AQENY gave us the chance to rally at city hall. When we got there Maria (our contact) handed us signs. These signs said things from AQE, Alliance for quality education to the amount that the school district was owed. Collectively the amount is around 5 billion dollars. We heard some very motivational speakers. There was…
2015-2016
Interview with Lisa Busillo 1/15/16
by Skyler
On Friday, January 15th (2016) my group and I interviewed Lisa Busillo at The Coffee Bean, across the street from our school. I was sick this day so I called in to the interview. Mrs. Busillo is an anesthesiologist. An anesthesiologist is a type of doctor, they have to figure out how much anesthesia to…
Interview of Joseph Blocher
by Flynn
Albany
by Oliver
At 6:30 am we boarded a bus that would take us to Albany. On the bus we were served pork gumbo, rice, and a roasted pig knee. My other group members did not like this at all. I liked it until I got to the pig’s knee. After my food I fell asleep. We arrived at…
Interview of Kim Russell
by Flynn
City Harvest Repack 1•21•16
by Tibeau
On Thursday, Layne, Sophie, my Dad and Layne’s mom went with us to City Harvest, in Long Island City. Before I had no idea what a re-pack was until I did the City Harvest Re-Pack. Once we went in there we were all very impressed with what we saw. They had a gigantic facility with…
Our Meeting with Kim Russell
by Louie
Kim Russell is currently head of the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is a organization that works to prevent gun violence. It was named after James Brady, Ronald Reagan’s Press secretary. He was severely injured during the attempted assassination on Reagan. She works tirelessly on these issues and tries to get legislators to…
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen 12•15•15
by Tibeau
On Tuesday, Layne, Sophie and I went to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. We got there around 9:15. They didn’t give us our job’s until around 10:15. Durring that time, Sophie, Layne and I got food. They had set up a little table for the volunteers filled with food and coffee. At 10:15, we were all assigned…
Peter Scheer Phone Interview:
by River
Peter Scheer began at Harvard law school where he studied topics and cases relating to free speech. Shortly after leaving school, he became a lawyer who dealt with many cases like the ones he studied for many years. After that, he found himself loosing interest in his profession and he know works for the first…
Meeting with Robert Gangi
by Jacob
This past Thursday we met with Robert Gangi again. This meeting however, was to follow up on the court monitoring idea. Court monitoring is writing down and recording cases in the court. The purpose of this is to expose what really happens in court. Such as people going to court for ridiculous reasons. So after…
Second Visit To St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 1•11•16
by Tibeau
On Monday, my group and I went to St. John’s Bread and Life for the second time. It was their second time but my first time going to their facility. The last time I didn’t go because I had a concussion. This time was very interesting. We walked into a very modern building, kind of looking…
Our Visit to MMC.
by Tallulah
Last week, my group and I went to an organization called MMC. MMC stands for Marina Maher Communications. It is a marketing firm located in midtown east. It was a very interesting field trip because it really advanced what we have been learning about how women are portrayed in the media. At MMC, we learned…
Our Volunteer work with Democracy Now!
by River
On Friday, January 15th, our group met with an organization named, “Democracy Now.” This organization deals with several problems regarding freedom of speech and other issues in America. It reports of democratic and republican presidential candidates and posts videos and stories that relate to what’s happing in our wold right now. We met in their…
City Harvest Re-Pack 1.21.16
by Layne
Second Visit to St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 1.11.16
by Layne
Renee Shau
by Anna
Renee Shaw works at a Public School in Arlington, Virginia. Just a year after their school was renovated in 2004, they were already short on space. Renovating again would cost too much money so instead they added a trailer. When renovation schools, the state goes in order to all the schools to renovate them. With…
Visit To MMC Marina Maher Communications
by Olivia
Around a week ago my group took a fieldwork visit to MMC (Marina Maher Communications) where we got to ask various useful and great questions about our topic. MMC is a publicizing company that focuses on marketing towards women. They work with many companies such as Covergirl, Herbal essences, U by Kotex, Venus, Head and…
Refilling Planters With Gowanus Canal Conservancy 1/14/16
by Brianna
On a frigid Thursday, my groupmates and I met up with Michael Wasserman. We met another member, and then we set to work with grabbers, bags, gloves, compost with worms, and pruners. A lot of the plants we saw were withered or perhaps dead, or perennials. We cleaned out different planters, and I now think…
Interview With Robert Gangi
by Augustus
