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Billion Oyster Project-Volunteer work/ 11/10
On november 10, me and my group took the ferry to Governors Island in order to take part in a voluntary activity. The organization le [...]
Uplifting kids and adults with disabilities: Access to Sports for the Disabled
Our group is helping and learning about kids and adults with disabilities, and the accessibility they have to play sports. Being active is s [...]
Interview With Moises Kaufman, 11/16/16
On November 16th, our LGBTQ Social Justice group watched Moises Kaufman speak from 7-8pm. Moises Kaufman wrote The Laramie Project (the play [...]
Reps Meeting 5/10/16
We gave Margaret our list of products for our Glow-in-the-Dark Spring Dance We discussed a disgusting spoon with a mystery food We also disc [...]
Healthier New York – Imagine
Some of the ideas we had to solve the problem of food deserts was to buy healthy food at a supermarket. What that does is when you buy an it [...]
Imagine
-What were some of the ideas you had about possible ways to address/solve this problem? Before we got started on thinking about how we can m [...]
Billion Oyster Project Work
We visited the billion oyster project as a fieldwork to help them in the process of cleaning the oyster shells that will be used in the fut [...]
Maysville Interview
How healthy is your food? Answer: it ranges to 1-10 depending on what you order. Buy from the right places (union square farmers market). Al [...]
Court Monitoring
This past Friday we went court monitoring with PROP. We went to the arraignment part of a criminal court in Manhattan on 100 Centre Street. [...]
Our Interview With Floyd Abrams
Today, January 28th, my group and I traveled to busy crowded wall street to meet with a great first amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. Floyd Ab [...]
Climate Rally in Albany
On Wednesday, January 13th, both climate change groups went to Albany to go to a climate rally and march. All of us (Ming, Jane, Maisy, Grah [...]
Meeting with Jackie Rowe-Adams, founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. 1/12
On January 12th, my group and I went to 306 West 128th Street to meet with Jackie Rowe-Adams, founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E., which is a [...]
Our Meeting with Kim Russell
Kim Russell is currently head of the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is a organization that works to prevent gun [...]
Meeting with Ronald Kuby
A few days ago we met with Ronald Kuby, a very famous criminal lawyer. Much like Ronald Kuby he explained to us the injustices of the police [...]
Our Visit to MMC.
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 [...]
Interview With Nisan Chavkin
On Thursday we spoke to Nisan Chavkin. Chavkin works at CRFC (Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago) where he is the Executive Director. [...]
Interview With Daniel Sherrel (Beyond Coal Campaign.)
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 [...]
Our metting with Leah Gunn Barrett
We meat with lea gunn barrett. She is the executive director of the organization, NYAGV. New Yorkers against gun violence. Tough we talked b [...]
NYAGV Meeting 11/18/15
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, [...]
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Newark
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. [...]
Food Banks
After traveling to the farm in Newark, we drove to a food bank. A food bank is a place, or warehouse, where food and supplies are shipped. P [...]
Democracy Now Visit
On Thursday, December 17 my Social Justice group, freedom of speech went to Democracy Now! An independent news program with independent news [...]
Food Stamp Challenge
The Food Stamp Challenge is a challenge you give to yourself. If you don’t know what a food stamp is, a food stamp is a small amount o [...]
Interview with Brian Torres
Interview with Brian Torres. Although we had to reschedule this interview on a very short notice it was a very successful interview for our [...]
St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen 12.9.15
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 [...]
PS 98
We went out to PS 98 on Monday December 14. The event we were going to attend (DEER) was canceled so we did other stuff around the school. W [...]
Interview With Joel Berg and Outreach 11•18•15
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 arou [...]
Interview With Brian Torres
On November 23, my group and I met with a man named Brian Torres. Brian is currently a climate change activist who is creating a documentary [...]
Feildwork #1 Beauty Culture Film
So far our social justice group has gotten off to a great start. I am really enjoying the project and feel very passionate about it. We kick [...]
Beyond Coal Campaign Rally: City Hall
We went to a rally at city hall organized by the beyond coal campaign. Although we had emailed Daniel Sherrell many times before this about [...]
New SchooNew School Equity For Children Press Conference NYC
The Confrence had many young adults talk about what they were doing in their communities, and other peoples communities. One kid was campaig [...]
This Changes Everything Screening at Patagonia
On Wednesday, November 11 my group and I went to a screening of a movie called “This Changes Everything” we met at the school at [...]
Meeting With Donna Dees 11/11
On November 11th my Social Justice group met with Donna Dees. She started the Million Mom March, which brought moms across the country toget [...]
Beauty Culture
Me and my group watched a documentary called Beauty Culture. It was a about how society thought women should act and how they should look. I [...]
Black Panther:Vanguard of the Revolution
This past Wednesday my group and I went to BAM to see a screening of the movie The Black Panther. It was a movie about the hard times that A [...]
