On Wednesday, May 22, we're hosting our inaugural annual conference on immigrant integration at University at Albany. Grateful to Phara Souffrant Forrest and Catalina Cruz, Esq. for offering welcoming and keynote remarks. See the full event program and register! ↓
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Today our members PROUDLY endorse Phara Souffrant Forrest for re-election.

She continues to champion the rights of tenants, as well as expanding access to healthcare & reforms to the carceral system. This year, let’s get even more legislation passed!

The brutality we witnessed last night now is what happens when a mass movement rises up with a message that people in power want to silence and violently repress.

Our statement from Audrey Sasson, on behalf of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice:
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I can’t get anyone from the city on the phone to help constituents facing eviction because we’re spending all our taxpayer money on an army of brutal fascists who are deployed to attack children who want to end genocide. This is NYC under Mayor Adams.

Fascism.

Fascism.

Reminder to the NYPD and the mayor: police violence against student protestors is unacceptable. New Yorkers will not stand for authoritarian thugs creating another Kent State in our city.

The new state budget includes $8 million for mental health court in order to combat crime caused by mental illnesses. #ADemandForJustice

ALL OUT FOR MAY DAY📢🇵🇸

🗓️Tomorrow, 5/1
⏰4PM
📍Foley Square

The precedent being set by police brutality against peaceful protesters at a time when Trump is leading in the polls should have us all deeply concerned for what’s coming. Democrats need to stop playing into the hands of the far right like this.

As Chair of the Taskforce on New Americans, Rockefeller Institute Institute on Immigrant Integration (IIIRP) has been an invaluable resource and partner in the work of creating smart policy solutions that will benefit our entire state! So excited to speak at their conference!

Happy birthday !!!!🎈🎂🎊 😘

No caption just my hearts outside my body 🫶🏾🫶🏾 Phara Souffrant Forrest 💕 Jacqui Painter 📢

#SBturns34
#Peoplepower
#LoveisLove

Thinking you can stop an organic protest movement with cops proves that the establishment hasn’t learned a damn thing since the 1960s.

We’ll look back on this the same way we look at the student strikes of the 1970s and the Selma to Montgomery marches. Act accordingly.

'We stand in solidarity with the students practicing peaceful protest at Columbia, NYU, CUNY, Cornell, the New School and all across the country, and we condemn the violent repression that university administrators and the police have wreaked upon these students.”

'We need state guidance [@tnjact] that makes this the law of the land just like we did with drug courts 15 years ago.' - Casey Dalporto New York County Defender Services

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Honored to receive a citation recognizing #BrooklynLegalServices contributions to #immigrant and #TenantRights advocacy from
Phara Souffrant Forrest. It's an honor to receive the recognition, but also to be able to serve New Yorkers in District 57 and across NYC!

It was great to speak Brooklyn Public Library Black Maternal Mental Health symposium and bring some of my advocacy and Albany know-how back home to my Black Brooklyn mamas and fellow nurses!!! ✊🏾🩺🍼

❤️ CUNY

A very real moment: During my State of the District, I really wanted to yell out “Can someone please get your kid?!” but realized the kid belonged to me. 😫😥 #NoHomeTraining