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What It Takes to Treat Serious Mental Illness
PBS
"Reporter Nichole Currie meets an applicant who was finally able to access benefits after connecting with an advocate with the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project."
Queens Street Vendors Fight Back as NYPD Crushes Food Carts
Documented NY
"Street Vendor Project’s Deputy Director Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez says that when they destroyed the vendors’ carts without an opportunity to contest the seizure, the 115th Precinct repeatedly violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution..."‘No Somos Criminales’
Queens Latino
"La conferencia de prensa fue organizada por Street Vendor Project del Urban Justice Center. Argumentan que la policía viola la enmienda 14 de la Constitución y los protocolos de vales de propiedad."
No Criminal Charges for Rikers Guards Who Failed to Save Bleeding Man, AG Says
Gothamist
"No one should be sent to a place where guards aren't required — and aren't compelled by their own sense of humanity — to try to save someone who is bleeding to death," Darren Mack [cofounder of Freedom Agenda] said.Street Vendors Gather in Corona to Protest Alleged Harassment by NYPD
Jackson Heights Post
“We very rarely see incidents like this,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of Street Vendor Project. “The NYPD should have have taken the property back to the precinct... [not] thrown her property directly into the trash.”NYPD Violated Laws When Policing Street Vendors, Advocates Say
Queens Daily Eagle
“If something was confiscated the way that it was, in this case, the vendors should have by law, the ability to go through a process of defending their rights,” Street Vendor Project’s Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez told reporters on Monday.