U.S : VOCAL-NY Guide to Your Week !

Guide to Your Week for VOCAL-NY Members

Upcoming Events This Week

Tues, 8/18 @ 11AM : We will join the Justice for Women Task Force to call for the release of women on Rikers Island. Register to join on-line here. More info : tatiana@vocal-ny.org / 330-333-9964 Wed, 8/19 @ 10AM : We will be testifying at the People’s Hearing on COVID19 in Prisons and Jails. RSVP here to testify or just to attend. More info : nick@vocal-ny.org / 347-259-4835 Wed, 8/19 @ 3PM : Join VOCAL-NY’s Civil Rights Union for a political education discussion on ending mass incarceration. RSVP here. More info : tatiana@vocal-ny.org / 330-333-9964 Thurs, 8/20 @ 4 PM : Join us Housing Justice All for a huge march on the billionaire landlords who are trying to evict tens of thousands of New Yorkers from their homes. Meet up at 41st Street and 5th Avenue. ⁣Bring signs and PPE ! #CancelRent #EvictionFreeNY #PeopleOverProfits More Info : Celina : tel :347-309-6621 /celina@vocal-ny.org Thurs, 8/20 @ 5PM : VOCAL-NY leader Eileen will be speaking on a panel about “Renewable Rikers” - a plan to unite our criminal justice struggles with campaigns against climate change. RSVP here. More info : tatiana@vocal-ny.org / 330-333-9964 Fri, 8/28 @ 4:00 PM : Join us for the monthly VOCAL-NY Homelessness Union Assembly. Come build & engage in deep political power & education that changes the narratives and outcomes of those currently and formerly experiencing homelessness in NYC. Let's fight to #EndHomelessness & win a #HomesGuarantee for ALL NYers. Register : RSVP & JOIN CALL. Meeting ID : 846 0449 6467, Dial-in : +16465588656, Code : 846 0449 6467# Contact : Celina : tel : 347-309-6621 / celina@vocal-ny.org

Week in Review

Business Insider- How The NYPD Became The Most Expensive Police Force In The US. Our Civil Rights Organizer Tatiana Hill is featured in this video. The New Republic- A Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities. Our Director of Organizing Jawanza James Williams is quoted :  “These encampments are being destroyed the way they are because people are making visible the underbelly of capitalism, the housing insecurity crisis, police violence. [They’re] reminders that our system is not working and that capitalism fails us every single day.”

What We're Reading

The Defund the Police Movement is Coming for the DEA (VICE) Critics say the Drug Enforcement Administration has fueled mass incarceration and is a “100 percent failure” at curbing drug trafficking. Cuomo Is Protecting His Wall Street Donors From Democratic Tax Bills (TMI)Democratic legislators are targeting the financial industry -- but their party’s governor is helping the industry as it frantically lobbies in Albany. Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore During last week's Membership Assembly, we used this video as a discussion point, and member-leaders requested that it be shared widely. Kwame Ture in 1992 on Liberation Kwame Ture speaks at Florida International University in Miami in 1992.

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