[School Reopening\Childcare]
Limonic: “A September with little in-person school is expected, yet many parents are expected back at the office as early as this month. Choices will need to made – who will stay home and mind the kids? You guessed it – most likely mom.”
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Mayor De Blasio
NY Court Rules Against Investigation into NYPD Abuses, Discrimination
[NYPD\United States District Court]
Corey Stoughton: “This ruling is a missed opportunity to bring much-needed accountability for the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing rules disproportionately against Black and Latinx New Yorkers.”
Photo: YouTube
NYC Leaders Engage in “Budget Tricks” to Protect NYPD Funding
[NYPD Budget\NYC Council]
Roberts: “Mayor De Blasio and the New York City Council’s “cuts” to the NYPD’s budget are a publicity stunt masquerading as reform…last night’s vote does not defund the police; it protects them with convoluted budget tricks.”
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CUNY Union Joins Growing Call to Defund NYPD
[CUNY\Defund NYPD]
PSC\CUNY: “The Professional Staff Congress Calls for Defunding the NYPD and Redirecting Resources to Education, Public Health and Other Community Needs.”
Photo: Twitter
NYC Care and Mental Health Services to be Expanded due to COVID-19
[NYC Care\Mental Health Services\ COVID-19]
Mayor de Blasio. “COVID-19 exposed our city’s most painful disparities, including access to medical care. By expanding NYC Care, we are tackling these inequities head on.”
Photo: NYC Care
De Blasio—Young People Demand Full Divestment from Police in Schools
[Divestment\Defunding Police]
“We are Black and Brown young people who have led the fight to defund police in schools and invest in our priorities. We will continue that fight until all young people are free from the violent and racist policing system within our schools.”
Photo: Sami Disu
NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE TO GOVERNOR AND MAYOR: TIME TO ADDRESS INEQUITIES IN POLICING
[Reforming Police in New York}
Williams: “We must demonstrate that we are committed to making tangible and immediate changes that will address the inequities in our policing system that are at the heart of these protests.”
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BROOKLYN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE BLASTS DE BLASIO’S “DISGRACEFUL” DEFENDING OF ABUSIVE NYPD OFFICERS
[George Floyd Protesters\NYPD]
Bunkeddeko: “Mayor de Blasio’s comments last night were disgraceful – he offered excuses for brutal, violent, and antagonistic acts from the NYPD.”
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COVID-19: NY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES SAY CUOMO AND DE BLASIO MUST HELP IMMIGRANT VICTIMS
[NY\COVID-19 Pandemic\Immigrants]
Community vigils were held in Corona Plaza and in Brentwood, Long Island to commemorate the community members lost in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vigils included candles, flowers, photos of those lost…”
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HOUSING WORKS ORGANIZATION DENOUNCES “MISGUIDED EFFORT” TO POLICE HOMELESS ON NYC SUBWAYS
[COVID-19\Homelessness\Subways]
‘As the operator of a COVID-19 isolation shelter for homeless people recovering from this awful disease, Housing Works has seen first-hand the impact of the epidemic on persons at unconscionable risk in congregate shelters or trying to survive on the streets.”
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