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NYC Anarchist May Be Imprisoned Tomorrow For Resisting A Grand Jury Jerry’s contempt hearing is tomorrow, May 21st at 3:45 PM on the 20th floor of 500 Pearl Street. We expect that he will be taken into custody by U.S. marshals tomorrow. Because the hearing is public, we will be able to be in the courtroom with Jerry. Bring a photo ID if you will be going into the court house. No electronics are allowed and will be checked with security. We suggest folks arrive 45 minutes to an hour early: security takes a while, and we want to show Jerry–and the feds–that we support him, and all grand jury resisters. Bring banners or flyers. Spread this widely. Resist state repression! Support Jerry! Support all political prisoners!
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NYC Anarchist May Be Imprisoned Tomorrow For Resisting A Grand Jury

Jerry’s contempt hearing is tomorrow, May 21st at 3:45 PM on the 20th floor of 500 Pearl Street.

We expect that he will be taken into custody by U.S. marshals tomorrow.

Because the hearing is public, we will be able to be in the courtroom with Jerry. Bring a photo ID if you will be going into the court house. No electronics are allowed and will be checked with security.

We suggest folks arrive 45 minutes to an hour early: security takes a while, and we want to show Jerry–and the feds–that we support him, and all grand jury resisters.

Bring banners or flyers. Spread this widely.

Resist state repression! Support Jerry! Support all political prisoners!

Source: anarcho-queer

FBI Subpoena NYC Anarchist For Second Time To A Federal Grand Jury Statement by Jerry: My name is Gerald Koch and I have been subpoenaed to a federal grand jury based in the Southern District of New York regarding the 2008 Times Square Military Recruitment Center bombing. This is my second subpoena concerning this matter; I was also subpoenaed in June of 2009. I refused to testify at that time based on the assertion of my First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, as I will be doing again for the duration of this grand jury. During the first grand jury, the government informed my lawyers that it was believed that I was at a bar in 2008 or 2009 where a patron indicated knowledge of who had committed the bombing. When I was first subpoenaed to the grand jury in 2009 I had no recollection of any such incident— a fact that I expressed publically. Now, almost 4 years later, I still do not recall the alleged situation. Given that I publically made clear that I had no knowledge of this alleged event in 2009, the fact that I am being subpoenaed once again suggests that the FBI does not actually believe that I possess any information about the 2008 bombing, but rather that they are engaged in a ‘fishing expedition’ to gain information concerning my personal beliefs and political associations. Over the past few decades, the FBI has demonstrated a consistent pattern of harassment and illegal surveillance of anarchists and other radicals not only here in New York, but also across the country. Throughout this time, federal grand juries (incredibly secretive proceedings that do not permit one’s lawyers to be present) have played a significant role; a federal grand jury is authorized to ask questions about anything and anyone, and often the declared intention is simply a mask to disguise the actual goal of acquiring information for use in other politically motivated cases. It is my belief that these two federal grand juries—despite the pretense of investigation into the 2008 bombing—are actually being used to gain information about my friends, loved ones, and activists for whom I have done legal support. By declining to testify, I refuse to be coerced into participating in a political witch-hunt that eerily recalls those of the McCarthy era Red Scare. I again assert that I have no knowledge of who is responsible for the 2008 Times Square Military Recruitment Center bombing, and I will once again refuse to testify to the federal grand jury in ethical resistance to participation in a fruitless exercise of fear-mongering and government intimidation. My decision to stay silent in defense of individual agency will most likely result in incarceration for a period up to 18 months. I accept this recompense, understanding that in doing so I will reinforce a tradition of defending individual rights in the face of state repression. Related: Brooklyn Anarchist Refusing to Play Along With the System Jerry’s Court date is on May 16th at 10am in the morning. Help us pack the court room at 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan. If you can’t be there, forward this to someone who can.
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FBI Subpoena NYC Anarchist For Second Time To A Federal Grand Jury

Statement by Jerry:

My name is Gerald Koch and I have been subpoenaed to a federal grand jury based in the Southern District of New York regarding the 2008 Times Square Military Recruitment Center bombing. This is my second subpoena concerning this matter; I was also subpoenaed in June of 2009. I refused to testify at that time based on the assertion of my First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, as I will be doing again for the duration of this grand jury. During the first grand jury, the government informed my lawyers that it was believed that I was at a bar in 2008 or 2009 where a patron indicated knowledge of who had committed the bombing. When I was first subpoenaed to the grand jury in 2009 I had no recollection of any such incident— a fact that I expressed publically. Now, almost 4 years later, I still do not recall the alleged situation.

Given that I publically made clear that I had no knowledge of this alleged event in 2009, the fact that I am being subpoenaed once again suggests that the FBI does not actually believe that I possess any information about the 2008 bombing, but rather that they are engaged in a ‘fishing expedition’ to gain information concerning my personal beliefs and political associations.

