Yonah Zeitz

Director of Advocacy at @katalcenter | @StMarysMD Alum | middle child, retired soccer player, and earthbender-in-training. Views my own

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

RELEASE: Groups working to shut Rikers join with ICE Out of NYC Coalition to reject @NYCMayor's plans to bring ICE officers back to Rikers Island Jail Complex. This move by Adams is callous and dangerous. #ShutRikers

See the joint statement here: https://t.co/nDENQUDCT5

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

“Katal & our partners have been fighting for over two years to get the City Council to weigh in on federal receivership at Rikers. The Council’s letter ​to the court indicates that​ our sustained organizing has worked," said @yonahzeitz in @QueensEagle.
https://t.co/iPbDl0oL00

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Mayor Adams is selling out New Yorkers in exchange for a ‘get out of jail free’ card from President Trump. We reject the craven move by Adams to throw our immigrant neighbors under the bus. This is dangerous to communities in our city struggling to survive. Adams must resign!

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

As the country faces a serious constitutional crisis, we remain steadfast in our belief that collective action is the antidote for overwhelm and despair, so let’s turn to what actions we can take to fight back right now.

Click here for action steps: https://t.co/LwTcgJE3bD

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

RELEASE: Senate bill (S856) to expand & diversify membership of State Commission of Correction to foster greater accountability to its mandate advances through the Senate Crime, Crime Victims, and Correction Committee. #JusticeforRobertBrooks

See release: https://t.co/0l9oOKPe9R

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

We stopped by dozens of Senators and Assemblymembers offices today to ask them to co-sponsor S.856 – Salazar/ A.2315 – Gallagher, to which will expand and diversify the State Commission of Correction to ensure it meets its oversight mandate. #JusticeforRobertBrooks #ShutRikers

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

This morning, the @NYDailyNews editorial board published a piece titled: “Outsider, not insider: Rikers receiver should not come from DOC.” The problems at Rikers are structural and cannot be fixed by someone deeply intrenched in the system. #ShutRikers
https://t.co/f5YDuJ6s7W

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

New in @QueensEagle: City nominates itself to take over Rikers

“This is shameful. The status quo is not acceptable. As the monitor has repeatedly reported, Rikers is a danger to people detained there and those who work there” said @yonahzeitz. #ShutRikers
https://t.co/hQuHeXuVIt

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

RELEASE: Yesterday, @NYCMayor made a mockery of the process of appointing an independent receiver at Rikers by process by proposing to maintain the status quo. This is shameful and will lead to more violence & death. #ShutRikers

See our statement here: https://t.co/zdnxeFptAn

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Starting now is a @TNJAct rally on the Million Dollar staircase in Albany. New Yorkers deserve treatment not jail. The safest communities are the healthiest communities. We must stop the funneling of people with mental health and substance use issues into our jails and prisons.

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Yesterday we were up in Albany protesting @GovKathyHochul’s State of the State to demand #JusticeForRobertBrooks and to address the deadly conditions in jails and prisons across New York.

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

RELEASE: With jails & prisons from Rikers to Marcy in deadly and dangerous conditions, the State Commission of Correction is failing to keep incarcerated people safe. We're fighting to ensure the Commission is accountable to its mandate.

See release here: https://t.co/SBGXNnaSgh

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Join us for today's January #NYCJReformCall at noon!

We'll hear from:
◾️Artie Malkin, Malkin & Ross
◾️Linda Flor Brito, @ImmDefense
◾️Renny Smith, @FamiliesandFri1
◾️@GarrettSmithNYS,@CCA_NY
◾️@SerenaFreeHer1, @NewHourNY

Register here: https://t.co/OZ4dC1dfCu

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

With the federal court on the verge of taking control of Rikers, join us today, Wednesday Dec. 18, from 12 to 1pm for our Shut Rikers Phone Zap via Zoom! We'll be calling City Council members to demand they pass Res. 183. #ShutRikers

Register here: https://t.co/Em37o5Nb5W

[NY Working Families Party @NYWFP]

Yesterday in @NYDailyNews... "It is quite rich that this mayor would have the audacity to ask the voters to give him, & future mayors, more power and less oversight."

Read more from @Jasgripper + @AnaMariaforNY about why NYers should #Nix2through6 ⬇️
https://t.co/0DXQ8qY1Uj

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

BREAKING: New op-ed by Haydeth Tavira, mother of Erick Tavira, 28, who died at Rikers 2 years ago. She describes how the city failed her son & demands "the closure of Rikers Island & the takeover of the jail system by a federal receivership." #ShutRikers
https://t.co/0RzfyYL1tN

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Join us next Wednesday (10/23) at 12pm via Zoom for a #ShutRikers Campaign Conversation on #Nix2Through6. Mayor Adams is attempting to enact dangerous changes to NYC's charter, making it harder to hold police & correction officers accountable.

RSVP here: https://t.co/CS6CGnWncB

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Join us for today's #NYCJReformCall at noon!

We'll hear from:
◾️@BenjaminHeller0, @verainstitute
◾️@msisitzky, @NYCLU @NoPowerGrabNYC
◾️Corrine Worthington, @STOPSpyingNY
◾️@DonnaHylton, @ALPOL_ @13thForwardNY
◾️Noel Casey, @RAPPcampaign

Register here: https://t.co/OZ4dC1dNs2

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

ADVISORY: Tomorrow, Wednesday, 9/25, at 1 p.m., #ShutRikers will hold a march and rally with community groups, people impacted by Rikers, and elected officials ahead of the federal court hearing on the ongoing crisis at Rikers.

See advisory here: https://t.co/V90O91MtXV

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

This week, @brigidbergin in @Gothamist reported that most people detained on Rikers are eligible to vote, yet thousands aren't able to vote or register due to logistical and process challenges. This is undemocratic & a failure of the BOE. #ShutRikers
https://t.co/XJmg1Jmt3Y