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Music @ LimmudNY
Check out some of the amazing musicians who will be at LimmudNY in January! Click the links for music samples, vidoes, and more general goodness.
DJ Handler’s music defies stereotypes. He frequently includes collaborations with non-electronic musicians, creating textural fusions of live and recorded sound. He references Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies and hip hop. dj handler is a multi cultural maestro that spins a mix of Baile Funk and Afro Beat blended with 80’s free style and hip hop, which gets the most famous US clubs to resemble the craziest festivals abroad. Plus, he runs Modular Moods - the home of Jewschool’s own Y-Love!
Chana Rothman’s music blends Israeli sensibility with freestyle and rhythm acoustic guitar. Insights from living in the mountains, growing up outside the mainstream, and songleading with lively kids from Kathmandu to the Lower East Side inevitably find their way into her music and interaction with the audience. The message is unity through music, breaking down walls between audience and performer, and just being yourself.
Yuri Lane: Human Beatbox - Currently Yuri tours “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah,” a hip-hop play that tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while emphasizing the humanity, suffering and joy of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Shira Kline - “She touches people deeply as she creates services which inspire both personal reflection and communal bonding. Her musicianship and voice flow with grace across the spectrum of Jewish music.” -Mark X. Jacobs, past Executive Director, COEJL
Yofiyah - the founder of Hebrew or Kabbalistic Kirtan, an ecstatic kabbalistic practice based on the chanting of sacred Hebrew texts and names of G!d.
Henry “Hank” Sapoznik is an award-winning author, record and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. With MacArthur Fellow David Isay, he produced the critically-acclaimed 10-week series the “Yiddish Radio Project” on the history of Jewish broadcasting for NPR in the spring of 2002. In 1985 Sapoznik started “KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program” the world’s most important training venue for practitioners of this nearly lost art and, in 1994, co-founded Living Traditions to administer it.
It’s not too late to register! You don’t want to miss all of this great music.
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Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform
Nathan Guttman reports in The Forward:
Two of America’s most influential Jewish organizations are gearing up for their first direct confrontation with the incoming, Democratic-led Congress. The topic: Democratic proposals for congressional ethics and lobbying reform.At issue are two key congressional perks, targeted for elimination, that Jewish organizations rely on to achieve community goals: overseas junkets, including dozens of trips to Israel each year, funded by Jewish organizations; and an estimated $25 million a year in earmarked funds for Jewish communal projects. Both the trips and the earmarked funding face possible elimination as part of the Democrats’ pledge to fight corruption on Capitol Hill.
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Most of the junkets are sponsored by the main pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, through its sister organization, the American Israel Education Foundation.
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The Odd Couple of Hollywood Racists!
Q: Who supports racist-tirade-spewing nutbags?
A: OTHER racial-tirade-spewing nutbags.
“I felt like sending Michael Richards a note,” Gibson says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly’s Dec. 8 issue.
I do too, Mel. I do too.
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almost a jewfork (but not quite)
The Shondes, everybody’s favorite queerjewcore pop princexes (is that the gender-all-inclusive form of monarchy? let’s just pretend so) are putting on a bash in a few saturday nights in NYC. (and word on the DL is, they might show their faces in the Midwest this winter…so, Chicago, sit tight…) And if that doesn’t draw you out, they’re playing with Joe Lally, erstwhile bassist for Fugazi, whose new solo work (live, he’s usually accompanied by Justin Destroyer, a.k.a. Edie Sedgwick) is understated and powerful…
A CHANUKAH BALL TO BENEFIT JEWS AGAINST THE OCCUPATION NYC
A radical Jewish community event to support Palestine solidarity work and to
celebrate the holiday of Chanukah with a proper ball!
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Lit Lounge (93 2nd Avenue)
9pm . 6$ . 21+
FEATURING:
Joe Lally (Fugazi)
The Shondes
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra
DJ + Dance party
WITH:
MC: Ms. JewSA 2006
Jews Against the Occupation NYC
Vegan Latkes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (author of Vegan with a Vengeance)
Sponsored by Venus Zine.
