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

 

 

 

Guide to Your Week for VOCAL-NY Members.

Upcoming Events This Week

Mon, 10/5 @ 6PM : Westchester Voting Q&A - Join us & our comrades from NYCLU to discuss early voting, voting registration, polling locations, to answer questions about voting in Westchester County & more ! Where : Online (Zoom) RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke 917-702-8781 / Luke@vocal-ny.org Wed, 10/7 @ 10:30AM : We will join the NY-CAIC Campaign at a rally at City Hall to demand that NYC ban solitary confinement in its jails. Where : City Hall, Manhattan. Travel : 4,5,6 to Brooklyn Bridge--City Hall. RSVP : Here. Contact : Tatiana 330-333-9964 / Tatiana@vocal-ny.org Wed, 10/7 @ 5:30 PM : VOCAL-NY's Capital Region Monthly Organizing Meeting : Join us for political education, campaign updates, to discuss upcoming actions throughout the region, & more ! Where : Online (Zoom) RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke 917-702-8781 / Luke@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

Week In Review.

We held our 2020 Virtual Gala and our work was covered in the Gothamist : Thank you for all of your support in our efforts to transform New York State as we work to end AIDS, mass incarceration, homelessness, and the drug war. Your generosity makes this work possible. If you weren't able to join us online, please watch the recording by clicking here ! The Gothamist: Cuomo Calls For Arrests Of Public Drug Users, Alarming Harm Reduction Advocates "The drug policy coordinator for Vocal-NY, Jasmine Budnella, said the comments were "inflammatory" and "reminiscent of the drug war." "He cited that New York City is reminding him of the '70s and then uses the same kind of rhetoric that Nixon and the Reagan administration, as well as many afterward, used to address substance use, that then catapulted us into mass incarceration, and prohibitionist policies, [which] is the reason we have the overdose crisis today," Budnella said.

What We're Reading.

New Yorker: The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It Moreover, as the branch of government that is least accountable to the American public, the Supreme Court has tended, for most of its history, toward a fundamental conservatism, siding with tradition over more expansive visions of human rights. Human Rights Watch:New York Police Planned Assault on Bronx Protesters            New York City police planned the assault and mass arrests of peaceful protesters in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx on June 4, 2020, Human Rights Watch said in a report released

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