-9ed9-4106-9433-1b17451d8887.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1827px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>We’re recording on April 1st, the day that the state of New York typically passes its budget (which I always thought was funny because it’s April Fool’s Day). How would you as mayor address a big budget shortfall?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I think everyone is looking forward to seeing what is in this budget and how New York City does and whether or not we are getting our fair share. The biggest buckets are always education funding and what the Medicaid reimbursement looks like. We know that the city needs funding in order to do what we have to do to ensure that we are dealing with the pandemic aggressively and ensuring that people get vaccinated but also returning kids to school making sure the streets stay clean making sure that people feel safe on the subway. Advocating for ensuring that we're getting our fair share is terribly important. <br /><br />The other piece of this is just how do you manage the budget and I really take the view of what exactly do we need, and that you go from there. It's almost like baseline budgeting. like how you would start in your own home, so that we are ensuring that we are being efficient as we move forward.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you figure out what we need?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">On the personal level what I’ve been hearing from people is really that they need those city services that are local services; they really need to see their kids get back in school and ensuring that we have enough teachers to make that happen. They're very worried about the educational loss and the socio-emotional challenges that kids are facing, and I think sometimes their own socio-emotional challenges of having been a teacher for a lot of this year. <br /><br />Knowing that they're going to need more support beyond what we are accustomed to in school. They're very worried about crime rising and the increase in shootings and the anti-Asian hate crimes. It’s the feeling of randomness around that is deeply concerning to many members of the public that I’m talking to. I am concerned that we're seeing a spike in crime and they really want to feel some more normalcy. They want to be around people they know, that it's not quite safe enough yet but they really want to be with their family with their friends.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you reconcile that need to lower crime and the calls for rethinking policing and adjusting police budgets?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I believe that public safety is a broad term. We do need to have police visible on the street but if you even think about reopening restaurants and having eyes on the street because there's more activity, that actually does make us safer. Having that sort of compact that we have as New Yorkers about watching out for one another is incredibly important. We need both to have a police force that's effective; I’ve said that we can walk and chew gum, that we can have reform as well as have police officers who are going to respond to shootings and assaults but that we also know that we need other things to lower crime. We need to make sure that we are very intentional with our young people about them envisioning careers for themselves, and us envisioning careers for them. Making that happen.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do you make that happen?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">There are some really fascinating opportunities out there, like early college where you're graduating from high school with the two years of college credits, which means you're 50 percent paid for by the time you're done. 529 plans for all children--that's being done in district 30 in Queens. Also thinking about our trade schools and ensuring that those kids come out and can get a job within the public sector or in the private building trades world. There are a lot of opportunities to make it so that young people see their future. That they're not just trying to you know check all the boxes to get a high school degree, but they really are trying to use that for something where they're looking forward to the future.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>I was talking with my nephew who is 16 years old, asking him for advice over the summer and the fall when things were very tense nationally, politically. I wanted to know how does a young person think about how to bring people together. How do we span divides whether it's generationally, politically, etc. He said food is the way to bring people together. So that’s a two-part question: what are you hearing from young people in terms of their ideas, and what's the role of food? </strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Food is incredibly important; it's how we mark our lives. I'm so accustomed to engaging with different ethnic groups through food, you get invited to someone's house and they are going to serve you what is important to them and what comes from like their family. That is them sharing a part of who they are with you. <br /><br />If you talk about distributing food it's there's some groups are like “Halal is not vegetarian. Halal means we need to have Halal meat in it.” Or other communities where we are all vegetarian and we only have plant-based food. Lentils was really a challenge at the beginning; it’s so important for many communities.<br /><br />There are so many different opportunities for New Yorkers to come together, so it is around food, it's at the dinner table it's at the party it's in a restaurant, marking all of our events.<br /><br />It's also being able to have communal spaces--one of the things that saved us during Covid was our parks and being able to be social with people in a space that was safe where you could actually breathe and not worry that you were gonna be infected.<br /><br />To go back to food, communities stepped up over and over again to volunteer at food pantries to do distributions. That has been one of the shining stars of humanity and what has been a very dark year.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What concerns are you hearing from young people?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Young people actually also have a much longer term view. They are the most passionate about environmental issues, they are the most concerned about climate change, and the most willing to say we need to be radical, we need to really be taking steps to change our environment.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>What are some of the environmental ideas that you would like to see happen if you're mayor?</strong></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The impacts were are being seen across the country already: last year California burned and Texas froze. We really need to look at decarbonizing our entire economy. The largest piece of greenhouse gases from the city of New York is actually heat and hot water. Getting conversions to high efficiency heat pumps will make an astonishing difference. We also need to ditch dirty diesel. The worst air quality is around our highways. We have school buses that carry our youngest children and they are some of the most polluting vehicles, so I would electrify those.<br /><br />We need more clean electric power--that means ensuring that we are getting the transmission lines from upstate to bring down solar, that we are supporting offshore wind, that we are turning Rikers into a renewable Rikers. Ensuring that we have the batteries so that when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow we still we still can take care of each other. I really view this as all-encompassing; it also gives us such benefits now: if you have more trees it cools our streets now, and mitigates what is called the urban heat island effect.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>I was talking with a friend yesterday about Joe Biden’s new plan for infrastructure and a greener economy and I was wondering if in the regulations there might be an opportunity to include a carbon neutral statement or a carbon negative requirement?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Certainly, you can pass local legislation, and we have passed some really far-reaching climate legislation already like local law 97. That is going to require and incentivizes folks to start to make those investments that will make your co-op not a D-grade for energy efficiency, and ensure that it is meeting the environmental goals.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Ibram Kendi talks about racism in terms racist policies. In the same way we require environmental impact statement for new public policies, can we require anti-racist impact statements? </strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I've never thought of it like that, maybe because I've worked on projects impactful to the whole city, like when we put a new water tunnel that serves the whole city. In terms of environmental justice issues, I've done a lot of work on waste equity to ensure that we don't have transfer stations in overburdened neighborhoods and cut those permits in those community boards to make it so that we did have more equity. And finished and completed the solid waste management plan that moved the residential out of most of those communities and moved it on to trains which are much cleaner. It took like 60 million miles of long-haul trucking off the road. Not an inexpensive solution, but a much more equitable solution. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>The last thing you want to do as candidate right now is shake hands and kiss babies; it's dangerous. Are there stories of people you've met recently that you might want to share?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Parents will tell stories of their kid who's a preteen beginning to look like they're suffering from depression, who hasn't been in school in a year misses their friends, misses the interaction. Or that even if they're in school, in hybrid, it gets closed so often and it's so hard to manage, which I really feel for. As a working mom the idea that I couldn't depend on school on any given day-- I don't know how I would have managed. These parents have been absolute heroes to try and to try and get this done.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Do you have any ideas for improving the city's mental health?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">There is going to have to be counselors at schools. There is going to have to be protocols where teachers and principals have a conversation about every kid, every week, to make sure that we are catching if there is trauma, or if it's starting to manifest. Because who knows what this year has been like for many of these kids, whether or not they could have lost a parent or a guardian, or their parent has lost employment, and now they are struggling with housing or food insecurity.<br /><br />I think we need to make sure that we are engaging children through other means whether that's art or music or sports or theater. There is a real a real opportunity as for them to be creative and expressive as we begin to think about what does school look like post pandemic. <br /><br />We all know that we've been suffering. Psychologists and social workers are overbooked, and people are actually reaching out, which may have broken the stigma a little. <br /><br />We need to make sure that our mentally ill street homeless population are getting into housing that has supportive services. Housing for homeless families means you're healthier, it means you're re likely to get an education, it means you're more likely to be able to hold a job.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Housing seems to be the number one issue for all New Yorkers; is there anything else on housing that you want to share?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Building more affordable housing that's deeply affordable. Looking at converting some of these hotels or office buildings so they're not just empty assets. Vouchers for families and homeless shelters. Investing in NYCHA. We have been watching that slow speed car crash for 10 years now-- It is time to get it done. There are some buildings that have been completed and those renovations look amazing— Betances, Baychester, Murphy, Ocean Bay-- where those families now have a new bathroom, have a new kitchen, have an elevator that works. They want their families to come over for Thanksgiving. It really gives them dignity.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Anything else on your agenda that you'd want to share?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Maternal morbidity. We need to make sure we are saving our moms and ensuring that there they have access to programs. Midwives for the medical portion and doulas to support women during labor. Creating a medical relationship not just during birth but as you're as you’re raising that child.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What’s a small-scale action that everyone could take today?</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Don't litter. Pick up a piece of garbage. Make sure you've got your reusable bag and your reusable water bottle. Think about what you buy and how you travel. All those all impact the environment.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>People pay good money to go on a retreat and sweep a monastery dirt floor. We could do that here in our own backyard.</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Glass and Steel Magnolias</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Be </em>excellent<em> to each other.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>--<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rph_1DODXDU" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Bill S. Preston, Esq.</a></em></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-4473008000428110502021-03-08T09:38:00.004-08:002021-03-08T09:38:37.967-08:00March 2021<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">My gratitude during a year of running CivicList</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to take community action <em>today</em>. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Saint Teresa of Calcutta.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude </strong></span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>(<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/11/22/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">why gratitude first?</a>)</strong></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">I'm so grateful to have run CivicList for a full year and built community with you, the reader/action-taker, and to have learned and shared: </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/03/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634012" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/9aab9673-dab3-43db-a612-87a7e5d98bb2.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />How young people lead the way, with 400 Bainbridge Block Association President <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/03/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">River Fields</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/04/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634016" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/e6ca39bd-bfd6-40c8-b7c4-8ae7f4270dc2.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br /><br />How listening is key to political organizing, with Senator Robert Jackson's deputy chief of staff <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/05/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Chris Nickell<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img data-file-id="13634040" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/31b316cf-35af-43c4-8561-7a50d53999c7.