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Getting Home Safely Just Got Easier!

A public service announcement from RightRides for Women’s Safety

RightRides offers women, transgender and gender queer individuals a free, safe, late night ride home on Saturday nights from 11:59 PM - 3 AM, early Sunday morning in 35 NYC neighborhoods. To get a ride simply call 1-888-215-SAFE(7233) during the hours of operation.

On October 25, 2008, RightRides is expanding its service area to include five additional neighborhoods, increasing the count of neighborhoods served to 40.

New neighborhoods include:

· Flatbush/Borough Park/Kensington, Brooklyn

· Astoria, Queens

· Woodside/Sunnyside, Queens

· Greater Harlem area, Manhattan

· Midtown (for pick-ups only), Manhattan

For more information or to view a service area map, visit: www.rightrides.org

RightRides is 100% volunteer run and operates a fleet of up to 6 cars every weekend. To get more information about volunteering or how to get involved e-mail Erin Armstrong, Program Manager for RightRides, at Erin@RightRides.org

RightRides was founded in 2004 in direct response to an increase in assaults on women walking home by themselves. Our motto is, "Because Getting Home Safely Shouldn't Be A Luxury " and we recognize that many women and trans people do not have the extra funds to take a taxi and walking home from public transportation late at night can increase one's risk of sexual harassment and assault.

Since 2004, RightRides has driven over 1,500 riders safely home. If you think getting home safely shouldn’t be a luxury, pass this information along to your friends and family!

Free hearing test

From the Brooklyn Chambers of Commerce
July 15, 2008 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Fact: Noise is one of the leading causes of hearing loss. Fact: Exposure to a noisy subway, for just 15 minutes a day, can damage your hearing over time. Fact: Listening to your MP3 Player at high volumes can cause permanent damage to your hearing. Fact: Hearing loss is the #1 disability in the United States.

When was the last time that you had your hearing checked? Not since elementary school??? Chances are, your hearing has changed. Free hearing screenings sponsored by the League for the Hard of Hearing every Tuesday from 12 noon to 2 p.m. and every Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. by appointment only.

To schedule an appointment, please contact us at 917-305-7766, or at appointments@lhh.org. You may also visit http://www.lhh.org/ for more information.

Location
League for the Hard of Hearing, 50 Broadway, Manhattan

Free Job placement

From Ibrooklyn

July 14, 2008 to July 21, 2008

SUNY BEOC provides FREE job placement assistance, including Resume & Cover Letter Assistance, Job Search Resources (computers, fax machines, telephones), Internet Job Search, Computer Classes. Each session runs for three weeks from Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The next session begins on July 21 and ends August 7, 2008. Call today for more information at 718-802-3340.

Location
SUNY BEOC-Bridge Program, 111 Livingston Street (entrance on Boerum Place), Downtown Brooklyn

Travel Directions
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall; A, C, F to Jay St.-Borough Hall.

Brooklyn Museum Jazz concert next week

Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
(Rain location: Hall of the Americas)
Saturday, July 19, 2008
2–5 p.m.

Relax and enjoy a summer afternoon of music and art. Hear tenor saxophonist John Ellis and his band, Double-Wide, featuring Jason Marsalis on drums, Marcus Rojas on tuba, and Brian Charette on organ. One of jazz music’s brightest stars, Ellis recently released a new album, Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow, a New Orleans-inspired collection that has garnered rave reviews from the New York Times, Down Beat, and allaboutjazz.com. WBGO’s Gary Walker hosts.

The program also includes gallery talks on the special exhibition From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith, a celebration of the work of an acclaimed Brooklyn-based African American jewelry maker inspired by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington. Jewelry design expert Carolyn Kelly gives the talks.

Performances
Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
(Rain location: Hall of the Americas)
3–3:45 p.m. and 4:15–5 p.m.

Gallery Talks
4th Floor
2–2:30 p.m. and 3:45–4:15 p.m.

The program is free with Museum admission.

Presented in conjunction with WBGO and Heart of Brooklyn’s series Jazz: Brooklyn’s Beat.

Student Safety Act

FROM the NYCLU

The School to Prison Pipeline is a nationwide system of local, state and federal education and public safety policies that pushes students out of school and into the criminal justice system. This system disproportionately targets youth of color and youth with disabilities. Inequities in areas such as school discipline, policing practices, high-stakes testing and the prison industry contribute to the pipeline. The School to Prison Pipeline operates directly and indirectly. Schools directly send students into the pipeline through zero tolerance policies that involve the police in minor incidents and often lead to arrests, juvenile detention referrals, and even criminal charges and incarceration. Schools indirectly push students towards the criminal justice system by excluding them from school through suspension, expulsion, discouragement and high stakes testing requirements.

