No work, No housework, No school, Shut the city down!
Occupy Wall Street activists are coming up with for a nationwide series of demonstrations billed as a “general strike” on Tuesday in what can be the most important check of the movement’s organizing muscle since the winter.
We joined Senator Michael Gianaris, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and other advocates on June 7, 2012 to endorse the New York Voter Empowerment Act. Brian Pearson, a VOCAL-NY member from Queens who is formerly incarcerated, delivered the following statement during the campaign launch at New York City Hall.
Read the rest of this entry
On April 25th, VOCAL-NY joined ACT UP for a march marking their 25th anniversary that called for a Financial Speculation Tax, also known as the “Robin Hood Tax,” to fund domestic and global healthcare, including universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. A Robin Hood Tax would raise revenue to save lives while discouraging speculative activity that helped crash our economy, which is why we’ve been advocating for it since the start of the financial crisis, including World AIDS Day in 2011 and the Showdown on Wall Street in 2010.
Slider by webdesign