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Walking Tour Of New York’s Massive Surveillance Network

September 27, 2016 Cora Currier, www.theintercept.com ,
By Cora Currier for The Intercept - EARLIER THIS MONTH, on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the lower tip of Manhattan was thronged with soldiers in uniform, firefighters marching with photos of lost friends pinned to their backpacks, and tourists bumbling around the new mall at the World Trade Center. Firetrucks and police cars ringed Zuccotti Park and white ribbons adorned the iron fence around the churchyard on Broadway. Trash cans were closed up, with signs announcing “temporary security lockdown.”

Joining Trend, NY Suspends Review Of Oil Train Terminal Permit

September 24, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - New York environmental regulators have suspended their review of two proposals to renew and expand operations at a Port of Albany oil terminal until Global Partners LP addresses a laundry list of concerns over environmental, public health, safety and climate change. Officials at the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) told the company in a letter on Sept. 16 it has three months to provide plans for the following...

From Maryland To New York, Kayaktivists Protest Fossil Fuels

September 19, 2016 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org , , , ,
By Staff of We Are Cove Point - Verplanck, NY, and Annapolis, MD – Saturday afternoon, as Spectra Energy prepared to drag its 42-inch diameter, high pressure, fracked-methane gas pipeline under the Hudson River adjacent to Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, activists boated out on the Hudson to the pipeline site to protest the pipeline project. Spectra Energy’s proposed Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline would bring fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New England, despite a report from the Massachusetts Attorney General that shows no need for this gas.

A Muslim Woman Was Set On Fire In New York.

September 17, 2016 Linda Sarsour, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Linda Sarsour for The Guardian - Each year, I look so forward to Eid Al Adha – the holiest holiday for Muslims worldwide – but not this year. As I watched my daughters prepare for the celebrations with joy, I learned of a horrific crime. A 36-year-old woman dressed in traditional garb was set on fire on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. She was the same age as me, walking in the city where I was born and raised. This comes at the heels of two Muslim women in Brooklyn who were physically assaulted by a woman as they pushed their babies in strollers.

Report Need To Rein In NYPD Surveillance Of US Muslims

August 25, 2016 Staff, www.nyclu.org , ,
By Staff of NYCLU - The NYPD Inspector General today released a report that examined the NYPD’s compliance with the HandschuGuidelines -- which protect New Yorkers’ lawful political and religious activities from unwarranted surveillance – while investigating a sample of cases closed between 2010 and 2015 that mostly involved American Muslims. The report found that the NYPD failed to adhere to important safeguards that protect people’s rights and the integrity of investigations

NYC Agrees To Pay Over $4 Million To Family Of Akai Gurley

August 18, 2016 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org , , , , , , ,
By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change - After an NYPD officer accidentally killed an innocent, unarmed man inside a dark housing project stairwell, the city and the New York City Housing Authority have recently agreed to pay Akai Gurley’s family more than $4.1 million to settle their wrongful death lawsuit. Although the officer was fired and initially convicted of manslaughter, a judge reduced the charge and sentenced him to community service instead of serving jail time. On November 20, NYPD officers Peter Liang and Shaun Landau were conducting vertical patrols on the eighth floor of the Louis H. Pink housing project in Brooklyn.

New York To Pay $4.5 Million To Settle Police Killing Lawsuit

August 17, 2016 Staff, www.reuters.com , , , ,
By Staff of Reuters - The city of New York has settled for $4.5 million a lawsuit over the 2014 police killing of an unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell that sparked demonstrations around the city, officials said. The settlement comes amid a wave of angry protests that have roiled the United States over the past two years in response to high-profile police killings of unarmed black men, with the most recent killing in Milwaukee unleashing rioting.

New York’s Newest Protesters Are Right: It’s Time To Defund Police

August 6, 2016 Steven W Thrasher, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Steven W Thrasher for The Guardian - My professor friend AJ and I led a walking tour of college students earlier this week about protest and policing in New York City. Between our stop at One Police Plaza, where “broken windows” policing was unleashed on our city, and the site of Eric Garner’s death on Staten Island, we stopped at the newest occupation in town at City Hall Park. Mayor Bill de Blasio had just announced police commissioner Bill Bratton’sresignation as we walked through the park, quickly achieving one of the occupying group’s three ambitious goals when they appeared on Monday.

