U.S : VOCAL-NY Guide To Your Week ! #DefundNYPD #OccupyCityHall

Guide To Your Week For VOCAL-NY Members

Occupy City Hall : Until Further Notice On Tuesday afternoon, VOCAL-NY and other organizations held a protest at City Hall to demand City Council and the Mayor cut at least $1 billion from the NYPD budget this year to invest into Black and Brown communities in the form of healthcare, housing and social services. We never left City Hall ! Since Tuesday night we have stayed to lift up our specific demands and to create/hold space for the maximal demands of the movement sweeping the country so powerfully at this time. If you live in NYC and are able to, please join us ! For those that are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19: immunocompromised, elderly or with other underlying health conditions (or living with/caring for others), or otherwise unable to attend in person, we encourage you to stay home and join us through actions on social media. Click here to call your elected officials.  Other Actions This Week Wednesday, 7/1 @ 6PM: VOCAL-Upstate NY Meeting - Members, Leaders, & Allies from Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse & Westchester are all invited ! Your voice and perspective is needed ! RSVP: Click here to join us! Contact: Luke 917-702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org Fri, 7/3 @ 5:30 PM: Capital Region Freedom Tour Kicks Off ! Members, leaders, & allies : Join us along with our allies from All Of Us for the first stop of our tour to jails throughout the region to deliver our community-derived demands to end police brutality & defund the police ! RSVP: Click here to join us! Contact: Luke 917-702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org Week In Review Our actions at City Hall have gotten coverage in Patch, Kings County Politics, Vice, Teen Vogue, amNY, Gothamist & The Hill. VOCAL-NY Leader Hiawatha Collins was quoted in Forbes about drug arrests and broken windows policing.  We were quoted in Next City's coverage of the #HomelessCantStayHome Campaign. We were quoted in Gotham Gazette's coverage of the overdose crisis during COVID-19. What We're Reading Bill de Blasio Broke his promise to New York. (The Nation). "For those who believed de Blasio’s 2013 promises—for those to whom those promises were made—his response to the most vital racial justice uprising in decades has been a stunning betrayal." Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (New York Times). "In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit."

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