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February 15, 2011

Eye on Bed-Stuy – February

Robert G. Thompson is a multimedia journalist, writer, and filmmaker, keeping a regular photographer’s eye on Central Brooklyn.

 

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Brooklyn Movement Center

The Brooklyn Movement Center (the “MC”) is a membership-led, direct-action, community organizing body based in Central Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and the surrounding area). We bring together residents to identify important issues in their lives, win concrete improvements in their community, and build power. The Brooklyn MC is staffed by local organizers, supported by volunteers, governed by a community-based board of directors, and guided by an advisory group made up of activists and organizers from across the city

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Stories of Stop & Frisk: Manny W.
On March 26, 2014
Listen to Manny W. talk about how a constant police presence...