Over the past few decades, the FBI has demonstrated a consistent pattern of harassment and illegal surveillance of anarchists and other radicals not only here in New York, but also across the country. Throughout this time, federal grand juries (incredibly secretive proceedings that do not permit one’s lawyers to be present) have played a significant role; a federal grand jury is authorized to ask questions about anything and anyone, and often the declared intention is simply a mask to disguise the actual goal of acquiring information for use in other politically motivated cases. It is my belief that these two federal grand juries—despite the pretense of investigation into the 2008 bombing—are actually being used to gain information about my friends, loved ones, and activists for whom I have done legal support. By declining to testify, I refuse to be coerced into participating in a political witch-hunt that eerily recalls those of the McCarthy era Red Scare.

I again assert that I have no knowledge of who is responsible for the 2008 Times Square Military Recruitment Center bombing, and I will once again refuse to testify to the federal grand jury in ethical resistance to participation in a fruitless exercise of fear-mongering and government intimidation. My decision to stay silent in defense of individual agency will most likely result in incarceration for a period up to 18 months. I accept this recompense, understanding that in doing so I will reinforce a tradition of defending individual rights in the face of state repression.

Related: Brooklyn Anarchist Refusing to Play Along With the System

Jerry’s Court date is on May 16th at 10am in the morning. Help us pack the court room at 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan. If you can’t be there, forward this to someone who can.

Source: anarcho-queer

Demonstration In Harlem In Defense of Assata Shakur! On Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time, the New York City Chapter of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) will hold a demonstration in front of the Harlem State Office Building to protest the U.S. government’s recent announcement of the increased bounty placed on the life of Assata Shakur from $1 million to $2 million and her addition to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. The State claims that Assata Shakur is a U.S. domestic terrorist and is offering money to anyone who can take Assata from Cuba and bring her back, dead or alive, to the U.S. so that she can be forced to serve the rest of her “life sentence” for the alleged murder of a New Jersey state trooper in the early 1970s. The BIBC is absolutely opposed to the U.S. governments labeling of Assata Shakur as a terrorist. Assata Shakur, like the masses of African and other oppressed peoples around the world, is a victim of terrorism inflicted by the U.S. government. RSVP to the event on Facebook
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Demonstration In Harlem In Defense of Assata Shakur!

On Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time, the New York City Chapter of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) will hold a demonstration in front of the Harlem State Office Building to protest the U.S. government’s recent announcement of the increased bounty placed on the life of Assata Shakur from $1 million to $2 million and her addition to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.

The State claims that Assata Shakur is a U.S. domestic terrorist and is offering money to anyone who can take Assata from Cuba and bring her back, dead or alive, to the U.S. so that she can be forced to serve the rest of her “life sentence” for the alleged murder of a New Jersey state trooper in the early 1970s.

The BIBC is absolutely opposed to the U.S. governments labeling of Assata Shakur as a terrorist. Assata Shakur, like the masses of African and other oppressed peoples around the world, is a victim of terrorism inflicted by the U.S. government.

RSVP to the event on Facebook

Source: anarcho-queer

May Day 2013: NYC Schedule 10:00am - 10:30am: Occu-Evolve Speakout Against Law Day @ NYU 10:30am - 11:00am: Young Workers: March with TWU! @ Bryant Park 11:00am - 2:30pm: Free University @ Copper Union 12:00pm - 2:00pm: Immigrant Worker Justice Tour 12:00pm - 4:00pm: May 1 Coalition Activities @ Union Square 12:00pm - 2:00pm: Occupy to Save the People’s Post Office @ Washington Square Park 1:00pm - (?): Anti-Capitalist March @ Tompkins Square 2:30pm - 4:00pm: 99 Pickets Solidarity Swarm @ Union Square 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Citywide Student Convergence @ Peter Cooper Park 3:00pm - 5:00pm: Resistance Is Fertile: Love Bomb Seed Bombs 4:00pm - 5:30pm: Unified Rally for Immigrant Rights & Worker Rights @ Union Square 5:15pm - 7:00pm: Unified March for Immigrant & Worker Rights 6:00pm - 7:30pm: Rally for Labor & Citizen’s Rights @ City Hall 7:00pm - 8:30pm: May Day People’s Assembly / Asamblea del Pueblo del 1ero de Mayo @ Foley Square 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Occu-Evolve Kimani Gray Memorial Assembly @ Zuccotti Park
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May Day 2013: NYC Schedule

10:00am - 10:30am: Occu-Evolve Speakout Against Law Day @ NYU

10:30am - 11:00am: Young Workers: March with TWU! @ Bryant Park

11:00am - 2:30pm: Free University @ Copper Union

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Immigrant Worker Justice Tour

12:00pm - 4:00pm: May 1 Coalition Activities @ Union Square

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Occupy to Save the People’s Post Office @ Washington Square Park

1:00pm - (?): Anti-Capitalist March @ Tompkins Square

2:30pm - 4:00pm: 99 Pickets Solidarity Swarm @ Union Square

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Citywide Student Convergence @ Peter Cooper Park

3:00pm - 5:00pm: Resistance Is Fertile: Love Bomb Seed Bombs

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Unified Rally for Immigrant Rights & Worker Rights @ Union Square

5:15pm - 7:00pm: Unified March for Immigrant & Worker Rights

6:00pm - 7:30pm: Rally for Labor & Citizen’s Rights @ City Hall

7:00pm - 8:30pm: May Day People’s Assembly / Asamblea del Pueblo del 1ero de Mayo @ Foley Square

7:30pm - 8:30pm: Occu-Evolve Kimani Gray Memorial Assembly @ Zuccotti Park

Source: anarcho-queer

By the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, the number of blacks and latinos stopped by the NYPD will exceed the population of black and latino people living in NYC.

The number of stops involving young black men in 2011 (168,124) exceed the city’s population of young black men (158,406). 90% of them were innocent (were not arrested or given a summons) yet accounted for 41.6% of the stops despite making up only 4.7 of NYC.

Since Bloomberg took office, stop and frisks increased 600%. This March the NYPD CONDUCTED THEIR 5 MILLIONTH STOP AND FRISK. The number is truly staggering when you consider that the population of NYC is 8.3 million. In comparison, the population of Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, is only 3.8 million.

Out of those 5,000,000 stop and frisk encounters, 4.4 million or 88% were innocent (were not arrested or given a summons) and 86% were Latino or Black.

In Brownsville, Brooklyn, where over 96% of the residents are black or latino, 93 out of 100 residents were stopped by the NYPD.

Probably the most enraging fact about the stop and frisk method is that it has revealed that WHITES ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE FOUND WITH A WEAPON THAN BLACKS/LATINO’S.

Only 1.9 percent of frisks in 2011 turned up weapons and interestingly, according to the NYCLU, “a weapon was found in only 1.8 percent of blacks and Latinos frisked, as compared to a weapon being found in 3.8 percent of whites frisked.”

The most enraging facts about Bloomberg’s/NYPD’s Stop And Frisk method. 

Source 1/Source 2/Source 3

Source: anarcho-queer

If the NYPD & Mayor Bloomberg wanted to take weapons off the streets, they would target white people.

White people:

  • are the largest racial group in NYC making up 1/3 (33%) of the cities population. Latino’s make up 28.6% and Blacks make up 25.5%, 54.1% together.
  • make up 10.5% of stop and frisks compared to blacks and latinos who make up 86% of stops together or 54% and 32% respectively.
  • are more than twice than likely to be found with a weapon (3.8%) compared to blacks and latino’s (1.8%) who make up 86% of stops/frisks.

This is undeniable truth that racial profiling triumphs logic and statistics when it comes to the NYPD. 

Source 1/Source 2

Source: anarcho-queer

NYPD Sued For Pepper Spraying Infant And 2 Children A mother is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) over what she says was an instance of police brutality where cops pepper-sprayed her three little children. Courthouse News Service reports that the mother, Marilyn Taylor, made the claims recently in court about the alleged August 9 incident. Taylor says that police officers pepper sprayed her three children, who are 5-months old and 2 and 4 years old. She claims that as she was on her way to board a Manhattan-bound L Train, officers stopped her and her husband and accused them of trying to skip a fare. Taylor was pushing a stroller with her two-year-old through a service door rather than the regular turnstile. That’s when the police officers allegedly pepper sprayed Taylor, and the spray hit her children. The lawsuit claims that “the pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting.” Taylor was arrested, and she said that cops pushed her down the stairs so harshly that the handcuffs bruised her wrists and lower back, according to Courthouse News Service. The officers who carried out the alleged brutality are named in the suit: Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge. Taylor’s husband, named Dehaven McClain, had to get all three children home by himself. A day after the incident, Taylor says she “received an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, meaning the charges would be tossed if she did not get arrested again within a certain time,” according to the news outlet. The lawsuit provides more details on the aftermath of the attack. “After the attack, mother and father suffered ongoing eye injuries and all three children suffer emotional harms, and are now afraid to ride the subways and become afraid when they see police officers. The four year-old cried herself to sleep for weeks, and after the incident the two-year-old began waking up in the night crying for her mother,” the complaint reads. Taylor has said that the officers have continued to harass her since the August 9 event. The family is seeking punitive damages for what they say were civil rights violations, assault, battery, negligence, and violations to the state and federal constitutions, according to the Courthouse News Service. The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment.
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NYPD Sued For Pepper Spraying Infant And 2 Children

A mother is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) over what she says was an instance of police brutality where cops pepper-sprayed her three little children. Courthouse News Service reports that the mother, Marilyn Taylor, made the claims recently in court about the alleged August 9 incident.

Taylor says that police officers pepper sprayed her three children, who are 5-months old and 2 and 4 years old. She claims that as she was on her way to board a Manhattan-bound L Train, officers stopped her and her husband and accused them of trying to skip a fare. Taylor was pushing a stroller with her two-year-old through a service door rather than the regular turnstile.

