with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., March 27, 7 – 8 pm EST
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Say His Name: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN!
Confronting Terror Attacks Against African-Americans,
Resisting White Supremacy, Combating White Nationalism!
Timothy Caughman, 66, was a former social worker, who, in
his retirement years, had taken to recycling to keep busy and
help pay his rent. Caughman was African-American, which
made him a target for his professed killer, who stabbed him
to death with a sword, a white supremacist who admitted
traveling to NYC from Baltimore to kill a Black man because
"New York is the media capital of the world". The killing of
Timothy Caughman was a hate crime and an act of terrorism.
We should also think of it as a lynching, the latest episode
in an American form of racial violence that stretches back
to the 19th century. To describe this attack as a lynching
is to emphasize the reality of anti-black violence, its
persistence through time, and the way in which it’s
justified and the failure of our society to fully excavate our
past to grapple with the present. By understanding Timothy
Caughman’s murder as a lynching, we gain clarity into how
racial violence is more than hate—how it’s meant to enforce
racial caste by making an example of any unfortunate person
of African ancestry who circumstantially crossed the path of
the white supremacist. We must understand Timothy
Caughman’s murder as a modern lynching, for we have yet to
understand and grapple with the legacy of racial oppression
and its current manifestations as a society.
To call Timothy Caughman’s murder an act of terrorism is
also to re-contextualize the age of lynching as an earlier age
of terrorism, forgotten by most, but whose wounds still fester
and which scars remain prevalent in the collective memories
of African-Americans.
And there is a political context for white supremacy and white
nationalism flaring up anew. Donald Trump, has yet to
comment on the extraordinary murder of Timothy Caughman,
issue condolences to his family, or condemn this act of terror.
He did choose to relate to and send a message of condolence
about an American victim of terrorism in London. Trump never
condemned the January shooting at a Québec mosque that took
six lives, and it took him a week to condemn the killing of an
Indian computer engineer in Kansas. "J'accuse ...!" Black Lives
Matter: Timothy Caughman’s death renews the challenge for us
to tear out root and branch, the cultural, social, economic and
political systemic manifestations of racism and the impediments
to equality. Say HIS NAME: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN!
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OSHA Under Trump:
Dismantling Workers Health & Safety Protections
with
Nadia Marin-Molina is Associate Director, New York Committee
for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
Legal experts are predicting significant changes for worker safety
regulation under Trump. Trump offers the unprecedented case of an
incoming President who has been fined multiple times by the
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for safety
violations at his worksites. His businesses also have relied on
contractors and subcontractors who have been hit with major
penalties. One of his contractors was fined $104,000 after a
construction worker fell 42 stories to his death in 2008 at the Trump
SoHo hotel condominium in N.YC.. The penalty was later reduced to
$44,000.
Now legal experts fear a new direction for OSHA, regulations could be
undone, funding could decrease and strategies for worker safety could
shift 180 degrees. On the campaign trail, Trump touted his belief in
smaller government with fewer rules. He vowed to eliminate two
regulations for every new one enacted. He promised to “ease the
burdens on big businesses”. Trump seeks to steer OSHA more
toward compliance assistance and away from enforcement and we’ll
drill down to unearth the regulations in jeopardy and access what they
mean for workers health and safety and what’s to become of anti-
retaliation protections for workers.
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NYers Demand Freedom for Palestinian Prisoners
& Call for Boycott of Hewlett-Packard Products
with
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
We join protestors that gathered outside the Best Buy in Union Square
to demand freedom for Palestinian prisoners and to urge shoppers to
boycott Hewlett-Packard (HP) products until the corporation ends its
contracts with Israeli prisons, checkpoints and other repressive
mechanisms.
The protest, organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity
Network, focused on the hunger strikes of Palestinian prisoners
demanding their release from imprisonment without charge or trial
under administrative detention. Palestinian prisoners including
Mohammed Alaqimah , Raafat Shalash and Mahmoud Saada are
currently refusing food to demand their freedom, while thousands of
prisoners will participate in a collective hunger strike scheduled to
begin on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Out of nearly 7,000
Palestinian prisoners, around 600 are held in administrative detention;
among other issues highlighted by the hunger strikers, Palestinian
prisoners are also demanding an end to constant denials of family
visits.
Protestors also urged consumers to boycott HP who provides much of
the technology infrastructure that Israel uses to maintain its system of
apartheid and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people. HP is
the primary contractor for the Israeli biometric access control system
in its military checkpoints and apartheid wall; it provides the database
system for the Israel Prison Service that manages the imprisonment of
Palestinians. HP even provides technology used by the Israeli navy to
impose the siege on Gaza and fire upon, destroy boats and seize
Gaza fishermen.
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