[NYTr] Developing NYC Police Brutality Resource Brochure

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sent by mart - Oct 8, 2005

Developing a NYC Police Brutality Resource Brochure

"Stonewalled" Report 

Event Thursday, October 20, 2005

Amnesty International"s OUTFRONT Program has just published a groundbreaking
report entitled: Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the US.  The report focused on
police brutality cases in 4 cities: New York, Chicago, LA, and San Antonio.

On September 22, 2005 at Amnesty International's Offices in the 4 cities,
they hosted a press conference announcing the publication of this report.

OUTFRONT organizers would like to invite the entire community to a community
event to be held on October 20, 6 pm, at the LGBT Center in Manhattan. 
There they would detail the main elements of their report, their will be
testimonies from the community, as well as music, performances and poetry.

In preparation for this event, OUTFRONT is also asking the community to
submit their organization as a resource for its current project to develop a
Police Brutality Resource Guide for publication and distribution at this
event.

The Police Brutality Resource Guide will be available for distribution at
the event, and will also be made available via OUTFRONT"s website. 
http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront/stonewalled

If you would like have your organization listed in the resource guide for
mass distribution, please fill out the attached form and have it sent to:

Raybblin Vargas
Email: Raybblin at nyc.rr.com
Fax: (646) 349-9662

Deadline for resource guide submissions:  Friday, October 14, 2005

The Event

The event will feature speakers from October 22nd Coalition Against Police
Brutality and Repression of a Generation, FIERCE, Audre Lorde Project,
Sylvia Law Project, STONEWALL Veterans Association, Picture the Homeless as
well as Amnesty International's OUTFRONT Project members.

The community at large is strongly encouraged to give testimonials of their
own experiences.  If you would like to give testimony of a police brutality
incident that happened to you or anyone else you know please contact Kenta
at OUTFRONT at (646) 356-8500 or email pbnycaction at aiusa.org to be added to
the program.

There will be a short video presentation showing footage of police
harassment and abuse, testimonies, music and poetry.

Deadline to add names for testimonies: Wednesday, October 12, 2005.

Please listen to WBAI for the psa announcing this event next week. 
Democracy Now will tape this event to show on their national program!

To download the full page flyer of this event:
Outfront Full page Flyer link:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4941/outfrontflyerfullpage0ij.jpg

Outfront =BC  page (quarter page) Flyer link:
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7312/4peroutfrontflyer8oj.jpg
 
To learn more about Amnesty International's 
Outfront Project, please click on the 
following link:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront/stonewalled/index.html

Excerpts from Stonewalled:

Only 17% of police departments report having specific policies on same-sex
domestic violence.

Only 24% of police departments report having a policy regarding strip
searches of transgender persons.

14%  of police departments report having an affirmative action hiring
practice for LGBT individuals.

72% of police departments report having no policy regarding interactions
with transgender people