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />How listening is key to non-profit leadership, with former Executive Director of Good Shepherd Services <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/05/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Sr. Paulette LoMonaco</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/06/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634028" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/c58cefc7-c009-46e2-aa11-4ceee3417927.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br /><br />How love is the root of advocacy, with Professor <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/06/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/07/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634020" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/dc131840-a764-4511-8ead-10c292aae998.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br /><br />How leaders can be futurists, with Citizens Committee of New York CEO <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/07/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Rahsaan Harris</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/08/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634032" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/f261aba1-05c1-4087-88fe-423f209cd451.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br />How a Member of Congress does his job, with U.S. Rep. <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/08/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Adriano Espaillat</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/10/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634036" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/7acd4fa4-cf9a-491f-8471-22d078e89066.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br /><br />How listening bridges political divides, with United States of Listening founder <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2020/10/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Dirk Liedig</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634024" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/5cfc3e32-83aa-413c-8180-ea8acc45800b.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br />How to use food in community building, with Brooklyn Borough President <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Eric Adams</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634048" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/c649ec34-92c2-4ce9-abb6-fd3ad3931117.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br />How NYC Council candidates understand and advocate with their communities, with candidates <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Dan Cohen and Johanna Garcia,</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13634052" height="132" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/images/06dcf32d-508b-4e79-a1d7-4d82a04527a4.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 132px;" width="132" /></a><br /><br /><br />and with candidates <a href="https://www.civiclist.org/2021/01/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Nantasha Williams and Abigail Martin</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></span></em></strong><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/376414/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Stop voter suppression</a> bills in Arizona on Monday, March 8 at 5pm EST</span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/turnpablue/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Help keep Pennsylvania blue</span></span></a></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Get <a href="https://www.tfaforms.com/4880656" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">$10,000</a> for NYC community and school improvement projects</span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Get microgrants for <a href="https://www.annuityfreedom.net/financial-literacy/artists/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">artists</a>, <a href="https://www.annuityfreedom.net/financial-literacy/black-grants/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Black or Minority business owners</a>, and <a href="https://www.annuityfreedom.net/financial-literacy/women-grant/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">women who own businesses</a></span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Find Youth Civic Engagement <a href="http://nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/youth-trainings/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Workshop</a><a href="http://nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/youth-trainings/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">s</a></span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn about youth-led activism and civic engagement with the <a href="https://www.nyyci.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">New York Youth Civics Initiative</a></span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn how advocates are working to </span><a href="https://shubert.nyc/about-us/shubert-advocacy-series/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">diversify Broadway and American theatre</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (with the Shubert Organization, hosted by my cousin!)</span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join a workshop on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/respond-to-the-call-supporting-white-antiracist-faithspiritual-leadership-tickets-137427341879?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=41d77b0d57&mc_eid=7148541e16" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Supporting White AntiRacist Faith/Spiritual Leadership</a> (</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">March 16 & April 27)</span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Check out <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/22233447/what-you-need-to-know-now-about-the-2021-elections-in-new-york-city" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">important dates and details</a> about the NYC elections </span>and <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/heres-when-where-mayoral-candidates-are-speaking-next" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">upcoming</a> Mayoral candidate forums</span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;">Learn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjOkUiSO-o" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">how ranked choice voting actually works</a> (by Elaine Perlman) </span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn about <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-from-the-first-wave-resilience-in-the-age-of-covid-19-tickets-141294051311?fbclid=IwAR1W1hvmD-vH8d8pbZhZ-f9RoqK40OoG14Gib-7-ykdj5Zce5trDu4Ttieg" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Lessons from the First Wave of Covid-19</a> including how to start a mutual aid network, crowdsourcing, reducing loneliness, and how to work with community wealth (Hosted by Idealist, March 16)</span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Get ready for <a href="https://www.nationalvaccineday.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">National Vaccine Day</a> </span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tell President Biden to <a href="https://buildbackfossilfree.org/#take-action" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">build back fossil free</a></span></span></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.nonbkpipeline.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Say NO</a> to the North Brooklyn Pipeline</span></span></li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/_compresseds/76654e7a-dfdd-4196-972e-b5342367a773.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 2016px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Penned In? At Penn Station?</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote...</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.</em></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>--Saint Teresa of Calcutta</em></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-46118558824641621742021-01-30T05:37:00.010-08:002021-03-02T06:53:02.138-08:00City Council Candidate Interviews<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 9px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Interviews with four candidates for NYC Council seats around the city: Dan Cohen, Nantasha Williams, Abigail Martin, and Johanna Garcia.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Gratitude, art, and a quote.</span></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude</strong></span><br /><br />I'm grateful for the announcement of a <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90598742/how-bidens-new-civilian-climate-corps-would-work" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Civilian Climate Corps</a>, and for finding a way to recalibrate 401(k) savings into high-earning <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/esg-investing" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-</a> responsible investments.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><br /><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Interviews with Candidates Abigail Martin and Nantasha Williams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4g1WfXY_cc" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="788" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3ssnTNDfk5ZfV2gr2P6aioHvFPh4l7HJOvgR8S3LKxwBddT_7qKrL59cUKBiGKmM4F7sRlSnHaJjNWeAkSG42R3kEpzz0gt-mXOe1zQZRaiMdwwlk4asUrM35PUS8o5o4ztXqDByVGg/w640-h360/nan+and+abigail.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></em></strong></span><br /><a href="https://www.abigail4thebronx.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Abigail Martin</a> is running for District 11 in the Bronx; <a href="https://nantasha2021.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Nantasha Williams</a> is running for District 27 in Queens. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4g1WfXY_cc" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a> or listen <a href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-NYC-Council-Candidates-Abigail-Martin-and-Nantasha-Williams-epmdth" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><br /><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Interviews with Candidates Johanna Garcia and Dan Cohen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyuC8B8zIM" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="780" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0IJhFAv_3gxHWhDyjH8CarCvayFYS0SxFg57jqEKbGFEO8x6J9ifQGtk6tmPxxQp-5M4EjZo3lpGEi-qHk73OoMZ8z6AhLDk6wn60cPhvIKX4L0KEskqew8PErg6RtspTOjtR4RzH2Q/w640-h180/Dan+and+johanna.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></em></strong></span><br /><a href="https://www.votejohannagarcia.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Johanna Garcia</a> is running for City Council District 10, in upper Manhattan. <a href="https://www.cohen2021.com/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Dan Cohen</a> is running for City Council District 7 in the west side of Manhattan. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyuC8B8zIM" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-Interview-with-NYC-Council-candidates-Dan-Cohen-and-Johanna-Garcia-epmdmm" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">listen</a> here.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Ideas? Send me your civic action opportunities: matt@civiclist.org</span></span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ee83fa5124748820730edcc37/_compresseds/10f3e5ba-02e0-42d8-89af-64dbbfe535de.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 3024px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote...</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><em>Fear itself is an aversion. There might be physical sensations, emotional associations that occur...the mind starts planning about the future, how to get out of this scary situation. But here’s the thing I want to point you to, which is that when you know you’re afraid, that means that some part of you is not afraid. The part that knows you’re afraid is not afraid. </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>-- </em></span><a href="https://secularbuddhism.com/frank-ostaseski/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Frank Ostaseski</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-36763560873547131812021-01-05T13:04:00.002-08:002021-01-05T13:04:39.677-08:00January 2021<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915templateContainer" style="background-color: #222121; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-1944179083773410915templateHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="m_-1944179083773410915templateBody" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(34, 33, 33); border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">What I'm grateful for</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to community action <em>today</em></span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An interview with Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and candidate for Mayor</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Thomas Merton</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude</strong></span><br /><br />I'm grateful to have passed my dissertation defense, and to now focus on helping my students become teachers.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></span></em></strong><ul><li><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Last chance to help get out the vote in Georgia- <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/367757/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNHAKG0K-h7ikrQPszETr5HNb4lR5g" href="https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/367757/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">today</a>!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Recruit Georgia canvassers to cure ballots tomorrow at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/368375/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNHJzaMbSZwjJpIOQEwF1zSB2O0ytA" href="https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/368375/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">10am </a>EST or <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/367753/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNFsRxMy-ILOfs0fouqgDDFhAOWqoA" href="https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/367753/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">2pm</a> EST</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Apply to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nycservice.org/pages/pages/218&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNGVNhCjSAtZB097kxJr2B3msXow0g" href="https://www.nycservice.org/pages/pages/218" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">NYC Civic Impact Funding </a>for COVID-19 Volunteer Response Support-- until Jan 15! </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8urUmnnoLHGojoS4HezXZv06zsXnNK2fZ54JcM9ftVqxE4w/viewform&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNGMz2NwBK6XASpH4EX9dAtnfSpp0Q" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8urUmnnoLHGojoS4HezXZv06zsXnNK2fZ54JcM9ftVqxE4w/viewform" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Join</a> the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W9g8M3ZC1IyFztcN0i-5tIo1iOK8augb/view?_hsmi%3D105391685%26_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-_9eZ0k_0p_dBJNLKs0exC6W0Ih8JFltRuiomeO-or3tyaglrRAnEwKmvxw3LBPmNPVYkRfvMxeBK2Ezj4-LuVJdUgnfg&source=gmail&ust=1609967037241000&usg=AFQjCNElMSMy-KLmH32Zt3zugwMBZFdwrg" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W9g8M3ZC1IyFztcN0i-5tIo1iOK8augb/view?