An apt visual metaphor as CUNY Ph.D. student Jawanza Williams is wrestled over the threshold of City Hall and tossed out by a police officer. The photo highlights who gets govt resources and who suffers in unnecessary austerity. Williams & Peoples Plan NYC want to stop the boondoggle. #StopCopCity
Last week Jawanza James Williams and comrades from @PeoplesPlanNYC visited City Hall to spread the word about NYC's version of #CopCity. They demanded a people's budget for social services, CUNY, and public libraries. They were all thrown out. link:
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But maybe the police need it? Really?
NYC already has Cop City! A massive training complex for police in College Point. 32 acre campus. It's a 750K Square foot facility with running track and tactical gymnasium. It cost $1.5 billion dollars! (2010 numbers)
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College Point facility can simulate day or night!
"This is the most comprehensive tactical environment we know of."
Awesome! The cops are taken care of!
Now could we have air conditioning in the public libraries and pay CUNY adjuncts too? Instead of building another billion dollar boondoggle?
