Are you registered for DTR’s Train the Trainer workshop? In preparation for District Day, we will be hosting two training sessions on Thursday, August 5th and Tuesday, August 10th. The training will focus on the components of DTR’s platform and advocacy activities planned for the coming months. Let us know which date [...]
On September 24th, coalition members will break into teams across the city and meet legislative officials in their district offices. District Day continues the conversations begun during our Advocacy Day in March on Drop the Rock’s campaign to downsize NY’s prison system. Our aim is to show state legislators that support for closing underutilized and [...]
We are pleased to share with you good news from the Correctional Association’s Juvenile Justice Coalition as well as an invitation to the Bronx Defenders’ annual Community Block Party on Wednesday, June 30.
Earlier this week, the New York Senate passed ReDirect NY, legislation that would provide fiscal incentives for localities to expand their use of [...]
Drop the Rock and the Correctional Association together with Human Rights Watch and the NYCLU are co-sponsoring the New York premiere of the documentary: In the Land of the Free…
Targeted by prison officials for being members of the Black Panther Party and for fighting against prison conditions, the Angola 3 were convicted of the murder [...]
On Saturday, May 15, neighborhood teams across New York registered voters and gathered over 1,500 signatures calling for prison closures and reinvestment in communities.
Thank you to our team captains and volunteers for making Empowerment Day 2010 a great success!
Here is some of the press coverage on Empowerment Day:
Rallies for Stepped Up Prison Closures - Capitol [...]
On Saturday, May 15, in neighborhoods across the city and state that are heavily impacted by incarceration, teams of community members, elected officials, young people, formerly incarcerated people, and families will come together to educate the public about Drop the Rock’s campaign to reduce the use of incarceration in New York. Volunteers will register [...]
We need additional volunteers for Drop the Rock Empowerment Day! On Saturday, May 15, teams of community members, elected officials, young people, formerly incarcerated people, and families will come together in neighborhoods across the city and state that are heavily impacted by incarceration to educate their communities about Drop the Rock’s campaign to downsize New [...]
On Saturday, May 15, teams of community members, young people, formerly incarcerated people, and families will come together in neighborhoods across the city and state that are heavily impacted by incarceration to educate their communities about Drop the Rock’s campaign to downsize New York’s prison system.
Teams will register voters and gather [...]
This Wednesday, April 21 at 7pm, the Campaign to End the Death Penalty’s national speaking tour will hold a teach-in called Lynching Then, Lynching Now: the Roots of Racism & the Death Penalty in the U.S. at City College.
This important event, co-sponsored by Drop the Rock, looks at the historic link between the death penalty [...]
On Saturday, May 15, teams of community members, young people, formerly incarcerated people, and families will come together in neighborhoods across the city and state that are heavily impacted by incarceration to educate their communities about Drop the Rock’s campaign to downsize New York’s prison system.
Empowerment Day teams will register voters and gather signatures on [...]
