New Yorkers Call on Comptroller DiNapoli to Divest the State from Fossil Fuels
After surviving Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers ask DiNapoli to take the lead on climate change This afternoon, over a hundred New Yorkers delivered 11,000 signatures on a petition calling on the state to...
View ArticleBrave Brooklyn Parents From Brownsville To Carroll Gardens Refuse State Tests
A grassroots opt-out campaign organized by Brooklyn parents has yielded a record number of test refusals for this year’s 3rd – 8th grade state-mandated math and English exams. The campaign is part of a...
View ArticleBrooklyn Parents And Teachers Continue To Protest Ineffective Common Core Tests
Staff at PS 321 in Brooklyn held a protest against the English Language Arts (ELA) test this morning, saying the exam did a poor job testing students’ reading comprehension. “No one has ever seen a...
View ArticleHundreds Protest In New York City Against Cuomo’s Attack On 1.1 Million...
Yesterday afternoon, in an unprecedented show of unity, elected officials, parent leaders and children from across the five boroughs stood on the steps of the New York Public Library to say that all...
View ArticleHowie Hawkins To Run for Governor as the Progressive Alternative
Standing in front of the (Boss) Tweed Court House, Howie Hawkins announced yesterday that he will run for Governor as the progressive alternative to the pro-austerity and anti-union policies of the...
View ArticleOctober Protests Seek to Stop Mass Incarceration, Police Killings – Video...
A variety of actions – from protests and rallies to film screenings and sermons in religious institutions – are taking place this month throughout New York City as part of a national effort to...
View ArticleVIDEO: Black History Month Kicks Off Strong With Harlem March Honoring Malcolm X
Human rights activists involved with the Black Lives Matter movement held a rally and march this past Sunday to honor Malcolm X and help launch a campaign to create a day celebrating his importance in...
View ArticleVIDEO: Activists Remember The Lives Of Children Taken Due To Police...
Exactly 3 months after Tamir Rice was shot dead in Cleveland Ohio, activist around the United States held candlelight vigils yesterday for the purpose of bringing awareness to the epidemic of deaths...
View ArticleVIDEO: Safety Beyond Policing Seeks To Stop Melissa Mark-Viverito’s Push...
This past Thursday February 26th a press conference was held at City Hall to launch a “Safety Beyond Policing” campaign, which seeks to stop the 1,000 more cops push from various members of the New...
View ArticleVideo: #NoNewNYPD Rally during Bratton Testimony at City Hall
City Hall’s budget hearing of adding new NYPD officers was met with constant disruption from protestors who see it as both a waste of money and a step that further worsen the community under...
View ArticleVIDEO: #ShutDownA14 Shut Down NYC Streets and Brooklyn Bridge
On April 14 after the long winter, people in NYC walked out of schools and work to join a national demonstration organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network against police brutality. Starting from...
View ArticleRamsey Orta, Released from Rikers Island, filmed Eric Garner murder video
Yesterday at 110 th Street and Fredrick Douglas Blvd in Harlem a small crowd of approximately 30 people gathered at 3pm for a rally to show support for Ramsey Orta who has recently been released from...
View ArticleVIDEO: Family and Supporters of Akai Gurley Protest in front of Court during...
On May 14 – the beginning of the trial of Peter Liang – Akai Gurley’s family and their supporters protested in front of Kings County Supreme Court, demanding justice for Akai Gurley and all the other...
View ArticleVIDEO: #SayHerName Vigil Highlights Black Women Experience of State Violence
Union Square, May 20th. #SayHerName vigil memorizes black women and girls killed by police and highlights their experience and suffering which hasn’t received much attention.
View ArticleVIGIL for KALIEF BROWDER, SUICIDE BY $$ SYSTEM
A few hundred people gathered at the Manhattan Detention Complex at 125 White St NYC yesterday to voice their outrage at the tragic death of 22 year old Kalief Browder. The word Suicide means a person...
View ArticleOUTRAGE in Charleston! We say NO MORE! rally Union Sq.
At 6pm at Union Square NYC a small group gathered to express outrage at the Charleston, South Carolina shooting by Dylann Roof of 9 black men and women including in a bible study at Emanuel African...
View Article#RiseUpOctober to STOP Police Terror, w Carl Dix & Dr. Cornel West
CORNEL WEST & CARL DIX spoke along with others from Stolen Lives, People who lost family to Police Killing, Tuesday, June 30, 7 p m, at a mass meeting to plan a huge outpouring to STOP police...
View ArticleBURN AMERICAN FLAGS at Ft Green park under Full MOON!
It was pretty heated when I arrived at the corner of Myrtle Ave and Washington Park at the north east corner of Ft Green park in Brooklyn this evening. Maybe 150 people gathered for the event posted on...
View ArticleNO SEPARATE JUSTICE Vigil at MCC Metropolitan Correction Center
No Separate Justice (NSJ) vigil took place on Monday, July 6th from 6-7PM outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan, a federal prison where people accused of...
View ArticleREINSTATE GLASS STEAGALL Federal Hall by the LaRouche PAC 7/16/15
Permitted Demonstrators from the LaRouche Political Action Committee came equipt with a chorus singing “The Battle Cry of Freedom”, ending with the Star Spangled Banner, on Thursday in front of Federal...
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