Today, 1/21 my group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi for the second time. We discussed our court monitoring project which will take place on Friday 1/22. This court monitoring project lets us go into courts that bring in all the people arrested on little charges. Here we will see the racial prejudice’s…
Visit to MMC Agency 1/13/16
by Nika
Re-Pack with City Harvest: 1/22/16
by Sophie SF
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2016, our group participated in a “re-pack” with City Harvest. City Harvest is a food rescuing organization that actually rescues food from being wasted or thrown away. They receive their food from restaurants, grocers, bakeries, manufacturers, and farms, and they deliver it free of charge to 500 community food programs across…
Interview with Tanya Wexler, Film Director on 1/20/16
by Dakota
Interview With Ronald Kuby
by Augustus
On Monday January 11th my group went to Ronald Kuby’s offices, for an interview. We started talking about his early beginnings in law, though he didn’t plan to be a lawyer. He wanted to be an anthropologist though when he wasn’t accepted to the school because of his ego, he decided to practice law. He…
2nd Visit to Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen: 1/11/16
by Sophie SF
On Monday, January 11th, 2016, our group volunteered with Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn for the second time. Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen serves over 1,000 hot meals to hungry New Yorkers each day. They also have a food pantry where people can order select goods from the pantry…
Back to LSA Family Health Services
by Ryann
Mapping East Harlem’s Health
by Ryann
At the beginning of this fieldwork we thought that Mapping East Harlem’s Health was not going to be relevant to our project. However, later we discovered valuable information and we were able to talk to different experts on our topic. At this fieldwork we began by sitting in on a meeting that explained what they had done.…
Survey at Washington Square Park
by Ryann
For our fith field work we went to Washington Square Park to ask people questions about our topic to understand their perspective. Going in to this fieldwork we had to come up with questions that were not easily answered in a single word. That was to insure that peole didn’t just say one word answers…
Interview with Lisa Busillo, Anesthesiologist on 1/15/16
by Dakota
On January 15, we met with Lisa Busillo, who is an anesthesiologist. We met at the Coffee Bean on Bleecker and sat down with some hot chocolate (she had tea). Lisa’s job is to put people to sleep during surgery and wake them up afterwards. She explained to us that waking people up and putting them to…
food stamp challange
by Stella
Newark conservancy
by Stella
the newark conservancy is a organization that focuses on teaching the newark community about heathy local food. They have many empty lot farms throughout newark. These farms help stock local farmers markets and give ingredients to cooking classes. The actual building includes green houses and gardens. The Conservancy teaches classes and helps schools learn about…
Interview with Wen Zhou 1/20/16
by Jaquelin Adler
Lisa Busillo (Doctor) Interview 1/15/16
by Jaquelin Adler
Meeting with Leah Gunn Barrett
by Flynn
Ronald Kuby Interview, 1/11/15
by Onaje
Visit to Marina Maher Communications
by Anna
Food deserts
by Alice
Albany Protest With The Seneca Lake Defenders, 1/13/16
by Brianna
On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 we traveled for three hours via bus from the Port Authority Bus Station on 8th Avenue to attend a protest in Albany. The weather was cold and miserable, but a group of protesters stood out in the cold, holding signs to protest the pending Constitutional Pipeline. We made our way as close…
Protesting At City Hall With AQENY About Underfunding
by Aditya
With AQENY, we participated in a protest that was pushing to give schools the money they are owed. It turns out that schools in New York state are owed around 6 billion dollars. When we got there we briefly met with Maria (our contact) who greeted us and gave us signs to hold. Then we stood…
Making Compost and Gardening with Gowanus 1/14
by Michelle
On January 14th, our group met up with Michael Wasserman (Gowanus Canal Conservancy). We did some gardening and cleaning up. These plants were in pretty bad conditions. Most of them were dead, piled with trash, and some were even frozen! We knew immediately we had to get down to work. It was awfully cold,…
Albany Climate Change Walk 1/13
by Michelle
Albany
by Anna
Phone Call with Renee Shaw 1/11
by Elisabeth
Yesterday we talked to Renee Shaw, a tech specialist at Barret Elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. Only a year after her school was renovated in 2004, they already were running out of space. To combat this issue they put in a trailer, a impermanent solution to a permanent problem. They couldn’t afford to renovate the…
Stop and Stock With NYC Food Bank 12•2•15
by Tibeau
On Wednesday my group and I went to the Food Bank for NYC. The Food Bank does many things like serve a full meal to only senior people, they have a mini grocery store for the people so they can pick what they want for the amount of points they had. When we walked in we…
Interview With Daniel Sherrel (Beyond Coal Campaign.)
