New York (NY)

Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else To Go

March 12, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, New York (NY), Schools

As the number of cases of COVID-19 in the tri-state area rises to over 150, Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency across New York State. Local universities like Hofstra, Columbia and Yeshiva have shut their doors on students today. But the city has no plans to close public k-12 schools – because tens of thousands of homeless children have nowhere else to go.

NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions On Cyber Center With Controversial Ties To Israeli Intelligence

February 19, 2020 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Intelligence, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Taxes

Early last week, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that will be run by private Israeli firms with close ties to Israel’s government, the so-called “Mega Group” tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and prominent pro-Israel lobby organizations operating in the United States. The centers were first announced in 2018 as was the identity of the firms who would run them...

Turning Up The Pressure For Integration, NYC Students Plan Citywide School Boycott

February 14, 2020 By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat.org Resist! #Strike, Integration, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, PACE High School, Rally, Student

It’s been more than two months since New York City students began boycotts at a different school campus each week. They’ve walked out of class to demand Mayor Bill de Blasio integrate one of the country’s most segregated school systems. Students went on strike at one Manhattan campus to protest admissions practices that had segregated them into different schools within the same building.

A Seven-Mile Gas Pipeline Outside Albany Has Activists Up In Arms

February 5, 2020 Kristoffer Tigue, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Activists, New York (NY), Pipelines

For 40 years, Mary Dugan has watched her hometown of East Greenbush, New York, transform from a sleepy rural community into a bustling Albany suburb, its once solitary forests now peppered with stripmalls and daily traffic jams. It's a transition Dugan hasn't minded. But when the utility company that supplies gas to the region proposed tearing up the road a mile from her one-story ranch to install a new pipeline...

New York Moving To Become Next State To Enact Public Banking

January 20, 2020 Oscar Perry Bello, Nextcity.org Create! New York (NY), Public Banking

It’s a sunny August Saturday in Far Rockaway, and New York State Senator James Sanders Jr. could hardly be more in his element. He’s riding high, not only on his parade float leading the 3rd Annual Carnival in the Rockaways, but also in his relatively new position as chair of the NY State Senate Committee on Banks. Both of those positions will be crucial for Sanders as he prepares to take on Wall Street in the 2020 state legislative session. People come out as the parade comes by to sit on stoops, porches, stand out in front of stores, and along sidewalks.

De Blasio Rejects Community’s Plan For Bushwick Rezoning

January 16, 2020 By Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist.com Educate! Development, Displacement, Gentrification, New York (NY)

Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected a community-driven rezoning proposal for Bushwick, dealing a significant blow to local residents who spent years drafting a blueprint aimed at addressing gentrification and displacement in the rapidly changing neighborhood. The administration's decision was outlined in a letter delivered to local stakeholders this weekend by Deputy Mayor Vicki Breen, who said she was "deeply concerned" that aspects of the community plan amounted to a downzoning.

New Laws Require All New Roofs To Contain Solar Panels Or Green Space

November 29, 2019 By Rose Adams, Brooklynpaper.com Create! Brooklyn, Infrastructure, New York (NY), Reform, Solar Energy

Two laws requiring new property owners to build solar panels or green spaces on their roofs went into effect on Nov. 15 — marking a major step towards Brooklyn’s environmental sustainability, according to local green thumbs. “It’s important and very valuable,” said environmental activist Pete Sikora from the New York Community for Change, a local nonprofit. “It’s a critical step for New York City to meet the Green New Deal goals.” The legislation — which Councilman Rafael Espinal (D-Bedford Stuyvesant) first introduced to the City Council in July of 2018...

NYC Students Strike To Demand Racial Equity In Nation’s Largest—And Most Segregated—School District

November 27, 2019 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Education, New York (NY), Racism, Schools, Segregation

For the second consecutive week, students in New York City went on strike Monday morning to protest persistent segregation in their schools more than six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools must serve children of all races equally. Led by the grassroots campaign Teens Take Charge, hundreds of students from several city high schools demanded an end to New York's "screening" system which has made the United States' largest school district also its most segregated. "We've met with politicians time and time again to urge them to integrate our schools," Marcus Alston...

