Английская Википедия:El Grito de Sunset Park
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox Organization El Grito de Sunset Park is a Puerto Rican activist organization in BrooklynШаблон:Sfn[1] that has been described as a police watchdog.[2]
History
One of the founders of El Grito de Sunset Park is Dennis Flores, a "cop watcher" who began documenting the activities of the New York Police Department in 1995.[1][3][4] He has been arrested more than 70 times for his activities.[3] Flores and others founded El Grito de Sunset Park in 2002, before filming police activities was common.[4] According to Flores, the organization was founded with a $270,000 settlement he received after the police attacked him in 2002.Шаблон:Sfn The group became a 501(c)(3) organization in 2015.Шаблон:Sfn
The organization has roots in the primarily Puerto Rican neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn. The name "El Grito" means "the cry" or "the call" in Spanish, and is a reference to the independence movements El Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico and El Grito de Dolores in Mexico.[5] El Grito de Sunset Park has ties to the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican radical group.Шаблон:Sfn The group's founders were influenced by social movements in Latin America; Flores witnessed organizing efforts in the Mexican city of Oaxaca in 2006 and 2007, while Jason Del Aguila, also a cofounder, worked for some time in Guatemala and El Salvador.Шаблон:Sfn
Activities
El Grito de Sunset Park's activities include organizing an art festival; advocating against gentrification; and photographing police activities.[5] When it began, the organization would film police responses to the Puerto Rican Day Parade, which were sometimes violent. Eventually, the group began to film all year.[4] In 2012, the group supported a rent strike in Sunset Park. Hispanic music and spoken word poetry are commemorated in videos made by El Grito de Sunset Park.Шаблон:Sfn In 2015, the group began organizing its own Puerto Rican Day Parade and Festival.Шаблон:Sfn It worked to gather and send supplies to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017.[5] In 2014, one of the group's videos played a role in charges against a teenage resident of Sunset Park getting dropped,Шаблон:Sfn while in 2015 another helped get charges dropped against a Mexican street vendor accused of attacking a policeman.[4]
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