@DanGarodnick will you be a champion for affordable housing & certify the Two Bridges Community Plan? Help working class communities fight to save their homes like you did #SavingStuyvesantTown. Certify our community led rezoning plan & pass the #PlantothePeople for a #CityofUs!
1. Hello. Amazon today announced it would pay $1.7 billion to acquire iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum.
It may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in the company's history. A thread.
Join Us! Challenging Newmont’s Rhetoric: Stories from Community Activists Presenting Community Resistances After the Newmont Annual General Meeting— Wednesday, April 27, 2022; 12:00 – 1:15 pm EST Org’d by @Earthworks + @nyu_gjc https://t.co/UbeM0lD3Tr
🚨🚨🚨 EMERGENCY RALLY🚨🚨🚨
TMRW, 7AM @ 265 South Street
As of 2NITE, megatower developer Chetrit is prepared to break ground TMRW in Two Bridges / Chinatown, days after we exposed his 421-a tax exemption motive. We will be there rallying w our neighborhood.
JOIN + AMPLIFY!
UPDATE: the excavator Chetrit placed last week has been REMOVED! 🔥🔥🔥The fight for our neighborhood continues, but this confirms what we know: organized action WORKS. We've filed a zoning challenge + plan to keep our foot on the gas
We gathered here in front of @NYC_Buildings to #CheckChetrit. Members of the community spoke at length about the displacement and fatal impact that Chetrit would bring to our neighborhood w these luxury towers
It’s been an honor to learn from @ConMijente’s advocacy and organizing on this important issue! Thank you for sharing & thank you @NYUJILP for publishing my piece on the online forum!
NEW: "LexisNexis & ICE: An Examination of LexisNexis’s Human Rights Responsibilities," an article in NYU Journal of International Law & Politics, goes in-depth into how Lexis's contract w/ICE violates international human rights norms & law
via @yulandalui
https://t.co/8EPCfPXTaH
We’ve never seen a more visceral video showing how disgusting the ‘smart wall’ is.
A Peter Thiel-backed startup founder attached a taser to a drone & uses it to tase an actor playing a Latino.
This dehumanizing policing hardware should never be used.
https://t.co/d2V2ui9qYb
“When students organize on campus against these companies, the companies have to react and pay attention. Let’s keep up that energy and continue exposing what’s happening” - Jacinta Gonzalez of @ConMijente on the power of student organizing!
STARTING NOW!! JOIN US!
ICE no longer has access to 171 million people’s utility info following pressure from our #NoTechForICE campaign! Hear the chisme from the campaign:
https://t.co/tz2YrFrNQR
Yesterday we shared that ICE no longer has access to 171 million people’s utility information following pressure from our #NoTechForICE campaign. 💪 🎉
But how exactly did ICE get access to this information in the first place? This graphic explains 🔽
Join our #NoTechForICE conversation THIS Friday!
We will be discussing how organizers blocked ICE from accessing over 170 million ppl's info via utility bills. Only in @TwitterSpaces!
https://t.co/ngidfN3PuB
BREAKING: ICE no longer has access to 171 million people’s utility information following pressure from our #NoTechForICE campaign ‼️
We've cut the data off from the source.
This thread explains what this means, and what needs to happen next.
More: https://t.co/VYG4f7wrJC
End the Contract's collective action week is not over!
Join us tomorrow in a social media blast campaign where we will flood the inboxes of @LexisNexis & @thomsonreuters executives!!
How to join?