Undercover NYPD, MTA, Metro, Documents Kept on BlackLivesMatter Activists

Repost! I’ll write my response to this insanity, or, make a YouTube video in response sometime this weekend. For now…Read this insanity; insanity that we were warned was happening, anyhow.~Eve
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Documents obtained by The Intercept confirm that undercover police officers attended numerous Black Lives Matter protests in New York City between December 2014 and February 2015. The documents also show that police in New York have monitored activists, tracking their movements and keeping individual photos of them on file.

The nearly 300 documents, released by the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Metro-North Railroad, reveal more on-the-ground surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists than previous reports have shown, conducted by a coalition of MTA counterterrorism agents and undercover police in conjunction with NYPD intelligence officers.

This appears to be the first documented proof of the frequent presence of undercover police at Black Lives Matter protests in the city of New York, though many activists have suspected their presence since mass protests erupted there last year over a grand jury’s decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner.

The protest surveillance and use of undercover officers raises questions over whether New York-area law enforcement agencies are potentially criminalizing the exercise of free speech and treating activists like terrorist threats. Critics say the police files seem to document a response vastly disproportionate to the level of law breaking associated with the protests.

Attention #Newark , NJ & #NYC ! Let’s End the Violence – Events

If you are in the Newark, NJ or NYC area, please check this out- If not, please spread the word. Though NYC is my home, I lived in Newark for a few years and the killing is, I believe, even more horrific there. A teacher spoke in an article today about how many of his students had been murdered… No one cares… It’s time to start caring. Please share this!

Let’s Ensure Bloomberg Hears From Us, NYC, re: Community Safety Act

With the below, let’s make sure Bloomberg hears from ALL of us, the people of New York City. Those of us who don’t have protection, money and the, “power” he does. –

Council Members Call for Bloomberg to Listen to New Yorkers on NYPD Bills

Letter requests same “opportunity for public comment” that mayor usually holds before deciding to sign or veto legislation
July 18, 2013
Alex Moore (CM Lander), amoore@council.nyc.gov, 718-499-1090; Stefan Ringel (CM Williams), sringel@council.nyc.gov, 917-608-8784
NEW YORK, NY

Today, Council Members Jumaane D. Williams, Brad Lander, Robert Jackson, Fernando Cabrera, Rosie Mendez, and Melissa Mark-Viverito called on Mayor Bloomberg to hold a hearing for public comment on the recently passed Community Safety Act. The Council Members highlighted the importance of a public hearing, particularly in light of recent nationwide discussions and protests focused on the need to ban profiling.

It has been common practice under the Bloomberg administration to hold such hearings, so that New Yorkers can speak directly to the mayor about their support or opposition to legislation.

“Too often in debates like these, policymakers from some of the city’s wealthier and safer neighborhoods decide what is best for low-income communities and communities of color without actually listening to the members of those communities.
We hope you will allow New Yorkers to give you their thoughts directly, for or against the legislation, before you decide whether to sign or veto it.”

The Community Safety Act passed the City Council in June by a supermajority, following extensive hearings before the City Council’s Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Oversight and Investigations Committees. The bill was improved by input from elected officials, law enforcement, and other members of the public.

Passage of the legislation marks the culmination of years of advocacy and community organizing by New York’s civil rights movement, including 2012 march, in which tens of thousands of New Yorkers marched against the NYPD’s stop, question, and frisk policy.

The letter follows in full:

View this document on Scribd

and this post, was originally found HERE.

Interview with Immortal Tech & WHY Banning Guns Will Not Work & More.

One of the few real rappers left talks about gun violence, America’s love for violence and why banning guns will not change it. To add to what he says, I just gotta say… A violent person is gonna find a way to be violent. As he goes on to say, American’s don’t care about kids in other countries getting killed, but kids getting killed in America or in England, that’s a horror! Kids dying, people dying, anywhere is a tragedy… Not just here in the US or UK.

If for some reason you don’t know who he is, he is not a rapper who raps about gun toting, money and whores. He speaks of knowledge, truth and with a ton of wisdom. This is a video definitely worth checking out no matter where you stand on guns; all people, but especially if you are not from the poor areas of the USA. We need to address this issue ourselves; cops and the government will just turned banned weapons into the new “war on drugs” aka “war on the people”- simply giving them a new means to lock people up in their money making prison industry.

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Severely Disabled Man At Imminent Risk of Losing Home

This breaks my heart. I am aware most of my posts are negative and all break my heart which means they all send fire through me to make sure I do anything I can to help. I hope it does you, too. Real news is what we need to know about and then take some form of action against or to help raise awareness. Truth is usually not easy to read or hear, but it’s vital if we are to come together and SURVIVE.

For over 20 years Mr. Jones was a teacher in Detroit until 2005, when he suffered a traumatic brain injury and has since become severely disabled. While waiting for his pension to be processed, and for Social Security to come through, he fell behind on his mortgage payments and now is in IMMEDIATE AND URGENT DANGER OF BEING EVICTED. He personally wrote a letter to Wells Fargo explaining his situation and also had a phone conference with them to discuss a loan.

Many organizations against foreclosures and evictions are asking for any and all help in helping a disabled man by the name of S. Baxter Jones, keep his home and avoid eviction.  He has already had so much taken; why must they aim for his HOME?

And it is not as if Mr. Jones hasn’t tried. Wells Fargo refused to work with him and went ahead with the foreclosure despite the fact that Jones had finally begun to get his Social Security benefits. And to show just how much the government doesn’t care, here is a depressing but telling fact I read in an article regarding this situation on workers.org :

He faces imminent eviction from his home, where he has lived since 2002 in Jackson, Mich. What makes this even more outrageous is that Mr. Jones’ loan was sold to Fannie Mae, which has been taken over by the federal government.

“That means our tax dollars are being used to throw this disabled former school teacher into the street.”

To see a video describing this outrage go to tinyurl.com/colqvd8.

Not only does it mean tax payers are paying to throw him out, it also means while they were waiting for their “precious” mortgage payments, the same government which took over those demanding the money, was taking its time, not concerned by the fact that their long process to receive benefits could extremely impact a persons life! It’s all a stupid, heartless cycle, isn’t it? A home should be a basic human right. And if they won’t give us that, they should at least give people who need it, help immediately so they don’t risk everything being lost due to the government’s lack of care.

Detroit Eviction Defense and the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs are asking for support to help S. Baxter Jones. Let’s join them and make that a reality!!!!

Call them and tell them to leave this man who has suffered enough ALONE! If they want the money so bad, he has informed them he can pay.

“When calling, refer to Loan# 025 301 6042 for address 8789 Rexford Road, Jackson, MI 49201; contact phone numbers: Fannie Mae Chicago Office: 312-368-6200; Fannie Mae Mortgage Help Center: 866-442-8572; Wells Fargo Office of Executive Complaint: 800-853-8516. “

and you can show your support via the post from Occupy Our Homes by clicking HERE.