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SUMMARY:Memorial Altar: “Emerging from Darkness”
DESCRIPTION:An installation to honor personal\, community\, national and global loss\n\n\n\nWe welcome you to visit Freedom Square\, at the corner of 101st St. (where 6th Ave. turns into 5th Ave.) in socially distanced and masked groups of 10 or less\, any time(s) between 1/17-1/20\, to add the names of your beloved dead and/or leave offerings on the Altar in their honor. Please come with your hearts open\, make sure to wear your mask and let’s love each other via this community Altar space. This too is a form of resistance and protest!! \n\n\n\nCheck out this latest television story! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we continue working to create the more just and equitable world we know is possible\, we recognize the deep need to grieve collectively.  Join us  as we transform Freedom Square to create a community space to express grief\, loss\, generosity and resilience. This participatory installation began in conjunction with our MLK day event “Rise Up: The Struggle Continues…”  and the Nationwide Covid Memorial (1/19/21 at 5:30 pm) for those who have died of Covid\, and is being continued because of popular demand. Community participants continue to visit the altar\, leave messages\, honor loved ones\, and share gifts of food (wrapped for safety) and clothing. \n\n\n\nThe installation includes an Altar for our Ancestors Known and Unknown and for all those who have died longing for justice and freedom.  Stop by to Say their Names\, Share their/your Stories\, Honor your Ancestors/Beloved Dead. Remember to visit in socially distanced and masked groups of 10 or less\,  to add the names of your beloved dead and/or leave offerings on the Altar in their honor.* \n\n\n\n*Altars are sacred spaces formed with intention. A few ideas of what to place on an Altar include: \n\n\n\n      Prayers & wishes      Natural materials (rocks\, leaves\, flowers\, water\, dirt from your motherland)      Pictures (copies are suggested to minimize loss of original precious mementos)      Art\, poetry\, songs\, letters (consider weather-proofing or bring messages and names to write on our flags)      Some BIPOC cultures offer food/ fruits/bread/liquor/tobacco\n\n\n\n(Please individually wrap offerings for safety. Recognizing the reality/impact of addiction\, please leave only small amounts of alcohol.) \n\n\n\nWe would deeply appreciate support of this community altar! \n\n\n\nContact us if you’d like to volunteer or contribute in any way. \n\n\n\nPlease recognize that as you come in and out the area of Freedom Square\, know that many of our neighbors have and continue to experience over-policing and gun violence and might even feel a sense of shame or dissonance from such a visible community holding space. We ask that each of you respect the right of our neighbors to stop and stare\, to ask questions and engage or simply walk by. Regardless\, this is a vibrant and beautiful community\, so please come with your hearts open\, make sure to wear your mask and let us love on each other via this community altar space. This too is a form of resistance and protest! In the honoring is the healing. \n\n\n\n*For many of us\, these times have been challenging\, reminding us of loved ones who are absent and reinforcing experiences of social and economic marginality amidst a culture of consumption.  This was particularly true in 2020\, a year of unbearable loss amplified by COVID\, the state sanctioned killings of Black bodies globally\, the climate crisis and most recently\, insurrection in our Capitol. Let us make space and honor our right to grieve collectively. \n\n\n\nAltar for the Ancestors\, original creation by Nancy Weber. \n\n\n\nCo-created by the People’s Health Sanctuary program of NATURE Lab\, Media Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Urban Grief\, Troy 4 Black Lives\, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Capital District\, NAACP\, North Central Little League\, Team H.E.R.O.\, Troy Bike Rescue and NATURE Lab’s People’s Health Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nCheck out this tv story\, 2/22/21https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/news/2021/02/21/freedom-square-installation-bringing-community-together
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LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stretched Thin: The Grief of Traumatic Loss with Lisa Good/ Urban Grief
