The Alternative Times
Newsletter October 2024
Discussing Psilocybin accessibility at the Farm Aid Festival
Assembly member Amy Paulin was our guest speaker in September. Watch the entire meeting here:
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We have created a coalition of psychedelic adjacent groups called New Yorkers for Wellness Options. Check out our work in progress logo designed by Jake Blaydes.
Our team spent some time talking about psilocybin-containing mushrooms at the Knolls Atomic Power Lab and at the Farm Aid festival as well as a private backyard concert in Troy.
ASKS:
Want to help us plan events and actions?! Let us know! We need more boots on the ground!
We are fundraising! Please donate through our website to help us achieve our $5,000 goal.
The easiest way you can help: Contact your lawmaker. Assemblymember and Senator
A sample email to send can be found on our website’s ACT tab.
COMING UP:
Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 8th 7pm. Guest Speaker: Senator Nathalia Fernandez. Sponsor of S3520 and S7832.
333 2nd Ave, Troy NY 12182, or via ZOOM
November Meeting: Tuesday, November 12th 7pm, Guest Speaker: Eugenia Bone.
333 2nd Ave, Troy NY 12182, or via ZOOM
Buffalo Action: Tuesday, October 22nd.
Reconsider Screening and Panel at the Irish Classic Theater Company
More details to follow.
NYMHA Fundraiser: Saturday, November 9th.
Indian Ladder Farms will host an evening of Music, Food, and Fungi Fun to raise funds to continue our work. More details to follow. If you’d like to get involved let us know! We are looking for people to help coordinate donations and food, and run the event.
New York City Action - do you want to help us bring people together for an evening of discussion following a screening of Reconsider’s short documentary films? Date, Time, Location TBD (November?)