Shielded, How the Police Became Untouchable

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Joanna Schwartz, Professor of Law at UCLA and one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation, whose writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, talks about the difficulty of holding police accountable. Her new book is Shielded, How the Police Became Untouchable.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1159278111/police-brutality-shielded-joanna-schwartz

 
Activist Radio can be heard: Thursdays 11-12 noon on WRFA 107.9 FM in Jamestown, NY; Thursdays 5-6 pm on WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Thursdays from 7-8 pm on WBDY 99.5 FM at The Bundy in Binghamton, NY; Sundays 1:30-2:30 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.live. Past programs are available as a podcast, or anytime on the web at ClassWars.org.

Posted

April Lobby Day

April Lobby Day
Please mark April 18th on your calendar for a hybrid virtual and in-person lobby day! We wont have as much transportation support, so the group going up to 
Albany will be smaller, but there will be plenty of opportunities to participate in virtual meetings with legislators! Please sign up here and 

 



Legislative Updates
Legislators continue to sign onto our bills every day! For our constitutional amendment bill, the No Slavery in NY Act  (S225/A3412), we are making great progress- we now have 29 assembly co-sponsors (goal is 76) and 17 senate co-sponsors (more than halfway to our goal of 32!). Fun fact- with the sign-on of Republican Assemblymember Michael Novakhov today, we officially have bi-partisan support for this bill!! 

Tell your legislators to sign onto No Slavery in NY!
Check if your senator is signed on here and your assemblymember is signed on here. If not, call their office using this dialer on our website and let them know that passing this bill is important to the people that elected them.

Check out these media pieces on our movement!
  • Lead sponsor Assemblymember Harvey Epstein and steering committee member Jesse Koklas discuss our campaign on PBS' MetroFocus. Link here.
  • Steering committee members Wilfredo Laracuente and Jesse Koklas on radio show/podcast Abolition Today. Link here to listen as well as wherever you get your podcasts.
Working Group Meeting Cancelled Tomorrow and Next Week
Our Wednesday working group meetings are cancelled for the rest of March as folks focus on passing budget bills, but will restart the first week of April on the 5th!

In Solidarity, 
The Steering Committee

Posted

Fighting to keep what is left of bail reform.

 

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Arielle Reid, supervising attorney of the Decarceration Project at The Legal Aid Society, the largest and most influential social justice law firm in New York City, talks about fighting to keep what is left of bail reform.

 

Activist Radio can be heard: Thursdays 11-12 noon on WRFA 107.9 FM in Jamestown, NY; Thursdays 5-6 pm on WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Thursdays from 7-8 pm on WBDY 99.5 FM at The Bundy in Binghamton, NY; Sundays 1:30-2:30 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.live. Past programs are available as a podcast, or anytime on the web at ClassWars.org.




Posted
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)