DESCRIPTION: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 COVID-19 have stretched social connections and relationships beyond capacity. \n\n\n\nIn our time together\, we will explore the overlapping aspects of trauma\, and grief and consider ways/next steps to build and reinforce our capacities for individual and collective care in our communities. \n\n\n\nClick here to register for this virtual event! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the “End-of-Life in the Age of Covid” series of virtual conversations every 6 weeks presented by People’s Health Sanctuary.  \n\n\n\nUrban Grief is trauma informed and healing centered 501(c)(3) community-based organization. Urban Grief responds to the traumatic impact of community violence\, death and loss through community education\, crisis response\, victim advocacy and grief support. Urban Grief provides relevant and relatable information about trauma\, grief\, self-care\, resiliency\, and victim services. UG acknowledges the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)\, along with chronic exposure to traumatic events\, and strives to avoid further re-traumatization. \n\n\n\nLisa Good\, MSW\, is founding the director of Urban Grief\, a trauma-informed community-based organization that educates on the effects of violence and supports those affected through outreach and victim advocacy. She is the former director of SNUG (formerly known as Cure Violence) and has over 25 years of human service experience. She is an experienced speaker and trainer\, facilitating trauma-informed workshops such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)\, and community events\, and faith-based workshops aimed at creating healing spaces and empowering community members through information about trauma\, grief\, and resilience. \n\n\n\nhttp://lisawgood.com/ \n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT PEOPLE’S HEALTH SANCTUARY\n\n\n\nPeople’s Health Sanctuary‘s goal is to establish a central space to share health skills\, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. We are celebrating a year of organizing around this project\, initiated under the organizing name Health Autonomy Clinic and after listening sessions with our surrounding community\, re-named People’s Health Sanctuary. Our goal is to embrace models of open sharing of health knowledge\, and empower all of the growing collective of community members to seek their independent health goals\, as opposed to the traditional\, hierarchical top-down approach of clinical medical practice. Though caring for our elders\, our children\, or cooking soul-nourishing food for family or friends may not be deemed ‘real’ healthcare\, they know that in fact\, it’s what holds us together and keeps us sane. Our growing network sharing skills to build a space where creative\, joyful health is possible and accessible. \n\n\n\nIn this current crisis\, we are more than even committed to the potential that People’s Health Sanctuary can offer.  Everyone it seems is struggling to keep up with the flood of information about the current crisis\, the ways those in power are forcing us back to a “normal\,” the over-reliance of the economy as a marker of anything lending towards health. And then we have the horrific news from Georgia and Minneapolis\, the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd\, a stark reminder of the crisis behind the crisis. COVID has only exacerbated the social oppression and disparities that mark the “normal” so many of the elites want to return to.   \n\n\n\nPeople’s Health Sanctuary is a project of the Media Sanctuary.
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SUMMARY:Clearing the Air in Coeymans: Community Forum on Clean Air vs. Tire Burning
DESCRIPTION:Hold this date for the Coeymans Community Clean Air Forum! \n\n\n\nLafarge/Holcim wants to burn millions of tires every year at their Ravena cement plant opposite the Ravena Coeymans Selkirk middle and high schools on Route 9W.  In 2019\, the Town of Coeymans adopted a Clean Air Law to establish clean air standards for waste burning facilities. The law requires continuous monitoring of 19 serious pollutants\, and places other restrictions on burning by any facility. This law defends the public from emissions containing highly toxic dioxins\, sulfur\, lead particulates\, benzene\, carbon monoxide\, and more. \n\n\n\nOn November 19\, 2020 the new business-backed Town Board held a public hearing on their decision to amend the Town’s Clean Air Law . These amendments would strip the strong pollution protections in the law and pave the way for any business to burn massive amounts of tires and waste.  On November 23\, the Town Board unanimously passed the amendments after only one public hearing and very little notice to town residents struggling in the middle of a pandemic. \n\n\n\nAs a result\, the Town of Coeymans is now the only town within the County of Albany where hazardous waste and tires can be burned in spite of the Albany County Clean Air Law prohibitions. Since the amendments to the clean air law went into effect immediately\, Lafarge/Holcim can now add the burning of tires to the waste it is already burning in the town. \n\n\n\nAmong the issues to be discussed in this community forum\, moderated by WOOC 105.3 FM correspondent Corinne Carey\, include: \n\n\n\nOverview of LaFarge’s history as a polluterThe Albany County Clean Air Law\, Amendments to the Coeymans Clean Air Law\, and the Permissive ReferendumHealth threats of burning tires and waste for fuel vs. coal in cement kiln