Picture the Homeless's Civil Rights Campaign thanks everyone who attended and supported our January 21 summit on the NYPD's abuse of the disorderly conduct statute.  

Checkout this write-up in the Indypendent

***  you MUST checkout this hot video on Dis Con produced by Picture the Homeless's Civil Rights Campaign members!  ***

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[photo: Lynn Lewis]

Checkout the blog from the Poverty Initiative's latest immersion course with great stuff from organizations in Pennsylvania (Media Mobilizing Project!, etc.), New York (Domestic Workers United!, etc.), and elsewhere, including:

*  Jean on picturing the homeless  *  Rogers on homelessness  *  Jean on current economics  * Jean's letter to Philadelphia students & youth  *

This Thursday, January 21 in NYC, the Civil Rights Campaign of Picture the Homeless is hosting a summit on the NYPD's unconstitutional use of the Disorderly Conduct statute 

at 7pm

at Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway, 7th Fl  [one block below 3rd St]

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For more background, Picture the Homeless member and Street News editor Indio offers his testimony:

The Police Department has been ticketing and arresting people for disorderly conduct -- this is an unconstitutional statute and enforcement.  Case in point...

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Picture the Homeless members have spent the past few days on events and activities supporting the people of Haiti and celebrating the legacy of Dr. King, and we're looking forward to continuing to build on this.

Also, PTH's Rob Robinson appeared again on the program GRITtv, in a roundtable on "a vision for social housing."

On Dr. King's birthday weekend, we also joined the great house music singer Crystal Waters to speak out on the struggle of the city's homeless families...

[for New York Times coverage, video of Waters performing live, photos, and more...

Read on!]

 [photo: Tracy Collins]

Disorderly Conduct Summit

Thursday, January 21

 [  event on Facebook:  http://tinyurl.com/Jan21summit  ]

7pm til 9pm

at Center for Constitutional Rights office, 666 Broadway, 7th Floor  [one block below 3rd Street -- near 6 train stops at Astor or Bleecker]

Join us for discussion and action-planning -- to organize to stop the illegal harassment and criminalization of homeless people through the use of the unconstitutional Disorderly Conduct statute.

Sponsored by the Civil Rights Campaign of Picture the Homeless

CNN en Espanol ran this piece on December 21, about Picture the Homeless's perspective and struggle to challenge the NYC shelter system and push for truly-affordable housing for the city's poorest.  

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PTH was featured again in The Nation magazine's Ten Things feature, as part of "Ten Things for the Holidays."

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Light and Transformation:

Out of the Darkness

Join Picture the Homeless for our annual Interfaith Memorial Service

dedicated to our homeless brothers and sisters who have passed away this year. Some we know their names, many we don’t--but none are forgotten.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Hosted by Judson Memorial Church

55 Washington Square South

6:00 to 7:30 pm, Interfaith Memorial Service;

refreshments and fellowship, 7:30pm until 9pm

Yup, the Chase is on!  On Wednesday, December 2, homeless New Yorkers and our allies rallied outside the JPMorgan Chase tower on Park Avenue, demanding "Change, not Charity"!

* Check out the Indypendent story *

**UPDATE**  a great video with audio testimony from PTH members, the great work of Michael & Rachel Falcone from the Housing is a Human Right project.

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 [photo: Sam Miller, PTH]

[photo: Michael Premo, Housing is a Human Right]

So much to be thankful for...

 by Rob Robinson

I’m thankful that I was able to overcome homelessness...

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