Curtains Almost Clock Christie at Town Hall: MyFoxNY.com
Two weeks ago, Gov. Christie set off a firestorm of controversy when he said that civil rights issues should be voted on through the use of a popular referendum, immediately drawing a backlash from civil rights activists.
The Rudin Family : The New Robber Barons ?
Jason Sheftell, a real estate promoter, published an editorial in The New York Daily News, in which he reported some facts and some half-truths about the controversial closing of St. Vincent's Hospital and the Rudin family's luxury condo conversion of the hospital's real estate properties.
"Local activists, who blame the pro-development city forces for the loss of the hospital, hold vigils outside the building," wrote Mr. Sheftell, in his real estate column about the dangers of the Rudin luxury condo conversion plan.
Mr. Sheftell noted that with the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital, the response and transport times by ambulance or EMS will put people's lives in jeopardy. "It’ll take 12 minutes longer to get to a hospital in an emergency. That could spell death for heart attack or stroke victims."
But Mr. Sheftell claims that activists are not targeting the Rudin family, which is false. Activists have been bird-dogging the figurehead of the Rudin family : Bill Rudin, and other activists have launched entire Facebook pages and events around the tarnished Rudin family name.
Not only that, but it was reported that the Manhattan District Attorney was investigating whether the Rudin family was criminally involved in St. Vincent's Hospital's demise, so that the Family could make hundreds of millions of dollars from the luxury condo conversion. At some point, if it hasn't yet already, the Rudin family name will become synonymous with the pejorative : "robber baron."
Do Protesters Have To Leave A Coffin Outside St. Vincent's, To Demonstrate How Deadly The Rudin Luxury Condo Plan Really Is ?
The people, who live around the Rudin Luxury Condo Conversion Project at St. Vincent's Hospital, will live a life of a nightmare for years : they will be living next to a major construction project that will stir up asbestos, rodents, noise, and other construction-related pollution. And this is not even taking into consideration the fact that the luxury condominiums and townhouses are replacing a full-service hospital, meaning, that there is no no where to go if residents (including the luxury condo buyers) have asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes, or trauma. All this courtesy of Seventh Avenue Socialite Amanda Burden and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
"Soap actor commits suicide after pup's 'forced' euthanasia," reported The New York Post
Nick Santino overdosed on pills on the evening of Tuesday, January 24, hours after he was ''forced'' to euthanise his beloved dog, Rocco, on account of because of relentless pressure from residents and board members of his Upper West Side condo.
Already, animal rights activists are spreading information about an action alert against the condo board and management company for One Lincoln Plaza.
A Facebook event entitled "Hounded to Death in New York City - Anti-Breed Discrimination Protest" began to be circulated on the Internet tonight by a group called No Kill New York.
Watch a 2010 news segment about the crackdown against dogs and their caregivers by the crazy condo board members of One Lincoln Plaza, at West 64th Street.
Candlelight Vigil at St. Vincent's Hospital on Nov. 7, 2011
Activists, who are fighting a hospital to replace St. Vincent's, ask these questions : (i) where is the community supposed to go when they are having a medical emergency, and (ii) is the Rudin family really a "benevolent" family ?
Link to Fox 5 News Report : Long Emergency Room Wait Times In NYC.
This video was made on 07 Nov 2011 on West 12th Street, outside the Rudin Luxury Condo sales office on the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital.
Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street in the West Village.
With St. Vincent’s closed, the West Side still has no hospital beds below 57th Street. How can we bring a hospital back to our community ? How can we get true universal healthcare ? Come Join the Discussion ! RSVP at the Facebook page for the St. Vincent's Community Assembly.
This "town hall" is a consensus-based conversation facilitated by HEALTHCARE FOR THE 99%, an OCCUPY WALL STREET working group.
2012-01-31 St Vincents Community Assembly - Luxury Condos Cant Do CPR
Earlier in the Day, activists for a single-payer healthcare system gathered at Union Square.
Activists advocating for a hospital to replace St. Vincent's, for example, joined in solidarity with the Physicians for a National Health Program, who held a speak-out on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
Stop Closing Hospitals !
In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman." In this video, activists protested outside St. Vincent's Hospital to say that it is unacceptable that hospitals are being closed in New York City with no plan to meet emergency, trauma, or critical care healthcare services. The healthcare gap that is being created is leading to a major divide between emergency healthcare between the haves and the have-nots, something that Dr. King would not have wanted.
NYPD Revenge - Police Arrest Jazz Hayden in retaliation for his Video Copwatch in Harlem
From AllThingsHarlem.com :
On December 2, 2011 - Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Founder of allthingsharlem.com, was arrested by the NYPD in retaliation by 2 officers he filmed in an earlier Copwatch this summer.
Jazz and All Things Harlem are asking for your support with his case and to fight for the right to film and report on the police activity in our communities - which have turned into police states.
Jazz's next Court Date is January 19, 2012 at 100 Centre Street Criminal Court, Part F, 9:30 a.m.
Updated with photo of Blue Ivy Carter : Beyoncé's Celebrity Birth : Lenox Hill will evict the 99% out of hospital beds, so that it can cater to the 1%.
With more and more hospitals closing in the New York City area, Manhattan's luxury Lenox Hill Hospital closed one of its wings to accommodate Beyoncé Knowles' celebrity birth.
Critics of Lenox Hill Hospital claim that the hospital dually limited patients' access to healthcare and limited visitors' access to patients during the security "lockdown."
According to The New York Times, compliance staff from the New York State Department of Health were in contact with Lenox Hill Hospital, to determine whether Lenox Hill Hospital was in violation of regulations by the extreme "lockdown" conditions in its celebrity maternity ward.
According to TMZ.com, a breastfeeding mother support group is threatening to sue Lenox Hill Hospital as a result of the hospital giving priority healthcare to celebrities (the 1%) -- at the cost of throwing out average patients (the 99%).
No comment yet from North Shore-LIJ, the parent holding company for Lenox Hill Hospital, whether this is how they will treat average health care patients at the new Lenox Hill urgent care clinic at the O'Toole building.
With St. Vincent's closed, the West Side still has no hospital beds below 57th Street. How can we bring a hospital back to our community ?
How can we get true universal healthcare ? Come Join the Discussion ! RSVP at the Facebook page for the Luxury Condos Can't Do CPR ! St. Vincent's Community Assembly.
