ENJAN-Poughkeepsie agreed at our meeting last night to walk as a contingent in the 4th Annual Walk for Gun Sense sponsored by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence this coming Saturday. Please feel free to join us! The march begins at 10 am on the Poughkeepsie side of the Walkway Over the Hudson. If you think you can make it, let me know so we know to look for you! The weather should be nice: they are forecasting partly sunny skies and a high of 61 degrees!
Jeff
FROM #BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
KINGSTON
ENJAN
IS PROUD TO HOST A NEW
BOOK READ
FROM #BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION
by Keenanga-Yamahtta Taylor“Keenanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s searching examination of the social, political, and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for Black liberation.”Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Monday, November 7, 2016
At the new A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library
43 Gill Street, Kingston NY
Starting Promptly at 6 PM
Books available for purchase at next ENJAN MEETING, October 24, 2016 at New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone Street, Kingston, downstairs or online at Amazon
For Info: Call Odell at 914-388- 3092
DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL EXPANSION TEACH-IN
DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL EXPANSION TEACH-IN
Saturday, October15, 2016 9:30 am – 1 pm
Light Breakfast & Networking: 9:30am TOPICS:
Restorative Justice • Alternatives to Mass Incarceration School-to-Prison Pipeline • More
In the Cafeteria, Downstairs at The Family Partnership Center 29 N. Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie,
WHAT: Poughkeepsie’s End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) will host a teach-in on alternatives to Dutchess County’s plans to build a larger and more expensive jail.
The teach-in is co-sponsored by Beacon Prison Action • Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance • Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition • Kingston ENJAN • New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) • Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson • Poughkeepsie Progressives • Poughkeepsie Unitarian Universalists • Race Unity Circle • Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library
WHO: The event will feature several speakers and panelists, including noted civil rights attorney Michael Sussman, Dutchess County legislator Francena Amparo, Shannon Wong (NYCLU Lower Hudson Valley Chapter Director), and a representative from the Mid-Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition, among others. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) will also release its 7-point plan for reducing the county’s jail population.
HOW/WHY: A solution to Dutchess County’s “jail problem” is long overdue. Though the county legislature passed a $192-million-dollar bond for a new facility, a bigger and more expensive jail is the wrong “solution” to jail overcrowding. Because the real sources of jail overcrowding are the failed policies of mass incarceration, End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) calls on the county to implement several proposals that would significantly reduce the number of people in jail, increase public safety, and make Dutchess County a more equitable and just place to live for all its residents. This event informs concerned citizens about the complex and important issues of alternatives to mass incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and more.
www.enjan.org • enjanhv@gmail.com • 845.475.8781
From Center for Constitutional Rights
Police are a constant lethal threat to Black Americans
"After the killing of 193 Black Americans this year," CCR Executive Director Vince Warren told Democracy Now!, "I'm quite prepared not to believe the police department narratives of anything that happened in these investigations." He was speaking last Wednesday after the police killings of Terrence Crutcher – the Oklahoma man whose car broke down who was shot with his hands in the air – and Keith Lamont Scott – the North Carolina father reading a book waiting in his car to pick up his son from school. The number has gone up since then.
In these cases and in so many others, video and eyewitness accounts contradict police explanations and excuses.
As usual, when police provocation escalated peaceful protests in Charlotte, officials and politicians were far quicker to denounce "unrest" than the police violence people were protesting. "Black lives are so dehumanized," said Vince, "that it is OK structurally – it's OK in the context of the police department, it's OK in the context of the criminal justice system – to kill Black people."
Vince was joined by Color of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson and Bree Newsome, the artist and activist who removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capital. Commenting on the fact that the police simply left Terrence Crutcher to die, Rashad said Black people, "even in their death are seen as deserving – not deserving of medical support – deserving of the situations." Earlier this year Color of Change and CCR filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents on the police surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"We've lost complete faith in the system because the system is designed to do the exact opposite of what Black people need," Vince told Democracy Now!.
Underscoring the systemic nature of police bias against Blacks, a Massachusetts court ruled last week that Black men who encounter Boston police have a legitimate reason to run away. Being "motivated by the desire to avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled" is a rational response to such encounters.
"This issue is as old as policing in America," Bree Newsome told Democracy Now!
There’s oppression, there’s social injustice, and these kids live it.
Woodrow Wilson players and coaches
take a knee during national anthem.
Reclaiming Our Schools
The Race Unity Circle of Poughkeepsie and the Alliance for Quality Education is sponsoring a public forum and community discussion Reclaiming Our Schools on Wednesday, September 21, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. Speakers include Albert Cook, Jasmine Gripper, and Paul Donnelly.
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