THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE AND DISTRIBUTION

Thanksgiving Food Drive

Donations: November 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Distribution: Tuesday, November 22, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Help People in Need (PIN), Pakistani American Youth Society (PAYS), and New York City Councilmember Rita Joseph (District 40) fight food insecurity at Thanksgiving. Together, they're requesting food donations for a Thanksgiving food drive.

Donated items will be accepted on November 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th, and 20th, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at PIN, 766 Coney Island Avenue, between Cortelyou and Dorchester roads.

Food will be distributed to all members of the public on Tuesday, November 22nd, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at PAYS, 1001 Newkirk Avenue, between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road.

Home deliveries will be made to single mothers, seniors, and shelters on November 23rd and 28th.

The requested food items are turkey (halal, if possible), stuffing, cooking oil, potatoes, beans, rice, etc.

PIN can be contacted by sending an e-mail to contact@peopleinneed.org or by calling (201) 878-4332.

FREE TRAINING IN TREATING OPIOID OVERDOSES

Free Naloxone (Narcan) Training for Treating Opioid Overdoses

Thursday, February 13th, 6:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

 
Naloxone is used to rapidly reverse and block the effects of opioid overdoses in emergency situations. Because overdoses are so frequent, it's possible that you'll unexpectedly encounter someone who has overdosed on an opioid. After being trained in the use of this nasal spray, you may be able to save a life. 

The medication is able to quickly restore normal breathing in people whose breathing has slowed down or has stopped due to an overdose of heroin or prescription opioid pain medication.

Free training in the use of Naloxone (brand name: Narcan) will take place on Thursday, February 13th, 6:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. at Pakistani-American Youth Society. The training is open to all. Everyone there will receive a free Narcan kit.

It's been legal to carry Naloxone in New York State since 2006.

After the Naloxone training, if you're interested in a presentation about bail reform, you're welcome to stay for it.
 

Location

Pakistani-American Youth Society
1001 Newkirk Avenue
at the corner of Coney Island Avenue (map)
Kensington - Midwood, Brooklyn
(347) 903-7297
payouthsociety @ gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/PAYSUSA
https://paysusa.org

"OUR CLIMATE CRISIS, OUR COMMUNITY" WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW? WHAT CAN WE DO? (A FREE EVENT)

Our Climate Crisis, Our Community:
A Kensington/Flatbush Conversation about

Climate, Community, and Creating Change
Friday, October 4th, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

We are in the midst of a mass extinction event. Scientists say we are experiencing abrupt climate breakdown. We are all threatened by this unprecedented ecological crisis. 

"Our Climate Crisis, Our Community: A Kensington/Flatbush Conversation about Climate, Community, and Creating Change" will cover these topics and concerns:

• The latest climate science and its global justice context
• First person: What the climate crisis means for my family
• What do fires in the Amazon have to do with glacial retreat in Asia?
• Building community ties and resilience in Kensington/Flatbush
• What we can do together to change course.
  

Our neighbors and community organizers Kashif Hussain and Shahana Hanif will join Bhumika Muchhala and Richard McLachlan, climate activists with Extinction Rebellion Flatbush, for this important discussion about everybody's future on Friday, October 4th, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The free event is open to all. It is co-sponsored by Pakistani American Youth Society and Extinction Rebellion Flatbush. 

Event location
PAYS Community Center
1001 Newkirk Avenue, at Coney Island Avenue
Kensington, Brooklyn

GUARANTEED HEALTH CARE: HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR IT?

How are We Going to Pay for It?  

A New York Health Act Forum on Costs, Benefits, Savings, and Your Pocketbook

Sunday, March 24th, 4:50 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Do you have questions about how the New York Health Act (Assembly Bill A4738A)  will affect your wallet?  Do you have questions about how this bill will affect the New York state budget?

The bill

"Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health."

 
New York Senate District 17 for Progress (NYSD 17 for Progress) and Pakistani American Youth Society (PAYS) will host a thirty-minute presentation on the "economics" of the act, followed by a thirty-minute Q&A session to answer your questions.

Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D., will give the presentation. He is Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and co-director of Community Studies of New York, Inc.

