Hero Newark Mayor Saved Woman From Fire

In Newark, Mayor Saves a Woman From a Fire

Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark carried a woman out of a burning house and was treated for smoke inhalation on Thursday night. Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York announced his latest budget cuts to FDNY and a new list of proposed firehouse closings. "Look, see ? We don't need all these firehouses in Queens and Brooklyn, we have superhero people like Cory Booker, who save lives on their time off. We just have to find a way to make Mayor Booker to move to Long Island City," Mayor Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg ECTP Fraud Investigation

What Is The Status Of The Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP) Fraud Investigation ?

From the Office of the New York City Comptroller :

"ECTP is now a billion dollars over budget, from an estimated $1.3 billion, to now an estimated $2.3 billion (City Capital Commitment plan, dated February 2012.) The project was scheduled to be completed in 2008. The latest figures released by Mayor Bloomberg now peg completion in 2015 - seven years behind schedule."

Bloomberg Hiding 911 Statistics

Court Orders Mayor Michael Bloomberg To Hand Over 911 Call Processing Review Report.

The Bloomberg administration is reviewing its "next move" following the court order, issued by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron. Judge Engoron issued his order following the filing of a complex labor-arbitration case brought against the City by two fire department unions. According to The New York Post, "The unions have subpoenaed the report in their effort to show the city's 911 system is worse than ever despite $2 billion in improvements."

911 Bloombo Dicto Sees No Emergency

Stephen Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, attacked the Bloomberg administration during a news conference today, exposing the fact that Mayor Bloomberg was deliberately decreasing 911 response times to justify the closure of firehouses. As usual, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn had Mayor Bloomberg's back and would not criticise the billion-dollar broken 911 system.

Rudin May Day Protest

Reminder : Please R.S.V.P. to the protest against the Rudin Family on May Day in connection with the shady way that they foreclosed on St. Vincent's Hospital, forcing it into Bankruptcy Court. Note : the Rudin family then paid pennies on the dollar for St. Vincent's, so that the Rudin family could build a billion-dollary luxury condo and townhouse complex in a zone-busting real estate deal that will make the family hundreds of millions of dollars in profit from the tragic closing of the only hospital in the entire Lower West Side of Manhattan.

OWS March Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Video of the April 1, 2012, #OccupyWallStreet march across the Brooklyn Bridge. No activist was arrested during the peaceful process of this march.

Is Mayor Bloomberg Monitoring Your Facebook Account ?

Is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg monitoring the Facebook accounts of city employees and political activists ? The NYPD monitors civic activities of New York City voters, and police also spy on Muslims and protesters. Why is it so hard to believe that Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Chief Ray Kelly aren't already monitoring Facebook accounts ?

Beth Israel Hospital Ambulance Stuck In Traffic

After St. Vincent's Hospital was closed so that it could become a billion-dollar luxury condominium and townhouse complex for the wealthy Rudin Family, many of the remaining hospitals in Manhattan are having to travel longer distances to respond to medical emergencies. In this video, there is a Beth Israel Hospital ambulance stuck in traffic right in front of the closed St. Vincent's Hospital. These ambulances then have the make the same long distance back to their originating hospital, to transport medical patients back to an emergency room or a trauma center. At stake are the life and well-being of medical patients, who have to risk their lives in order to wait until they receive critical medical treatment. There can be no "moving on" until a full-service hospital and trauma center replaces St. Vincent's Hospital.

NYPD Break Protester's Arm

Bloomberg To OWS: "You Want Broken Bones ? We'll Accommodate You."

Five days after Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a threat against #OccupyWallStreet activists, activists went on a march from Liberty Square to Union Square. The dual purpose of the march was in opposition to police brutality and a call for the resignation of NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Oddly enough, the peaceful protest resulted in even further police brutality, including physically violent tactics by the NYPD against the protesters, leading to one 16 year old peaceful activist suffering from a broken arm, as pictured above. No comment, yet, of course, from Christine Quinn, in regards to the NYPD's on-going campaign of police brutality against peaceful activists.

