Irene Siegel, PhD., moderated the vigil of No Separate Justice which happens every first Monday of the month outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 150 Park Row, New York City for the Holy Land Five.
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Protesting de Blasio and Big Real Estate
On Thursday evening in front of the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue, Josemar Trujillo spoke out about De Blasio answering only to the Big Real Estate executives who were with the Mayor at a re-election fundraiser.
NYPD Union President Calls Quentin Tarantino Films Boycott
PHOTO GALLERY: Director Quentin Tarantino was called to have his films boycotted by New York Police Department Union President Pat Lynch for his support and participation in #RiseUpOctober protests
PHOTO GALLERY: Quentin Tarantino for #RiseUpOctober!
Film Director Quentin Tarantino joined #RiseUpOctober in Times Square with the families of those who’ve been murdered by police all over the United States
VIDEO: Chris Hedges and Cornel West at the New School
Chris Hedges has long described the demise of our society. Together the two speakers investigated the social/psychological factors that bring rise to revolution, rebellion and resistance.
Loewenstein and Scahill: Refugee Crisis is Big Business
There was a full house at Housing Works in New York City on October 8th for Antony Loewenstein’s new book, “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe”, in conversation with author and documentary filmmaker of “Dirty Wars” Jeremy Scahill.
Private Wall Street Insiders Are Making Government Money
Set up like a talk-show, Ben Bernanke, former head of the Federal Reserve bank, and Timothy Geithner, former Treasury Secretary during the crash of 2008, were in the middle of the Q&A portion of the event when I arrived
New York’s Rikers Island #ShutItDown
The almost hurricane-like weather did not keep away about two-hundred demonstrators from showing up to bring awareness to the less-than humane conditions and barbaric treatment of those held at Rikers Island
Time to Join the Occupy the Courts Movement
Join us for this city-wide day of action against the corrupt court/judicial system here in New York City and learn about your rights to solicit the Federal Grand Jury system if you’ve ever been wronged
Former Economic Hitman Calls to Declassify 9/11 Inquiry
John Perkins, who wrote the book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman in 2004, a NY Times Bestseller, joined a group on Saturday in NYC urging the president to release information regarding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks