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集會抗議迫在眉睫！我們堅決反對紐約市議會批准興建社區監獄！
👊👊👊🔥🔥🔥紐約市議會，我們不要社區監獄！🔥🔥🔥👊👊👊
所有紐約市民，白思豪的330億天價社區監獄計划進行到了一個歷史性的關鍵時刻，本周四（5月17日）下午 1點 51 位市議員將會對其投票，紐約市面臨著生死存亡的抉擇。請您抓緊這幾天履行紐約市民義務，您可以參加
1. 本周三10/16中午12pm, 主張不要建社區監獄，而是修復雷克島監獄的非裔市議員Andy King將和多位反對派市議員一起召開新聞發布會，痛斥白思豪的荒唐社區監獄計劃。
2. 本周四17號中午12pm 前往市政廳公園百老匯大街公園出口，有美國華裔酒店協會、亞裔維權大聯盟、大紐約區同源會、紐約市居民聯盟等參加的紐約市民集會，敦促於1pm開會的市議會投下反對票！
3. 請繼續打電話或寫信給您本區和外區的市議員讓他們在這紐約市歷史性的一刻，保持清醒頭腦，摸著自己的良心，投下對的其800萬紐約市民和一百萬學生的一票！
請打電話給這些議員
陳倩文 212-587-3159， Karen Koslowitz 718-544-8900，Corey Johnson 212-788-7210，Diana Ayala 212-828-9800, Stephen Levin 718-875-5200
請寫郵件給這些議員
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
英文對照：
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.
