CUNY Divest from Corcraft Industries (prison slave labor)/Gov. Cuomo Grant Clemencies • CUNY for Abolition and Safety press conference
WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021, 6:00 pm
Westchester/Hudson Valley RAPP Open Membership Meeting • Join the movement to end mass incarceration in NYS • All welcome
THURSDAY, April 15, 2021, 7:00 pm
Long Island RAPP Virtual Open Membership Meeting • All welcome
Events: 2021
TUESDAY, April 20, 2021, 6:00 • Albany/Capital Area RAPP Open Membership Meeting • All welcome
FRIDAY, March 26, 2021, 6:30-8:00 pm • People’s Campaign for Parole Justice Virtual Town Hall Series, Long Island Senate District 6 • Centering voices of Long Islanders directly affected by mass incarceration • Take action to fight for parole justice!
THURSDAY, March 25, 2021, 8:00 pm EST • Defending Our Communities/ Defending Our Lives: Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women’s History Month • Hosted by California Coalition for Women Prisoners & Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative; endorsed by RAPP
THURSDAY, March 25, 2021, 12:00 noon • Press Conference • Parole Justice: Ending Mass Incarceration Is A Women’s Rights Issue • NYS Legislators report on their visits to Bedford and Albion prisons and formerly incarcerated women speak on why #ParoleJusticeNY #HALTsolitary and #JusticeRoadmap2021 are necessary • WATCH recorded press conference here
THURSDAY, March 18, 2021, 6:30-8:00 pm • Westchester Parole Justice Town Hall • learn about and join the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice
…Events: 2020
Sunday, December 27, 2020, 7:00 pm • Jazz for Justice concert to raise funds to free incarcerated freedom fighters • WATCH recorded concert here
Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 5:30 pm • Home for the Holidays Long Island: Clemency NOW! Rally • Mineola Courthouse, 100 Supreme Court Drive, North Side Entrance, Mineola, LI 11501 • Press release and recording HERE
Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 6:00 pm • We’re Not Asking: Cuomo, Let Them Go! We Demand #ClemencyNow #FreeThemAll • rally at Cuomo’s NYC office, 633 Third Ave. (40/41st St) • Press release and recording HERE
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 6:30 pm • NY State’s Mandate to End Mass Incarceration • Virtual Town Hall • Join Assembly Members Demond Meeks, Carmen De La Rosa, formerly incarcerated and directly impacted advocates and community leaders • watch recorded facebook livestream
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 6:00 pm • Long Island’s First RAPP Open Membership Meeting
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 6:00 pm • First Westchester/Hudson Valley Regional RAPP Open Membership Meeting • ZOOM link here
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 5:00-6:30 pm EST • “Public Money and Racial Justice,” online Haymarket Books event • Tickets HERE (free event; donations benefit RAPP)
…Events: 2019
FRIDAY, December 20, 2019, 6:30-8:30 pm • Baldwin, LI • Town Hall on long sentences and solitary confinement • Second Baptist Church, 2050 Grand Avenue, Baldwin 11510 • sponsored by RAPP and #HALTSolitary
THURSDAY, December 19, 2019, 5-8 pm • Albany, NY • Town Hall on how mass incarceration affects the Capitol Region and why we must #FreeOurElders and #HALTSolitary • Howe Library; 105 Schuyler St, Albany, NY 12202 • sponsored by RAPP, Vocal-NY, and NYCAIC
WEDNESDAY, December 18, 2019, Noon • Rally: Home for the Holidays • Tell Governor Cuomo: Grant clemencies and commutations to reunite families and communities! • Gov. Cuomo’s office, 633 Third Ave.
