Eater NY
"Critics, like the Street Vendor Project, a non-profit advocacy group, have argued the city’s measures are still not adequate — too few and slow coming — leaving vendors open to fines and harassment in the meantime."Homecoming NYC
"Join us for our next food crawl on Sunday, August 13, hosted in partnership with the Street Vendor Project! We’ll be headed to Astoria, Queens."NY Amsterdam News
“The mayor knows that Curtis Davis, like thousands of other people at Rikers, was at great risk, harm, and death every day he was there, and Adams is telling New Yorkers he’s fine with that—but we’re not,” said Freedom Agenda co-director Darren Mack."AM NY
“Enough is enough. We all have jobs and lives to live. We don’t want to be out here screaming. We don’t want to have to galvanize emergency situations,” Chaplain Dr. Victoria A. Phillips (Dr. V) [of the Mental Health Project of the UJC] said. “We do it because if we don’t do it, who’s going to do it? I don’t see an elected official.”CBS News
"'[Rikers] was very dangerous. I remember, 16 years old, I got jumped like two times by 20 people, people try to cut me, stab me,' said Nathaniel Evans, of the Freedom Agenda."BK Eagle
“Vendors have been selling on the Brooklyn Bridge for years and years, and provide a vital service to tourists. This is their livelihood,” Matthew Shapiro, legal director of the Street Vendor Project, told the Eagle.BK Eagle
"Critics [of Mayor Adam’s approach to borough-based jail expansion], including Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda and Megan French-Marcelin of the Legal Action Center, have criticized the mayor for expanding the jail facility while decreasing the therapeutic units."Norwood News
"Meanwhile, Freedom Agenda co-director, Darren Mack, a survivor of Rikers, also released a statement saying Davis, 44, was the third person to die in the New York City jail system this month, the 26th person since New York City Mayor Eric Adams took office, and the 42nd in the past two years."Queens Daily Eagle
"Mayor Adams ran for office saying he would get Rikers closed, but has been doing everything in his power to fill it up with more and more people struggling with addiction, mental health needs, and unstable housing,” [Darren] Mack, [co-director of the UJC's Freedom Agenda] said.Gothamist
"Darren Mack, an activist for the group Freedom Agenda...criticized Adams for his role in increasing the population of Rikers with more detainees struggling with addiction and mental health needs."© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
