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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">See the attached flyer for next Tuesday’s Farm Workers Town Hall. Please try to attend this important event.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Gold Coast Cinema, 7 pm, March 5. (The Location is now Hillwood Commons)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Townhall on Justice for NYS Farmworkers</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Tuesday, March 5: 7-8:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Gold Coast Cinema in Hillwood Commons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">LIU Post<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Join the conversation with advocates and scholars from labor, academic, community, and religious organizations. This event is free and open to the public. Guest speakers include: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">-Roger Clayman (ED of the LI Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">-Bishop Provenzano (Episcopal Diocese of Long Island)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">-Margaret Gray (Political Science Professor at Adelphi, author of <i>Labor and the Locavore)</i><br>
-Juan Antonio Zuniga, (CASA Riverhead (workers center))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">-Ruth Faircloth (Rural Women’s Outreach Coordinator, Rural & Migrant Ministry)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">This event is a part of a series of Town Halls taking place across NYS from February 10 to March 5 in Rochester, New Paltz, Yonkers and Long Island. Get informed on how you can advocate for the passage of the Farmworker Fair Labor
Practices Act in NYS! (Directions on campus: The Gold Coast Cinema is next to Starbucks in Hillwood Commons. Everyone can park behind Hillwood and walk in and go down the stairs. The stairs are clearly in front of the entrance. Hillwood is next to Tilles.)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">On Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/242634056615401/"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.facebook.com/events/242634056615401/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sponsored by the Department of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Regional News/Events:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Sunday,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>March 3rd</b></span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> @Cinema
Arts Center in Huntington- <a href="https://slowfoodnorthshore.org/" target="_blank">Food on Film annual series</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">with
short documentary films and seven courses of food to inspire participation of our homegrown, Long Island local foodshed system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Long Island Nature Organization hosting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://longislandnature.org/" target="_blank">LI Natural History
Conference</a></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">March
23 and 24th</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">-</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">if
you love nature and experts on nature then you'll love this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://longislandnature.org/2019_conference/2019_schedule.shtml" target="_blank">lineup</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of amazing
speakers! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Sierra Club Film Screening of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Reinventing Power</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at East Meadow
Library on </span></i><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">March 26th</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">send
rsvps to myself or LI Organizer, <a href="mailto:jessica.enzmann@sierraclub.org" target="_blank">jessica.enzmann@sierraclub.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Upcoming hearing on plastic pollution*</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">at
Suffolk County Legislature bldg-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>March 5 @ </b></span><b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">2PM</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">; public comments
will be heard about two resolutions for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>reducing plastic</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><a href="https://www.scnylegislature.us/DocumentCenter/View/61279/Introductory-Resolution-1113-19-PDF" target="_blank">IR 1113:
A Local Law to Require Single-Use Plastic Straws and Stirrers be Distributed in Suffolk County “By Request” Only</a>; <span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><a href="https://www.scnylegislature.us/DocumentCenter/View/61309/Introductory-Resolution-1121-19-PDF" target="_blank">IR 1121:
A Local Law to Prohibit the Distribution of Single-Use Plastics in County Parks</a> <span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><u><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Written comments can be sent to:</span></u><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Jason Richberg, Suffolk County Legislature Clerk; </span><span style="color:black">725 Veterans Memorial Highway, <span class="m8997138911707850114gmail-m-5312553318842589229m500323175530085588m2232852591012923885gmail-m3747671267881800600gmail-m2501533127684753973locality"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Smithtown</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">, </span><span class="m8997138911707850114gmail-m-5312553318842589229m500323175530085588m2232852591012923885gmail-m3747671267881800600gmail-m2501533127684753973p-region"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">NY</span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> </span><span class="m8997138911707850114gmail-m-5312553318842589229m500323175530085588m2232852591012923885gmail-m3747671267881800600gmail-m2501533127684753973p-postal-code"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">11787</span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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