Screening of Brooklyn Castle
Wednesday, October 16 at 7:30pm
46 West 116th Street
After the screening there will be a panel discussion featuring Junior Open Champion Justus Williams, Director/Producer Katie Dellamaggiore, Georgios Alexopoulos, and Nadya Ortiz. They will discuss Wall Street, Charter Schools, and Chess.
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Concert for 100% Free Health Care
May 2014
At the World Famous Apollo Theater
Lester Chambers and his son Dylan will be performing. Lester’s new album Lester Chambers Time Has Come, now available for purchase at lester-chambers.com. A portion of proceeds go to Sweet Relief!
Lester (right) and Dylan Chambers
Jon Bibbs (JonBibbs.com @JonBibbs)
Honorary Chairman cancer survivor Andrew Shapter
Director, film maker and photographer Andrew Shapter is the creative force behind the critically acclaimed documentary “Before the Music Dies”. The film, which profiles artists like Erykah Badu, The Roots, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews and Branford Marsalis, was inspired by the need to give musicians a voice in an industry dominated by a pop music influence. The documentary opened up a channel of conversation about the commercialization of the art of music.
Andrew Shapter
[T]he present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. ~ George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair , known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism.
Lester Chambers (right) on stage with his son Dylan
Lester Chambers and his son Dylan will be performing at the Concert for 100% Free Health Care
Lester’s new album Lester Chambers Time Has Come, now available for purchase at lester-chambers.com. A portion of proceeds go to Sweet Relief!
Lester was the lead singer of the 1960s soul rock group The Chambers Brothers, who had the hit single, “Time Has Come Today.” The song spent five weeks at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968, it is considered one of the landmark rock songs of the psychedelic era. Continue reading
May 2014
At the World Famous Apollo Theater
According to a Daily News article, “Another unhealthy year for Harlem:”
According to another report by the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, the child poverty rate is 35.8% for Central Harlem and 44.2% for East Harlem. Compared to city-wide of 30.0% and 22.1% for Manhattan.
The human right to health means that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which includes access to all medical services, sanitation, adequate food, decent housing, healthy working conditions, and a clean environment.
On “The Opinion Pages” of The New York Times, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler write about the benefits of a single payer system:
A single-payer reform — a public, national health insurance plan that pays virtually all medical bills — would fix the health care mess; and, like Medicare, it’s clearly constitutional. Single-payer would save $400 billion wasted each year on insurers’ overhead and the paperwork burden they impose on doctors and hospitals.
Himmelstein and Woolhandler are internists and professors of public health at the City University of New York. They are co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program. Continue reading
Wednesday, October 16 at 7:30pm
46 West 116th Street
Meet US Junior Open Champion Justus Williams
More information and tickets (click here)
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