VOCAL-NY Guide to Your Week !

 

 

 

Guide to Your Week for VOCAL-NY Members

Upcoming Events This Week

Mon, 11/2 @ 11AM : Urgent Housing Action in Troy ! Join us as we demand an #EvictionFreeNY throughout this pandemic and stand in solidarity with us as we fight to protect our fellow community members. Where : 433 River Street, Troy, NY. RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 or Luke@vocal-ny.org. (RESCHEDULED )Thursday, 11/05 @8:30AM : Join us as we protest to demand access to take-home bottles of methadone for the clients at Carlos Pagan Recovery Center, who have been forced to risk their lives nearly every day to access their life saving medication during a pandemic. It is time to show OASAS that they must do more to regulate clinics like Carlos Pagan to ensure that vulnerable New Yorkers can safely access their medication. People who use methadone deserve #TakeHomes2StayHome ! Where : Carlos Pagan (561 Court Street, Brooklyn RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Biz, 413.406.8838 / biz@vocal-ny.org. Fri, 11/6 @ 5:30 PM : Albany Speaks Out ! The Community Responds. Join us for a public community forum on police reform in Albany and to share our recommendations and demands with the Albany Police Reinvention Task Force ! Where : Ten Broeck Triangle (in front of St. Joseph's Park), Albany. To submit testimony : Click here. RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Luke (917) 702-8781 or Luke@vocal-ny.org. Ongoing : Sign our Homeless Union Petition to demand Wi-Fi for Homeless (#Wifi4Homeless) New Yorkers : Click here. Contact : Celina, 347.309.6621/celina@vocal-ny.org Sign our petition to demand safe and consistent access to methadone for vulnerable New Yorkers : https://bit.ly/MethadoneAccessNow. Contact : Biz, 413.406.8838 / biz@vocal-ny.org

Week in Review

Our work was covered in the Gothamist : Gothamist: It’s 2020: Why Is The Internet Still Treated Like A Luxury, Not A Utility? "We made a request for people affected by homelessness to go first, but that didn’t happen,” says Celina Trowell, an organizer with VOCAL. "My communication with our members has been drastically impacted by the fact I have no way to consistently engage with them,” says Trowell. “If their phone goes off, I can’t contact them. Because of COVID, they can’t just come to the office.” “The same way we can set up hubs for people to sit and have dinner outside, why don’t we have hubs for internet for people who are unhoused ?” says Trowell. “Why don’t the libraries have outdoor stations where people can sit and have access to the internet ? In the long term, we need to consider how to make internet access a public utility for all.”

What We're Reading

Black Perspectives: Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons The profundity of Toni Cade Bambara’s presence in my life was from when I was 20 years old in 1989 until 1995, when she joined the ancestral realm. Harvard Law Review: Envisioning Abolition Democracy

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