Carlyn Cowen (they/siya)
@carlyncowen
🏳️🌈 Queer | 🇵🇭 Filipinx | ✡️ Jew-ish | Policy and advocacy by day, organizing all the time | Abolition, anti-capitalism & a touch of NY politics.
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27-07-2009 20:17:03
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Over a thousand Jews and allies are here in DC w/ Jewish Voice for Peace & IfNotNow🔥✡️ - together in our grief, united in our resolve to demand #CeasefireNow .
Last night on Shabbat, JFREJ joined thousands of Jewish NYers—in our communal grief & fear—to demand #CeasefireNOW . No genocide in our name. At least 60, including JFREJers, elders, rabbis, & elected officials, were arrested in front of @senschumer's home to demand his support.
Celebrating Sukkot in Sunset Park, we engage in the ancient practice of Ushpizin – welcoming in guests with total hospitality & care. We call on our electeds to keep New York’s #RighttoShelter & expand it by taxing the rich to build green social housing for NYers both new & old.
'If you are stabbed with a nine-inch knife, and you pull that knife out six inches, you are still fatally wounded.' -the incomparable Charles Barron 2012 sums up this shonde of a FY23 city budget.
So Mayor Eric Adams is saying there’s plenty of money for the NYPD, but no money for schools and counselors, so let’s try air??
I’m grateful to be on City & State NY Pride Power 100 list & to be in struggle for queer/trans liberation w amazing LGBTQ+ NYers. While I’m humbled to be included, the flowers go to the Black trans women that have always led our movement, from Sylvia Rivera to Queen Jean & more.