by Graham
Daniel Sherrell is the head organizer in New York for the Sierra club. We asked Daniel Sherrel alot about how he got interested in fighting for global warming. His father was a camera man and would often go to Antarctica. Daniel told us about 350.org and how Bill Mckiben was the first politition to really try…
Our metting with Leah Gunn Barrett
by Louie
We meat with lea gunn barrett. She is the executive director of the organization, NYAGV. New Yorkers against gun violence. Tough we talked briefly she told us a lot about what she is doing. She is trying to get signatures from our parent bored for a law that is intended to make you lock up…
Helping Hand out flyers In Bryant park
by Louie
My social justice members and I went to Bryant park to help the Moms demand action organization. We were handing out flyers that had the information of our goal witch was to get people to text or call the white house and get Obama to make striker Gun laws. As we were doing this it…
Interview With Arch Puddington
by Cameron K
On Thursday the seventh of January we spoke to the Vice President of Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Something Arch talked about how Freedom of Speech intrested him when he was a young child. He always wanted to learn more about freedom of speech and wanted to help with it. He decided to go to Europe…
Climate March at City Hall
by Maisy
On Sunday, 11/29, my group and I met up and went down to city hall for a climate march. We arrived with signs to hold up during the march. We quickly met up with Brian Torres, who is making a documentary on climate change. He filmed us as we marched. The march actually started shortly…
Interview With Brian Torres
by Maisy
We recently met with and interviewed Brian Torres about his documentary on climate change. He originally came to our school to present his work, and we contacted him later to talk more. His documentary, El Nevado is about climate change and how kids are involved and how they are or are not educated on the…
Interview With Daniel Sherrell
by Maisy
We recently met with Daniel Sherrell, to talk about climate change, in which he is working to change. He is a member of the Sierra Club, an environmental group. We listened to him speak at the Patagonia screening of This Changes Everything a little while ago. We also recently went to a rally and press…
City Hall Rally and Press Conference on Stopping Coal Bailouts
by Maisy
We recently went to a rally and press conference at City Hall to stop coal bailouts. It was a really great experience, we got to learn a lot about the coal industry and how awful it is, and we also got to hear from some people involved in stopping coal bailouts. We arrived at the…
Our Interview with Arch Puddington:
by River
Arch Puddington from his early years was fascinated by freedom of speech. He explained that he and his family often watched freedom of speech issues on television and read about them in the newspaper. When he was older he moved to Europe where he worked for, Radio Free Europe, which deals with speech issues internationally.…
Interview with Arch Puddington, Freedom House
by Cameron
On the 7th of January, our group interviewed the vice president of research at Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Arch talked with us about what Freedom House does, and how freedom of speech plays different roles in different places of the world. Freedom House takes the role of analyzing and researching freedom of speech on a…
Beyond Coal Campaign Rally
by Ming
St. Brigid’s Breakfast with Santa
by Sophie
My group and part of the education group went to the St. Brigid’s school to volunteer at a Breakfast with Santa where there was food, music, arts and crafts, etc. for the children. Our main tasks were serving food and helping children with the arts and crafts. The organization is called the Children’s Scholarship Fund…
Breakfast With Santa and Mrs. Claus
by Reggi
Winter Break started, but our group didn’t stop! On Saturday, we went to Saint Brigid School to serve breakfast and assist children on paintings and coloring. We arrived at around 11:00, and stayed until around 1:00. My main job was to collect money for the raffle, and serve food. I really enjoyed assisting at this…
Joseph Blocher Interview 1/4/16
by Will
In our first fieldwork of 2016, we didn’t exactly do a fieldwork. We had an interview with the professor of law at Duke University, Joseph Blocher. We called at first at 1:58, 2 minutes before we were scheduled to call him. He did not pick up the first time. We then tried him a second…
NYAGV Meeting 11/18/15
by Will
On November 18, my group and I walked to the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence offices on Lafayette St. The offices were in a old firehouse, on the 3rd floor. The offices were fairly small and empty. There were about 5 people in the office. We were immediately greeted by Leah Gunn Barrett, the Director…
Dress for Success Volunteer Work 12/18/15
by Skyler
On December 18th, 2015 we went to one of the buildings that holds the organization Dress for Success (32 east 31st street). Dress for Success is an organization that provides interview and job clothes for women who can’t afford to buy very fancy clothes. It is hard to get jobs without professional looking outfits. They…
Volunteer Work at Dress For Success on 12/19/15
by Dakota