Trip to the Paley Center for Media
DOn Monday the 16th, my group and I went to visit the Paley Center for Media, for one of our first outdoor field works! We had been contacti [...]
Seeing Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution!
On Wednesday 11/18 the Freedom of Speech group and ours went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The movie we saw was about the Black Pa [...]
Food stamped movie screening
We watched a movie that explained the struggles us rising food prices and how its a struggle for people bellow the poverty line to get acces [...]
Waiting For Superman
Waiting For Superman was a very interesting movie which made us realize that Charter Schools were an option. I was surprised how hard it was [...]
Interview with inventor and CEO of GoldieBlox Debbie Sterling
Debbie Sterling is the inventor and CEO of toy company Goldie Blox and we had the amazing opportunity to conduct an interview with her on ho [...]
“When I Came Home” Directed by Dan Lohaus, shown to 8th grade
My Social Justice group, Fighters 4 Fighters, came across the movie “When I Came Home” directed by Dan Lohaus. I came across th [...]
Miss Representation review
Miss Representation is a documentary that came out in 2011, and it is all about feminism. More specifically, it is about women and their por [...]
GoldieBlox
GoldieBlox is a toy company, invented by Debbie Sterling, with the goal of getting young girls building. The idea behind this now incredibly [...]
Visit to the Paley Center for Media
On January 6th, My Social Justice group and I went to the Paley Center for Media. For those of you who don’t know, The Paley Center is [...]
On beauty film review
On Saturday, November 15th, my social justice group met with a young woman named Stephanie, who took us to see On Beauty, a film staring Ric [...]
Washington Square Park, Survey On Basic Veteran Issues and Veteran Facts, On Friday January 16th 2015
On January 16, my group (Fighters 4 Fighters) and I had walked to Washington Square park with a 5 yes or no question survey. The s [...]
Ronald Kubi
The last fieldwork that we went on was a trip to the law offices of Ronald Kuby. His daughter went to LREI when she was younger. Ronald Kuby [...]
Speaker Series
For our third fieldwork, we went to a speaker series on juvenile incarceration at the LREI Highschool. There we listened to Frank Greenburge [...]
Watching Very Young Girls
Very Young Girls is a movie that was directed by David Schisgall. Very Young Girls is a movie that goes inside the lives of sex trafficking [...]
Sanctuary For Families Second Visit
Going to Sanctuary for Families for a second time was so much fun. We were so glad they gave us the opportunity to come back. When we came b [...]
“When I Came Home” Class Movie Screening
On January 29th, my group and I screened “When I Came Home” the documentary by Dan Lohuas to the rest of our class with the hope [...]
Green burger center
On Thursday we met with the green burger center. A we met wth Cheryll Roberts and talked about juvenile incarceration. We had a good time an [...]
Interview With Robert DeSena of Council for Unity on December 16th
Interview with Robert DeSena of Council For Unity on December 16 We went to John Dewey High school in Brooklyn to go meet and have an interv [...]
Interview with Patricia McCormickd, Author of Purple Heart
On Tuesday January 2, my group and I had the pleasure of interviewing Patricia McCormick via Skype, the award winning author of Purple Hear [...]
Interview With Daryl Kahn, December 19
On Tuesday, December 19th, Zeb, Caleb, and I met with Daryl Kahn. Daryl is a journalist with a very admirable desire for knowledge. He curre [...]
Interview with Award Winning Author Patricia McCormick
On Tuesday January 20th, my group, Fighters 4 Fighters were given the opportunity to interview the award winning Author Patricia McCormick v [...]
December Visit to Council for Unity
On December 14, 2014, Caleb, Austin, and myself went to John Dewey High School to visit Bob DeSena, the founder of Council for Unity, or CFU [...]
Interview With Daryl Kahn
On Tuesday, Deecember 19th, my group and I went to interview to journalist Daryl Kahn. Right now, Daryl works for an online newspaper calle [...]
Interview With Vincent Warren
On december 11, 2014, my group and I interviewed a man named Vincent Warren. Vincent Warren is the executive director of the Center for Cons [...]
Interview With Ronald Kuby
Our group was lucky to meet with Ronald Kuby, an American criminal defense and civil rights lawyer. Ronald Kuby is a very reputable lawyer a [...]
5 Question Survey in Washington Square Park
On January 16, my group and I walked to Washington Square park with a 5 question yes or no survey in hand. The survey contained 5 facts on v [...]
5 Question Survey In Washington Square Park About Veteran Issues
Jacob Hirsch Fighters For Fighters 3rd Social Justice Blog Post Washington Square Park, Survey On Basic Veteran Issues and Veteran Facts, On [...]
Interview with writer Patricia McCormick
On Tuesday January 20, we were luckily enough to meet with the award winning Author Patricia McCormick. She is an author of many books such [...]
