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“Sex workers are really good at creating community because we know grief very well.” - Fera
Community and grief live side by side.
🎟️ Hear Fera's and others stories at our NYC screenings on Oct 23 and Oct 28 - www.sexworkfilm.com
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Great shot from last night’s launch event for “A People’s Surveillance Handbook for New York.”
Photo by Anna Lee
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Find the handbook here: www.stopspying.org/peoples-hand...
Fantastic panel following our screening at Brooklyn College yesterday
07.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Come see the film at the Workers Unite Film Festival at Cinema Villiage on the 23rd. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/program-19...
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Great screening last night at the Feirstein School of Film at BrooklynCollege (@brooklyncollege.bsky.socialbrooklyncollege.bsky.social).
09.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Check out the new NYC voter guide from the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) and @psjpbc.bsky.social.
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Tomorrow evening! Get your tickets today!
02.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We’re screening the film in London this Friday! Visit the link for details.
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Our NYC premier will be Sept. 9th 7pm.at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan. Tickets: www.nywift.org/event/member...
13.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1PSJP Coordinator Alex Vitale recently joined “Behind the News” to discuss Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD.
Listen here: www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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fresh audio product:
• Alex Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, the NYPD, and policing generally
• Dwayne Monroe on the AI mania
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Dr. Manisha Shah, an economist, explains that the sex industry is an industry much like any other. A clip from our upcoming documentary: “Sex Work: It’s Just a Job”
Please reach out if you are interested in hosting a screening.
Save the date. We will have a screening of the film at the Quad Cinema in NYC on September 9th. Stay tuned for details.
15.07.2025 22:00 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
PSJP Coordinator Alex Vitale is quoted multiple times in this recent article from @truthout.org
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By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators | Truthout
New trailer! Repost to help us spread the word about the documentary.
Please reach out if you’re interested in hosting a screening!
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Happy to share that the next screening will be in San Antonio on August 23rd at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center.
If you are interested in hosting a screening, let us know at: itsjustajobmovie@gmail.com.
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Think about this:
03.07.2025 12:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Article by @ariaripaulpaul.bsky.social
30.06.2025 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Times has capitulated to neoliberal austerity, which accepts that cities have no choice but to cut services and turn the real estate market over to billionaires, and then use policing to manage the chaos that ensues.” (4/4)
30.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1They understand that the solution to this decades old problem is not endlessly using police to cycle people through jails and hospitals, but instead to develop actual supportive housing and other essential social services…(3/4)
30.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0homeless mentally ill people on the subway and other public spaces.” But, he argues:
Ironically, Mamdani and to some extent [Comptroller Brad] Lander are the candidates who have actual plans to address the kind of disorder that pearl-clutching Times readers are worried about… (2/4)
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“Alex Vitale, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, suggested that—”given that crime rates are at or near historic low”—the Times‘ “disorder” is likely “the presence of… (1/4)
This past weekend Prof. Vitale spoke on “Building an Abolitionist Approach into Grassroots
Organizing” at the Seeds of Change conference in Manhassset, Long Island. @alexvitale.bsky.social
Prof. Vitale will be speaking at “Seeds of Change: Redefining Policing and Public Safety” tomorrow, Saturday, June 21. @alexvitale.bsky.social
20.06.2025 13:04 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1The roots of this seeming contradiction can be found in the decision of these mayors to rely on local police to criminalize anything they deem disorderly, with devastating consequences for our poorest communities and the right to protest.”
Read the full article at the link above.
That is, even in sanctuary cities that claim to support their immigrant residents and restrict collaboration between ICE and local police, the police are essential to ICE’s success…
19.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0“While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE actions — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants themselves…
19.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A new article from Prof. Alex Vitale and Prof. William Lopez in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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I'll be speaking at this event on Saturday on Long Island.
18.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This past Friday, Prof. Vitale appeared on KPFA Radio’s “Up Front” to discuss the role of local police in assisting ICE.
Listen at the link below.
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