On 12/19, my social justice group went to help out at an organization called Dress For Success. They are a non-profit organization and located in the midtown area and they give clothes to women who need them for work. They are located in an office space so they are available by referral only. If women…
Parents Meeting
by Anna
School around the 5 boroughs are getting parts of their education taken away in different ways. Some parents send their kids to a school that has a homework help program to find out when they get there that that program has been discontinued due to shortage of funding. Robotics teams and computer classes have been…
Breakfast With Santa
by Anna
Breakfast with Santa was a very informative event where we went to St. Brigid School and helped at a holiday bash. There was food that Ryann helped dish out and a arts and crafts table where Sophie, Reggi, Elisabeth and I settled in at. There were four areas, one for coloring, one for candy cane ornament making,…
Democracy Now! Visit
by Cameron
On the 17th of December, our group made a visit to the Democracy Now! headquarters located in New York City. Democracy Now! is an independent news organization that focuses on delivering raw and uncensored news to people everywhere. They broadcast on television, radio, and do not advertise using giant media corporations. During our visit, we…
Racing Extinction Film 12/2
by Michelle
Our group watched a very moving documentary that covered various topics involving environmental issues. It covered overcomsumption, sustainability, pollution and global warming. This documentary was called, “Racing Extinction” on Discovery Channel. I learned several heartbreaking facts that made me look at the world and what we humans are doing to it differently. I learned that…
Democracy Now! Studio Visit 12/17/15
by Nissim
Amnesty International Visit
by Nissim
On Thursday, December 10th our group welcomed a representative of Amnesty International to speak to the 7th and 8th grades. Every year Amnesty holds a right for wrights campaign. Every year they choose 12 cases of people internationally and this year is the US who have been stripped of their rights and are imprisoned. They…
Santa’s Helpers at St. Brigids
by Ryann
Photos!!!!
by Stella
Newark
by Stella
On our recent field work to newark we met up with my uncle Charles Rosen; an owner of a farm supporting recently incarcerated men and women. our first stop was at the Newark conservatory. This organization focused on local farming and helping people learn about fresh and local food. We then got to talk to…
Beyond Coal Campaign Rally: City Hall 11/24/15
by Graham
Food Banks
by Hanna
Newark
by Hanna
Interview with Reilly Chaffin a model 12/11/15
by Nika
Write for Writes, Amnesty International
by Cameron
On the 10th of December, we had the privilege of participating in the “Write for Rights” campaign, hosted annually by Amnesty International. The campaign put focus towards freeing political prisoners through encouraging letters to them, and letters about political prisoners to Government’s hosting them. Earlier, we contacted Amnesty International by email. They were more than…
Amnesty International Activity
by Cameron K
On Thursday, 10th of December, our group had a representative from Amnesty International, come in and talk about imprisoned writers to the 7th and 8th grade. Amnesty holds a write for rights campaign. This event got our attention because it was writing to people who were revoked from their freedom of speech. Each year Amnesty chooses 12…
Interview with Peter Scheer Activist, Journalist, and Lawyer
by Cameron K
On Friday the 4th of December our group spoke to Peter Scheer. Peter executive director at First Amendment Coalition. Peter Scheer is a former lawyer and has a degree from Harvard Law. He has appeared at almost all levels of the court including Supreme Court, working on many levels of freedom of speech. He has…
Volunteering at Dress for Success
by Theodora Dotson
On December 18th, my group and I met outside of school and rode the subway to the Manhattan branch of dress for success on 31st street. When we entered we were greeted by Beverley Brown, the branch manager. Beverley briefly explained the mission of the organization and its history. Dress for Success is a nonprofit…
Volunteering with the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, 12/15/15
by Sophie SF
On December 15th, our group volunteered with the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in NYC. The Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen serves over 1,200 nutritious meals every weekday (including the holidays) and they are the largest emergency feeding organization in New York City. Not only do they provide warm and healthy meals during the week, but they…
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen 12.15.15
by Layne
On Tuesday Sophie, Tibeau and I worked with Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. As we have now visited many different food banks and soup kitchens I have realized how different each one is. They all have their own systems for everything, which is noticeable from the moment you walk in. We were told that most volunteers…
Visiting Dress for success — 12/19/15
by Jaquelin Adler
Volunteering with the Go Project 12/5
by Elisabeth
Jump Start Breakfast
by Anna
Volunteering with Everytown
by Flynn
Food Deserts/ Food Cycle
by Alice
Social Justice Movie: Poor Kids.
