"I am deeply troubled by the idea, inherent in the majority’s opinion, that our Nation loses something valuable when the President is forced to operate within the confines of federal criminal law." Sotomayor, J., dissenting.
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What good are human rights laws if there’s no one to enforce them? @CMNantashaW is leading the fight to fully fund @NYCCHR.
Sign the petition link: bit.ly/FundCCHR
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🧵When 65% of middle-class Americans say they're struggling financially, it’s clear that existing measures of economic need don't tell the whole story.
A national #TrueCostofLiving measure will show hard-working Americans they are SEEN by their government
cssny.us/truecostofliving
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#ICYMI: The Fair Chance Act has been amended to protect even more New Yorkers from job discrimination. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️⬇️
ALT Graphic reads: Amendments to the City Human Rights Law: 1. Added protections for those who have been charged with a crime but have not received a final disposition in their case. 2. Extends protections to people with convictions for unsealed violations, such as disorderly conduct. 3. New protections for employees while on the job.
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This amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law ensures that people are protected from employment discrimination no matter what kind of contact they have had with the criminal justice system. Learn more in @CityLimitsNews: citylimits.org/2021/07/29/ne…
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Join us in Brooklyn this Saturday for the next stop on our #PoliticsForAllPeople Tour! Hosted by AD52 District Leader @jessepiercebk, our gradient tent and @TeamMayorales will be set up in Boerum Park with food, fun & campaign merch!
Hope to see you there: mobilize.us/dianne4nyc/event…
ALT 1960's style design on purple background with information: “Traveling Block Party - Boerum Park- Look for our gradient tent!” “Hosted by: Jesse Pierce. May 22 (Sat) - 3 to 6PM dianne.nyc/blockparty — Logo reading “Dianne Morales for NYC Mayor.”
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So damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament
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Folks focus in on political parties & platforms but this is about racism. There’s no political party that will be operating in a landscape free of white people clinging desperately to the preservation of racial caste. You can’t have a worse option than Trump & yet look at results
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I’ve been writing this for almost a decade (in my head, in poems) but never felt brave enough to say it out loud. With this year of reckoning and y’all’s unwavering commitment to truth telling, I felt like I also needed to tell a truth. Now I feel free. thecut.com/2020/10/aching-fo…
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Defending and settling RNC 2004 civil suits cost NYC taxpayers over $35 million. Having to pay those $$ is meant to force governments to change bad policies. Hasn't happened here. Most NYC electeds pander to the police, and to them, these are just costs of doing business as usual
We often get questions about #NYPD overtime spending. So here's an update: In a 2-week period roughly since antiracism protests began, NYC spent $115 million on police overtime, over 4X spent in same period last yr. @emma_a_whitford
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it means so much to share this essay on what is often said to children about the causes of racial violence. and to articulate, in writing, my own struggle to carry woe and wonder simultaneously.
theparisreview.org/blog/2020…
I donated to "NYC Makers vs. COVID: Making and Donating PPE to Hospitals," and you should, too. charity.gofundme.com/o/en/ca…
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As of July 11, it is illegal for NYC employers to ask about or discriminate against you because of an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD). Watch for more information.
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Eric Garner is dead. His daughter became an activist on behalf of her father. She is dead now too. Ramsey Orta recorded the incident and is in solitary confinement. But the cop involved is good to go. And the mayor is running for president as if this isn’t on him too.
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(1) Starting today, New York City’s protections against workplace discrimination on the basis of criminal history have expanded! NYC employers now can’t ask about or discriminate against you because of an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD).
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In the nearly 4 years since the Fair Chance Act was signed, the NYC Commission on Human Rights has performed 1,614 investigations and filed 520 complaints against employers. Violators have paid $789,734 in damages. Visit bit.ly/2vEQB7j to learn more. #FairChanceNYC
Outrageous.
New York State gerrymandered a map to qualify Hudson Yards for $1.6 billion in financing meant for low-income areas—by threading it to public housing in Harlem. (@CityLab obtained the map info through FOIA.) bit.ly/2U9uGit
