MAPTalk-Digest Monday, October 31 2011 Volume 11 : Number 035
001 US NY: Activists to shut down 73rd Precinct in Brownsville Tues Nov 1,
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002 National Drug Facts Week
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Subj: 001 US NY: Activists to shut down 73rd Precinct in Brownsville Tues Nov 1, 4pm
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:27:39 -0700
Pass this on please!
Press release:
Activists to shut down 73rd Precinct in Brownsville Tues Nov 1, 4pm
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/116775.shtml
Press Contact: Steve Yip 917-868-6007 or Nick Malinowski 631-278-9472
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For Immediate Release
Activists to shut down 73rd Precinct in Brownsville
Stop ‘Stop and Frisk’ Comes to Brooklyn- see http://nov1action.org/
New York, NY, Oct. 28, 2011 – Nonviolent civil disobedience is on the
agenda as local activists, community members and religious leaders gear up
to challenge the NYPD’s controversial ‘stop and frisk’ practices at the
73rd Police Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The 73rd Precinct has the
highest rate of stops-and-frisks in New York City.
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, on Nov. 1 at 4 PM, will stage the
second of a series of similar events in neighborhoods around New York City
targeting to stop the repressive NYPD practice of Stop and Frisk – a
policy the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York Civil Liberties
Union and other advocacy groups have challenged as illegal. On Friday,
October 21, a group of more than 200 demonstrators marched on the 28th
Precinct in Harlem where 34 community members, activists, and allies from
Occupy Wall Street, were arrested for blocking the entrance to the police
station. Among those arrested were Dr. Cornel West, Carl Dix of the
Revolutionary Communist Party, Debra Sweet of World Can’t Wait, Rev.
Stephen Phelps of Riverside Church, and comedian/activist Randy Credico.
During 2010 NYPD recorded more than 600,000 warrant-less stops -- the vast
majority Back and Latino youths -- and are on pace to top 700,000 in 2011.
This is up from 86,000 just ten years ago. -snip-
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Subj: 002 National Drug Facts Week
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:32:11 -0700
Pete Guither has put up a "Drug War Facts" page to counter NIDA's:
http://www.drugfactsweek.com/
National Drug Facts Week runs from Oct 31 thru Nov 6.
Please pass it along on Twitter, FB, other lists.
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