• AAD & @newartdealers have organized this online workshop for commercial renters such as artist studios and small businesses. RSVP at link in bio 🌞 We will hear brief presentations from: - Karen Narefsky from United for Small Business NYC - Olympia Kazi from the NYC Artist Coalition @nycartc - Jenny Dubnau of Artist Studio Affordability Project @artiststudioap Even before the pandemic, commercial tenants in New York City had no protections under the law from landlords raising rents any amount, or kicking out small businesses for no reasons and with no repercussions. Now it is even more urgent for us to come together to fight for the protections we deserve. During this workshop, we will learn about the proposed commercial rent stabilization bill and strategize how to push forward relief measures for small businesses. This is a space to ask questions, bring concerns, and strategize together. Feel free to share the RSVP link with anyone who holds a commercial lease or is interested in this advocacy!
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    AAD & @newartdealers have organized this online workshop for commercial renters such as artist studios and small businesses. RSVP at link in bio 🌞 We will hear brief presentations from: - Karen Narefsky from United for Small Business NYC - Olympia Kazi from the NYC Artist Coalition @nycartc - Jenny Dubnau of Artist Studio Affordability Project @artiststudioap Even before the pandemic, commercial tenants in New York City had no protections under the law from landlords raising rents any amount, or kicking out small businesses for no reasons and with no repercussions. Now it is even more urgent for us to come together to fight for the protections we deserve. During this workshop, we will learn about the proposed commercial rent stabilization bill and strategize how to push forward relief measures for small businesses. This is a space to ask questions, bring concerns, and strategize together. Feel free to share the RSVP link with anyone who holds a commercial lease or is interested in this advocacy!
  • We must step up to support our neighbors in #NYCHA. Protecting public housing is crucial to our fight for expanding affordability and public goods. Some NYCHA tenants are going on strike to protest unsafe living conditions and the predatory environment that has been created by chronic disinvestment and now privatization led by De Blasio under the RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration) program. They need our support! 💭What can I do to help❓ 📌Rally tomorrow at 4pm in Time Square 👟 📌Go to link in bio to sign letter ✍️ 📌Amplify these demands 🔊 📌Connect NYCHA tenants you know with @justice4allqns ✊🏽 #nycharising #rentstrike #fightfornycha #thepeoplesbudget #keeppubliclandpublic #fundnycha #repairsandreparations #queensbridgeprojects #queensbridge #holmesisaacscoalition #holmesisaacs #jeffersonhouses #ravenswood #socialhousing #publichousing #nycnot4sale #communitycontrol #tenantpower
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    We must step up to support our neighbors in #NYCHA. Protecting public housing is crucial to our fight for expanding affordability and public goods. Some NYCHA tenants are going on strike to protest unsafe living conditions and the predatory environment that has been created by chronic disinvestment and now privatization led by De Blasio under the RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration) program. They need our support! 💭What can I do to help❓ 📌Rally tomorrow at 4pm in Time Square 👟 📌Go to link in bio to sign letter ✍️ 📌Amplify these demands 🔊 📌Connect NYCHA tenants you know with @justice4allqns ✊🏽 #nycharising #rentstrike #fightfornycha #thepeoplesbudget #keeppubliclandpublic #fundnycha #repairsandreparations #queensbridgeprojects #queensbridge #holmesisaacscoalition #holmesisaacs #jeffersonhouses #ravenswood #socialhousing #publichousing #nycnot4sale #communitycontrol #tenantpower
  • Wow. 😱This is a ✨HUGE✨VICTORY✨ for the people of New York‼️ 👉WE👈 are the “political environment” that makes this kind of development impossible.🗣🗣🗣🗣SO PROUD of all the organizers who stayed true to the vision over so many years.🥰We have a lot of work cut out for us but this victory puts wind in the sails 🌬. All are welcome tonight at 5pm in Sunset Park for a celebration🎺💕🎊 From here onward, consider this an invitation 💌 to join the movement if you have been watching from afar but haven’t been involved yet...what a ride 🎢 it is a movement powered by joy and love of our neighbors. Come to where the people are. 💕 KEEP STRONG and let’s keep fighting against displacement ‼️ for community-control of our neighborhoods. 🗽#NOCONCESSIONS #NOCOMPROMISE keep that vision #elpuebounidojamásserávencido #sunsetparknosevende #sunsetparknotforsale #nycisnot4sale #notowersnocompromise #thepeopleunitedwillneverbedefeated #abolishedc #abolishulurp #stopracistrezonings #housingjusticeforall
