New York (NY)

Brooklyn, Police Union Turns Back On Cop Who Killed Innocent Man

January 29, 2016 Max Rivlin-Nadler, www.gothamist.com Resist! Brooklyn, New York (NY), police brutality, Police Union

By Max Rivlin-Nadler for Gothamist - When NYPD Officer Peter Liang entered court this week to stand trial for killing 28-year-old Akai Gurley in November 2014, there was a noticeable absence in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The usual throng of supporters from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, and its boisterous head Pat Lynch (who rarely misses an opportunity to grandstand) were nowhere to be seen. Instead, just two older PBA members loitered around the courthouse and kept to themselves.

NYC Set To Triple Number Of Worker Cooperatives

January 26, 2016 Oscar Perry Abello, www.nextcity.org Create! New York (NY), Worker Cooperative

By Oscar Perry Abello for Next City - Worker cooperatives can sometimes sound too good to be true: a business owned and controlled by its workers, who each usually get an equal share of the profits. Compensation for some has gone from $6.25 an hour to $25 an hour. Flexible schedules. Worker majorities on the boards of directors interviewing CEO candidates. Dignity at work and wealth at home for some of the most marginalized — a group of Filipina women, many of them survivors of human trafficking, launched a cleaning worker cooperative in New York City last September.

Settlement Reached In Barneys ‘Shop-And-Frisk’ Case

January 25, 2016 Staff, www.amsterdamnews.com Resist! Lawsuit, New York (NY), Protests, Racial Profiling, Racism

By Staff of Amsterdam News. New York City, NY - Reports indicate that Barneys has agreed to pay a settlement to a Black man who accused the luxury retailer of racially profiling him. In 2013, then-19-year-old Trayon Christian was stopped and questioned by NYPD officers outside of Barneys after he bought at $350 belt. Christian alleged that he bought a designer belt before he was stopped by undercover officers. He claimed officers said they were tipped off by a Barneys sales clerk, who accused Christian of using a debit card that did not belong to him.

Anti-Drone Activist Reports To Jail For Six-Month Sentence

January 21, 2016 Patrick O'Neill, www.ncronline.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Drones, New York (NY)

By Patrick O'Neill for NCR - Wondering if she will ever see her mother again, Catholic anti-drone activist and grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores made a final stop Tuesday, Jan. 19, to say goodbye to her mother, Teresa Grady, before leaving Ithaca, N.Y., to report to jail to begin serving a six-month jail sentence in East Syracuse, N.Y. In a case that has dragged on for almost three years, Grady Flores, 59, chauffeured by two of her four children, headed off into a threatening winter snowstorm hoping to get to the Town of DeWitt Court by Tuesday afternoon, where she was remanded to custody at the Jamesville Correctional Facility.

NY State Nurses Strike In Capital Area

January 8, 2016 Staff, www.nysna.org Resist! Healthcare, New York (NY), Nurses, Strike

By Staff of NYSNA - GLOVERSVILLE, NY – 130 RNs from the New York State Nurses Association at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville will walk off the job for a 1-day unfair labor practice strike on Wednesday January 6th. Last June, Nathan Littauer RNs overwhelmingly voted to give their bargaining team authorization to issue a ten-day notice of a strike, if Nathan Littauer continued its unlawful conduct and if the hospital management refused to negotiate on proposals concerning patient care.

CUNY-Educated Judge Punishes Attorney That Helped Students

January 7, 2016 Mitchel Cohen, www.queensfreepress.com Resist! College, Courts, New York (NY), Student Activism

By Mitchel Cohen for Queens Free Press - New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is one of 154 City University of New York alumni, faculty and community members calling on the federal appeals court in New York City to convene a rare special session of all thirteen judges to reverse a court order that devastated an elderly lawyer who represented Rodriguez and hundreds of other CUNY students. Ron McGuire, Esq. is a 67-year-old attorney who represented Rodriguez decades ago, when the progressive City Council member from upper Manhattan was a City College student and community organizer.

Buffalo Only Has 25 Chronic Homeless People Left To House

January 1, 2016 Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Homelessness, New York (NY)

By Eleanor Goldberg for The Huffington Post - One of the poorest cities in the nation is on track to end chronic homelessness. It just needs a few landlords to step in to finish up the job. Four years ago, Buffalo, New York, had 400 homeless people living on the streets and streaming in and out of shelters. Today, it has knocked that figure down to 25 people, thanks to its collaborative housing efforts, the Homeless Alliance of Western New York said in a press release. The city’s success is due to its employment of the “housing first” strategy. The approach supports giving housing to people in need, and then dealing with their employment and health issues afterward.

