Curbed

"The managing director of the Street Vendor Project, Mohamed Attia, says the majority of vendors who have moved to the block appear to be abiding by the law. They are licensed, allowed to keep late hours, and permitted to use generators."

Norwood News

"Chaplain Dr. Victoria Phillips, Jails Action Coalition, said, “Rikers is a death sentence. Rikers must close. We have lost another life, another heartbeat, in DOC custody, Chima Williams."

Norwood News

"Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, gave his reaction to Williams’ death, saying, “Today, yet another family is grieving the loss of their loved one in the custody of the City of New York. This shameful tragedy makes the stakes even more clear – we need to stop sending people to Rikers to die right now."

El Diario

"La activista Victoria A. Phillips conocida como Dr V, fundadora de la Jails Action Coalition, acusó que la Rikers Island es “una sentencia de muerte”. “Hemos perdido otra vida, otro latido, bajo la custodia del DOC” acusó, haciendo notar que cada muerto en prisión significa “una familia más abrumada por la muerte de su ser querido”.

The Chief Leader

"Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez [of the Street Vendor Project] argued that reforming the street vending industry could be a “great opportunity for the mayor to deliver results for working class New Yorkers and make a change that will better their lives.”

NY Daily News

"Call it what you want, Erick died after being locked alone in a cell in solitary confinement with nobody watching him." - Op-ed by Freedom Agenda member Amariliz Torres Tavira

City Limits

"Park’s comments frustrated advocates who pushed for the passage of the full Council package. “I know that I cannot pick and choose which laws I adhere to,” said Patricia Glover, a member of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Activists. “If I run a red light I’m going to have to pay a fine.”

Queens Eagle

“I think it's fair to say that since Molina was commissioner, he worked hard to stifle transparency  at DOC and hide the abuses as well,” said Darren Mack, the co-director of Freedom Agenda."

Gothamist

“'People need to take sex workers seriously and understand adult consensual sex work is not a sex crime,” [Zola] Bruce [of the Sex Workers Project] said. “We need to stop this criminalization of sex and sexuality in general and change the trajectory around that so that people can see sex work as a job.”