The next Repro Health Happy Hour will be next Tuesday, July 21st at
the fabulous Bar Sepia in Prospect Heights BROOKLYN. We apologize for
the late notice, it's been a hectic month! Hope to see you there.
Please pass it on to friends and colleagues.
Bar Sepia
234 Underhill Ave
(between Eastern Pky & Lincoln Pl)
Subway: 2/3 to Grand Army
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ballot Initiatives: Tool for Reform or Threat to Basic Rights?
Ballot Initiatives: Tool for Reform or Threat to Basic Rights?
Date: July 22, 2009
Time: 5:00 PM
Demos
220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York New York 10001
One of the toughest questions democracy advocates have to grapple with is the role of ballot initiatives - "direct democracy" in our policy making arena.
More info HERE.
Date: July 22, 2009
Time: 5:00 PM
Demos
220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York New York 10001
One of the toughest questions democracy advocates have to grapple with is the role of ballot initiatives - "direct democracy" in our policy making arena.
More info HERE.
Upcoming Events at Bluestockings
Thursday, July 23rd @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Screening: Marija Tosheva “Rights Not Violence”Please join us for an screening and discussion of “Rights Not Violence: Sex
Workers in Eastern Europe,” a documentary about the dignity and secure of sex
workers in Macedonia. The film is the result of a collaboration of Healthy
Options Project Skopje (HOPS), a Macedonian harm reduction center for with sex
workers and drug users, and Brooklyn-based Witness (witness.org). Tosheva is
the program director at HOPS.
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Friday, July 24th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Harvey Milk High School “I Know I’m Not Me”Come out and support the contributors of “I Know I’m Not Me,” an
anthology of stories by students at Harvey Milk High School, the New York LGBTQ
public high school. These first time authors will be reading their lives and
dreams and plans, and sharing stories about love and sex, family and fitting,
tattoos and reincarnation.
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Monday, July 27th @ 7PM - $10 Suggested
Discussion: Gabriela Network “A Community of Women”
The film “Very Young Girls (2007, 80 minutes)” is an expose on the sex
trafficking of New York teenagers. Please join folks from the Gabriela Network
(www.gabnet.org) for a screening of the film and a discussion about building a
community of global sisters dealing with sex trafficking.
Screening: Marija Tosheva “Rights Not Violence”Please join us for an screening and discussion of “Rights Not Violence: Sex
Workers in Eastern Europe,” a documentary about the dignity and secure of sex
workers in Macedonia. The film is the result of a collaboration of Healthy
Options Project Skopje (HOPS), a Macedonian harm reduction center for with sex
workers and drug users, and Brooklyn-based Witness (witness.org). Tosheva is
the program director at HOPS.
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Friday, July 24th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Harvey Milk High School “I Know I’m Not Me”Come out and support the contributors of “I Know I’m Not Me,” an
anthology of stories by students at Harvey Milk High School, the New York LGBTQ
public high school. These first time authors will be reading their lives and
dreams and plans, and sharing stories about love and sex, family and fitting,
tattoos and reincarnation.
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Monday, July 27th @ 7PM - $10 Suggested
Discussion: Gabriela Network “A Community of Women”
The film “Very Young Girls (2007, 80 minutes)” is an expose on the sex
trafficking of New York teenagers. Please join folks from the Gabriela Network
(www.gabnet.org) for a screening of the film and a discussion about building a
community of global sisters dealing with sex trafficking.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Next Repro Health Happy Hour
Save the Date! The next Repro Health Happy Hour will be Tuesday, July 21st in Brooklyn! More details soon to come!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Choices: Abortion Event next Wed!
Choices: Abortion
Wednesday, July 8th
6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
NARAL Pro-Choice New York
470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor, NYC (between 31st and 32nd Street)
NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health in partnership with co-sponsors the New York Abortion Access Fund and Exhale presents: “Choices: Abortion”.
Presenters will share the work they do each day to provide financial assistance to low-income women who cannot afford to pay for an abortion, support and counsel women after they have an abortion, ensure that all women have the health care coverage and access necessary to obtain reproductive health care, and work on the legislative and political levels to ensure that all people have access to safe and legal abortion.
Presenters include:
Constance DeCherney, Board Chair, New York Abortion Access Fund
Kristen Schultz Oliver, Lead Trainer, Exhale
Myra Batchelder, Director, Low-Income Access Program, the National Institute for Reproductive Health
Sabrina Shulman, Political Director, NARAL Pro-Choice New York
Event is free and open to all with RSVP to Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506. Event space is wheel-chair accessible
Wednesday, July 8th
6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
NARAL Pro-Choice New York
470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor, NYC (between 31st and 32nd Street)
NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health in partnership with co-sponsors the New York Abortion Access Fund and Exhale presents: “Choices: Abortion”.
Presenters will share the work they do each day to provide financial assistance to low-income women who cannot afford to pay for an abortion, support and counsel women after they have an abortion, ensure that all women have the health care coverage and access necessary to obtain reproductive health care, and work on the legislative and political levels to ensure that all people have access to safe and legal abortion.
Presenters include:
Constance DeCherney, Board Chair, New York Abortion Access Fund
Kristen Schultz Oliver, Lead Trainer, Exhale
Myra Batchelder, Director, Low-Income Access Program, the National Institute for Reproductive Health
Sabrina Shulman, Political Director, NARAL Pro-Choice New York
Event is free and open to all with RSVP to Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506. Event space is wheel-chair accessible
Monday, June 29, 2009
Summer, Sex and Spirits
A benefit for Planned Parenthood of NYC
Thursday July 23rd
8pm - 11pm
Museum of Sex
233 Fifth Avenue at 27th Street
$40 Advance / $50 Day of Event
Price includes after hours admission to the Museum
BUY TICKETS HERE
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Health Care Can't Wait" National Rally in DC Thursday!
THURSDAY, JUNE 25th - "Health Care Can't Wait" National Rally, Washington D.C.
Join grassroots supporters from across the country for the biggest health care rally in US History to be followed by a New York Town Hall with Congress members. Health Care for America NOW is organizing FREE buses. Few spots left! Contact Health Care for America Now for more info.
Join grassroots supporters from across the country for the biggest health care rally in US History to be followed by a New York Town Hall with Congress members. Health Care for America NOW is organizing FREE buses. Few spots left! Contact Health Care for America Now for more info.
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