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equalityforflatbush: Next Tuesday June 25th Coalition leaders...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:43:58 -0400

Next Tuesday June 25th Coalition leaders will join hundreds of NYC tenants to ask Mayoral candidates how they will keep NYC livable for working class families. 7 p.m. at St. Calvary Church, 4 Rutherford Place (by Union Square.) Join us - email or message me if you’d like to come with us! https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition

City Council Candidate Forum 2013 | Facebook

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:18:04 -0400

City Council Candidate Forum 2013 | Facebook:

PICTURES from City Council Candidate Forum 2013 - Flatbush Tenants Coalition

More than 160 Coalition leaders and tenants came out on Saturday to hear their candidates for City Council answer some tough questions about housing, budget, and campaign finance. An amazing event that showed our candidates they have to WORK for tenant votes!

Lynne Stewart’s loving partner, Ralph Poynter will begin a...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:21:38 -0400

Lynne Stewart’s loving partner, Ralph Poynter will begin a vigil outside the White House today for the release of political prisoner Lynne Stewart. Please join him if you can. Sign the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-free-lynne-stewart-save-her-life-release-her-now-2 Call The MEDIA, CALL YOUR FRIENDS IN DC to JOIN HIM, and COME TO DC to stand with him. WE MUST BRING LYNNE HOME

URGENT _ LYNNE STEWART has WON compassionate release but they wont let her go home!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:18:55 -0400

URGENT ACTION ALERT!!!!! COME & STAY IN WASHINGTON DC The International Action Center urges you to join Ralph Poynter in a vigil in front of the white house for Lynne Stewart’s compassionate release, beginning Monday, June 17 and continuing until Lynne is released. The IAC will be participating in the vigil until Lynne is free. Participate as much as you can. And continue the following support actions:

CALL: White House - President Barack Obama – 1-202-456-1414

> Attorney General Eric Holder - 1-202-514-2001  
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> Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels – 1-202-307-3250
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> Sign petition at IACenter.org/LynneStewartPetition or at LynneStewart.org
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> The following media advisory has been released by Ralph Poynter:
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> White House vigil for Lynne Stewart’s compassionate release starts Monday, June 17
> LynneStewart.org
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> The continuing campaign to gain Compassionate Release for Lynne Stewart — the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney — is headed to Washington, D.C.
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> Despite being approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health.
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> Lynne Stewart’s spouse, the 79-year-old social justice activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil in front of the White House starting on Monday, June 17.
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> Poynter urges all those concerned with justice, compassion and basic human rights to join him whether they are available for an hour, for the day, or for the duration. He will be at the White House and making visits to the Federal Bureau of Prisons several blocks away, at 320 First St. NW, Washington D.C., 20534.
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> Lynne Stewart, age 73, is suffering from stage 4 cancer in her lungs. The cancer has metastasized rapidly to her lymph nodes and shoulder. She has lost 60 pounds and her condition is deteriorating rapidly. Stewart’s condition is well-known and medically documented.
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> As Poynter explains: “Lynne has passed all of the legalities of compassionate release and qualifies for release as the bill was written. The prison warden at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, has signed for her release, and so has the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles R. Samuels. Probation officers charged with inspecting Lynne’s future residence approved her housing. All that is required by the statute of compassionate release has been done. Yet Lynne is still in jail! Every day that her release is postponed makes treatment of her cancer more difficult.”
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> The national campaign for Stewart’s Compassionate Release started more than three months ago, in early March. Thousands of petitions were sent and thousands of phone calls made urging her release. The warden at Carswell Federal Prison recommended her immediate compassionate release six weeks ago.
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> As the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee has explained, Stewart is not guilty of any crimes. In representing a prisoner charged with terrorism, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Stewart was unjustly convicted of delivering a simple press release for her client.
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> All those who are concerned with Lynne’s health and unable to get to Washington, D.C., are urged to continue calling the White House, Attorney General and Federal Bureau of Prisons and sending petitions.
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> CALL: White House - President Barack Obama – 1-202-456-1414
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> Attorney General Eric Holder - 1-202-514-2001  
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> Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels – 1-202-307-3250
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> Sign petition at IACenter.org/LynneStewartPetition or at LynneStewart.org

Flatbush Tenants Coalition City Council Candidates Forum...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:31:24 -0400

Flatbush Tenants Coalition City Council Candidates Forum #Brooklyn

CALLING ALL NYC SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS Love your...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:56:17 -0400

CALLING ALL NYC SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS

Love your job but hate your caseload?
Want to do great work with less burnout? Frustrated by the limited services for your clients? Dealing with a toxic boss or management? Wish you had better supervision?
Wish you had benefits and vacation?

My nephew Saul!!!

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:39:32 -0400

My nephew Saul!!!

Lawyer suing the UN on the behalf of cholera survivors in Haiti

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:04:01 -0400

Lawyer suing the UN on the behalf of cholera survivors in Haiti

Haitian labor leader speaking at NYC UN TROOPS OUT OF #HAITI

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:43:03 -0400

Haitian labor leader speaking at NYC UN TROOPS OUT OF #HAITI

NYC meeting on #Haiti to demand US and UN troops out

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:20:18 -0400

NYC meeting on #Haiti to demand US and UN troops out

3rd Retail Action in Support of the Workers of Bangladesh | Facebook

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:40:00 -0400

3rd Retail Action in Support of the Workers of Bangladesh | Facebook:

Thursday 6/13

7:00pm
Atlantic Center Mall

We stand in solidarity with the workers of Bangladesh and are outraged over the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building, which has killed more than 1,100 garment workers. This follows the fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory last year where more than 100 Bangladeshi workers lost their lives.

In our 3rd solidarity action, we’ll visit several retail stores in Brooklyn and demand that they sign on to the legally binding *Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh*.

The Accord, a new agreement between several global union federations and 40 prominent apparel and retail companies, requires companies to participate in and fund a program of independent safety inspections, remediation, and worker safety trainings with the involvement of trade unions. They must maintain commercial terms that enable factories to maintain safe workplaces and finance repairs. The program will be overseen by a Steering Committee consisting of an equal number of representatives of trade unions and companies and one representative of the International Labor Organization. It will be enforceable through binding arbitration.

It has been estimated that a mere $0.10 more per garment would pay for the factory improvements of this program. Is 10 cents per garment too much for worker safety? Walmart, K-Mart, Gap, Target, JC Penny, and other U.S. retailers say “yes”. We say “no more bloodshed!” It’s time to hold U.S. retailers accountable for their inaction.

While a few U.S. companies have signed onto the Accord, most, including the Gap, Walmart, Target, J.C. Penney, Sears, and Kmart, have not. The time for individual and ineffective “corporate social responsibility” programs is long over. This legally binding, multi-stakeholder Accord is the kind of framework that is much more likely to result in safer factories and better jobs for garment workers.

We demand that all apparel and retail companies that have production in Bangladesh join this program.

Illusions of Safety: Policing Hate Crimes Won't Make Us Safer

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:27:00 -0400

Illusions of Safety: Policing Hate Crimes Won't Make Us Safer:

sonofbaldwin:

We cannot ignore that the police, particularly the NYPD, systematically targets the most vulnerable communities with abusive and discriminatory policing practices, especially Black and Latino folks. We can’t ignore the fact that in 2012, the 6th Precinct, which covers the West Village, aggressively increased stop-and-frisks by 23% - the largest percent increase in the whole of New York City. The latest statistics from NYCLU also show that 83.5% of the stops in 6th Precinct were conducted on Black and Latino folks, yet these racial groups make up only 8% of residents in the area. Invisible in these statistics are our experiences as LGBTQ people of color who face daily profiling based on our race, gender, class, immigration status, and sexual orientations.

When LGBTQ communities seek policing and hate crime legislation as solutions to hate violence, it puts the most vulnerable among us at further risk of violence from the state. In our fear, we strengthen an unaccountable Prison-Industrial Complex that feeds on our fear of each other—that NEEDS our fear of each other—our division, our distrust of each other, to criminalize us and keep us down.

Hate violence must be treated as a systemic issue. To me, the gunman who killed Marc Carson wasn’t acting alone. He wasn’t the only person accountable. There was a whole society, a whole system that failed, that delivered the message that this kind of violence was warranted, and that low-income straight people of color have something to fear and a valid reason to hate queer people. We’re made to believe that we pose a threat to each other and that it’s ok to fear one another, attack each other, or keep each other’s communities’ in check, with either interpersonal violence or institutional violence executed through things like policing and hate crime legislation.

#SingItForThePeople!

Another fact: The NYPD also helped to close down DESIRE, located at 45 W 8th St New York, NY 10011 - the only bar with a majority people of color patronage on the same block Mark Carson was shot. DESIRE was listed online as a gay bar and although it’s client base was very mixed with gay and straight people of color, it’s two biggest nights were Thursdays & Sundays that were always packed with Black & Latino gay men. It was also known as a great spot to hang-out after the LGBTQ Pride march since it was along the parade route. Besides BBQ’s down the block at 21 W 8th St, there was no other bar and restaurant, that was seen as a people of color or LGBT POC “spot” on that block besides DESIRE.

According to patrons, The NYPD routinely harass Black gay men on the block and threatened DESIRE bartenders and manager with arrest if they did not close down the bar by 2am!! The bar finally closed back in April and one can only wonder if DESIRE had still been opened with it’s large Black gay patron base - Would Mark Carson still be alive?

Imani Henry, DESIRE patron

Equality for Flatbush: Do you Believe that Tenants and small Homeowners deserve Equal Rights,...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:07:16 -0400

Equality for Flatbush: Do you Believe that Tenants and small Homeowners deserve Equal Rights,...:

equalityforflatbush:

Do you Believe that Tenants and small Homeowners deserve Equal Rights, a Decent Quality of Life and Respect?

Then JOIN “Equality for Flatbush” a new grassroots campaign to create a stronger network between tenant rights groups, block associations and community organizations…

equalityforflatbush: Justice Shantel Davis on the 1 year...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:06:11 -0400

equalityforflatbush:

Justice Shantel Davis on the 1 year memorial of her murder by the NYPD

June 14th See http://justice4shantel.com/ to get involve

occupygezipics: Free-for-all pharmacy set up at Gezi Parki

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:47:29 -0400

occupygezipics:

Free-for-all pharmacy set up at Gezi Parki

equalityforflatbush: Sat. June 15th at 9:45 a.m: our first-ever...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:35:33 -0400

equalityforflatbush:

Sat. June 15th at 9:45 a.m: our first-ever City-Council Candidate Forum! Hear YOUR candidates’ views on tenants rights, campaign finance, and more! Flatbush Tompkins Church 424 E. 19th St. (at Dorchester Rd.) Come out & show our force & power!

AnonNewsSwe Anonymous Sweden 2h People of Turkey, you are...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:57:03 -0400

AnonNewsSwe Anonymous Sweden 2h

People of Turkey, you are not alone. #OccupyGezi pic.twitter.com/2s0HEAtt3W

equalityforflatbush: Flatbush Tenant...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:35:41 -0400

equalityforflatbush:

Flatbush Tenant Coalition

https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition

Turkish Spring Police Brutality COLLECTION (warning -VERY...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:03 -0400

Turkish Spring Police Brutality COLLECTION (warning -VERY POWERFUL & VERY Graphic) please forward widely - the truth must get out

occupygezipics: Man points his crutch at a police vehicle in...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:44:13 -0400

occupygezipics:

Man points his crutch at a police vehicle in Ankara today.

Son of A Maroon

equalityforflatbush: Next Tuesday June 25th Coalition leaders...

City Council Candidate Forum 2013 | Facebook

PICTURES from City Council Candidate Forum 2013 - Flatbush Tenants Coalition

Lynne Stewart’s loving partner, Ralph Poynter will begin a...

URGENT _ LYNNE STEWART has WON compassionate release but they wont let her go home!

Flatbush Tenants Coalition City Council Candidates Forum...

CALLING ALL NYC SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS Love your...

My nephew Saul!!!

Lawyer suing the UN on the behalf of cholera survivors in Haiti

Haitian labor leader speaking at NYC UN TROOPS OUT OF #HAITI

NYC meeting on #Haiti to demand US and UN troops out

3rd Retail Action in Support of the Workers of Bangladesh | Facebook

Atlantic Center Mall

Illusions of Safety: Policing Hate Crimes Won't Make Us Safer

Equality for Flatbush: Do you Believe that Tenants and small Homeowners deserve Equal Rights,...

equalityforflatbush: Justice Shantel Davis on the 1 year...

occupygezipics: Free-for-all pharmacy set up at Gezi Parki

equalityforflatbush: Sat. June 15th at 9:45 a.m: our first-ever...

AnonNewsSwe Anonymous Sweden 2h People of Turkey, you are...

equalityforflatbush: Flatbush Tenant...

Turkish Spring Police Brutality COLLECTION (warning -VERY...

Turkish Spring Police Brutality COLLECTION (warning -VERY POWERFUL & VERY Graphic) please forward widely - the truth must get out

occupygezipics: Man points his crutch at a police vehicle in...