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Rikers Island, Slave Catching, and the Modern Carceral State
Black Agenda Report
“Darren Mack is co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda , an organization devoted to decarceration and system transformation, including closing the Rikers Island jail."
DUMBO Residents Push for Task Force to Address Street Vending Concerns
News 12
"Bring all stakeholders together, not just enforcement agencies. We believe that bringing in education and invite them to do outreach and educate the vendors on the rules will go a long way," said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project.”Two Black New Yorkers Die in NYC Correction Custody as Future of City Jails Loom
Amsterdam News
““It’s been two decades since I was on Rikers Island going back and forth to court, but what I recall is they wake you up between 3 a.m. [and] 4 a.m … they load everybody basically on the bus,” said Freedom Agenda co-director Darren Mack. “You probably won’t see a judge until after one o’clock. Some people don’t see a judge at all.”Generative Histories Harlem showcases work by CCNY Spitzer students and faculty in the Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator
Architect's Newspaper
"Students worked with Pedro Cruz Cruz for instance in collaboration with the Street Vendor Project, a 2,900-member organization that advocates on behalf of New York City’s many street vendors.”A Push to Help Street Vendors ‘Leave the Shadows’
NY Times
“Thousands of street vendors are given tickets every year, and the rate of enforcement has been going up, according to the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, a nonprofit group that assists vendors."
Rikers Island, a Present-Day Protest and a Link to NYC’s ‘Kidnapping Club’ Past
Gothamist
“But [Freedom Agenda's Darren] Mack said if Rikers Island is ever renamed, it should only happen after the facility is shut down, not before. “To change the name now while the Rikers is still functioning as a penal colony doesn’t move the work of ending the torture forward,” said Mack.