pro-choice film screening in Brooklyn

"Obvious Child" Screening and RHA Activism

Monday, February 22
8 pm
The Tea Lounge
837 Union St.
Brooklyn, NY

FREE!

Join us for a screening of Obvious Child, a short romantic comedy about a Brooklyn gal who has an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location. Activists from NARAL Pro-Choice New York will be there to talk about how you can help pass the Reproductive Health Act, a critical bill that will protect the fundamental right of a woman and her doctor to make private medical decisions here in New York State.

On Facebook here.

March Across the Brooklyn Bridge for Health Care & the 'Change Agenda' this SATURDAY!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Call Out the Special Interests and their Political Obstructionists
that are stopping ‘Change’ in Washington!

11:30 a.m. – Gather at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn
12 noon – March steps off
1:00 p.m. – Rally in front of the Stock Exchange (Broad St. & Wall St.)
Bring posters, signs, and banners!

• AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE. Washington must move forward on a Change Agenda!
• HEALTH CARE IS THE WEDGE ISSUE FOR THE CHANGE AGENDA. If health care moves, so does everything else: jobs and labor law reform, climate change, financial services reform, and immigration reform.
• WASHINGTON MUST FINISH THE JOB ON HEALTH CARE. Get health care reform done, get it done right, and get it done now!
• THE SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THEIR POLITICAL SHILLS ARE STOPPING HEALTH CARE AND THE CHANGE AGENDA – health insurers, drug companies, banks and Wall St. firms, business trade groups.

RSVP for the rally here or Facebook
Volunteers Needed! RSVP here
Organized by Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Citizen Action, Health Care for America Now, NYCforChange, MoveOn, UWS Baby Boomers for Change, Communications Workers of America, Committee of Interns and Residents, Downtown East for Obama, Eric's Law, Raising Women's Voices, Queens County for Change, Queens Young Democrats, National Physicians Alliance, NW Bronx for Change, Barack Obama Democratic Club of Northern Manhattan, Westchester Health Care Reform Task Force.

That Not-So-Fresh Feeling: Marketing Embarassing Products to Women

Monday Feb 22 (7pm)

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

126 Crosby St

Slate spin off site DoubleX presents a panel with Susan Kim, author of the new book Flow, Sarah Haskins of Current TV, Allison Silverman, former executive producer of The Colbert Report, and Hanna Rosin, co-editor of DoubleX and contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly moderating.

More info here.