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Co-op City Branch President Jerome Rice is a
long time Bronx resident who has served 22 years
in the Armed Forces, and 21 years in the NYC
Department of Correction. He was a 9/11 First
Responder, the former Director for 100 Blacks in
Law Enforcement Who Care and the co-founder
of the Blacks in Law Enforcement Alliance.
Jerome recently accepted the New York State
NAACP’s Medgar W. Evers award on behalf of
It’s Not a War on Drugs
Free Wi-Fi in Co-op City
It’s not a war on drugs. Don’t ever think it’s a war
on drugs. It’s a war on the Blacks. It started as a
war on the Blacks; it’s now spread to Hispanics
and poor Whites. But initially it was a war on
Blacks. And it was designed basically to take that
energy that was coming out of the Civil Rights
Movement and destroy it.
Red Hook WiFi is a
community-led effort to
close the digital divide,
generate
economic
opportunity, facilitate
access to essential
services and improve quality of life in Red Hook,
Brooklyn via the deployment of a wireless Internet
network. In partnership with local businesses and
residents, Red Hook WiFi is providing access to
the Internet. Additionally, each time a user signs
on to the network, their splash page displays local
events, places of businesses, local news, jobs
listings and more. It is completely free to users.
Let’s emulate this program in Co-op City.
~ Ed Burns, co-creator of HBO’s The Wire
the Co-op City executive board, for the on-going
fight towards stop and frisk. Day in and day out
Jerome reported to 250 Broadway with the
attempt to speak to each City Councilman that
was not supporting the Community Safety Act
1079 and 1080. Jerome along with others also
participated in the press conference on the stairs
of City Hall standing on the side of justice.
The Co-op City Branch of NAACP was
organized in 1973. The objective was to bring the
principles of the National Organization to Co-op
City to fight for freedom, justice, equality and the
constitutional rights of Co-op City residents.
[On June 27, 2013, two of the Community Safety Act
bills were passed by the City Council with veto-proof
majorities of 34 to 17 (1080) and 40 to 11 (1079). On
July 23, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed both
bills. On August 22, 2013, the City Council overrode
the vetoes on 1080 (34 for, 15 against, 2 abstentions)
and 1079 (39 for, 10 against, 2 abstentions).]
In 2012, more than 3,200 people were serving life
in prison without parole for nonviolent crimes.
Co-op City Branch
Get Americans Working!
President – Jerome Rice
Free Up Unlicensed Spectrum
718-320-3210
Sign the petition to President Obama, Congress,
[email protected]
“FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has said that having
and the FCC Commissioners which says:
sufficient unlicensed spectrum (e.g. Wifi) will be
key
to
American
competitiveness.
innovation
and
global
President Obama, Congress,
and the FCC please free up the unlicensed
(PHOTO L-R) Damon K. Jones, Jerome Rice, Brooklyn
Borough President Eric Adams, and Marquez Claxton.
spectrum and get Americans working again.”
Sign at: StartUpTown.Wordpress.com
Shrink Your Mobile Phone Bill
With The Power of Wi-Fi
Instead of ensuring that everyone in America can
compete in a global economy, instead of narrowing the
divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting
competitive free markets for American inventions that
use information—instead, that is, of ensuring that
America will lead the world in the information age—U.S.
politicians have chosen to keep Comcast and its fellow
giants happy.
~ Captive Audience by Susan Crawford
U.S. families spend an average of $139 a
month on cell phones — $1,668 a year — up
from $127 a month in 2009. Now free unlimited
talk, text, and data for your mobile phone is now
available. This offer is based on using
unlicensed spectrum. More information at:
StartUpTown.Wordpress.com
Mobile Phone Network
in Rural DR Congo
StartUpTown will be teaming up with the
Salvation Army to bring a mobile phone
network to a rural village in
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
the
Play The State Champ
StartUpTown
StartUpTown is a non-profit helping to create
startup communities. We support entrepreneurial
businesses especially ones that serve independent locally-owned businesses. Neighborhoods
with thriving independent businesses saw home
values outperform citywide markets by 50% over
the last 14 years. Counties with a greater concentration of locally-owned businesses have
healthier populations with lower rates of mortality.
New York State High School Chess
Champion Joshua Colas will give a chess
exhibition at the Larchmont Library on
Saturday, March 8th at 11am.
“Don’t just say that black unemployment is four times
that of whites. Say that black businesses only get 2
percent of the $1 trillion of black buying power, and then
say that black businesses are the greatest private
employer of black people.” ~ Maggie Anderson
The Fortune 500 has been responsible for a net loss in
jobs. All the growth (and your best chance to get hired)
is from companies you’ve probably never heard of. And
when the hirer is also the owner, the rules are very
different. Read more at StartUpTown.Wordpress.com
in the article “How to Get a Job Today.”
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Terrance is very proud of his daughter Tia
March 8th at 2pm Screening w/
Director Katie Dellamaggiore
At Larchmont Library
who plays rugby at Stanford University.
Terrance Jackson is the founder of
StartUpTown. Terrance was a New York
City teacher, Spring Valley HS (Rockland)
head track coach, and computer
programmer at IBM. He is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania with a BS
in Computer Science. He is the author of
Putting It All Together and developed a
local TV show called Live From VA.
For more information contact
[email protected]
StartUpTown.Wordpress.com