anita

queens made, policy analyst @unhny, views don’t reflect my employer (she/她)

[anita @anitakw]

@DianaforQueens @UNHNY color coordinated so well in black and blue!! 💙

[anita @anitakw]

@jtfalc0ne i take my role as the gen z of the office VERY seriously 😇

[anita @anitakw]

i hope my state socialists with settlement houses in their districts @JuliaCarmel__ @JabariBrisport @Gonzalez4NY @DianaforQueens @claireforny @EmilyAssembly @marcelaforny & @phara4assembly fight to include $8M for the settlement house program!!! 🤩

[United Neighborhood Houses @UNHNY]

Earlier in March, @BronxWorks staff joined us in Albany to urge legislators to include $8 million for the Settlement House Program in the one-house budget. Join us in calling our State Senators & Assemblymembers TODAY & asking them to include $8 million for the SHP in one-houses!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.

A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.

Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.

Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

[John Surico @JohnSurico]

Spotted in today’s @amNewYork: overwhelming support for the G to return to central Queens on weekends. Once again: the people are talkin’. Now time for @GovKathyHochul @NYCMayor and the @MTA to make it happen.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

It's honestly crazy how blatant the Abundance grift is. "Don't be mad at Wall St. billionaires who control everything, be mad at your powerless neighbors! They're the real problem!"

[karin slyvia @karinslyvia]

We’re several years deep into heavy storms and dangerous flooding, and yet the city and state are so underprepared to keep people safe. Austerity budgets and wasting billions of dollars on policing instead of shoring up critical infrastructure will cost people’s lives.

[Phara Souffrant Forrest @phara4assembly]

While you were worried about the rich leaving NY b/c of taxes, black families are leaving b/c they can't afford It.

The Housing Access Voucher Program & Good Cause Eviction will protect black neighborhoods like mine. And there's no time to waste.

https://t.co/ThzCeevTx7

[Alan Dettlaff @AlanDettlaff]

Angela Davis on #socialwork:

"Social work has a radical history. Here we are 50-75 years later & we see social work has been infected with a carceral logic that prevents people who are social workers from doing the work that needs to be done in order to change society."

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Across NYC, COVID-19 test positivity is rising: in some neighborhoods in Manhattan, it’s back above 20% this week. There are 2 new COVID-19 variants related to Omicron this month, which could account for a third of NYC cases.

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

Thoughts from a suicidologist on the new 988 crisis hotline:
1. Having a simple number is good.
2. Having more trained crisis teams is good.
2. It's still linked to nonconsensual active rescue which means they can & will trace your call & send police if they deem it necessary.

[Open Hearts Initiative @openheartsnyc]

A powerful & heartbreaking story by @samdolnick that captures homeless NYers' fullness as humans, friends & neighbors during #HomelessRightsMonth. It also reflects the challenges that undocumented & immigrant NYers who are homeless often encounter... (1/3)
https://t.co/HOmYmpRKAc

[Council Member Tiffany Cabán (D22) @CabanD22]

COVID positivity is spiking in NYC.

The new variants are more contagious and more vaccine-resistant than any before.

And @NYCMayor is eliminating every last public health protection.

This is totally unacceptable. We must protect the health of our people.

It’s our job. Period.

[Cynthia Nixon @CynthiaNixon]

Today the new NYC City Council voted on their first budget, and in it they slashed funding to NYC schools.

This, after NYC received BILLIONS of dollars in federal school pandemic aid and from NY State from the long-awaited resolution to CFE.
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[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

To ask teachers to be on the front line of mass shootings, the front line of a pandemic, and the front line of the struggle against inequality all while underpaying them and systematically underfunding the education system is both cruel and a recipe for societal collapse.

[Open Hearts Initiative @openheartsnyc]

We had a great time putting together 80 welcome kits for homeless neighbors in Midtown yesterday! Thanks to everyone who helped out (and as always, thanks to @BOMBAS for the socks)! Do you live in Midtown (or elsewhere) and want to get involved? Check out https://t.co/Gu0dtkDWp8!

[prance @bocxtop]

after mass shootings u hear shit like “we need more cops” or “there’s too much violence in media” when all that needs to be said is “this country refuses to deal with white supremacy” and until it does, people will keep dying.