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Avenue J between East 14th and 15th Streets, March 30. (Photo by Carly Miller) It’s budget time in Albany, and Simcha Felder’s progressive constituents are taking to the streets to demand that the state senator, who’s voted with Republicans for the past four years, hear their voices.
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Dan Donovan’s District Office, 7308 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights. (Photo by Carly Miller)In response to a House bill with a provision to defund Planned Parenthood, about 100 activists rallied outside U.S. Republican Congressman Dan Donovan’s Dyker Heights Office yesterday to send him a visual message:
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Brooklyn Borough Hall rally. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYER)Last night, an estimated 7,000 thousand Yemeni-Americans, Muslims, and supporters peacefully rallied at Brooklyn Borough Hall to protest Trump’s “Muslim ban” and stand with Yemeni-American New Yorker whose family members are stranded overseas. Yesterday’s protest marked the culmination
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(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Last night, thousands of protesters rallied outside of Senator Chuck Schumer’s Park Slope apartment to demand that the Democratic leader staunchly oppose President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. The protest continued despite the Schumer’s announcement on Monday [https://www.facebook.com/senschumer/posts/
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WT & Kensington neighbors rally at the Ft. Hamilton Pkwy F/G, December 12. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)“We will not tolerate acts of hatred,” said City Council Member Brad Lander and more than 30 neighbors this morning at a solidarity rally outside the subway station where Islamophobic graffiti
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Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.It was a brisk morning on Sunday when a crowd of outraged Brooklynites rallied on the corner of Avenue J against the new prohibition of right turns at certain key intersections on Ocean Parkway. The “Save Ocean Parkway” protest was organized by State Assemblymember
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Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNERDisappointed by last week’s election results, Brooklyn writer Fiona Maazel [http://www.fionamaazel.com/] reacted by organizing a rally. Posting the event on her Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/events/1602788343357488/], she wrote, “I am going to Grand Army Plaza with my two-year-old daughter
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(Photo by Carly Miller / Fort Greene Focus)The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) held a peaceful rally and march on Thursday, July 28 [/blog/politics/tonight-jews-for-black-lives-action-vigil-to-call-for-police-reform/] , to protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of the City
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(Photo by Carly Miller / Fort Greene Focus)The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) held a peaceful rally and march on Thursday, July 28 [/blog/2016/07/28/tonight-jews-black-lives-action-vigil-call-police-reform/], to protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of
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Photo via Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC/photos/a.1215105401856842.1073741868.208955165805209/1215105591856823/?type=3&theater] The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) will hold a rally this evening [http://jfrej.org/event/jews4blacklives-brooklyn-728/] (Thursday, July 28) which
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Photo via Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC/photos/a.1215105401856842.1073741868.208955165805209/1215105591856823/?type=3&theater] The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) will hold a rally this evening [http://jfrej.org/event/jews4blacklives-brooklyn-728/] (Thursday, July 28) which
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Source: blhphotography via FlickrJoin Democratic presidential contender Senator Bernie Sanders at a rally [https://www.facebook.com/events/250137442000187/] on Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk tomorrow. General admission entrance is located at Stillwell Avenue and the Boardwalk. Doors open at 11am. Tickets are not required for this free event, but