October 20: Yes on Prop 1 Rally @ Father Demo Square

Yes on Prop 1 Rally
Sunday, October 20 at 1:30 pm
Father Demo Square (Bleecker Street and 6th Ave.)

Prop 1 will appear on the back of ballots across the state to protect New Yorkers’ rights and fundamental freedoms – including abortion.

Prop 1 will ensure our reproductive rights and fundamental freedoms – including abortion – are protected from government interference, keeping the power with New Yorkers and not politicians — permanently. It also protects New Yorkers from government discrimination – because no New Yorker should be taken advantage of by those in power.

While abortion is currently protected by state law, those laws are not ironclad and can be overturned. New York’s current laws can be changed or rolled back depending on who is in the state legislature or Governor’s Mansion. Passing Prop 1 would ensure the right to abortion can’t be rolled back in New York.

Read the full text of the amendment here.

Oct. 19 Vote Blue Bus to Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 19 · 8am – 7pm EDT
Reserve a spot on the bus

Please see below special invitation from incoming State Committee Member and GSD member Wei-Li Tjong:

The time is nigh to help lift up our Democratic candidates by a targeted on-the-ground effort in a neighboring Pennsylvania district!

Through VOTE BLUE, and the efforts of our Democratic clubs and our electeds, we have first dibs to OFFICIALLY SIGN UP for the bus. UNTIL YOU SIGN UP YOU HAVE NOT RESERVED YOUR SEAT. WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THIS SUNDAY TO FILL THIS BUS OURSELVES (and with all of our friends and family who want to join) — and then the bus will be open to any other volunteers.

Let’s fill this bus and make it a day of friends, family and neighbors in common cause. What’s happening is frightening. We have a chance to pitch in to invigorate and educate. It will come down to work like this, if Democrats have a hope of forming the necessary bulwark to shore up our Republic.

Let’s take ourselves to the frontlines, and put boots on the ground for our beliefs, decency and common sense!

It’s a long day, but we will be back by 7pm leaving and returning from Union Square East (between 15th & 16th Sts). We will be trained on the way by experienced canvassers, so no experience needed!

Wear comfy shoes and bring your smartphones and some ways to charge them. More FAQs are at the Eventbrite link below. If helping out with $10 per person is any issue, please let me know, and we will arrange to cover it.

Be sure WHEN YOU SIGN UP to pick the “PA Combined (House, Senate, Harris/Walz)” bus ticket — and each person, regardless of age, needs to be registered.

Let’s do this!

For questions, please email: president@grandstreetdems.nyc.

March with us Saturday for Reproductive Rights & Fair Access

#BansOffOurBodies

Please join us this Saturday, October 2 at the March for Reproductive Rights & Fair Access.

Join pro-choice advocates in all 50 states to send a loud and powerful message to the Supreme Court and politicians everywhere – Bans Off Our Bodies!

GSD is a co-sponsor of the march, and we are joining a coalition of downtown Democratic Clubs in NYC and a large slate of co-sponsors across the country.

Saturday, October 2
MARCH FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & FAIR ACCESS

12:30 pm
Sign-making at Seward Park Library Plaza

1:30 pm
March to Foley Square

2:00 pm
Rally at Foley Square &
March to Washington Square Park

Why It’s Urgent to March Now
The right to safe, legal abortions is at risk like never before. Texas enacted an abortion ban, making abortions virtually inaccessible in the state. Now the Supreme Court will hear an abortion challenge that could render the protections of Roe v. Wade meaningless across many parts of the country. The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning Mississippi’s abortion restriction on December 1st.

Thank you to GSD members Ellen Garvey and Joyce Ravitz for including our club in this important event!

Thursday 6/17 at 5:30 pm: 2021 Primary Rally

We have a special event: our first in-person GSD meeting in over a year!

Primary Rally
Thursday 6/17 at 5:30 pm
Hester Lot (Hester & Essex)

Come out to hear from our endorsed candidates as they close out their 2021 campaigns. After the event, if you haven’t voted yet, you can join us at JHS 56, where polls stay open that evening until 8:00 pm.

This event is open to everyone in the neighborhood — please share with your friends and neighbors so they know about early voting and have a chance to hear directly from these amazing candidates.

Saturday 6/12 at 11:00 am: Stroll to the Polls!

We’ll be out this Saturday to greet the start of early voting. Meet up at Ahearn Park (the triangle at Grand Street and East Broadway) at 11:00 am so we can walk over to JHS 56 together and cast our votes.

After voting, we’ll be out on Grand Street with some of our endorsed candidates to make sure all our neighbors know that early voting has started and runs through Sunday, June 20.

This event is open to anyone, so please get your friends and neighbors to join you on what should be a dry, mild Saturday.

May 27 at 7 pm: GSD Book Club with Joan Silber, author of “Secrets of Happiness”

We’re delighted to be joined by Seward cooperator and award-winning author Joan Silber on May 27 to discuss her new book Secrets of Happiness. This conversation will be hosted by our last book club guest author, Ian Rosenberg.

Silber’s last book, Improvement (2017), won the the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. With Secrets of Happiness Silber again tackles a layered story from multiple points of view — each chapter has a different narrator with a different stake in the events.

Secrets of Happiness is a beautiful novel of interconnected New Yorkers, whose lives and actions have far-reaching consequences, for better or worse. Silber imbues this tapestry of characters with an empathy and humanity that is so resonant, especially at this late-pandemic moment, when we’re reckoning with our losses and our community”

— District Leader Caroline Laskow

You can buy Secrets of Happiness from McNally Jackson and other booksellers.

May 4: Virtual Reception in Support of Lindsey Boylan for Borough President

Please join us to support Lindsey Boylan,
candidate for Manhattan Borough President.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021
7:00 – 8:00 pm
RSVP for Event

Co-Hosts
Tommy Loeb
Marion Riedel

Sponsors
Grand Street Dems, Pat Arnow, Lee Berman, Wendy Brawer, Bill Ferns, Fannie Ip, Jeremy Sherber, Kim Sillen, Vanessa Thill

Zoom link provided before the event.  
This event is private and closed to press.

Suggested Donation Levels:
$175 | $100 | $50 
$25 | $10 | $5
 A donation is not required to attend.