That’s when the police officers allegedly pepper sprayed Taylor, and the spray hit her children. The lawsuit claims that “the pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting.”

Taylor was arrested, and she said that cops pushed her down the stairs so harshly that the handcuffs bruised her wrists and lower back, according to Courthouse News Service. The officers who carried out the alleged brutality are named in the suit: Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge.

Taylor’s husband, named Dehaven McClain, had to get all three children home by himself.

A day after the incident, Taylor says she “received an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, meaning the charges would be tossed if she did not get arrested again within a certain time,” according to the news outlet.

The lawsuit provides more details on the aftermath of the attack. “After the attack, mother and father suffered ongoing eye injuries and all three children suffer emotional harms, and are now afraid to ride the subways and become afraid when they see police officers. The four year-old cried herself to sleep for weeks, and after the incident the two-year-old began waking up in the night crying for her mother,” the complaint reads.

Taylor has said that the officers have continued to harass her since the August 9 event.

The family is seeking punitive damages for what they say were civil rights violations, assault, battery, negligence, and violations to the state and federal constitutions, according to the Courthouse News Service. The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment.

Source: anarcho-queer

NYPD Officer Charged After Helping Police Gang Commit Over 100 Robberies A 17-year veteran of the New York City Police Department pled not guilty Thursday to charges that he supplied police paraphernalia and weapons to a stickup crew, which then used the equipment to rob drug dealers. Officer Jose Tejada is accused of involvement in a string of 2006 and 2007 robberies in which he is alleged to have provided NYPD badges, uniforms and even police vehicles to a group of thieves. Tejada, 45, who had been assigned to police Harlem, was in uniform and on duty at the time of at least one of his alleged crimes. He’s been connected to three of the more than one hundred robberies the crew is supposedly behind, with some dating back to 2001. Tejada is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to distribute drugs including heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and marijuana, as well as an unlawful use of a firearm charge, according to local NY1 news. Prosecutors say Tejada was caught in an “ongoing Internal Affairs Bureau investigation” and has been suspended from the department after holding a family of three at gunpoint while his colleagues searched their home. He also is accused of checking the legal status of other robbers in the gang and letting them know when it was safe to flee then reenter the United States. “Obviously it is sad and disappointing anytime a police officer is arrested,” said NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly. Tejada is the second officer to be charged as part of the robbery crew, which began in 2001 and has “netted more than 250 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million in narcotics proceeds,” prosecutors told the Times. Emmanuel Tavarez, an eight-year veteran of the force, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2012 after being convicted for aiding the gang. Twenty other members have been implicated in the years-long investigation.
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NYPD Officer Charged After Helping Police Gang Commit Over 100 Robberies

A 17-year veteran of the New York City Police Department pled not guilty Thursday to charges that he supplied police paraphernalia and weapons to a stickup crew, which then used the equipment to rob drug dealers.

Officer Jose Tejada is accused of involvement in a string of 2006 and 2007 robberies in which he is alleged to have provided NYPD badges, uniforms and even police vehicles to a group of thieves. Tejada, 45, who had been assigned to police Harlem, was in uniform and on duty at the time of at least one of his alleged crimes.

He’s been connected to three of the more than one hundred robberies the crew is supposedly behind, with some dating back to 2001. Tejada is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to distribute drugs including heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and marijuana, as well as an unlawful use of a firearm charge, according to local NY1 news.

Prosecutors say Tejada was caught in an “ongoing Internal Affairs Bureau investigation” and has been suspended from the department after holding a family of three at gunpoint while his colleagues searched their home.

He also is accused of checking the legal status of other robbers in the gang and letting them know when it was safe to flee then reenter the United States.

“Obviously it is sad and disappointing anytime a police officer is arrested,” said NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly.

Tejada is the second officer to be charged as part of the robbery crew, which began in 2001 and has “netted more than 250 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million in narcotics proceeds,” prosecutors told the Times.

Emmanuel Tavarez, an eight-year veteran of the force, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2012 after being convicted for aiding the gang. Twenty other members have been implicated in the years-long investigation.

