***Media Advisory***
Press Conference to be held on the steps of The City Hall in New York City.
WHERE: On the steps of the City Hall, New York, New York.
WHEN: Thursday, February 02, 2017, 1-2:30 PM.
Media Contacts: Sheikh Musa Drammeh: 718.822.5555
WHO: The New York Peace Coalition, I am My Community Inc., NY Neighborhood Unity Alliance, Public Safety Dames, Bronx Educators United for Justice, C-BALL, Community Peace Patrol Officers, Black Spades, Bronx Community Council, Adopt-A-Friend, Inc. and The Bronx Clergy Task Force are protesting the 2017 New York City and State preliminary budget projections for not including funds that will support grassroots community initiatives to preventing senseless murders ravaging New York communities.
WHAT: Governor Cuomo spends $4.8 billion annually on public safety. Mayor De Blasio also plans to spend $5.1 billion according to the Fiscal 2017 Preliminary Budget. Combined, New York is planning to spend $10 billion for the Fiscal Year 2017. Yet, none of these tax dollars will go to community programs that are creatively enhancing community policing. New York City would prefer spending more than $ 1 million a day protecting Donald Trump and his family while leaving vulnerable New Yorkers to die at the hands of irresponsible gun users. Community organizations in the Bronx are calling on all City and State Elected Officials to allocate money for educational programs that will take guns from the street and save our community.