SATURDAY, December 14, 2019, 6:00 pm • Justice for Rodney Reed and Abolish the Death Penalty! • The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, Manhattan (8th/9th Avenues) • RAPP’s Jose Saldana will speak on abolishing life-without-parole (LWOP) sentences, “the other death penalty”
SATURDAY, December 14, 2019 • 3:00-5:00pm • The Work to Promote Parole Justice and End Death By Incarceration • the Village Zendo, 588 Broadway, Suite 1108, Manhattan (one block south of Houston) • free event
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019, 6:00-8:00 pm • Human Rights Day Harlem Town Hall to #HALTSolitary and #FreeOurElders • Raw Space Gallery, 2031 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Blvd. (between 121st and 122nd Streets), Harlem
SATURDAY, December 7, 2019, doors open 5:00pm • Remembering Our Political Prisoners • 90-40 160th St., Jamaica, NY, Harvest Room at Jamaica Market • panel includes: Kairi Al-Amin, Mauri Saalakhan, Ramzi Kassem, Mark Shervington of RAPP, Aisha Al-Adawiya
…Events: 2018
THURSDAY, December 13, 2018, 6:00-8:00 pm • Dismantling Injustice and Challenging Incarceration: A Multi-Issue Forum on Criminal Justice • National Action Network House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St. (just west of Malcolm X Blvd.), Harlem
SATURDAY, December 8, 2018, 7:00 pm • Candles for Clemency rally at Governor Cuomo’s home, intersection Crow Hill & Millwood Rd (Rte 133), Mt. Kisco, NY •
THURSDAY, December 6, 2018, 6:00 pm, Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (at 120th St) Assembly Hall Harlem • “Justice Long Overdue: Lessons Learned from the Successful Release of People Serving Life in Prison in Maryland and New York – and Why More People Must Come Home” • with RAPP, the Osborne Association, the Justice Policy Institute, Columbia Justice Lab and Center for Justice, and the Riverside Church
TUESDAY, December 4, 2018, 9:00-11:30 am, Washington, DC • Campaign to End Life Imprisonment Launch event • Public Welfare Foundation Inc, 1200 U St. NW, Washington, DC 20009 • sponsored by The Sentencing Project and Public Welfare Foundation • Jose Saldana of RAPP will speak • LIVESTREAM starting at 9:30 am
TUESDAY, November 27, 2018, 10:00 am -4:00 pm • “Public Hearing on NYS Parole Hearings, Structure of Parole Board and Data Indicating Systematic Bias in the Parole Board’s Decision-Making” • Sponsored by NYS Senator Luis Sepulveda and Gustavo Rivera, Ranking Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Crime, Crime Victims, and Corrections, & the Senate Health Committee • 250 Broadway, 19th fl, Senate Hearing Room, NYC
THURSDAY, November 15, 2018, 7:00 pm • Parole Preparation Project 5th Annual Welcome Home Party and Fundraiser • Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 439 W 127th St, New York, NY 10027 • purchase tickets here
…Events: 2017
SATURDAY, December 9 • 7:30-11:00 pm • Look For Me in the Whirlwind/Human Rights Day Celebrating Political Prisoners • An evening of cultural performances and more from the Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition • The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
THURSDAY, December 7 • 6:00 pm • Citizen Action 2017 Progressive Leadership Awards • RAPP’s Mujahid Farid will be honored • District Council 1707 AFSCME • 420 West 45th Street, 4th Floor, NY 10036
WEDNESDAY, November 29, 7:00 pm (doors open at 7:00; program begins promptly at 7:30) • The Criminalization of Home: Organizing to Protect Communities from NYC to Palestine • Speakers from Addameer, Adalah-NYC, Black Youth Project 100, and RAPP • Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 • This event honors the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
THURSDAY, November 16, 7:00-9:30 pm • 4th Annual Fundraiser & Welcome Home Party, Parole Preparation Project • WeWork Dumbo, 81 Prospect St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
TUESDAY, November 14, 6:30-8:30 pm • NYC Council Speaker Criminal Justice Forum • Teachers College, 3040 Broadway, Manhattan • the 8 candidates for speaker of City Council speak on issues of justice
SATURDAY, November 4, 9:00 pm-1:00 am • 9th Annual Freedom Dance honoring the elder Black political prisoners & celebrating the freedom of Assata Shakur • National Black Theater, 2031 Fifth Avenue (125th St.), Harlem • 917.415.5653
FRIDAY, November 3, 11:00 am • Memorial Service for the late Charles (Chas) Ransom, dear friend and member of RAPP • Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 231 West 142nd Street, Harlem
…Events: 2016
TUESDAY, December 13, 12:00 pm • NYC City Hall Steps • Rally and Press Conference to launch the platform, Challenging Incarceration/Struggling for Justice in New York State • Contact: Aaron Talley, 347-261-4891 Storify coverage and Photo
SATURDAY, December 10, 5:00-8:00 pm* DC • Candlelight Vigil at the White House as part of Human Rights Week • Indigenous Rights and Clemency for Leonard Peltier
SATURDAY, December 10, 7:30-10:30 pm • “Cultural Night for International Human Rights Day” • 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (b/n Hoyt and Bond Streets; the Commons) • Northeast Political Prisoner/POW Coalition (which includes RAPP)
FRIDAY, December 9, 3:00 (street rally) and 6:00 (indoor event) • Philadelphia, PA • “Don’t Let Them Kill Mumia” (link includes instructions for buses from NY)
DECEMBER 4-10, DC • Human Rights Week • Indigenous Rights and Clemency for Leonard Peltier • 12/10 8am Conference at Washington College of Law, American University, Tenley Campus, 4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Yuma Building, Claudio Grossman Hall, Washington, DC 20016 • 12/10 5:00-8:00 pm, Candlelight Vigil at the White House
