MYD Director of Event Application Deadline TOMORROW!
May 29, 2009 5:14pm | Taylor | Uncategorized
Reminder that Our Event Director position is currently open!
More details HERE
Applications are due TOMORROW May 30th
Click to download the application HERE
Contact me, Taylor Stirek (secretary [at] gomyd.com) to submit your application and ask any questions!
Have a great weekend!
Photo of the Week: New Past Times
May 29, 2009 11:59am | Jessica G. | News, Only in NY, Photo of the Week
Yet another angle of Times Square’s new pedestrian-friendly look.
Photo by John Niedermeyer
Speaker Quinn Hustles From Albany to NYC
NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn had a busy day yesterday, first delivering our letters to State Senators’ offices in Albany and then hightailing it back to NYC for a rally to protest California’s Prop 8 decision:
“Suprema” Sotomayor
MYD is 110% with the Daily News:
Barring the very remote possibility that something untoward crops up, let’s get on with the making of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, alumna of Cardinal Spellman High School, giving the Bronx pride of place along with Brooklyn (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Queens (Antonin Scalia) on the world’s most august judicial panel.
MYD Delivers The Goods
May 27, 2009 8:40am | Emmy | MYD Itself
Over 1500 leters were delivered. See the quarter for scale reference!
Yesterday, MYD Prez Al Benninghoff and NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took a trip to Albany. There, they hand-delivered a stack of over 1,500 letters from New Yorkers across the state asking their State Senators to support marriage equality.
For the past week, newyorkequality.com has been the focus of MYD’s grassroots campaign to get a marriage equality bill passed. The site launched last Tuesday, and to date, over forty thousand people have visited. The site is simple: look up the info for your State Senator, and either send a handwritten letter yourself, or MYD will print out the one you type up and hand-deliver it to your Senator in Albany.
As you can tell from the photo, a lot of people took us up on the offer. Countless others wrote in their own hand, entreating Senators to support legislation giving equal marriage rights to all.
MYD also made an appearance on CNN Live yesterday. Our very own Julie Blitzer (official title: Social Media Strategist; less official title: awesomesauce) joined the blogging heads at 12:15PM yesterday to share our thoughts on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination and on California’s decision to uphold Prop 8 (boo!). Watch the clips here and here.
MYD Prez Al Benninghoff with City Council Speaker Quinn in Albany
Despite these and many other successes over the course of the past week, the campaign for marriage equality in NY is far from over. We have only 20 solid “yes” votes of the 32 needed for passage of the bill in the New York State Senate. So here’s what you can do (and yes, we know we’re starting to sound like a broken record but it ain’t over till the fat lady sings, or some clever political, metaphorical equivalent we can’t think of right now):
- Join us on Facebook and share it with your friends
- Follow us on Twitter (#nyequality) and retweet us @goMYD to help spread the word
- If you haven’t already, send a letter to your State Senator urging them to support marriage equality
Ready. Set. Click.
Photo of the Week: Come on, New York.
May 22, 2009 10:09am | Jessica G. | News, Photo of the Week
Cast members from the musical Hair demonstrate at Broadway Impact’s Equality rally last Sunday at 6th ave and 45th st.
As of this morning, NYE had received 40,757 visitors which had resulted in over 1,500 letters to Senators across the state. The site has garnered links and praise from far-flung corners of the blogosphere, our New York neighbors, and like-minded progressive (here and here and here) alike.
Write your State Senator to make your voice heard today, and start your Memorial Day weekend off right!
Meanwhile…
Former President of the Nassau County Young Republican Club Nina Petraro Bastardi is running as a Democrat for a local legislative seat:
And you wonder why their base keeps shrinking… Yeesh.
Nassau County Political Brawl from Elizabeth Benjamin on Vimeo.
Politics 3.0: Data.gov Launched Today
May 21, 2009 7:04pm | Julie B | News, Politics 3.0
We at MYD are pretty distracted from our normal blogging duties thanks to a major online campaign we launched on Tuesday.
If I wasn’t busy today connecting with our fans on facebook and supporters on Twitter, I’d write a full post on the newly launched Data.gov. Thankfully, Micah Sifry and Nancy Scola over at techPresident beat me to it:
Speaking on behalf of President Obama and the administration, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett appeared in a web video posted today to announce “an important next step in this historic call to action — one that will help us achieve a new foundation for our government — a foundation built on the values of transparency, accountability, and responsibility.” Today, 120 days after Obama’s call, the White House is launching a new initiative to open government, housed at WhiteHouse.gov/Open. With it comes Data.gov, the new flagship site of the transparent politics movement.
White House Opens Doors on Major Open Government Initiative [techPresident]
MYD Needs YOU… to Plan Events!
May 21, 2009 1:02pm | Taylor | MYD Itself
Do you like what you’re seeing at Gomyd? Are you really excited about www.newyorkequality.com (as you should be!)? Are you currently itching to find a way to become more involved in MYD? You’re in luck!
Our Event Director position is currently open! Responsibilities include (but are not limited to) planning bi-monthly happy hours, monthly fundraisers and other events as you and the Eboard see fit. The Events Director also works with the Political Director as the contact for Elected Officials that are invited to speak at our fundraisers. The ideal candidate knows NYC and the best places to host events in varied Manhattan neighborhoods, or at least wouldn’t mind the leg-work to get familiar! This position also gets a vote on the MYD Eboard.
Applications are due May 30th
Click to download the application HERE
Contact me, Taylor Stirek (secretary [at] gomyd.com) to submit your application and ask any questions!
NYE Paints a Picture
May 20, 2009 4:30pm | Chas | MYD Itself, News
