FUREE is a member led program of Fifth Avenue Committee led by mostly WOC. We organize low-income families to build power to fight against systems of oppression
I am honored to introduce the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act with @SenSanders today. It is time for our government to invest in our infrastructure, our people, and our future.
You can read more about the legislation here: https://t.co/2FNarOa8Uu
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney is getting a new mural! Thank you @NYCHealthSystem for honoring the 1st African-American woman doctor in NY. She was a groundbreaker and, of course, a Brooklynite. She also was a leading suffragist.
#BlackLandmarksMatter#BlackMindsMatter
What is the city waiting for? "As the climate crisis promises to lay bare the stark disparities of New York City, the answer has never been more pressing." - @Nextcityorg@NYCMayor@NYCMayorsOffice@FUREEous - https://t.co/5d7UaEyF6G @NextCityOrg
Obama can offer no credible advice to activists fighting to change conditions he made worse. Every movement for reform engages in compromise;its the nature of social movts. Activists know this. But his penchant for only compromise makes him unqualified to credibly have this convo
It's always struck me as odd how we -- meaning, like, nearly all of us in NYC -- talk about affordable housing, public housing and homelessness as distinct policy issues. Seems like a framework from another era.
Tonight I cosponsored an event on @NYCHA issues alongside my colleagues in the NYS Assembly Manhattan Delegation. Tonight kicks off the first step toward ensuring all 400,000 @NYCHA_Tenants have their voices heard & repairs made. Everyone deserves affordable, clean, safe housing.
"We can't allow nycha to continue to treat tenants like nothing, and we won't." - Debra Medina, Housing Counselor at GOLES speaks at a town hall full of fed-up Riis Houses tenants.
Thank you to my constituents who’ve sent note about the importance of preserving 227 Duffield St. The building’s abolitionist history & Mama Joy’s legacy needs to be honored.
We can’t lose another sacred part of Brooklyn’s resistance history.
LPC: landmark Abolitionist Place.
Seven years after #Sandy damaged 200 buildings in 35 developments along waterfronts from Red Hook to the Rockaways to the Lower East Side... work has been completed in just 2!!! complexes!!!
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