Community Events

EMERGING FROM DARKNESS: MAKING SPACE FOR GRIEF An installation to honor personal, community, national and global loss We welcome you to visit Freedom Square, at the corner of 101st St. [...]

Click here to register for this event. As a result of COVID-19, far too many New Yorkers have been forced to confront death, spurring what used to be uncomfortable, avoidable [...]

This event is over but, thanks to the magic of Sanctuary TV, you can watch the video here.  The Zoom chat window is here. In October 2020, the Albany Times [...]

Exploring the minds of youth in the Black History that they are part of and continue to create.  Learn from the voices and vision of our younger generations, as they [...]

This event is over, but you can see the video here and the chat window here! Lafarge/Holcim wants to burn millions of tires every year at their Ravena cement plant [...]

We are individually and collectively being bombarded with grief and traumatic losses. The repetitive losses and cumulative grief in conjunction with the social restrictions associated with COVID19 have stretched social [...]

The theme of 2021's twenty-second Capital District MLK Holiday Labor and Community Celebration was "Rise Up! The Struggle Continues..."  The virtual event is over now, but you can watch the [...]

This event is over but you can find video documentation here. On Day 2 of the Water Justice Confluence, meet Water Justice Lab’s environmental mentor Sachem HawkStorm, hereditary sachem (chief) [...]

This event is over but you can find video documentation here! Water Justice Lab in North Troy, NY hosts “confluence” virtual gatherings with youth environmental justice advocates throughout communities in [...]

The event is over, but you can watch the video here!  And here's the chat window from the workshop! In the midst of unprecedented personal, national and global oppression, suffering [...]

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 People's Health Sanctuary/ 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 [...]