Glenn Martin discussing Stop & Frisk

This past Thursday, May 17, video footage from allthingsharlem.com's was used during a debate on Stop & Frisk on NY1 show Inside City Hall.

NY1 -  With the New York City Police Department already on pace to break last year's record for the number of New Yorkers stopped and frisked, Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis debated the pros and cons of the procedure with Glenn Martin, the Vice President of Development and Public Affairs for The Fortune Society and Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Friday May 11, 2012 - Shaka Shakur and his band of brothers and sisters run a people's survival program that provides food, clothing, and assistance in receiving healthcare and housing. Their program is a replica of the Black Panther program of the 60's and 70's.

Winding down a 4 day memorial to Manning Marable at Riverside Church in Harlem, Angela Davis gave a presentation on Stop & Frisk, the School to Prison pipeline, and racism in the criminal justice system.

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PROP (Police Reform Organizing Project) recently held a public forum that featured Current and former NYPD officers speaking about and critiquing their experiences working for the NYPD.  They addressed NYPD tactics such as Stop and Frisk as well as the departments use of Compstat.  The event was Moderated by Graham Rayman of the Village Voice, who has done excellent invstigative reporting on the NYPD.  Panelist included: Carlton Berkeley, President of Brothers and Sisters Who Care and former NYPD Detective 2nd Grade; John Eterno, Professor at Molloy College and former NYPD Captain; Jeff Kaufman, high school teacher in Brownsville and former NYPD Officer Counsel; Anthony Miranda, Chair of National Latino Officers Association and former NYPD Sergeant; Colleen Meenan, practicing attorney, former NYPD Sergeant, and former executive director of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL); Adhyl Polanco, current NYPD Officer; and Graham Weatherspoon, Black Law Enforcement Alliance and former NYPD Detective.

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Students are Organizing against Police in Schools

People Power Movement - Bronx, NY – A group of Bronx residents gathered on Monday, May 7th, at 3:30pm across the street from Lehman High School and marched to the 45th NYPD precinct to file a lawsuit against two police officers accused of harassment against Lehman High School student Malik Ayala.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Library in Harlem, spoke on the issue of Stop andFrisk from an historical perspective at a Panel at Cuny's Black Studies Progam.

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On April 18, 2012 supporters, community members and activists came out to support community leader Shaka Shakur in court. The result was that Shaka's case was postponed until May 3, 2012. Please come out and support him for his next court date.

Also as supporters were leaving the the court, court officers attempted to intimidate them by harassing them and issued a disorderly conduct summons to Brother Shep of the People's Survival Program and Universal Zulu Nation while he was trying to leave.

On April 17, 2012 supporters, community members and activists came out to support Joseph "Jazz" Hayden in court. Before heading into court there was a press conference that included speakers, Sarah Kunstler, Robert Gangi, Johanna Fernandez, King Downing, Laura Whitehorn, Lewis Webb and Joseph "Jazz" Hayden.

This was Jazz's third time in court for felony charges he is facing in an attempted retaliation by the NYPD to stop his activist work, which entails filming the police in the Harlem community. Full details here, http://bit.ly/AmEj6y

After only a few minutes in court Jazz's case was postponed to July 31, 2012.

Supporters headed back outside and recapped what happened and whats the next step. They also addressed the long line of people who were heading into court that day. Letting them know that "they are not the criminals" and that its really the system that is criminal.

A man who was heading into court stepped out of the line to tell us his story of how he was wrongfully arrested for carrying his work tools and being stopped and frisked and accused of Felony Possession of a Weapon.

Shaka Shakur another one of our community leaders who is facing retaliation from the NYPD with a case of his own also spoke along with Brother Shep of the Universal Zulu Nation. They further elaborated on the bigger picture of this unjust and racist system that is being used to destroy our communities. Brother Shep urged the audience to go to Washington D.C. next week to Occupy the Justice Department. See occupythejusticedepartment.com for details.

JAZZ HAYDEN & SHAKA SHAKUR WILL CHALLENGE NYPD TERROR "BACK TO BACK" IN COURT THIS WEEK

It was a packed house for Gil Noble's public wake at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NY on April 12, 2012. Everyone including family, friends, colleagues and fans turned out to celebrate Gil Noble, the longtime host and producer of his groundbreaking and famous weekly news show, Like It Is. Noble's show was truly Pan-African focusing on the black experience on a local, national and international level.

We at All Things Harlem salute Gil Noble and continue to be inspired and influenced by him.

If you can please support the preservation and digitization of the Gil Noble archives please donate to Gil Noble Archives, P.O. Box 43138, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.

DATE: Thursday, April 12, 2012
TIME: A public wake will be held from 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (The funeral will be on Friday, but it is not open to the public.)

LOCATION:
Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 138th St., (between Adam Clayton Powell and Malcolm X Boulevards (6th and 7th Avenues))
Harlem, New York

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Take the 2 or 3 train to 135 Street Train Station in Manhattan.
DONATIONS: In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that any donations directed towards the Gil Noble archives at the following address. (Proceeds will be used to preserve the archives so that Noble's mission of educating the community about its culture and history will continue.)

Gil Noble Archives, P.O. Box 43138, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.

WATCH VIDEO FROM THE WAKE HERE

Noam Chomsky at St. Philip's Church in Harlem

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joefriendly - Noam Chomsky talks of the longstanding hostility of the rich to truly educating the public so they don't realize they are victims of an economic system they need to replace with one that truly serves the public. March 16, 2012 Special thanks to Rev. Rhonda Rubinson of St. Philip's Church of Harlem for facilitating this production. Camera, Joe Friendly.

Here is a video snapshot of the Millions Hoodies March for Travon Martin in Union Square, New York City on March 21, 2012.

