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No one one No morning. one early up woke Lopez organizing. led community- and community-building of ple exam powerful a have into injustice who this turned activists neighborhood the but or landlord’s the abuses, building crumbling the not is story real the news, nightly the on appear fuses firecracker and wiring tangled of photos as But attention. media drawing now is that Park Sunset in Street 46th 557 and 553, 545, at strike rent a multi-building organizing and meetings holding doors, on knocking been have Ixtilico and Trelles flames. into to burst likely most problem the with to start is argue, neighbors her and to the thing best do, face in Lopez Brooklyn, women immigrant low-income that pression But deportation. oflist of the with when laundry op confronted threats and barriers, language sexism, racism, of forces ever- present but vague the and block; their on ed need was help when come to seemed never who police mistreatment; or accidents after employers who them and coerced threatened death; to freeze or burn them let to content all lives: slumlords their battling been had women the thousand that a in rier bar one just really door the was course, Of fire. on building whole the set to threaten ing and shorted, sparked that box fuse the gar overtaxed fixing or bage rotting out the cleaning from inspectors city ing prevent Knox, Fort than tighter locked door basement kept the su perintendent his Orazio and Petito, landlord, building’s the that dignity. with to live right her for fight to was willing she but type, door-breaking the wasn’t she tongue; her held trio, the stylish of and most poised the Trelles, in Sue was…” Mexico did phrase we “What the with introduced usually she which ideas, cal radi most group’s the had always She idea. her been had door the down Breaking nodded. 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SUNSET PARKERPIX/FLICKR buildings. the of control nity commu of visions transformative ward to conversation pushing the in, joined movement squatters’ City York New the and Land Take the Back from tivists ac Housing district office. Ortiz’s lix Fe assemblyman of occupation brief a out carried even and marches and confer ences press ning plan and sharing resources bilingual meetings, for ing gather began Park Sunset Occupy and residents the campaign. Soon, mouth word-of- women’slow-tech, the from learning atten while tion tools media and new organizing bringing ago, weeks three the strikers joined Nación Spanish newspaper Occupy- affiliated the from writers and Park set Sun Occupy from neighbors other and The striking striking The forthcoming forthcoming Indig- A ------THE INDYPENDENT JULY 26 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 5 ------
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would be “drafting legislation to estab lish parameters on the NYPD’s interac tion with ICE.” It is a promise advocates arewatching closely. “Even though federal the government has mandated fingerprint the sharing to occur, that is civil a request,” says Treves of NICE. “I think New City York’s Council the power has to legislation pass to man NYPDthatdate will not honor detainers from ICE.” Secure Communities dragnettheinbeen castwide has city immigrants. of Renée Feltz was a COURTESY OF NICE OF COURTESY
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New York City Council’s ChristineCouncil’sCity Quinn York New Communities’reach. Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C. City Council a measure approved that only allows detainers to be placed on immigrants convicted of serious crimes. It also limits police to holding migrants im on whom a detainer is placed for hours,24 instead the usualof hours,48 and specifies that ICE pay thelocal costsof jail ing the immigrant. has already said that she and her colleagues 2010 Soros Justice Media Fellow editor and of co- DeportationNation.org. She cur rently works as a producer at Now.
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Even NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly In the heavily immigrant borough of The expansion followed earlier refusals Infact, since Secure Communities’ Febru Meanwhile in New York state, at least oughsanecdotal say evidence already shows ICE is asking officersat NYPD’slocal pre A d v o cworking in athe t e s city’s five bor cincts to place “detainers” on immigrantsthey arrest. Public defenders report people seeing arrive for arraignment incourts with “ICEplaced themonholds” be criminal theyTheyjudge.foredetainers see a say can affect whether a judge decides to grant bail or send a person to pre-trialprograms such as drug treatment. diversionary has said of Secure Communities, “We pre fer that they not do that here.” Advocatessay the program prompts fear amongmigrants im who would otherwisepolice for approach help or to report a theycrime, too couldsince find themselves fingerprint ed in the process and brought to ICE’s tention.at The impact is even greater in com munitieswheretheNYPD alreadyis widely distrusted. Queens, residents have long been subject to arrest by overzealous police officersfor fail ing to have proper identification. they Now, AGGRESSIVE POLICING By Renée Feltz T
FEDS BRING CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAM TO NYC AREA NYC TO PROGRAM CONTROVERSIAL BRING FEDS Immigrant Dragnet Immigrant in New York City this May after a similar low-key start in New Jersey. Amy Gottlieb of the American Friends Service Committee in Newark says she got the news in a phone call from Univision. “They said, ‘Amy did you know its going into effect tomorrow?’ I had idea!” no by Governors Chris Christie of New Jersey the join to York New of AndrewandCuomo program,shareswhichfingerprints gathered enforcementfederalwithagentslocallaw by at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencycallsThe(ICE).Secure Communities findingin and tool” valuable most“single its deporting dangerous criminals. ButCuomo when attempted to withdraw programlastJune, argued he failedhad it to from the meet its stated goal of targeting such felons as most undocumented immigrants who are detained and deported under Secure Com munities have a minor criminal all.none at record or ary 22, 2012 start date in New Jersey, ICE data shows the program found matches for 2,669 immigrants eligible for deportation. This has led to the deportation of peo111 ple. Just 19 of them had been convicted of offenses “Levellike1” andrapemurder,the sexual abuse children. of 994 immigrants out of have been deported since Secure 13,901 Communi identified ties went into effect in a handful ties of in counearly 2011 and then grew to include New CityYork and the rest of the state on 2012.Since least15, thenMayICE at found 2,100 matches in New York data City, is incomplete but on whether its any of those i n d i v i d were “removed u a l s and returned.” 6 JULY 26 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 THE INDYPENDENT AUSTERITY O Mogilyanskaya Alina By SUMMERNYC JOBS OPENS PROGRAM DOORS FORFUNDS YOUTH BUT LACKS MEET SURGING TO DEMAND Finding aFuture received her first paid job through SYEP in SYEP through job paid first her received job atage She a toretail to 16, nofind avail. trying recalls She SYEP. through office law a at interning is who junior College Union 20-year-old a Rarivoson, Nandrianina said couldn’t,” otherwise they that jobs for get apply and to opportunity the them gives it a home weeks. two every salary taking time, classroom and both work for hour, per $7.25 wage, paid minimum are Participants opportunities. tional educa and career of expecta exploration and tions workplace management, and money time responsibility, on sessions tional percent. above 30 well rate unemployment as an suffer group a who youth, Latino and are black participants SYEP of percent 75 Almost fices. of professional or institutions cultural ters, cen community agencies, government in or day camps at summer or aides counselors as 14–24 often experience, work of ages weeks seven with youth provides program The to work, income earn and adult learn life skills. opportunity an — job real first their be outmissed on bythese budgets.” cutting Cornel many how Wests, Octavia Butlers or knowMalcolm X’s we’ve never will “We 2000. of summer the in Bronx the in selor said who worked Ebanks, as a junior coun camp things,” most through persevere day, the drive that pushed me and helps me, to this created that interest the sparkedwhatsurely youth. to 3,000 program the offer to Settlement the allowed money stimulus federal when 2009, from marked more even was drop-off the And year. this than summer more 256 people, young offer 1,500 to jobs to funding government the had Settlement when the summers, two