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NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group

NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group

Incarcerating The Crisis: Adams To Criminalize Mental Illness

NYC-DSA Mental Health Response Statement

2 min readDec 2, 2022

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Reconsidering Narratives: An Abolitionist Response to Anti-Asian Violence

As abolitionists, what does it mean to #StopAsianHate and enact “justice” in response to the ongoing spate of attacks against our elders…

7 min readJan 31, 2022

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Masked protesters carry an image of Vichar Ratanapakdee, a Thai immigrant killed in an unprovoked attack by a 19-year-old man in San Francisco on January 28, 2021

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A Demand for Humanity: RJWG’s Statement in Solidarity with the Hunger Strikers on Rikers Island

Roughly 200 incarcerated men on Rikers Island have organized a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions—including a lack of hot water…

4 min readJan 19, 2022

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A Demand for Humanity: RJWG’s Statement in Solidarity with the Hunger Strikers on Rikers Island

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Criminalizing the Homeless in Our Subways: New Mayor, Same Approach

Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams plan to flood the subway system with “hundreds” of cops, in a move that will further criminalize homeless…

5 min readJan 10, 2022

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Criminalizing the Homeless in Our Subways: New Mayor, Same Approach

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Defund on the ballot: How did the movement fare in the NYC Democratic primary election?

A statement from the NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and the #DefundNYPD Campaign

3 min readJul 8, 2021

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Defund on the ballot: How did the movement fare in the NYC Democratic primary election?

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City Council’s $303 million message to New Yorkers: We just don’t care

New York City Council members have chosen to pad the NYPD’s billions in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis.

6 min readJul 7, 2021

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Image depicts hundreds of protesters gathered on October 17, 2020 to support the demand to defund the NYPD, tax the rich, and stop mass layoffs. The most prominent banners held by protesters in this image read “Defund, Disarm & Disband the Police,” “Protect Black Women,” “Disarm Defund Abolish | #DefundNYPD | DefundNYPD.com,” and “Crown Heights Service Industry Workers for Black Lives.”

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Community support for the #DefundNYPD Campaign is strong — and steadily growing.

Dishonest reporting can’t hide the truth: New Yorkers want our elected leaders to defund the police and refund the people. Here’s what we…

4 min readJun 20, 2021

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Community support for the #DefundNYPD Campaign is strong — and steadily growing.

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The Demand to #DefundNYPD Is Alive and Well

What a year it’s been — we just passed the anniversary of New York City’s explosive uprising in the wake of George Floyd’s murder…

7 min readJun 3, 2021

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Image is a photograph of a subway station entrance/exit in downtown Manhattan by City Hall covered in hand painted signs about police brutality and abolishing the police. Text on signs includes: “Oink! Oink! Oink! Cops are Killers”, “Abolish the Police”, “Black Lives Matter”, and “Justice for Layleen Polanco”. Further in the distance beyond the subway entrance are a crowd of people gathered. Beyond the people are high rise buildings.

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People’s Budget NYC: Defund the NYPD & Invest in Our Communities

It’s Time to Reimagine Our City

7 min readJun 1, 2021

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Image is an illustration of a city with two skyscrapers, a hospital, a brownstone, and a smaller house nestled on top of mounds of dirt. The mounds of dirt have grass and roses growing out of it, as well as fallen coins. The bottom right corner has a broken police badge that says NYPD. The bottom left corner has a broken robot police dog in the dirt. Above the city there are two upside down broken piggy banks wearing police hats with coins, bills of money, and other objects like apples, carrot,

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Homelessness is Not a Crime: Cops off Our Subways

In response to the February 2021 stabbing of four people on New York City subway, the NYPD has deployed an additional 644 transit and…

8 min readMar 29, 2021

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Homelessness is Not a Crime: Cops off Our Subways

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NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group

NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group

Racial Justice Working Group is part of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Follow us as we #DefundNYPD and refund the people.

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