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

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Remember Y(our) Connection: envisioning beauty and building compassion
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Remember Y(our) Connection: envisioning beauty and building compassion

Artist Spotlight: Learn about Remember Y(our) Connection, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant. This public participatory art project aims to cultivate relationships through dialogue and conversation about shared struggles and indigenous wisdom. They are presenting Mushroom Power! a creative thought exercise inspired by the power of mushrooms to cleans the environment.

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All Street Collective: local communities responding to climate change
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All Street Collective: local communities responding to climate change

Artist Spotlight: Learn about All Street Collective, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant. This artist collective and gallery exhibits works by emerging and underrepresented artists and hosts programs spanning education, performance, music, and community-building. They will present Community Climate where attendees can participate in building an archive of Queens climate actions.

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Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation
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
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
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
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!
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.