They held a panel discussion on Malcolm X Blvd on youth violence, police community relations, and Jim Crow. Here is video from the event.
Winding down a 4 day memorial to Manning Marable at Riverside Church in Harlem, Angela Davis gave a presentation on Stop & Frisk, the School to Prison pipeline, and racism in the criminal justice system.
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Library in Harlem, spoke on the issue of Stop and Frisk from an historical perspective at a Panel at Cuny's Black Studies Progam.
Johanna Fernandez describes the new organization, "Liberation Summer" outside of Manhattan Criminal Court while at a press conference in support of Joseph "Jazz" Hayden. The mission of Liberation Summer is to organize, mobilize, and resist criminalization, mass incarceration, structural racism, and xenophobia. We will unleash our collective creativity and imagine a world without prisons, without borders, without oppression.
]]>What a pleasure to hear with clarity and sharpness of analysis the thoughts of this brother. He is in a cage, separated from direct contact with the world yet, manages to see with such clarity. - Jazz Hayden
SOURCE - RT
Source: Big Brother ‘legal’ in US: Mumia Abu-Jamal exclusive to RT (http://rt.com/news/mumia-abu-jamal-interview-657/)
]]>Bob Gangi spoke at the annual Black, Puerto Rican, and Asian caucus in Albany New York.
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Our Enemies in Blue, was a panel discussion and community conversation discussing the abusive behavior of the NYPD. The discussion was held at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) on February 22, 2012.
International Socialist Organization - The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times editorial by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Comissioner Ray Kelly. And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, a growing movement against stop and frisk, marches against NYPD brutality, and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harrassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem. Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization (Uptown and Bronx Branches) Socialistworker.org
]]>On February 20, activists from throughout the city and the New York State rallied in Harlem against the Prison Industrial Complex. They marched in support of The Occupy Wall Street Prisoner Solidarity Subcommittee and Occupy Oakland's call to action for solidarity with the Pelican Bay hunger strike, with brothers and sisters who are dispossessed by the criminal INJUSTICE system, and with political prisoners everywhere. Occupy4Prisoners
Protestors made a stop at Wells Fargo bank in Harlem to demonstrate. Wells Fargo financial arm of the private prison industry.
Activist Jamel Mims speaks on movement building.
Activist Hennington "It's the Money!"
Video From the Conference - December 1, 2011
Robert Gangi, long time Director of the Correctional Association, has formed a new organization called PROP, Police Reform Organizing Project, which is seeking radical reform of police practice-- specifically practice such as Stop/Frisk and its racialized practice in poor communities of color.
King Downing is a lawyer, public speaker, community organizer, activist, and a member of the Campaign to end the New Jim Crow (CENJC), which co-sponsored the conference. "Racial Profiling is a deliberate policy". "Stop and frisk is a diversion" to distract us from corporate crime.
Brother Shepp, of the New Black Panther Party, a community organizer and activist asked the panel at the PROP Conference held at Riverside Church on December 1, 2011 addressed the question of reform v. radical change in police community relations. Shepp called for community control. It was a novel idea to some of the panelist.
For more information on PROP visit www.policereformorganizingproject.org
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