Ivelisse Gilestra

Organizer, social justice renegade, part-time agitator, full-time challenger of injustice. Views and opinions are my own.

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Important piece published in @PoliticsNY by Alma Reyes on why state owned land should be utilized to address the housing crisis in NY. Listen to the fierce leaders' stories. @GovKathyHochul you have the power to change this reality. #PublicLandPublicGood https://t.co/UIjaQ6fcmm

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

@GovKathyHochul stop the politricks, if you are serious about affordable housing use the land at Creedmoor site, and other state-property land.

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Over 120 clergy, faith leaders, families across the city are calling on @GovKathyHochul to use her executive power utilizing state-owned land to build 100% affordable housing. The insidious legacies of displacement are still present. #PublicLandPublicGood #CreedmoorNow

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

@GovKathyHochul Housing insecurity is not only a socio-economic issue, it’s a racial injustice. #PublicLandForPublicGood #AffordableCreedmoorNow.

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Important piece published today in @CrainsNewYork by @Eddie_Small on the importance of utilizing state owned land to address the housing crisis. We are calling on @GovKathyHochul to use her executive power #AffordableCreedmoorNow #PublicLandPublicGood
https://t.co/0VsIAnCAod

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

@GovKathyHochul you have the power to stop New Yorkers from becoming homeless. A family should not have to choose between rent or food. #AffordableCreedmoorNow

[Queens Community House @QCHnyc]

Our message to @GovKathyHochul: we need affordable housing in NYC. The time is now to commit to 100% affordable rental and home ownership opportunities at Creedmoor in Queens. #AffordableCreedmoorNow @metroiafny @MetroIAF https://t.co/b3skiTnPqv

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Indefatigable agitator of justice, loving & courageous sister. Grace Ortez, siempre me inspiras mi hermana💖🌻 https://t.co/bPA8y5Vhbe

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

On the eve of their counter-revolution, the founding slavers held three-quarters of their wealth in land and human beings. We know what they meant by liberty—for whom it mattered and for whom it excluded. You can’t separate abstract ideals of “freedom” from the facts.

[Release Aging People in Prison Campaign @RAPPcampaign]

BREAKING: 50+ organizations are calling on @GovKathyHochul to fulfill her promise of fully staffing the NY State Parole Board. The Board's vacancies can't persist. Justice delayed is justice denied. #ParoleJusticeNY

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Rikers is a possible death sentence.

[Grace Ortez @grace4thepeople]

3 human beings under the age of 35 have died at Rikers Island this month.

When humans die in a facility in which 90% of those detained die before their day in court, this makes the facility an objective failure.

[Grace Ortez @grace4thepeople]

This is IMPORTANT

Please please read and retweet, to help us shift the public narrative around the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Rikers Island

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

This is the type of indoctrinated law enforcement culture we, as community, need to challenge everywhere. Womyn are constantly suffering the violent aggressions of law enforcement if one does not adhere to an expected cult of “appropriateness”- FUCK THAT.

[Freedom Agenda @FreedomAgendaNY]

Freedom Agenda member Cori Conrad calls for immediate action to protect - and release - the people suffering on #Rikers, including her grandson.
"The Mayor has abandoned them there."
#NotOneMore #FreeThemNow #CloseRikers

[Grace Ortez @grace4thepeople]

Dashawn Carter died at Rikers Island yesterday, after spending just 2 DAYS there!!!

Fed up, frustrated, FURIOUS

If you were friends with ppl who have loved ones suffering on Rikers Island RIGHT NOW + people who have lost loved ones there, maybe you would understand our URGENCY!

[Institute for the Development of Human Arts @idha_nyc]

THIS SUNDAY! We invite you to join us for "Equalizing Power: Mental Health and the Creation of the Common" w/ @IGilestra + Carlos Padrón. Come explore how to build more horizontal community structures!

CE credits available, ASL + CART provided. Register: https://t.co/TlaAYCAbuI

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Congratulations darling!!!! That hunger to keep learning and deconstructing the intersecting coercive practices in the mental health sphere makes you a needed dissenter in that field.

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

Not surprised. No affinities whatsoever, accountability for NYPD is looking the other way. Integrity for law enforcement is an anomaly.

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

I fought alongside advocates to win NY bail reform in 2019 because I don't believe a person should be jailed for lack of bail money. Now Albany lawmakers are cramming rollbacks into a rushed and opaque budget process. I stood with advocates then and advocates now. #NoRollbacks

[Ivelisse Gilestra @IGilestra]

@grace4thepeople @FreedomAgendaNY @JailsAction @NYCAIC @etcnyorg @NewHOUR_LI @RAPPcampaign @WomensCJA @CCA_NY @VOCALNewYork @lov_unity Incarceration is killing our community, our people!