past the of beginning the at than busy less was it But people. young of scores with filled was classroom Settlement’s the years, recent spiked in has unemployment teen and youth where city a In orientation. SYEP summer’s this teach to 27,there was Ebanks, Buffalo, SUNY- from graduate to on went who pant partici Side. A the Lower East SYEP former in based provider services social a tlement, Set Street at Henry ofthe front a classroom (SYEP). Youth Program Employment “It’s really important for minors because because minors for important really “It’s educa weekly includes also program The will this students, Ebanks’ of many For was experience SYEP my that say can “I in stood Ebanks Jason morning, That as participants in the city’s Summer Summer city’s the in participants as youth City went off to day first their York New 30,000 nearly 5, July n Mayor Bloomberg is being criticized for cutting programs programs cutting for criticized atdirected young people he says who he wants to help. being is Bloomberg Mayor ------as head counselor. head as position staff summer full-time a for Apple Center. she summer, Last was at rehired Red Development Child Apple Red the at sistant as teacher’s a as hired was she when 2010 SYEP as a teenager transformed his life. life. his transformed ateenager as SYEP old doing data entry at Bellevue Hospital Hospital Bellevue at entry data doing old 15-year- a Andrugtsang, Tenzing job. mer sum a had have not would 77 them of percent SYEP, without that indicated ticipants onterviews the spot, resumé in hand.” “They’re outto get everytrying in morning, says. he retail, in or youth, with parks, the in position working a find to trying are jobs for looking are Street who friends Grand his Settlement, at teens with mentor ership lead a as working is White While selected. not were but summer this SYEP to applied who friends his of six of participant, SYEP tothing do,” asaidWhite, 21-year-oldLarry some find to trying or day all house the in different. is outlook the summer, Development’s this (DYCD)lottery Community and Youth Department of the through chosen not were but applied also who people young 100,000 of door roughly the the for but world, in professional foot the a get to opportunity crucial first that provides SYEP many, For OUT LEFT 100,000 LESSONS: LIFE Last year, a DYCD survey of youth par youth of survey DYCD a year, Last “They’re looking for jobs, or if not, they’re Jason Ebanks, 27, helps participants in the summer youth employment program develop adult life skills. He says participating in in participating says He skills. life adult develop program employment youth summer the in participants helps 27, Ebanks, Jason ------position, she replied, “Honestly, nothing.” “Honestly, replied, she position, Bellevue the have didn’t she if summer her with doing she’dbe what asked When said. she teens,” other like store retail a at haps I was 17to until wait or 18 to a get job, per have “I’d employed. be wouldn’t pro she gram, the without that says SYEP, through bde o $3 ilo (2. mlin of million ($20.6 million $43 of budget a With worksummer. the during of street the out on and being to a alternative youth positive disadvantaged giving for praised widely is SYEP 1960s, late the in Founded UNDERFUNDED SYEP funding. “They thought they were they thought go “They funding. SYEP for advocates that providers SYEP citywide the of coalition of a Jobs, spokesman Summer for Campaign main the and Houses se Neighborhood Douglas, United at analyst policy nior Kevin said around,” galvanize really people to and fight to harder lot 2011. in budget its from million $3.3 cut Bloomberg Michael Mayor since dependent more become has program the which on funding, private in re drop a cent by part in caused was director This SYEP. White, of Andre to according year, this 29,000 about to year last 31,628 from decline to expected is program the by fered 132,187 year’s of jobs summer of this number The of applicants. fourth a than less “It’s kind of a back-door cut, which is a is which cut, back-door a of kind “It’s
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Bloomberg made headlines last sum mer when he nounced an he teaming was up fellow with billionaire George Soros donate $60 million to in seed money to ward a three-year, $127.5 million city program known as the Young Men’s Initiative. stated YMI’s goal is “to tackle the disparities broad slowing take us backwards in time. I can just tell you, we are not going to let happen.” that ALINA MOGILYANSKAYA ALINA At a July 5 press conference held at the “Right here in New York City, we have For Councilwoman Mark-Viverito, the connect dots,” the to seem doesn’t just “It vac a everythinglikein donebeing “It’s is
