Campaign for Police Accountability

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In October of 2012, the JFREJ membership voted to launch a new campaign on policing, working with Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) and other organizations involved in the fight to end Stop & Frisk, NYPD surveillance of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, and other related struggles. Building on our long history of organizing against police violence, racial profiling, Islamophobic surveillance, JFREJ has a key role to play in this city-wide grassroots work, both legislatively and in the streets.

JFREJ members at Seder in the Streets!

By organizing Jewish communities, we can mobilize constituencies currently untapped by CPR to support the coalition's work. Through the relationships we have built through our past work, we can help bring together seemingly disparate aspects of the growing movement around policing and incarceration. In our clusters of members in neighborhoods across the city, we have a tactically significant resource to offer struggles on the most local level. And through our creativity in action and our commitment to strong relationships of solidarity, JFREJ can be a vital part of making this a central issue in local politics.

Upcoming Events
Mayoral Forum: What will NYC's next mayor do to keep ALL New Yorkers safe?
Presented by New York Amsterdam News, Gay City News, GlobalGrind.com and Communities United for Police Reform

Thursday, May 9 2013
5-7pm (doors open at 4pm)
Please rsvp at: http://changethenypd.org/mayoral-forum-community-safety

To join JFREJ's Campaign for Police Accountability listserve and become active in the campaign, please email AJ at emfole@gmail.com

Also - check the events page for the next campaign meeting!

Calendar

Tomorrow

  1. Eldercare Dialogue
    • Where: RSVP to rachel@jfrej.org for location and further details
    • Start time: 06:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm

    • Join the Shalom Bayit: Justice for Domestic Workers Campaign for the Eldercare Dialogue Series. At each dialogue, we bring together communities of seniors and their families with communities of home care/elder care workers and domestic workers and their families because we believe quality jobs and quality care go hand in hand. We also uncover our shared values and aspirations for what elder care and elder care work should be, discuss strategies to address those challenges and lift up our values (e.g. quality jobs and quality care), and develop our base of workers, consumers, and families prepared and committed to participate in pilot worker and consumer training programs. In partnership with Domestic Workers United, Adhikaar, Damayan, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Aging in New York Hevra.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

Tuesday, July 30th

  1. Eldercare Dialogue
    • Where: RSVP to rachel@jfrej.org for location and further details
    • Start time: 06:00pm
    • End time: 08:00pm

    • Join the Shalom Bayit: Justice for Domestic Workers Campaign for the Eldercare Dialogue Series. At each dialogue, we bring together communities of seniors and their families with communities of home care/elder care workers and domestic workers and their families because we believe quality jobs and quality care go hand in hand. We also uncover our shared values and aspirations for what elder care and elder care work should be, discuss strategies to address those challenges and lift up our values (e.g. quality jobs and quality care), and develop our base of workers, consumers, and families prepared and committed to participate in pilot worker and consumer training programs. In partnership with Domestic Workers United, Adhikaar, Damayan, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Aging in New York Hevra.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

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Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY  10012

212-647-8966

info@jfrej.org