U.S : Your Week with VOCAL-NY.

Guide To Your Week For VOCAL-NY Members

Upcoming Events This Week Get Your Tickets to our Gala on Sept 30th ! Click Here  Mon, 7/20 @ 12PM : Join us in Albany to demand that NYS legislature bring the #HALTsolitary bill to a vote and to bring an end to state-sanctioned torture ! RSVP : Click here for more details! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org  Tues, 7/21 @ 3PM: Statewide Leadership Meeting on Zoom Video Conference. A separate email will be sent to leaders. Please save the date and time. Contact: Jawanza, 917-488-4961 Thurs, 7/23 @ 7PM : Westchester Speaks Out : Defund Police, Invest in Communities ! Join us for a virtual Town Hall as we collectively reimagine community safety throughout Westchester County ! RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org   Fri, 7/24 @ 5:30 PM : Join us for the 3rd stop of the Capital District Freedom Tour in Saratoga as we continue to share our community-derived demands to end police brutality, defund police, and hold law enforcement and correctional officers accountable ! Where : Saratoga County Jail (6010 County Farm Rd, Ballston Spa) RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org    Week In Review Our work was covered in QNS.com :  “Melinda Katz said that she would end money bail, but on the very first case I watched under her regime in Queens, she asked for money bail,” Court Watch NYC and VOCAL-NY Member Jon McFarlane said. “She lied.” What We're Reading Meet NYC's Newest Neighborhood: Abolition Park (Indypendent) Although many occupiers left in the first couple days of July after the City Council failed to make the meaningful cuts activists had demanded, a core group of about a hundred overnighters have stayed with the goal of making the park a more permanent autonomous zone dedicated to the abolition of the police and the capitalist structure that profits from policing and the promotion Black liberation.   Lawmakers slam Cuomo decision to cut substance abuse treatment (The Buffalo News) Two key state lawmakers are sharply criticizing a decision by the Cuomo administration to sharply cut state funding for substance abuse addiction treatment programs – at a time during the Covid-19 pandemic when law enforcement and health providers say drug overdoses and alcohol dependence are rising. In Shadow of Pandemic, U.S. Overdose Deaths Resurge to Record (NYTimes) Drug deaths in America, which fell for the first time in 25 years in 2018, rose to record numbers in 2019 and are continuing to climb, a resurgence that is being complicated and perhaps worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.

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