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Conservative Jews Grow Restless as D-Day Approaches for Gay Ordination
The following statement was submitted anonymously to Jewschool.com.
As a Rabbinical student in one of the Conservative Movement Rabbinical Schools, spending the year studying in Israel at the Schechter Institute, I am both proud and ashamed of my Movement in regard to the handling of the decision as to whether we will accept Gays.
On December 6, we have been told, the Law Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly (the organization of Conservative rabbis) will hand down decisions on the Halachic permissibility of ordaining Out Gays. The presumption is that at least two opinions will be accepted as valid. Perhaps more than two if the political machinations of the traditionalist fail. It seems there will be an effort to declare two Tshuvot (legal responsum), one by Rabbi Gordon Tucker and one by Rabbis David and Robert Fine, to be Takanot and hence require more than six votes to be accepted. The procedure for declaring a Tshuva to be a Takana does NOT appear in the constitution of the Rabbinical Assembly and has been introduced by those seeking to hijack a process long in place and prevent progress in this area.
In any case it is thought that a traditional Tshuva (by Rabbi Joel Roth) and a more progressive Tshuva by Rabbis Dorf, Nevins, and Resiner will obtain the necessary six votes. This will mean that all Conservative Rabbinical Schools will be allowed to ordain Gays. The Zeigler School (University of Judaism) has announced that if the progressive Tshuva is accepted, they will immediately accept Gay applicants. The Chancellor elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary has put in place a process to help JTS come to a decision. While he is not a rabbi, Professor Arnie Eisen is on record as supporting ordination of Gays.
I am proud of my Movement for having the courage to struggle with this issue. We have the only group of rabbis who are struggling with the difficult seeming conflict between Jewish Law, as it has been traditionally understood, and the need for Jewish Law to evolve through interpretation.
I am proud of the University of Judaism for taking a stand that will surely be unpopular with many of our members.
I am proud of the forty JTS students who stood outside of the gates of the institution, last week, with mouths covered by tape to protest the silencing of Gays in our Movement.
I am proud of Professor Eisen for taking a firm stand when it is almost certain to offend many donors to JTS.
I am proud of the students here in Israel who sported stickers at the ordination of Israeli Conservative rabbis, that said “Rabbinic Ordination for All” on a rainbow flag background.
I am proud of the 270 Gay friendly Conservative rabbis who have signed on to keshetrabbis.org.
Yet I am also ashamed.
I am ashamed that it has taken us so long to reach this day. Perhaps that is the price of membership in a movement that prefers evolutionary change to revolutionary change.
I am ashamed at what was the clear effort of the outgoing Chancellor, Ismar Schorsch, to stack the Law Committee with appointments of people who have little sympathy for Conservative Judaism beyond taking a paycheck and fails to express concern for the pain his position causes to so many.
I am ashamed of the dean of the Israeli Rabbinical School, Rabbi Einat Ramon, who in an Haaretz article last week accused those who are more liberal on the issue of Gay ordination, of “intellectual totalitarianism.” Indeed the head of the Schechter Institute, Rabbi David Golinkin called the entire matter of Gay ordination irrelevant for Israelis (this after the near riots concerning the Jerusalem Pride Parade and the registration of married Gay couples).
I am ashamed that the Movement is willing to allow Rabbi Joel Roth to author the traditional opinion considering his sordid sexual past (see “Joel Roth” in the Wikipedia online encyclopedia).
So I am proud and I am ashamed. But I hope that come December 6, I will say with pride, “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us be happy and rejoice today.”
Anonymous
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Rabbis for Human Rights-North America First Conference on Judaism and Human Rights
[Find out more about RHR by watching this video.]
From December 10–12, 2006 Rabbis for Human Rights-NA will be hosting the First North American Rabbinic Conference on Judaism & Human Rights for Rabbis, Cantors, and Rabbinic and Cantorial Students.
