The Orlando Sentinel has published a major report, Focus on Force, revealing 3,100 people were “hit, kicked, pepper-sprayed, shocked or had some other force used on them by Orlando Police Department officers from 2010 through the end of 2014.” OPD officers injured 1,900 people during that time, and 1,200 required medical… [read more]
Lawanna Gelzer, President of the NAN Central Florida Chapter, was featured on an Environmental Justice panel discussion, titled Killing US Softly: Environmental Threats To Our Future, during the three-day national convention in New York City earlier this month. Gelzer shed a little sunshine on the environmental concerns in downtown Orlando and Parramore… [read more]
Major local environmental issues including the Parramore contamination and Orlando brownfields will be discussed on an official panel at the 2015 National Action Network conference in New York City. Lawanna Gelzer, President of the NAN Central Florida Chapter, has been invited to join an Environmental Justice panel discussion, titled Killing US Softly:… [read more]
Today, state legislators delivered a major setback for Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Lions who are trying to use state funds to complete plans for their new Major League Soccer stadium. The Joint Legislative Budget Commission met today with an agenda to decide how to award $7 million in… [read more]
If you read the Orlando Sentinel on Saturday, you saw the article “City plans to condemn church for stadium are wrong” by Scott Maxwell. And the headline gets it right (this time), but the takeover of this church is just one of the many wrongs in the Orlando soccer stadium… [read more]