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STATEMENT: GGE Staunchly Rejects The Council Resolution Proposing To Grow The Scale And Budget Of The NYPD

Press, Statements

March 25, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2021Contact: Ashley C. Sawyer | 718-857-1393 ext. 124 | media@ggenyc.org In the wake of public pressure following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and many other Black people killed by police, the governor of New York issued Executive Order 203, requiring each local government to come up […]

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GGE Rallies To Oppose The Mayor’s Police Reform Proposals

Calls to Action, Statements

March 24, 2021

GGE mobilized partners to collectively respond to a potential resolution put forward by the Mayor, to be voted on by the City Council, which includes expanding youth policing. […]

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GGE Testifies Before The City Council Committee on Education

Testimony

March 23, 2021

The New York City Council Committee on Education held an oversight hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 Preliminary Budget for the Department of Education. GGE testified on the need to defund policing, including school policing, and fund schools, youth, and community care. […]

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STATEMENT: The Girls for Gender Equity community stands with the Asian community following the murders of six Asian women in Atlanta, Georgia and demands an end to white supremacy, misogyny, imperialism, xenophobia, and classism.

Statements

March 17, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2021 Contact: Ashley C. Sawyer | 718-857-1393 ext. 124 | media@ggenyc.org We release this statement in a time of mourning and pain. We join the world in mourning the deaths of 8 people killed in the Atlanta area on March 16, 2021, 6 of whom were Asian people. Each time […]

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GGE Testifies Before the City Council Committee on Youth Services

Testimony

March 11, 2021

The New York City Council Committee on Youth Services held an oversight hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 Preliminary Budget for the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). GGE testified on the need to bring greater transparency to all current relationships, with their budgetary impact, between DYCD and the NYPD. […]

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STATEMENT: GGE Staunchly Rejects the Mayor’s Disgraceful Plan to Expand Youth Policing

Statements

March 05, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media@ggenyc.org

GGE condemns the Mayor’s costly police “reinvention” attempts that seek to normalize and increase the presence of police everywhere young people are. […]

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