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Communities Not Cages goes to Albany

On January 19th, Center for Community Alternatives is headed to Albany to fight for #CommunitiesNotCages to overhaul New York’s racist and draconian sentencing laws. RSVP here.

“Right now, over 30,000 people are incarcerated in New York’s prisons. 75% are Black or brown. We are demanding that our lawmakers stand with us to:

Eliminate mandatory minimums
End extreme sentencing
Support transformation
And bring our loved ones home!

In Albany, we will meet with Senators and Assembly Members. We’ll rally and march for the passage of the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Act, Second Look Act, and Earned Time Act. And we’ll continue to build the movement for Communities Not Cages.

We’ll be providing food and transportation from across New York State. For more details and to save your seat, RSVP now!”

Article 15: Right to Nationality

Since the UDHR was adopted 70 years ago, there has been an increasing recognition of the issue of statelessness. In recent years, there has been a concerted effort to solve it, and prevent it from occurring in the first place, with the UN Secretary General submitting an annual report on the deprivation of nationality to the General assembly.

Article 13: Freedom of Movement

Derived from Article 13 are the rights of internally displaced people, which are elaborated more fully in the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. They prohibit arbitrary displacement, and say that internally displaced people (IDPs) “have the right to move freely in and out of camps or other settlements,” a principle that was not respected, for example, in the closed IDP camps for Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.