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Saturday, September 10, 2016

"NYC: Union Made" - Labor Day Parade 2016

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The theme this year Labor Day Parade is "NYC: Union Made", celebrating NYC's labor heritage and history, and bold, bright future.

New york Governor Andrew Cuomo among other city officials were the Honorary Guests at the Labor Day Parade 2016

James Callahan, General President of the International Union of Operating Engineers and Labor Day Parade 2016 Grand Marshal

Labor Day is the one day that honors the contributions of working men and women to America’s social and economic life. It was first celebrated in the United States on Sept. 5, 1882, when about 20,000 working people marched in New York City to demand an eight-hour workday and other labor law reforms. About a quarter million New Yorkers turned out to watch. The fight to preserve overtime pay for more than eight hours of work a day marks this Labor Day 122 years later.

The U.S. Department of Labor describes Labor Day this way: “It is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country.”

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Friday, September 9, 2016

New York #NoDAPL solidarity rally for Standing Rock

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New York Activist groups stand in solidarity and to show support for the Standing Rock Sioux #NoDAPL in their fight to protect the land and water as the Obama administration said it would not authorize construction on a critical stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, handing a significant victory to the Indian tribe fighting the project the same day the group lost a court battle.

The administration said construction would halt until it can do more environmental assessments.

The Department of Justice, the Army and the Interior Department jointly announced that construction would pause on the pipeline near North Dakota's Lake Oahe, a major water source on the Missouri River for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The Army Corps has permitted pipeline construction near Lake Oahe. But, as of last month, federal agencies had not yet issued the easements necessary for construction to begin there.

Dave Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, hailed the decision, and vowed to continue fighting against the project.

Organizers in New York will be collecting supplies to send to Standing Rock as they continue to hold their territory against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Rally for Standing Rock is organized by a group of Indigenous scholars and activists, and settler/ POC supporters. They belong and are responsible to a range of Indigenous peoples and nations, including Tlingit, Haudenosaunee, Secwepemc, St'at'imc, Creek (Muscogee), Anishinaabe, Diné, Peoria, Maya Kaqchikel, and Quechua. They have joined forces to support the Standing Rock Sioux in their continued assertion of sovereignty over their traditional territories.

The people of New York stand in solidarity with the Lenape, and all Indigenous peoples, whose land was stolen to create the settler-colonial states of Canada and the United States, and who continue to live under siege, surveillance, and violence on their own occupied land.

#Activism #ActOnClimate #BeyondExtremeEnergy #BXE #ClimateChange #climatejustice #DakotaAccessPipeline #DAPL #decolonizethisplace #FERC #FirstNations #FossilFree #Fracking #IndigenousRights #KeepItIntheGround #Methane #NewYork #NoDAPL #NoPipelines #ResistSpectra #SacredLand #‎Solidarity #SpectraEnergy #SpectraPipeline #StandwithStandingRock #StopAIMpipeline #StopEnbridge #StopSpectra #WaterisLife ‪#‎weareallconnected‬ #WeSayNo #YOUAREHERE

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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Protest at Clinton Headquarters to Demand Open Debates

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The deceptive Commission on Presidential Debates, not really a commission but a front for the two establishment parties, should include all four candidates who are on enough ballots to win 270 Electoral College votes. Hillary Clinton as the head of the Democratic Party has the power to demand all four candidates on enough ballots to be included in the presidential debates.

A protest was held in front of the campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn, NY, calling upon her to support the inclusion in the upcoming presidential debates of all the candidates on enough ballots to win the Electoral College. Four candidates capable of winning majority of electoral college should be included in presidential debates.

This is part of an ongoing series of nationwide protests to open up the debates. Individuals planned to participate in nonviolent civil disobedience at the upcoming presidential debates if they are not opened up to candidates other than of the two parties that control the Commission on Presidential Debates.

#2016 #Activism #BreakThe2PartyTrap #Brooklyn #demonstration #GPBK #GreenParty #GreenPartyBrooklyn #GreenPartyNYC #HillaryClinton #ItsInOurHands #JillStein #LetJillDebate #NewYork #NYC #OpenDebates #PresidentialCandidate #PresidentialDebates #Protest #rally

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Prison reform groups urge Governor Cuomo to close Attica

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Attica Correctional Facility continues to operate as a real and symbolic epicenter of racist brutality and inhumane treatment in New York State. The history of the 1971 Attica uprising and the state’s violent suppression of that rebellion still infuse Attica’s walls and operations.

