Category — Harassment
Another Raid in Hartford.
An article in today’s Hartford Courant reports that at least one person was arrested and eight detained during Friday’s sweep in the Parkville section of Hartford by the Fugitive Operation Team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One person was arrested on an outstanding deportation order and the 8 others who were swept up in the raid were suspected of being illegal aliens.
November 3, 2007 No Comments
The Battle for the Block—And Another World: A Dispatch fom the Encuentro
A Dispatch from the First Ever Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky
In East Harlem, they have organized building by building to reclaim El Barrio from those who would “develop” them out of it. In Chinatown, they’ve rolled out a rent strike to win the repairs needed for tenants suffering from landlord neglect on Delancey Street. In the West Village, they’ve mobilized LGBT young people of color to stand up for their right to gather on the Christopher Street Pier. And on the Lower East Side, they’ve built a tenants’ union to defend “what is most beautiful about New York, the city that welcomed everyone…[that’s now] welcoming only money.” [Read more →]
October 30, 2007 No Comments
Police Called on Transgender Woman for Using Women’s Bathroom in Public Library
The following is an account about an incident in neighboring Springfield, as relayed by a very good friend: [Read more →]
September 23, 2007 3 Comments
