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集会抗议迫在眉睫！我们坚决反对纽约市议会批准兴建社区监狱！
👊👊👊🔥🔥🔥纽约市议会，我们不要社区监狱！🔥🔥🔥👊👊👊
所有纽约市民，白思豪的330亿天价社区监狱计划进行到了一个历史性的关键时刻，本周四（5月17日）下午 1点 51 位市议员将会对其投票，纽约市面临着生死存亡的抉择。请您抓紧这几天履行纽约市民义务，您可以参加
1. 本周三10/16中午12pm, 主张不要建社区监狱，而是修复雷克岛监狱的非裔市议员Andy King将和多位反对派市议员一起召开新闻发布会，痛斥白思豪的荒唐社区监狱计划。
2. 本周四17号中午12pm 前往市政厅公园百老汇大街公园出口，有美国华裔酒店协会、亚裔维权大联盟、大纽约区同源会、纽约市居民联盟等参加的纽约市民集会，敦促于1pm开会的市议会投下反对票！
3. 请继续打电话或写信给您本区和外区的市议员让他们在这纽约市历史性的一刻，保持清醒头脑，摸着自己的良心，投下对的其800万纽约市民和一百万学生的一票！
请打电话给这些议员
陈倩文 212-587-3159， Karen Koslowitz 718-544-8900，Corey Johnson 212-788-7210，Diana Ayala 212-828-9800, Stephen Levin 718-875-5200
请写邮件给这些议员
Ibarron@council.nyc.gov, salamanca@council.nyc.gov, helen@helenrosenthal.com, fcabrera@council.nyc.gov, mguerra@council.nyc.gov, district27@council.nyc.gov, district30@council.nyc.gov, d09perkins@council.nyc.gov, respinal@council.nyc.gov, dromm@council.nyc.gov, meugene@council.nyc.gov, fmoya@council.nyc.gov, amaisel@council.nyc.gov, kpowers@council.nyc.gov, rlancman@council.nyc.gov, askjb@council.nyc.gov, info38@council.nyc.gov, askkalman@council.nyc.gov, pvallone@council.nyc.gov, borelli@council.nyc.gov, lcumbo@council.nyc.gov, pkoo@council.nyc.gov, koslowitz@council.nyc.gov, lander@council.nyc.gov, bkallos@benkallos.com, slevin@council.nyc.gov, dayala@council.nyc.gov, district41@council.nyc.gov, district2@council.nyc.gov, cdeutsch@council.nyc.gov, smatteo@council.nyc.gov, rdiaz@council.nyc.gov, speakerjohnson@council.nyc.gov, mtreyger@council.nyc.gov, areynoso@council.nyc.gov, rtorres@council.nyc.gov, yrodriguez@council.nyc.gov, drose@council.nyc.gov, drichards@council.nyc.gov, andy.king@council.nyc.gov, eulrich@council.nyc.gov, mgjonaj@council.nyc.gov, jvanbramer@council.nyc.gov, district36@council.nyc.gov, bgrodenchik@council.nyc.gov, adams@council.nyc.gov, district45@council.nyc.gov, acohen@council.nyc.gov, vgibson@council.nyc.gov, hearings@council.nyc.gov
英文对照：
Newsletter from Kew Gardens Community Preservation Coalition
Tell the NY City Council to Vote NO
This coming week on October 17th, the City Council casts its decisive vote on the Mayor’s proposal to close Rikers and build four high-rise mega-jails in the City, one of them in Kew Gardens at the border of Forest Hills and Briarwood.
Though our Community Board 9 voted unanimously against the proposal and Borough President Melinda Katz opposes it, our NY City Council rep, Karen Koslowitz, unfortunately supports the bid despite protests from our community and beyond. Moreover, because of that the polls of the 15 Queens Council members indicate that most lean toward approval of the proposal, since Council members traditionally follow the lead of the affected local Council member, Koslowitz.
In our ultimate attempt to sway the NY City Council vote on the 17th, we urge you – and everyone opposed to the Kew Gardens mega jail – as well as the other proposed jails – to deluge the 51 NY City Council members with emails so they realize how many of us are strongly opposed to this proposal.
Your comments can be brief and to the point. We’ve done two things below to make this civic task, quick and easy for you to participate in.
You have two easy options to select from; you may compose your own letter, using some of the key talking points we have highlighted for you below or you may choose to sign your name to a general letter that we have composed for you to use as is, or edit.
There’s a separate link for each of the email options, both of which already have all 51 NY City Council Member emails inserted in the recipients row (and which if you can easily move to the bcc-recipients section of your email instead, will be even more impactful and personal). There’s also already a suggested email subject heading and also either a partial or complete letter body as well, which may be edited further if you wish to do so.
Email options:
Option 1, compose your own letter in the email. Please make sure to state your name in the beginning, your neighborhood of residence, and to sign off the letter at the end. There are talking points listed below in case you would like to emphasize a couple of them in your email.
Click here to open the compose email window.
Option 2, sign your name to our composed letter email. Please make sure to state your name in the beginning, your neighborhood of residence, and to sign off the letter at the end.
Click here to open the compose email window.
Click here to open the compose email window.
Below are some indicated talking points you may wish to use for your own letter, but the main concern is to let theses Council members know you staunchly object to the Rikers proposal and its consequences.Talking Points:
The Department of Correction and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice have only provided a concept of their jail- no design, no plans, no substantiated budget.
The Lippman Commission proposed borough-based jails so as to bring detainees close to their families and provide a benefit to the communities themselves; neither is true for Kew Gardens:
Kew Gardens will house far more detainees than live in or near our community. The proposed facility in KG will see 25 percent of 4600 jail beds despite the neighborhood having less than 15 percent of all Queens detainees. (Staten Island will not build a jail, and their residents will be detained in the other 4 boroughs!)
Costs of busing detainees to court won’t be eliminated, as claimed, as the system requires all detainees to be tried in the borough they are arrested in, rather than their borough of residence.
Rikers Island currently has outdoor that can be used for recreation, however the high-rise jails proposed by the Mayor cannot accommodate these outside spaces.
After criminal law reform and new government policies are implemented, the total number of detainees is expected to range from 3,000 to 5,000. This figure is much smaller than the current population.