Prison reform advocates and activist groups gathered outside the New York Governor offices in Manhattan to urge Governor Cuomo, the New York State Legislature, and the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to close Attica immediately and permanently.

The levels of staff brutality, racism, abuses of power, impunity, and overall environment of abuse and violence, continue to be pervasive at Attica. Unfortunately, Attica is not alone – and many other New York State prisons, including Clinton, Greene, Great Meadow, and others also have pervasive staff violence and abuse.

New York must close Attica, end violence and abuse across all prisons, reduce the number of prisons and people incarcerated, and free up resources currently wasted on caging people to build the things that help communities thrive: education, housing, healthcare, and human services.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Long Island University Brooklyn locked out faculty in contract dispute

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Administrators have locked out faculty at Brooklyn's Long Island University campus in a dispute over a new contract.

Long Island University Brooklyn faculty members say they're being paid less than their colleagues at the Nassau County campus. LIU Administration informed that the new contract proposal is more than fair.

As a negotiating tactic, the Long Island University Brooklyn's administration locked out over 400 faculty members and university service employees represented by affiliated labor unions ahead of fall classes, which begin begin Wednesday, September 7, 2016. The lockout blocks professors from teaching or accessing their health care benefits.

Long Island University Brooklyn is assuring to provide well-qualified substitutes, but students say the dispute will upend the start of their semester. Long Island University students emphasize that's unacceptable alongside the cost of their tuition. In average Long Island University students pay around $1,000 per credit.

Student Body organizers will hold a protest in support of faculty ahead of the resumption of negotiations later this week.

#2016 #Activism #Brooklyn #FairContracts #FairWages #FF15 #FightFor15 #LaborDispute #LetUsTeach #LIU #LIUblackout #LIUBrooklynCampus #LIUcontracts #LIUfaculty #LIUlockdown #LongIslandUniversity #march #NewYork #NYC #PicketLine #Protest #PSCCUNY #rally #‎Solidarity #Union #WorkerRights

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Monday, September 5, 2016

49th annual New York Caribbean Carnival

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The 49th annual New York Caribbean Carnival peaks on Labor Day with the carnival parade along Eastern Parkway, all presented by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association.

This year’s carnival grand marshals include City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; Guyana Consul General Barbara Atherly; Barbados U.N. Ambassador Keith (Tony) Marshall; and Conrad Ifill, president and CEO of Conrad’s Famous Bakery.

The West Indian Carnival is an annual celebration held on American Labor Day (the first Monday in September) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in New York City. The main event is the West Indian Day Parade, which attracts between one and three million participants. The spectators and participators watch and follow the parade on its route along Eastern Parkway. Some of the Caribbean islands represented in the parade include Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and Grenada, along with the mainland Caribbean countries such as Guyana, Suriname, and Belize.

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Sunday, September 4, 2016

32nd Annual Brazilian Day in New York

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Brazilian Day in NYC is one of the largest ethnic celebrations in The Big Apple, and a unique opportunity to embrace the Brazilian culture. This sensational celebration is one of the largest public events in New York City’s official summer calendar.

The festival began to celebrate Brazil's Independence Day. Since 1984, that small celebration has only grown, up to the point of attracting over1.5 million people in 2010, according to official information from NYPD.

People come from as close as Connecticut and as far as California. Perfectly bonding with the diverse population of New York City, people also come from Europe, Asia and Africa, to join in the festivities. Some travel in groups, they commute by bus, some fly in, and others simply drive hundreds of miles. No one wants to be left out of this party, which is now considered the world's biggest Brazilian event outside Brazil and one of the greatest ethnic events in the Big Apple.

The Brazilian Day festival is not simply a party celebration; it has become an opportunity to reach out to the Brazilian community in the United States. On that day, Brazilians join each other from different parts of the world, many coming from Brazil just to attend the festival, show their pride, advertise their culture and live their nostalgic and anonymous feeling of being an immigrant away from home.

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