Past Events

The results of the presidential election sent shockwaves to LGBTQ, HIV-affected, immigrant, and other communities throughout New York City. As a response to the election, a coalition of New York City non-profits, advocacy organizations and direct service organizations has come together to offer free legal clinics. These clinics will provide brief legal advice, referrals or representation. Issues that can be addressed include legal name change, identification document change (passport, etc.), immigration, advance directives, wills, family law, intimate partner violence, legal support for survivors of hate violence.

Join Brooklyn Movement Center's No Disrespect, the Safe OUTside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde Project, & Culture push for Anti-Steet Harassment Week. Come through to make art, speak up, and learn strategies for dealing with street harassment! We'll have screen printing, de-escalation trainings, and chances to plug in to local organizing. 

Learn more about BMC's No Disrepect  working groups at www.brooklynmovementcenter.org/anti-street-harassment. 

More than five years ago, the NYPD murdered Ramarley Graham, a Black unarmed teenager, and brutalized his family in their own home. NYPD officers later reported- in continuing their criminalization of communities of color through broken windows policing- that they had initially trailed Ramarley for "walking with a purpose."  On Tuesday, April 4th, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice will stand with Ramarley's family, other families of those killed by the police, the Justice Committee and Black Lives Matter-NY to commemorate the death of Martin Luther King Jr. by demanding that the Mayor and the NYPD commissioner fire all of the officers involved in Ramarley's killing. 

Join Color of Change and the Center for Media Justice for a unique virtual town hall event to assess the threat of White House executive orders on immigration and policing, discuss strategies to resist racially-biased police surveillance, and re-imagine sanctuary for all in a Trump era. Under Trump, law enforcement agencies have been given free reign to criminalize and pursue immigrants and people of color.  Resistance to these attacks must be lead by the communities that are most heavily policed under this administration: Black, immigrant, and Arab and Muslim communities.