Bringing together Rabbis from all denominations to address themes of human rights and tools for how to address these issues within congregations, these leaders will also be speaking at sessions open to the public, including:
December 10, 2pm
Shedding Light on Human Rights: A Ritual Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Sunday, International Human Rights Day
Dag Hammerksjold Plaza at the United Nations
Second Avenue @ East 47th Street, adjacent to the United Nations, NYC
Sunday, December 10, 7:00-9:00pm
International Human Rights Day: A Dialogue on Judaism & Human Rights in Our Time, Conference Keynote Address
Delivered by Dr. Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ken Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch. Followed by discussion moderated by Ruth Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service.
UJA-Federation Conference Facility, 130 East 59th Street @ Lexington Avenue, NYC
Monday, December 11, 2:00-3:30 pm
Torture in Our Time: Panel Discussion
A panel discussion with a survivor of torture and those working to end it, including: Brigadier General Jim Cullen; Elisa Massimino, Human Rights First; Sister Dianna Ortiz, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International; and moderated by Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights.
UJA-Federation Conference Facility, 130 East 59th Street @ Lexington Avenue, NYC
Monday, December 11, 8:00–10:00 pm
To Do What is Just & Right, Inaugural Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Awards
A special benefit honoring: Rabbis David Forman, Ben Hollander, and David Rosen, Founders of RHR; B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (Jessica Montell, Executive Director, will accept the award); Center for Constitutional Rights (Michael Ratner, President, will accept the award). Awards presented by Rabbi David Saperstein, Peter Edelman and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman. Master of Ceremonies: Leonard Fein. Musical Performance by renowned violinist Alicia Svigals.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street @ Central Park West, NYC
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Wanted: Your Jerusalem Post Horror Stories
Have you ever worked at the Jerusalem Post and had a nasty run-in with, oh, say, Caroline Glick? Have you ever had a submission so thoroughly ravaged by the editorial staff so as to be unrecognizable in the end? Have you ever gotten dicked around on a paycheck for months? Have you ever been written about in the paper and completely outraged by the manner in which you were represented? Have you ever come across an op-ed so skewed, so factually incorrect, so inanely biased that you simply could not open the paper ever again? Have you ever had a subscription that they kept charging you for months after you canceled?
I want your Jerusalem Post horror stories. Email them to me at editor at jewschool dot com. Your submissions will remain entirely anonymous.
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And now for something completely different
The following is an excerpt from Mevo Shearim, the sefer of Rabbi Kalman Kalmish Shapira, the Piazcezcna Rebbe, Chief Rabbi of the Warsaw Ghetto. The “very rough and inadequate translation” has been provided by Rabbi Davide Lustigman of Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo — my chevruta.
It is my Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
When the Baal Shem Tov zt’l had his aliat neshama in 5507 (Rosh HaShana, 1746), he entered the chamber of Moshiach and asked him, “when will sir come?” Moshiach answered him, “when your wellsprings spread forth,” as is known from the Holy Letter found at the end of Porat Yosef. The teachings of chassidut are the final stage of revelation of Torah that precedes the coming of Moshiach, speedily in our days. They are the first rays of his holy light. The principal messianic revelation is described by the verse, “and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of God, like the waters cover the sea,” and the foundation of the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov is the simple meaning, which he revealed in his holiness, zt’l, of the verse, “and the whole earth is filled with His glory.” Many challenged him and attacked him for this, saying that he was “physicalizing” the glory of That Which is Above, but our holy one, the Baal Shem Tov zt’l knew that not only was he not physicalizing, God forbid (and taking away from God’s glory), but, rather, he was increasing and revealing His glory and honor, blessed be He, by this. He was not only teaching a simple understanding of, or intellectual insight into, the verse, but rather, he was awakening the dawn that precedes Moshiach (from above). If they will not make room for the dawn, and the world will not become habituated to the dawn, then the sun of Moshiach, God forbid, will be prevented from rising. Therefore he proclaimed, in his holiness, and said that not only is there in every thing of the world, a godly vitality, and surrounding this godly vitality there is a material crust hiding it, but that this material, which to us appears to be just that, is actually godliness too. All that is needed are eyes to see and a body that is sanctified. Then, when you look at the world around you, you’ll be looking at God and God will be looking at you, “the whole earth is filled with His glory,” even the earthiness of the garment; and vessels, also, are filled with the illumination of His glory, blessed be He. This is the beginning of the fulfillment of the verse “and the world will be filled with the knowledge…” which will be fulfilled in its greatest manner in Messianic times, speedily in our days, that even the earth will be filled with knowledge of God.
