WHO WE ARE

The Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a community organizing group based in Bed-Stuy. The BMC brings together residents of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights to identify issues of importance to them, build power and improve conditions in their community.

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The Power Lever Project:
Who is running for office in Brooklyn's 36th City Council District? What do they want to see happening in the district? What do they think about the issues that matter to you?
Voting Limits
Voting shouldn’t be an isolated spectator event, but an act of coordinated collective power. It is a single pivotal moment along a trajectory of advanced social action that continues long after the voting booths are unplugged.
The Generational Fuckedupness of Gun Violence
How can we get to a place where we can say, reminiscent of Whitney, “gun violence is wack,” instead of thinking that we can simply “say no” to gun violence through gun legislation.
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Hollaback!: Finding Effective Solutions to Street Harassment
Criminalizing verbal harassment and unwanted gestures is neither the final goal nor the ultimate solution to this problem and can, in fact, inadvertently work against the growth of an inclusive anti-harassment movement.

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What we all have in common is a desire to improve economic and social conditions in New York City. We are hundreds strong, potentially thousands. And if we mobilize, we will take control of the future of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. Join Us.

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Voting Limits

Few people consider voting subversive activity. In fact, we think of it in quite opposite terms. In

The Power Lever Project

The race to represent District 36 in the NYC Council is well underway. If you live Bedford-St

The Generational Fuckedupness of Gun Violence

“Crack is wack!” Not sure if that enlightening epiphany by the illustrious Whitney Houston was meant

Hollaback!: Finding Effective Solutions to Street Harassment

By Debjani Roy, Hollaback! When it comes to combating street harassment, increasing criminalization

It has come to this: We want you to take over the BMC.

It has come to this: We want you to take over the BMC. How? It begins with a membership form, dues,

Stories of Stop & Frisk: Malcolm S.

Listen to Malcolm S. talk about the various constitutional violations inherent in the practice of St

Featuring… Charla Harlow!

Charla Harlow (of the Harlow Project) was with us at the Chalk Party in Fulton Park on Monday, April

Bed-Stuy community group battles harassment of women with chalk-drawn messages in local park

By Rebecca Ibarra and Lore Croghan They made their chalk talk back. Fed up with wolf whistles and cr

Responses to the Shit Men Say in Defense of Street Harassment

During our Anti-Street Harassment chalk party last week, Anthonine and I spoke to guys, young and ol

Women Fight Back Against Jeers and Catcalls

By Tanay Warerkar On a recent morning while riding the subway to work in Brooklyn, Stephanie Smith (

The Debrief with David Ushery: Anti- Street Harassment Movement

David Ushery sits down with Marly Pierre-Louis and Anthonine Pierre from the Brooklyn Movement Cente

Street Harassment Posters Spark Dialogue

By Kat Noel It was on a trip to the neighborhood laundromat that I first saw Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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