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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 12/2/24 Anjali Deshmukh 12/2/24

Dec 11, 2024: Elmhurst Community Partnership Coat Drive Recap

In 2024, Queens mutual aid, hosted by Kaleidospace, Veggie Nuggets, and MJN/Street Works supported Elmhurst Community Partnership’s (ECP) big warm clothing drive. Thanks to community, our young network gathered and distributed 47 pairs of socks, 10 pairs of women's tights, and 15 pairs of gloves in less than one week and in partnership with 3 local shops. If you'd like to help us plan activities, sign up here.

Anjali Deshmukh 11/30/24 Anjali Deshmukh 11/30/24

Dec 2, 2024: Coat Drive Planning

Meeting 4: Monday Dec 2, 2024 @ 6pm on Zoom. We'll pick up where we left off in planning specific projects, and updates on specific political education topics that have come up. As always, will hold space for how everyone is doing and new ideas.

Anjali Deshmukh 11/20/24 Anjali Deshmukh 11/20/24

Nov 24, 2024: Activity Planning Meeting

Meeting 3: Sunday Nov 24, 2024 @ 12pm on Zoom. We picked up where we left off in planning specific projects, and updates on specific political education topics that have come up. As always, space is held for how everyone is doing and new ideas.

Anjali Deshmukh 11/14/24 Anjali Deshmukh 11/14/24

Nov 17, 2024: Queens Mutual Aid & Reflection

Veggie Nuggets, Kaleidospace, and Street Works/MJN are held our 2nd small potluck on Sunday @ 7:30pm @ Suryaside Yoga, 49-06 Skillman Ave, Woodside, Queens, to continue planning next steps on mutual aid network building, hold space for voter education, and continue to be together as we think about what our communities need to support justice, including climate justice, in 2025 and beyond.

Anjali Deshmukh 11/14/24 Anjali Deshmukh 11/14/24

Nov 10, 2024: Queens Mutual Aid & Reflection

Veggie Nuggets, Kaleidospace, and Street Works/MJN held a small potluck on Sunday @ 4:30pm @ 2nd Story Pilates and Yoga Studio (between 81st and 82nd on 37th ave in Jackson Heights) to start brainstorming what a local mutual aid network could look like, hold space for voter education, and generally just be together as we think about what our communities need to support justice, including climate justice, in 2025 and beyond.

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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.