1991 Event Archive
January 1991
Christopher Reeve provides leadership in opposing the Inter-Power coal-fired cogenerational facility in Upstate New York, resulting in Inter-Power’s application being rejected by an Administrative Law Judge and sent to the state board for a hearing.
January 1991
Alec Baldwin narrates a short film promoting Citizens Suits in New York State. He also narrates Tong Tana, an HBO documentary on the rain forest.
January 1991
Susan Sarandon appears in a nationally televised special, The User’s Guide to Planet Earth.
January 1991
The Homelessness Committee focuses their efforts on assisting Andrew Cuomo’s HELP program via donations of computers, software, sports equipment, books and public service announcements.
January 1991
Member Richard Kiley provides the voice-over narration for a public service spot for the HELP program.
February 1991
The Creative Coalition begins organizational meetings in California.
February 7, 1991
A membership meeting is held on Using Your Civil Right to a Safe Environment. The speakers are: John Cronin, The Hudson Riverkeeper; Robert Abrams, New York State Attorney General; Eric Goldstein, NRDC; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NRDC Project Attorney.
February 19, 1991
The Creative Coalition supports New York City’s Tue$day Night Out discount program announced by Mayor David Dinkins and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark Green. Christopher Reeve and Alec Baldwin participate in the press conference announcing the program.
March 1, 1991
New York City Comptroller Alan J. Hevesi speaks to members at the Broadway Museum Café – this starts a “How New York Works” series of meetings.
March 5, 1991
Stockard Channing dines with Mayor Dinkins and Commissioner Green on a Tue$day Night Out.
March 6, 1991
The Homelessness Committee tours WeCan – a can and bottle redemption center for the homeless – which results in the city providing warehouse space to enlarge the facility.
March 25, 1991
The newly-organized California members begin educational activities with a meeting on Campaign Finance Reform. Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate is the guest speaker.
April 1991
A program of comedy improvisation classes is inaugurated by members Elizabeth Karr and Lee Kalcheim on a trial basis at Project HELP in the Bronx. Classes range from 25-30 children, ages 8-14 years old.
April 1991
Members Nessa Picker, Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Kathie Berlin raise $55,000 to fund the Hudson Riverkeeper documentary, The Last Riverman.
April 8, 1991
The first Annual Membership Meeting is held and a Board of Directors is elected.
April 10, 1991
California members join with 10 other groups, including the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee, the American Jewish Congress, Planned Parenthood, and People for the American Way in a press conference to announce a letter-writing campaign to counter the American Family Association’s boycott of the television movie Absolute Strangers.
April 11, 1991
Alec Baldwin speaks on First Amendment Rights at the Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation’s Conversations with the Community forum.
April 21, 1991
California members meet to listen to Susan Estich, USC professor of law and former campaign manager to Michael Dukakis, speak on negative advertising in political campaigns.
April 27, 1991
California members join with the Hollywood Policy Center in an educational meeting on health care reform. Senator Wellstone (D-MN), Representative Sanders (I-VT) and Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Policy are the speakers.
May 1991
California members join the Freedom of Expression Network in Los Angeles.
May 1991
The Creative Coalition and the Sundance Institute co-sponsor a 3-day conference on Survival and the Arts.
May 1991
The Campaign Finance Committee meets with Edward Fitts of the National Association of Broadcasters.
May 1991
Members Christopher Reeve, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara record radio public service announcements to be used in the event that funds for the New York City recycling program are once again challenged. Members Blythe Danner and Susan Sarandon hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall and encourage a letter writing campaign. The funding is eventually restored without contest.
May 1991
Co-founder Ron Silver is the spokesman for a public service announcement benefiting the Legal Aid Society.
May 13, 1991
A membership meeting is held in New York on the U.S. health care crisis. Speakers are: Senator Kennedy (D-MA); Congresswoman Russo (D-IL); Joseph Califano, Dewey Ballantine, and Geri Palest, Service Employees Union, AFL-CIO.
May 15, 1991
A meeting is held in California to listen to Bob Brandon, Director of Citizen Action, speak on campaign finance reform issues.
June 5, 1991
Co-founder Ron Silver is the master of ceremonies at United Senior Action Day in Washington, D.C.
June 6, 1991
Co-founder Ron Silver meets with a coalition of groups supporting single payer health care reform in Washington, D.C. and then speaks on health care before a “Jobs for Justice” rally at the Department of Health and Human Services.
June 27, 1991
The Homelessness Committee holds a meeting in New York with Marc Altheim, the Vice President of HELP. HBO representatives speak about the upcoming Comic Relief telethon.
July 17, 1991
Member Stockard Channing participates with Gloria Steinem in a press conference to protect the Title X “gag rule.”
August 9, 1991
A membership meeting is held in New York on “RU-486.” Speakers are: Mark Green, New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, and Dr. Beverly Winikoff, Sr. Medical Associate of The Population Counsel.
August 16, 1991
A membership meeting is held in New York on Trends and Issues in Arts Censorship. The speakers are: Phyllis Franklin, Director of the Modern Language Association; Daniel Mayer, Director of the People for the American Way Art Save Project; and Congressman Weiss (D-NY).
Aug.- Sept. 1991
The Creative Coalition sponsors receptions at two Bonnie Raitt concerts where she offers partial proceeds from the concerts to support the Inter-Power cogeneration plant battle.
September 12, 1991
New York members hold a breakfast briefing on Learning to Live with Less Through Source Reduction. Speakers: JoAnna Underwood, INFORM; and John Ruson, Environmental Defense Fund.
October 1991
The Creative Coalition joins in Emergency Drive for Health Care sponsored by Citizen Action, Jobs for Justice, and Families USA. In Los Angeles, Member Richard Masur helps lead the opening rallies. In New York, Co-founder Ron Silver speaks at City Hall. In Washington, D.C. on October 10, Silver is the featured speaker at a final event where ambulances deliver over 2 million Ballots for a Healthy America.
October 17, 1991
New York membership meeting on Campaign Finance Reform: Is the Medium Destroying the Message? The moderator was Member Alec Baldwin, and the speakers were: John Ellis, Harvard University; Curtis Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate; Ira Glasser, ACLU; Mark Green, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs; and Jay Kriegel, Sr. Vice President, CBS News.
October 28, 1991
Member Alec Baldwin delivers official testimony to House of Representatives subcommittee reviewing reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts. Members Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve also testify.
November 19, 1991
Members Michael O’Keefe and Christopher Reeve appear on Good Day New York regarding their appearance at a homeless drop-in-center.
November 19, 1991
Member Armand Assante initiates a membership cookout in a shelter run by the Partnership for the Homeless. Members Jill Clayburgh, Griffin Dunne, Charles Grodin, Candy Clark, Michael O’Keefe, Lisa Birnbach and others prepared a dinner for hundreds of homeless individuals, publicizing a message to the general public encouraging them to volunteer in their local shelters.
December 1991
New York members provide volunteers and gift donations to Partnership for the Homeless at a party for over 500 homeless parents and children at Marble Collegiate Church.
December 16, 1991
New York members hold a meeting on “Reproductive Rights Under Attack.” The speakers were: Kate Michelman, NARAL; Dr. Sharon Camp, Sr. Vice President of Population Crisis Committee; Geoffrey Garin, President of Garin-Hart Strategic Research Group. Members Blythe Danner and Jaynne Keyes moderated the session.
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