_hsmi=105391685&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_9eZ0k_0p_dBJNLKs0exC6W0Ih8JFltRuiomeO-or3tyaglrRAnEwKmvxw3LBPmNPVYkRfvMxeBK2Ezj4-LuVJdUgnfg" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">coalition </a>to tax the ultra-rich and save our state</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Join the campaign to make <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.serveamericatogether.org/join&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNG6Q0EiuII2uJC1G8tW0ZnA95vIVA" href="https://www.serveamericatogether.org/join" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">national service</a> part of growing up in America</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Build common ground with people who might not vote the same as you with the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theusol.org/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNGU7mm036rdFPIXPc6C-SF7jyzqpA" href="http://www.theusol.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">United States of Listening</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Try a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/compassion_meditation?_ga%3D2.194922734.2122494597.1608746033-1683658646.1608746033&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNHoILWMfieOIectshNHSdIUlktgLQ" href="https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/compassion_meditation?_ga=2.194922734.2122494597.1608746033-1683658646.1608746033" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">compassion meditation</a></span></span></li></ul> <div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: <a href="mailto:matt@civiclist.org" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">matt@civiclist.org</a></span></span></em><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Building Community with Eric Adams</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://youtu.be/x4k1Dz44Vk4&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNE5BzvjRK0ToLGm4ba0t7hkGeRuSw" href="https://youtu.be/x4k1Dz44Vk4" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnImage" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhMUFKUEvb7J2y1WFoTUJX0NdFxu_JkJQZiRQsUYVi_tdTdy5LDJ6SdXSuosUQeIFoObeveuIK45RWi9WTo0OVSlXOBAnlGg5HbDjcW4j7p2IpYSUfN1iw43fw7NGM9R9ZiJQY7O8uH-u8dRlrvnHFB3BML06OCm7E9e6FbHthIm0yj_Zvb6hyNiH8WhvbIYj2f7C0E5XKnAC4Jksi8AfuFQ9OJ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1058px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><em>"You make the decision if that dark place is a burial or a planting."</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><em>This month’s CivicList features an interview with Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, candidate running for Mayor of New York, and a man of many talents. You may listen to the interview <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-January-2021-With-Eric-Adams-eojeqr&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNEewnOg5pmcWQ1FTSQShggDp721oA" href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicList-January-2021-With-Eric-Adams-eojeqr" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a> or watch it <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://youtu.be/x4k1Dz44Vk4&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNE5BzvjRK0ToLGm4ba0t7hkGeRuSw" href="https://youtu.be/x4k1Dz44Vk4" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>How are you feeling right now?</strong></em></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">These are challenging times; we are all experiencing loss, from Hollywood icons to our friends that live next door. The extent of how Covid-19 has impacted our families and our community is devastating. But we’re resilient and I think every generation had a challenge and we were able to overcome, and that's where we are right now.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>As long-term elected official, how you get a sense of what other people are feeling, and what's on their minds?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I think more than just being an elected official, for the last almost 30 plus years, my life has been on the ground. I was there as a police officer when 9/11 took place and I saw the fear and uncertainty that was really on the face of many New Yorkers. Also now experiencing covid-19, watching the face of people. When it hit the city, I moved into Brooklyn Borough Hall, put a mattress on the floor and stayed there for about five or six months so I could respond to the needs of people. And going to NYCHA housing, to hospitals, meeting many of our transit employees, supermarket employees, essential workers. What's interesting there was a report that came out in December that showed out of the New York City employee pool, Black and brown workers had the largest amount of deaths, and it just showed how they were on the front line making sure that the vital services in the city. And I see the faces of those people who have lost their loved ones and the fear and uncertainty. <br /><br />I was speaking with a group of funeral home directors and they were talking about walking in the middle of the night or the day and seeing body parts fall out of the temporary body bags, and seeing bodies thrown on top of each other, and rushing people through the funeral not having enough space. And so there are stories of many of the essential workers and people who really had to dig in deep; they are going to have traumatic experiences that's going to follow them a long time. And that's why we have to really focus on the mental health aspect of this entire coronavirus process. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>In terms of dealing with mental health and uplifting the city's mental health, it's interesting how you talked about being on the ground and literally having a mattress in Borough Hall. I know you're a person who meditates, and the story of Buddha's enlightenment comes to mind, when he touched the ground, and instead of being in this abstract world, it was about that contact. So what grounds you?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">It's amazing Matthew, that sometimes when we think about recovery, when we think about how do we get through moments, there's some simple things we can do every day, like starting our day with gratitude, and before you go into the restroom to wash your face, just take a moment to sit on the edge of your bed or wherever you are, and do an assessment of gratitude. It really it sets your attitude for the entire day. That's what I do in the morning and during the evening, I reflect on my day and I give thanks of the ability to help others. I spend that moment in the morning to meditate to do some best basic exercises and stretching, and just really start to allow my body to understand I’m blessed to get up every day and contribute to the greatness of humankind.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Who in your community are you grateful for?</strong></span></span></em><em><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong></strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">So many people, particularly of the members of the Chinese community. What they did during covid-19, I believe was just amazing. While we had a president who was attempting to demonize them and call covid-19 the Chinese virus, there were some mean people here in the city and country who attacked and actually harassed them, in some cases we saw physical assaults. But when I reached out to many of my Chinese constituents and told them we were in need of PPEs (personal protection equipment) for NYCHA developments and for frontline workers, they responded. We were able to secure over 200,000 pieces of PPE that we delivered to NYCHA developments, to transit employees, to supermarkets, to hospitals and it was about showing the resiliency of New Yorkers and those who come to America, and embrace and love America. And they inspired me, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/bp-adams-honors-covid-19-heroes-who-reflect-diversity-of-brooklyn-including-12-year-old-girl-who-used-own-money-to-pack-lunches-for-health-care-workers-and-broadway-star-who-coordi/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNEFJreU7vj9MWkOZvYhx4fZcqu-SQ" href="https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/bp-adams-honors-covid-19-heroes-who-reflect-diversity-of-brooklyn-including-12-year-old-girl-who-used-own-money-to-pack-lunches-for-health-care-workers-and-broadway-star-who-coordi/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">we did a ceremony at Brooklyn Borough Hall where we honored covid heroes</a>, and the number of people who sent in stories of everyday New Yorkers who just really went beyond the call of duty to help of this city get past covid 19. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://youtu.be/zXaCCAlf_Bg&source=gmail&ust=1609967037242000&usg=AFQjCNFFKk-4FN_DvlKP0Bxb775IA2QShQ" href="https://youtu.be/zXaCCAlf_Bg" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">interviewed recently Rahsaan Harris</a>, CEO of Citizens Committee for New York, a great organization does very local work and he talked about leadership, the need for leaders to really be visionaries or futurists. You're hoping to be mayor, so let's say that works out, and it’s 2030. I’m wondering what should be happening in 2030? You've done two terms already at this point.</span></strong></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">That's a great question. The real challenge we are having in our city, in cities across America is not covid-19. It’s the skills gap. Oxford University did a report that in the next 20 years, 40 percent of the jobs we're training our young people for today won't be available. What I want to be noticed for, in my legacy, is how I prepared our city, existing in the computer age or computer intelligence, artificial intelligence, and we move from a city that is dysfunctional because many of our crises are self-inflicted, and move to a city where we will have a more functional, well-coordinated city that we can use this city as a place that could be a model across the entire country.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>How specifically will you prepare the city for that?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">When I went into the police department as a rookie officer, I went in as a computer program as police officer special assignment. I worked on a small team for the first time using computer data, to go from being reactionary to crime to proactive, and eventually to predictive. I saw it that all of our agencies in the city should have moved to a real-time model of running government. So it's time now to take our cities from this 1960’s, 1970’s way of running government to real time, and coordinate our cities. I think one of the three most important things as mayor I want to do is to number one, have all of our agencies clearly define their mission, make sure that mission feeds into the overall mission of the city, and finally to make sure we do an analysis of our agencies that we are not doing any actions that is in conflict with the mission of another agency. <br /><br />For example, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, they spend millions of dollars to fight childhood obesity, childhood diabetes and childhood asthma, yet the Department of Education is in conflict with them because they feed our children 960,000 meals a day, and those meals cause what? Childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, childhood asthma. That's a dis-alignment of how we should operate as a city, and there are too many other examples of how we are not utilizing our resources and moving our city forward. And the inefficiencies is what create the inequalities and it gives way to the injustices that we are witnessing.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>The city Department of Ed buys almost a million meals every day-- it seems like there's huge purchasing power, so is there a way that that could be leveraged to change the national food system, instead of subsidized junk food getting funneled to every American city? </strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Yes, it's a great opportunity. Think about it for a moment: the city agencies purchase a substantial number of meals every day at the Department of Correction, Department of Education, Health and Hospitals. Those the meals we are purchasing for the most part are unhealthy, and what it is it doing? It feeds our health care crisis. 17 percent of 12 year olds in this country have early signs of heart disease, our number one killer. We are also experiencing food deserts so why don't we use the buying power of the food that we purchase every day to invest in hydroponics, vertical farming, urban agriculture so we can start changing the dynamic of number one, identifying food apartheid, food deserts, start serving healthy foods in these communities instead of junk food, start serving healthy food in our hospitals because the research is clearly showing that lifestyle medicine with a plant-based program has great results? And really start looking at all the places that we are feeding people as government to make sure that we're giving them a healthy start. I like to say that we spend a lifetime pulling people out of the river no one goes upstream and prevent them from falling in in the first place. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>You've got such an interesting background in everything from law enforcement to government, and you're a person who practices spirituality and meditative grounding and also appreciates and wants to leverage data, and you work seven days a week so I'm wondering, what's driving you?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I’m sitting here laughing because people often say that ‘you can't put Eric in a box’ ‘how do you classify him?’ ‘what is he?’ I think that it is so unfortunate that we don't develop our full personhood because we attempt to fit into classifications for others. My mother told me when I was a child and I had an unfortunate circumstance with police officers who beat my brother and I, she shared with me that ‘son you're going to find yourself in dark places and you will make the decision if that dark place is a burial or a planting.’ I believe that every moment that I’ve experienced gave me an opportunity to see it as a planting and I came out of it as a better individual. I came out of it using the fruits of that harvest to help people who are also finding on themselves in dark places. So my motivation comes from I believe personally that we all deposit into the social bank of life so that when we need to withdraw from that bank we could do so. <br /><br />A program that I do every day is the 100 points program; before I go to sleep at night I want to make sure I received or I met my 100 points. I'll get three points for holding the door for someone, I'll get a point for saying good morning to someone I don't know five points for buying someone a meal. At the end of the night I’ll add up all those points and if I have a deficit in points I donate whatever the deficit is, I put it in a jar and donate it to someone or something at the end of the week. This allows me to build into my everyday experiences a way of giving back. You can't accidentally give back, it must be part of your makeup and part of your existence, and that shows how grateful you are to be able to give back.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>This newsletter is all about building community. A lot of people feel disconnected, isolated, even before covid. I think you may have addressed some of these some interesting tactics and ideas about building community, but I wondered how would you how would you describe your method of building community?