uum, and one thing detracts from another.” the advancement of black and Latino young men.” As envisioned, YMI would bring to Liberties Union, 42 percent of all stop-and- frisksperformed targeted in 2011 black and Latino youth ages 14-24, though they make onlyup 5 percent the of city’s population. Queens Botanical Garden to mark the first day of SYEP, Bloomberg seized on the op portunitymediaaffordedpresencerail by to against critics of the NYPD’s policing prac tices, in particular, stop-and-frisk. interest groups, politicians and now judges that are hell-bent on reversing the progress that we’ve made,” Bloomberg have an said. aggressive “We effort by some here to gether under one umbrella a number of city initiatives, from overhauling the city’s De partment of Probation to providing mentor ing and literacy services to “disconnected” youth. One thing it doesn’t envision is recting di any funds toward jobs for young people. creating actual mayor’s policies toward the city’s disadvan taged youth continue to be frustrating and contradictory. said Mark-Viverito of Bloomberg’s parallel launch of YMI and insistence on stop-and- frisk, both programs targeting young black and Latino men, albeit then ways. “And when couple you that with in very different cutting programs that are directed at young people, SYEP, after-school programs,childcare slots, again, the it doesn’t really seem connectto with what he is saying.” ASHLEY MARINACCIO ASHLEY - - Nandrianina Rarivoson, 20, of Brooklyn, on her way to a OPPORTUNITY: law office where she is interning this summer through SYEP. in public education spending in recent years have contributed to overcrowded class rooms, while CUNY community have seen funding colleges cuts coupled with rising tuition. According to the New York City The underfunding of SYEP follows on theheels of a drive this spring to cut by city funding Bloomberg for childcare and after- school programs by $170 million, a thwartedthatwas theCity Council. by move Cuts ------Larry White, 21, of Brooklyn, about to enter an SYEP educa went to press, the press, to went tional session taught by Jason Ebanks at the Henry Street Settlement. MOTIVATED: The Indypendent The Sources: Summer Youth Employment Program, New York City Council Public Safety CityPublic Committee, York New Council Program, Employment Youth Summer Sources: NYCLUNYPD, # of participants in youth summer jobs program in 2009: in 52,255program jobs summer youth in participants of # 2010: 35,725in program jobs summer youth in participants of # 31,628 2011: in program jobs summer youth in participants of # 2012:29,000 in (est.)program jobs summer youth in participants of # 2012:103,000 in (est.)program jobs summer youth 2012 for accepted not applicants of # $43 program: million jobs summer youth NYC on spending Total $20.6 program: million jobs summer NYC for allocated Cityfunds Department:$4.55 Police billion York New the for budget FY 2012 NYPD: the $585 by million spending overtime FY 2012 2012): million $17 March to Street, (Sept.2011 Wall Occupy policing on spent Money 341,581 2011: in 14-24 ages males Latino and black by experienced stop-and-frisks of # New York City’s spending on summer jobs for youth is dwarfed by what it spends on a police force force JOBS NOT JAILSpolice a on spends it what by dwarfed is youth for jobs summer on spending City’s York New color: of people young targets disproportionately that Advocates are As the number of SYEP participants de Putting SYEP participants on a six-week “What does that mean for working par In an interview, Andre White of SYEP A LARGER PATTERN capped at 20 per week. concerned a that further scaling back of would SYEP not only s h o r tparticipants c h a n gthe e in but could also affect younger children and program working families across the city. Over half of all SYEP participants work daycare at or day summercamp centers, looking after andleading younger children in educational and recreational activities. creases, so does the number childrenof that can be served by these of centers.like a multiplier “It’s effect: kindthe less kids that are in SYEP, the less kids that can actually be served through other Douglas the of Campaign for Summer programs,” Jobs. said schedule work will likely forcesummer day care and day camp providers to scale down their programs from seven to six weeks as well, putting an additional burden on fami lies who rely on these facilities duringsummer. the ents?” asked program Gregory officer Rideout, for workforce development at Henry Street Set deputy youth servicestlement. “They’ve and got three to four before weeks school starts in which they’re going figure to have to out theirown childcare.” pro a only is stressed paper that the concept As posal. comments. still public accepting was DYCD 8 JULY 26 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 