Sen. Jabari Brisport

@jabaribrisport.bsky.social

New York State Senator in District 25. Chair of Committee on Children and Families. Former public school teacher. Socialist. 🌹

Our State Government has been enabling millionaires & their corporations to drain NYC’s working-class of every penny possible. For our City to have a budget that works for the people, our *State* has to use its power to reverse tax breaks on the ultra-rich 2.25—see you in Albany. DSA.nyc/Albany

February 25. Tax the Rich for a New York we can afford. Albany Takeover. You can sign up at: DSA.nyc/Albany

The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s lease agreements with Easy Aerial and Crye Precision are a moral failure and a betrayal of public trust. I’ll be with the DBNY Coalition tomorrow at 8:30am outside Building 92. See you there. ✊🏾🇵🇸

Senator Brisport Condemns
Brooklyn Navy Yard Contracts
with Suppliers to Israeli Military
On Tuesday, September 16th
, Senator Jabari Brisport released the following statement in
response to the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s lease contracts with two companies that supply
equipment to the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF):
BROOKLYN, NY –
“It is unacceptable and deeply disturbing that the Brooklyn Navy Yard – a
city-chartered and publicly owned entity – is complicit in supplying military equipment to
the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The Navy Yard’s lease agreements with Easy Aerial
and Crye Precision are a moral failure and a betrayal of public trust.
Our government has been shamefully complicit in the growth and impunity of the IOF,
using U.S. taxpayer money and public resources to fund militarized violence abroad
without public consent or oversight.
I call for the immediate eviction of Easy Aerial and Crye Precision from the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, as well as a permanent ban on all new and future leases to any company
involved in the manufacture, development, or distribution of military equipment,
surveillance technologies, weapons, or tactical gear, whether for domestic policing or
international warfare.
”
Easy Aerial, deceptively categorized by the Brooklyn Navy Yard in their business directory
under “Fine Arts/Photography,” was founded by members of the IOF and manufactures
drones used by the Israeli military in its genocidal campaign in Gaza. They have a contract
with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Crye Precision, listed under “Fashion/Accessories,” designs and manufactures tactical
military gear, camouflage, and combat uniforms used by the IOF and U.S. law
enforcement, including the NYPD’s heavily militarized units.

Other City Councils all over the US can directly remove a mayor when egregious situations come up — they don’t have to wait on a governor. Am. Harvey Epstein & I just introduced a state bill to give our City Council that power too.

New York City is bearing the burdens of a Mayor who lied and broke the law to take office, and then let his administration implode. It makes no sense that we have had to wait round for a Governor from Buffalo to make a decision about our city. — Sen. Jabari Brisport