incineratorsLaFarge’s threats of job loss or even closing the plantCoeymans Town Board misrepresentations to votersWhy the DEC and EPA does not protect us\, using the Norlite hazardous waste incinerator in Cohoes as an exampleThere will be plenty of time for Q&A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPANELISTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttorney Carlo A.C. deOliveira is a Ravena resident. He is actively involved in the community’s Ravena Soccer Club Board and volunteers as a coach during the year and most recently with the Coeymans Clean Air Coalition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Miller is a Selkirk Resident and Regents and AP Biology teacher in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Schools. He is serving his first term in the Albany County Legislature representing the 36th Legislative District\, Committee Assignments: Conservation\, Sustainability and Green Initiatives\, Health \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Williams is the Chair of the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team. She is an environmental policy expert with 30 years of policy and advocacy experience. She has extensive knowledge on incinerators. (Photo: Earth Justice) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Ritchie is an environmental justice advocate and the Executive Director of Saratoga Sites Against Norlite Emissions. He is a student at Syracuse University studying Environmental Policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator Corinne Carey is a political & public affairs strategist taking on bold public health initiatives backed by sound evidence & human rights. She is a regular correspondent for WOOC 105.3 FM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the Coeymans Clean Air Coalition and the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network.
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SUMMARY:Black History: Capital Region Youth Rise Up!
DESCRIPTION: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 rise up to imagine a more just future! \n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\n\n\nThis event builds upon last month’s Capital District MLK Holiday Labor and Community Celebration “Rise Up! The Struggle Continues…” event. Join us as youth share Black History “Influencers” with a focus including having a voice\, women\, film history\, LGBTQ and environmental justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenters include: Erika Diggs\, Asad Benbow\, Team H.E.R.O.\, Shades of Cocoa\, Angelo Domingo\, Water Justice Lab Fellows Shansanique Pollack\, Genesis Cooper\, Gabriella Espada Asad Benbow and Diamond Owens. Event organizing support from Shana Davis\, with Erika Diggs\, Willie Terry\, Jerry Ford\, Debra Garrett\, Melissa Bromley and Branda Miller. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: TEAM Hero\,  Water Justice Lab\, Troy 4 Black Lives\, NAACP\, Capital District Chapter Coalition of Black Trade Unionist\, The Solidarity Committee of the Capital District and more! \n\n\n\nBios of participants \n\n\n\nGenesis Cooper\, a student at Lansingburgh High School\, is in advanced math and science programs\, and has been a high honors student since elementary school. Genesis is in various school clubs\, and works to help other organizations in her community.Working in WJL\, Genesis hopes to help her community understand more things about their own home that they don’t really know about\, like local economics\, environmental racism\, and local politics. \n\n\n\nGenesis Cooper’s main focus is to help and educate those around her by volunteering her time. She helps run the Justice4Dahmeek organization that was started by her father\, Massiah Cooper. They go around the city and hold events to educate the community on police brutality and inequality in America. Genesis is a Water Justice Lab fellow at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, a collaboration with Riverkeeper. She has also volunteered her time at the Sanctuary\, and has been an Uptown Summer leader for the summers of 2019 and 2020. In 2019\, she ran the face painting table at the Spirit of the Suffragettes concert series and community resource fair at Freedom Square. She is thinking about attending Howard University and possibly becoming a teacher. Genesis has interests in many subjects including science and hope to educate the youth on many different topics about the world around them. \n\n\n\nAngelo Domingo is a senior student at Lansingburgh High School. He takes multiple advanced classes and has been on high honor roll for all of high school. Angelo participates in various school clubs and other programs outside of school. Angelo is very passionate about social justice and works frequently on projects with The Sanctuary For Independent Media to spread awareness about social issues. Ever since Angelo was in the Uptown Summer youth program in summer of 2018\, he’s been passionate about raising issues in social awareness. Angelo made a 