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FREE! Families Film Forum Launch featuring Lockdown USA
Submitted by kym on March 1, 2009 - 11:35pm. newsFREE! Families Film Forum Social Justice Screening Series Launches in Harlem, March 9, 2009, the eve of historic Rockefeller Advocacy Day.
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment, a grassroots community organizing collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, is launching a new monthly event at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem. Each month, FREE! Families Film Forum will present a different social justice film followed by interactive audience discussion to prompt dialogue, strategy and action by community stakeholders.
FREE! Media Justice PSA samples
Submitted by denise on March 15, 2009 - 12:55pm. newsAs we continue to struggle to overcome the harsh realities of the Prison Industrial Complex, you have all been a support to our organization throughout the years. From the early days of our meager existence at the Fifth Avenue Committee (2002) to our EMANCIPATION and relocation to our new offices at 2976 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, all of you have remained a part of our network and for that we thank you.
As recipients of generous funding and equipment donations from The New York Foundation, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the Northstar Fund, Fortune Society, and past support from the 2006 Union Square Awards, Funding Exchange, and others we have been able to acquire office space and carve out a niche to develop media for the cause.
Cities Embrace New Way to Handle Confrontations Between Cops and the Mentally Ill
Submitted by Carlos on March 18, 2008 - 12:39pm. newsCities Embrace New Way to Handle Confrontations Between Cops and the Mentally Ill
by Arun Venugopal
NEW YORK, NY December 13, 2007 —It's been just over a month since the death of Khiel Coppin, in Brooklyn. He's the emotionally ill 18 year old who was shot by police officers who thought he was holding a gun. It turned out to be a hairbrush. The incident drew attention to the NYPD's methods for dealing with mentally ill people. As WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports, there is a different way, and it's being embraced by cities across the nation.
REPORTER: A call comes into 911, in Memphis, Tennessee. The caller tells the 911 operator he's worried about a man, who's threatening his mother with a knife and becoming increasingly agitated.
City Council Questions NYPD's Preparedness For Handling Mentally Ill
Submitted by Carlos on March 18, 2008 - 11:14am. newsCity Council Questions NYPD's Preparedness For Handling Mentally Ill
The City Council held a hearing Thursday on whether the NYPD is equipped to handle the thousands of emotional disturbed person's calls it receives each year. NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following report.
On November 12th last year, Kyle Coppin was shot and killed by police after his mother called 911 to say he was out of control. They say they thought he had a gun; it turned out to be a hairbrush.
Less than a week later, also in Brooklyn, police shot and killed David Kostovski, who they say had stabbed a man and threatened police officers with the broken bottle.
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Cops Kill Mother and Shoot 14 month-old Baby
Submitted by visitor on January 31, 2008 - 12:54pm. newsPolice Shooting of Mother and Infant Exposes a City’s Racial Tension
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
New York Times
Published: January 30, 2008
LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby?
“This thing just stinks to high heaven, and the police know it,” said Jason Upthegrove, president of the Lima chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. “We’re not asking for answers anymore. We’re demanding them.”