NYC Spent $1 Million To Fire OWS Teacher And Failed

December 28, 2015 Susan Edelman, www.nypost.com Resist! New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Occupy Wall Street, Teachers

By Susan Edelman for New York Post - The city has lost a four-year, $1 million battle to fire a teacher arrested in the Occupy Wall Street protests. David Suker, a US Army veteran who taught at-risk youths in The Bronx for 14 years, was removed from the classroom in December 2011. He was charged with riling up students during an NYPD presentation at a school town-hall meeting by complaining he had been roughed up by cops, showing a scar on his head, and exchanging high-fives and fist bumps with teens. Suker was also charged with failing to immediately report one of his five Occupy Wall Street arrests in Washington Square Park on Nov. 2. He notified the Department of Education three days after getting out of jail.

NY Eve Parties Planned Outside Of Prisons

December 28, 2015 Staff, www.takepart.com Create! New York (NY), Prisons

By Staff of Take Part - As hundreds of thousands of revelers crowd into Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, a small group less than five miles south will bang drums and pots and pans outside an unlikely venue that couldn't feel farther away: the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. The gathering is part of an international day of demonstrations staged every year outside of prisons from Puget Sound to North London to show solidarity with inmates who might not otherwise commemorate the start of a new year.

NY: Santa, Grinch And Elves Blockade Crestwood Gas Storage

December 23, 2015 Staff, www.wearesenecalake.com Resist! Clean Energy, Climate Change, New York (NY), Protests

By Staff of We Are Seneca Lake - December 21, 2015 – Watkins Glen, NY – The Grinch, Santa, and his elves took a short break from their Christmas preparations today to visit the gates of the Crestwood gas storage facility to warn the company that Santa—and the world—is watching. His elves and local friends held signs saying, “Dirty energy = naughty, clean renewables = nice” and “Here comes the sun, go solar!” Santa and twelve others, including the Grinch, were arrested for disorderly conduct while stopping a truck pulling construction equipment. Their message: there’s still time to get on Santa’s “nice” list.

New York Reforms But Does Not End Solitary Confinement

December 17, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! New York (NY), Prisons, Solitary Confinement

By Christopher Mathias for The Huffington Post - Tonja Fenton spent 270 consecutive days in a 6-by-10-foot cell, alone for 23 hours a day. She was there for three infractions of prison rules: purchasing socks and a hair dryer for another inmate, mailing a sample of prison food to court as part of an official complaint, and for allegedly falsely accusing a guard of sexual assault. For these apparent transgressions, Fenton, like so many prisoners in the state and across the country, found herself in punitive, solitary confinement.

Eleven Arrested Stretching Yellow Caution Tape

December 16, 2015 Seth Harrison, www.nukeresister.org Resist! Anti-Nuclear, New York (NY), Protesters

By Seth Harrison for The Nuclear Resister - Eleven anti-nuclear activists were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after stretching yellow caution tape across the main entrance of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant on December 12. The 50 people in attendance were there to protest the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow one of the plant’s two reactors, Unit 3, to continue to operate after its license expires at midnight on Saturday, December 12. Arrested were Gary Shaw, Judy Allen, Sally Gellert, Ken Okin, CP Colfield, Dan Fullerton, Merle Mceldowney, JK Canepa, Bruce Rosen, Jacki Drechsler and Rick Ufford-Chase.

Pray With Your Feet

November 24, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Resist! Climate Change, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - MONTROSE, N.Y.—It was 6:30 in the morning and George Packard, dressed in a dark suit, a purple clerical bib and a clerical collar, was at church. Or, rather, at what has become church for the retired Episcopal bishop, activist and highly decorated Vietnam War veteran. Packard stood with 20 other protesters on a chilly morning Nov. 9 to block two roads leading to the staging area for Texas-based Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project. After an hour, he and eight other protesters were arrested by New York state police.

NYC Using Military X-Ray Vans To Spy On People

October 22, 2015 Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com Educate! New York (NY), Radiation, Surveillance

By Conor Friederdorf for The Atlantic - Dystopian truth is stranger than dystopian fiction. In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000. The NYPD will not reveal when, where, or how often they are used. “I will not talk about anything at all about this,” New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told a journalist for the New York Post who pressed for details on the vans.

New Yorkers Object To FERC Rubber Stamp Of Dominion Pipeline

October 22, 2015 Staff, www.mohawkvalleykeeper.com Resist! FERC, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Staff for Mohawk Valley River Keeper - A coalition of environmental and citizens organizations from across New York strongly object to the release of a woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment (EA) by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on October 20th which supports expansion of a gas pipeline owned by Dominion Transmission Inc. The coalition also demands that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). “Both FERC and Dominion have snubbed their nose at the public from day one,” said John Valentine, spokesperson for Mohawk Valley Keeper. “Our community is dominated by organic farmers and Amish families whose entire lives are inextricably tied to the air, water, and land immediately around them. Yet, the proposed four-smokestack compressor station that Dominion wants to build in our backyard would be the most polluting of the entire project.

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