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">By meeting people where they are. Here we are in one of the most diverse cities on the globe and if we are honest with ourselves we don't know each other. We have someone that lives in the apartment next door, or in the house down the block and because they are of a different religious or cultural belief, we probably don't even know their name. So here in Brooklyn and throughout the city, we're doing something called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/breaking-bread/&source=gmail&ust=1609967037243000&usg=AFQjCNEkWBWFkbNBSJokbjigFidco--iGQ" href="https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/breaking-bread/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Breaking Bread Building Bonds</a>. Attending 100 dinners, 10 people at each dinner and all the participants are from a different religious ethnic group.<br /><br />They go around the table and they share information about who they are. If you're from the Hasidic community, why do you wear a black hat? If you are from the African diaspora why do you wear a kufi? Different foods, different cultures. The Sikh community--why they go to a temple? Our goal is to have people communicate with each other, talk to each other break down all those walls and all of those misconceptions that we have. Our goal is just to turn to the thousand people who are going to participate in the dinners, each one of them to host their own Breaking Bread Building Bonds and become ambassadors of how do we live with each other in a peaceful way.<br /><br />Anyone who wants to do a Breaking Bread Building Bonds--we're now doing it via Zoom. They can go to our website and they can sign up and our team will communicate with them and coordinate them through the process. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>I always felt like food is the missing piece in community, whether it's organizing or activism; people are very busy and we focus on legislation and elections, which is important. But when I talked to our friend Elaine Perlman about somebody who she thinks I should interview for CivicList, somebody who's in the food world, you were the first person to come up.</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">This is how I turn those dark moments and turning into plantings. As a child I was beaten by a police officer, instead of saying ‘woe is me’ I said ‘why not me?’ I joined the Police Department and was able to retire as a Captain. And the same with food, and that's what Elaine knows me from: experiencing Type 2 diabetes that caused me to lose sight in my left eye and permanent nerve damage, the doctors stated at the time, and told me that I was going to eventually lose some fingers and toes. It was only because of food, going to lifestyle medicine and a whole food plant-based diet, within three weeks, my vision returned my nerve damage went away, my diabetes went in remission. It was a moment of using that experience to help other people and I wrote a book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/healthy-at-last-eric-adams/1136703968&source=gmail&ust=1609967037243000&usg=AFQjCNEBTRfQcFnbEF_zJdPDjw7P7mFIjw" href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/healthy-at-last-eric-adams/1136703968" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Healthy at Last</a> that is really showing people how to reverse chronic diseases by the power of food. It’s more than what we put in our mouths, it is something that allows us to nourish our bodies, our minds, it allows us to really change the conditions in our communities. It’s my goal to really show New Yorkers how do we empower ourselves with the food we eat, how we interact with each other, how we become more efficient as a city, because we can't continue to have these inefficiencies create inabilities and the inequalities that we are witnessing. That is my goal. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnImage" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhwMWsRiA-XzBwqCS3cabzz0Ak7-QzbIuoutlLpiIYNe94H7GALWqG_s3tqv_qX5Q3sC4PwLvF0vyOvreK4NSny2icaVdTxbgIGV_lFbVEaiMJwCe1MyR8EQvMjjJ2Mkihmp_WpzSxERnjTSnnbZxIuwBLDU7RwE4fHTbXh-scn7_K9LRUzFJnmNds4DVg46xaTjli9Krcw4q1r4h8-kc3BbBpekmttAMLW=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 4032px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, lucida sans typewriter, lucida typewriter, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Frozen leaves of grass, New Paltz NY</em></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">A Quote...</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1944179083773410915mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.<br /><br />--Thomas Merton</em></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-14684554202216979602020-10-07T04:32:00.007-07:002020-10-07T04:40:33.768-07:00October 2020<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730templateContainer" style="background-color: #222121; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; max-width: 600px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_6354231363560144730templateHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><br /></td></tr><tr><td id="m_6354231363560144730templateBody" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(34, 33, 33); border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #202020; border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px dotted rgb(252, 206, 56); min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #f5e7cf; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 18px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to <span class="il">CivicList</span>, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">My gratitude for voter organizers</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to community action <em>today</em></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An interview with Dirk Liedig, founder of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theusol.org/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006994000&usg=AFQjCNEWcH9crUtLgC8Wcpn9544GzzNyOQ" href="http://www.theusol.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">the United States of Listening</a></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Walt Whitman </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>First, Gratitude</strong></span><br /><br />I'm so grateful for friends, neighbors, and family members who have committed to phonebank, write letters, and register people to vote. Even one hour a week helps. </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Take Community Action TODAY</span></span></em></strong><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">You’ve already registered to vote? Great! Now encourage <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://swingleft.org/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006994000&usg=AFQjCNF3qLR6aRlMkgLIO0lkhcfyHw11vA" href="https://swingleft.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">others to vote</a>.</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://swingleft.org/p/immediate-impact?source%3Dslsite_IIF%26utm_source%3Dhomepage%26utm_medium%3DSLsite%26utm_campaign%3DIIF&source=gmail&ust=1602156006994000&usg=AFQjCNEIanmSfczhVhA0DgWfSIlY-k_BWQ" href="https://swingleft.org/p/immediate-impact?source=slsite_IIF&utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=SLsite&utm_campaign=IIF" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Send $20 to a vulnerable Democrat in a swing district</a></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newyorkforbiden2020.com/%23phonebank&source=gmail&ust=1602156006994000&usg=AFQjCNESap9TDiaJJ0mGeZ-k6WdkYFJ7Vw" href="https://newyorkforbiden2020.com/#phonebank" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Try phone banking today</a> to call folks who <em>should </em>be voting Democrat. It's not a tough sell. Phonebanks are happening every afternoon & evening, every day of the week</span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">TODAY at 4pm: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lkJSv-AwSxiKV1b-r-_2Pw/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006994000&usg=AFQjCNGV7ns2sWBrEhHw0rKsNUkf1kctGw" href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lkJSv-AwSxiKV1b-r-_2Pw/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">join youth activists from around the NYC</a> to discuss how they found their calling in <span class="il">civic</span> leadership and connect to the many ways young New Yorkers can create change locally and nationally. </span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px;">Power to the Youth: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nypl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eMuhFYzzThu3ODcd2wDwgg&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNF3aIgQrYUjDAsrFjEqgkiRMHUIYA" href="https://nypl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eMuhFYzzThu3ODcd2wDwgg" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Your Voice, Your Vote with NY Public Libraries</a><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px;"> (Oct 7th at 4:30pm)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justiceforgeorge.info/search?zipcode%3D%26distance%3D50&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNHqDBp9GGYGrheVXjlF5pReV5R5rw" href="https://www.justiceforgeorge.info/search?zipcode=&distance=50" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Dismantle white supremacy and seek Justice for George Floyd</a></span></span></em></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Tell your Senators to pass the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNERuOVqUzQViWPO1ozaVzctCpM5TA" href="https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">George Floyd Justice in Policing Act</a></span></span></em></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Learn how to turn your advocacy idea into legislation with the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://share.hsforms.com/1vd0Be9GfSguxtTqDeahyOQ3dptq?utm_medium%3Demail%26_hsmi%3D96049348%26_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-9itMiKs0lJR5saVJzRwr9FhgATfxYffo18T5Es7-7CedsOgMDbaQCvDeVhdi9SDYIVflgHPyxwt2Axhhm8-XBGlTpGFVvcG8Zr4_7BCnI7VGyze7s%26utm_content%3D96049348%26utm_source%3Dhs_email&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNFrliPQK8QvGLJn-UTQulNp7R-LTA" href="https://share.hsforms.com/1vd0Be9GfSguxtTqDeahyOQ3dptq?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=96049348&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9itMiKs0lJR5saVJzRwr9FhgATfxYffo18T5Es7-7CedsOgMDbaQCvDeVhdi9SDYIVflgHPyxwt2Axhhm8-XBGlTpGFVvcG8Zr4_7BCnI7VGyze7s&utm_content=96049348&utm_source=hs_email" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Advocacy Institute on Oct 15</a> (Oct 9 deadline)</span></span></em></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Build common ground with people who might not vote the same as you with the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theusol.org/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNGr4Zx-qiTVNxHqPASgKdVXZ3DQiQ" href="http://www.theusol.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">United States of Listening</a></span></span></em></li></ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What’s missing? Send me your <span class="il">civic</span> action opportunities: <a href="mailto:matt@civiclist.org" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">matt@<span class="il">civiclist</span>.org</a></span></span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Building Community with Dirk Liedig</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_2xcUhRZQ&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnImage CToWUd a6T" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjCqylUoUevQRyQ3W7iGlsjNs4A2NVTGdJ2lvjH993d7pq3vVuReuypXW3JyMLs-Hv-riy8zmr16NRXNp1mVrglF2y7kh84ZDzQSOHcRmk-Mb31atSWFICugIuxK9Ba3XPDi79AGiPR9suoHLdRnvhI-EqOhS0kc1Orjkp8d3la5jYWE0vs72dUbZu_K9Ey7GnbwteJt4Bv0DD_lI6YoghJEz1k=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1187px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><em>"I’m very much fascinated by bringing back the village into our fragmented lives.” </em></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><em>This month’s <span class="il">CivicList</span> features an interview with Dirk Liedig</em><em>, who I met at my teacher apprenticeship at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.wildearth.org&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNEDAXGE73ugXslkt06BpkCTMLpJQg" href="http://www.wildearth.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Wild Earth</a>. Dirk is co-founder of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lifelabslearning.com/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNEGMJohtkjFaIqax2kLcOc73W1OAQ" href="https://lifelabslearning.com/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">LifeLabs Learning</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mngfl.org/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNHm6_1RdmoXqxJQEeQAFUsI-WJt3w" href="https://www.mngfl.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">MNGFL.org</a>, and now the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theusol.org&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNHBoudFwBILF-HLdKyHwYy3X5Do6A" href="http://www.theusol.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">United States of Listening</a>. You may watch the interview <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Dmq_2xcUhRZQ%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNHCpKdFlrfUl3VWqSU8E8BS65lWkg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_2xcUhRZQ&feature=youtu.be" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">here</a> or listen to it <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CIvicList-October-2020-with-Dirk-Liedig-ekgp6o&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNG61Y3iOswlDUKCAEo1nfOvmyxxBw" href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CIvicList-October-2020-with-Dirk-Liedig-ekgp6o" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">here</a>.</em> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>What are you curious about these days?</strong></em></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What a good question to start with. I think I am most curious about staying curious. I’m really curious about confirmation bias. I'm curious about staying human and letting other people stay human. A thing that's been on my mind a lot has been the othering of others, building false ideas around people who are not in our in group. It's very prevalent currently where we create the stories that support our stories. I’m curious and I am invested in things to realize we're in this same big boat of life. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>What is confirmation bias and how you combat it?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">We kind of see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. Nowadays we're also served what we want to see and hear. That's part of our social media diet. This is the first time when what we look for is going to be shown to us more often. It just deepens the ideas that we already have and it decreases diversity of thinking of ideas, of exposure, and just makes us feel actually more insular. It creates differences artificially.<br /><br />To combat confirmation bias, the first step is awareness. The idea of labeling it as confirmation bias and being cognizant of me, myself, being somebody who is going to look for things I already know or already like. The second step is to respond to it in willful, rather than a superficial or automatic way.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>How do you build community?