NYC: City Hall Park Occupied, Police Commissioner Resigns

August 3, 2016 Staff, www.itsgoingdown.org , , , ,
By Staff of Its Going Down - The war for black lives and the struggle against the police in NYC has taken a new direction with the advent of a militant occupation outside of City Hall. Even before the occupation the revolutionary line was set in Millions March NYC’s orientation guide: “We are a network of revolutionary political organizers dedicated to the abolition of the repressive apparatus of the U.S. state, which includes but is not limited to the police, judicial system, prison system, and major political parties.”

#ShutDownCityHallNYC: Protesters Seek To Oust NYPD Commissioner

August 2, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com , , ,
By Staff of RT - Protesters in New York City are hoping to force City Hall to shut down until the police commissioner is fired. Other demands include reparations for victims of police brutality and re-investing the NYPD's budget in minority communities. The all-day demonstration is being run by the Millions March NYC group, a spin-off of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are protesting against police brutality and a justice system that is not race-blind.

White Plains, NY, Spies On Residents With Drone

July 20, 2016 David Swanson, www.warisacrime.org , ,
By David Swanson for War Is A Crime - At right is a photo of a drone taken by Sue McAnanama at a July 14, 2016, march, in White Plains, N.Y. Nick Mottern of knowdrones.com says, "I just spoke with White Plains Assistant Chief of Police Anne Fitzsimmons who declined to acknowledge whether or not the White Plains Police have a drone much less whether the police used a drone to undertake surveillance of people at the County-wide March for Justice held in White Plains last Thursday, July 14.

How Banks Stole Homes From Most Vulnerable New Yorkers

July 16, 2016 Michelle Chen, www.thenation.com , ,
By Michelle Chen for The Nation - The Great Recession has technically started to recede, but the banks that sparked it have mostly been allowed to walk. Some even prospered in the aftermath. But a jury just hit back against one predatory lender, restoring a little of the confidence in the system that Wall Street stripped away from Brooklyn during the financial crisis.

Meet The Photographer Behind Activists Of New York

July 11, 2016 Jenny Pierson, www.alternet.org ,
By Jenny Pierson for AlterNet - Cindy Trinh's photo blog, Activists of New York, covers more than its name might imply. Founded in the spirit of the photo blog Humans of New York (HONY), Activists of New York is not limited by its city or its seeming similarity to HONY. Activists of New York has more in common with photographer Jacob Riis and Occupy Wall Street than it does with HONY. HONY has become so well known that when its founder, Brandon Stanton, publicly spoke out against Donald Trump

Protesters Demand Justice After Release Of Brooklyn Road Rage Shooting Video

July 11, 2016 Scott Heins, www.gothamist.com , , ,
By Scott Heins for Gothamist - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan last night, demanding an end to nationwide systemic racism and police brutality in the wake of three widely-publicized killings of black men by law enforcement officers. Saturday's protest was led by Zayanahla Vines, the nephew of Delrawn Small, who was shot and killed by an off-duty NYPD officer during a Brooklyn road rage incident last week. Protesters shut down traffic on many busy roadways, including the FDR Drive, as they waved homemade signs and called out to bystanders

Montrose 9 Assert The “Necessity Defense” At Trial In Cortlandt, NY

June 25, 2016 Nancy Vann, www.beyondextremeenergy.org ,
By Nancy Vann for Beyond Extreme Energy - Cortlandt, NY — The “Montrose 9” are nine community members arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly blocking traffic near the access to a Spectra Energy construction yard used for the expansion of a high-pressure fracked-gas pipeline known as the AIM pipeline. Their trial, which resumed in Cortlandt, NY at 8:30 yesterday morning, has the potential to become a landmark case with national implications involving the “necessity defense.” Defense counsel Martin R. Stolar is a prominent social justice attorney who argues that the defendants’ actions were justified since they were undertaken to stop a greater harm...
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