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Opinion: Religious Leaders Call to Release People Facing COVID Risks from Prisons & Jails

‘As people of faith, it is our moral duty to speak up for incarcerated people and their families. We call upon the governor and the New York State legislature to…

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Opinion: NY Faces Three More Years of Harmful Budget Cuts Unless Legislative Leaders Act Now

We look forward to voting for second passage of the Budget Equity Act next year, then working with community groups across the state on a public education and organizing campaign…

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Opinion: How NY Can Stop the Exploitation of Construction Workers Like Me

‘I know many Black women and formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who struggle to re-enter our economy and society while working in exploitative nonunion construction jobs like the one I had…

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Opinion: Given Risk of Tech Abuse, Online Learning Must Include Sex Ed

‘As the city plans for a return to schools, comprehensive sex education for students, with a focus on healthy relationships, needs to be part of those plans.’

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Opinion: COVID Gives NYC a Chance—and Urgent Reasons—to Redesign its Transit System

‘What solutions can we implement now to provide the reliable transit that New York City needs for its recovery—especially its most underserved communities?’

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Opinion: To Avoid Rats, Odors and Inequity, NYC Must Redesign its Organic Waste System

‘New York City’s Mayor de Blasio just committed to a green recovery. Yet, in this year’s crisis budget, the city cut all funding for organic waste collection.’

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Opinión: Una lección del COVID-19 es que los derechos políticos son esenciales en una emergencia de salud

Necessitamos trabajamos para lograr cambios en políticas públicas que atiendan a las condiciones estructurales de inequidad que generan la prevalencia del contagio por Covid-19 en poblaciones históricamente excluidas, como afrodescendientes,…

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Opinion: After COVID-19, NYC’s Future Depends on Bold Moves

‘When people say ‘cities come back, they always do,’ or ‘pandemics have happened before and look, our cities remained,’ they ignore a fundamental truth that distinguishes this moment from many…

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Opinion: How Domestic Hunger Became a Partisan Issue

‘Most Democrats in Congress support increasing hunger funding while the vast majority of House Republicans, and most Senate Republicans, support such reductions. Hunger is now as partisan as gun control…

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Opinión: Legisladores estatales tienen que hacer más para parar la criminalización de nuestras comunidades.

‘El gobernador Cuomo dijo: ‘No necesitan protestar, ganaron. Han cumplido su meta.’ Incorrecto.’

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