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Going back to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, where at the bottom, we have survival, and then comfort and shelter and just above that is the need for socialness. Actually it's the only internal need that has physical impact on us if we don't feel socially connected, we actually feel stress and pain and it can shorten our lives and our well-being. I believe that this is an area that needs a lot of attention because people are not living the communal lives that we were built to live. We grew up in villages until about 100 years ago. Everything was smaller more concentrated we had bigger families. Aunts and uncles raised kids. The idea of the village-- I’m very much fascinated by bringing back the village into our fragmented lives.<br /><br />A year and a half ago we started this space and place and community called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mngfl.org&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNEyKA_AfxoSQo-Jg9gQw90kynXOpA" href="http://www.mngfl.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">MNGFL</a>, and this was basically a place for experiments. Experimenting with how people prefer to come together socially to feel enriched by the experiences-- to play, to exchange, to learn, to stretch, to have adventures together.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>What are some of the questions that you found most helpful to help people get into each other’s lives and to help build that social fabric?</strong></span></span></em><em><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong></strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">The thing I really particularly like is storytelling. One thing we would do is--especially people who are new with one another--asking them to tell their story in a very specific format. The specific format, the storytelling is a three-part question that each person answers. The first part of the question is “What was your story so far?” The second part is “what is your story now?’ and the third part is “what will your story be?” Now there's a little twist to this question, too, and that is that you answer the question by talking about yourself in the third person. It frees you from some of the judgments that you might normally have against yourself, and you might be more open and more sharing. This is an example of a of a question or a group of questions that leads to really quick rapport with people who you might not know well, and a level of intimacy and vulnerability and openness and fun and experience with one another.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I really like that “what's our story so far what is it now what it will be?”. It's a nice kind of counter to a lot of the introductions that we do. It kind of elicits this resume response, like “Just give me your LinkedIn profile.” So I think it helps us dig deeper. And the third person allows us to maybe reflect a little bit more. The “what was your story so far?” reminds me of another similar exercise my friend Tim Cigelske talks about in his book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/books/the-creative-journey-a-timeless-approach-to-discovery/9781693417788&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNGd21h4h0pniUd3-9b08ZIjbfwUrw" href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-creative-journey-a-timeless-approach-to-discovery/9781693417788" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">The Creative Journey</a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gumroad.com/timcigelske%23NUKWy&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNF2J_p8_UVEbfMtX9R7yvuCMj7_5g" href="https://gumroad.com/timcigelske#NUKWy" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">.</a> It was an exercise to write your obituary [more on this in the audio/video interview].</span></strong></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">What's the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theusol.org/&source=gmail&ust=1602156006995000&usg=AFQjCNGr4Zx-qiTVNxHqPASgKdVXZ3DQiQ" href="http://www.theusol.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">United States of Listening</a> and how can people get involved?</span></strong></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">I was wondering what could we do to make people feel more connected. The idea is to have ambassadors to the United States of Listening. All they need to do is they need to find somebody who's from the other political conviction, and that person gets asked two questions, and the person who invited them is the listener to those two questions. At the end of the conversation which is limited to 10 minutes, both people just shortly extract the needs. The listener will just <span class="il">list</span> the three or so needs that they heard the other person express. The talker will <span class="il">list</span> the three needs they think they expressed. That's it. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>What are those two questions? </strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The first question is “what will improve for you personally if your candidate is elected?” Question number two is “what do you fear will happen if your candidate isn't elected?”</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>What's a small scale action we could take today?</strong></span></span></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">Give people compliments. They should be genuine and thoughtful so they will do something for the other person-- the receiver. They also do something for ourselves because they shift our focus towards where we direct our attention. It's like a miniature gratefulness exercise, because the moment you give somebody a compliment, you're expressing gratefulness, and you're shifting your focus to something that you appreciate. It goes both ways. It's one of those wonderful things that just have an impact. It's the magic one-fix-all.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Typewriter", monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"><strong>Art!</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnImage CToWUd a6T" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEizeanseMFAFiNgP-1q5IBiu0JET1JX2QK5FQB82up3c-dKbqGNii7uE0tmuaxji2d9f2V3Ib5zqcBB4ddw3u1c32kKhUUe816I4DiwqrDQaxNX01ReWYUqvBUvOpmwjXXSABxY3qz-4yru4vdywGsryz65nrP1TQdxFTVg2R23xNEjZtUv4vb5BOJbDmxpzK6wV7aK4ZOfYIeex0tZm2RhFM1k=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1280px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_6354231363560144730mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;">"VOTE" at a community garden</span></span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-7654571244901096222020-08-18T04:48:00.000-07:002020-08-18T08:11:43.515-07:00August 2020<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An interview with Adriano Espaillat, Member of the U.S House of Representatives. </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A bit of art outside the gallery</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Bill McKibben </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">I'm grateful for those who shared action items for this month's newsletter. I’m grateful to learn about the <a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/07/genius-john-lewis-unyielding-nonviolent-discipline/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">genius of John Lewis's nonviolent action</a>: the discipline required for self-restraint and to treat one's opponent with respect. I'm grateful to remember that the mind is not limited to the brain, and to remember sensory awareness as a way of everyday liberation. </span></div>
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-d1025c7a-7fff-c3d3-4666-9987462fc962"><a href="https://swingleft.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><em>Have fun</em> saving democracy with SwingLeft</a></strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-127af947-7fff-5a61-920f-35b3a745592c">Sign to be a <a href="https://www.whenweallvote.org/votingsquad/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">voting squad captain</a> with When We All Vote</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-ff444d48-7fff-0af5-cddb-5586a78de022">Take a</strong><strong> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LWVNYC/?fref=tag" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">voter registration training</a> </strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-ff444d48-7fff-0af5-cddb-5586a78de022">with the League of Women Voters of NYC </strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-7fd1adc1-7fff-6f7a-9856-061586eee5d1">Contact your state rep to allow <a href="https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/20200723_script_ovr_nyc.pdf" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">NYC online voter registration</a></strong></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-f44a7b91-7fff-2e66-0ada-5aff950814b1"><a href="http://lwvto.org/covid.php" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Classroom resources</a> to get ready to vote (League of Women Voters)</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-5c58d685-7fff-7fa6-4fdc-04dd3ab2bb9a">Stand up for <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-work-votes-standing-up-to-defend-voting-rights-tickets-115756698401?mc_cid=08c55976f8&mc_eid=080acbd305" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">voting rights </a>with Columbia U Social Workers (Aug 20 at 12pm)</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-88244b4e-7fff-c788-3487-56d34600e863">Tell your Senators to pass the <a href="https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">George Floyd Justice in Policing Act</a></strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-08d5a20d-7fff-cace-b001-106765d94303">Join a conversation centered around <a href="https://citizensnyc.salsalabs.org/newslettersignup2copy1/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=036b095e-d6f0-4006-8ce3-09c6c8303f64" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Black excellence, Summer Youth Employment and young grassroots leaders</a> (with recent CivicList interviewees River Fields and Rahsaan Harris) (Aug 20 at 12pm)</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6fe93d92-7fff-2585-2058-7d55ac2c91f1">Black Lives Matter <a href="https://indypendent.org/2020/08/nyc-black-lives-matter-events-calendar-2/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">resource calendar</a> (via the Indypendent)</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-d30301bb-7fff-80ce-b1bd-ae5036f51992">Help TheCity.nyc <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/7/23/21336279/nypd-accountability-police-misconduct-50a-ccrb-new-york-city" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">hold NYPD accountable</a></strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace;"></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-a7583215-7fff-d2ce-b5ce-3f5228c1bef1">Message your senators<a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/18628933/234704925/39660653?emci=89c1534b-58db-ea11-8b03-00155d0394bb&emdi=37007d7a-63db-ea11-8b03-00155d0394bb&fn=David&ln=Vassar&em=vassardavid%40hotmail.com&pc=&hp=7185233603&mp=6463191322&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inc__200810_heroes_usps_rr__ezzzzzzzzzzz&utm_content=democracy_heroes&sourceid=1008341&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9UU00vVFNNR1AvMS81NTY3OCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIzNzAwN2Q3YS02M2RiLWVhMTEtOGIwMy0wMDE1NWQwMzk0YmIiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogInZhc3NhcmRhdmlkQGhvdG1haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=DNSQgFybgsYTwD5qvMpnTXK8QEFzd_3dlygJSoVk4Ig=&ceid=1806570" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;"> to save the USPS</a></strong></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-a7583215-7fff-d2ce-b5ce-3f5228c1bef1">See more <a href="https://www.apwu.org/savepostoffice" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Save USPS</a> resources</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-bf4067fe-7fff-8ab9-7e26-d9e8a60fb1ed">Respond to the <a href="https://my2020census.gov/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Census</a>, <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/census/get-involved/volunteer-with-us.page" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">phonebank</a> to encourage others to do so.</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-f87023a2-7fff-ddf1-cad9-dbd6428c515d">Try some <a href="https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/webinars" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">T</a><a href="https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/webinars" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">eaching Tolerance webinars</a> (free from the Southern Poverty Law Center)</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-7ffb7c01-7fff-5cc7-b122-056d62ee793b"><a href="https://www.divestinvest.org/how-to-divestinvest/individuals/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Divest your investments</a> (and your company’s retirement plan) from fossil fuels</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong></strong><strong id="docs-internal-guid-8fb94f2e-7fff-06bd-d07c-0bcf8f7fa11b">Thank/hold accountable your representative for voting to <a href="https://winwithoutwar.org/policy/7271/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">decrease the Pentagon war machine</a> by 10% and instead investing in life-affirming programs.</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong>Sign the <a href="https://davidsuzuki.org/about/declaration-of-interdependence/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-weight: normal; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Declaration of Interdependence</a></strong></span></span><br /> </li>
