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SUMMARY:Open House & Seed Swap
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our seasonal open house plus seed swap! This drop-in style event is an opportunity to look inside our organization\, swap seeds\, get a tour\, and have a warm beverage with a Rockhill Bakehouse biscotti. Learn about our initiatives and how to get involved. For those curious about volunteering or interning at the Sanctuary\, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and see our campus.  \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Collard City Growers for a seed swap to start building towards spring awakening and growth. Learn seed keeping methods from local gardeners\, acquire seeds to grow\, and bring your own seeds and stories to show and share. We’ll also be joined by Danielle Peláez\, who will be tabling on behalf of Soul Fire in the City! \n\n\n\nThere’s no need to bring seeds or have any knowledge of seed-keeping or gardening to attend–you can also join for company and conversation!  \n\n\n\nMasks will be available at this event. If you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness please stay home and rest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInitiatives of The Sanctuary for Independent Media\n\n\n\n\n\nCollard City Growers (CCG) \n\n\n\n\n\na food justice arts and permaculture project located on a formerly abandoned lot. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKitchen Sanctuary \n\n\n\n\n\nuses food and knowledge to nourish and connect. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATURE Lab \n\n\n\n\n\nThe North Troy Art\, Technology and Urban Research in Ecology Lab includes a Biosafety-level 1 lab\, Air Justice Lab\, Water Justice Lab\, and Our Soil. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople’s Health Sanctuary (PHS) \n\n\n\n\n\na community-led mutual aid health initiative based in racial and transformative justice to create a liberatory model of community health care for all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanctuary Radio \n\n\n\n\n\nlow-power\, non-commercial radio featuring news and music from the African Diaspora including Hudson Mohawk Magazine\, Jazz Sanctuary\, and No More Genre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanctuary TV \n\n\n\n\n\na living archive of our events\, produced by our dedicated team of interns and volunteers. View videos here.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/open-house-seed-swap-2025/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order
DESCRIPTION:Chris Hedges will return to the Sanctuary for Independent Media to give the talk “Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order” which asks how the world has changed since the genocide began\, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how the genocidal violence perpetuated by the Global North\, especially as the climate crisis deepens\, will be turned with ever more frequency on the peoples of the Global South. \n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hedges\, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times\, is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and Arabic speaker. He spent 7 years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning\, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt\, which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He has taught at Columbia University\, New York University\, Princeton University\, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system for a decade\, the subject of his book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. Chris Hedges’ website: Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrevious Talk: The Genocide in Gaza\, Dec 2023
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-hedges-normalizing-genocide/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:"No Other Land" Film Screening & Panel
DESCRIPTION:An act of creative resistance to Apartheid\, No Other Land documents a Palestinian activist and his unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist\, as he searches for a path towards equality and justice. Join us for this film screening and panel discussion. \n\n\n\nNo Other Land is the 2025 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature\, a major win for a film that couldn’t get a U.S. distributor. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening will begin at 7:30pm to allow people to break fast for Ramadan. In the meantime\, Taína Asili will share her most recent video “Strong Tree” about the local movement in support of Palestine. \n\n\n\nSOLD OUT\n\n\n\nFilm synopsis\n\n\n\nOver five years\, a Palestinian-Israeli collective of directors captured footage of Masafer Yatta residents in the West Bank and their struggle\, survival\, and death in the face of the Israeli military and settlers\, as they witnessed the destruction of their homes and schools and were forced to leave their villages with nowhere to go. Yet No Other Land is more than a powerful work of cinéma vérité; it is the story of the growing friendship between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham\, both united by harrowing circumstances and one fragile idea: that through cinema and resistance\, one can (perhaps) imagine a space of peace and freedom that never existed in their lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Other Land is an award winning documentary\, including the winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature award and the 2024 Berlinale Best Documentary award.  \n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\nHana’ is a farmer and beekeeper\, who just returned home to the Capital District after spending two months in Palestine. Hana’ is an activist with the Palestinian Rights Committee. \n\n\n\nFaris is a Palestinian and Muslim American\, originally from a small Palestinian village outside the city of Ramallah. Faris is a member of the Palestine Narrative Project\, working to educate the Capital Region on the Palestinian cause and inspire people to work towards Palestinian liberation. \n\n\n\nKeren Carmeli is a member of the Albany chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestinian Rights Committee. She is an anti-Zionist Israeli-American who was raised in occupied Palestine\, and draws on her family’s Holocaust survival story to inform her dedication to the liberation of Palestine”. \n\n\n\nModerator: Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art\, food\, science\, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture\, displacement\, storytelling\, diaspora\, and belonging\, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nJewish Voices for Peace\n\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian Rights Committee
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/no-other-land/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Pruning & Grafting for Tree Lovers! 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join the tree lovers of the More Trees Arborist Collective for a workshop in the urban forest at Freedom Square! Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees\, discuss the different techniques and objectives of pruning\, when to remove trees\, when to plant trees\, and help the crew manage the Sanctuary’s fledgling reforestation projects! We’ll finish with a grafting demo in Collard City Growers! \n\n\n\n*This event is rain or shine! Participants are encouraged to bring their own pruning shears\, as we will have a limited number available.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/pruning-grafting-2025/
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