Newtown Families Demand Cerberus Capital Management End Investment in Freedom Group Gun Manufacturer
NEW YORK, NY — Families of Sandy Hook victims, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY-13), Geoffrey Eaton, NAACP Mid-Manhattan President, and a diverse coalition of gun violence prevention advocates held a press conference and action at 12pm today, outside the offices of Cerberus Capital Management (875 3rd Avenue, New York) to call on the hedge fund to immediately sell all […]
In Search of Prisoner 650, The Story of Aafia Siddiqui: A Free Film Screening & Press Conference at NYC’s Diversity Plaza
[NEW YORK, NY] As the United Nations convenes for its annual general meeting in New York this September, the timing coincides with the anniversary of the 86-year-long prison sentence handed to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui by Richard Berman on September 23, 2010. A ruling viewed by many international activists as a black eye for the UN’s Human […]
6 CUNY Students Violently Arrested Protesting Ex-General David Petraeus, Group Releases Statement
[NEW YORK, NY] Six students were arrested Tuesday evening in an unprovoked police attack against a peaceful protest lead by City University of New York (CUNY) students and faculty decrying the University’s appointment of former CIA chief and ex-General, David Petraeus as an adjunct professor to the Honors College. Students were punched, pushed against parked […]
10 Arrests in 87 Minutes: The Anatomy of the NYPD’s Protest Dispersal Process
[NEW YORK, NY] On the eve of the second anniversary of the Occupy movement, two video activists, have released a 10 minute short film providing perhaps the most detailed civilian account to date of the NYPD’s process of crowd dispersion during mass mobilizations. The video, shot on September 17th, 2012, during Occupy Wall Street’s first […]
Former Political Prisoner David McKay will Confront FBI Informant Brandon Darby at Lincoln Center Documentary Premiere
[NEW YORK, NY] Journalists and activists are invited to a free special advance screening of and discussion of INFORMANT, the documentary portrait of of Brandon Darby, former radical activist turned FBI informant, Wednesday, September 11, 7:30pm, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Amphitheater, 144 W. 65th St., in NYC. This is the first time that Darby (in […]