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An Effective Deterrent Against Terror If Ever There Was One
Fresh off the photo wire:
Palestinian worshippers climb over a section of Israel’s separation barrier from the West Bank village of A-Ram to Jerusalem on their way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, in this Oct. 20, 2006 file photo. A towering wall cutting through Jerusalem has become a symbol of the troubled city. To Israelis, it’s a bulwark against Palestinian suicide bombers. To Palestinians, it means hardship and theft of their future capital. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
That’s not a security wall. It’s a (landgrabbing) speed bump.
(c/o Ezra H.)
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Israelis Make Power Play for Control of Holocaust Restitution Funds
The JTA reports,
An Israeli coalition including the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israeli Holocaust survivor organizations and the Knesset’s pensioner affairs minister is calling on the Claims Conference to give Israel a larger share of Holocaust restitution funds and more control over distribution decisions.Leaders of the coalition announced Sunday that they were launching a unified effort to get the Claims Conference to recognize the centrality of Israel in its distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed Holocaust-era assets.
So just what does Israel get from the Claims Conference? These figures are estimates I have compiled from the current index of Claims Conference allocations.
- Adult Care/Old Age Homes: $2,500,000*
- Hospitals/Medical Care: $6,500,000*
- Assisted Living: $1,100,000*
- Soup Kitchens: $16,000
- Amcha: $2,100,000
- Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel: $24,300,000**
- Archives: $180,000
- Holocaust Education: $5,440,000***
- Research/Publications: $332,000
- Budget Subsidies: $245,000
*In all cases, less than 50% of the grantees’ clientèle are Holocaust survivors, and in some cases, that number is as low as 10%.
**The Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel receives an additional $25,000,000 in direct restitution for Germany and Switzerland, disbursed through the Claims Conference.
***Includes $1,440,000 for the Jewish Agency to educate Jews in Eastern Europe and the FSU about the Shoah, $400,000 for the inclusion of a Holocaust education track in Birthright Israel’s programing, and $800,000 for a Mi Bereishit sponsored hike from Yad Vashem to Masaada.
Estimated total of disbursements made by the Claims Conference to Israel for 2007-2008: $42,713,000
Compare that to the total amount of allocations in the 2007 Israeli federal budget for direct aid to Holocaust survivors in Israel which is, roughly, um, NOTHING.
There are 250,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, one-third of whom live below the poverty line. Since establishing ties with Germany in the 1950s (a move hotly contested in its day; see Segev’s The Seventh Million), Israel has received close to $80 billion in direct restitution — roughly $1.4 billion for each year of the State’s existence, or over $300,000 per survivor. The Finance Ministry claims to distribute $326 million to survivors every year (23% of annual restitution), however that amounts to mere $1,304 per survivor, which is about one-tenth of the average Israeli income.
A bill introduced in the Knesset this year would have increased that paltry sum by offering an additional $11 million in direct support to survivors. The bill, however, was killed in committee by the Finance Ministry, which instead, as part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s economic growth plan, opted to freeze aid to survivors, eroding their benefits by 1.65%.
So, tell me, who’s not giving enough?
The Claims Conference itself is, of course, by no means innocent. Its allocations process is abhorrently undemocratic, neglectful of needy survivors, and many of the disbursements it makes — particularly in terms of Holocaust education, which comprises 20% of total allocations — are impossible to justify and reek of political nepotism.
However, if you think things will get better for survivors with Israeli authorities in control of the coffers, you are sorely mistaken. That money will wind up anywhere but in the hands of needy Israeli survivors.
