Newark – It was no small feat, even for a dogged group like the People’s Organization for Progress and its …Read the Rest
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The Star-Ledger: Rally to Remember Police Brutality Against 62 Yr Old Woman
East Orange - Esmay Parchment remembers the details of Feb. 4, 2001, with brutal clarity. She was in the shower …Read the Rest
Nearly 200 march in Newark to protest economic inequality By David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — The chants have the same message. The signs have the same words.
But the usual suspects in the world of Newark dissent have a lot more voices joining their ranks.
Close to 200 people marched from the Essex County Hall of Records, to City Hall to the Prudential building on Broad Street Tuesday night, protesting unrelenting economic conditions they say have had an outsize effect on urban communities. Newark’s unemployment rate skyrocketed after the economic collapse and has hovered around 15 percent for the past two years.
Newark activists start 381-day protest calling on U.S. government to institute jobs program By David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger
“We are more than a half-century away from the Montgomery bus boycott, but we are dealing with issues just as pressing,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress.
From Newark to Washington: Busing to Obama’s big day
Star-Ledger columnist Mark DiIonno and photographer Robert Sciarrino are traveling by bus with people from Newark to Washington, D.C., for the Obama inauguration. Here are real-time dispatches.