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Teaneck Advisory: Transportation for Senior & Disabled Residents

June 25, 2013

The Department offers free transportation for senior and disabled residents to medical appointments five days a week; we also provide grocery shopping on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Residents may call the Department to schedule medical appointments in Teaneck, Englewood, and Hackensack, Mondays through Fridays with the exception of Municipal Holidays. In Read More

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Puffin Fights to Commemorate Historic Oak

May 30, 2013

The Record: Bough to history article via northjersey.com DAYS MAY be numbered for a large, historic red oak that has deep roots in Teaneck’s past, but if science is any indication, and a little luck holds, the tree may live on as more than memory. Even as its likely demise Read More

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The Truth Commission Campaign Project

May 29, 2013

2011 ALBA/Puffin Human Rights Award winner Baltasar Garzón’s Truth Commission Campaign Project. The Truth Commission Campaign ProjectThe Baltasar Garzón International Foundation (FIBGAR) is a non-governmental and non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting human rights and the principles of Universal Jurisdiction. Founded upon the basis, FIBGAR’s mission is to defend victims of Read More

2013 United We Dream/Puffin ALBA Award

United We Dream wins ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism “Undocumented and Unafraid”: DREAMers Network Tapped for Human Rights Award New York — On May 5, 2013 the third Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will be presented in New York City to United We Dream Read More

The Bergen County Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence Rally

April 30, 2013

Stand Up For Gun Sanity Took place on April 21, 2013   Photo courtesy of Teaneck Patch For more info and event photos visit http://www.bergengunviolenceprevention.com/ Speakers included: Loretta Weinberg NJ State Senate Majority Leader Robert Gordon NJ State Senator Carole Stiller NJ Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign Read More

Faith Ringgold Limited Edition Prints

April 26, 2013

Printing made possible through a generous grant form the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy. Why the Read More

The Power of the Pen at the Museum of the City of NY

April 24, 2013

Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 pm The Power of the Pen: Literature and Politics During The Great Depression at the Museum of the City of New York During the economic crisis of the 1930s, the written word became an activist political tool. America’s “proletarian literature” movement produced novels, poems, essays, Read More

United We Dream Awarded ALBA/Puffin Prize

March 13, 2013

United We Dream wins ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism “Undocumented and Unafraid”: DREAMers Network Tapped for Human Rights Award New York — On May 5, 2013 the third Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will be presented in New York City to United We Dream Read More

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Puffin Seeks To Establish Museum Celebrating Women Artists

March 6, 2013

The Puffin Foundation is looking to establish a museum that celebrates women artists in Teaneck. We welcome your inquiries, ideas, and partnership suggestions about the construction of the museum. You can contact us at Read More

National Significance Attributed to Puffin/Nation Award for Ben Jealous of NAACP

December 12, 2012

When Benjamin Todd Jealous stepped on stage last week to receive one of the ideological left’s most prestigious awards, he was greeted with thunderous applause from the assembled audience, a collection of this nation’s most unrepentant liberals. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous (Photo: Diane Bondareff, AP) via USA Read More