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This Friday-Saturday-Sunday is the annual Left Forum conference in NYC ... March 19-20-21target="_blank" href="http://leftforum.org/">http://leftforum.org at Pace University, One Pace Plaza -- very close to the Fulton St City Hall subway stops on most train lines. featuring speakers like Noam Chomsky, Jesse Jackson...
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Many Picture the Homeless members appreciated Bob Herbert's recent columns in the New York Times, focused on the NYPD's "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02herbert.html" Jim Crow Policingt and practices "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02herbert.html">Watching Certain People.
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Checkout the latest Picture the Homeless press...BBC World News did this radio "http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/multimedia/2010/02/100219_us_homeless_pa.shtml">story on homelessness in the United States, featuring PTH members Bernard and Frank...
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***UPDATE***(March 2): In less than three weeks, we are up to 20 co-sponsors! Checkout: "http://tinyurl.com/48vacant" http://tinyurl.com/48vacant Call your Council Member -- thank them if they're aboard OR encourage them to sign on if they didn't yet! Picture the Homeless is proud to announce that legislation we have long been pushing for is on its way in the New York City Council!
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***UPDATE***(March 2): In less than three weeks, we are up to 20 co-sponsors!&; Checkout: "http://tinyurl.com/48vacant" http://tinyurl.com/48vacant Call your Council Member -- thank them if they're aboard OR encourage them to sign on if they didn't yet! Picture the Homeless is proud to announce that legislation we have long been pushing for is on its way in the New York City Council!
As we strategize and envision the various tactics we can use this year towards making the human right to housing a reality for all, the achievements and inspiration we get from the squatters movement is always key. Reverend Frank Morales, currently PTH's Housing Organizer, gave this interview on California radio station KPFA on The Squatter Movement -- check it out!
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Picture the Homeless events calendar >FEBRUARY 19 (Friday) -- 7:30pm at PTH rent party Come through for a party with PTH members, staff, and friends! Put in whatever you can, even a couple bucks, towards helping one leading PTH member save up money towards getting an apartment.
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On the morning of February 9, members of Picture the Homeless's Civil Rights Campaign rallied outside New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Manhattan office, demanding that he take action on the NYPD's unconstitutional enforcement of the Disorderly Conduct statute. PTH members successfully delivered our letter requesting a meeting, and other materials with supporting evidence about the issue, to Cuomo's Manhattan offic
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On the morning of February 9, members of Picture the Homeless's Civil Rights Campaign rallied outside New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Manhattan office, demanding that he take action on the NYPD's unconstitutional enforcement of the Disorderly Conduct statute.
Letitia Ledan, a PTH member and graduate of our Organizer Trainee Program, applied her skills to rally her fellow tenants in the Bronx's River Park Towers in a successful action!
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