{"id":55,"date":"2020-07-17T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:56:31","slug":"opportunities-for-action-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/opportunities-for-action-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities for Action &#8211; July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>NEW PRIORITIES FOR DUTCHESS<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite financial crisis and looming layoffs, Dutchess County plans to begin construction of a new $200 million jail&#8211;one that would hold 328 people, when we currently have 140 in the jail.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The county legislature will vote July 9 at 5:30 pm on whether to move forward with the project. Please join the community in a silent protest outside the County Office Building from 4 to 5:30PM and join 200 participants who will line up (6&#8242; distant) on Market St. holding million-dollar signs, while others will bring signs expressing alternative budget priorities. Please bring a mask and a friend!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lead organizers of the event are the Democratic Caucus of the Dutchess County Legislature, the Progressive Black and Latino Caucus, and End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) of Poughkeepsie. Other co-sponsors are Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson; Race Unity Circle; Stop the Violence; Celebrating the African Spirit; Beacon Prison Action; Justice for Aleesa; Dutchess County Progressive Action\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To voice your opinion before the vote:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.dutchessny.gov\/Departments\/County-Legislature\/Dutchess-County-Legislators.htm <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW PRIORITIES FOR DUTCHESS Despite financial crisis and looming layoffs, Dutchess County plans to begin construction of a new $200 million jail&#8211;one that would hold 328 people, when we currently have 140 in the jail.\u00a0 The county legislature will vote July 9 at 5:30 pm on whether to move forward with the project. Please join &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/opportunities-for-action-july-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opportunities for Action &#8211; July 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232838,240436],"tags":[233740,209547,149608,234747,57537,234093,225574,234463,149682,231858,233191,234950,233463,232165,233923],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-opportunity","category-community-initiatives-and-events","tag-beacon-prison-action","tag-celebrating-the-african-spirit","tag-city-of-poughkeepsie","tag-democratic-caucus-of-dutchess-county-legislature","tag-dutchess-county","tag-dutchess-county-progressive-action","tag-enjan","tag-justice-for-aleesa","tag-nobody-leaves-mid-hudson","tag-police-reform","tag-prison-reform","tag-progressive-black-and-latino-caucus","tag-race-unity-circle","tag-racial-justice","tag-stop-the-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}