THE INDYPENDENT needed. It amplifies the internalized racism racism internalized the amplifies It needed. not is change radical which in nation equal an in live we that assumes view This ality. re present and lived real, a as not and past the of relic a as only visible is bigotry that folks.” white with opportunity equal had color of people that time that at said majority vast the realize but that, did minority small A on. attention much very focusing worth deal big a really not, was racism that think did ’60s, early the in even years, 50 “White to 40 Institute. back going folks, Society Open the with interview 2009 a in said Wise anti-racism Tim scholar phenomenon,” modern a not It’s just place. post-racial this in we’re ing America. to us a post-racial welcomes paign cam Obama the of logo sun rising the us, of Ahead history. of mirror rearview the in receded has that past a of evidence view as to them us comforts also it but us, and horrify disgust images These man. Black a of body charred grinning the over a gloating mob worst, white at and, rooms waiting “colored” signs, only” “whites of imagery ANTIQUATED I Powers Nicholas By RACIAL CASTEWHY OURSOCIETY’S SYSTEM STILL EXISTS JIM CROW AMERICA RACE this life, run you’ve from everything become. from run corner, the from run to child your want you — yelling begin You head. your fills sound roaring strange a and ago, years on stood you corner same the it’s corner, and see your not child in school but on the building friend’s a to going youare Later, retarded. labeled be going is and class in tantrums throwing school. they’re at say Teachers trouble having is who child, in run arelative. but into you bump when shame sometimes, train the on beg at stay you let You it’sthe rules. against apartment, their can one No you. one hire No will out. get you later years fight, and lot a sleep you instead but scream to want you and soul your squeeze walls The cell. a inside living are you until again and again Youbusted get record. a have now and plea a cop busted, get you but And sweating. you’re serious nothing think, you cash quick deal, drug a make to Youtry is apart. falling Everything drink. and smoke out, hang wealthy. You to buy drugs. where know and buy.steal, to kill, You don’t the like talk how on rapping videos you people in like look who are idols Your safe. feel never You left. they’ve after long linger body your on hands their of feeling The time. frisk the all and you stop police but corner street on the talk you up, grow you As released. ing be just met never you who drugs, for jailed relatives family of stories hear You downs. pat and searches bag detectors, gaunt metal of let daily a with school urban an to go you as your see a a skin Youweight, burden. equals Subconsciously positive. and negative white, black that five age by learn you sic or mu talk casual in television, the erty. 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Civil the after years the in pened hap what them asked She slaves. of spring off dying last, the interviewed Butler Sana Slaves of Children the Find to ney healthcare, riddling the family of holes with despair. have don’t who relatives kills Sickness jobs. find to unable and traumatized prison from back come members Family People of color of every class experience experience class every of color of People Alexander’s Michelle In her book book her In Slowly, in the wake of war, life restarted. restarted. life war, of wake the Slowly,in shatters the “rearview mirror” by mirror” “rearview the shatters Sugar of the Crop: My Jour My Crop: the of Sugar The New Jim Crow: The Jim New Crow: , author author , ------tinues today. tinues con it and — inside trapped constrictor, those boa choked a like that, cycle cultural a was It courts. all-white in sentenced and tried arrested, be could separate citizens Black jobs. in work and sepa neighborhoods in up rate grow to and into schools children separate Black force to free Rac were ists legal. was equal” but “separate that in ruled Court preme Su the challenged, was it When “colored.” and white into trains dividing Act Car rate the Sepa passed politicians 1890, Louisiana alive. people Black burned or raped hung, then and “Jezebel,” as lascivious or such “brute” male Black them, rapist the onto more imagery projected threatening whites rights, for pushed Blacks imagine If servants. nonthreatening whites as Blacks let that image “coon” ish buffoon a Crow: Jim of caricature smiling voice shuffling, the into and fit being whole your until head your lowered you talked, whites When off. on jumped you sidewalk, were the whites If paranoia. inside shrank by Life followed space. public of separation were physical the tests Poll literacy freedom. and and taxes people Black between owners. former of their rage