From Carl Hancock Rux:
“NYC police have the largest budget in America. Two years ago The American Public Health Association voted on a position that policing in the United States is a public health problem—police violence is a public-health problem. Eight percent of all [male] homicides in the United States are committed by police. The solution is not more training but reducing our reliance on policing. We need a reconceptualization of how the city (and society) is run. Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, largely removing police from the drug business. It has been such a success that the Portuguese police travel around the world trying to convince other people to turn it over to public-health services. HIV-infection rates have fallen, overdoses have fallen, and civilization has not collapsed. We have to call out zero-tolerance policing postures, we have to shift the discourse from a conversation about police accountability to a conversation about political accountability. And yes, we need to look at egregiously underfunded areas like education, the arts, free public healthcare, and drug intervention/rehabilitation programs.”
THEATERS FOR BUDGET JUSTICE: New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, New Georges, The Movement Theatre Company, HERE, Target Margin, Signature Theatre, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, Ma-Yi, WP Theater, Mabou Mines, Bushwick Starr, St Ann’s Warehouse, The Foundry Theatre, Nature’s Darlings, The Public Theater, National Black Theater, Abrons Art Center, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place, New Ohio Theatre, Performance Space New York, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
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