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TOMORROW
April 11
Thursday,10am!

Family of Roy Savage, Community Members, and Lawmakers to Hold Rally following Roy’s Death in Custody

We Demand Action Now to Release People, Stop Sending People to Deadly Jails, and Protect All New Yorkers’ Human Rights!

#rikers
#nyc

Please join the NYC Jails Action Coalition (JAC) and #HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY as we stand in solidarity with Roy Savage’s family at City Hall.

Date: Thursday, April 11 at 10 am.

We will continue to demand that NYC officials protect the human rights of all New Yorkers!

#rikers
#nomoredeaths
#JUSTICEFORROY

'If our city adequately invests in housing, mental health, employment programs, youth development...we can decarcerate while building safer communities. All Eric Adams needs to do is listen to the communities of color he claims to represent.' #CloseRikers

Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law. Mayor Adams must follow it. Listen to Freedom Agenda member Peggy Herrera tell how she'll feel when Rikers closes.

#CloseRikers #GetRikersClosed #Decarcerate #Defend #Divest #Redistribute #NewYorkCity

Corona Plaza Market has not only resisted erasure, but has secured its rightful place as an anchor of the Latino community in Corona.

Deep appreciation for Donovan Richards Jr. for fighting alongside street vendors to keep our culture alive and on the map 🌮🫔✨

'The coalition previously sent a letter Feb. 13 to the city claiming that in 2023, just 47%, or 106 of 227 ballots filled out by detainees, were counted — a rate much lower than the 73% of absentee ballots counted statewide.'

Ensuring street vendors can access business licensing is not just common sense, it's good fiscal policy

🧾See IBO report from January 2024 estimating the fiscal impact of eliminating the permit cap
ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/Fis…

Some call for fines & criminalization of the working poor. These actions put working families into debt and destabilize our City

Thank you Council Member Amanda Farías & @jessicaramos for your leadership in calling for an orderly, regulated system of vending that supports entrepreneurship

Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law. Mayor Adams must follow it. Listen to Rev. Jeff Courter tell how he'll feel when Rikers closes.

#CloseRikers #GetRikersClosed #Decarcerate #Defend #Divest #Redistribute #NewYorkCity

“All the evidence shows recidivism is reduced by ensuring the evidence-based interventions and programs in communities and in our justice system are reaching the people who need them the most,”- Adrienne Adams 👏 #CloseRikers
queenseagle.com/all/2024/4/2/c…

Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law. Mayor Adams must follow it. Listen to Cherokee 'L.A.' Dickens @flexin_flexout tell how she'll feel when Rikers closes.
#CloseRikers #GetRikersClosed #Decarcerate #Defend #Divest #Redistribute #NewYorkCity

'If we truly care about fair and free elections and full participation in the democratic process, we must ensure the right to vote for incarcerated citizens.'
amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/03/2… via New York Amsterdam News & Community Service Society of New York (CSS)

Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law. Mayor Adams must follow it. Listen to Jose Perez @cdfnewyork tell how he'll feel when Rikers closes.
#CloseRikers #GetRikersClosed #Decarcerate #Defend #Divest #Redistribute #NewYorkCity

Mayor Adams promised to 'close the pipelines that feed #Rikers ,' but is instead sending more young adults there, where they are denied education and subjected to rampant abuse and violence. We need to invest in communities, #decarcerate and #CloseRikers

Please join the NYC Jails Action Coalition (JAC) and #HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY as we stand in solidarity with Roy Savage’s family at City Hall.

Date: Thursday, April 11 at 10 am.

We will continue to demand that NYC officials protect the human rights of all New Yorkers!

#rikers
#nomoredeaths
#HumanRightsViolations

We took NYC Sanitation up on their advice. Went to 42 Broadway, tried to get a permit, and guess what❓

The laws haven’t changed.

Our city invests in enforcement of the working poor over economic mobility

📝 Sign the petition for reform bit.ly/streetvendorre…

It’s not enough for armed DSNY police to tear down a fruit vendor

They misinform the public, belittle the street vendor, then give a $1,000 ticket

🗯️“They can get a license, it’s cheap, they’re making more than enough to get one”

20,000 NYers on waitlists would beg to differ

Jail should never take the place of treatment, but under Mayor Adams, that's happening more and more. The number of people at Rikers diagnosed with SMI is up more than 40% since he took office. #CloseRikers (via
Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander)