AEMI BE AN ARTS HERO Meeting today and scheduling future for racial justice

BE AN ARTS HERO 501c4 status unverified. Partner vs. Kindred Spirit clarification, somewhat

Disingenuous. THe Dawn Act is not a bill. Not bipartisan. No republican support.

43 billion not actionable number. Jay Blumenthal: "They are putting the cart before the horse."

Brandon Lorenz (AEA) will reach out to  propose commit to talk twice a month.

https://beanartshero.com/

 

AEMI document on shared drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GFwi9uY-g_etG1ExP8ng9OV10R7mDYhG/view?usp=sharing

Hi everyone,

Thank you to those who participated in last Tuesday's AEMI racial justice leg/policy meeting. Per our conversation, please find an updated draft of our AEMI policy agenda for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts, entertainment, and media industries. The red text indicates edits and additions based on folks' feedback from last week's meeting. 

We would like to schedule the next AEMI racial justice leg/policy meeting to review this updated draft. Please use this Doodle poll to indicate your availability for a one hour Zoom by COB Thursday, November 5th: https://doodle.com/poll/cz3vy5g6avun7me9?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

Best,

Michael

From: Michael Wasser <mwasser@dpeaflcio.org>

Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:56 AM

Subject: Reminder: AEMI Racial Justice Leg/Policy Meeting, TODAY, 12 pm ET

 

Hi everyone,

A friendly reminder that we'll meet at 12 pm ET today to discuss how the AEMI's shared legislative and policy priorities can advance racial justice. 

An agenda and call-in information is at the end of this email. 

Attached is the "Potential AEMI Policy Agenda to Advance Racial Justice" draft to guide this initial discussion. Also attached is a document summarizing the racial justice strategies employed and planned by AEMI unions that folks identified on the June 18th meeting.  

I look forward to talking with you soon. 

Best,

Michael

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Agenda

Introduction

Review draft potential policy agenda

Discuss existing agenda items

Identify additional agenda items

Discuss initial plan to implement policy agenda

Review next steps

Conclude

Call-in Info

DPE AFL-CIO is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: AEMI Racial Justice Leg and Policy Meeting

Time: Jul 9, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85902434869

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From: Michael Wasser <mwasser@dpeaflcio.org>

Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:33 AM

Subject: Date/Time Confirmed: AEMI Racial Justice Leg/Policy Meeting, Thurs. July 9th, 12 pm ET

 

Hi everyone, 

Please hold 12 pm ET on Thursday, July 9th for a meeting about how the AEMI's shared legislative and policy priorities can advance racial justice. This is the time that worked for most people. An agenda and call-in information is listed below.

We will use the attached "Potential AEMI Policy Agenda to Advance Racial Justice" draft to guide this initial discussion. The policies and actions listed on this document were mentioned by AEMI unions during the June 18th meeting on racial justice. Please also find attached a document summarizing the racial justice strategies employed and planned by AEMI unions that folks identified on the June 18th meeting.  

Best,

Michael

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Agenda

Introduction

Review draft potential policy agenda

Discuss existing agenda items

Identify additional agenda items

Discuss initial plan to implement policy agenda

Review next steps

Conclude

Call-in Info

DPE AFL-CIO is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: AEMI Racial Justice Leg and Policy Meeting

Time: Jul 9, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85902434869

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From: Michael Wasser <mwasser@dpeaflcio.org>

Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 1:58 PM

Subject: AEMI Racial Justice Meeting Follow-Up - Scheduling initial legislation/policy meeting (Response requested)

 

Hi everyone, 

As Jennifer indicated in her email below, DPE is convening legislative/policy folks to discuss how the AEMI's shared legislative and policy priorities can advance racial justice.  Please complete this scheduling Doodle by COB Wednesday, June 24th, to indicate your availability for a call in the coming weeks: https://doodle.com/poll/3vzzbr78fv52vzeu

Once we have a confirmed date/time, I will send around call-in information and an agenda. I will also circulate a draft policy agenda to inform and guide our conversation. 

If you are not the right person for this meeting or you want to include additional people from your union, please let me know. 

Best,

Michael

 

From: Jennifer Dorning <jdorning@dpeaflcio.org>

Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 1:04 PM

Subject: AEMI Racial Justice Meeting Follow-Up

 

Hello All,

 

Thank you again to all who attended Thursday’s AEMI meeting on racial justice. DPE is compiling a list of the equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts that are currently utilized or being planned by AEMI unions. The list will be categorized under the following headings: 1) internal union initiatives, 2) collective bargaining, and 3) contract administration. We are seeking more detail on a few items that were discussed and aim to have that list out to folks ASAP. DPE plans to regularly update and check in with folks regarding the items on the list.

 

DPE also plans to convene AEMI legislative and policy folks to develop a legislative and policy agenda for 2020 and 2021. They will also discuss relationship building with the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Michael Wasser will start this week to get the legislative and policy meeting scheduled.

 

In the meantime, please let me know if you have any questions.