MONDAY, December 5, 2:00-3:30 pm • Baltimore, MD • RAPP workshop, “Growing Up in the System: From Juvenile to Aging Prisoners,” at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice Conference (registration required)
…Events: 2015
THURSDAY, November 19 • 7:00 pm • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: “Locking Up Dissenters and the Poor: Understanding the Roots of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.” with Eddie Conway, Johanna Fernandez, & Laura Whitehorn of RAPP • sponsored by Difference and Media Project, Center for Civic Engagement, & student groups
MONDAY, November 16 • Tufts University • Amnesty International Hosts Discussion of Solitary Confinement, with Al Tony Simon of RAPPSATURDAY, November 7 • 8:00 am-3:00 pm • Faith Based Initiatives and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration • Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Manhattan (at 121st St.) • RAPP will be on a panel at 10:45 am and 1:15 pm (in MLK 414) • info: <Jacqueline1943@aol.com> or 201-960-2205
Friday, October 30 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Panel, Conditions of Confinement: Mass Incarceration and Access to Information
The New School, 66 West 12th St, NYC, Rm. A510 Conference Rm. Read a report here by the sponsoring group Social Justice Special Interest Group
Tuesday, October 27 • 6:00-8:30 pm • Parole Preparation Basics • NYU Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210, 40 Washington Square South (Presenters include RAPP’s Mujahid Farid) • RSVP
sponsored by the National Lawyer’s Guild-NY Parole Preparation Project
Snacks at 6:00, program starts promptly at 6:30
Saturday, October 24 • 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. • Rise Up to Stop Police Terror & Murder • Rally, Washington Square Park • Police unions not only defend brutality but also block parole & release of incarcerated elders
…Events: 2014
THURSDAY, November 19 • 7:00 pm • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: “Locking Up Dissenters and the Poor: Understanding the Roots of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.” with Eddie Conway, Johanna Fernandez, & Laura Whitehorn of RAPP • sponsored by Difference and Media Project, Center for Civic Engagement, & student groups
MONDAY, November 16 • Tufts University • Amnesty International Hosts Discussion of Solitary Confinement, with Al Tony Simon of RAPPSATURDAY, November 7 • 8:00 am-3:00 pm • Faith Based Initiatives and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration • Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Manhattan (at 121st St.) • RAPP will be on a panel at 10:45 am and 1:15 pm (in MLK 414) • info: <Jacqueline1943@aol.com> or 201-960-2205
Friday, October 30 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Panel, Conditions of Confinement: Mass Incarceration and Access to Information
The New School, 66 West 12th St, NYC, Rm. A510 Conference Rm. Read a report here by the sponsoring group Social Justice Special Interest Group
Tuesday, October 27 • 6:00-8:30 pm • Parole Preparation Basics • NYU Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210, 40 Washington Square South (Presenters include RAPP’s Mujahid Farid) • RSVP
sponsored by the National Lawyer’s Guild-NY Parole Preparation Project
Snacks at 6:00, program starts promptly at 6:30
Saturday, October 24 • 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. • Rise Up to Stop Police Terror & Murder • Rally, Washington Square Park • Police unions not only defend brutality but also block parole & release of incarcerated elders
…April 11, 2020: NY Prisons New COVID-19 Webpage Raises Serious Questions • Advocates’s Press Release • COVID-19 Briefing
April 11, 2020: New York, New York
New York State Prison System’s New COVID-19 Webpage and Database
Raises Serious Questions and Concerns about the Spread of Coronavirus in Prisons
Today, the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, Parole Preparation Project, #HALTsolitary Campaign, VOCAL-NY, Worth Rises, and Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club released the following statement in response to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) creating a new COVID-19 website and database:
“DOCCS’ new COVID-19 webpage and database raises serious questions and concerns about the spread of Coronavirus in New York State prisons. DOCCS did the right thing by releasing the webpage and database. New Yorkers deserve to know how this vicious virus is impacting and harming people in prison, and this is one way to ensure that.’
…April 7, 2020: Advocates Call for Clemency as COVID-19 Numbers in State Prisons Hit Record Highs • COVID-19 Briefing
March 7, 2020: New York, New York
Today, the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, Parole Preparation
Project, #HALTsolitary Campaign, VOCAL-NY, and Worth Rises released the following statement after new data reveals COVID-19 cases in New York state prisons have reached record highs:
“New York’s 52 state prisons are increasingly infected with COVID-19. New data published today by WETM-18 reveals that 55 incarcerated people and 319 staff in the state prison system have tested positive for the virus. Despite this continued crisis, Governor Cuomo told the Albany press corps at his daily news briefing today that there is ‘nothing new’ regarding the state’s efforts to grant clemencies but they’re ‘looking at that continually.’
…Thursday, February 11, 2021, 6:30-8:00 pm, Long Island • first in a series: People’s Campaign for Parole Justice Virtual Town Hall •
Senate District 9, Long Island • REGISTER HERE for Senate District 9 event