Support the Student Safety Act.

For more information go to http://www.nyclu.org/schooltoprison/ssa#what

Stop the Ignorance

This video comes from DJ Raedawn's confrontation with pappose. It deals with the senseless lyrics in Hip-Hop that encourages the youth of communities like flatbush to follow.

Here's, DJ Raedawn, with his side of the story:

so two nights ago.....K-Slay aka the Drama King and Papoose were playing a Hot97 show at S.O.B's.........Papoose was rapping that sell that crack sell that pussy sell that smack etc demonic murder shit....he even had a whole song about how he killed somebody for his chain....and how he and all his buddies sit around all day on the corner and sell more drugs than everybody else.................. .....but anyway.....So I threw peace signs in his face while he was rappin that murder shit..........then when they were done.....one of his 20 hypemen/karaoke pantomimers...dropped the mic....so I picked it up and said sumn like "peace y'all!...can we stop this Demonic Murder shit?!!!Can we stop this Violence???!!!".....then they turned off the mic....bout 2 minutes later....K-Slay and Papoose were like "who the fuk said that!!!!!"....So I came back to the stage and said ME!!....and K-Slay was like "Who the fuck are you!!!!!!!!!!we're are you from!!!!"...I was like "ATL!!!"......and Papoose and crew were like let's take this outside!!!...and I said "No let's do it here....gimmie the mic!!!"....K-Slay wouldn't give me the mic ...he also said sumn like "How do you have dreadlocks when youre from Atlanta!!"....then some of paps people started attacking me from behind!!!!.....and the "Drama" king was like ..."don't tap him up!!"....so I through up peace symbols with both hands......then the security jumped in and escorted me to a corner and protected me.....as this was happening...k-slay flipped his position and started screaming "that guy's starting a fight!!!...he's a crackhead.....who gave a crackhead the mic!!!" ......THIS REALLY HAPPENED.....K-Slay Called me a Crackhead!!!....



If you enjoy listening to lyrics that promote the destruction of "black" African peoples then you might also like groups such as Dipset or the Game or everybody's favorite 50 Cent..even Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls reaped the fruits of their hysteria.....you might also wanna check out the Cam'ron gangster flick called Killa season which is quickly becoming a "ghetto" and suburban classic. Why are "black" Males in the pop music world seen as Killers and animalistic misogynists while "white" pop musicians are seen as emo or just regular guys! Furthermore, music fans see their favorite artists as real versus the hollywood actors whom they know are just presenting a false story. This is why violent rap music is an extremely big problem in the African american community. the kids look up to these people... I once taught an afterschool program in East New York where 7 year olds had seen Killa season so many times that they actually memorized the lines! I even here little children walking down the street saying Murder Murder Murder everyday!!! STOP THE VIOLENCE!!!!!!

--to update everyone, after this video was originally release a year and a half a go, at least 120,000 people saw it before it was deleted. Since then...Papoose has started to see the light. Hopefully this talented brother will cross over to OUR side. we need more Troops. I'm quite sad to see Kay Slay grow from a wild style graffiti kid into a Don King type gangster fight promoter. He made a fool of himself in this situation dissing the snap dance music of the south in exchange for self-hating egotistical thug baboon Macho coonery.It's also interesting that media outlets such as MTV or BET ....or even the Source or Vibe for that matter have never to this date covered this story...though after leaving his position at Teen Summit, AJ concurred that we must stop the Demonic Violence.

Summer Music

From the

Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID

Contact: Lori Raphael

Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID

(718) 951-5000, ext 1449

Flatbush Development Corp., Flatbush Avenue BID, Church Avenue BID and Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID have collaborated to organize the Flatbush Edition of Make Music New York. Make Music New York is an annual citywide free music event taking place on June 21. Last year there were over 500 locations throughout the City and this year there are expected to be many more. Make Music New York in its Flatbush locations will feature a full afternoon of music in the street, in convenient locations, within easy walking distance to each other. Performers will represent styles ranging from soul to hip hop, gospel to techno-jazz, spoken word to rock.

Join the greater Flatbush community in celebrating summer with Make Music New York-Flatbush Edition, at the following locations:

Corner of Church Avenue and Ocean Avenue

2PM to 5PM

Corner Flatbush Avenue/Church Avenue

2Pm to 6 PM

1456 Flatbush Avenue

Btwn Glenwood/Farragut at Ladies Workout Express

1:30 to 6 PM

Newkirk Plaza Block Party

Btwn E.16 and 17 St.

11 AM to 6 PM

Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID
2900 Bedford Avenue
1221 Ingersoll Hall
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5000, Ext 1449
flatbushjunctionbid@yahoo.com