 

Best,

 

Jennifer

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Jennifer Dorning

President

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO

815 16th Street, NW, 6th Floor

Washington, DC 20006

www.dpeaflcio.org

Social: @DPEaflcio

Recent History

Union VP Carson Grant holds a representative seat on the board of the DPE - AFL-CIO, President Carlo Fiorletta ,  Theodore Bikel, (Rest in Peace), 4A's President, formet Actors Equity President, Mara Lesemann Secretary Treasurer at a 4A's meeting

 

 

 

 

 

Officers Debbie Klaar, Carlo Fiorletta, Mara Lesemann GIAA FIlm fest at Anthology Film Archives NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mario Fratti's Iraq/Blindness performed on NYC Stage Members, Ian Dunn, Troy Dane and Gretchen Poulos joining President Fiorletta at Producers Club NYC

 

 

 

 

 

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THEATER READING SERIES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 AT 7:30PM/ET

GARY MORGENSTEIN’S LOVE STORY SAVING STAN KICKS OFF NEW SURVIVAL IS INSUFFICIENT ZOOM THEATER READING SERIES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 AT 7PM/ET

NEW YORK – September 25, 2020 – Gary Morgenstein’s drama Saving Stan, a love story about passion friendship and suicide, will kick off the new Survival is Insufficient Zoom Theater reading series on Tuesday, October 6 at 7PM. 

The live 10-play series from the award-winning international production company Ego Actus will run Tuesdays at 7PM/ET through December. There will be no performance on Election Day, November 3.

Directed by Joan Kane, the play stars Frances McGarry* as Patrice Doner, Carlo Fiorletta* as Stan Nagel and J. Dolan Byrnes* as Jack Sanders.

In Saving Stan, Stan Nagel, a rich 60ish lawyer, suffers a stroke and can’t talk. His best friend Jack Sanders, a 60ish failed writer, somehow hears him and believes Stan is asking for help to commit suicide in exchange for getting his estate. The third character, 40-something lonely Patrice Doner, the live-in health care aide, grows suspicious of Jack’s intentions while falling in love with Stan, with whom only she can dance. Who will Save Stan?

To RSVP, please go to https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlcOytqD0iGtDFHi4nuiTRa5VkL-nVavzG

Gary Morgenstein (playwright) is the author of the funny new drama about racial harmony, A Black and White Cookie, directed by Joan Kane and produced by Ego Actus, which is scheduled to open at the Theater for the New City post-lockdown. His other works include A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx about a 1960s Bronx Jewish family's search for the American Dream. Morgenstein is the author of six novels including the critically acclaimed dystopian sci-fi baseball book A Mound Over Hell, which has been hailed as “1984 Meets Shoeless Joe.” His new novel A Fastball for Freedom will be published in 2021. https://www.bhcpress.com/Books_Morgenstein_A_Mound_Over_Hell.html

Joan Kane (director) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus and directed Sycorax at HERE, Play Nice! at 59e59 theaters, I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Joan was named Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival and is in the nytheatre.com Indie Theatre Hall of Fame. Joan has an MFA in Directing and MS in Museum Education. She is a member of NY Madness, the Dramatists Guild, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and New York Women in Film and Television. Please see www.EgoActus.com and JoanKane.us

Frances McGarry* (Patrice Doner) Ph.D. is an actor, arts advocate activist, theatre educator and podcast host of First Online With Fran featuring ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the arts. She recently performed in a Zoom staged reading of A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx by Gary Morgenstein and was cast in a Hallmark TV movie that airs Christmas 2020. Member of LPTW & NYWIFT. Represented by BMG. Please see her sites www.FirstOnlineWithFran.com and www.FrancesMcGarry.com

Carlo Fiorletta * (Stan Nagel) is a Queens College CUNY graduate. Stage: Robert in Proof, Sal in Those the River Keeps, Kaplan in Bogosity.  Film: Detours an Action on Film Festival best film and Surviving Family both are on Amazon Prime and Tubi. TV: Multiple dramas and histories. Carlo is the President of GIAA and married to Mara Lesemann.

J. Dolan Byrnes* (Jack Sanders) is a New York based actor.  Recent credits: Charles Peters in Don't Stand Up! streaming soon at the Hartford Fringe Festival, Harry Truman in Give ‘Em Hell Harry, Mark in Melting the ICE, and Nikolai in The Long Way Home.  He is two-time recipient of the Outstanding Actor Award from Planet Connections Theatre Festivity for his roles in what do you mean and When The Party’s Over. Dolan is a member of Articulate Theatre Company. 

Stark Wilz (stage directions reader) is a musician and singer/songwriter, as well as actor, poet and writer in New York City who hails from the Midwest and spent his youth acquiring culture and education in America and Europe. His music and political musings are widely available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon, as well as a host of other platforms.

Ego Actus (production company) is Latin for "My Way." Joan Kane and Bruce A! Kraemer created an independent theatre in company in 2009 dedicated to doing art for art's sake. Joan directs, Bruce designs, and we both produce. We have done shows at 59e59 Theaters, Theatre Row, HERE, Theater for a New City, Urban Stages and in Edinburgh and Prague. We are affiliated with the League of Independent Theater and Fractured Atlas. We consider this series to be our 50th production. Please see http://egoactus.com/plays/survival-is-insufficient/ 

*appears courtesy of Actor’s Equity

For further information please contact: BruLight@aol.com