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		<title>Rally Outside Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s House Calling for End to Costly, Biased Marijuana Arrest Crusade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOCAL-NY, Drug Policy Alliance and IJJRA held a rally nearby Mayor Bloomberg’s Upper East Side house on May 25th to demand an end to illegal marijuana arrests, which have led to staggering racial disparities and significant financial cost to the City. We were joined by City Council Members Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito and Jumaane Williams. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Alexander Joins VOCAL-NY to Speak Out Against Mass Incarceration in New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The civil rights activist and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander and Rev. Stephen Phelps of the Riverside Church joined VOCAL-NY for a press conference on May 21st to urge restoration of voting rights for New Yorkers on parole and an end to racist and illegal marijuana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Star Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting VOCAL North Star Fund Blog &#124; Posted by Hugh Hogan &#124; May 5, 2011 Check out this event organized by VOCAL NY &#8211; Voices of Community Activists and Leaders- about the experiences of women battling HIV/AIDS in the face of draconian budget cuts by Governor Cuomo. As the flyer says, a lot of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOCAL-NY on Prison Gerrymandering in Huffington Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Ramon Velasquez blogged about a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of the new law ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York. Ramon is a VOCAL-NY leader who has organized for inmate rights from inside and outside prison walls for the past three decades. He was profiled by the New York Daily News in 2010 for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Action Against Hepatitis C in Albany</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOCAL-NY Users Union members rallied outside Governor Cuomo&#8217;s office on March 9th to call for better access to lifesaving hepatitis C treatment in methadone programs, where as many as nine out ten patients in some programs may have hepatitis C. Afterwards, we joined Status C Unknown and a statewide coalition of syringe access and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rally Outside Governor Cuomo&#8217;s State of the State</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOCAL-NY members travelled to Albany on January 5th to send a message that low-income New Yorkers affected by drug use, HIV/AIDS and incarceration are not special interests to be ignored or demonized during the recession. We highlighted three campaigns around health, housing and civil rights, while pushing for progressive taxation to address New York&#8217;s historic [...]]]></description>
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