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A crowd gathers at a People’s Organization for Progress rally to protest police brutality on August 17, 2020 in Newark, New Jersey. The Peoples Organization for Progress has gathered every Monday for their Justice Mondays since 2016, only taking a few weeks off during the coronavirus.
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When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2021, Newark, New Jersey, reached a policing milestone. The city’s police had gone an entire calendar year without firing a shot at a civilian. It was a big deal: A department criticized by local activists and residents, one under the watchful eye of the federal government, finished 2020 without killing anyone the first time since 2015.
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On March 24 activist Larry Hamm, who is the chair of the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.), marked 50 years of activism with a rally of activists with roots in student activism. The event commemorated the day Hamm led a walkout of students at Arts High School in support of the now historic Newark Teachers’ Strike in 1971.
The day Hamm led the walkout, students marched through downtown Newark and conducted a sit-in at the Newark Board of Education demanding that the Board come to terms with the teachers for the sake of salvaging their school year and demanding that students have more direct say in their education among some 25 other demands that they made.
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The Weequahic Park Kite Event is a community-friendly event designed to bring families together with resources for their children. The event started in the spring of 2013 by the Weequahic Park Sports Authority; a Conservancy member organization with the County of Essex.
The coup attempt, law enforcement and white supremacy | Opinion
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 01, 2021
Larry Hamm, president of People s Organization for Progress, says the double standard of policing must end whether it occurs at protests or in the daily interactions between police and civilians. Above, supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP
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By Lawrence Hamm
President Trump’s failed fascist and racist attempted coup that took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 highlights the need to end racial disparities in policing. If police can exercise restraint and show respect for the first amendment rights and right to protest of white supremacist terrorists who launched a violent attack on the Capitol, then they should do the same for Black and brown people and everyone else.
Protesters call for federal civil rights probe into fatal police shooting in Newark
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Civil rights activists are calling on New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor to investigate the fatal shooting of Carl Dorsey III by a Newark plainclothes detective, after authorities released a videotape of the chaotic, deadly encounter just after midnight on New Year’s Day, and appeared to contradict an earlier assertion by local officials that weapons were recovered at the scene.
“Tonight, I’m calling publicly on Rachel Honig, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, to launch a civil rights investigation into the murder of Carl Dorsey,” said People’s Organization for Progress Chairman Lawrence Hamm, addressing two dozen protestors gathered in the bitter cold Thursday night at the scene of shooting on South 11th Street at Woodlawn Avenue.