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

Guide to Your Week for VOCAL-NY Members

Upcoming Events This Week

Sun, 9/13 @ 4PM : We are marching to Gracie mansion to demand that the mayor stop the forced removal of the residents of hotels on the Upper West Side. Where : Gather at the corner of 88th and York Avenue, (456 to 86th street) Contact : Joe, 347-409-4650, joseph@vocal-ny.org Sun, 9/13 @ 12:45PM : Attica is Now ! Rally & Speakout - Join us in Albany to stand up, speak out, & fight back for an end to racist torture & perpetual punishment that has only worsened in the carceral system over the 49 years since the the Attica uprising occurred. No more deaths behind bars ! We demand #ClemencyNow ! Where:  West Capital Park (S. Swan & State St.) Albany, NY. RSVP : Click here to join us! Zoom : Click here to join on Zoom ! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 or Luke@vocal-ny.org. Mon, 9/14 @ 1:30PM : We join our comrades at NY-CAIC to demand Mayor de Blasio and NYC Council end solitary confinement in city jails. RSVP here. Where : City Hall, Manhattan. Travel : 4,5 train to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall. Contact : Tatiana@vocal-ny.org / 330-333-9964 Tues, 9/15 @ 9AM : We will be holding a digital press conference on ZOOM ahead of the city council hearing on Source of income discrimination. Where : Zoom Link, Link to submit testimony. Contact : Joe, 347-409-4650, joseph@vocal-ny.org Tues, 9/15 @ 2PM : Join the HIV/AIDS community for a town hall via zoom video conference to discuss HIV/AIDS amid COVID. Where : https://vocalny.zoom.us/j/86471192820  Contact : Clayton (929) 363-471 or Clayton@vocal-ny.org. Tues, 9/15 @ 5PM : Join our political education series on Mass Incarceration. RSVP here. Where : ZOOM. Contact : Tatiana@vocal-ny.org / 330-333-9964 Tues, 9/15 @ 6PM : Join us in Albany for an in-person action outside of City Hall to show support for community members testifying for housing rights ! Where : Albany City Hall (24 Eagle St.) RSVP : Click here to join us ! Contact : Luke at (917) 702-8781 or Luke@vocal-ny.org. Wed, 9/16 @ 2PM : Join User's Union Leader Robert Suaraz's teach-in Racism and the Drug War : Connecting the Dots. RSVP : Here Wed, 9/16 @ 5:30 PM : Westchester Organizing Meeting : members, leaders, allies, & community members - please join us for a meeting to discuss campaign updates, defunding the police updates, to plan our next direct action in Yonkers, and to discuss different issues we need and want to respond to collectively. Where : Online (Zoom)  RSVP : Click here to join us ! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 or Luke@vocal-ny.org. Fri, 9/18 @10:30 AM : Join us for an outdoor teach-in on the war on drugs and the current ways in which it is impacting our communities through the overdose crisis. Come ready to build and engage in deep political education and power building all while observing the guidelines of social distancing ! Where : Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan Travel : 4, 6, L, R RSVP/Contact : Biz Berthy, 413.406.8838 / biz@vocal-ny.org Ongoing : Sign our Homeless Union Petition to demand Wi-Fi for Homelesss (#Wifi4Homeless) New Yorkers : Click here. Contact : Celina, 347.309.6621/celina@vocal-ny.org Albany and Capital Region members, leaders, & accomplices : If you're interested in participating in Albany Police Reform Task Force Response efforts and have not done so already, please complete this survey and save the date/RSVP for the next meeting on Monday, 9/21 @ 5:30 PM.

What We're Reading

The Nation: How to Dismantle White Supremacy: To end systemic racism, the country needs a comprehensive racial justice program even more sweeping than the Marshall Plan. Medium: Kassandra Frederique, DPA’s New Executive Director, Shares Her Message to the Movement: I’m stepping into this moment with the understanding that to expose and extinguish the drug war we must redefine it.