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General Strike Shuts Down Israeli Public Services
Haaretz reports,
A major public-sector strike over unpaid wages of workers in some local authorities began early Wednesday morning, cancelling outgoing flights at Ben-Gurion International Airport, paralyzing seaports ports and all train lines, and closing of land borders, government offices, employment bureaus, courts, National Insurance Institute branches, the Israel Lands Administration and the vehicle licensing offices.If the strike does not end within two days, a shortage of gasoline may ensue, as fuel will npt be delivered to gas stations.
Official documents like passports will not be issued, and functioning assessment committees at the National Insurance Institute will not meet. No mail will be delivered.
The local authority strike means that garbage will not be collected and parking tickets will not be issued.
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The reason for the strike is the partial or total withholding of salaries of about 12,000 workers in dozens of local authorities, and the non-transfer of money deducted for pension plans and educational training funds for 40,000 workers in local authorities.
Wait, wait, wait — lemme get this straight: The government has a quarter-billion dollars to spend on marketing, but it hasn’t paid 12,000 civil employees in months? And now we all have to suffer for it?
I’ve come up with a slogan for Israel’s marketing campaign: “Israel: Medina im rosh b’takhat.”
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Look out Bill, I think I just found Lefty’s new crush
What do you call a quirky Jewish gamer who prances around half-naked in a Super Mario outfit, crusading for the rights of software developers?
Game Jew. Now videocasting at Screw Attack.
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Jewish Bloggers To Speak @ Town & Village Synagogue
As part of Synaplex Shabbat, an initiative to “draw in Jews not presently attending synagogue” and “expand the range of possible Sabbath observance for established congregants, Town & Village Synagogue is hosting a dinner and roundtable discussion with some of your favorite bloggers.
Jewlicious, Jewschool, Kesher Talk, Blogs of Zion, My Urban Kvetch, JDaters Anonymous, Shabot6000 – are all part of a vibrant virtual community that is reinvigorating the conversation and connections among Jews. Come hear four Jewish bloggers representing seven blogs read some of their favorite posts and talk about the impact of the Internet on Judaism.
RSVP required to TVSynaplex {at} yahoo(.)com or 212-677-8090 x26, by Monday, December 4, with advance payment of $20/adults, $15/young adults & students, $10/children under 13.* This includes a Chinese buffet dinner…
Pay online with Paypal (click “send money”, insert townandvillage {at} aol(.)com and note it is for Dec 8 dinner); or send check payable to Town & Village Synagogue at 334 East 14th Street, NY NY 10003, writing “Synaplex” in memo space.
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet
It seems that Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, the posek also known as Tzitz Eliezer, has passed away. He made some famous rulings on abortion, IV fertilization, and medical ethics, and was especially known for his emphasis on kevod ha-beriyot, human dignity. He also made some interesting rulings on transgender issues, ruling that sometimes gender reassignment surgery was necessary for transsexuals on the basis of pikuach nefesh (saving a life), and that one’s gender did accordingly also change halakhically (so, ie, a female to male transexual would be considered male accoriding to Jewish law).
I don’t agree with every ruling he ever made on every issue, but, without question, he was a brave and innovative thinker who did some very important work.
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A Modest Proposal
Nothing says haredi Judaism like thousands of men packed in a room talking about what women need to do, does it?
A huge, married-men-only conference on modesty was held a week-plus ago to discuss the necessity of buckling down on dress codes for women and girls. As far as the article indicates, male modesty and/or a more broadly defined modesty as humility and care for the other (see Rambam’s Hilchot Deot Ch. 5) were not discussed.
