First we familiarized ourselves with propny (Police Reform Organizing Project). They were able to help us by bringing us to go court monitoring. He learned so much through them and other organizations and individuals that we put together a teach in for the grades below us. we decided to make a mural with them dipicting…
Court Monitoring with Robert Gangi
by Augustus
On Friday 1/22, my Group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi. We met with him for our third time to go court monitoring at a court on Centre street in Chinatown. We had sheets that we could fill in the ethnicities of the people that were being tried for crimes in the court.…
Meeting with NYCLU
by Augustus
On Tuesday, 1/26 my group and I met with Sam Thypin-Bermeo from the NYCLU. We had to travel downtown to get to the NYCLU’s office. We immediately started our interview that included questions such as, “How did you get involved in Police Misconduct issues” and “Was there something in your life that drove you to…
Interview With Robert Gangi
by Augustus
Today, 1/21 my group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi for the second time. We discussed our court monitoring project which will take place on Friday 1/22. This court monitoring project lets us go into courts that bring in all the people arrested on little charges. Here we will see the racial prejudice’s…
Interview With Ronald Kuby
by Augustus
On Monday January 11th my group went to Ronald Kuby’s offices, for an interview. We started talking about his early beginnings in law, though he didn’t plan to be a lawyer. He wanted to be an anthropologist though when he wasn’t accepted to the school because of his ego, he decided to practice law. He…
Meeting with Robert Gangi
by Augustus
Today we met with Robert Gangi of PROP (Police Reform Organizing Project). He is the head of an organization that is working to alert the public of the brutality and injustices the police force conducts and we as a nation endure. We met him at his apartment that was also his office. He had a…
Seeing Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution!
by Augustus
On Wednesday 11/18 the Freedom of Speech group and ours went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The movie we saw was about the Black Panther revolution from the 1960s-70s. They were a group of African American people striving for equal rights, opportunities, housing, and an end to prejudices against African-American people. They were…