Agenda:

• 4:00 p.m.-to 4:50 p.m.: NYSD 17 for Progress monthly meeting. All are welcome to join.
• 4:50 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: Presentation
• 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.: Q&A session
• 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Networking reception

The forum is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to attend. The event is child-friendly, with a side room and movies for the children.

Location
Pakistani American Youth Society
1001 Newkirk Avenue
at the corner of Coney Island Avenue
Kensington / Midwood, Brooklyn

KENSINGTON'S 70TH PRECINCT SECTOR C "BEAT COPS" WILL MEET WITH RESIDENTS TONIGHT

The Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) for Sector C of the 70th Precinct will meet with the community at a safety meeting tonight (Monday, October 29th) at 7:00 p.m. Sector C covers the precinct's portion of Kensington.

The NCOs are Officer Dilek Kahveci and Officer Bryan Cipolla. They can be e-mailed at, respectively, Dilek.Kahveci @ nypd.org and Bryan.Cipolla @ nypd.org.

The meeting will be held at Pakistani American Youth Society, 1001 Newkirk Avenue, between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road (map).

The doors will be opened at 6:30 p.m. to serve refreshments.
 

GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE FOR ALL IN NEW YORK: FILM SHORT AND FORUM

                                    Film Short and Forum:
                     Guaranteed Healthcare for All in New York
                   Sunday, February 25th, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 A film short screening and a forum will feature the documentary film Fix It: Healthcare At The Tipping Point and a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Roona Ray. The evening will focus on building the momentum to pass single payer, universal healthcare for all, the New York Health Act, and the best ways for everyone to get involved.

The event is open to the public, and it is free. It will be held on Sunday February 25th, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., in a wheelchair-accessible venue. Popcorn and light refreshments will be provided. RSVP here.

The host organizations are HEAL NY: Healthcare Equity Action League of New York; Campaign for New York Health; Pakistani American Youth Society; NY Senate District 17 for Progress; Ditmas Civic; and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro Chapter.

Fix It: Healthcare At The Tipping Point examines how the healthcare system "damages the economy, suffocates business, discourages physicians, and negatively impacts on the nation's health--while remaining unaffordable for one-third of our citizens."

The advocates for reform included in the film are activists, health policy experts, economists, physicians, nurses, patients, and business and labor leaders.

After the screening, Dr. Roona Ray, family doctor and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter, will speak and will take questions about the New York Health Act and grassroots efforts to bring universal healthcare to New York.

Location
Pakistani American Youth Society
1001 Newkirk Avenue
between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road
Kensington / Midwood, Brooklyn

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL COVER ALL NEW YORKERS--IF THE STATE SENATE WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE IT

Public Forum on Health Care for All New Yorkers

Sunday, January 7th, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

At the national level, essential health care coverage for Americans is being undermined. The Affordable Care Act may not survive. Fortunately, we in New York State can rely on our state government to provide us with a health care plan that will comprehensively cover every one of us. Or can we?

Under the New York Health Act (NYHA), everyone in New York State would have all of their medical expenses covered. No co-pays, deductibles, or premiums would be required.

Patients could see any doctor they want to because networks would cease to exist. Valid claims wouldn't be denied because private insurance companies wouldn't be overseeing our health care.

We would be covered for primary care, specialists, hospitalization, dental, vision, prescriptions, reproductive health care, mental health, medical supplies, and preventative care.

Health care would be publicly financed:

"Coverage would be funded through a graduated assessment on payroll and non-payroll taxable income, based on ability to pay. For 98% of New Yorkers, it will be a substantial reduction in what they now spend." (http://nyhealthact.com/)

Thirty-one Democratic State Senators are in favor of the NYHA and are sponsoring it. Thirty-one Republican State Senators and the one Democrat (Simcha Felder) who caucuses with the Republicans are opposed to it.

Our State Assembly has passed the NYHA three times.

BUT THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND SIMCHA FELDER WON'T LET THE NYHA BE RELEASED FROM THE HEALTH COMMITTEE SO THAT THE FULL SENATE CAN VOTE ON IT.

At a public forum on the New York Health Act, find out what New Yorkers can do to help get this bill passed in the upcoming legislative session.

The public forum will be on Sunday, January 7th. The program will run from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by conversation and refreshments until 6:00 p.m.

Location
Pakistani-American Youth Society
1001 Newkirk Avenue
between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road
Kensington / Midwood, Brooklyn