Volunteer Thanks!

Today is a special thanks day!


For our biannual It's Your Park Day, we want to thank the following people for dedicating their time and energy:

Frances, Ed, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Carlos, Jazmin, Danny, Dawn, Beno, Jude, Joel, John, Angel, Chawa, Salvador, Jon, Rafael, Jen, Tommy, Shaquelle, Juan, Terrence, Destiny, Cynthia, Marcus, Carla, Amber, Tomas and more!

And we are grateful for our interns
Emily Sandusky from The New School who has been working on our compost bins and sharing time with our weekly Green Team teen mentoring program with the Community School for Social Justice.

And
Tatiana Piletich from the Hunter College School for Social Work for conducting outreach in the local schools to promote our environmental education programming and increasing the participation of local youth in our efforts.

And finally, the Video Activism class of Professor Mark Read,
Chelsea, Megan, Shaina, Andy, and Christine for their efforts to create a short promotional video of our efforts to share in the community and for fundraising efforts.

And thank YOU for all you do.

FoBP Joins Efforts to Ensure Safe Environmental Testing

Dear Friends,

Attached is a letter sent to Council President Christine Quinn signed by over 62 organizations opposing Int. 650-A.

Members of the coalition continue to believe that that despite the large number of drafts that the bill has had to go through to remove blatantly obvious flaws and objectionable provisions, the proposed bill continues to demonstrate the administration's failure to produce a carefully crafted bill which narrowly achieves its legislative intent.
Despite the changes made by the New York Police Department (NYPD), the proposed legislation is still fundamentally flawed. In our estimation, despite NYPD's stated intention, the bill would leave the city less safe, not more.

The most recent revision proposed seems intended to resolve the objection that the bill grants undue authority to seize detectors. It does not. While we have proposed language amending the proposed legislation which would improve the bill on this issue, we emphasize that it would not eliminate opposition to the intrusion and control over environmental monitoring and the negative public health implications.

Calls are needed now to members of the CityCouncil to urge that Int. 650-A be defeated. Please call your City Council representative and urge Int 650 be defeated.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

125 Cedar Street Residents * 9/11 Environmental Action * Actor’s Equity Assn * Asian American Legal Defense Fund * American Littoral Society, NE Chapter * American Lung Assn of the City of NY * Asthma Free School Zones (Real World Foundation) * Battery Park City Community Emergency Response Team * CHEJ * Chinese Progressive Association * CEC * CWA, District 1 & Local 1180 * Concerned Stuyvesant Community * DC 37, AFSCME * EDF * Environmental Toxicology Laboratory * Friends of Brook Park * Healthy Schools Network * IATSE, Local 1 * Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany * League of Conservation Voters * Long Island Soundkeeper * Lower East Side Ecology Center * Manhattan Community Board #1, 3M, 6 * Maui Peace Action * NRDC * Natural Resources Protective Assn. * National Lawyers Guild, Environmental Justice Committee * NYC Group of the Sierra Club * NYC Central Labor Council * NYCLU * NYCOSH * NY Environmental Law & Justice Project * NY Lawyers for the Public Interest * NY/NJ Baykeeper, Inc. * NYPIRG * NY Soil and Water Conservation District * NY State Laborers International Union * NY State Public Employees Federation * Organization of Staff Analysts * PSC of CUNY, NYSUT, AFT * PHANYC * Riverkeeper, Inc. * RWDSU/UFCW * South Bridge Parents and Youth Assn. * Staten Island Taxpayers Assn., Inc. * StuyHealth * Sustainable South Bronx * The Environmental Health Clinic * The Gaia Institute * TWU, Local 100 * Tribeca Community Emergency Response Team * United Auto Workers, Region 9A * United Church of Christ * United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities * Wellness in Schools * WEACT * Working Families Party * World Trade Center Community Labor Coalition * World Trade Center Environmental Organization * World Trade Center Residents Coalition

Volunteer Day Saturday May 17th

Volunteer Day
Saturday May 17th, 10-2PM
Brook Park

10am- 2 pm

Volunteer Day


Dig your hands in the Earth, celebrate Spring!
We invite you to join us in giving active and loving care to our Brook
Park. We welcome both skilled and unskilled alike to join our team in making
improvements to our physical
environment. Depending on needs at the
time and the uniqueness of the group, we will tackle a variety of tasks
and/or a joint project.

Spread woodchips
Create beds permaculture style
Plant bushes
Plant a fruit tree!!!
Attend to the tipi, poles, ropes, pegs, etc.
Chop wood
Clear the tool-shed

More!

Please join us for a day
of service through focused and joyful work.
This event is in partnership with the NYC parks Department as part of It's
My Park! Day in May and October bring
thousands of volunteers to approximately 150 sites in all five boroughs.
Projects and events are organized by local
community groups, corporate partners, or Parks and City Parks Foundation
staff.

Film Premiere for Friends of Brook Park

Friends of Brook Park, and future friends,

YOU ARE INVITED!

This is a great opportunity to check in on our efforts and to bring
potential contributors to see an informative and fun short film of our
important work in the South Bronx.

WHAT: Film premiere of Friends of Brook Park

The end-of-semester screening of videos to come out of Professor
Read's Gallatin Community Learning Initiative course, "Shifting
Focus."

WHERE: The historic 6th Street Community Center, located at 638 E.
6th St. in the Lower East Side.

WHEN: May 8th, at 7:30pm.

This semester the Shifting Focus class collaborated with three
community activist organizations to produce some amazing short videos
highlighting and promoting the work of:

Friends of Brook Park
The Youth Leadership Council,
The Restaurant Opportunity Center

Please
Come out,and bring friends. The event is very open to the public, and
refreshments will be served. FREE!