Organizers behind two of the city’s most empowering events in recent years have joined forces in presenting Power to the Polls: A Feminist Halloween Costume Party. The event will take place on 5 p.m. Oct 28 at The Asbury, located at 210 Fifth Avenue. Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn, Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton, and Comedian/Activist Jess Alaimo […]

Loch Arbor artist Vilja Virks-Lee is on a mission – a mission that is $806 away from coming to fruition [at the time of this posting]. “I want to put my magenta pussyhats up in the sky to encourage everyone to keep fighting everyday for our democracy,” she wrote in the You Caring source-funding post. […]

The student organized and led March For Our Lives event occurring noon Saturday in Asbury Park will kick off from Library Square Park, traverse down to and then along the Asbury Park boardwalk to Bradley Park, according to Mark McDonald – one of the few adults aiding Asbury Park, Ocean Township and Long Branch youth. […]

The Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Club networking event returns this month with a focus on creating safe work environments, Executive Director Sylvia Sylvia-Cioffi. Being held 9 a.m. March 14 at Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten, located at 527 Lake Ave, the featured guest speakers include NJ Coalition Against Sexual Assault Executive Director Patricia Teffenhart […]

Two local women have joined forces to host Stand Against Hate, a Labor Day rally to be held 10 a.m. Sept. 4 in Springwood Avenue Park. Lifelong city resident, activist and minister Nicolle Harris and Asbury Park resident Jess Alaimo, known for using comedy to organize LGBTQ and other social justice support and awareness events, […]

“I just cannot believe this is happening in 2017,” Mayor John Moor said in thanking the more than 250 people who turned out Saturday for the Garden State Equality and Women’s March Asbury Park Rally held in support of all transgender service members. The event began in front of Paradise nightclub at Ocean and Asbury […]

Earth Day celebrations, in part, may have been postponed by a day due to inclement weather but that did not stop hundreds from turning out Sunday in support of a collaborative mission to preserve local [and global] environmental resources. The day began with hundreds gathering for the Earth Day Creative Protest at Sixth Avenue beach […]

Due to rain, the Earth Day Creative Protest scheduled along Asbury Park’s north beach area and the Rally on the Roof at Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten has been postponed to Sunday. All event details remain the same, organizers said. The local event is a collaboration between Women’s March Asbury Park organizers and the Asbury Park […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, We are still absorbing the historic outpouring of support, passion, commitment, and gratitude that the greater Asbury Park community brought to the Women’s March of Asbury Park on Saturday, January 21st. We are catching our breath, getting sleep, and making much needed trips to the grocery store. We want to acknowledge […]

In just one week, four women of Asbury Park organized a local Women’s March that drew a crowd of 6,000 Saturday, according to the Asbury Park Police Department’s count. The women: Daniele Fiori, Amanda Kane, Dallas Hlatky and Jennifer Lampert [shown below right], envisioned the sister walk to the March on Washington in DC as […]