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Old friends disrupt notions of gender in ‘The Journey of Monalisa’

hughr2021-05-05T13:03:49-04:00April 15th, 2021|Press|

Chicago Sun Times

When Iván Monalisa Ojeda got to New York City, Monalisa was born. A natural poet, 53-year-old Ojeda describes the feeling of being two-spirit, or gender non-conforming, as something that could only happen once he’d been freed from the homophobia of Chile in the 1990s. “Monalisa was born here,” Ojeda says in Spanish after filling out an intake form at Urban Justice Center in Manhattan, which will help him with resources and seeking citizenship

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Newly Public Jail Disciplinary Records Reveal Repeat Use-Of-Force Violations With Few Consequences

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Newly Public Jail Disciplinary Records Reveal Repeat Use-Of-Force Violations With Few Consequences

hughr2021-05-05T19:30:40-04:00April 12th, 2021|Press|

Gothamist

“The 50-a data shows that the so-called reforms at DOC is just rhetoric,” said Darren Mack, a co-director of Freedom Agenda at Urban Justice Center. “And it's evidence of what advocates and survivors of Rikers already knew. That the brutality and violence will not be eliminated until there’s a total dismantling of DOC.”

Immigrant street vendors hustling to survive the pandemic
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Immigrant street vendors hustling to survive the pandemic

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Immigrant street vendors hustling to survive the pandemic

hughr2021-05-05T19:28:05-04:00April 10th, 2021|Press|

Yahoo! News

"Street vendors are the smallest businesses you can find in New York City. They are a real picture of what the American dream should look like for all immigrants who come to this country to try to start their own small businesses," said Mohamed Attia, who represents food cart workers in New York City through the Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project.

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Freedom Agenda Member OP-ED: Come together from opposite sides of the jail bars

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Freedom Agenda Member OP-ED: Come together from opposite sides of the jail bars

hughr2021-05-10T16:26:19-04:00April 9th, 2021|Press|

NY Daily News

As an advocate for closing Rikers Island, I encounter a common assumption: that correction officers are our main opposition. But when we look beyond the badges, we see that many officers are people of color from the same communities as those in the jails. Could we, together, envision good jobs that aren’t dependent on mass incarceration?

Community Raises More than $10K for Bushwick Tamale Vendor Facing Eviction
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Community Raises More than $10K for Bushwick Tamale Vendor Facing Eviction

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Community Raises More than $10K for Bushwick Tamale Vendor Facing Eviction

hughr2021-05-05T13:10:45-04:00April 8th, 2021|Press|

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Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project set up a Go Fund Me page for Perez on March 24, and in just two weeks it has already surpassed its goal of $10,000 – with $10,772 donated so far. The page says Perez is a true community leader, “always helping other vendors and fighting for street vendor rights.”

Brooklyn Raises $10K For Tamale Vendor Facing COVID, Eviction
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Brooklyn Raises $10K For Tamale Vendor Facing COVID, Eviction

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Brooklyn Raises $10K For Tamale Vendor Facing COVID, Eviction

hughr2021-05-05T13:14:59-04:00April 7th, 2021|Press|

The GoFundMe, set up by the Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project, had pulled in $10,772 in donations as of Wednesday for Sonia Perez, who has sold tamales on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick for 20 years.

Community Reinvestment is Key to Repairing Harms of Incarceration

david2021-04-06T09:48:44-04:00April 6th, 2021|News, Press|

City Limits

This week, after a year-long delay, a commission to make recommendations on reinvestment in communities impacted by Rikers Island will convene for its first meeting. The work of this commission is essential and long overdue.

David Rockwell Wants Us to Never Forget Their Faces

hughr2021-03-22T16:51:55-04:00March 18th, 2021|News, Press|

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For the past year, Peter Malvan has been working with Midnight Run, the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, and other groups to help the city’s unhoused. This has been especially challenging during COVID, with people fearing that the crowded conditions in the shelters would spread infection. “I’m disabled, but I like to keep busy,” he says. “I used to go to offices for in-person meetings. When virtual meetings happened, that got interesting because my phone doesn’t always work. I didn’t get paid, but I worked.”

N.Y.C. doubled ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments last year, despite C.D.C. guidance to let them be.

hughr2021-03-08T14:13:49-05:00March 3rd, 2021|News, Press|

New York Times

From March 1 to Dec. 12, the city performed 1,077 cleanups, compared with 543 during the same period in 2019. The statistic was released by the city in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Urban Justice Center, a nonprofit whose Safety Net Project helps homeless people.

MTA sticks to its guns regarding policies restricting homelessness in subways despite lawsuit

hughr2021-02-17T14:06:12-05:00February 16th, 2021|News, Press|

AM NY

A lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority alleges that rules adopted by the agency to clear stations and trains of homeless men and women are discriminatory, namely by restricting people from remaining in stations for over an hour at a time. Urban Justice Center (Safety Net Project) and Picture the Homeless file the Article 78 petition in New York County Supreme Court on Thursday and the MTA is not backing down