New York City
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Fatal Gas explosion at Boston Secor Houses leaves one dead and more than a dozen people injured
Saturday, January 24th, at midnight, a gas line exploded in the Boston Secor Houses, a privatized NYCHA building under notorious PACT slumlord, Wavecrest Management. This explosion follows the gas explosion at the Mitchel Houses in the South Bronx in October. After the Mitchel explosion,…
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“STANDOFFS” OR EXECUTIONS?
NYPD PIGS GUNNED DOWN TWO PEOPLE ON THE SAME DAY AND THE MEDIA IS PROTECTING THE MURDERERS On Thursday, January 8th, the NYPD murdered two people: 62-year old Michael Lynch in Park Slope and 37-year old Dmitry Zass in the West Village. The pigs…
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There have been 16,000 Housing code violations at PACT developments since 2021
Since 2017 NYCHA has broadcasted PACT – Permanent Affordability Commitment Together – as the all encompassing solution to repairing the buildings NYCHA let fall into disrepair. Today there are around 25,000 apartments under PACT at 564 addresses throughout the 5 boroughs. THE CITY newspaper…
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ATTICA CALLING – issue #2
ATTICA CALLING – issue #2 Women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility suffer abuse and inhumane conditions Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is the only maximum security New York State women’s prison. The women there have made numerous reports of mistreatment, including the following complaints, all…
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ATTICA CALLING – issue #1
ATTICA CALLING – issue #1 Spread the spirit of 71′! JUSTICE FOR ROBERT BROOKS! On December 9, 2024, 43 year old Robert Brooks was lynched by 18 state employees, including correctional officers and medical staff. 6 of these brutal pigs tortured Brooks to death…
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“They called J-Unit the Jungle”: What Women Endure at a Pennsylvania State Prison
The following contains descriptions of sexual assault of women in prisons. In 2015, a woman incarcerated at SCI-Muncy, a women’s state prison in central Pennsylvania, spoke out about multiple instances of a prison doctor raping her. In the first instance, Donald James Stone, who…
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“This is WAR.”
New York Inmates Who Exposed Messiah Nantwi’s Murder Wrote to Dare to Struggle – ChicagoDrawings sent to us by M Cleaver On March 15th, Dare to Struggle – Chicago wrote letters to inmates at the Midstate Correctional Facility in New York who spokeout to…
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Disrespect, Disposability, Deceit: Forum on NYCHA Neglect in NYC – May 31 @2pm
LGBT Center – Manhattan – 208 W 13th St NYCHA and private partners are hellbent on pushing out residents. We need our own strategies to stop them. Privatized NYCHA developments are ramping up evictions, and residents across the city face inhumane conditions. It isn’t…
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The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025
Letter from the Editor: Privatization Is on the Doorstep at Riis Houses With an Illegitimate “Resident Vote,” NYCHA Moves on Privatization at Riis By: RANDY, DARE TO STRUGGLE When we talk to NYCHA residents about the government’s attempts to get rid of public housing,…
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The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025
Issue #1, Jan 2025 Letter from the Editor If you live in public housing, you’re all too familiar with inhumane conditions and ineffective repairs. NYCHA regularly ignores tickets and whenever they do “repairs,” the work is so poorly done that the problem soon returns.…