3 part radio series on slumlords to raise awareness in his community. He even made a survey to hear personal experiences from the community. His time as an Uptown Summer youth member inspired him to keep pursuing activism and making his voice heard to help improve the lives of others. \n\n\n\nAngelo Domingo is currently working with the NYCLU Student Ambassador Program tackling issues for youth including comprehensive sex education and the school to prison pipeline. Angelo Is currently planning on going to college to pursue a degree in musical theater with hopes to minor in a field where he can work on tackling the social issues that he so deeply cares about. \n\n\n\nGabby Espada is a ninth grader at Lansingburgh High School. She is in advanced science and top of her math class as well. Gabby enjoys hands-on activities in science\, and she’s a very social and outgoing person. She strives for the best and is an extremely determined teen. Gabby likes having her voice heard and making a change. She does as much as possible in school such as: drama club\, soccer\, volleyball\, track and field\, basketball\, student council\, and tutoring. Gabby is a determined teen ready to take on anything that comes her way. \n\n\n\nGabby Espada is is a Water Justice Lab fellow at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, a collaboration with Riverkeeper.  She has been involved in many movements including: Justice for Dahmeek\, suicide prevention movements\, and Dance for Donations\, She’s also worked with kids and animals. Gabby attends the STEP program at R.P.I. and takes architecture and coding there. In Dance for Donations she danced and taught others dances for donations for leukemia. She has experience working with people of all ages. \n\n\n\nDiamond Owens is a young poet\, and a member of TEAM H.E.R.O.  \n\n\n\nShansanique Pollack is currently attending Lansingburgh High School and just graduated 9th grade year with high honors. She is also involved in her school’s advanced programs including advanced science\, advanced math\, and both Pre AP history and ELA.  As a WJL Fellow\, Shansanique is excited to deal with science that could also help the community learn more about what’s around them and help educate the community on what it can do to improve. \n\n\n\nThroughout her life\, Shansanique has always tried to improve the lives around me in any way possible and to help spread useful information. When she’s older Shansanique wants to be able to use her career to help people in any way possible. Shansanique is a Water Justice Lab fellow at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, a collaboration with Riverkeeper. She’s hoping to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology for college and go into computer science\, hopefully using computers in new and exciting ways to change communities and people for the better. \n\n\n\nEstreja Turner is an Afro/Latino 12th grader of Shaker High School.  In 2017 Estreja was a part of the Black Student Union and in 2018-2019 she was a member of the Key Club. Estreja started liturgical dancing at 3 years old. She joined the Art In Motion Dance Academy (AMDA) in 2009 where she participated in Hip-Hop classes for a couple of years in 2011 Estreja moved into other dance genres i.e. Ballet\, Modern\, Jazz\, Tap\, Contemporary\, Musical Theatre and Technique. Estreja has been dancing competitively for a number of years. Estreja has been a Teacher Assistant AMDA for 5 years. Along with dancing Estreja has been an active in the community doing Get Out the Vote campaigns\, Literature Drops for the 2010 and 2020 US Census\, Black History Month Movie programs with the Capital District Chapter CBTU\, a member of the CBTU National & Regional Youth Conferences and Conventions since 2012. Estreja participated in the 2019 & 2020 Capital Region Human Rights Summer Synopsis Program and also volunteers at Life Church Albany working with children. Estreja will be attending college in the fall majoring in Dance and minoring in Psychology. Estreja’s dream is to work with young people to help them learn to use dance as a way of communicating. Estreja feels like often young people do not always know how to articulate their thoughts and emotions and that Dance Therapy is another form of effective communication for children. \n\n\n\nErika Dulcinia Diggs is a writer\, actress\, and production assistant. Erika has been a producer for the Media Sanctuary for Independent Media for two years now. Before her time at the Sanctuary\, she grew up in a small town. Erika is a mixed-race woman who never grew up seeing color\, being from an Italian and Caribbean background she was able to see different perspectives. Erika was not truly aware of the harsh injustices that happened to people of color on the daily. She wanted to find a way to help\, back in 2019 she stumbled into a young woman who told her she would be a perfect fit for the Sanctuary. Throughout the duration of her time here she learned how to engineer\, produce\, and edit interviews. Some