Community Events

Register for this event here! In the midst of unprecedented personal, national and global oppression, suffering and death, how do we process loss to maintain hopeful connections?  End-of-Life in the [...]

Register for either/both days of this event here! The second day of a virtual Water Justice Confluence weekend, connecting advocates from Hudson River Watershed communities to strengthen a network of [...]

In response to community demand, we will host our ninth annual North Central Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration as a socially distanced, outdoors event at Freedom Square! Please join [...]

REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AND GET THE ZOOM INFORMATION BY CLICKING HERE. The "Norlite Bill" (Senate bill 7880B / Assembly bill 9952B) would permanently ban Norlite LLC from burning AFFF, [...]

"Did you know you can vote early in New York State this year?"
 There will be free rides across the street from Freedom Square! RENSSELAER COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS EARLY [...]

Unearthing to Rewild, Remember, Look Forward What kind of biodiversity can lawn ecosystems support? This fall, Lawn Lab offers a meditative audio tour for slowing down and tuning in to [...]

Join us and the League of Women Voters of Rensselaer County at the free online Candidate Forum for the position of New York State Assembly District 107 Legislator. Click here [...]

The struggle over voting rights is headline news but, as this film shows, the fight goes back generations.

Activities • Community Resources • Protest Safety • COVID-19 Safety
• Water Justice Info • Collard City Growers • Herbal Remedies Co-Sponsors Health Autonomy Network/ NATURE Lab I am Negrx Urban [...]

Click here to register for the free virtual Town Hall Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/HUM072320 This time, our panelists will include Jane Williams from the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team; Sean Mahar, [...]

Join Cohoes Mayor William T. Keeler, longtime Saratoga Sites apartment resident Joe Ritchie, Dr. David Carpenter of the Albany School of Public Health, Dr. David Bond from Bennington College, and [...]

Join us for a Health Autonomy Clinic focused on social disparities and the crisis, ways that POC communities/oppressed/marginalized communities are being affected, and programs and resources caring for essential workers, [...]

View our new art exhibition, Acquired Immunity [FEMeeting Web 2020] and join us in a virtual dialogue with the artists.

  We are in the midst of a "tsunami of social life" that is unprecedented in modern life.  The age old ideas we had barely begun to formulate around community [...]

Join us for a celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday! In honor of Dr. King, "The Radical King: Where Do We Go from Here?" program will promote participatory grassroots discussion [...]

As part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing Nature LAB, JJ Luceno and Dr. Frank Coughlin are working to establish a central space in Troy to share health skills, [...]

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Join us at The Sanctuary for the eighth annual North Central Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration. We’ll have free food, portraits, [...]

Register for the event here! Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to [...]

Register for the event here! What happens when we preserve plants based on utility or agricultural use alone? What if the plants we value are not the ones that will [...]

Join director Alex Rivera for a screening of "The Infiltrators," along with community organizers from Capital District Border Watch, ICE-Free Capital District, Troy Sanctuary, Saratoga Immigration Coalition (SIC) and Extinction [...]

Register for the event here! Explore strategies which blur the lines between documentary and fiction, from script writing to media activism to studio production to post-production. Alex Rivera is an [...]

Register for the event here! Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to [...]

Register for the event here! Come learn about where our waste comes from, the issues associated with it, and how to reduce it! We will talk about refusing, reducing, reusing, [...]