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Listen to this 2015 interview, examining avant-garde trombonist David Whitwell's take on Classical Music during the early days of his career.

Release Date: October 2015
Guest: David Whitwell
Producer, DP & Editor: Paul Notice

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June 1, 2020Honestly, I think we know by now that it’ll take a combination of things to move forward from this. I’ve been trying to figure out a proper response to George Floyd’s murder - and the subsequent violence against more Black people - while even more Black people die from COVID-19 - and emotionally, I’m spent.
The most I can put my mind to right now is spotlighting community-based solutions that I learn about through my work. One of these, is something that directly relates to every New Yorker RIGHT NOW.
In a couple of weeks, NYC’s city council is going to finalize $827 million in cuts from the Department of education - and only $50 million from NYPD. They’re trying to make up for an estimated $10 billion tax revenue shortfall from the lockdown.
Here's the thing:
NYPD's Budget is actually $5.9 BILLION
You could literally take just $1 Billion of that $5.9 Billion, and make a 9-week summer program that could literally pay ALL 1.1 million public school kids in New York $100/week to just stay out of trouble.
I personally would argue that it would probably do just as good a job at preventing crime & keeping are youth safe during quarantine, but with a fraction of the harm done.
Here’s how you can make a difference now.
If you’d like to see more cuts to NYPD’s budget rather than education and other social services during the quarantine - let the people you elected to make that decision know.
Contact your City Council Member, or:
Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm
Email: DROMM@COUNCIL.NYC.GOV
Office: 212-788-7066
Twitter: @DROMM25
Public Safety Committee Chair Donovan Richards
Email: DRICHARDS@COUNCIL.NYC.GOV
Office: 212-788-7216
Twitter: @DRICHARDS13
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Kraig Lewis was going to law school in the Fall until he got caught up in one of New York City’s largest mass arrests in history. It was part of the NYPD’s Gang Database program. The problem, of course, is that Kraig Lewis was never a part of a gang.

In this fourth installment of the #GangDatabase series, we talk to Marnie
Lenox & Afrika Owes about the Constitutional and ethical issues surrounding
NYPD's use of a gang database.

Ever wondered what DTP/ATP activists mean when they say they want to replace the police? How do you handle gun violence in our communities? Look no further than this episode

Join me, as we journey back to a 2017 Conference at John Jay College, where radical academic David Brotherton and former head of the Latin Kings, Antonio Fernandez aka “King Tone” discuss how they were able to mobilize gang members for social and political good, and what happens when one country “legalizes gangs.”