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<em style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/civiclist/episodes/CivicLIst-August-2020-With-U-S--Representative-Adriano-Espaillat-ei9s3h" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Listen to the interview here</a> or <a href="https://youtu.be/ZrtY-U9YsJQ" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">watch it here.</a></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">We encourage them to--over 6,000 of them apply for PPP, and I think all together there was over 40,000 jobs that were retained. And New York Presbyterian also gave a 10 million dollar grant that has now helped close to 500 businesses, and they're not even there yet. They've only spent 4 million dollars out of 10, so I think at the pace there are going to be way over a thousand businesses. I got five, ten, fifteen, twenty five thousand dollars to help them reopen in addition to PPP. We're working on a regular basis, on a constant basis to inform the businesses what the Opportunities are, that could be helpful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Well there is a moratorium right now but as you know there is a concern about that because people are backed up in their rent and so that's why I'm pushing really hard with Chuy Garcia from Chicago for the 100 million dollars in in rental assistance in the HEROES Act, so that's why that's one of my primary issues that I'm advocating for--for that funding to be approved so that people could pay their rent landlords then could also meet their obligations with the bank and everybody's safe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Push the Senate, let's keep the pressure on Trump to pass rental assistance and the $600 as well as monies for education, state and local government funding which he seems to be again against is critical too because if we send federal money to the states or the municipalities it means they have to make dramatic cuts in their own budget for programs that are so important to families. So state and local governments might get some money. Public transportation is important, and I put some money into the MTA system because eventually when we open up we got to have the subway system and the bus system available for working class New York.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Absolutely. Email, call, write letters, and make sure that the Senate and the White House, understand that as voters this year, you want the $600 unemployment benefits, you need the additional stimulus check, and you must get some rental assistance to make sure you're not you don't wind up homeless after this pandemic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Well unfortunately Trump cut a month off the Census process which was a critical month because now is just about the right time where the enumerators go out there and start knocking on doors to make sure that everybody responds to the form. So if we're if we have 30 days less in the process, that would almost guarantee that we have a major undercount. And we don't want that because I don't know of any executive—mayor or governors in this case a president who's pushing for an undercount. That's like sabotage. Sabotaging your own self.<br /><br />If we get that higher percentage we'll get more funding allocated. It's about three thousand dollars per person that will be lost for any person that's not filling out their census form. Usually what happens is unfortunately parents don't put their children down or anybody else that lives in the apartment. You ought to do that, there's no penalty for people that live or rent a room from you. Don't forget to put your kids even if they're like a month old or if they're you know 30 years old and they live with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Today's registration should be a no-brainer to us; in increasing funding for the Postal Service so they can respond to the inquiries of the vote by mail. The Board of Elections needs to get its act together to ensure that if you apply for your ballot you get it on time and you can return it on time. So those are all things that we need to do but I think we're on the right track and in the right direction</span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Beneath the pavement, the beach; or, the Hudson River reclaims 12th Avenue.</span></span></em></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to take civic action <em>today.</em></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An interview with Dr. Rahsaan Harris, new CEO of Citizens Committee for New York City.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong id="m_-4638176023666959496docs-internal-guid-732a3e52-7fff-d0da-d523-0f6a07e294c0">Today, July 23: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.apwu.org/savepostoffice&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNFQX81gZK1tRCQJ2POIBCF1vWEB5Q" href="https://www.apwu.org/savepostoffice" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">call Congress to fund the U.S. Postal Service in the next stimulus bill</a>. This is vital to protect voting. </strong></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong id="m_-4638176023666959496docs-internal-guid-732a3e52-7fff-d0da-d523-0f6a07e294c0">Today, July 23: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://JusticeInPolicing.us&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNF-Az9Fp9d_6jhXorvlEx8PRJ-X7g" href="http://justiceinpolicing.us/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Become a Citizen Co-Sponsor</a> of the Justice in Policing Act and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNHBtlRK2En9BTDJdjFFOgp732o3xw" href="https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">write to your representative about it.</a></strong></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">July 29: Learn<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voter-registration-training-webinar-tickets-114339763310&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNE-x0Xnm6jTMJhPzvN3lgU_kCYCZA" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voter-registration-training-webinar-tickets-114339763310" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"> how to register voters</a> with the League of Women Voters of the City of New York</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong id="m_-4638176023666959496docs-internal-guid-732a3e52-7fff-d0da-d523-0f6a07e294c0">Help write 10 million letters from home to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://swingleft.org/&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNEE7xdIry_aj2WvPgZUuV0rBV1LGQ" href="https://swingleft.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">turn out the 2020 vote</a></strong></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Or (and!) you can<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://turnout2020.org&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNE8ZFw92OQdBF73ZFPc431CTMWvWw" href="https://turnout2020.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"> <strong>call voters </strong><strong id="m_-4638176023666959496docs-internal-guid-732a3e52-7fff-d0da-d523-0f6a07e294c0">to turn out the 2020 vote</strong></a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.trcnyc.org/smallgroups/&source=gmail&ust=1595593762444000&usg=AFQjCNHzHW__Bxk11yP8CVNOPPVowk1yXw" href="https://www.trcnyc.org/smallgroups/" style="color: #85e8f1; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Examine, unpack, and learn about anti-racism</a> with Riverside Church on Thursdays at 7pm</span></span></li>
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<em><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">"I think back to my ancestors I figure how resilient they were and recognize that as bad as things might seem for me, that there's always a chance for sunshine to break through."</span></span></em></div>
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<tr><td class="m_-4638176023666959496mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Citizens Committee for New York was founded in 1975 during the fiscal crisis back then. New York City was-- I think the technical term of it like hot mess-- budgets were bad the city was in turmoil the federal government basically said ‘you're on your own’ and New York City needed someone to step up. Jacob Javits, the Republican senator, and Osborn Eliot, the founder of Newsweek got together and got a bunch of their friends together and said ‘We want to get average everyday New Yorkers to help improve their neighborhoods and solve problems’ that they've identified. In a time of crisis that's extremely important, and actually it's an important ongoing endeavor make sure that New York City lives up to its ideals. For 45 years we've been working to bring New Yorkers together to improve their communities, and we're most proud of the work that takes place in vulnerable neighborhoods.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="m_-4638176023666959496mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Leadership in crisis is so important and being willing to step up and to be nimble is critical. When you are dogmatic, you can't necessarily address the most important points. So I think the first thing any good leader does is listen and analyze and that's what I would have done if we weren't in crisis, but it's critically important in crisis. Then the second thing I wanted to do was after we've listened to community and analyzed what data was out there was try to be as supportive and flexible as possible. After you're flexible, then it's important to hopefully collect information so that you can pivot and improve after that. And in this part we are collecting a lot of information from our grantee partners to be able to lift up their stories on a citywide level so that we can aggregate you know solutions, we can aggregate concerns, and we can make sure that people aren't invisible.<br /><br />COVID has hit New York City where jobs have gone away, access to food isn't what it used to be, health is in peril, so basic needs have kind of become the focus and the screaming headline of the day. So we have given our groups that might have been block associations that were beautifying empty lots or doing after-school programs, we’ve given them the chance to talk to us about other things that they're doing. And they’re saying that they're assisting old folks to get them food, they're checking in on their neighbors, they're providing PPE protective gear and masks, and they're also providing outlets for folks’ mental health. We're giving them general operating funds so that they can do those projects and be the community leaders that they are.<br /><br />We're giving local leaders-—hyper-local leaders--that are on blocks that are in communities the ability to be a part of the solution by bringing others together, and by trusting them and giving them support so hopefully we're unleashing their power in a way that other people could.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="m_-4638176023666959496mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Education is definitely possible. Recently with the murder of George Floyd and the attention on race relations and folks getting an opportunity to hear from black people, like what it is to be black in America, I think you know diversity and this commitment of colorblindness has kind of actually silenced and made a lot of people right in front of us invisible. Leaders right now are finding their voice.<br /><br />River Fields [an intern at Citizens Committee and CivicList March 2020 interviewee] right now is helping us do a survey where we surveyed New York City leaders and asked them about what they're doing youth services-wise; what do they feel about race relations; what do they feel about community-police relations? Are people filling up with census? And some of those things to some might be like ‘oh my goodness that's political’ but you know that's living in society and being engaged and that's not political that's just engaging who we are. Knowing the difference between what's lobbying and what being partisan versus just educating and providing people the tools to engage in democracy which is the foundation of this country, I think that's really important for nonprofit leaders to understand, to have the courage to step out there and if they don't know to educate themselves.</span></span></td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An interview with Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, professor and poet. </span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">I’m grateful to have time to reflect and slowly understand family scripts of hard working immigrants more accurately as hard working immigrants who directly benefited from a system imbued with policies big and small to steer benefits to only the white race and deny them to others, and how our succeeding generations continuing to benefit without reflection and action perpetuates that system and relinquishes the responsibility to understand and undo the injustices suffered by my brothers and sisters of color over the centuries and through to today.</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Practice these <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S5uckFHCA_XZkxG0Zg5U4GQGbY_RklZARwu43fqJH0E/mobilebasic" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Anti-Racism</a> resources for beginners</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Co</a><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">mmit to 10, 25, or 45 minutes a day</a> to be an ally.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">To be a white ally, first allow yourself to <a href="https://thegrio.com/2020/06/03/well-meaning-white-people-racism-trap/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">sit with discomfort</a> (by David Johns)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Support NYC’s <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gy_x5DaNjtbfmKP1xgbJdMa_g7q0qmL1HpQ9_t9Wq_0/mobilebasic" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Black-Owned Businesses</a></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Many o</a><a href="https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">ther ways</a> to take action to support black lives</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Tell your Congressperson <a href="https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/25330/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">to support the Justice in Policing Act</a> and end the 1033 military weapons transfer program</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Contact your NYC Council Member to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zlu1oE5e9vp0lJ0thuqsFAMt4GDImrATB80XZ43W_b4/edit" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">move $1 billion</a> from policing to social services</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Make <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-now-make-juneteenth-june-19-a-federal-holiday-2/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Juneteenth</a> a Federal Holiday (& support Jamaal Bowman for Congress)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Share the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/about/outreach/youth-council.page" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Youth Council</a>’s <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l4dyguqrg0fzy6l/AAC2NkH7xaN4_sMd0MuDuCDwa?dl=0" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">social media toolkit</a></span></span></li>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Take Civic Action Today </span></span></em></strong><br />
