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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 until he was lifeless, the remaining pigs stood around giggling, smiling,…
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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 had worked at Muncy for over a decade, grabbed her “by…
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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 expose the brutal murder of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi at the hands…
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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 a question of if things can change…things MUST change. Come to…
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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, we hear a common reply: “They’ve been trying to do that…
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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. This neglect is deliberate—NYCHA lets repairs go unaddressed so they can…
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Why Dare to Struggle members refused to take a plea deal, and why we need to fight the NYPD’s mass arrest playbook
At a court appearance in November, four people, including three members of Dare to Struggle, refused to take deals from a judge after we were arrested in Brownsville, Brooklyn on the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality.
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Nov 21st NYC Mass Meeting 6:30 pm
Location: Boys and Girls Republic at 888 E 6th St. We’ll talk about how to get involved with Dare to Struggle, including in our campaigns against police brutality and the privatization of public housing in NYC. If you want to learn more but can’t make it Thursday, hit us up!
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Fighting political repression or staying silent and letting the lawyers handle it
From Dare to Struggle’s inception, we’ve had to contend with various Leftist myths in opposition to our mission statement, such as “you have to give people free food before you can try to organize them,” or “you can’t talk to people about politics who aren’t the same identity as you.” Three years since we got…
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5 Borough Protest Against the NYCHA Nightmare
This July, Dare to Struggle and Rogue Residents are holding a protest against the NYCHA nightmare in all five boroughs.
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