We protested outside Governor Cuomo office, and four of us got arrested, condemning the harms and toxicity he's inflicted on his staff, women - and his legacy of oppressive harms and policies on vulnerable New Yorkers. Check out coverage in amNewYork, LoHud, New York Amsterdam News, ABC7, WCBS, and Pix11. "We are here in the name of thousands of overdose deaths. We are here to pass a New York state budget for poor and working families across our state. Governor Cuomo, leadership has failed. He no longer can represent New Yorkers,” Jawanza Williams from VOCAL-NY said prior to being arrested.
The morning after, we held an action outside Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins' office and, simultaneously, a 24 hour vigil outside Speaker Heastie's office calling on their leadership to pass a budget that #InvestInOurNY to fund policies to end overdose and homelessness. Check out coverage in El Diario and City & State. "Every year the Assembly and Senate have cited the governor as the primary obstacle to reversing the tragedies of historic homelessness and overdose in New York State,” Paulette Soltani, political director at VOCAL-NY.
At the 24 hour vigil, we got word that the proposed Assembly one-house budget paled in comparison to what the Senate had put forth. Read our statement in response here, and check out coverage of where one-house budgets stand as of Friday morning in NY Focus. "We know the Senate is funding critical interventions to end homelessness and overdoses in their one-house, like $200 million for the Housing Access Voucher Program, $18 million for medication-assisted treatment in prisons and jails and $20 million to remove barriers to access treatment. Assembly leadership’s budget proposal currently includes none of those three items," Paulette Soltani said.
We continue to demand that New York City #DefundThePolice and invest in housing, healthcare, and services. Read about and watch the documentary here in CBSNews. “What we were calling for wasn’t simply just to reduce the budget of police, but to reduce the scope of policing,” said Jawanza Willians, director of organizing at VOCAL-NY. “[Defund] is about how do we radically transform, how we deal with issues in our society — because police and prisons for 200+ years haven’t solved the problems of our society.”
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