Source: anarcho-queer

The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry Helping New Yorkers Suffering From Food Insecurity & Those Living With HIV/AIDS The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry meets the nutritional needs of a diverse group of low-income, working poor and HIV+ individuals and families in an environment of respect and confidentiality. Last year, The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry served over 170,000 pounds of food and offered thousands of referrals to culturally-competent community partners. Their client-choice model allows guests to select their own groceries, thus eliminating food waste and putting choice back in the hands of those receiving food. Snack bags of nutritious food are available to all, four days a week. A specialized pantry program for those living with HIV/AIDS offers high-protein, easy to prepare groceries that complement anti-retroviral therapy. On Thursday mornings, the Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry is open to all, providing assistance in English, Spanish and Mandarin. The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry has turned grocery distribution into an ongoing opportunity for nutrition education and benefits outreach. They provide information in multiple languages to clients for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and guide them toward moving beyond the food pantry. The partnership has also resulted in dozens of clients filing their New York State Earned Income Tax Credit. In addition, a partnership with the Chelsea CSA enables them to provide fresh, organic produce for our customers each week. Schedule: Client-Choice Pantry Distribution (open to all): Thursday 9 a.m. –10 a.m. Snack Bag Distribution (open to all): Tuesday – Friday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. PLWHA Pantry (M11Q required): Tuesday – Friday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Community Dinner (open to all): Final Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. 446 West 36th Street, Ground Floor For more information contact Christopher Collazo, The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry Director.
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The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry Helping New Yorkers Suffering From Food Insecurity & Those Living With HIV/AIDS

The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry meets the nutritional needs of a diverse group of low-income, working poor and HIV+ individuals and families in an environment of respect and confidentiality. Last year, The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry served over 170,000 pounds of food and offered thousands of referrals to culturally-competent community partners.

Their client-choice model allows guests to select their own groceries, thus eliminating food waste and putting choice back in the hands of those receiving food. Snack bags of nutritious food are available to all, four days a week. A specialized pantry program for those living with HIV/AIDS offers high-protein, easy to prepare groceries that complement anti-retroviral therapy. On Thursday mornings, the Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry is open to all, providing assistance in English, Spanish and Mandarin.

The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry has turned grocery distribution into an ongoing opportunity for nutrition education and benefits outreach. They provide information in multiple languages to clients for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and guide them toward moving beyond the food pantry. The partnership has also resulted in dozens of clients filing their New York State Earned Income Tax Credit. In addition, a partnership with the Chelsea CSA enables them to provide fresh, organic produce for our customers each week.

Schedule:

Client-Choice Pantry Distribution (open to all):
Thursday 9 a.m. –10 a.m.

Snack Bag Distribution (open to all):
Tuesday – Friday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

PLWHA Pantry (M11Q required):
Tuesday – Friday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Community Dinner (open to all):
Final Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m.

446 West 36th Street, Ground Floor

For more information contact Christopher Collazo, The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry Director.

Source: anarcho-queer

NYPD And Queens Residents Clash After Police Beat Two Brothers In Baisley Projects If you measure the success of the New York City Police Department in terms of how many residents are angry at it, don’t trust it, say they’ve been wronged by it, or could’ve been eaten by it, the NYPD is doing great! But by many other measures, not so much. Last night, the arrest of two men outside of the Baisley Park Housing Projects in Jamaica, Queens led to protests and a standoff with riot police. The NYPD claims officers spotted Raynard Fields, 27, and Corey Crichlow, 33, sitting in a car and holding drugs. When they attempted to make an arrest, the NYPD said one man pushed an officer to the ground. But residents watching the interaction said the officers were the needlessly violent ones. The NYPD apparently dragged one suspect out of his car and beat him as he lay on the ground. When the other suspect tried to help his friend, cops beat him too, residents said. According to their uncle Rev. Richard Hogan, no drugs were found on the men. Cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32, had her phone snatched by an officer when trying to record the arrest.  “(Cops) were kicking (Crichlow) in the face, stomping him, leaning on him with their knees,” said cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32. “He was trying to get up, but they kept pushing him back down … it didn’t look like he was resisting.” About 50 residents marched to the 113th precinct to protest the violence, where they were met by dozens of cops in riot gear. “I am sick of the 113th Precinct harassing the young black men in the Baisley projects,” resident Kathy Moore, 40, told the Daily News. The protest ended peacefully, but tensions with the NYPD have been increasing over the past few months. The NYPD has also been in the hot-seat recently over the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn. The officers involved in that incident had previously been accused of civil rights abuses, and witnesses said that Gray was running away from cops when he was shot, not pointing a gun at them, as the NYPD claimed.
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NYPD And Queens Residents Clash After Police Beat Two Brothers In Baisley Projects

If you measure the success of the New York City Police Department in terms of how many residents are angry at it, don’t trust it, say they’ve been wronged by it, or could’ve been eaten by it, the NYPD is doing great!

But by many other measures, not so much.

Last night, the arrest of two men outside of the Baisley Park Housing Projects in Jamaica, Queens led to protests and a standoff with riot police.

The NYPD claims officers spotted Raynard Fields, 27, and Corey Crichlow, 33, sitting in a car and holding drugs. When they attempted to make an arrest, the NYPD said one man pushed an officer to the ground. But residents watching the interaction said the officers were the needlessly violent ones. The NYPD apparently dragged one suspect out of his car and beat him as he lay on the ground. When the other suspect tried to help his friend, cops beat him too, residents said. According to their uncle Rev. Richard Hogan, no drugs were found on the men.

Cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32, had her phone snatched by an officer when trying to record the arrest. 

