Northeast corner of Route 35 and Deal Road, Ocean Township, NJ 07712
Saturday, June 27 and following Saturdays
12 - 2 pm
Gathering in peaceful protest this and every Saturday from 12-3 pm (ending early 6/27 to attend the Rally and March for Equality, below) to assert a halt on the illegal digging of 32 acres of undisturbed forest with evidence of historic indigenous people's presence. While the land owner is moving to destroy the forest, the tree removal permits have not been issued and there is a lawsuit pending against spot zoning and master plan inconsistencies.
Social distancing and masks are required.
Parking available across Route 35 in plaza at southwest corner or take NJ Transit bus 832 (Red
Bank to Asbury Park, see njtransit.com for schedule).
Demanding Justice for Communities of Color:
Ocean Township Rally and March for Equality
Saturday June 27
2 pm
Joe Palaia Park Bandshell
240 Whalepond Rd, Oakhurst, NJ 07755
From Facebook: We urge the members of the Ocean Township community to assemble in solidarity against the racial injustices that have dominated history and continue to dominate our current political, social, and cultural spheres.
This will be a peaceful demonstration focused on mobilizing and educating the residents of our town while honoring the lives of those that have been lost.
The event will begin at the Joe Palaia Park bandshell on Whalepond Road at 2pm and end in a march to the Ocean Township Police Department on Monmouth Road. Show up and make your voices heard. Black Lives Matter.
Hosts: Ocean Twp youth Charlee Reiff, Tobi Omotoso, Candice Ricasa
Please wear a mask and practice CDC social distance guidelines.
This event is done with permission from the Ocean Township Police Department.
Join and share on Facebook:
Ocean Township Rally and March for Equality
ONLINE EVENTS:
1. Friday June 26 - Film and Discussion-Indigenous Land Protection
2. Positive Open Mic -Saturday June 27
3. Environmental Justice Roundtable - Tuesday June 30
4. Let's Talk About Race - Discussion series - Tuesday June 30
Indigenous People's Protection of Land and Water
Online film screening: The Condor and the Eagle
Followed by Q and A with activists featured in the film
Friday June 26
7 pm
Hosted by Extinction Rebellion activists
PLEASE NOTE: Because the link to access this event requests a donation (albeit sliding scale, $1-100), I cannot include it in this email (Google will block it, since I am sending large numbers of 'bcc' emails). Please email me, sarah....@gmail.com and I will send you the link.
From Extinction Rebellion:
The climate crisis is not paused while we battle COVID-19.
The lands and water of Indigenous peoples are being threatened across the globe. Frontline activists are engaged in an urgent battle to save their communities from resource extraction and exploitation.
We must support and learn from those at the frontlines of ecological destruction. The film follows four Indigenous leaders embarking on a transcontinental adventure to document the Indigenous struggle to protect their land and water. Travel with them from the Canadian boreal forests to the heart of the Amazon jungle and learn more about the struggle for climate justice.
One Mic, One Soul - Positive Poetry Open Mic by and for All
Saturday June 27
6-8 pm
Online (see Zoom link below)
From Facebook:
KYDS presents One Mic One Soul! This is virtual event is open to all.
Hosted by KYDS-Konscious Youth Development Services, konscious.orgTransforming Youth, Schools & Communities through Holistic Practices!
Join and Share Facebook event page:
NJ Spotlight Virtual Roundtable:Environmental Justice and Clean Energy in New Jersey Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMOnline via Zoom teleconferencing
This will be an online event only. Please register to have a Zoom link emailed to you Tuesday, 6/30, at 3pm with a repeat send at 4pm.
The recent introduction of two new environmental justice bills aims to protect overburdened communities from undue pollution impact and provide them access to clean energy development opportunities. The first bill (S232) requires evaluation of environmental and public health impacts on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications, including power generation facilities. The second (S-2484) creates within the BPU the Office of Clean Energy Equity and seeks to ensure those living in low- and moderate-income communities share in the benefit of ratepayers' investment in the state's clean energy future. Many questions need to be addressed. Among them: - What are the practical steps to ensuring environmental justice (EJ) and low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities benefit from clean energy advances in New Jersey?
- How will a 21st century clean energy economy improve air quality and create long-term jobs for these communities?
- What needs to be done to bring community solar, expanded opportunities for reducing energy usage, and emerging technologies (such as energy storage) to these communities?
- How can community energy planning contribute to equitable clean energy outcomes?
- What is the utility's role in these challenges?
Join us at this NJ Spotlight Roundtable as we explore potential paths in clean energy development toward the realization of environmental justice in New Jersey. Panelists: Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, Chair of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, Assistant Professor, Professional Practice, Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Deputy Director, Organizing and Advocacy, Ironbound Community Corporation Dr. Nicky Sheats, Esq., Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State University; New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, PSEG (NJTV Trustee) Moderator: Tom Johnson, Energy & Environment Reporter, NJ Spotlight Sponsor: 
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NJ Spotlight Virtual Roundtable:Environmental Justice and Clean Energy in New Jersey Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMOnline via Zoom teleconferencing
This will be an online event only. Please register to have a Zoom link emailed to you Tuesday, 6/30, at 3pm with a repeat send at 4pm.