by Reggi
Our Social Justice group recently watched a film directed on poor families, and their daily struggles. It was a really powerful movie that educated me about how hard a families life is when they are poor and in poverty, but I also learned how many families are currently living in poverty. I was shocked when I…
Climate change march (around city hall) 11/29/15
by Jane
Interview with Daniel Sherrell (beyond coal campaign)
by Jane
Daniel Sherrell is the head organizer in New York for the Sierra club. Our interview with Daniel Sherrell went very well. We asked Dan about how he got into working with the Beyond Coal Campaign and be basically told us how he got started with climate change. His father partly worked in Antarctica and throughout the…
Interview with Riley Chaffin
by Anna
For our third fieldwork, my group briefly interviewed Riley Chaffin, a model. We asked her about a few things that fall under the category, women in the media. One question we asked her about was her opinion about was womens portrayal in the media. We asked if she thought that the issue needed to be…
Interview with Brian Torres
by Jane
Interview with Brian Torres. Although we had to reschedule this interview on a very short notice it was a very successful interview for our group. We rescheduled this interview multiple times because of in-convince, but the day of we had to reschedule again because of a mandarin presentation. This lead us to realize we need…
St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 12.9.15
by Layne
On Wednesday, Sophie and I visited St. Johns Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn. St. Johns is one of the biggest soup kitchens and food pantries in Brooklyn. When we walked in their lobby seemed packed, but unfortunately it was not a very busy day to they did not have any work for us.…
PS 98
by Anna
Interview With Riley Chafin
by Olivia
For our third fieldwork we interviewed Riley chafin an independent model in LA. We got in touch with her through Jaquie and set up a FaceTime call to ask her some questions about the industry. We asked her various questions from what the industry is like to more detailed ones like how it changed her…
Interviewing Peter Scheer of The First Amendment Coalition
by Cameron
On the 4th of December, our group held an online interview with Peter Scheer, an executive director of the First Amendment Coalition. According to the First Amendment Coalition’s website, they are “an award-winning, nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to advancing free speech, more open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs.” The First…
Interveiw With Reilly Chaffin
by Tallulah
On Friday, December 11th, my group video chatted a former model named Reilly Chaffin. We began by asking her how she got into the modeling business and why she stopped. We asked her questions about the pressures of modeling and how she had to look in order to get work or be successful. Reilly described…
Interview With Peter Scheer 12/4/15
by Nissim
On Friday, December 4th my group and I had a phone interview with Peter Scheer. Peter is the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a California based organization with the goal to help preserve free speech. He went to Harvard Law and was a lawyer for many years. During that time some of the…
Fieldwork with Saint Johns Bread and Life: 12/9/15
by Sophie SF
On Wednesday, December 9th, 2015, our group visited Saint John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn, NYC. When we arrived, we met with the volunteer coordinator, Jennifer Stephen. Unfortunately, they didn’t need our volunteer services that day because they weren’t very busy, but instead, Jennifer took us on a tour of their facility. The…
Interview With Joel Berg and Outreach 11•18•15
by Tibeau
On Wednesday, my group and I went to Union Square to do some outreach with a woman named Andrea Shapiro. What we did was before we went around to hand some papers out on other ways to get food, we learned about these organizations. What we learned about was WIC, Food Bucks, and SNAP. We…
3rd Gowanus Canal Conservancy Clean Up 12/4
by Michelle
On December 4th, my group and I went on a fieldwork with Gowanus Canal Conservancy. We met Michael Wasserman. Altogether we held a clean up in a garden near a storage facility which was piled with trash. We found water bottles, candy wrappers and even coat hangers! Whilst cleaning up, we recycled plastics. We were very…
3rd and 3rd Garden Cleanup With Michael Wasserman, Dec. 4, 2015
by Brianna
The New School- Youth Climate Change Event
by Maisy
On November 19th, our group went to The New School for a press conference on Youth participation in Climate Change. On the panel were five middle school to college age students, who have made a difference and are continuing to work on changing a topic within climate change. It was really interesting to get to…