New York City (NYC)

Original Occupier Michael Pellagatti Bringing OWS To Life

We couldn't be happier that our movement brother Michael (Pella) Pellagatti is launching an Occupy-focused walking tour of lower Manhattan. One of the youngest members of the Guides Association of New York City (GANYC), he'll be making stops at all the places that made Occupy Wall Street such a life-changing event for so many of us, and sharing his own experiences as an original occupier and member of the occupy media working group. Occupy: The Tour with Original Occupier Michael Pellagatti starts where the city began at Bowling Green in front of the National Museum of the American Indian. Group size will be limited to 30 participants for a fact-filled 2 1/2-hour tour of OWS’ most important sites.

Police Reform Activists Oppose Proposal To Hire 1,000 NYPD Cops

February 27, 2015 Erin Durkin, www.nydailynews.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD

Police reform activists slammed on Thursday a push by the City Council and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to add 1,000 new cops to the NYPD. Mark-Viverito has made a headcount hike a top priority and plans to include it in the Council’s budget proposal, though it was left out of Mayor de Blasio’s latest plan. “We don’t think that the largest police force in the country needs another thousand cops,” said Monica Novoa of the Coalition to End Broken Windows, among groups that rallied outside City Hall Thursday. “We don’t need more officers implementing broken windows policing.” She said she was puzzled to see Mark-Viverito, a leading progressive, pushing the $90 million a year plan.

Bratton: Police Responsible For Abuses Against African Americans

February 25, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for "many of the worst parts of black history" in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city's racial tensions. Bratton gave a speech Tuesday morning to a predominantly African-American crowd during a Black History Month breakfast at the Greater Allen AME Church in Queens. “Slavery, our country’s original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers,” Bratton said. The commissioner pointed out that the first thing Dutch colonist Peter Stuyvesant did upon arriving in what was then New Amsterdam was set up a police force to prop up a system of slavery. “Since then, the stories of police and black citizens have intertwined again and again,” Bratton said. "The unequal nature of that relationship cannot and must not be denied.”

Court Dismisses Occupy Wall Street’s Brooklyn Bridge Lawsuit

February 25, 2015 Matt Sledge, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), Occupy

In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. Many of the more than 700 marchers arrested said they were essentially tricked onto the iconic span by police in October 2011. Last August, three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit allowed the demonstrators' false-arrest lawsuit to proceed. But they reversed themselves in another ruling Monday. When the hundreds of demonstrators approached the bridge during a march on Oct. 1, 2011, NYPD officers on the scene retreated -- a move that demonstrators say they took as implicit permission to enter the bridge's main deck. The mass arrests, which came in the early days of Occupy Wall Street's monthslong protest against corporate greed, served as an important rallying cry for the movement.

Broken Windows Cracks But Police State Grows

February 12, 2015 Josmar Trujillo, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

In the span of just over a week, two prominent proponents of Broken Windows theory, the policing strategy that cracks down on low-level infractions, backtracked on the role of the theory in lowering crime across New York city and suggested the theory was 'oversold'. Malcolm Gladwell, the influential author, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he, along with others, had 'oversold' Broken Windows over the years. Gladwell's 2000 book,The Tipping Point, strongly supported the premise that the NYPD's Broken Windows crackdowns were the primary cause for New York City's crime declines of the '90s.

NYPD Officer Indicted In Death Of Akai Gurley, According To Reports

February 11, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Law, New York City (NYC), police brutality, Racial Justice

A New York City police officer has been indicted in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, law enforcement sources told both NY1 and The New York Daily News on Tuesday. A bullet fired by rookie officer Peter Liangkilled Gurley inside the darkened stairwell of the Louis Pink housing project in East New York, Brooklyn, on Nov. 20. Although New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton initially characterized the shooting as an “accidental discharge,” Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced in December that he was convening a grand jury to investigate Gurley’s death. A spokeswoman for district attorney Thompson on Tuesday declined to confirm the indictment to The Huffington Post, saying the office was “precluded by grand jury secrecy.”

Brooklyn Tenants Revolt

February 11, 2015 Sarah Jaffee, www.dissentmagazine.org Organize! Housing, New York City (NYC), Tenants

On one of the coldest days of 2014 I put on long underwear, a flannel shirt, my thickest sweater, a hat, and a scarf, and took the subway two stops down to 1059 Union Street to join the new Crown Heights Tenant Union’s first public action. It was so bitterly cold that I couldn’t help but think about the previous winter, my first in Crown Heights and fourth in Brooklyn, when my heat would mysteriously shut off, often just in time for the weekend when my landlords didn’t answer the phone. My partner likes to say that most New York landlords operate on a continuum between greed and laziness. I figured at the time that mine were hovering closer to the “lazy” end with a bonus bit of cheapness thrown in; they just didn’t want to pay the extra money to really fix whatever was wrong.

Fuel For Change: The Biodiesel Alternative

February 9, 2015 Alex Ellefson, www.indypendent.org Create! Energy, Environment, New York City (NYC)

When the biodiesel fuel truck parks in front of the 12-story, 120,000-square-foot office building on West 20th Street, it draws attention from superintendents in the surrounding buildings. For a little more than a year, the building has been heated with pure biodiesel, a clean-burning, non-hazardous, organic fuel that can be made from plant-based products such as soy, corn, canola and even recycled cooking oil, an abundant resource in New York City. Lappin began exploring biodiesel as an alternative to conventional heating oil after the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is headquartered in the upper floors of the building, asked the property’s management company to make the switch.

#BlackLivesMatter: Lessons From A Leader-ful Movement

January 29, 2015 Jodie Tonita, www.stproject.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Racial Justice

I was saddened but not surprised when Oprah Winfrey recently said she was looking for “some kind of leadership” from this movement. Saddened that she could not yet see the incredibly courageous, strategic, and talented leadership at the heart of this “leader-ful” movement. Not surprised given the generational gap between boomers and millennials and the tendency for traditional media to seek a single charismatic leader to deliver the message. It‘s been incredibly humbling and inspiring to witness the courageous youth of Ferguson, NYC and people across the country declare and demand that #BlackLivesMatter. Black organizers heard the call, saw the possibilities, stepped into capacity gaps, and are organizing their communities and allies to meet the moment.

Fracktivists Fight Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Near NYC

January 23, 2015 Ben Adler, www.grist.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC

New York state’s fracking fight has moved offshore. And now the key players include not just New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) but also New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). New York’s famously dedicated anti-fracking activists, who last year helped push Cuomo to ban the practice entirely, have teamed up with coastal conservation groups to stop a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal from being built 19 miles off the coast of Long Island and only 30 miles from New York Harbor, the nautical entry point at the heart of New York City. Environmentalists and residents of nearby communities, who have formed the No LNG Coalition to coordinate opposition to the project, fear gas leaks from the terminal could cause vapor clouds, fires, explosions, and damage to the ocean ecosystem.

NYPD’s Counterterrorism Apparatus Is Being Turned On Protesters

January 20, 2015 Alex Kane, www.vice.com Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Terrorism

Activists organizing protests against police brutality in New York are marking Martin Luther King Day with a march beginning in Harlem. Some attendees might be surprised along the way to encounter officers in blue jackets with the words "NYPD Counter Terrorism" emblazoned on the back. But Linda Sarsour, a prominent Muslim-American activist and member of the anti-police brutality group Justice League NYC, one of the sponsors of the march, is almost used to it by now. As head of the Arab American Association of New York, Sarsour has been a leader in the fight against police misconduct. Much of her energy has gone into speaking out against the NYPD's expansive spying program that since 9/11 has targeted Muslims and activists.

40 NYC Groups Call On NYC To Cancel Delegation To Israel

January 14, 2015 Eamon Murphy, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! Israel, New York City (NYC), Palestine

A coalition of more than 40 New York City community groups held a press conference outside City Hall on Monday calling for the City Council to cancel a planned delegation to Israel. A diverse group of speakers addressed the city’s progressive politicians, asking how they could reconcile their opposition to racism and state violence at home with support for Israel’s policies against the Palestinians. Around 50 people gathered in the near-freezing rain for the event, which was introduced by Brandon Davis of Jewish Voice for Peace. Davis denounced the “flagrant disregard for justice” displayed by the delegation, “in our streets” as well as in Palestine. A recurring theme of the remarks that followed was the link between the current movement to end racist policing in U.S. cities and the struggle against Israel’s apartheid in Palestine.

Rejoice! New York Is The Biggest City To Ban Foam Packaging

January 12, 2015 Sara Bernard, www.grist.org Create! Bill De Blasio, Environment, New York City (NYC)

This week, New York officially became the largest city in the U.S. to ban that squeaky ecological scourge: plastic foam, usually (incorrectly) known as Styrofoam. The everlasting stuff is finally getting less ubiquitous now that it’s been kicked out of at least 70 cities across the country. (OK, yeah, they’re mostly located in California). Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg originally proposed the ban during a February 2013 State of the City address, but Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeing it through: If all goes as planned, it should roll out on July 1, preventing foam cups and containers and even packing peanuts from being sold in the Big Apple.

Celebrating The NYPD Slowdow

January 10, 2015 Aurin Squire, www.newrepublic.com Create! New York City (NYC), NYPD, Police, police brutality

For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier. After perceived slights by Mayor Bill de Blasio, civil protests against police brutality, and the murder of two officers by a deranged gunman, the New York Police Department is fighting back by not doing its job. Or rather, police appear to be using their resentment as an organizing incentive to skip certain non-essential cop duties. The police seem to be trying to teach a lesson to a city they feel doesn't adequately appreciate them. For New Yorkers who value fair policing, though, the slowdown is an occasion to celebrate.

Homeless For The Holidays – H-Boy The Poet — Part V

January 10, 2015 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Educate! Homelessness, New York City (NYC)

H-Boy “Homeboy” Poet is a towering slender young man with a few whisks of grey in a curly black beard. His dark unblemished skin is carefully wrapped in a head scarf. His hands are strong with pulsing veins. He wears the clothes he wore last week and the week before, almost never changing. A transplant from the Bronx, he speaks softly and has been living on streets for three years. He writes tiny poems for donations of “whatever people will give.” For him living homelessness is “just another challenge for me to get through.”Screen Shot 2015-01-10 at 11.05.56 PM A few days after Christmas he is waiting for a bus near Franklin Park after most of the men have left to get out of the cold.

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