Queens Eagle
"The most important tangible step Mayor Adams can take to show his commitment to closing Rikers is to finally make this month’s land transfer deadline and start the process of closing jails like [the Anna M. Kross Center] that are not in current use...” [said] Darren Mack, the co-director of Freedom Agenda."The Root
"Brandon Rodriguez died by suicide at Rikers island in 2021. Last year, his mother, [Freedom Agenda member] Tamara Carter, testified in support of the [solitary confinement] ban at a City Council hearing last year."NY Times
"[Freedom Agenda member] Tamara Carter, whose son Brandon Rodriguez died by suicide at Rikers in 2021, testified in support of the ban [on solitary confinement] at a City Council hearing last year."Gothamist
"Darren Mack, cofounder of Freedom Agenda, a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people and their communities, said Adams could show he’s serious about closing Rikers by meeting this month’s land-transfer deadline under the 2021 Renewable Rikers Act."Gothamist
“It is incredibly complicated. It's more inaccessible than not,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of the Street Vendor Project. “It's very much these layers of red tape that make it incredibly complicated just for an average vendor to operate.”Gothamist
"Darren Mack, the co-director of criminal justice reform organization Freedom Agenda, said Rikers was irredeemable “no matter who is running it.”Univision
Eric Nava Pérez, del [Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center], que representa a 3,000 vendedores ambulantes, expresó que se oponen a la propuesta de la Ciudad de Nueva York para desalojarlos y apunta que "deberían solicitar propuestas de los mismos vendedores".Queens Gazette
“The Corona Plaza Street Vendors Association is grateful to the elected officials and partners for their support for our community’s street vendors, most of whom are immigrant mothers,” said Rosario Troncoso, board president, Corona Plaza Street Vendors Association and member, Street Vendor Project, Urban Justice Center.Gothamist
“The vision here is to have a functioning system that allows for the street vendors to thrive, not only survive, in our city,” said Mohamed Attia, the managing director of the Street Vendor Project, which helped craft the bills.NY Daily News
David Shalleck-Klein, executive director of the Family Justice Law Center [part of UJC's Social Justice Accelerator] and one of her attorneys, said ACS supervision is a frequent requirement for survivors of domestic violence to maintain custody — but is often deeply misguided.© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
