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Vol. 31, Issue 3 BROOKLYN EDITION January 17-23, 2020
Advocates and city offi cials attend the lauch of NYC Census 2020 Complete Count Campaign.
By Nelson A. King
More than 160 community
partners on Tuesday joined
Mayor Bill de Blasio and City
Council Speaker Corey Johnson
in kicking off NYC Census 2020
Complete Count Campaign.
Deputy Mayor for Strategic
Policy Initiatives, J. Phillip
Thompson, NYC Census 2020
Director, Julie Menin, Council
Members Carlos Menchaca and
Carlina Rivera, City University of
New York (CUNY) Executive Vice
Chancellor and University Provost
José Luis Cruz, and hundreds
of advocates, service providers,
representatives from labor and
major civic institutions, and city
officials joined in the launch of
what is described as “the nation’s
largest and most diverse coordinated
municipal campaign to
achieve a complete and accurate
count in the 2020 Census.”
“New York City has been on
the front lines of the resistance
against the Trump Administration
and ensuring every New
Yorker gets counted is central to
that fight,” said Mayor de Blasio.
“No matter how hard the federal
government tries to silence our
diverse voices, we still stand up
and be counted.”
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By Bert Wilkinson
In about a week’s time, embattled
Surinamese President Desi
Bouterse of Suriname will make
his very first appearance before
a court or war council which
had last month ordered him
jailed for 20 years for the 1982
mass executions of 15 government
opponents.
The Jan. 22 hearing is
designed to allow Bouterse, 74,
to signal his plans to appeal the
jail sentence for the killings in
the height of military rule, following
the February 1980 coup
that had toppled the elected
government of then Prime Minister
Henck Arron.
Bouterse, trying to win a
third consecutive five-year term
in general elections on May 25,
has never appeared before the
panel of judges hearing the
mass murder case for more
than a decade, but now that
he has been sentenced, he has
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Census 2020 Complete Count Campaign begins
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RULING
Bouterse finally goes to court
to contest 20-year sentence
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