Actions & Connections

Listed here by city is information about organizations who participated in a Fever Pitch production, as well as action steps offered from the community discussion.

Albany, NY, The Linda WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 1/27/24

Soul Fire Farm

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. They bring diverse communities together on the healing land they steward on Mohican land (in Grafton, NY) to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. Some of their programs include:

  • Doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households known as Solidarity Shares
  • BIPOC farmer trainings
  • Reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers
  • Food justice workshops for urban youth
  • Home garden building for city-dwellers living under food apartheid , and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.
  • Community work and learn days twice a month
Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE)

SHARE is a coalition of community, faith, environmental justice and climate action groups whose mission began in order stop the proposed Sheridan Hollow fossil fuel power plant that would burn fracked gas in two large turbines to generate both electricity and heat for the Empire State Plaza. After accomplishing this goal, they are now working to redirect the state funds dedicated to that project toward a renewable energy solution.  SHARE is working with NYPA to promote the use of geothermal and other renewable sources of energy. This includes getting the heating system of the buildings and the remainder of the air conditioning converted to renewable energy, which will enable the phasing out of the gas-driven Sheridan Avenue Steam Plant.

Fridays For Future

Fridays for Future is a team of youth activists organizing from various locations within the NY Capital Region. They are part of a youth-led and -organized global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate.
Capital District weekly climate strikes:

  • 1st & 3rd Friday in Schenectady, 2PM – 4PM at Erie Blvd and State St
  • 2nd & 4th Friday in Albany, 3:30PM – 4:30PM at East Capitol Park
Citizen Action New York

Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society. In their work on climate justice they believe we need to transform our economy with renewable energy jobs and infrastructure and hold corporations accountable for the cost of repair to our climate and our public health. To promote true climate justice, those closest to the crisis—communities of color, low-income communities and indigenous communities—must be the ones driving the solutions. Some of their work includes:

  • Passing Climate, Jobs, and Justice Package to invest $10 billion in programs and policies to stop global warming and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, protect public health, and create green jobs and infrastructure
  • Passing Climate Change Superfund Act to force the fossil fuel companies who have willfully created the climate crisis to pay for the solutions to it
Radix Ecological Sustainability Center

The mission of the Radix Center is to promote ecological literacy and environmental stewardship through educational programs based around demonstrations of sustainable technologies. The Radix Center teaches practical skills that can be applied to create environmental and economic sustainability. An emphasis is placed on issues of food security, health, and the remediation of contaminated soils. Some of their programs include:

  • A community compost initiative
  • Farm Share
  • Workshops
  • Youth Employment Program
The Sanctuary for Independent Media

We use art, science and participatory action to promote social and environmental justice and freedom of creative expression. Some of their iniatives include:

  • Collard City Growers (CCG), a food justice arts and permaculture project located on a formerly abandoned lot on the Sanctuary’s campus in North Troy.
  • The North Troy Art, Technology and Urban Research in Ecology Lab, otherwise know as NATURE Lab (NL), is the Sanctuary’s community health and urban ecology research initiative.
  • People’s Health Sanctuary (PHS) is a community-led mutual aid health initiative, based in North-Central Troy. PHS is a space for gathering, sharing food, moving your body, working through grief, cultivating a sense of safety, and embodying a culture of care. 
  • The Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail embeds art, culture, history, and ecology into an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue in North Troy, weaving a journey from Glen Avenue to 101st Street and Freedom Square. Visitors engage with stories of environmental justice, ecological restoration, and the living legacy of Indigenous presence on these lands through sculptures, gardens, multimedia, murals, and live events and workshops. 
  • Water Justice Lab is a water quality sampling program in collaboration between Riverkeeper and The Sanctuary.
Save the Pine Bush

Save the Pine Bush is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to saving the Albany Pine Bush and Karner Blue habitat in New York State.

The Grafton Peace Pagoda

The Grafton Peace Pagoda is one of 80 peace pagodas, or Buddhist stupas, around the world built since World War II under the guidance of Nichidatsu Fujii (1885–1985), a Buddhist monk from Japan and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. Fujii was greatly inspired by his meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 and decided to devote his life to promoting non-violence. In 1947, he began constructing Peace Pagodas as shrines to world peace. Buddhist nun, Jun Yusada is the caretaker of the Grafton Peace Pagoda and leads Peace Walks, chanting a prayer for peace Na-Mu-Myo-Ho-Ren-Ge-Kyo, in order to stop the use of nuclear weapons and power and all forms of violence. In 2023 The Grafton Peace Pagoda returned over 200 acres of land the the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans.