Suffolk NOW

10/26/2026

https://apple.news/A91Je4KrnTNOR7sQTLlH6NA

Families forced to flee as Netanyahu tries to prove security credentials after two Israeli soldiers killed days before election

10/25/2026

Dear NOW members,
In case you feel you are at risk for our event today, you can attend the meeting on zoom.
Here is the link:

Meeting id: 892 3942 3423; Passcode: now
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89239423423?pwd=yxXeqeESuB7MwZiVQWCStmI66aWQId.1

Thanks,
NOW Suffolk Board

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10/25/2026

ALERT!!! A Suffolk NOW Board member this morning has been told that ICE has been informed about our event today at Teatro Yerbabruja. Our event is open to anyone and is meant to be educational. The Suffolk NOW Board has discussed the situation. No threats have been made to the best of our knowledge. We plan to go ahead at this time with the event if you would still like to attend.

10/24/2026

PLEASE JOIN US.TOMORROW OCT 25, 4-6 PM AT TEATRO YERBABRUJA, BAY SHORE. YOUR PRESENCE AT THIS EVENT IS IMPORTANT. TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE CHANGE.

10/22/2026

Worth watching in its entirety. Fascinating--her description of the process in the judgements in Rwanda. Catherine McKinnon, the feminist who talks about feminist jurisprudence contributed to the judgement.

We speak with the acclaimed South African human rights lawyer and international jurist Navi Pillay, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Pillay has been the United Nations high commissioner for human rights and a judge at both the International Criminal Court and at an international trib...

10/21/2026

REMINDER TOMORROW! Hope to see you there!

10/16/2026

Suffolk NOW is so far pleased to announce the following Endorsements for the upcoming mid-term elections:
1). Abigail Field, Suffolk County Clerk: WriteInAbigailField.com

Voters have to write in Abigail’s name on the ballot in order for your bote for her to count. Here’s how: When you see the County Clerk race on the voting machine screen, touch "Write-in" and type Abigail Field, then follow the on-screen instructions to confirm your selection.

2). Rebecca Kassay, Re-Election as NYS Assembly District 4
3). Kimberly Wilder, NYS Assembly District 2
4). Chris Murray, NYS Senate District 1

A longtime Suffolk County resident with 20+ years of legal experience. Write in Abigail Field for County Clerk.

10/15/2026

I am a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

There are five of us. Five people, appointed by a parliament most of the planet could not find on a map, who decide, once a year, which human being the world has agreed to call good.

I know. I know. I think about it on the tram.

We meet in a building on Henrik Ibsens gate, a street named after a man who wrote almost exclusively about people discovering they are frauds, which nobody on the committee finds funny except me. There is a room with a long table and the portraits of the dead laureates looking down, Mandela, the Dalai Lama, a great many earnest men in spectacles, and one portrait we do not discuss, which is Kissinger, 1973, awarded while the bombs were still falling, after which two of our predecessors resigned and the satirist Tom Lehrer said political satire was now obsolete. We keep him on the wall. A reminder. Every family has the uncle.

It is October in Oslo, which means the sun gives up around four in the afternoon like a civil servant, and it rains the particular Norwegian rain that isn’t quite falling, just hanging there, judging you. I arrive with wet shoes. I always arrive with wet shoes. There is coffee, because this is Norway and there is always coffee, we drink more of it per person than almost anyone alive, and someone’s wife has sent kanelboller, the cinnamon buns, and we sit, five Norwegians, damp, caffeinated, sugared, and we decide the moral standing of the entire species.

Let me tell you how it actually works, because the world imagines a cathedral and it is, I promise you, a book club with a mandate.

287 nominations this year. 208 people, 79 organizations. Anyone can nominate, that’s the secret nobody understands: a professor, a parliamentarian, a former laureate, so the “nominee” list is meaningless, it’s a suggestion box, and every autumn some congressman nominates his own golden retriever and the press writes “SHORTLISTED.” Nobody is shortlisted. There is no short list the public ev