Launching the Hate Free Zone!
December 5th, 2016 – Over a thousand people from diverse communities gathered to launch a community defense and “Hate-Free Zone” in Jackson Heights, New York City. Neighborhood-based groups held a press conference and march through the heart of Queens (in Jackson Heights, Woodside, Elmhurst, and Corona), some of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country and home to working-class immigrant, Muslim, LGBTQ, Latino and Filipino communities, to begin the process of building community-wide defense systems to protecting ourselves.
The action was co-sponsored and endorsed by over 110 organizations. In the coming days we will continue to roll out, develop, and deepen the Hate Free Zone in our neighborhoods. We look forward to Hate Free Zones being replicated in other neighborhoods across the city and across the country. If you want to stay connected, please sign up: http://tinyurl.com/hatefreezone #HateFreeZone
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CO-SPONSORS African Communities Together API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC BAJI – Black Alliance for Just Immigration Bangladesh Society Brooklyn Movement Center Caribbean Equality Project Catholic Migration Services Chhaya CDC Community Development Project Council on American Islamic Relations – New York Councilmember Daniel Dromm Damayan Migrant Workers Association DJ Rekha, Basement Bhangra DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving El Centro del Inmigrante Global Action Project Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition IMI-Corona: Immigrant Movement International India Home Interfaith Center International Socialist Organization – Queens Jahajee Sisters Japanese American Citizens League NY Jewish Voice for Peace-New York Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Judson Memorial Church Justice Committee Laura Flanders Show Long Island Wins Make the Road New York Malkhut- Progressive Jewish Queens MAS-NY (Muslim American Society, NY) MinKwon Center for Community Action Muslim Community Network New Sanctuary Movement NYC New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project New York Immigration Coalition NICE – New Immigrant Community Empowerment Parents in Action Queens Neighborhoods United Queens Pride House (The LGBT Center of Queens) Queer Detainee Empowerment Project RIF Asylum Support Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus SAFEST – South Asian Fund for Education Scholarship Training SALGA – South Asian Lesbian & Gay Alliance Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) NYC Teachers Unite The Bronx Defenders Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change United We Dream UnLocal VOCAL-NY Women for Afghan Women ENDORSERS (in formation) AAANY – Arab American Association of New York Adhikaar Advocates for Children of New York AF3IRM – NY Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund CAAAV – Organizing Asian Communities Communities united for Police Reform Critical Resistance – NYC Dominican Women’s Development Center Enlace Faith In New York Families for Freedom Flux Factory Friends of Diversity Plaza FUREE Girls for Gender Equity Haitian-American United for Progress, Inc (HAUP) Heightening Stories HIAS Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic – CUNY School of Law Immigration Equality Indo-Caribbean Alliance International Action Center International Alliance Against Mandatory Detention Jackson Heights Bangladeshi Business Association Jews Against Islamophobia Kichwa Hatari Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Law@theMargins Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens Masjid Sabur MFY Legal Services, Inc. Muslim Democratic Club of NY� NESRI – National Economic and Social Rights Initiative New York State Youth Leadership Council NYS Interfaith Network for Immigration Reform OCA-NY Picture the Homeless Queens Community House Queens Creative Solidarity Raha Iranian Feminist Collective RAISE: Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast Rep. Joseph Crowley SABANY – South Asian Bar Association of New York SEVA NYC Sosa Law Stop Mass Incarceration Street Vendor Project Sukhi NY Terraza 7 Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia Turning Point for Women and Families UYC – Urban Youth Collaborative Veterans For Peace-NYC Chapter 34 War Resisters League Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia Woodside On the Move