The speaker is Brian Jones a Teacher, Writer and Activist we interviewed during the rally/march. He connects the killing of Trayvon Martin to Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow and the view of black and brown men as criminals. The results of this criminalization has not only led to the mass incarceration of black men but also the murder of them like what happened with Trayvon Martin.

The turnout for Trayvon Martin was huge. The voices of our youth were loud and clear "we are all Trayvon Martin." We no longer need to feel like lone voices crying in the wilderness, our youth have come, the people are awakening. Death to ignorance and inhumanity!

Larry Hamm of the Peoples Organization for Progress (POP) spoke at Cemotap's 25th Anniversary Celebration on March 18, 2012. He congratulated Cemotap on their 25 years of service and spoke about the importance of their work. Hamm says that we need to make sure we not only fight against offensive media that is created by the white mainstream but also make sure we fight the negative images produced by the black community. Especially the degradation of women in many black magazines and other media.

Truth on the Kony 2012 video from Milton Allimadi who is the Publisher of, "The Black Star News" and is from Gulu, Uganda. Allimadi has also written an editorial on the video on here. website http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/122/ARTICLE/8007/2012-03-08.html

Milton Allimadi was speaking at CEMOTAP's 25th Anniversary Celebration in Jamaica, NY on March 18, 2012.

Jazz Hayden, Founder of All Things Harlem, spoke at Cemotap's 25th Anniversary Celebration on March 18, 2012. He spoke about the importance of having our own media.

The contrast between the relationship with the community is radically different with the fire department and NYPD. The FDNY provides a service that is supportive and compassionate. NYPD is the complete opposite.

We recognize the work of the FDNY which, by its nature, is caring and directed towards saving lives. However, the hiring practices of FDNY is patently racist. The recent decision in favor of the Vulcans, awarding them millions in compensation for the impact of the FDNY's racist hiring practice, may eliminate those racist practices. We at All Things Harlem applaud the court's decision.

Cemotap Press Release:

On Sunday March 18, 2011 at 4 PM, CEMOTAP, The Committee To Eliminate Media Offensive To African People,  the Queens based media activist organization will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at the Black Spectrum Theatre located at 177 Street & Baisley Boulevard (Inside Roy Wilkins Park) Jamaica, New York.  

Over the years CEMOTAP has engaged in a number of activities to further their struggle for media justice, including submitting articles to the press about media abuses, publishing  books journals and a newspaper, holding educational forums, leading  and participating in demonstrations and boycotts, supporting  media personalities under attack and supporting political prisoners. CEMOTAP Co-Chair Dr. James McIntosh, said that "If just the people CEMOTAP has directly helped show up we will have an overflow crowd." Betty Dopson Co-chair and founder quipped, If just the community dignitaries who have said they are coming show up we will have an overflow crowd."

Admission is Free.  Speakers include Dr. Adelaide Sanford, former Vice Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, Larry Hamm, Chairman of People's Organization For Progress, The Honorable Charles Barron, New York City Councilman, The Honorable Inez Barron,  New York State Assemblywoman , Bob Law,   legendary broadcaster, Milton Allimadi Publisher of Black Star News,  and Abdul Haqq of the December 12th Movement.  Reverend Al Sharpton  said  on his radio program Sunday that he will stop by even though he will be out of state for a part of the day.

Also attending will be Lisa Noble,  daughter of Gil Noble, the ailing legendary host of WABC TV's now defunct  Public Affairs Program, "Like It Is. "   She will give an update on her father's condition.  Mr. Noble was recently transferred from a Rehab Center to Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey for emergency acute care.  Ms. Noble will also discuss the need for the Black community to assist in the archiving and digitalizing of her father's decades of  programs.  Ms. Noble says that this digitalization will be necessary for the "Like it Is" collection to be shared with students all over the world as is her father's expressed wish. According to family attorney Joseph Fleming the tapes are now owned by the Noble Family "only because of the struggle of CEMOTAP" and the Black Community with WABC over the decades.

Jazz Hayden   a Harlem Media Activist  who has been exposing police abuses by videotaping the police as they engage in their "Stop and Frisk program will not only pay tribute but will discuss his own organization's videotaping  program and how it can be expanded to other boroughs.  Hayden has an upcoming trial date after being arrested for this constitutionally protected videotaping activity.  

CEMOTAP Co-Chairs Betty Dopson and James McIntosh will share hosting duties and pay tribute to the CEMOTAP Executive Committee, the key workers of the organization who have labored behind the scenes for 25 years. Two  of the original Executive Committee Members John Pounds and Arnold White are ancestors and will be honored during an opening libation.  

CEMOTAP has also produced radio programs, cable TV programs  and most recently  an internet TV program called "Like it Should Be," inspired by Gil Noble's, "Like It Is" on CEMOTAPS YOUTUBE Channel at  http://www.youtube.com/user/CEMOTAP1

Our Enemies in Blue, was a panel discussion and community conversation discussing the abusive behavior of the NYPD.  The discussion was held at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) on February 22, 2012.

International Socialist Organization - The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times editorial by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Comissioner Ray Kelly.   And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, a growing movement against stop and frisk, marches against NYPD brutality, and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harrassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem. Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization (Uptown and Bronx Branches) Socialistworker.org 

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Press Release from National Lawyers Guild

Yet, another example of the NYPD's stop and frisk policy at work. On February 23, 2012 we passed 2 men being stopped and frisked outside of their car in Harlem. It turned out that the police stopped them because of the vehicles tinted windows. During the stop the driver had trouble finding his drivers license. Both men were told to get out of the car and had their bodies frisked. After their bodies were frisked the NYPD proceeded to search the vehicle.

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