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    Wow. 😱This is a ✨HUGE✨VICTORY✨ for the people of New York‼️ 👉WE👈 are the “political environment” that makes this kind of development impossible.🗣🗣🗣🗣SO PROUD of all the organizers who stayed true to the vision over so many years.🥰We have a lot of work cut out for us but this victory puts wind in the sails 🌬. All are welcome tonight at 5pm in Sunset Park for a celebration🎺💕🎊 From here onward, consider this an invitation 💌 to join the movement if you have been watching from afar but haven’t been involved yet...what a ride 🎢 it is a movement powered by joy and love of our neighbors. Come to where the people are. 💕 KEEP STRONG and let’s keep fighting against displacement ‼️ for community-control of our neighborhoods. 🗽#NOCONCESSIONS #NOCOMPROMISE keep that vision #elpuebounidojamásserávencido #sunsetparknosevende #sunsetparknotforsale #nycisnot4sale #notowersnocompromise #thepeopleunitedwillneverbedefeated #abolishedc #abolishulurp #stopracistrezonings #housingjusticeforall
  • Yesterday the courts ruled in favor of the people and against the Mayor’s costly and terrible #boroughbasedjails plan. 👏 This was an exemplary case of the undemocratic land use charade known as #ULURP. All 4 jails were crammed into one ULURP process and NO environmental studies were performed after the Chinatown site was moved from 80 Centre St to 125 White St. 🤦🏻‍♀️ What’s the point of a process that ignores its own rules, let alone the input of impacted people (such as the Chung Pak Senior Residence next door)‼️ 👉It’s also important to bring up the way “culture” is playing into this rendering and justifying this vision. MOCA (who has turned off their ability to be tagged), was part of this plan, when they were offered a new performing arts space as part of the “mitigation.” 🤨 We haven’t posted much about this before because AAD is a diverse group of folks with differing ideas about how to approach this conflict, and for many of us MOCA is a beloved institution we are interested in protecting. Several of us volunteered in salvaging their archives after the devastating fire that recently damaged their collection. 😖 But we can do better than letting art be used to justify expanding incarceration in our communities. Why does #fundingforthearts come with a side of institutional brutality?❌ We refuse to let art and cultural heritage be manipulated toward harming low income communities of color in particular Black people we know bear the brunt of #overpolicing. 🥵 We might not have the answers, but we have the belief that art *can* be liberatory 🗣and this is not what that looks like. Thank you @chrismartenyc 💯✊🏽for being at the forefront of this battle! So, for now... We have bought ourselves more time⏳ earlier this summer the jail funds were reallocated and pushed to 2025 at the earliest. If you don’t know, there is currently a jail at this location, “The Tombs.” 😞 This Covid crisis has blatantly demonstrated that jails and prisons are a terrifying health crisis. Let’s keep organizing for a world with #nonewjails & dare say #nojails at all. #freethemall4publichealth #abolishice #closethecamps #everycageisacrisis #noartwashing #chinatownnot4sale
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    Yesterday the courts ruled in favor of the people and against the Mayor’s costly and terrible #boroughbasedjails plan. 👏 This was an exemplary case of the undemocratic land use charade known as #ULURP. All 4 jails were crammed into one ULURP process and NO environmental studies were performed after the Chinatown site was moved from 80 Centre St to 125 White St. 🤦🏻‍♀️ What’s the point of a process that ignores its own rules, let alone the input of impacted people (such as the Chung Pak Senior Residence next door)‼️ 👉It’s also important to bring up the way “culture” is playing into this rendering and justifying this vision. MOCA (who has turned off their ability to be tagged), was part of this plan, when they were offered a new performing arts space as part of the “mitigation.” 🤨 We haven’t posted much about this before because AAD is a diverse group of folks with differing ideas about how to approach this conflict, and for many of us MOCA is a beloved institution we are interested in protecting. Several of us volunteered in salvaging their archives after the devastating fire that recently damaged their collection. 😖 But we can do better than letting art be used to justify expanding incarceration in our communities. Why does #fundingforthearts come with a side of institutional brutality?❌ We refuse to let art and cultural heritage be manipulated toward harming low income communities of color in particular Black people we know bear the brunt of #overpolicing. 🥵 We might not have the answers, but we have the belief that art *can* be liberatory 🗣and this is not what that looks like. Thank you @chrismartenyc 💯✊🏽for being at the forefront of this battle! So, for now... We have bought ourselves more time⏳ earlier this summer the jail funds were reallocated and pushed to 2025 at the earliest. If you don’t know, there is currently a jail at this location, “The Tombs.” 😞 This Covid crisis has blatantly demonstrated that jails and prisons are a terrifying health crisis. Let’s keep organizing for a world with #nonewjails & dare say #nojails at all. #freethemall4publichealth #abolishice #closethecamps #everycageisacrisis #noartwashing #chinatownnot4sale
