New Action Call for Justice for Trayvon Martin
from the April 2012 New Action Delegate Assembly leaflet: Leaflet 2012 April On March 26, 2012, New Action leaders on the UFT Executive Board put our union on record, calling for justice for Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, a “neighborhood watch volunteer” admitted he shot and killed 15 year o
OPPOSE THE NYPD’S “STOP AND FRISK” PRACTICES
From New Action’s April 2012 Delegate Assembly leaflet: Leaflet 2012 April Since 2002 the number of NYPD stops of African-Americans and Latinos has jumped nearly 700%. In 2011 685,000 stop and searches were conducted by the NYPD. As today’s resolution states,“87 percent of the people sto