On december 11, 2014, my group and I interviewed a man named Vincent Warren. Vincent Warren is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights(CCR). CCR is a very active organization that is dedicated to defending and advancing human and civil rights. Before joining CCR, Warren was a national senior staff attorney for the…
Our group was lucky to meet with Ronald Kuby, an American criminal defense and civil rights lawyer. Ronald Kuby is a very reputable lawyer and he also is a radio talk show host. We traveled to his law office and we were able to have an interview with him to learn about how he started…
On December 4th my group and I were lucky to have a woman named Ashley Coneys come to our classroom to conduct one of her “Know Your Rights” workshops. Ashley Coneys is the head project organizer at an organization named the PROP, Police Reform Organizing Project. We were introduced to Ashley during our previous interview…
On the morning of December 2, my group and I visited the eminent 1 Police Plaza, in downtown Manhattan. This is a large fourteen floor building that serves as the location of the NYPD headquarters. Interestingly, Daniel’s mother actually works in the building and we were able to say a quick hello to her. As…
On Tuesday, November 18, our social justice group was able to attend an LREI Speaker Series about public policy, this year’s theme. More specifically, the event was about mass incarceration (incarcerating the wrong people, for the wrong reasons, for the wrong time). This panel featured Francis Greenburger, Ann Jacobs, JoAnne Page, Gabriel Sayegh, all who…
On Wednesday the 12th of November, my group and I interviewed Robert Gangi the head of the Police Reform Organizing Project(PROP). PROP is an organization that is actively working on reforming, monitoring, and influencing smart and justified policing. We visited his office on broadway and W 36th in Times Square. This interview allowed us to…
My social justice group and I were very lucky to have the chance to have an interview with Jaron Evelyn, a student at our very own high school. Unfortunately, Jaron has been unjustly stopped and frisked by NYPD police officers over 8 times. We were able to get a first-hand recollection of these terrible experiences…