of her biggest accomplishments are through her social justice work within the community with Homer Bosh Jr. She is a co moderator for this wonderful Black History: Capital Region Youth Rise Up Celebration because with everything that has happened this past year\, we still must remember that it is okay to bring light to our influential black leaders who fought for us to have a voice. \n\n\n\nAsad Benbow is a 17 year old filmmaker from Troy\, NY. He is a student at YouthFx. He mainly creates satires because that is what he is most interested in. \n\n\n\nHi my name is Justin Gilmore ll. I am 15. I’m a sophomore at Troy High School. Some hobbies I have is playing football and playing the keyboard. When I grow up I want to be in the NFL or have a good music career. I’m a member of Team HERO. \n\n\n\nMy name is Diamond Owens. I am an active member of my community. I am a college student. I am dedicated to bringing my peers and the adults around us together. I’m a member of Team HERO. \n\n\n\nMy name is Olivia Ford\, I’m a 6 year old first grader. I’m very energetic and have a love for soft and cuddly teddy bears and blankets. I love dancing\, singing and exploring all types of talents.I once won runner up for lil Miss Uncle Sam(received my first trophy too). I have two big brothers who look after me. I love giving back to my community by volunteering with my parents. \n\n\n\nMy name is Jeriyah Ford\, I’m a 14 year old 9th grader. I enjoy playing basketball\,video games music and making tik tok videos. \n\n\n\n“Black History Influencers” include: \n\n\n\nBlack History Environmental Justice Influencers \n\n\n\nLeah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist and eco-communicator based in Southern California. She’s passionate about advocating for and exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism. You can follow her work on instagram @GreenGirlLeah.\n\n\n\nDr. Robert Bullard is the Father of Environmental Justice. He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism\, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem\, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.\n\n\n\nJohn H. Francis III (born 1946) John Francis is an American environmentalist nicknamed The Planetwalker. John Francis stopped travelling in cars and began walking wherever he went during the 1970s\, often travelling vast distances with a backpack and banjo.\n\n\n\nRue Mapp is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro\, a national not-for-profit organization with offices in Oakland\, CA\, and Washington\, D.C. Rue oversees a carefully selected and trained national volunteer leadership team of nearly 90 men and women who represent 30 states around the US\, and shares opportunities to build a broader community and leadership in nature.\n\n\n\nBlack History Black Women “Influencers” \n\n\n\nCongresswoman Cori Bush is a registered nurse\, community activist\, organizer\, single mother\, and ordained pastor for the people of St. Louis. Congresswoman Bush is serving her first term as the representative of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. She is the first Black woman and first nurse to represent Missouri; the first woman to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District; and the first activist from the movement fighting for Black lives elected to the United States Congress.\n\n\n\nSimone Leigh is a celebrated contemporary sculptor. Working in a variety of media that includes ceramic\, video\, installation\, and bronze\, her work explores issues of identity and race\, beauty\, and feminism. Her artworks frequently incorporate materials and forms traditionally associated with African art and the African diaspora\, while her performance-related installations often blend historical precedent with personal stories.\n\n\n\nBlack History Filmmaker Influencers \n\n\n\nRaymond Lawrence “Boots” Riley (born April 1\, 1971)\, is an American film director\, producer\, screenwriter\, rapper\, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Sorry to Bother You (released July 2018)\, which he also wrote.\n\n\n\nBlack History LGBTQ Influencers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGladys Bentley A gender-bending blues performer who became 1920s Harlem royalty. \n\n\n\nBayrad Rusin was an American civil rights activist\,a former adviser toMartin Luther King Jr. and a staunch advocate of gay rights\,\n\n\n\nMarsha P. Johnson was an activist\, self-identified drag queen\, performer\, and survivor. She was a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Marsha went by “Black Marsha” before settling on Marsha P. Johnson. The “P” stood for “Pay It No Mind\,” which is what Marsha would say in response to questions about her gender. Marsha P. Johnson stood at the center of New York City’s gay liberation movement for nearly 25 years. Her body was found in the Hudson River in 1992.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-history-capital-region-youth-rise-up/
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