“(Cops) were kicking (Crichlow) in the face, stomping him, leaning on him with their knees,” said cousin Tyniera Hogan, 32. “He was trying to get up, but they kept pushing him back down … it didn’t look like he was resisting.”

About 50 residents marched to the 113th precinct to protest the violence, where they were met by dozens of cops in riot gear.

“I am sick of the 113th Precinct harassing the young black men in the Baisley projects,” resident Kathy Moore, 40, told the Daily News.

The protest ended peacefully, but tensions with the NYPD have been increasing over the past few months.

The NYPD has also been in the hot-seat recently over the shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn. The officers involved in that incident had previously been accused of civil rights abuses, and witnesses said that Gray was running away from cops when he was shot, not pointing a gun at them, as the NYPD claimed.

Source: anarcho-queer

NYC Anarchist Bookfair Defends Rapists, Censors Criticism

I recently removed the banner on my blog linking to the NYC Anarchist Bookfair because the bookfair will allow a known snitch/abuser and Nazi-sympothizers (NATA) to be in attendance and I do not want to be associated with them.

The Bookfair collective has refuse to comply with their “Safer Space Policy” because some are friends with Dennis Burke, aka Thadeaus D. Umpster, who has a long history of abusing women and snitching on comrades to the police for petty incidents. NATA (National Anarchist Tribal Alliance­) will also be attending. They are the self-described ‘anarcho-fascists’ and holocaust deniers that were banned from ABC No Rio this year. 

A few folks made complaints on the ABF Facebook event and instead of listening to the criticism, the organizers deleted the comments and banned their accounts. I do not approve of their actions and I denounce all rape apologists regardless of their political theology.

Source: anarcho-queer

The Ali Forney Center is the largest nationwide organization dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth.  There are currently 39 items on their Amazon wish list, most being undergarments like tank tops, plain tees, undies and chest binders for the youth they shelter. A majority of the items are less than $20 and the most expensive item is only $35.  Let’s try to help them by Tumblr bombing the shit out the Ali Forney Center with direct donations and purchasing everything on their wish list!  40% of homeless youth in America are LGBTQ, so if you support the queer struggle, reblog this, purchase something from their wish list and get involved!
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The Ali Forney Center is the largest nationwide organization dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth.  There are currently 39 items on their Amazon wish list, most being undergarments like tank tops, plain tees, undies and chest binders for the youth they shelter. A majority of the items are less than $20 and the most expensive item is only $35.  Let’s try to help them by Tumblr bombing the shit out the Ali Forney Center with direct donations and purchasing everything on their wish list!  40% of homeless youth in America are LGBTQ, so if you support the queer struggle, reblog this, purchase something from their wish list and get involved!
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The Ali Forney Center is the largest nationwide organization dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth. 

There are currently 39 items on their Amazon wish list, most being undergarments like tank tops, plain tees, undies and chest binders for the youth they shelter. A majority of the items are less than $20 and the most expensive item is only $35. 

Let’s try to help them by Tumblr bombing the shit out the Ali Forney Center with direct donations and purchasing everything on their wish list! 

40% of homeless youth in America are LGBTQ, so if you support the queer struggle, reblog this, purchase something from their wish list and get involved!

