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Brian Lehrer Show Looks for Your Input on Activist New York
July 5, 2012
The Brian Lehrer Show is featuring photos from the Activist NY exhibit and looking for your comments. The exhibit is in the new Puffin Foundation Gallery at the Museum of the City of NY. Take a look. The Museum of the City of New York has a new exhibit, “Activist Read More
ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award for 2012: New Yorker
June 18, 2012
Check out an excerpt from The New Yorker about 2012 Puffin ALBA Award winner Kate Doyle. June 9, 2012 The Documents and the Murderers Posted by Peter Canby How do you bring tolerance and democracy to a country in which a murderous military, which over the years killed some two Read More
Activist New York: In These Times
June 18, 2012
Two strikers from the Ladies Tailors union stand on the picket line during the 1910 “Uprising of the 20,000” garment workers strike in New York City. (Bain News Service/Library of Congress) Culture » June 14, 2012 Archivists as Activists Curating social movements. BY Sady Doyle ‘Activist New York’ does not Read More
Indypendent Reviews Activist New York
June 18, 2012
THE INDYPENDENT ———– a FREE PAPER for FREE PEOPLE ———– Exhibits Rebel City By Mike Newton June 13, 2012 Issue # 177 “Activist New York” Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue Through August 2012 “Vote Yes on Woman Suffrage.” “Apathy is Fatal to Freedom.” “The Other Read More
Four Centuries of Citizen Struggle
June 18, 2012
Tuesday, June 19 at 6:30 pm Four Centuries of Citizen Struggle: How Grassroots Movements Have Grown in New YorkThe First Discussion at the Puffin Foundation Gallery at the Museum of the City of New York. A discussion exploring the Read More
Puffin Gallery on NYC Activism Opens at Musuem of the City of NY
May 22, 2012
New York City’s Dramatic 350-year History as a Focal Point of Social Activism Explored in New Puffin Gallery at the Museum of the City of New York Museum of the City of New York Inaugurates the Puffin Foundation Gallery with Activist New York (New York, NY) – Activist Read More
Puffin Gallery on NYC Activism to Open at Musuem of the City of NY
April 25, 2012
First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition on Social Activism Opens; Explores New York City’s Dramatic 350-year History as a Focal Point of Social Activism Museum of the City of New York Inaugurates the Puffin Foundation Gallery with Activist New York Strike Pickets, 1910, Bain News Service photograph, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Read More
Puffin-ALBA Award for Human Rights 2012
January 30, 2012
The Puffin Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Announce Second Award for Human Rights Activism Contact: Marina Garde 212-674-5398 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • www.alba-valb.org Para más información en español sobre el Premio ALBA/Puffin al Activismo en pro de los Derechos Humanos de este año, pinche aquí. New York Read More
Puffin donation helps Teaneck restart literacy program
January 4, 2012
“A $120,000 donation from the Puffin Foundation will allow the school district to reinstate a summer literacy and math program that was eliminated this year because of budget cuts, officials said. ‘I think it might be one of the largest donations – without a grant attached to it – that Read More
Kushner to Donate $100,000 Puffin Nation Prize to CUNY Students
December 15, 2011
Nation Institute Tony Kushner Makes the News Posted by Jayati Vora, December 7, 2011 to the Nation Institute Blog JOHN MUNSON Neal Rosenstein (left), of the Puffin Foundation, presents the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship to Tony Kushner (right) at The Nation Institute’s annual dinner gala, December 5, 2011 It’s Read More