ICE activity in NYC has increased significantly in recent weeks – and with Trump’s TPS cancellations, we fear they may ramp up detentions of Haitian New Yorkers in the coming days. (1/3)
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Libraries. Liberation. School integration. NYC. Ceasefire. Still thinking about Ella Baker.
I'm being told that this is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake. maps.app.goo.gl/c1tKAYYWm3s4...
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Dobbs was supposed to crush the pro-choice movement. But even as abortion *rights* have shrunk in red states, abortion *access* has expanded. This week at Reveal @amylittlefield.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social & I look at why. @revealnews.org @motherjones.com
The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America
Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.
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The "double-entry" method of bookkeeping—under which assets = liabilities + equity, and by which both private and public budgets are maintained—would continue. But here's the brilliant innovation: Under democratic finance, the assets would be THE COMMITMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT MAKES TO THE PUBLIC.
Nikola Tesla envisioned a world powered entirely + wirelessly by solar—and he did so way before many could even access fossil-fuel tech. Analogously: now is our time to envision a public finance that can fund everyone's basic needs—and thereby make capitalism' extractive death-drive obsolete.
Years ago, we supported the huge CHPE transmission project to bring hydropower from Quebec to NYC. It’s great to see it’s now up and running, lowering both electricity prices and pollution. 🎉 800 megawatts of clean energy is flowing into NYC’s electric grid atm, enough to power 800k homes. 👏
This is easily one of the best books I have ever read. I learned so much and it is wonderfully well structured and well written. It made me rethink everything about people and New York City. I am heartbroken.
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
"Dealing with PPL has been a chaotic, stress-filled mess. They lose paperwork repeatedly. They don’t get back to you. Their technology is loaded with glitches. [My caregiver] has had to squeak by, waiting for pay that only arrives because we are bulldogs about it." Reinstate trusted FIs! #SaveCDPAP
Opinion: Fixing New York's Home Care Chaos - City Limits
"What we need is a return to the original intent of CDPAP. Run by responsible non-profits, with input from disabled people themselves."
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"Ironically, the real-world result of defining independence as a move away from the need for care, rather than as something that can flourish more easily and fully within contexts of mutual support, is that our children remain under our wing for longer."
Alicia Stoller@aliciastoller.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about birds and parenting — why we’re so drawn to metaphors of rugged independence over metaphors of community care, and how this limits children and all of us. Give it a read to find out what crows and ravens have to teach us about interdependence. 🪶
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Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78
Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected t...
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@elinorthrup.bsky.social's win makes passing all these sentencing-reform bills *much* more possible: 1️⃣ Earned Time Act 2️⃣ Second Look Act 3️⃣ Marvin Mayfield Act 4️⃣ @rappcampaign.bsky.social's Parole Justice set: • Fair + Timely Parole • Elder Parole • Fair and Fully Staffed Parole Board
New York Focus@nysfocus.com · 3w agoNorthrup, a former public defender and now Democratic nominee for state Assembly, says it's time to move toward more humane and effective policies.
Meanwhile, NYC spent millions on air purifiers during the pandemic that are now gathering dust. The city didn't tell schools to turn them on today.
Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 3w agoOutdoor trips were canceled, recess moved inside, and staff scrambled for air-conditioned space as wildfire smoke blanketed New York City.
The SHSAT produces racist outcomes and it doesn’t really matter why. The decades spent trying to figure out why or how to fix it are decades of Black New Yorkers being shut out of access to a Stuyvesant education; there’s no excuse to keeping it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 4w agoJust 3 Black students admitted to NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School, data shows gothamist.com/news/just-3-...
Given debates in the US on who truly represents the working class, I'll point out that in Brazil a movement to give workers a 5-day workweek - arguably the biggest worker gains in the 21st c - is led by a Black trans woman (Rep. Erika Hilton) & a Black gay man (City Council leader Rick Azevedo).
Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2mo ago🔥🔥🔥
Jacob Lawrence, "When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People," 1943 learninglab.si.edu/resources/vi...
The first @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Congressmensch @bradlander.bsky.social talked about what it means to him to be a Jew for Racial and Economic Justice!
Katie Unger@kungernyc.bsky.social · last mo.Could not be prouder to be with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social celebrating the victories of recent months and recommitting to the work, with our new songbook!
“I am so grateful to be a Jew for Racial and Economic Justice… My mayor Muslim My JFREJ Jewish Knicks in 5 Always a good time for a membership drive!” - @bradlander.bsky.social
Go to a protest and think why is everyone just singing 1 off topic song and they only know the chorus? Let’s fix that together. JFREJ has a new songbook. Come to the meeting Weds (also online).
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action@jfrejnyc.bsky.social · last mo.Something special is coming TOMORROW! 👀🎶 Come to our membership assembly tomorrow night to get the first look at the JFREJ songbook! Jfrej.org/songbook
I know how heartbreaking it is that neither the public at large, the leaders of big institutions, nor our politicians have roared in defiance and refused to allow trans youth to be harmed. It hurts, and so everything short of that mass outrage and defense of our community feels like thin gruel.
So many of us have worked so hard for months (since the beginning of the transition) with @mayor.nyc.gov to make this happen! Starting with a $15 million investment in life saving gender-affirming care for trans youth 🏳️⚧️ www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Standing Up for Trans New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani Launches $15 Million Plan to Expand Access to Gender-Affirming Care
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BIG update + good news following email ending volunteers to Jail & Prison Services: NYPL affirms JPS will continue with *same* number of volunteers, just from central NYPL, not branches. Per source, internal email which provoked the uproar among librarians should have never gone out.
Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it
This primary saw some rough fights. It’s okay that not everyone was aligned on every endorsement. Our job now is to band together, to form the broadest possible movement, led by the fiercest fighters we just put in power, to defeat fascism, and win the better world we know is possible 💕 Join ⬇️
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There’s a reason JFREJ prioritized electing Brad Lander & Eli Northrup this cycle. Both races were a fight for the future of the Jewish community: btwn an out-of-touch establishment and a Jewish Left w/ real vision grounded in human rights & dignity for all. We won, decisively.
This is a @bdlimm.myatproto.social appreciation post. Thank you for your clear thinking through this whole election season. If you do take on the community garden next year, I hope I can come out and help till the soil.
Bright D Limm 임대중@bdlimm.myatproto.social · 2mo agoIf we win 7+ Leftist NYS Assembly primaries on Tuesday, I honestly think that I'll feel comfortable enough to take a break from electoral work for the first time in 18 years. Maybe I'll focus on my local community garden for a year instead.
Exercised my free will today and went to the beach. On a WEDNESDAY Which is why I'm going to get on my NYC coastline rant. First, at over 600 miles of coastline NYC has more coastline than any other US city. We are also home to the only MLB stadium on an island (Citifield) /1