  • Do you know what’s going on in Flushing? 😤 @protectflushing put together this handy explainer on the waterfront rezoning proposal! 🚨 Please visit the link in bio to submit written testimony. 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣You are an expert on your own life and how you want the future of your city to unfold. ~40% of Flushing residents do not have internet access, so if you do, please speak up to oppose this project, despite how unfair and corrupt this #ULURP process is. #TwoBridges is our home fight. Yesterday we testified to #ProtectSunsetPark, today we testify to #ProtectFlushing from YET ANOTHER 🙄 developer-driven luxury tower plan that is at this point standard procedure for City Planning: approving the displacement of poor brown people is their daily routine. ☕️😩@nycplanning STOP KILLING US! If you displace people from Chinatown / LES, Sunset Park, AND Flushing (and Inwood, Sunnyside, Astoria, and more) all at once, WHERE ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO GO. ☄️😾Low and middle income people (like you?) already can’t afford rent right now. We need to #CANCELRENT #FUNDEXCLUDEDWORKERS & #PROTECTSMALLBUSINESSES instead they have us here arguing with sharks over which of our limbs they should gnaw on first. 🏊🏼🆘🦈 👉This is a coordinated attack on vulnerable people 👉they are trying to hit us when we are down and hope we will just leave quietly with that “grungy” “smelly” way of life that people in favor of these projects refer to as justification for the “clean-up” and removal of poor people from the area. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 #nycisnotforsale #notowersnocompromise #peopleoverprofit #stopdisplacement #sunsetparknosevende #loisaidanosevende #flushingnotforsale #chinatownnotforsale
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    Do you know what’s going on in Flushing? 😤 @protectflushing put together this handy explainer on the waterfront rezoning proposal! 🚨 Please visit the link in bio to submit written testimony. 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣You are an expert on your own life and how you want the future of your city to unfold. ~40% of Flushing residents do not have internet access, so if you do, please speak up to oppose this project, despite how unfair and corrupt this #ULURP process is. #TwoBridges is our home fight. Yesterday we testified to #ProtectSunsetPark, today we testify to #ProtectFlushing from YET ANOTHER 🙄 developer-driven luxury tower plan that is at this point standard procedure for City Planning: approving the displacement of poor brown people is their daily routine. ☕️😩@nycplanning STOP KILLING US! If you displace people from Chinatown / LES, Sunset Park, AND Flushing (and Inwood, Sunnyside, Astoria, and more) all at once, WHERE ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO GO. ☄️😾Low and middle income people (like you?) already can’t afford rent right now. We need to #CANCELRENT #FUNDEXCLUDEDWORKERS & #PROTECTSMALLBUSINESSES instead they have us here arguing with sharks over which of our limbs they should gnaw on first. 🏊🏼🆘🦈 👉This is a coordinated attack on vulnerable people 👉they are trying to hit us when we are down and hope we will just leave quietly with that “grungy” “smelly” way of life that people in favor of these projects refer to as justification for the “clean-up” and removal of poor people from the area. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 #nycisnotforsale #notowersnocompromise #peopleoverprofit #stopdisplacement #sunsetparknosevende #loisaidanosevende #flushingnotforsale #chinatownnotforsale
  • Incredible testimony from today’s hearing on #IndustryCity’s egregious and unnecessary #rezoning. These activists waited 10+ HOURS to testify after they ran out of Yes Men, it was just no after no after no, from the heart. ✊🏽 Solidarity with Sunset Park. Importantly want to echo what Corbin (on the last slide) said. 👉We need a MORATORIUM ON ALL REZONINGS UNTIL ULURP IS ABOLISHED! This system is broken. 🚫 Corruption reigns under this land use process and we REJECT IT AS ILLEGITIMATE AND UNDEMOCRATIC. Please, if you are reading this but have not sent in testimony! Visit the link in our bio and email them. Don’t be afraid to personalize it. ☄️Keep the heat on, keep calling, tweeting, emailing your reps. ‼️Tomorrow at 10 tune into the #FlushingWaterfront Rezoning Hearing.😫 Go to @minkwoncenter for deets! If this feels like an attack on the extra-vulnerable communities that’s because IT IS. They aren’t expecting us to fight back with the stamina and solidarity that we have. All power to the people.
