Police state

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Racism, Policing, and Public Education

Date: 
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Queens Pride House, Jackson Heights

Public Meeting

Thursday, May 10
6:30 pm
Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Ave, 2nd Fl
Jackson Heights, Queens
E/F/R/M/7 to 74th/Roosevelt

Still Separate, Still Unequal:
Racism, Policing and Public Education

Speakers:
Angela Jones, Coordinator, School to Prison Pipeline Project, NYCLU (www.nyclu.org/schooltoprison)
Brian Jones, NYC public school teacher, activist, and contributor to the new book, Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Education-and-Capitalism)

Know Your Rights Workshop

Date: 
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Freebrook Academy located at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11233 (corner of Decatur Street). Take the A or C train to Utica Avenue.

The People's Self Defense Campaign (PSDC) of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is hosting a Know Your Rights Workshop on Friday, April 27 from 6:30-8:00PM. The workshop will be held at Freebrook Academy located at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11233 (corner of Decatur Street). Take the A or C train to Utica Avenue.

This is a free and open workshop for MXGM members and community members who are non-MXGM. Free t-shirts will be given to attendees at the end of the workshop. Please forward to your networks including friends and family!

Fighting for Global Justice: Opposing Obama's Free Trade Agreements! A Panel Discussion at the Brooklyn Food Conference

Date: 
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 1:45pm - 2:45pm
Location: 
Brooklyn Tech High School, S. Elliott Place between Lafayette Ave. and Dekalb Ave (the entrance is on S. Elliott Place located closest to Lafayette Ave.).
Contact: 

TradeJustice New York Metro (718) 218-4523 info@tradejustice.net

Presenters:

Eva Lewis, International Peace Observatory
Beatriz Lopez, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Adam Weissman,Global Justice for Animals and the Environment

Date: Saturday, April 28th.
Time: 1:45PM-2:45PM (Peace Fair overall runs from 11AM-5PM)
Price: Free! The entire Peace Fair is free and open to the public .

Location: Brooklyn College Student Union Building, International Room (5th floor)

NYC Activist Images Wanted for Museum of City of NY

Date: 
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 1:00pm - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 1:00pm
Location: 
Puffin Foundations's Activist New York Gallery: Museum of the City of New York

Participate!

Help us create a snapshot of citizen activism in New York City today! The Museum of the City of New York is collecting a day-by-day visual history of the many ways that New Yorkers are involved in our city, its communities, and the larger world, whether through volunteering, organizing, lobbying, petitioning, protesting, making art, or otherwise taking action or speaking out.

Selected images will be projected in the exhibition Activist New York, on view on the Puffin Foundation Gallery opening May 4th, 2012.

ACTION FOR JUSTICE Presents CHRIS HEDGES

Date: 
Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 11:00am
Location: 
Community Church NYC Assembly Hall 40 E. 35th st. @ Park Ave.

SUNDAY MAY 13, 2012
is
ACTION FOR JUSTICE SUNDAY
at
COMMUNITY CHURCH NYC UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

Special guest speaker for the 11am morning service
CHRIS HEDGES
“THE DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS”

Stand Strong for Online Privacy: MF/PL fundraisier

Date: 
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver Street, New York, NY
Contact: 

Jamie McClelland, info@mayfirst.org

When the FBI attacks, we fight back! Show your solidarity and support for online privacy.

Join us Monday, April 30, 6:00 - 10:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St, New York City for a fundraiser for May First/People Link or if you can't make it, donate online: https://mayfirst.org/donate

Our Pre-May Day Fundraising Party features May First/People Link members the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, The Yes Men and DJ Dusty Walker. We'll have a bar, snacks, dancing and more.

Meet and greet, network, organize and shake it!

Suggested donation - $5 - $20 at the door (no one turned away)

The Passion of Bradley Manning , book release

Date: 
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington,
Contact: 

212.777.6028

Author Chase Madar will be discussing his new book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, about the Bradley Manning case.

Eviction Theatre: NYPD & the Occupy Movement say good night

Date: 
Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 11:30pm
Location: 
Union Square, 14th Street

Eviction Theatre
Sun. Apr 22 from 11:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Union Square, 14th Street
#OccupyUnionSquare

Join the NYC Community as they bear witness to a nightly mini-raid eviction that begins at the stroke of midnight.

Witness comedic feats of strength as NYPD & The Occupy Movement say good night to one another in a theatrical setting.

Ideal for MOST ages & those who have not seen a large deployment of men wearing silly helmets & awesome uniforms.

This is an non-violent theatrical step-back two step performance, please visit Union Square for the nightly theme.

Anniversary screening of Enemy Alien

Date: 
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location: 
339 Lafayette Street, corner of Bleecker Street, Manhattan, Muste room, third floor (buzzer #11)

A special event commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the arrest of Farouk Abdel-Muhti, in the room where his supporters regularly met to organize the fight for his freedom. Screening will be followed by an open discussion with the filmmaker and people who were involved in the case, including Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Shayana Kadidal, who has since served as Senior Managing Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, and MacDonald Scott, legal representative with No One Is Illegal Toronto.

LATINO ACTIVISTS CALL FOR MEETING TO MOBILIZE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE

Date: 
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Casa de las Américas located at 182 East 111 Street
Contact: 

Please RSVP to Jose Alfaro at joalfaro49@aol.com

A group of Latinos, some previously members of Latinos for
Racial Justice, are calling a meeting for Wed., April 18th at 7 PM at
Casa de las Américas located at 182 East 111 Street (Street Level
Entrance, next to the Community Garden between Lex. & 3rd Ave, #6
train to 110 St.). This meeting of Latino activists is to discuss the
recent cases of police abuse and the killings of Ramarley Graham in
the north Bronx and Trayvon Martin in Florida. We are concerned about
the vicious attacks on people of color, the limited voices of Latinos

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