ASSORTED INTERESTING EVENTS
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Event: LinkedIn for Journalists
When: April 24, 2013, 9:30 – 11:00am
Where: National Press Club Journalism Institute, Washington D.C., Bloomberg Room
URGENT ACTION REQUESTED
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City Island Images wishes to report of the global impact of gun violence, and we will need your help. Since the shootings in US just before the Christmas holidays, there have reportedly been thousands of deaths as a result of gun-related homicides and, or accidental shootings all over the world.
If you, or anyone else you know has been affected by gun violence, we want to hear your story.
Please tell us in your own words and in any of the 53 languages listed below. Please include your name and phone number, or perhaps you may wish to remain anonymous. You decide!
Censorship and Power in Iran
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Screening & Discussion
Maziar Bahari, Journalist and Filmmaker
Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists
in conversation with Jon Stewart, Political Satirist
Demand Elected Officials Support Museum Services Now
Dear public servant:
I am writing to ask you to sign on to the appropriations letter being circulated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, requesting funding for the Office of Museum Services (OMS) at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). It is funded through the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee.
Texting vs Writing
I remember when writing a letter by hand was considered a very personal and kind of a special art form.
However, texting has grown to be the preferred means of communication, most certainly in our personal lives but in the business world as well. When used appropriately, it benefits sender and receiver with ever quicker communications. If someone is busy at the moment, a text is a great and a discreet way to ask them to call me when they are available.
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Mayoral Forum on Sustainability
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Mayoral Forum On Sustainability is AT CAPACITY!
Unfortunately, not able to accommodate additional seating requests at this time.
However, you can still watch the debate live by tuning into NYLCVEF's livestream of the event! Be sure to sign up for a livestream link and they will email it to you no later than April 21, the day before the forum.
WEATHER IN THE WATERSHED
Creek and Cave Earth Day Fundraiser and Movie Screening
April 22, 8pm
Creek and Cave
10-93 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
NCA will be participating in an Earth Day event at one of our favorite burrito joints in the city! Hooray! Details coming soon.
Creek Stuff
EPA convenes Superfund Community Advisory Group
BEAUTIFUL AMERICA
The Grand Canyon is North America's greatest natural wonder a red-hued canyon 277 river miles long, eighteen miles wide, and one mile deep. It doesn't make your mouth drop in awe, then you might not be human.
This Week in Her and History
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Apr 22, 1970
The first Earth Day. Earth Day is an event to increase public awareness of the world's environmental problems, which is celebrated in the United States for the first time. Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of colleges and universities, participated in rallies, marches, and educational programs. Earth Day was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a staunch environmentalist who hoped to provide unity to the grassroots environmental movement and increase ecological awareness.
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare born. According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare's date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before.
Apr 24, 1916
Easter Rebellion begins. On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.
HAPPY EARTH DAY
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What do you plan to do for mother earth today?
The modern environmental movement in began on this day back in 1970.