News

October 6th.

League members running the Amityville Memorial HS Voter Registration event with Rho Kappa (National Social studies Honor Society ).  Students are assisting League members and fellow students (at the table) and class presentations and discussion on Voting history, rights, eligibility, ways to vote, why to vote, and identifying misinformation and bias in the media.

By Elise Antonelli

Our event for the National League Unite & Rise action day on Aug. 8 at the Cinema Arts Centre featured the film Join or Die, about the importance of building social capital. It featured prominent Harvard professor, author, and spokesperson on civic engagement, Robert Putnam.

The film was followed by a panel of community advocates and activists representing the Long Island Progressive Coalition, Communities Not Cages, Housing Help Inc., NAACP, Health Education Project of SEIU/1099 Health Care Workers Union, Planned Parenthood, and SEPA Mujer Inc.