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><strong>Vote</strong>! Today is election day in New York. Details about today's primary <a href="https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nyc-primary-election-guide-2020" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://swingleft.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Write letters from home</a> to turn out the 2020 vote. This is a proven method! <strong>Commit to just 1 hour a month.</strong></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://turnout2020.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Call voters </a>to turn out the 2020 vote</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Commit your organization to <a href="https://www.maketimetovote.org/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">give employees a day off</a> to vote</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Urge Congress to ensure <a href="https://indivisible.org/demand-your-senators-ensure-safe-secure-elections-during-covid-19-outbreak" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">s</a><a href="https://indivisible.org/demand-your-senators-ensure-safe-secure-elections-during-covid-19-outbreak" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">afe, secure elections</a></span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">High school students: apply to be a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZmgiYbTbitte0fAg0OdZEcqcDDQkzoeRDcBQpsICgS4/viewform?" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Youth Fellow</a> with the NYC Youth Civics Fair (description <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwI2mHzfcAPZl13wQ8L0obxu8ZesreZrtf065zIgOwc/edit" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://affund.org/grantseekers/" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Get funding</a> for your social justice work</span></span></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a href="https://northstarfund.org/2020/03/support-urgent-covid-19-organizing/?utm_source=North+Star+Fund+Email+News&utm_campaign=fae62d043c-EMAIL_Cmnty_News_2020_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a84219a762-fae62d043c-118851310&mc_cid=fae62d043c&mc_eid=0f563f7a1c" style="color: #85e8f1; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Support Urgent COVID-19 Organizing</a> (via the North Star Fund).</span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">As soon as you say “community,” I go back to my South Bronx community. Growing up in the Bronx was important for me as a black child-- as a child of the hip-hop era-- being in that milieu of a time where we had both struggles but also quite a bit of resistance, and quite a lot of liberation mostly through youth culture, hip-hop, breakdancing – it’s a way of life actually.<br /><br />I think about being at Teachers College and people in that community who have helped me to thrive. These institutions are not easy to thrive in, and yet the community of folks that shepherded me through and helped me see tenure as a reality were also my community.<br /><br />And I'm thinking about community sort of writ large particularly as we see what's happening in society, the need for a worldwide community that is often accessed through social media. Showing solidarity, folks in France showing solidarity, in Germany and elsewhere around this latest horrific sadistic killing of George Floyd that those folks who are about liberation that I've never met are also my community. So those folks who are in the fight for liberation who are academics, who are teachers, who are everyday lay folks are my community. If you're about justice, if you're about change, if you're about moving the needle forward in love, then you're part of my community. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #ffebc0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">I think it requires vulnerability. It took a lot of vulnerability to write my book and I am so grateful that I offered it to the world because I freed myself, and others are telling me how they are being freed. In spaces like the academy, people are often behind a wall of intelligence that often builds a world of arrogance-- you don't want to show any weakness because sometimes your colleagues will see that lovingness as weakness and try to take advantage. Because if you have this distance from other human beings, you also don't want people to ask you to do a lot of things. Love requires vulnerability and we've never been comfortable in showing that in this country, certainly, and certainly not in a space like the academy where intelligence prevails.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">I didn't know that—I knew about the illustrious Benjamin Banneker who gave us our almanac and also laid out DC. I wonder what those conversations were like for him? I wonder what the pressure was like for him? I didn’t start learning black history until I was in my 20s because it's not taught in school outside of Rosa Parks sat down, Martin Luther King said “I have a dream” and Malcolm X was pictured as the devil. We don't even get a full picture of brother Malcolm, and his change of going to his El Hajj, and certainly we don't get the full picture of the Nation of Islam being involved in his murder. So this complexity, and because there's no space in schools to really learn layered history—our children don’t know deep details of who they are, because purposely, because of the way it's been constructed, to not know who they are. That also produces anger by the way, and it produces a vulnerability that if you don't know who you are, you will take these images of what people say you're supposed to be. So there's so much un-learning that we have to do before we learn ourselves. That can produce some rage as well.</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Get ready to vote in the New York June 23rd primary: confirm your address and registration status here or by calling 1-866-VOTE-NYC (1-866-868-3692)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn what faith communities can do for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://events.democrats.org/event/272286/?share_medium%3Dnative_share%26share_context%3Devent_detail_page%26force_banner%3Dtrue&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNEWOyP16D3J4rfMk8Wef4kEF4NpBw" href="https://events.democrats.org/event/272286/?share_medium=native_share&share_context=event_detail_page&force_banner=true" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">voter protection</a> on May 13</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ask Congress to fund $40 million for civics education in the next stimulus: use <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://generationcitizen.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Ded0fc62d60b2bb32be00e68ce%26id%3Db595791e41%26e%3Df8eb998a4d&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNE2ksxE49kqmSyAbkiq4v972IBcSg" href="https://generationcitizen.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed0fc62d60b2bb32be00e68ce&id=b595791e41&e=f8eb998a4d" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">this letter</a>, call your member of Congress <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://generationcitizen.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Ded0fc62d60b2bb32be00e68ce%26id%3D9f2a322534%26e%3Df8eb998a4d&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNE3lGLyo56hnqtSbg4s5D9hOF3-zA" href="https://generationcitizen.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed0fc62d60b2bb32be00e68ce&id=9f2a322534&e=f8eb998a4d" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">here</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://risingviolets.nyu.edu/project/19867?clid%3DpLpU5Vib4WH51OAIJnh7HO%26utm_campaign%3Damb_share%26utm_medium%3Dplain%26utm_source%3Dscalefunder%26utm_content%3D4eg0scfv4v01rrjba7cw3ps&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNGdawTMO_sspa0C4bAqojbEsIE7Bg" href="https://risingviolets.nyu.edu/project/19867?clid=pLpU5Vib4WH51OAIJnh7HO&utm_campaign=amb_share&utm_medium=plain&utm_source=scalefunder&utm_content=4eg0scfv4v01rrjba7cw3ps" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Support a NYU student</a> to be a VOTE 2020 summer fellow for voting rights and voter engagement organizations</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Take the National Black Justice Coalition's <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Please-take-our-COVID-19-Survey.html?soid%3D1109014349747%26aid%3DN7wbDhKVKMs&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNF6v58YpapAVH5MwkCcWM4RjvwNEg" href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Please-take-our-COVID-19-Survey.html?soid=1109014349747&aid=N7wbDhKVKMs" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">COVID while Black and Queer survey</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tell the president to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.americanprogress.org/take-action-save-post-office/&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNG8TcEQSO5_cjgvalLGwFvcvOQHZw" href="https://www.americanprogress.org/take-action-save-post-office/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">save the United States Postal Service</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Stand for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://allontheline.org/citizen-commitment/&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNHnlx6nrtHWH_7OqWkEXuO-YyWbkQ" href="https://allontheline.org/citizen-commitment/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">fair electoral maps</a> and against map manipulation by signing this citizen commitment</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Use these tools to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation/search.html&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNFBvTtM7ACCZGsEsgpjNUhnMU6IZA" href="https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation/search.html" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">detect online news disinformation</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn with Gale Brewer about the need to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nL3VrhJ1Ta6pHV7QOwiwdg&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNHutxhUaOvPCFIjgCEUkogMLKNmJg" href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nL3VrhJ1Ta6pHV7QOwiwdg" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">put a social worker in every NYC school</a> on May 15</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join an Advocacy and Community Organizing <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://afj.salsalabs.org/PublicWebinarAdvocacyandCommunityOrganizing526/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNH5Px0Y65A9i-i5uQRhhpE5rsd6Gw" href="https://afj.salsalabs.org/PublicWebinarAdvocacyandCommunityOrganizing526/index.html" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Webinar</a> w/Alliance for Justice on May 26</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Put people before polluters: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://%25C2%25A0https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/petition/&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNGfiEUpjyDYnaB4uyhEqN1PjfGTjA" href="http://https//stopthemoneypipeline.com/petition/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">sign a petition</a> to divest from fossil fuels</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Respond to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://my2020census.gov/&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNH9vWhdgeGGz0DfMGmOHChH5KJgxQ" href="https://my2020census.gov/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">Census</a> to get funding for your community </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Support the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voteathome.org/&source=gmail&ust=1589405589780000&usg=AFQjCNE2dVmoBCI8SVxaQENQgCuWfjghRQ" href="https://www.voteathome.org/" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">vote-at-home</a> movement</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: <a href="mailto:matt@civiclist.org" style="color: #85e8f1;" target="_blank">matt@civiclist.org</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844904555702332184.post-33971314067700342642020-04-13T08:03:00.000-07:002020-05-12T14:36:56.922-07:00April 2020<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16px;">Welcome to CivicList, an independent newsletter to build community and uplift voices! In this edition I include:</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16px;">Resources for you to take civic action <em>today.</em></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16px;">An interview with Chris Nickell, community leader in Manhattan.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16px;">A bit of art outside the gallery </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A quote by Lao Tzu</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;">Enjoy!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em>--Matt</em></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">I’m grateful to have participated in "social closening" activities with <a data-cke-saved-href="http://mngfl.org" href="http://mngfl.org/" target="_blank">MNGFL</a>; for neighbors helping neighbors in <a data-cke-saved-href="https://mutualaid.nyc/" href="https://mutualaid.nyc/" target="_blank">mutual aid efforts</a> spontaneously arising across New York and our great country; for leaders like Gale Brewer who hosted <a data-cke-saved-href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/virtual-town-hall-meeting-k-12-student-needs-during-covid-19" href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/virtual-town-hall-meeting-k-12-student-needs-during-covid-19" target="_blank">this e-town hall on online education</a> with some of my colleagues. I'm grateful for <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUWdc_B05LUDmif1rypohw/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=12" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUWdc_B05LUDmif1rypohw/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=12" target="_blank">no-frills yoga</a>, and time inside to contemplate. </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Donate to <a data-cke-saved-href="https://nychhc.networkforgood.com/" href="https://nychhc.networkforgood.com/" target="_blank">healthcare workers</a> caring for COVID-19 patients (NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Give or get <a data-cke-saved-href="http://nyc.gov/HelpNow" href="http://nyc.gov/HelpNow" target="_blank">help now</a> (NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Help feed <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/meal-to-heal-nyc" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/meal-to-heal-nyc" target="_blank">healthcare workers</a> in Queens; <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.feedthefrontlinesnyc.org/" href="https://www.feedthefrontlinesnyc.org/" target="_blank">feed</a> the <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.frontlinefoods.org/new-york-city/" href="https://www.frontlinefoods.org/new-york-city/" target="_blank">front line</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Join a mutual aid network <a data-cke-saved-href="https://mutualaid.nyc/" href="https://mutualaid.nyc/" target="_blank">in NYC</a> and <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.mutualaidhub.org/" href="https://www.mutualaidhub.org/" target="_blank">other communities</a> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Set up a community-based resource delivery network <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.trekmedics.org/programs/covid-19/community-resource-delivery-networks/" href="https://www.trekmedics.org/programs/covid-19/community-resource-delivery-networks/" target="_blank">in your community with Beacon</a> (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Find emergency <a data-cke-saved-href="https://candid.org/explore-issues/coronavirus/funds" href="https://candid.org/explore-issues/coronavirus/funds" target="_blank">funding</a> for your nonprofit organization (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Use your skills to be a <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.nycservice.org/search/" href="https://www.nycservice.org/search/" target="_blank">virtual volunteer</a> (NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Help TheCity.nyc, an independent newspaper, <a data-cke-saved-href="https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/help-the-city-report-on-coronavirus-crisis-in-new-york-city.html" href="https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/help-the-city-report-on-coronavirus-crisis-in-new-york-city.html" target="_blank">report on the coronavirus</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Apply for small business <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.lisc.org/covid-19/verizon-small-business-recovery-fund/?fbclid=IwAR2yTEU1WobvdwYKVb9QpUEz-LbRbH2w90I_EgqQWmtFyqs_gtOXf4DHCIw" href="https://www.lisc.org/covid-19/verizon-small-business-recovery-fund/?fbclid=IwAR2yTEU1WobvdwYKVb9QpUEz-LbRbH2w90I_EgqQWmtFyqs_gtOXf4DHCIw" target="_blank">recovery grants</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Support the <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.voteathome.org/" href="https://www.voteathome.org/" target="_blank">vote-at-home</a> movement (national)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Ask Congress to support <a data-cke-saved-href="https://voicesforservice.org/covid-19/" href="https://voicesforservice.org/covid-19/" target="_blank">national service</a> in upcoming stimulus legislation (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Become a Boss Lady: April 27 <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-ladies-training-the-next-generation-of-campaign-leaders-tickets-79812233539" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-ladies-training-the-next-generation-of-campaign-leaders-tickets-79812233539" target="_blank">campaign