Source: anarcho-queer

Mayor Bloomberg Tells Media Surveillance Drones And More Camera’s Coming To NYC, Says “Get Used To It!” Envisioning a future where privacy is a thing of the past, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday it will soon be impossible to escape the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras and even drones in the city. “You wait, in five years, the technology is getting better, they’ll be cameras everyplace … whether you like it or not,” Bloomberg said. “The argument against using automation is just this craziness that ‘Oh, it’s Big Brother,’” Bloomberg said. “Get used to it!” The New York Civil Liberties Union has documented nearly 2,400 surveillance cameras fixed on public spaces in Manhattan alone. Many are operated by the police, others by poroperty owners. But in the future, the cameras won’t just be planted on buildings and utility poles. Some of them will be able to fly, the mayor pointed out. “It’s scary,” Bloomberg said. “But what’s the difference whether the drone is up in the air or on the building? I mean intellectually I have trouble making a distinction. And you know you’re gonna have face recognition software. People are working on that.” Bloomberg warned that drones would be able to peep into private residences - but that Peeping Tom legislation could help maintain some privacy. “It’s just we’re going into a different world, unchartered,” he said. “We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that. And it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.” “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Bloomberg said in an interview with NBC last week. To many New Yorkers, NYC is already considered a police state. Last year the NYPD began the ‘Domain Awareness System’ which combines over 3,000 surveillance camera’s throughout the city, license plates scanners (which monitors every single care that enters Manhattan), facial recognition software’s, ect. to monitor civilians. According to police commissioner Ray Kelly“We can track where a car associated with a murder suspect is currently located and where it’s been over the past several days, weeks or months.” Related Articles: NYPD’s New Program Turns NYC Into A Real Life Police State NYPD Testing Portable Body Scanner To Use On Pedestrians NYPD Recording Citizens Phone Records Without Court Order NYPD Makes 5 Million Stop And Frisks, 86% Victims Were Black or Latino NYPD Using Fake Facebook Profiles to Monitor Citizens
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Mayor Bloomberg Tells Media Surveillance Drones And More Camera’s Coming To NYC, Says “Get Used To It!” Envisioning a future where privacy is a thing of the past, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday it will soon be impossible to escape the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras and even drones in the city. “You wait, in five years, the technology is getting better, they’ll be cameras everyplace … whether you like it or not,” Bloomberg said. “The argument against using automation is just this craziness that ‘Oh, it’s Big Brother,’” Bloomberg said. “Get used to it!” The New York Civil Liberties Union has documented nearly 2,400 surveillance cameras fixed on public spaces in Manhattan alone. Many are operated by the police, others by poroperty owners. But in the future, the cameras won’t just be planted on buildings and utility poles. Some of them will be able to fly, the mayor pointed out. “It’s scary,” Bloomberg said. “But what’s the difference whether the drone is up in the air or on the building? I mean intellectually I have trouble making a distinction. And you know you’re gonna have face recognition software. People are working on that.” Bloomberg warned that drones would be able to peep into private residences - but that Peeping Tom legislation could help maintain some privacy. “It’s just we’re going into a different world, unchartered,” he said. “We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that. And it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.” “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Bloomberg said in an interview with NBC last week. To many New Yorkers, NYC is already considered a police state. Last year the NYPD began the ‘Domain Awareness System’ which combines over 3,000 surveillance camera’s throughout the city, license plates scanners (which monitors every single care that enters Manhattan), facial recognition software’s, ect. to monitor civilians. According to police commissioner Ray Kelly“We can track where a car associated with a murder suspect is currently located and where it’s been over the past several days, weeks or months.” Related Articles: NYPD’s New Program Turns NYC Into A Real Life Police State NYPD Testing Portable Body Scanner To Use On Pedestrians NYPD Recording Citizens Phone Records Without Court Order NYPD Makes 5 Million Stop And Frisks, 86% Victims Were Black or Latino NYPD Using Fake Facebook Profiles to Monitor Citizens
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Mayor Bloomberg Tells Media Surveillance Drones And More Camera’s Coming To NYC, Says “Get Used To It!”

Envisioning a future where privacy is a thing of the past, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday it will soon be impossible to escape the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras and even drones in the city.

“You wait, in five years, the technology is getting better, they’ll be cameras everyplace … whether you like it or not,” Bloomberg said.

“The argument against using automation is just this craziness that ‘Oh, it’s Big Brother,’” Bloomberg said. “Get used to it!”

The New York Civil Liberties Union has documented nearly 2,400 surveillance cameras fixed on public spaces in Manhattan alone. Many are operated by the police, others by poroperty owners.

But in the future, the cameras won’t just be planted on buildings and utility poles. Some of them will be able to fly, the mayor pointed out.

“It’s scary,” Bloomberg said. “But what’s the difference whether the drone is up in the air or on the building? I mean intellectually I have trouble making a distinction. And you know you’re gonna have face recognition software. People are working on that.”

Bloomberg warned that drones would be able to peep into private residences - but that Peeping Tom legislation could help maintain some privacy.

“It’s just we’re going into a different world, unchartered,” he said.

“We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that. And it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.”

“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Bloomberg said in an interview with NBC last week.

To many New Yorkers, NYC is already considered a police state. Last year the NYPD began the ‘Domain Awareness System’ which combines over 3,000 surveillance camera’s throughout the city, license plates scanners (which monitors every single care that enters Manhattan), facial recognition software’s, ect. to monitor civilians.

According to police commissioner Ray Kelly“We can track where a car associated with a murder suspect is currently located and where it’s been over the past several days, weeks or months.”

Related Articles:

