VOCAL-NY
@VOCALNewYork
G'roots organizing for healthy & just communities. HIV, drug policy, incarceration & homelessness. Media requests: [email protected]
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http://www.vocal-ny.org 25-01-2010 05:03:33
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TUESDAY: #StopTheHighwayHeist !
We're joining the #GetAroundNY coalition to call out BILLIONS spent on highway projects, while New Yorkers don't have basic routes and accessibility to get them where they're going.
“And as The City reported in January, the number of apartments sitting vacant in the city’s public housing developments had increased by almost 50 percent over the past year—despite a waiting list of 240,000 households”
#EndHomelessness citylimits.org/2024/05/10/opi…
“Every dollar that we spend on policing, especially policing that is suppressing our constitutional rights in a democracy, is an affront against so many New Yorkers who are in desperate need for economic and social support” Jawanza James Williams | He, Him| 🌹 VOCAL-NY
theintercept.com/2024/05/07/col…
Unimaginable pain. #WinRozario should still be with us today. The body cam footage is proof: the police created a crisis & murdered Win. @nypdpc and @nycmayor must fire both officers and @newyorkstateag must prosecute them. bit.ly/WinFamilyState…
Today, 22 bills passed the New York State Senate Health Committee including my Safer Consumption Services Act to establish a pilot program for overdose prevention centers statewide. We need to pass it this year to #EndOverdose , address public drug use, connect NYers to care, and save lives.
Thankful to The Intercept for remaining one of the few trustworthy publications in this violent period.
I talked with Bryce Covert today for this story on NYPD overtime costs from policing constitutionally protected protest in NYC.
Read: theintercept.com/2024/05/07/col…
NYPD’s Raid on Columbia Cost Hundreds of Thousands in Overtime Alone. The Crackdown Will End Up Costing Millions. interc.pt/3UvfuNK by Bryce Covert interc.pt/3UvfuNK
Right now, hundreds of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members of people in prison, and crime survivors are on their way to the NY Capitol from Long Island, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Westchester, the Hudson Valley & NYC to demand our lawmakers pass #ParoleJusticeNY .
BREAKING: #SCSA moved out of the Senate Health Committee! OPCs save lives, overdoses are preventable. OnPoint NYC has intervened in 1,500+ overdoses
19 NYers dying everyday, we need to expand OPC services across NYS
Governor Kathy Hochul can also do this TODAY w/ strike of a pen
TODAY: On lawmakers first day back to session, nearly 90 orgs from across NYS delivered a letter to Carl E. Heastie and Sen. Stewart-Cousins urging the passage of the Drug Checking Services Bill. #EndOverdoseNY
Read the full letter: lac.org/assets/files/S…
🧵NYPD violence is a horrific response to student protests! CPR condemns violent mass arrests & brutalizing of City College of NY & Columbia University students/faculty and #NYPD ’s deployment of dangerous militarized tactics. Full statement by Loyda Colon/Justice Committee: changethenypd.org/releases/state…
“I see how necessary it is to actually have a quality connection. And there are people who are much more in need than I am.” — VOCAL-NY leader, Milton Perez, speaking on the need for Affordable Connectivity Program w/ Yvette D. Clarke.
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