The recent introduction of two new environmental justice bills aims to protect overburdened communities from undue pollution impact and provide them access to clean energy development opportunities. The first bill (S232) requires evaluation of environmental and public health impacts on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications, including power generation facilities. The second (S-2484) creates within the BPU the Office of Clean Energy Equity and seeks to ensure those living in low- and moderate-income communities share in the benefit of ratepayers' investment in the state's clean energy future. Many questions need to be addressed. Among them: - What are the practical steps to ensuring environmental justice (EJ) and low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities benefit from clean energy advances in New Jersey?
- How will a 21st century clean energy economy improve air quality and create long-term jobs for these communities?
- What needs to be done to bring community solar, expanded opportunities for reducing energy usage, and emerging technologies (such as energy storage) to these communities?
- How can community energy planning contribute to equitable clean energy outcomes?
- What is the utility's role in these challenges?
Join us at this NJ Spotlight Roundtable as we explore potential paths in clean energy development toward the realization of environmental justice in New Jersey. Panelists: Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, Chair of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, Assistant Professor, Professional Practice, Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Deputy Director, Organizing and Advocacy, Ironbound Community Corporation Dr. Nicky Sheats, Esq., Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State University; New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, PSEG (NJTV Trustee) Moderator: Tom Johnson, Energy & Environment Reporter, NJ Spotlight Sponsor:
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Join and Share on Facebook: One Mic One Soul (Virtual)
NJ Spotlight Environmental Justice and Clean Energy Roundtable
Tuesday June 30
4 -5 pm
Online (see below for registration info) - hosted by NJ Spotlight.com (news outlet)
The recent introduction of two new environmental justice bills aims to protect overburdened communities from undue pollution impact and provide them access to clean energy development opportunities.
The first bill (S232) requires evaluation of environmental and public health impacts on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications, including power generation facilities.
The second (S-2484) creates within the BPU the Office of Clean Energy Equity and seeks to ensure those living in low- and moderate-income communities share in the benefit of ratepayers' investment in the state's clean energy future.
Many questions need to be addressed. Among them:
- What are the practical steps to ensuring environmental justice (EJ) and low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities benefit from clean energy advances in New Jersey?
- How will a 21st century clean energy economy improve air quality and create long-term jobs for these communities?
- What needs to be done to bring community solar, expanded opportunities for reducing energy usage, and emerging technologies (such as energy storage) to these communities?
- How can community energy planning contribute to equitable clean energy outcomes?
- What is the utility's role in these challenges?
Join us at this NJ Spotlight Roundtable as we explore potential paths in clean energy development toward the realization of environmental justice in New Jersey.
Panelists:
Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, Chair of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, Assistant Professor, Professional Practice, Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School
Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Deputy Director, Organizing and Advocacy, Ironbound Community Corporation
Dr. Nicky Sheats, Esq., Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State University; New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, PSEG (NJTV Trustee)
Moderator:
Tom Johnson, Energy & Environment Reporter, NJ Spotlight
This will be an online event only. Please register to have a Zoom link emailed to you Tuesday, 6/30, at 3pm with a repeat send at 4pm.
Here is the link for registration (a button in the email, makes a very long link but it works): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-justice-and-clean-energy-in-new-jersey-tickets-95270393311?aff=odeimcmailchimp&utm_source=NJ+Spotlight++Master+List&utm_campaign=b368d35f45-11.09+Offshore+Wind+RT_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1d26f473a7-b368d35f45-398650949&mc_cid=b368d35f45&mc_eid=4422f17c20
Let's Talk about Race Roundtable
Tuesday June 30
7 -8 pm
Online - hosted by Red Bank Public Library
Let's Talk About Race is back!
Please join us as the RBPL presents its first remote Let's Talk About Race program, "Conversations for Our Times." Registration is required for this program -- you will be sent a Zoom link the day of the program when you register.
TO REGISTER: please visit https://www.redbanklibrary.org/calendar-covid?view=calendar&month=06-2020 AND Click on Let's Talk About Race (June 30).
For more information, call 732-842-0690, 9 - 5, Monday - Friday.
Our discussion will be led by a panel to include Kerwin Webb, President of the NAACP/Educational Specialist at Interfaith Neighbors. Minister Webb works to develop educational programs for youth and young adults. He earned a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and has working relationships with organizations including the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the Center for Public Justice (CPJ)
He will be joined by:
Marcia Grayson. Rev. Marcia Grayson is a retired correctional officer (25 years) with Monmouth County Correctional Facility. After her retirement, she earned a Doctorate of Ministry from New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 2019, with a dissertation entitled, “Using Transformational Preaching to Bring Awareness and Break the Silence in Congregations regarding Sexual and Physical Abuse Against Women
Rabbi Marc Kline, who serves Monmouth Reform Temple with a passion for tradition and social justice. Rabbi Kline has taught Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, and Government courses at the high school, college, and graduate seminary levels for most of the last thirty years. Prior to entering Rabbinical School, Marc earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and practiced law there for almost 6 years.
Suubi Mondesir, a graduate of RBR Creative Writing Academy; rising Junior at Fairleigh Dickinson University and responsible for the Communications for T. Thomas Fortune House.
