The GW
Anyone else see this...
These just started running yesterday and I haven’t heard anyone mention it yet…
The “BuildingWhat?” campaign is an effort led by 9/11 family members to raise awareness of the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 and shift public opinion such that the New York City Council will be inspired to open an independent investigation into how this building, which housed the City’s Emergency Operations Center, was destroyed at 5:20pm on September 11, 2001.
(…) millions of people do not know or remember only vaguely that a third tower called World Trade Center Building 7 also collapsed on September 11, 2001. In any other situation, the complete, free fall collapse of a 47-story skyscraper would be played over and over on the news. It would be discussed for years to come and building design codes would be completely rewritten. So, why does no one know about Building 7? And why did Building 7 come down?
NYPD Set to Aid Haitian Cops
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly returned to Haiti on Monday to meet with the earthquake-devastated country’s president and lay the groundwork for the deployment later this month of six Creole-speaking NYPD officers to help train the Haitian police force.
Mr. Kelly, who helped establish an interim police force there after political chaos enveloped Haiti in the 1990s, met with Haitian President Rene Preval and his top security officials to discuss Haiti’s law-enforcement strategies.
Mr. Kelly last met with Mr. Preval in early January, three days before Haiti was hit by a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed at least 230,000, displaced millions and crippled the country’s physical and governmental infrastructures.
“No place needs an earthquake, but Haiti was the last place on earth that could sustain one,” Mr. Kelly said.
- WSJ
Killer of Malcolm X Granted Parole - NYT
hman:
“After being turned down for parole 16 times, Malcolm X’s only confessed assassin is about to gain his freedom.
Thomas Hagan has been held since moments after shots rang out in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965. He has been on work release for more than two decades, but he still spends two days a week locked up at the Lincoln Correctional Facility on West 110th Street in Manhattan….”
I seriously had never heard of Thomas Hagan before.
human trafficking
“The United States is the second highest destination in the world for trafficked women. The UN estimates criminal trafficking groups take in 7 billion a year. Eighty percent of victims are women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation. An estimated 20,000 victims are trafficked into the U.S. each year. In 2000, the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act, was passed to combat the
issue on a national level. (New Hampshire has just passed human trafficking laws for 2010, NY was in 2008.)
By simply requiring businesses seeking to advertise with them to first present a valid, New York State issued Massage Therapy license, publications
would be able to take a stand against human trafficking in our city. Fifteen publications have already signed on.
TRAFFICKING FREE PUBLICATIONS!
Time Out New York
The Brooklyn Paper
Hoy
Our Town
West Side Spirit
The Westsider
Our Town Downtown
City Hall
Chelsea Clinton News
AVENUE
New York Family
Queens Courier
The L Magazine
The New York Press
New York Magazine
MARKETERS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
The Village Voice (The Village Voice generates an average of $80,000 a month on the adult ads that line its back pages, according to the classified ad sales
department.”)
El Diario/La Prensa
AM New York
Park Slope Courier
Gay City
El Especialito
Times-Ledger
The World Journal
Sing Tao
Courier Life
Hudson Reporter
