New York City (NYC)

NY City Council Considers Fast Track For The TPP

April 28, 2015 Jilian Jorgensen, www.observer.com Resist! Free Trade, New York City (NYC), TPP

The New York City Council may not get an actual vote on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership—but today members and other activists rallied for the passage of a resolution urging Congress to shoot down what they deemed a job-killing deal that would wreck the environment. “Let’s be honest: TPP is bad for people. TPP is bad for the environment. TPP Is bad for democracy. Let’s be honest, it’s kind of the most dastardly and evil thing you can imagine,” Josh Fox, the filmmaker behind the anti-fracking documentary Gasland, said at a rally on the City Hall steps this afternoon.

‘March 2 Justice’ Crosses Into Jersey, Pennsylvania

April 18, 2015 NBC 10 Staff and NBC New York, www.nbcphiladelphia.com Organize! Human Rights, New York City (NYC), police brutality

A 250-mile march protesting police brutality crossed into Trenton as well as parts of Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Protesters with the "March 2 Justice" marched in Trenton and parts of Bucks County early Tuesday evening. The demonstration is taking protesters from New York City to Philadelphia to Capitol Hill. The March 2 Justice began Monday morning in Staten Island, the borough where Eric Garner died during a confrontation with NYPD officers last summer. Garner's death, along with others across the nation including that of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, set off protests that culminated with several nights of massive marches when a grand jury chose not to charge the officer seen putting Garner in a chokehold in a widely viewed amateur video with any crimes.

Whitney Museum Protested Over Gas Pipeline Under Building

April 15, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Museum, New York City (NYC), Pipelines

Activists from various arts and activist groups, including Occupy Museums, Occupy the Pipeline, Sane Energey Project, Liberate Tate, Peng Collective, The Yes Lab, Guerrilla Girls, People's Climate Arts, and others held an artful pre-opening protest at the Whitney Museum. (See www.WhitneyPipeline.org for more information.) The protest was against the Spectra energy pipeline that runs through New Jersey, under the Hudson River and across the West Side Highway, terminating in a vault beneath the yet-to-open Whitney Museum. Artist-activist Kim Fraczek reports that the goal of the artful protest was to "engage the public to ask questions about fossil fuels, our future and what roles our institutions should play in leading us to a renewable future rather than succumbing to more fracked gas."

Justice League NYC Begins March To Washington, D.C.

April 14, 2015 CBS New York, www.newyork.cbslocal.com Resist! Direct Action, New York City (NYC), police brutality, Washington

A group of activists calling for criminal justice reform began a 250-mile trek on foot from Staten Island to Washington, D.C., on Monday. Justice League NYC’s March2Justice is scheduled to culminate April 21 with a rally and concert at the National Mall. The goal is to deliver to lawmakers a package of proposed legislation aimed at ending racial injustice and police-related deaths like Eric Garner’s, CBS2’s Diane Macedo reported. “This is why we march. We march for Michael Brown. We march for Eric Garner,” Assemblyman Michael Blake, D-Bronx, told marchers. “We march ’cause Walter Scott was just trying to get awayand got shot in the back.”

It’s #NowOrNever: Three Days Of Action For The Climate

April 9, 2015 Occupy Wall St www.occupywallst.nyc Resist! Environment, New York City (NYC), Occupy

Together with Sane Energy Project, we call for creative direct action against the Port Ambrose liquefied gas project, in solidarity with New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities who are fighting the Constitution Pipeline, the AIM Pipeline, oil trains, pipelines and barges along the Hudson River, and too many other destructive projects. Storing liquified gas in offshore rigs off the New York shoreline, as is proposed with the Port Ambrose project, will endanger those who have already suffered from Superstorm Sandy, enrich the already wealthy, displace a wind farm, and keep us addicted to fossil fuels. Governor Cuomo has the power to stop Port Ambrose, and we call on you to gather at his office – 633 3rd Avenue (at 41st street) at 5:00 PM – and demand that New York stops building new fossil fuel infrastructure.

New Yorkers Protest Addition Of New NYPD Officers

April 9, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Mass Incarceration, New York City (NYC), police brutality

New Yorkers wasted no time hitting the streets this Easter weekend with multiple protests against racist policing and calls by politicians for new cops. Though protests against systemic racism and police brutality continued in New York City through the winter months, most actions consisted of disruptions of business-as-usual by smaller groups of activists. This past Easter weekend, New Yorkers welcomed the spring by marching against racist police practices and calls to add 1,000 new officers to the New York Police Department. In keeping with the celebration of Easter this weekend, one set of actions was part of a campaign by religious activists called #ReclaimHolyWeek. The activists sought to illustrate the similarities between the murder of Jesus by the state and people of color killed by the police in the United States.

NY Families Seek Special Prosecutor For Police KIllings

April 9, 2015 Erin Durkin, www.nydailynews.com Resist! New York City (NYC), police brutality

Grieving family members of New Yorkers killed by cops are set to meet with Gov. Cuomo to push him to appoint a special prosecutor to handle such cases, they told the Daily News. Moms like Constance Malcolm, whose unarmed son Ramarley Graham was gunned down in 2012, plan to argue that local district attorneys aren’t equipped to aggressively prosecute officers because their jobs require them to work closely with the police. “They walk free. No accountability. No punishment,” she said. “We don’t get accountability and justice with police officers taking lives.” An indictment of the officer who killed 18-year-old Graham inside his Bronx apartment was thrown out on a technicality, and a second grand jury declined to indict him.

