New York Communities for Change

****ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF CROWN HEIGHTS AND BEDFORD STUYVESANT**** Tomorrow evening at 6:30pm, I ask that you join me as we RELAUNCH OUR AMAZING CHAPTER!!! Come hear the vision plan that will be centered around YOU, the amazing residents of our communities!!! Please share this with your fellow neighbors, for we are going to make history!!!!!

A lack of meaningful opportunities for parole release is a major contributing factor to mass incarceration in New York State and across the country. Repeated parole denials mean that families and communities are deprived of their elders and loved ones, and thousands of people are spending decades behind prison walls. In New York, we can help end this racially-biased parole system that values vengeance and endless punishment above redemption, transformation, healing, and safe...ty by committing to our collective belief in redemption and personal transformation. The People’s Campaign for Parole Justice advocates for decarceration and family reunification through two transformative bills, Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole. These bills will ensure that every person in NY State prison has a fair and meaningful opportunity to return home during the course of their incarceration. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Carl E. Heastie will you commit to supporting these critical and progressive pieces of legislation this session? #ParoleJusticeNY means being true to the values of compassion, forgiveness, and healing by providing people in prison with meaningful opportunities for release.

LIVE NOW: Amazon investors join Amazon workers and front line communities to ask: who is paying the price for Amazon’s profits? As we approach the first anniversary of the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide uprisings that forced a reckoning over structural racism in this country, some of Amazon’s shareholders have filed resolutions challenging Amazon’s business practices towards Black and brown communities, including Amazon’s expanding use of surveillance technology to police workers, small businesses, and communities. #EyesOnAmazon

***ATTENTION NYCC FAMILY AND FRIENDS**** WE are making great progress towards history and the momentum continues as we look to enroll more legislators to be a part of this major parole justice legislation. Come on out and join us tomorrow morning at 10:30am!!!!

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Happening Now!!! #taxbillionaires#freeourpeople

The massive Wall St. firm Blackrock is the world's largest investor in the #ClimateCrisis. Their $$ fuels extreme weather events, deforestation, and displacement. We're part of the global movement to tell Blackrock to #StopTheMoneyPipeline https://youtu.be/w8XYZcsYe5E

Tenants in Albany, Buffalo & New York City Risk Arrest to Stop Evictions and Push State Legislative Leaders to #CancelRent and Protect Tenants.

We're getting fired up for Friday's NYC action. Together Chase Bank and BlackRock are Wall Street leaders ... in financing companies responsible for climate destruction. Time to #StopTheMoneyPipeline. #Divest #BLKBigProblem

NYCC members and allies rallied with CM Constantinides, Speaker Corey Johnson, and others to support Intro 1947, an extension of the Dirty Buildings Bill (Local Law 97), which will cut climate pollution and create thousands of green jobs.

Today we are rallying outside BlackRock’s NYC HQ and virtually online to demand they divest from Palantir, the tech surveillance company considered by ICE to be mission critical to its mass detention and deportation of migrants. We must take action to hold BlackRock accountable for its investments in human rights abuses! Tune in to the action virtually and take action alongside us! Speakers: ... Jacinta Gonzalez, Mijente Gaurav Madan, Friends of the Earth U.S. Marcela Hernandez, Detention Watch Network Jeanette Vizguerra, Sanctuary4All Coalition Roberta Giordano, BlackRocks Big Problem Yousef Zakaria, CODEPINK #DefundPalantir #NoTechforICE #SwarmonBlackRock

HAPPENING NOW!!! Our schools can't afford a 20% cut. We need Andrea and Carl to protect students not billionaires #TaxtheRich, #FundourSchools

Thanks for joining NYCOFI's 11th Annual Celebration of New York Communities for Change! With special honorees Varshini Prakash (Sunrise Movement), Bianca Cunningham (NYC-DSA), and Sochie Nnaemeka (NY-WFP). Our member honorees are Sonia Medrano & Winsome Pendergrass. Please support our organizing by giving what you can! Venmo: @nychange or visit www.nycommunities.org.

Our 11th annual virtual gala is TOMORROW! Drop by to listen to our spectacular honorees and to learn about some of the remarkable work our members have done this year! RSVP link and Facebook livestream link is in bio!