Term Limits Lawyer Quits

Lawyer "aggressively promoted Mr. Bloomberg’s controversial effort in 2008 to repeal the city’s term-limits law"

Anthony W. Crowell, the general counsel to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has resigned to accept the deanship and presidency of New York Law School, The New York Times reported. Mr. Crowell joins other top officials, who are leaving Mayor Bloomberg's ill-fated and karmically-doomed third term in office.

So far, Mr. Bloomberg’s relatively rocky third term has seen the departures of several top lieutenants once considered crucial to the smooth operation of the city.

Kevin Sheekey and Edward Skyler, longtime advisers who served in a variety of top positions, departed soon after the mayor won re-election in 2009. They were later joined by Robert V. Hess, who supervised homeless services, and James Anderson, the mayor’s communications director.

Mr. Crowell is accepting the top position with a sketchy law school with a shady reputation of expensive tuition rates, poor school rankings, and horrible job placement.

Read more : The Mayor’s Lawyer Is Moving On

Mayor Bloomberg Was Booed at St. Patrick's Parade

From WABC-TV :

Bloomberg jeered during Queens St. Patty's parade

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Bloomberg got a mixed reception while marching in the Queens County Saint Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday.

Some vocal critics jeered the mayor for his decision to publicize teacher evaluations.

The mayor also had some supporters along the parade route who said he's doing the best he can under difficult circumstances.

Protesters sue Pepper Spray Cop

Protesters have filed a federal lawsuit against a "white shirt" NYPD official, who was videotaped dousing peaceful women with pepper spray.

On September 24, 2011, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was videotaped dispensing pepper spray into the faces of several women, among them the two plaintiffs, Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield. The plaintiffs and other women were trapped inside of a plastic orange net by police, when Deputy Inspector Bologna stepped up and sprayed the women. The assault and battery video was then posted on YouTube, and it immediately went viral.

Photo credit : Jim Kiernan / Gothamist

St. Vincent's Community Assembly

Approximately 70 residents of the Lower West Side of Manhattan gathered at the LGBT Community Center in Greenwich Village on January 31, 2012, to participate in a community assembly to organise and brainstorm ideas to fight for a full-service hospital to replace St. Vincent's.

Stay tuned for more action ideas....

This St. Vincent's Community Assembly was sponsored by the Healthcare for the 99% Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. This is an independent, unofficial video, and it is not endorsed or approved by any of the participants.

Michael Bloomberg Nanny Mayor

Is Michael Bloomberg the ultimate nanny mayor ?

In a sign of growing desperation about his drooping reputation, lasting legacy, and his close ties with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a Super Bowl commercial, to fluff himself up.

In a post entitle, "Bloomberg cements place as Nanny State King," HotAir.com gives some history to how Mayor Bloomberg has legislated everybody's private life. FYI to everybody : Mayor Bloomberg's regimented "nanny state" wouldn't be possible without help from Speaker Quinn.

Bill Rudin Condo Kills

Do Protesters Have To Leave A Coffin Outside St. Vincent's Hospital, To Demonstrate How Deadly The Rudin Luxury Condo Conversion Really Is ?

The people, who live around the Rudin Luxury Condo Conversion Project at St. Vincent's Hospital, will live a life of a nightmare for years : they will be living next to a major construction project that will stir up asbestos, rodents, noise, and other construction-related pollution. And this is not even taking into consideration the fact that the luxury condominiums and townhouses are replacing a full-service hospital, meaning, that there is no no where to go if residents (including the luxury condo buyers) have asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes, or trauma. All this courtesy of Seventh Avenue Socialite Amanda Burden and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The Political ECG Lead Has Flatlined When It Comes To Saving Hospitals In New York City

In the 21 months since St. Vincent's Hospital has closed, our political leaders have showed no activity to prevent hospital closings in New York City.