staff training</a> for young women of color (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Help <a data-cke-saved-href="https://braverangels.org/online/" href="https://braverangels.org/online/" target="_blank">depolarize America</a> with a Braver Angels workshop (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://my2020census.gov/" href="https://my2020census.gov/" target="_blank">Respond to the Census</a> to get funding for your community (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Write your member of Congress to <a data-cke-saved-href="https://thepeoplesbailout.org/home/#petition" href="https://thepeoplesbailout.org/home/#petition" target="_blank">bail out the American people</a> (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="http:// https://www.emergentfund.net/covid-19" href="https://www.emergentfund.net/covid-19" target="_blank">Apply to funding</a> for power building in Indigenous communities and communities of color (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.earthday.org/actions/vote-earth-u-s/" href="https://www.earthday.org/actions/vote-earth-u-s/" target="_blank">Vote for the Earth</a>; April 22 Earth Day <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.earthday.org/campaign/global-teach-in/" href="https://www.earthday.org/campaign/global-teach-in/" target="_blank">teach-in materials</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQUkTvzahyUHIy2y5QGXBDX7pR2iTR1iiz8pSFtFAGfvXGiA/viewform" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQUkTvzahyUHIy2y5QGXBDX7pR2iTR1iiz8pSFtFAGfvXGiA/viewform" target="_blank">Lobby a legislator</a> with Generation Citizen’s teacher lesson plan (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Apply to up to $5,000 in immediate, unrestricted <a data-cke-saved-href="http://artistrelief.org" href="http://artistrelief.org/" target="_blank">funding for artists</a> of all disciplines; other artist resources <a data-cke-saved-href="https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/" href="https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Dance some <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/xr-nyc-civil-discobedience-tickets-99402210688" target="_blank">Civil DISCObedience</a> with Extinction Rebellion on April 21 (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Join the Mass <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/june2020/overview/" href="https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/june2020/overview/" target="_blank">Poor People’s Assembly</a> & Moral March on Washington on June 20 (national)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Free high school student <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.nytimes.com/initiative/highschoolaccess" href="https://www.nytimes.com/initiative/highschoolaccess" target="_blank">access to the NYTimes</a> (national)</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;"><em>Chris Nickell is Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Robert Jackson, who represents western Manhattan-—from Marble Hill to Chelsea—-in the New York State Senate. I've gotten to collaborate with Chris on a mutual aid network in New York City that Senator Jackson’s office is jump-starting; Chris approaches the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of mutual aid “from the perspective of a bilingual organizer and from a personal belief in the power of decentralized grassroots organizing." </em><br /><br /><em>Originally from Pittsburgh, Chris "grew up in the church," which they see as "a really shining example of a robust social network that can provide much needed support in difficult times." Chris is from "a household where my grandma kept all the ingredients for a cheese souffle ready for whatever family might have just experienced a loss, and she would have it to them that afternoon." Chris is also a classically trained tenor and holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University, which informs how they listen and build community. </em></span></span><em style="font-family: "courier new", courier, "lucida sans typewriter", "lucida typewriter", monospace; font-size: 13px;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://anchor.fm/matt2353/episodes/CivicList-April-2020-with-Chris-Nickell-ecoait" href="https://anchor.fm/matt2353/episodes/CivicList-April-2020-with-Chris-Nickell-ecoait" target="_blank">Listen to the interview here.</a></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">It's the sum total of our relationships with one another, that if we're doing it right, exceed the sum of those individual parts. There's an added resonance that I think you get when you have a group of people who have relationships with one another, almost a kind of hum, that I think if you're plugged into it, you can feel. I think if you step back and listen to that hum, you can you can almost feel it and you can also feel when it's not there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">Through organizing, and we do organizing through deep listening; it's the first step toward understanding. Through meeting people where they are. We can't make progress in building community if we begin the relationship by asking somebody to support our campaign. The way to begin is to say, 'How are you doing? How are things going for you right now? Tell me about you.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "lucida sans typewriter" , "lucida typewriter" , monospace;">By organizing and listening to what they have to say. In my previous organizing within my community of Inwood and Washington Heights, for instance, we really seek to emphasize the voices of older Latinx folks whose first language may not be English and who have been systematically excluded from the polis, from civic engagement, because the dominant language is English. It involves thinking more deeply about how can we support the voices of the myriad single men who've come to this country sometimes without documentation to work these menial construction jobs and send money home who live six to 10 in a one bedroom along Post Avenue or Sherman or what have you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">An interview with River Fields, an inspiring young person </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "georgia" , serif;">I’m grateful to have learned new community organizing skills at a recent workshop with <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.citizensnyc.org/" href="https://www.citizensnyc.org/" target="_blank">Citizens Committee for New York City</a> (where I’m questionably young enough to be on their Young Citizens Committee). There, facilitator extraordinaire Arif Ullah’s suggested that we “listen to understand, not just to respond,” and I had the pleasure of meeting River Fields, an 18 year old community organizer from Brooklyn who will be a speaker at <a data-cke-saved-href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" target="_blank">Take the Next Step, the April 4th Youth Civics Fair</a> that I’m helping organize. Below, I interview River. </span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Get ready to vote! Find <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/" href="https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/" target="_blank">your voter registration status and primary deadlines</a>. NY voter registration deadline is April 3 (ongoing)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Write letters to encourage voters to turn out for elections-- <a data-cke-saved-href="https://votefwd.org/" href="https://votefwd.org/" target="_blank">from your couch</a> or at <a data-cke-saved-href="https://swingleft.org/" href="https://swingleft.org/" target="_blank">a letter writing party</a> near you (ongoing)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Help draft <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/event-series/28th-amendment" href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/event-series/28th-amendment" target="_blank">a new, 28th, amendment to the Constitution</a> (ongoing in Brooklyn)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How would you spend <a data-cke-saved-href="https://council.nyc.gov/pb/" href="https://council.nyc.gov/pb/" target="_blank">a million dollars</a> in your community? (ongoing in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Help your community get <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/census/index.page" href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/census/index.page" target="_blank"><em>billions</em> of dollars </a>with the Census (ongoing in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Learn how to to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.dhses.ny.gov/aware-prepare/nysprepare/" href="http://www.dhses.ny.gov/aware-prepare/nysprepare/" target="_blank">prepare, respond, and recover</a> from disasters (online and NY-statewide)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Basic coronavirus <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/prepare-for-coronavirus.html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/prepare-for-coronavirus.html" target="_blank">preparation</a> and <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/health-and-wellness/coronavirus-update" href="https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/health-and-wellness/coronavirus-update" target="_blank">NYC schools update</a>. Text COVID to 692692 for NYC updates.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Commit to <a data-cke-saved-href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pKvcwmQ1EXFNsdGzjSHPtnOqTcw-81Fd" href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pKvcwmQ1EXFNsdGzjSHPtnOqTcw-81Fd" target="_blank">holding your elected officials accountable</a> with this worksheet.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">File a <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/complaints/file-online.page" href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/complaints/file-online.page" target="_blank">complaint of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy or offensive language</a> against a member of the NYPD.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Check out these tools to help you <a data-cke-saved-href="https://palanteharlem.org/ToolBox.html" href="https://palanteharlem.org/ToolBox.html" target="_blank">know your rights as a tenant</a> (online)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Know your rights on <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.atlasdiy.org/our-programs/daca-squad/" href="http://www.atlasdiy.org/our-programs/daca-squad/" target="_blank">DACA and immigration</a> (ongoing, NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sustain your advocacy with these low-key <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations" href="https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations" target="_blank">free guided meditations</a> from UCLA (online)</span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.newyorkcares.org/projects/staff-saturday-meal-service-23" href="https://www.newyorkcares.org/projects/staff-saturday-meal-service-23" target="_blank">Help prep meals</a> at a soup kitchen (March 14, Bronx)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.newyorkcares.org/projects/deliver-lunch-housebound-2" href="https://www.newyorkcares.org/projects/deliver-lunch-housebound-2" target="_blank">Deliver lunch</a> to the housebound (March 14, Manhattan)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Join a free webinar: <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.wellcampaign.org/take-action/2020/1/15/free-webinar-lobbying-and-advocacy-101-for-nonprofits" href="https://www.wellcampaign.org/take-action/2020/1/15/free-webinar-lobbying-and-advocacy-101-for-nonprofits" target="_blank">Lobbying and Advocacy 101</a> for Nonprofits (March 17 online)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Find a job at the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bxbp-lgbtq-career-fair-2020.pdf" href="http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bxbp-lgbtq-career-fair-2020.pdf" target="_blank">LGBTQ Career Fair</a> - (March 20 in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Take the Next Step: <a data-cke-saved-href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" target="_blank">Youth Civics Fair</a> (April 4 in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Build your coalition and practice your advocacy at <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/advocacy/" href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/advocacy/" target="_blank">a monthly work-in</a> (April 7 @ 6pm in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Join Rev. William Barber at the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://revolutionaryloveconference.com/#register" href="http://revolutionaryloveconference.com/#register" target="_blank">Revolutionary Love Conference</a> (April 24-26 in D.C.)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.mcny.org/social-activism-conference" href="https://www.mcny.org/social-activism-conference" target="_blank">Teaching Social Activism</a> Conference (May 17 in NYC)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "georgia" , serif;">Apply for $4,000 in <a data-cke-saved-href="http://resist.org/grants/programs" href="http://resist.org/grants/programs" target="_blank">funding for grassroots social justice</a> with Resist (by June 5, national). </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "georgia" , serif;">What’s missing? Send me your civic action opportunities: matthewjcamp@gmail.com</span></span></span></li>
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<em style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">River Fields is 18 years old and president of his block association in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. His association won Green My Block funding from the Citizens Committee for New York City, and he will be a youth speaker at the <a data-cke-saved-href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" target="_blank">April 4th Youth Civics Fair</a>. River and his brother, Rusty, run a foundation which in 2016 raised $15,000 in three weeks to sponsor 40 inner-city youth to attend the Harvard mock trial seminar. I sat down with River in at Natural Blend café in Bed Stuy to get a sense of how he builds community and uplifts voices. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "georgia" , serif;">Greening our community was a challenge. Before my brother and I became block association co-presidents, the block was barren, with no plants, it looked like a concrete jungle. We’re big tennis fans, and were saving up to go to a big tennis tournament in Dubai, and we used that money to put into our block.<br /><br /><em>How do you stay motivated?</em><br /><br />Looking at what other youth doing. Like the organizers of the <a data-cke-saved-href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" href="https://neighbors.columbia.edu/events/nyc-youth-civics-fair" target="_blank">Youth Civics Fair</a>, including Jason Bohner, who are motivating me to do more.<br /><br /><em>Any advice for older people?</em><br /><br />Definitely just be open to new ideas. When my brother and I first came to the block, we were quite young, and some residents weren’t hugely excited about young people and were like ‘what do they know and what are they doing?’ but some older residents were really vouching for us, like Dr. Michael Hamlet, who is our vice president, who said ‘the young people are coming with new ideas, and you have to be open to listening to their perspectives and help guide them.’ Older people have wisdom, and can help mold these ideas into something great.</span></span></span><br />
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