Civil Rights Press Clippings
Sleeping is a Crime
by Sam Miller, Clamor Magazine Voting Poor Columbia Journalism Homeless Votes Count, Too Columbia Journalism RNC: Where are they now? Radio.Indymedia.org, Aug 31, 2005 National Conference Brings Energy, Strategies, Information to Portland Portland Cop Watch, Feb. 10, 2005 Empty Dreams, Homeless 'canners' crushed by the system Vilage Voice, Dec. 17, 2004 Sleep-Out to protest Harrasment & Selective Enforcement of Homeless people in NYC Radio Indymedia, Nov. 26, 2004 2004 National Conference on Police Accountability Playback Times Flying Focus Video Collective, Oct. 2004 The New York the Bush Partisans Wouldn't See Tenant Inquilino, Sep. 2004 Interviews from Still We Rise March Radio Inymedia, Aug 31, 2004 Protestors Greet Start of GOP Convention with Poor People’s Marches The New Standard, Aug. 31, 2004 Life Could Get Tougher RNC Displaces NYC's Homeless Catholics for Democracy, Aug. 4, 2004 Real Change News, Jul. 8, 2004 Picture The Homeless and Judson Memorial Church Mark National Homeless Memorial Day Global Black NewsJan. 4, 2004 The live-ins -- Homeless fight for a place in the park nyc24.org City's sued in homeless busts Daily News, Nov. 26, 2002 Gavin Newsom's Scared of the People..!! Poor Magazine Online, Mar. 12, 2002 Stop Police Brutality stoppolicebrutality.org, May 1, 2000 Civil Rights Reports & PublicationsCivil Rights Campaign MeetingThe Civil Rights Committee meets every Tuesday at 2pm.
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Homeland Insecurity, Fingerprinting and Identification
Issues of national security have impacted homeless New Yorkers in ways that jeopardize our personal security and give the cops another excuse to terrorize us. While folks caught up in the RNC protests were arrested and illegally fingerprinted in violation of New York State law, homeless New Yorkers face this illegal practice daily. Homeless New Yorkers face illegal searches and illegal requests for ID without any basis of suspicion of illegal conduct. Then, when the ID is only a welfare benefits card folks are arbitrarily taken in to the local precinct to verify identity – even though you have to be fingerprinted to get the welfare benefits card in the first place!
Illegal Fingerprinting Of Homeless As A Civil Rights Issue, by Jean Rice, Civil Rights Leader: As a result of the efforts of the New York Civil Liberties Union in confronting the illegal fingerprinting of protesters, during the Republican National Convention by the New York City Police Department: we are informed that New York State Law bars this type of fingerprinting of persons charged with minor offenses known as “violations.” The CRIMINALIZATION of the HOMELESS on a NATIONAL basis continues to be a blight upon the national character of this nation, which purports to be the LEADER of the “FREE” world. Under the guise of “Quality Of Life”, record numbers of our homeless citizens are entrapped into the criminal justice system. These individuals shouldn’t be in a position to be fingerprinted in the first place. It is the position of “Picture The Homeless” that ever since the inception of “Broken Windows” policing policy implemented through so called “Quality Of Life” offenses, members of the homeless population in New York City are routinely illegally fingerprinted as a result of which : Housing, Employment, and Voting Rights are impacted in a negative manner. The dictates of justice demand that the rights of the thousands upon thousands of homeless New Yorkers, whose 14th Amendment rights have been violated be VINDINCATED! ( categories: Civil Rights )
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