A Beth Israel ambulance was stuck in traffic in front
of a closed hospital in the West Village of Manhattan.

Five hospitals in Brooklyn are in danger of closing, according to The New York Times : Interfaith Medical Center, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, and Brooklyn Hospital Center.

In the case of St. Vincent's Hospital, which closed in 2010, leaving a hole in public health in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, activists are seizing on the irresponsible hospital closings as a way to organise for a single-payer healthcare system : "How can we bring a hospital back to our community ? How can we get true universal healthcare ? Come Join the Discussion ! RSVP at the Facebook page for the St. Vincent's Community Assembly."

Amanda Burden Sold Out

The Rudin Luxury Condo Conversion Plan for St. Vincent's Hospital was approved on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, by Amanda Burden, the Amsterdam Avenue socialite, who volunteers in her free time to be City Planner for New York City. Other political enablers have joined Ms. Burden in aiding the Rudin Family's scheme to convert what used to be the only full-service hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center that served the Lower West Side of Manhattan into luxury condominiums and deluxe townhouses.

Sept. 11 Hero Richard Sheirer Dies

"Mr. Sheirer was driving to work from his home on Staten Island when he began having chest pains, pulled over at 14th Street and 10th Avenue and called 911. He was taken to Beth Israel Hospital, where he died," reported The New York Times.

Richard J. Sheirer, the former director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management during the September 11th attacks, fell ill a few blocks away from St. Vincent's. Video by Suzannah B. Troy.

St. Vincent's Community Assembly

Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street in the West Village.

With St. Vincent’s closed, the West Side still has no hospital beds below 57th Street. How can we bring a hospital back to our community ? How can we get true universal healthcare ? Come Join the Discussion ! RSVP at the Facebook page for the St. Vincent's Community Assembly.

This "town hall" is a consensus-based conversation facilitated by HEALTHCARE FOR THE 99%, an OCCUPY WALL STREET working group.

2012-01-31 St Vincents Community Assembly - Luxury Condos Cant Do CPR

Mayor Bloomberg Defends Beyoncé's VIP Treatment at Lenox Hill Hospital

Mayor Bloomberg Defends Beyoncé's VIP Treatment at Lenox Hill Hospital Even As Inequality and Injustice in Healthcare Becomes More and More Pronounced in the Aftermath of the Closing of St. Vincent's Hospital.

From DNA Info :

MIDTOWN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s VIP treatment at Lenox Hill Hospital Tuesday, arguing big spenders like them help subsidize other patients' care."

The power couple and their little bundle of joy, Blue Ivy Carter, have been under fire from angry parents who’ve complained about being blocked from seeing their newborns thanks to airtight security measures for the superstar couple, who reportedly rented out the fourth floor of the hospital for $1.3 million. ...

“If [the hospital] got paid a lot of money and it let them provide services to other people who don’t have insurance or can’t afford it, I’m not so sure it’s a bad thing," he said.

Mayor Bloomberg said during a press conference celebrity or luxury hospital suites can be "an enormous revenue source" at a time when the Mayor keeps cutting the budgets of public city hospitals.

Mayor Bloomberg had more to say about whether celebrities and rich people should get better "services" than lower-class patients. “I don’t think you should keep people from seeing their babies, or whatever, but have different services for people who are full-paying patients," he said. “It’s easy to go and criticize, but somebody’s got to pay.”

Activists from the Healthcare for the 99 Per Cent. Working Group of #OWS gathered in Union Square on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

Advocates for a true universal healthcare system "for all" gathered at Union Square on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, to call attention to what they said was the inequality in the provision of healthcare in New York City, New York State, and in the United States.

Advocates were joined by members of PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Program), HC499% (the Healthcare for the 99 Per Cent. Working Group of #OccupyWallStreet), and by St. Vincent's Hospital activists.

In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman."