Jennings Street Apartments is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for approximately 83 affordable housing rental apartments under construction at 870 Jennings Street in the Crotona Park East section of the Bronx. This building is being constructed through financing from the New Housing Opportunities Program (NEW HOP) of the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and the Multifamily New Construction Participation Loan Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/apartment/lotteries.shtml
Empowering More than 9,000 Students at CUNY!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
ACLU Scholarship: HS Seniors can win $7,000 for college!
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is offering 15 of the nation’s most committed, young civil liberties activists $7,000 each toward their first year in college. You must be a current high school senior to quality to be an ACLU Youth Activist Scholar.
Deadline to apply is Nov. 16, 2009. For complete info, visit: www.nyclu.org/scholarship.
Winners will also be invited to participate in ongoing activities with the ACLU, including the Youth Activist Institute training program at the ACLU's national office in New York City.
We are looking for students who have stood up for civil liberties, tolerance, free speech and equality!
To qualify for the scholarship you must:
Have demonstrated a strong commitment to civil liberties through some form of activism. Be a high school senior planning on entering an accredited college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking student. Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale at the time of graduation. Not be a current ACLU plaintiff or witness in a legal case.
Please contact the Youth Scholarship Coordinator at the NYCLU, Danny Sternberg at dsternberg@nyclu.org for details about the scholarship.
Past scholarship winners were recognized for a wide variety of civil liberties activism, including:
Creating and teaching a class for middle school students that aimed to lower the risk that they would enter into the School to Prison Pipeline
Challenging a principal’s policy of punishing students for writing “gay pride” on their arms and notebooks.
Advocating on behalf of American Indian youth in the juvenile justice system
Producing and hosting a youth radio program focusing on LGBTQ rights and issues
Working with school officials to ensure that intelligent design would no longer be taught in the public schools.
Starting an organization to get teen girls involved in the decisions that affect them, such as policies on sexual harassment and access to comprehensive reproductive health care.
Activists who complete the application forms will be judged on the following standards (in order of importance):
The strength and depth of the candidate’s contributions to civil liberties
Demonstrated leadership
The likelihood of the applicant continuing commitment to civil liberties in the future
Commitment to academic excellence
Demonstrated financial need
Deadline for submissions is Nov. 16, 2009. The application is attached.
Deadline to apply is Nov. 16, 2009. For complete info, visit: www.nyclu.org/scholarship.
Winners will also be invited to participate in ongoing activities with the ACLU, including the Youth Activist Institute training program at the ACLU's national office in New York City.
We are looking for students who have stood up for civil liberties, tolerance, free speech and equality!
To qualify for the scholarship you must:
Have demonstrated a strong commitment to civil liberties through some form of activism. Be a high school senior planning on entering an accredited college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking student. Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale at the time of graduation. Not be a current ACLU plaintiff or witness in a legal case.
Please contact the Youth Scholarship Coordinator at the NYCLU, Danny Sternberg at dsternberg@nyclu.org for details about the scholarship.
Past scholarship winners were recognized for a wide variety of civil liberties activism, including:
Creating and teaching a class for middle school students that aimed to lower the risk that they would enter into the School to Prison Pipeline
Challenging a principal’s policy of punishing students for writing “gay pride” on their arms and notebooks.
Advocating on behalf of American Indian youth in the juvenile justice system
Producing and hosting a youth radio program focusing on LGBTQ rights and issues
Working with school officials to ensure that intelligent design would no longer be taught in the public schools.
Starting an organization to get teen girls involved in the decisions that affect them, such as policies on sexual harassment and access to comprehensive reproductive health care.
Activists who complete the application forms will be judged on the following standards (in order of importance):
The strength and depth of the candidate’s contributions to civil liberties
Demonstrated leadership
The likelihood of the applicant continuing commitment to civil liberties in the future
Commitment to academic excellence
Demonstrated financial need
Deadline for submissions is Nov. 16, 2009. The application is attached.
Next @ disTHIS! November 18: GABY: A TRUE STORY!
By popular demand, we’ve unearthed another “lost classic” that hasn't been seen in over 20 years. Never released on DVD -- we're pleased to bring the disTHIS! faithful a one-time screening of a seldom seen film much beloved by disability scholars, advocates and cinemaphiles alike, GABY: A TRUE STORY.
Two years before MY LEFT FOOT garnered critical international acclaim there was GABY -- a film which covers much the same ground as the Daniel Day Lewis film but from a disabled woman’s perspective.
GABY chronicles the early life story of Gabriela Brimmer, the daughter of rich European holocaust survivors transplanted to Mexico. The movie chronicles Brimmer’s life with cerebral palsy and how she battled prejudice to become an acclaimed author and advocate. GABY excels on many levels especially its candid examination of Brimmer’s cheeky humor and budding sexuality. Rachel Levin won acclaim in the title role and Norma Aleandro received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1987.
See it while you can - on the big screen like it was intended. disTHIS! print features an additional 5 minutes not shown in theatres!
Date: Wednesday, November 18th. Doors open at 6:30pm. Screening begins promptly at 7. Refreshments will be served.
NEW location: 5 Washington Place, Room 101 (Ground Floor). East of Washington Square Park on the North side of the street. West of Broadway.
Suggested donation: $5
Screenings are regularly filled to capacity. To RSVP and secure YOUR seat, please email: disTHIS@dnnyc.net
ABOUT US: The disTHIS! Film Series: disability through a whole new lens, a program of the Disabilities Network of New York City in partnership with the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, began in April 2006 to showcase festival quality, cutting edge short, documentary, feature and experimental films that offer ground-breaking interpretations of the disability experience beyond "movie of the week" cliches. disTHIS! moved to the NYU campus in February 2009.
Acclaimed by film lovers with and without disabilities, disTHIS! has been featured in Disability Studies Quarterly, the Tribeca Trib, the New York Nonprofit Press, Able News and the New York Times Sunday Style section (above the fold!) for presenting quality disability cinema with the promise of "No handkerchief necessary, no heroism required!" disTHIS! films are frequently funny (and meant to be), remarkably sexy (just like our audiences), often controversial (because we like that sort of thing).
Always provocative; never quite what audiences expect. Monthly screenings are followed by audience “talk-backs” and regular appearances by filmmakers, actors and other guests.
Throughout our history, we've teamed with Film Comment, the BBC, IFC, and MTV, among others, to bring audiences the cutting edge of disability-themed cinema and television.
disTHIS! is made possible by our partners at NYU's Council for the Study of Disability and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the generous support of the Fund for the City of New York, the Screen Actors Guild, the NYU Community Fund and our members.
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