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    Incredible testimony from today’s hearing on #IndustryCity’s egregious and unnecessary #rezoning. These activists waited 10+ HOURS to testify after they ran out of Yes Men, it was just no after no after no, from the heart. ✊🏽 Solidarity with Sunset Park. Importantly want to echo what Corbin (on the last slide) said. 👉We need a MORATORIUM ON ALL REZONINGS UNTIL ULURP IS ABOLISHED! This system is broken. 🚫 Corruption reigns under this land use process and we REJECT IT AS ILLEGITIMATE AND UNDEMOCRATIC. Please, if you are reading this but have not sent in testimony! Visit the link in our bio and email them. Don’t be afraid to personalize it. ☄️Keep the heat on, keep calling, tweeting, emailing your reps. ‼️Tomorrow at 10 tune into the #FlushingWaterfront Rezoning Hearing.😫 Go to @minkwoncenter for deets! If this feels like an attack on the extra-vulnerable communities that’s because IT IS. They aren’t expecting us to fight back with the stamina and solidarity that we have. All power to the people.
  • SUMMONING 🚨THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE🚨EL PODER DEL PUEBLO, 🚨 Our best chance to kill this #ICrezoning forever and #SaveSunsetPark is tomorrow. 🪓 - Meet starting at 8:30am at D'Emic Park (3rd ave between 35th and 36th) - 10am the hearing will commence! You can still register to testify! 🔗📲 - The hearing may last 5-6 hours. Check back here for updates /dm to be added to signal chat ✊🏽✨ The City Council subcommittee that will be overseeing this only has 7 members. There are 4 unknown votes, and we would only need 2 to get a NO verdict 😱 which would mean that the proposal would not be passed on to the next level. Our 🎯 targets 🎯 are #StephenLevin (who has expressed that he does not support how Williamsburg 2005 rezoning went) & #FranciscoMoya (who has expressed support for racial impact studies in rezonings). 🌬Fill their inboxes tonight! Tomorrow is what we would be experiencing if the Two Bridges towers were going through ULURP. We would desperately want a huge crowd 🥁 to make our opposition deafening. So if you or anyone you know is free, please tell them to come out. A lot hangs in the balance! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣But no matter the outcome, we will keep fighting to protect the gente. 🗣🗣#NoRacistRezonings #SunsetParkNoSeVende
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    SUMMONING 🚨THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE🚨EL PODER DEL PUEBLO, 🚨 Our best chance to kill this #ICrezoning forever and #SaveSunsetPark is tomorrow. 🪓 - Meet starting at 8:30am at D'Emic Park (3rd ave between 35th and 36th) - 10am the hearing will commence! You can still register to testify! 🔗📲 - The hearing may last 5-6 hours. Check back here for updates /dm to be added to signal chat ✊🏽✨ The City Council subcommittee that will be overseeing this only has 7 members. There are 4 unknown votes, and we would only need 2 to get a NO verdict 😱 which would mean that the proposal would not be passed on to the next level. Our 🎯 targets 🎯 are #StephenLevin (who has expressed that he does not support how Williamsburg 2005 rezoning went) & #FranciscoMoya (who has expressed support for racial impact studies in rezonings). 🌬Fill their inboxes tonight! Tomorrow is what we would be experiencing if the Two Bridges towers were going through ULURP. We would desperately want a huge crowd 🥁 to make our opposition deafening. So if you or anyone you know is free, please tell them to come out. A lot hangs in the balance! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣But no matter the outcome, we will keep fighting to protect the gente. 🗣🗣#NoRacistRezonings #SunsetParkNoSeVende
