New York City
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On Police Brutality, Occupy Red Hook, and How We Fight Back!
Henrietta Perkins Interview: 5/1/26 So first can you introduce yourself and tell me how long you’ve lived at Red Hook West houses?H.Perkins: Henrietta Perkins: I came back in 2000 after my mother passed. I adopted her three grandchildren and they were entitled to the…
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TA PRESIDENT KAREN BLONDEL IGNORES RESIDENTS’ DEMANDS AND SIDES WITH NYCHA IN PUSHING FOR PACT AT RED HOOK WEST HOUSES
Who is Karen Blondel? Karen Blondel, president of the Red Hook Houses West Tenants’ Association (RHWRA) is the latest TA president selling out her residents to push for a PACT conversion at Red Hook West Houses. Blondel also sits on the board for the…
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ATTICA CALLING – issue #4
First CO on trial for murdering Messiah Nantwi found guilty of first-degree manslaughter On March 1, 2025, 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi was brutally beaten to death by a gang of 15 correctional officers (COs) at Midstate Correctional Facility. The trials of the 5 pigs who…
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MYTHBUSTING: Misconceptions about NYCHA Repairs
NYCHA residents face an average 415-day wait time for repairs, fears of being displaced by the privatization of public housing, condescension from local nonprofits and management, and broken promises from politicians who claim to serve them. With so much stacked against them, residents are…
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On Sunday, March 22nd, Vincent Thoms died after being held in Manhattan Central Bookings for less than 24 hours
On Sunday, March 22nd, 51 year old Vincent Thoms died in Manhattan Central Bookings after being held in custody for less than a day. Thoms was arrested for allegedly stealing incense sticks at a CVS store in Harlem. Police officials are claiming that Thoms…
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EXPOSING WAVECREST MANAGEMENT
IT’S BEEN ONE MONTH SINCE THE BOSTON SECOR GAS EXPLOSION AND RESIDENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSLY ANGRYAFTER NOTHING BUT FALSE PROMISES AND HUSH MONEY FROM MANAGEMENT Immediately following the explosion on January 24th, Wavecrest posted this flyer in every building, but they were still completely unreachable.…
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PITTSBURGH STAND UP!
TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST PRISON KILLINGS IN PGH Across Pennsylvania, incarcerated people are sent hundreds of miles away where they face horrific conditions behind bars. Correctional officers (COs) brutalize and murder inmates with no recourse and these killings are on the rise. There…
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PACK THE COURT FOR CARL MILLER
Wed Feb. 25 @ 2pm at 320 jay st, Brooklyn, NY In 1979, then 19-year-old Carl Miller was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Rabbi David Okunov. Carl then spent the next three decades upstate in New York prisons. He has steadily maintained his…
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Zohran’s performative “Rental Rip-Off Hearings” ignore the city’s largest slumlord: NYCHA
In Zohran’s latest performance of empty promises, the administration had announced ‘Rental Ripoff Hearings’, forums in which “New Yorkers across all five boroughs are given a direct platform to share their housing experiences in one-on-one conversations with City officials and help shape housing policy”.…
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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,…
Dare to Struggle 