Massive Cricket Valley Fracked Gas Plant Shut Down By NY Protesters

November 20, 2019 Staff, Erikmcgregor.com Resist! Fracking, New York (NY), Protests

Wingdale, NY – Impacted residents and supporters from across the Northeast, including local farmers, used a tractor blockade and climbed a 275ft tall smokestack halting construction of the Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant for a day on November 6, 2019, citing the plant’s large contribution to climate change and local air pollution, they are calling on Governor Cuomo to shut down the fracked gas power plant for good.

Rochester Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Police Accountability Board

November 8, 2019 Staff, Rochestercitynewspaper.com Create! Electoral Politics, New York (NY), Police, Reform

City of Rochester voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the creation of Police Accountability Board, setting the stage for a legal challenge from the union representing city police. Whether to create such a board was put to voters in the form of a referendum that, with about 50 percent of election districts reporting, passed by a vote of 76 to 23 percent. The board would have the power to review accusations of officer misconduct and to require the police chief to punish officers when the allegations are sustained. Under current law, only the police chief has the power to discipline officers.

Nearly 500 Protesters Stage Anti-Columbus Day History Tour At New York Museums

October 16, 2019 Zachary Small, Theartnewspaper.com Resist! History, New York (NY), Protests, Racism

Rename Columbus Day. Remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt. Respect the ancestors. Decolonize This Place has spent the last four years demanding the same three things from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)—with little progress. This year, blocked from gathering inside the institution, the activist group decided to take their fourth Anti-Columbus Day tour on the road. Nearly 500 demonstrators—many of them artists, students, and teachers—gathered on the museum steps on Monday afternoon, but found the entrances blocked and the museum unexpectedly closed, hours ahead of schedule.

New York Took On The Real Estate Industry And Won. Illinois Could Be Next.

September 9, 2019 Max Budovitch, Inthesetimes.com Create! Affordable Housing, Illinois, New York (NY), Reform, Rent

On June 14, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law new housing legislation that guarantees the “strongest tenant protections in history,” extending rent regulation from New York City and adjacent counties to the entire state, finally closing rent control loopholes and eliminating the “vacancy bonus” that allowed landlords to hike rents once tenants moved out. Some form of rent regulation has been in place in New York City for nearly a century. But the laws that were meant to keep housing affordable and tenants in place by limiting rent increases had been run through with loopholes because they had to be re-legislated...

Nan Goldin Among Activists Arrested While Protesting Governor Cuomo’s Failure To Open Safe Injection Sites

August 30, 2019 Megan Kapler, Artforum.com Resist! New York (NY), Protests, Reform, Repression

At 11:00 AM on Wednesday, around two hundred health and drug policy activists swarmed New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office, where they protested the lawmaker’s failure to deliver on a promise he made during his 2017 re-election campaign: to open the country’s first safe consumption sites. Among the thirteen demonstrators who were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct were Nan Goldin, artist and founder of Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (P.A.I.N.), and P.A.I.N. member Megan Kapler.

New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History, Call For New 9/11 Investigation

July 29, 2019 Ted Walter, Ae911truth.org Resist! 9/11, Investigation, New York (NY)

They started off by saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Ten minutes later, they were reading the text of a resolution claiming the existence of “overwhelming evidence” that “pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.” And so it was, on July 24, 2019 — nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever — the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, which oversees a volunteer fire department serving a hamlet of 30,000 residents just outside of Queens, New York...

The Battle To Stop The Shoreham Nuclear Plant, Revisited

June 22, 2019 By Karl Grossman, Counterpunch.org Educate! History, New York (NY), Nuclear Power

“Shoreham Action is One of the Largest Held Worldwide,” was the headline in The New York Times about an event which happened 40 years ago this month. The article told of how “more than 600 protesters were arrested” on June 3, 1979 at the site of the then under-construction Shoreham nuclear power plant and “15,000 demonstrators gathered” on the beach fronting the plant in the protest of it. That action was important in stopping the Shoreham plant from going into operation—and preventing the Long Island Lighting Company from building a total of seven to 11 nuclear power plants on Long Island.

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