"From Minneapolis to NYC, police continue to brutalize Black and Brown people. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio and City Council plan to give the NYPD $6 billion while social services are facing budget cuts and our communities are starved of resources."
Join CPR member VOCAL NY, their leaders, and members to address the brutal abuse our community has been experiencing at the hands of NYPD.The COVID-19 pandemic is being used as a means to enforce current day “stop and frisk” brutal and demoralizing arrests primarily of black people in poor black communities across NYC. We have to PUSH BACK!
We need resources not more policing! #NYCBudgetJustice
RSVP here: https://vocalny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtde6opzgtEtARNfk14ojNexvZvKiwX_kx
CPR member VOCAL-NY will hold a virtual Press Conference and Rally on #NYCBudgetJustice and the urgent need for a Caring and Compassionate New Deal. We need a budget that prioritizes families and communities NOT policing. Watch Live: https://vocalny.zoom.us/j/86319418063
CPR member Legal Aid Society (@LegalAidNYC) hosts free weekly #KnowYourRights trainings, join them every Wednesday on Instagram live at 6 PM with guest speakers, and a weekly topic based around social justice issues. Watch live on Instagram
Join JFREJ's @JFREJNYC Freedom to Thrive meeting will be discussing meaningful cuts to the almost $6B NYPD budget in order to strengthen crucial public health infrastructure, save safety-net programs and ensure that services, programs, and infrastructure in Black and other communities of color most impacted by COVID-19 are prioritized over policing. Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP
Justice Committee (@watchthecops) is hosting a virtual press conference, watch live, and #StandWithTheFamilies who've lost loved ones to police as they call on the NYC Council to #CutNYPDBudget so that funds can go to a #justrecovery from the pandemic. Watch on Facebook live online
In a virtual #NYCBudgetJustice press conference CPR, Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, and elected officials will call for significant cuts to the NYPD’s nearly $6 billion bloated budget to fund a strong and equitable recovery from COVID-19. Watch Live: http://ow.ly/mkxB50zF9X5
Join Legal Aid Society, Girls for Gender Equity and the New York Civil Liberties Union for a Know Your Rights Webinar focusing on ways that young people can stay safe from criminalization during the “New York on Pause” executive order and other social distancing ordinances.
Register in advance: bit.ly/GGEKYRS