Ynet reports that one of the speakers said, for example,
“One of our generations biggest obstacles is tight clothing… each and every one of us must stand guard and make sure his wife and daughters’ clothing are modest, both in how much they cover the body and how they are worn.”…
The details of what that might mean were, not surprisingly, enumerated. (Note the injunction against too-long wigs.) This list, below, makes me want to remind everybody that we were all (”male and female”) created b’tzelem Elokim, and that our female tzelemim in their naked state were pretty OK for God in Eden. Which is not to say that I think that we should walk around nekkid now, and I do believe that there are more and less appropriate ways of dressing in various contexts, but I do take exception to the implication that the shape in which I was created is a source of shame and that I should walk around making sure that the “form of my body” is hidden at all times.
Shirts, skirts, sweaters and the like should be loose enough that the form of the body is not seen….
Shirts should be at least 10 centimeters longer than the edge of the waistline on the skirt, in such a way that they would cover the skin in any movement. The collar should be appropriately closed. Sleeves should cover the elbows at any movement. Any fabrics that cling to the body such as spandex, tricot, and the like are prohibited.
Skirts should began at the waist and end at the middle of the leg, and as mentioned, should be loose and not of clinging fabric. Wigs must not be too long or in models that have been prohibited.
The one woman that they quoted used the tagline of the recent modesty handbook Oz Hadar Velevusha (which is replete with debates about the permissibility of patterned tights and the like) –“Just as the Torah is most important to men, so is modesty for women.”
I have never understood this. Torah isn’t important for women? Even if this was intended to mean “Torah study,” it still sounds awful. Men get God’s 613 commandments and a book describing the covenant between God and Israel, and women get implored to make sure shirts are at least 10 centimeteres longer than their waistlines?
(Rabbi Yehudah Henkin observes, “This ideology prohibits a woman from standing out—and from being outstanding. She must not act in a play, paint a mural, play an instrument or otherwise demonstrate special skills in front of men, lest she attract attention and her movements excite them.”)
Interestingly, Tamar, the woman quoted, also used some incorrect history when implying that feminism, in its way, has caused some of this problem:
“That is to say, there was a time when there were less influences. The haredi world was much less opened. Today the world has evolved; many women are educated and work outside the home, and study in places they didn’t used to, like computers or interior design”.
She’s probably right that women’s education and increased work opportunities have created somewhat of a crisis, as more women today encounter more of non-haredi culture. However: Jewish women have worked outside of the home for centuries, in many different cultures. The question of what to do about the cultural meetings that resulted have been addressed in many different places in many different ways. One of them is here and now, I suppose.
In any case. Full story here. An article from JOFA on modesty issues, here.
(X-posted to Jerusalem Syndrome)
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Denounce Police Brutality in New York This Wednesday, Nov 29th
Over the past few days, amidst the flurry of news coverage of police brutality, my inbox has been flooded with cases that are not being covered. It is critical that cases, like the shooting of Sean Bell in Queens, on Sunday, are getting attention and investigation, but we will have to see what justice is on the other side, and we must be a voice in denouncing these acts of police brutality. While Mayor Bloomberg responded, calling 50 shots as unacceptable, unfortunately, the Mayor also would not discuss this as a pattern. Rather, he stated that this was an isolated incident, as opposed to what communities are saying, and what is the reality of daily racial profiling, harrassment, beating and arrests of people of color in New York City.
So let me share a few other stories I’ve received in the past few days that aren’t hitting the media just yet.
That same night–Sunday evening, November 26–Juanita Young, an activist and public speaker in the fight to stop police brutality, was arrested in her own home. She and her family have been targets of police harassment on several occasions, including an attempt to evict her from her home. Her son, Malcolm Ferguson, was killed by NYPD in March 2000, a week after he was arrested for being part of a protest against the verdict in the Amadou Diallo case. She has been a member of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation since 2000.
An ambulance had been called for Juanita’s daughter. When ambulance came, police also arrived. Juanita asked the police to leave, and the ambulance refused to do anything and called for backup. Eight police arrived, grabbed people, threw Juanita in a room and tried to lock her in, kicked her in the chest and back, and jumped on her. Her daughter yelled at them to stop, telling them that Juanita has asthma, but Juanita was arrested and ended up at Jacobi Hospital emergency room, under police custody. Apparently, family and friends have still not been allowed in to see her.
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