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Carina Kaufman-Gutierez, deputy director of the UJC's Street Vendor Project, said the fact that that program disburses money through the Department of Labor rather than non-profits was important and one of the key advocacy areas of the coalition. This would reflect the state’s long-shirked responsibility to undocumented immigrants, she says.The City
Two days before the bill went to a planned May 26 vote committee vote, a fourth version of the measure appeared, without any mention of income qualifications. That gave HRA the power to continue imposing its own income cap. Advocates [including our Safety Net Project] noticed the change in the city’s online bill tracker and immediately pressed Levin to restore the missing line lifting the income limits as well as a time limit on aid, to no avail.City & State NY
Mohamed Attia With nearly a decade of experience as a street vendor in New York City to inform his efforts, Mohamed Attia has advocated on behalf of more than 10,000 vendors in the city throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Attia championed legislation passed earlier this year by the New York City Council that expanded the number of permits available to street vendors. However, The UJC's Street Vendor Project’s fight isn’t over yet: It continues to push for the city to stop penalizing unlicensed vendors.Law 360
Marika Dias, managing director of the Safety Net Project, a legal assistance program operated by the Urban Justice Center, said that with the pandemic-induced housing emergency and a backlog of 18,000 evictions cases pre-pandemic, the city will have to pour more money into civil legal aid services to be able to deliver on its promise — and follow its own law.KSL Utah
Harper Zacharias, director of development of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center said the move by OnlyFans "indicates a troubling willingness of OnlyFans to bend under the slightest pressure of financial institutions. OnlyFans has made its fortune off of the backs of sex workers during a time of global crisis."City Limits
“It’s positive the city made this change. It only took community outcry, intervention from the federal government, and the reality of facing a potential lawsuit for discriminating against people with disabilities,” said Craig Hughes, a supervising social worker at the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project.New York Times
Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of the Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center, said that the city’s decision to turn over enforcement to a civilian agency had represented a “huge step” toward decriminalizing vendors — who in the past had their goods confiscated by the police, and were even arrested for selling churros. Still, she said, the recent crackdown was a missed opportunity to fuel the city’s economic recovery from the ground up.Queens Daily Eagle
"COBA's leadership has convinced themselves that officers should not be held accountable for failing to report to work or demonstrating callous neglect for incarcerated people while there, and the mayor has shamefully let them act accordingly,” said Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda. “COBA has also taken every opportunity to argue for more incarceration.”Bushwick Daily
The Excluded Workers Fund Launch Fair, which occupied Suydam Street between Knickerbocker and Irving Avenue yesterday, August 14, celebrated the historic $2.1 billion fund allocated to excluded workers by the state’s Department of Labor...Organizations and nonprofits that made this fund possible include the Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.Gothamist
"Brandon's death is tragic but entirely unsurprising,” said Darren Mack, co-director of the jails reform group Freedom Agenda. “There have already been reports of entire housing units completely unstaffed for hours at a time. On Rikers, that means there is no way to get medical attention or anything else you may need.”© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
