Radical Elders in Action

We ain’t done yet!

Hands Off Venezuela • August 17, 2024

Radical Elders joined the rally held on Saturday August 17, 2024 in support of  Venezuela’s sovereignty and democracy against the imperialist assault. The group met inside and then outside Fox TV headquarters (NewsCorp) at 1211 6th Ave) at 11 a.m. 

National Day of Mourning • July 28, 2024

semicircle of activists, many holding signs surrounding intersection of Broad and Market streets in Newark, N.J.
activists gather across the street from an Essex County building in Newark, N.J.; man in red shirt is with a boy holding a POP sign calling for justice, 3 people wearing POP T-shirts, 1 with a drum, 1 with 2 flags (POP and PanAfrican), and 1 with a sign
quarter of Broad and Market streets’ intersection, Newark, N.J., with PanAfrican, Black Lives Matter, and People’s Organization for Progress flags in the center, surrounded by activists, many holding POP signs with different text on each
half of Broad and Market streets’ intersection, Newark, N.J., with PanAfrican, Black Lives Matter, and People’s Organization for Progress flags in the center, surrounded by activists, many holding POP signs with different text on each
Activists at rally in Newark intersection, holding signs calling for Justice for Sonya Massey, passing Police Review Board legislation, and justice for Andrew Jerome Washington III.

On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, an unarmed 36 year-old Black mother of two, who called 911 for assistance, was shot in the face and killed by a Sangamon County deputy sheriff in her home in downtown Springfield, Illinois.

Sean Grayson, a white police officer, shot Massey in the face three times when he killed her. He has been fired from his job and charged with murder. It has been revealed that he held jobs with five other police departments in the last four years.

This protest, this past Sunday was sponsored by the People’s Organization For Progress (POP) and co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) Study Group, Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, All Politics Are Local, Newark Anti-Violence Coalition and other groups.

We had a good, powerful gathering and we shut down the usually busy Newark intersection at Broad and Market for something like 45mins to an hour. Justice for Sonya Massey! Stop Police Brutality! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 

Summer of Heat

Wall Street, Stop Funding Death! • July 15 – 13, 2024

Elders Week! • July 8 – 13, 2024

We have been at a number of Summer of Heat events, not just during Elders Week, but all summer long! Join Stop the Money Pipeline, New York Communities for Change, Third Act, and more to be sure that Citigroup gets the message: stop funding fossil fuels!

Activists outside Citigroup entrance stand around 3 lying on the floor as part of a “die-in”.
Activists carrying signs opposing fossil fuels gather surrounding a chalk outline.
Activists with cardboard gravestones and other signs stand in rows outside Citigroup headquarters entrance during the rally before the civil disobedience action.

Radical Elders (including Ana Juarbe, Ted Glick and Angel Roman) joined Climate activists from the elder group Third Act who held a mock-funeral in front of Citibank’s headquarters in Manhattan to protest the climate crisis on Monday, July 8.

Third Act  said it was “demanding that #WallStreet​ banks and financiers stop using our hard-earned retirement savings to fund the #climatecrisis​,” calling Citibank “the world’s biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion.”

Lnk to Footage below taken by New York Communities for Change

Newark Rebellion Anniversary • July 12, 2024

Two activists hold a sign reading END POVERTY; People’s Organization from Progress.
Activists outside Newark’s Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery at the end of the march; some hold People’s Organization signs, the central one saying “STOP POLICE BRUTALITY!”. The speaker, in black slacks and top with a red jacket, holds a microphone; to her left, along with the sign, activist hold a PanAfrican red-black-green flag and a People’s Organization for Progress flag, with their logo on a yellow field
Activsts poose for a group shot, fists raised and holding People’s Organization for Progress flags with various slogans, as we as a Black Lives Matter flag and a Veterans for Oeace flag.
Black activists, one with a microphone, stand in a Newark crosswalk, just off the curb. Visible on one People ’s Organization for Progress sing is the word Justice, with NT before it—it might say “IMMIGRANT JUSTICE”.
Activists—woman in African print blouse and white bucket hat, and man in jeans, yellow POP T-shirt, and blue baseball cap, stand behind a People’s Organization for Progress sign with a photo of Malcom X that also says “MALCOM X: OUR FREEDOM FIGHTER”.
Activists in Newark on grassy area, seen from the side of the action, as though the photographer is in the group.

RE Kevin Norton and his comrade Ren represented Northern NJ DSA at the commemoration march and rally that started at the Rebellion Memorial at 250 Springfield Ave. Larry Hamm read off the names on the memorial (26, but disputed), and theh the group marched to the old police precinct at 17th Ave (now the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery). 

Take Back Tech Conference • June 21–23, 2024

Radical Elders leaders Ana Juarbe, Maritza Arrastia, Alfredo Lopez, Makani Themba and Angel Roman (left to right) led the RE workshop at the Take Back Tech conference.

The June 21 – 23 Take Back Tech II conference in Chicago — sponsored by Mijente and Media Justice — drew over 400 activists. Radical Elders was there with a highly successful and well-attended workshop.

Supporting Columbia Students • April 30, 2024

Group of elders march with our red Radical Elders banner.

A delegation of some 20 members of Radical Elders assembled at the main gate to Columbia University at 12 noon on April 30th at 116th Street and Broadway. We remained for several hours after making a statement in support of the students inside the University’s locked-down main quad.