  • All hands on deck to block the Sunset Park rezoning. ✊🏽 📌Monday 11am: petition drop & press conference at City Hall. 📌Tuesday 10am the hearing begins. We sent out a mailer this am you can read 💫 @ 🔗in bio. We need you to sign up to 🥁testify 🗣 and we can help you with talking points! If you prefer to give written testimony, just email it to landusetestimony@council.nyc.gov and please contact your reps as well! (Automated email in the 🔗 in the mailer) ✨🧨We are so close to winning, we need your help!🧨✨🗽 📌Lastly, there will be an ~in person~ rally at IC where people will be giving video testimony from on Tuesday. We will share details once they are confirmed! 📌P.S If anyone knows Levin’s home address in Williamsburg pls tell us ! 😉 #sunsetpark #sunsetparknosevende #stopracistrezonings #ulurp #speakout #nodisplacement
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    All hands on deck to block the Sunset Park rezoning. ✊🏽 📌Monday 11am: petition drop & press conference at City Hall. 📌Tuesday 10am the hearing begins. We sent out a mailer this am you can read 💫 @ 🔗in bio. We need you to sign up to 🥁testify 🗣 and we can help you with talking points! If you prefer to give written testimony, just email it to landusetestimony@council.nyc.gov and please contact your reps as well! (Automated email in the 🔗 in the mailer) ✨🧨We are so close to winning, we need your help!🧨✨🗽 📌Lastly, there will be an ~in person~ rally at IC where people will be giving video testimony from on Tuesday. We will share details once they are confirmed! 📌P.S If anyone knows Levin’s home address in Williamsburg pls tell us ! 😉 #sunsetpark #sunsetparknosevende #stopracistrezonings #ulurp #speakout #nodisplacement
  • Come through and change the world with us 🤗 3 subcommittees have been formed 👀 let us know if you are interested in joining! We need all types of skills and perspectives! ✨🌀✨ The energy is high coming off the #StopRacistRezonings rally on Monday. The people united will never be defeated. ⚡️ P.s. the rapid response team can also mobilize for the 2 City Planning Hearings next week: Sunset Park (Tuesday at 10am) and Flushing (Wednesday at 10am). Will share more info asap on how to testify by zoom or written in advance‼️ #notowersnocompromise #chinatownnot4sale #loisaidanosevende #nycnot4sale #sunsetparknotforsale #inwoodnotforsale #flushingnotforsale #stopdisplacement #luxurymoratorium #peoplefirst #chinatownworkinggroup #cancelrent #rentstrike #protectsmallbusiness #nomoremcis #tenantpower #nycnotforsale #commercialrentstabilization #saveeastriverpark #elpueblounido
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    Come through and change the world with us 🤗 3 subcommittees have been formed 👀 let us know if you are interested in joining! We need all types of skills and perspectives! ✨🌀✨ The energy is high coming off the #StopRacistRezonings rally on Monday. The people united will never be defeated. ⚡️ P.s. the rapid response team can also mobilize for the 2 City Planning Hearings next week: Sunset Park (Tuesday at 10am) and Flushing (Wednesday at 10am). Will share more info asap on how to testify by zoom or written in advance‼️ #notowersnocompromise #chinatownnot4sale #loisaidanosevende #nycnot4sale #sunsetparknotforsale #inwoodnotforsale #flushingnotforsale #stopdisplacement #luxurymoratorium #peoplefirst #chinatownworkinggroup #cancelrent #rentstrike #protectsmallbusiness #nomoremcis #tenantpower #nycnotforsale #commercialrentstabilization #saveeastriverpark #elpueblounido