{"id":561,"date":"2009-04-23T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/04\/action.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T20:22:51","slug":"action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/action.html","title":{"rendered":"Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Activism wing of the ID Project went Fast and Furious Full Throttle this weekend during our Day of Practice in Action on Sunday.\u00a0 There was some Furiously Fun Sewing, Petitioning and Street Theater going on.\u00a0 This is the Full Report!<\/p>\n

We started with a Pep talk from Rafi, Ethan and “The Schneiderman”, then broke off into groups to make the most of the sunny Sunday.<\/p>\n

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NYS Senator Eric Schneiderman…there’s a lot of pep in that talk.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Running the Re-usable Bagmaking Group<\/strong> were Glenn and Meaghan from Bags for the People<\/a>, they are totally awesome and helped teach us how to turn all these\u00a0 scraps of old clothes…
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..into these sweet bags!<\/p>\n

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The Petition Group<\/strong> hit the street to get some signatures in support of legislation that will reduce plastic bag usage in New York, which we hope to work with Senator Schneiderman to introduce to the NY State Senate.\u00a0 Just a small group of petitioners collected over 250 signatures in less than 3 hours.\u00a0 They seriously rocked those clipboards!<\/p>\n

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Happy people working to make happy laws<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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And after some prep time in the back room @ LILA the Street Theater Group<\/strong> took to the street performing “The Capture and Trial of the Bagmonster”.\u00a0\u00a0 The petitioners followed us up to Union Square and one look at the bag monster and people were begging to do something to help.<\/p>\n

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Bagmonster appears courtesy of Chicobag.\"\"<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Hearts were opened, action was packed and a lot of people got a very direct visualization of what plastic bag consumption looks like.\u00a0 Overall a great day!<\/p>\n

We’re going to be hosting more Re-Usable Bag Making events the next three Monday evenings from 5:30 -6:45 pm @ LILA Center.\u00a0 More info on that here<\/a>.\u00a0 And because this day of action was so successful we’re planning ANOTHER DAY OF PRACTICE IN ACTION to close Responsible Consumption month on May 17th.\u00a0 Save the Date!<\/p>\n

Action on.<\/p>\n

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