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Anjali Deshmukh 4/11/25 Anjali Deshmukh 4/11/25

April 26, 2025: Earth Day in NYC

Street Works and Queens Mutual Aid will be out on the streets April 26th for Earth Day, along with hundreds of others participating in activities, DOT’s Car Free Earth Day. Come say hi!

Plus: volunteers needed! Email mutualaidqueens@makejusticenormal.org if you're up for an easy day helping out!

Anjali Deshmukh 4/11/25 Anjali Deshmukh 4/11/25

Sign the Petition for a Just Transformation of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway

Add your name to this collective call to the New York City and New York State Departments of Transportation to invest in planning and implementation of a comprehensive, environmental justice-centered plan to transform the BQE, a highway carrying nearly 150,000 trucks and cars every day through neighborhoods where more than 280,000 people of color, low-income people, and immigrants live, learn, work, play, and pray.

Anjali Deshmukh 10/9/24 Anjali Deshmukh 10/9/24

Street Works in the News: The Personal Letters Inspiring Others to Vote. Words: Anne-Marie Hoeve Video: Boris Shirman

Anjali Deshmukh 10/2/24 Anjali Deshmukh 10/2/24

Street Works in the News: Taking Climate Week Out of Conference Rooms and Into the Street, by Monique Aiken, Anjali Deshmukh, and Ernest Verrett

Anjali Deshmukh 10/2/24 Anjali Deshmukh 10/2/24

Street Works in the News: Climate Art and Activism Work in Tandem at Street Works Earth Festival, by Hannah Weaver

“What we need to do is what our elders did, our ancient people did, which was pull back to the roots.” -- Nicolas Linares, referring to ancient medicinal and agricultural technologies.

Anjali Deshmukh 9/18/24 Anjali Deshmukh 9/18/24

Street Works Earth, Sept. 22, 2024, 11AM — 5PM: details & logistics

Announcing: Street Works Earth 2024 event details. Here’s an at-a-glance view of details so far on artist installations and participating creatives tabling with resources and actions. See you on the Street!

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Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation

MJN stands with NY Renews and our fellow CJ and EJ peers holding a Climate Justice Action Week starting May 20th to mobilize for climate action. (Image designed by Anjali Deshmukh.)

Thanks for joining us at the Queens Botanical Garden’s climate art fest

MJN members, Ernest Verrett and Anjali Deshmukh, were glad to promote 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition, Queens Climate Project, and NY Metro Climate Reality Project at the Queens Botanical Garden for their Climate and Art Festival on April 27! (Photo by Ernest Verrett.)

Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art

We're excited to announce Street Works, a platform collective members are building for artists who practice co-creation in public spaces. This is one way in which we hope to make justice normal in a cultural asset ecosystem that has not not served justice. (Image: Art: “Bending the Universe,” by Anjali Deshmukh. Photo: by Chasi Annexy.)

Listen to our podcast: Into the Record

What if justice were normal? What and who will it take to imagine new habits, processes, and structures that default to loving care, anti-bias, pro-Earth, and solidarity?

Thanks to the Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL) for supporting Into the Record podcast!

We’re grateful for the support from the Racial Equity Asset Lab (the REAL) to design and launch MJN’s podcast Into the Record, as part of our Narrative Change work.