Councilman Arrested At Occupy Donates Settlement Cash

March 31, 2015 Rose Barkan, www.observer.com Resist! New York City (NYC), Occupy Wall Street, Politics

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, a Manhattan Democrat who sued the city after he was roughed up by cops at the Occupy Wall Street protests, said today he’ll donate his $30,000 settlement to the Center for Constitutional Rights. Mr. Rodriguez said he was beaten, knocked to the ground and arrested at Zuccotti Park, the locus of the anti-Wall Street movement, on November 15, 2011, the night NYPD officers forcefully cleared the park. Police charged him with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The charges were later dismissed. “No protester, whether an elected official or not, should be treated the way I was treated during my arrest in the Occupy Wall Street movement,” Mr. Rodriguez said at a City Hall Press conference.

Protests At Cooper Union On Tuition, NY Atty Gnrl Investigating

March 28, 2015 Gothamist, www.gothamist.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), Student Activism

The Wall Street Journal reports that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will probe the financial decisions made by the school that led to its reported insolvency, including a $175 million loan to build new facilities, potentially inaccurate numbers on the school's website, a bonus awarded to the president preceding the current administration, and the handling of the the land underneath the Chrysler Building, which belongs to the school and reportedly netted it $7 million annually. The AG's office will also investigate the school's decision to charge tuition. The school is currently in the midst of a lawsuit levied by a group of professors, alumni and students who claim the Board of Trustees could have avoided charging tuition—$20K per semester, starting with this school year's freshman class—if it weren't for a number of poor financial decisions.

Group Organizing To Disarm And Displace NYPD

March 27, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Police the Police

A newly-formed group of activists are teaming up with Copwatch, an anti-police brutality group that records video of police conduct in their communities, to create “no-cop zones,” and maybe even disarm the police, through the use of direct action. “Disarm NYPD” is a new collective seeking to immediately stop the New York Police Department from killing anyone ever again. The group seeks to monitor and pressure police, with the help of local communities and Copwatch groups, until they retreat from over-policed neighborhoods and then maintain these cop-free zones with alternative, community-based forms of conflict resolution. Along with that, the group also seeks the total disarmament of the police.

Protesters March On Home Of Greenwich Hedge Fund Mogul

March 16, 2015 Greenwich Free Press, www.greenwichfreepress.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Inequality, New York City (NYC)

While small rivers of rainwater gathered momentum along the curbs, engulfing sneakered feet, the enthusiasm of the protesters was not dampened. The bus loads of protesters traveled from New York City to voice anger over what they say is a rigged tax structure that has exacerbated income inequality and altered the political landscape in New York. “We’re here to call out the hedge fund billionaires who have taken over New York state politics, and they’ve exploded inequality around the country,” said Michael Kink, of Strong Economy for All Coalition, who was organizing the crowd as they prepared to march down Field Point Rd to Paul Tudor Jones home on Field Point Circle.

Bratton Wants 350 More NYPD To Fight ISIS Threat

March 16, 2015 CBS, www.newyork.cbslocal.com Resist! Government, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

Protesters made a scene inside the City Council chamber on Thursday, voicing their displeasure with NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton’s request for money to hire more officers. On the very day that the Bratton finally admitted he needs more cops, a small group of dissidents hid themselves around the chamber to systematically interrupt him and shout him down, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported. It started small, with one woman screaming “It’s a lie!” in the direction of Commissioner Bratton as he started testifying about the NYPD budget. Then about half a dozen individual protesters stood up, one at a time, to attack the NYPD’s so-called “broken window” policy of arresting people for low-level crimes.

Police Killed Over Twice The People Reported By US Gov’t

March 5, 2015 Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com Educate! Department of Justice, Ferguson, New York City (NYC), police brutality, Racial Justice

An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday. The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted “law enforcement homicides” exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture. The new estimate – an average of 928 people killed by police annually over eight recent years, compared to 383 in published FBI data – amounted to a more glaring admission than ever before of the government’s failure to track how many people police kill.

Life After The March

March 5, 2015 Faith Meckley, www.theithacan.org Educate! Environment, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, People's Climate March, Social Change

The Climate March was the most I have ever exerted myself in all three sectors, and yet, I had a healthy sleeping schedule, I ate nutritious meals, I was in the best shape of my life and I was the happiest I’d ever been. Obesity is a hot topic in our country, and is it any wonder why? We sit down while we commute, we sit down while we work, we sit down while we’re at home, and then we sleep. When we live inactive lifestyles, our bodies don’t demand healthy eating habits, and it becomes so easy to lapse into eating worthless junk food. Yet, amazingly, this is the lifestyle we send our kids to school to learn how to pursue. On the March, I needed 3,000–4,000 calories a day. I needed quality, fresh food on my plate. I needed a good night’s sleep.

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