U.S (VOCAL NEW YORK) : VOCAL-NY Guide to Your Week !

 

 

 

Upcoming Events.

Tues 9/13 @ 8AM: Day of Rage: End NYC's Death Penalty. Join us outside the monthly Board of Correction hearing to protest the grim reality that every person remanded to Rikers Island faces the potential of a death sentence. Demand the the death penalty in NYC be ended once and for all. Where: 125 Worth Street Trains: 4/5/6 to Bklyn Bridge City Hall. N/R/W to City Hall. A/C/J/Z to Chambers St. RSVP Here! Contact: Keli, 929-363-4713, keli@vocal-ny.org. Tues 9/13 @ 11 am : Join VOCAL-NY, Neighbors Together, Legal Aid Society, and the Community Service Society of NY as we unveil our CityFHEPS expansion campaign. We are demanding the New York City Council improve oversight and code enforcement of apartment placements, eliminates unnecessary rules in the apartment approval process, reforms bureaucratic processes relating to the application process, and expands CityFHEPS eligibility to undocumented New Yorkers.   Where : City Hall Steps, RSVP : Click Here to Join Us! Contact : Adolfo, adolfo@vocal-ny.org    Wed 9/14 @ 5:30 PM : VOCAL-Albany September Organizing Meeting  Where : ZOOM RSVP : Click here to join us! Contact : Ash, 518.469.3753/ash@vocal-ny.org Thurs 9/15 @ 3PM : Join us for the monthly VOCAL-NY Users Union Membership Assembly. This space is for current and former drug users, and those impacted by the overdose crisis. Learn how to build the statewide, collective power that is necessary to end the war on drugs in NYS! Where : In-person at the LGBT Center (208 W. 13th Street in Manhattan) OR online via Zoom. RSVP Here! Contact : Biz (413-406-8838 | biz@vocal-ny.org)

Send VOCAL-NY Leaders to Puerto Rico ! VOCAL-NY is raising funds to send a group of leaders to attend this year's National Harm Reduction Conference in Puerto Rico. These individuals are essential to ending the preventable overdose crisis. From Buffalo to the Bronx, these leaders work every day to keep people alive and treat drug users with the care and compassion they deserve.  Learn how to donate here!

Week in Review.

Last week we joined the G.A.N.G Coalition and other organizers to demand NYC Council pass a law to abolish the NYPD's Gang Database. The database, which includes 18,000 people -- 99% Black & Latino men according to the NYPD -- unfairly subjects people to surveillance, prosecution and discrimination in the legal system without any transparency at all.

What We're Reading.

TODAY : "What it’s like to seek medication-assisted treatment for opioid use: ‘I broke down crying’" New York Daily News : "Treating homeless New Yorkers humanely" Times Union : "Advocates urge Hochul to pass overdose prevention policies" New York Times : "Tracking the Deaths at Rikers Island in 2022"

We're Hiring ! VOCAL-NY has open positions for dynamic individuals who are committed to building power among low-income people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness. Community Organizer (part-time) Finance Manager

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