to the Blacks and abandoned capitals from Southern diers sol federal withdrew Hayes B. Rutherford of ofPresident 1876, wake conservative elections the the In mind. the into fear burned names whose groups — Shirts Red the and League White them the Klan, Klux called Ku the selves They streets. the in paraded and boxes ballot stuffed voters, Black shot South. the across to were elected offices state Black politicians later, years two vote; to people’sright Black protect to vowed Grant S. Ulysses President 1869, In medicine. and food distributed and schools opened slaves, former of contracts overwhelmingly chose the white doll. white the chose overwhelmingly They prettiest. was which asked then dren, chil Black to white, other the brown, one dolls, identical two gave he which in 1940, in Clark Kenneth by famous “Doll made the Tests,” recreated It children. on racism per girl. Black of the image to an pointed girl Black the Hesitating, child.” me dumb the “Show asked, tester The white.” “Because she’s said, she why, asked When girl. white the of image the to pointed girl Black The brown. to white from went skin whose girls identical of classroom series a cartoon a at in looking were They girl. Black a to said tester the child,” smart the me “Show LESSONS CHILDHOOD Segregation deepened into a chasm. In In chasm. a into deepened Segregation curtain an iron down like laws New came militias White began. terror the then And Racism pours into the minds of children children of minds the into pours Racism On April 2, aired an CNN Coo Anderson series that investigated the effect of effect the investigated that series 360 lsy . Ferguson v. Plessy ------
shade. darkest the picked youngest the of 61 percent and children Black older of percent 70 worst, looked color skin test, which asked the when In culture. adult from surrounding de the messages of “deluge” Cooper a as it self-image. scribed their warps and 40 percent for of the prisonAnd population. nearly butpopulation, educated college U.S. ages 18 and up comprise only 5 percent of the few Black students into college —Black males lets that filter a like works system education dren are trapped in “drop out factories.” Our backward. Nearly forty percent of Black chil further slipto them forcing expelled, and ed retarded. mentally labeled be to likely as twice and dis turbances” emotional with students for class a in placed be to child white a than likely more times half a and “one is child black a that learning. with interfere or punishment to lead can havior be this school In “act love. demand to out” and ing self-isolation between alternate children sick, is mother a or job fa a loses ther a when mechanisms: coping children’s explores McAdoo, Pipes Harriet Environments by edited Parental and Educational book The despair. of holes with family the riddling healthcare, have don’t who relatives kills Sickness jobs. find to back unable and traumatized come prison from members Family up. split and fight parents that means often relationships scores. test of worsening slope aslippery on are children Black four, age By triples. gap the months, 24 babies.” At white than ment that and poverty, in live children Black of America in Children entitled report a in 2011 Fund, Defense Children’s The jail. and drugs of spiral downward a in caught get or estranged become and little too earn long, too for hard too work they hope lessness— of stress the by broken are scarcity. Families generational of effect the we see poor, can Black the at and America Crow lawns. front on was thrown their shock as furniture their in wept and homes their lost jobs, their lost but class once lived in middle the Americans These million. three nearly by swelled had 2011,in crash, rate the Wall Street 2008 the after years Three people. million 40 nearly — percent 13 around was rate poverty the 2008 in Bureau, Census U.S. the to cording Ac poor. new the by joined and being — are they poverty suffocating in 10 live million African-Americans, million 40 of Out LIFE FAMILY Blackyouth are more likely to be suspend on toll its and poverty of life chaotic The develop cognitive of measures on lower score babies Black months nine “at that schools. the of into The stress follows poverty children SCHOOLS FAILING parent one prison. father) in the least (usually at have to times likely seven more are children Black mother. their with only live children Black of half Jim at Looking poverty. recreates Poverty Portrait of Inequality: Black Black Inequality: of Portrait Portrait of Inequality of Portrait otat f Inequality of Portrait Black Children: Social, Social, Children: Black , found that 40 percent percent 40 that found , Continued on page 10 page on Continued found found notes notes
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