Take Back Our Parade

by on June 29, 2018

TAKE ACTION NOW:

We Want the Shade / Restore the Route

-Call/ Email/ Text

-And please Post the below info far & wide!

WHAT HAPPENED: People with disabilities say: Let’s take back our parade! WE WANT THE SHADE!

Emergency Safety Request to restore July 15, 2018 NYC Disability Pride Parade route to: “Union Square Park to Madison Square Park” and Disability Pride Festival venue from Union Square Park(no shade) to well-shaded Madison Square Park.

-On May 31 the NYC Police Department reversed the route of the NYC Disability Pride Parade. The parade was scheduled to start at Union Square Park and end at Madison Square Park and 27th street, just north of the park. The new route has the parade beginning at Madison Square Park and ending at Union Square. The route was reversed to accommodate another music festival and parade, also scheduled on July 15 which ends at 28th street, but is not in the park itself. A more HUMANE solution by both NYPD and MOPD would be to move the Madison Square Park Disability Rights Festival stage further south such as between 26th and 27th streets – move one block South, and move the other festival one block north, so that there would be a two block buffer between each since noise overlap was the stated reason for the change.

-Because of the route reversal, the parade will now take place in the northern section of Union Square Park where there is no shade. This puts most disabled people’s health in jeopardy. Madison Square Park has much more shade and benches than Union Square Park. In 2015 the parade used this route from Madison Square Park to Union Square Park, and at least three people who attended the Disability Pride parade were hospitalized with heat stroke at the Union Square location. For this reason NYPD and MOPD correctly reversed the route to Union Square Park – Madison Square Park in 2016 and 2017 after protests by the disabled community.

-Heat often causes debilitation of one’s nervous system, leading to falls and weakness which disproportionately impacts people with disabilities. Between 1999 and 2012, extreme heat caused more than 7,400 heat-related deaths in the United States. According to new data released by NASA, May 2018 was the hottest May since weather record-keeping started in 1880.

-For these health reasons, and in order to prevent any avoidable accidents or tragedies, we request to restore the July 15, 2018 NYC Disability Pride Parade route to gathering at Union Square Park and completing at Madison Square Park and to restore the well- shaded Madison Square Park as the venue or the 3-hour July 15, 2018 Disability Rights Festival instead of the dangerous, and poorly shaded Union Square Park.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Please contact the below individuals to restore the July 15, 2018 NYC Disability Pride Parade route to: “Union Square Park to Madison Square Park” & Disability Pride Festival venue from Union Square Park (no shade) to well-shaded Madison Square Park.
***Please keep contacting them by tweets, phone calls, and emails and share this post.

-JAMES O’Neill commissioner NYPD – @NYPDONeill – 646-610-5410
NYPD General Inquiries: 646-610-5000
http://www1.nyc.gov/…/about-nypd/email-the-commissioner.page

-MOPD Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities – @NYCDisabilities – 311 or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC or 212-788-2830 – Fax – 212 312 0960
100 Gold St., 2fl NY, NY 10038 – VCalise@cityhall.nyc.gov
https://www1.nyc.gov/s…/mopd/about/emailthecommissioner.page

-NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo – @NYGovCuomo – 212-681-4580 or 518-474-8390
https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form

-NYC Mayor Bill DiBlasio – @NYCMayor – 311 or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC or 212-788-3000

-NYC Public Advocate Letitia James – @NYCPA – (212) 669-7250 – Fax 212 669-4701 GetHelp@pubadvocate.nyc.gov

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