NYPD’s New Program Turns NYC Into A Real Life Police State

NYPD Testing Portable Body Scanner To Use On Pedestrians

NYPD Recording Citizens Phone Records Without Court Order

NYPD Makes 5 Million Stop And Frisks, 86% Victims Were Black or Latino

NYPD Using Fake Facebook Profiles to Monitor Citizens

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Mayor Bloomberg Complains To Media After Mother of Kimani Gray Ignores His Phone Calls The New York Times reports Bloomberg has recently attempted to reach out to the mother of Kimani Gray, a 16 year old boy who was shot and killed by two plainclothes NYPD officer in East Flatbush, on numerous occasions but she remains uninterested in speaking with the mayor. Despite calling Kimani’s death “justified”, his office attempted to call Carol Gray multiple times to offer condolences, forcing her to change her number. “I give eulogies at cops’ funerals,” Bloomberg said. “I call parents when their kids are killed. You know, sometimes I don’t get to them. There’s this 16-year-old. I’ve tried, and the woman, the mother, is not taking any calls, changed her phone number so I can’t, but I did reach out.” An attorney representing Gray’s mother dismissed the mayor’s attempts as mere publicity stunts. “We weren’t interested in the photo op,” Kenneth J. Montgomery said. “In the totem pole of important things and important emotions, that would come somewhere at the bottom.” The murder of Kimani Gray has led to daily protests in East Flatbush, some of which became disruptive.  Related: Cops Who Killed Kimani Gray Named In 5 Lawsuits, Attempted To Fabricate Evidence In Each Case
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Mayor Bloomberg Complains To Media After Mother of Kimani Gray Ignores His Phone Calls The New York Times reports Bloomberg has recently attempted to reach out to the mother of Kimani Gray, a 16 year old boy who was shot and killed by two plainclothes NYPD officer in East Flatbush, on numerous occasions but she remains uninterested in speaking with the mayor. Despite calling Kimani’s death “justified”, his office attempted to call Carol Gray multiple times to offer condolences, forcing her to change her number. “I give eulogies at cops’ funerals,” Bloomberg said. “I call parents when their kids are killed. You know, sometimes I don’t get to them. There’s this 16-year-old. I’ve tried, and the woman, the mother, is not taking any calls, changed her phone number so I can’t, but I did reach out.” An attorney representing Gray’s mother dismissed the mayor’s attempts as mere publicity stunts. “We weren’t interested in the photo op,” Kenneth J. Montgomery said. “In the totem pole of important things and important emotions, that would come somewhere at the bottom.” The murder of Kimani Gray has led to daily protests in East Flatbush, some of which became disruptive.  Related: Cops Who Killed Kimani Gray Named In 5 Lawsuits, Attempted To Fabricate Evidence In Each Case
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Mayor Bloomberg Complains To Media After Mother of Kimani Gray Ignores His Phone Calls

The New York Times reports Bloomberg has recently attempted to reach out to the mother of Kimani Gray, a 16 year old boy who was shot and killed by two plainclothes NYPD officer in East Flatbush, on numerous occasions but she remains uninterested in speaking with the mayor.

Despite calling Kimani’s death “justified”, his office attempted to call Carol Gray multiple times to offer condolences, forcing her to change her number.

“I give eulogies at cops’ funerals,” Bloomberg said. “I call parents when their kids are killed. You know, sometimes I don’t get to them. There’s this 16-year-old. I’ve tried, and the woman, the mother, is not taking any calls, changed her phone number so I can’t, but I did reach out.”

An attorney representing Gray’s mother dismissed the mayor’s attempts as mere publicity stunts.

“We weren’t interested in the photo op,” Kenneth J. Montgomery said. “In the totem pole of important things and important emotions, that would come somewhere at the bottom.”

The murder of Kimani Gray has led to daily protests in East Flatbush, some of which became disruptive. 

Related: Cops Who Killed Kimani Gray Named In 5 Lawsuits, Attempted To Fabricate Evidence In Each Case

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[Repost] The 7th NYC Anarchist Bookfair is two weeks from today! This year, the bookfair moves from the (gentrified) West Village to the Lower East Side, home of the infamous C-Squat and New York’s anarchist culture. If you never attended an Anarchist Bookfair, you can expect their to be books, book reading, lectures, workshops, pamphlets, broadsides, zines, films, demos, skill shares, and much much more. Best of all, this public event IS FREE! But please consider making a donation ($5 will go a long way). After all, the organizers still have expenses to pay like rent for the venue, which as NY’ers know, is far from cheap.  In addition to being hosted by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, a dynamic multicultural center on Rivington Street, the book fair will co-sponsor events at Bluestockings, ABC No Rio, Living Theater, Think Cafe, MoRUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space), and at neighborhood gardens — most within walking distance. For a list of tablers, check out the AnarchistBookFair.net. The Book Fair Collective is still accepting workshop applications though the deadline is on the 25th (Monday), so submit yours as soon as possible.  I added a banner on my blog linking to the Facebook event, check it out for more info. 
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The 7th NYC Anarchist Bookfair is two weeks from today!

This year, the bookfair moves from the (gentrified) West Village to the Lower East Side, home of the infamous C-Squat and New York’s anarchist culture. If you never attended an Anarchist Bookfair, you can expect their to be books, book reading, lectures, workshops, pamphlets, broadsides, zines, films, demos, skill shares, and much much more.

Best of all, this public event IS FREE! But please consider making a donation ($5 will go a long way). After all, the organizers still have expenses to pay like rent for the venue, which as NY’ers know, is far from cheap. 

In addition to being hosted by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, a dynamic multicultural center on Rivington Street, the book fair will co-sponsor events at Bluestockings, ABC No Rio, Living Theater, Think Cafe, MoRUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space), and at neighborhood gardens — most within walking distance.

For a list of tablers, check out the AnarchistBookFair.net. The Book Fair Collective is still accepting workshop applications though the deadline is on the 25th (Monday), so submit yours as soon as possible. 

I added a banner on my blog linking to the Facebook event, check it out for more info. 

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