On Thursday, August 21st we’re hosting a fundraiser at Nowadays in Ridgewood, Queens. We’ll have a panel discussion on the crisis unfolding in New York’s jails and prisons and ways folks can take action. Participants will have the rare opportunity to listen to records created inside New York state prisons. Artist Josh MacPhee will play […]
Bi-Weekly Katal Member Meeting: At these meetings, we come together with community members who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system, and we organize to change the system. We discuss building power, shutting down Rikers, and ending mass incarceration! To learn more, please contact NY Organizing Director, Melanie Dominguez, at melanie@katalcenter.org.
RSVP link: https://secure.everyaction.com/iowrypnWI02lbMfIGROOUQ2 Rikers has long been a hellhole, and many New Yorkers are familiar with the regular cycle of news stories about the horrors perpetrated there. With the worsening conditions at Rikers – and faced with a mayoral administration refusing to follow court orders In May, Judge Laura Taylor Swain took the most dramatic […]
Bi-Weekly Katal Member Meeting: At these meetings, we come together with community members who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system, and we organize to change the system. We discuss building power, shutting down Rikers, and ending mass incarceration! To learn more, please contact NY Organizing Director, Melanie Dominguez, at melanie@katalcenter.org.
Bi-Weekly Katal Member Meeting: At these meetings, we come together with community members who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system, and we organize to change the system. We discuss building power, shutting down Rikers, and ending mass incarceration! To learn more, please contact NY Organizing Director, Melanie Dominguez, at melanie@katalcenter.org.