Survey about veterans in Washington Square Park
On Thursday January 16. 2015, we gave people at Washington Square Park a survey on veterans to see if people realized the issues veterans fa [...]
Interview with Coe Booth (12.16.14)
On December 16th, my group and I interviewed Coe Booth, a current writer (author of Tyrell) and former ACS (Administration for ChildrenR [...]
Ashley Coneys Visit
On December 4th, 2014, my group and I had the pleasure of having Ashley Coneys come to our class to give a “Know Your Rights” workshops [...]
Interview with Dan Lohaus
On Wednesday 11/19/14, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Lohaus, the director of the documentary “When I Came Home” a film made in [...]
Interview with Dr. Tenner and Isaac Gonzalez
On October 28th my social justice group went to the New York VA Hospital on East 23rd Street. When we first walked in we met with the Execut [...]
Talking with Steve Liss
Steve Liss is a photographer and activist who has photographed juvenile offenders and been a major social justice activist. He taught us [...]
Interview with Ismael Nazario
Can you imagine how it would be like to be all alone, with no one to talk to but yourself, for 23 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 4 months s [...]
Interview with Cheryl Roberts
My social justice group and I recently went to the Greenburger center to ask some followup questions from the Mass Incarceration Speaker Ser [...]
Interview With Robert Gangi
On Wednesday the 12th of November, my group and I interviewed Robert Gangi the head of the Police Reform Organizing Project(PROP). PROP is a [...]
Interview With Bob Gangi
On November 12, 2014, my group and I met with Bob Gangi, the head Organizer of PROP. PROP is the Police Reform Organizing Project, this is a [...]
Visit to One Police Plaza
On Tuesday, December 2nd, my group mates and I visited One Police Plaza. One Police Plaza is where the headquarters of New York City Police [...]
IDEAS: Speaker Series- Mass Incarceration
On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, my social justice group and I walked to LREI where we attended our first Speaker Series Event. This was our s [...]
Lecture at NYU
My social justice group nervously walked into the NYU building, not really knowing what to expect. We made the wrong turn a few times, but e [...]
LREI Speaker Series-Wrongful Incarceration
On November 18th, my group members and I had the great opportunity to sit and listen to a panel on wrongful incarceration, organized by the [...]
Interview with Robert Gangi, Head Organizer for P.R.O.P,
On Wednesday, November 12, my group members and I had the pleasure of meeting with the Head Organizer of the Police Reform Organizing Projec [...]
Rally at Columbia University
In October, my group attended a rally at Columbia University. It was lead by the group on the Columbia campus that fights for victims of s [...]
Interview With Beria Camargo of Strong Youth
On Tuesday, December 2nd, me and my group went to Uniondale New York to meet with Beria Camargo of Strong Youth. Strong Youth is an organiza [...]
Trip to the IFC center 11/5/14
On Wednesday November 5th my group and I traveled to the movie theater to see Tough Love. This movie was about two parents, Hannah from New [...]
Speaker Sister Mary Ellen O’Boyle
On Thursday, November 13th 2014, Sister Mary Ellen O’Boyle visited and spoke to the whole class. We had interviewed her before and had [...]
Arts & Crafts with WIN organization. 11.20.14
On Thursday November 20th, 2014, my group and I went to WIN (Women In Need) organizations East Harlem branch to do some volunteer work. WIN, [...]
Interview with Ms. Stephanie Ubreall, NYC Crime Commission, 11/25/14
Interview with Ms. Stephanie Ubreall, NYC Crime Commission, 11/25/14 On Monday, November 24th, my group members and I went on our second fie [...]
Interview with Dan Lohaus, Director of the Documentary, “When I Came Home”
On Wednesday 11/19/14, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Lohaus, the director of documentary “When I Came Home” a film mad [...]
Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis
For this fieldwork, my group and I conducted an interview with New York Times Magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis, a writer who wrote last month&# [...]
Meeting With Sister Mary Ellen O’Boyle
The meeting with Sister Mary O’Boyle was my group’s first social justice fieldwork. My group didn’t have any experience on [...]
Interview with Saadiq Bey
Hello. my name is Damian. I am working on a social justice group focusing on youth incarceration and why this is so wrong. As a team, we sch [...]
Meeting with Saadiq Bey
On Wednesday our group met with an activist and LREI parent Saadiq Bey. After exchanging a few emails, our group, met with him in the Learni [...]
Interview with Mr Jaron Evelyn, Victim of Stop and Frisk/Racial Profiling and Brutality, 11/6/14
On November sixth, my group had the pleasure of being able to interview Mr. Jaron Evelyn. At approximately 2:15 pm, he visited the middle sc [...]
Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis, Writer for New York Magazine, 10/14/14
For this field work my group and I conducted an interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis. She is a writer for New York Magazine and wrote an artic [...]
