Camille Winds DownMy city's mayor (Mamdani) had iftar with Muslim inmates at Rikers yesterday. Your mayor....did not.
Now let's hope he has the courage to shut that place down.
Once We Finally Shut Down Rikers, Let’s Rename the Island For Black Abolitionist David Ruggles
> Today, the prison island immortalizes a man who sold Black New Yorkers into slavery. Once the prison is shut down, the city should instead honor the man who fought to stop it.
He opened a grocery store at his home, the earliest-known African American bookstore in the country and published an abolitionist periodical called The Mirror of Liberty.
Alec PerkinsLiterally every day there’s a new story like this
“Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is rebuffing a request from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues for data on the crisis at Rikers Island.”
https://gothamist.com/news/adams-office-snubs-request-for-rikers-data-from-aoc-and-congressional-dems #NYC #ShutDownRikers
Under Eric Adams, a Rikers Island Unit That Protected Trans Women Has Collapsed: “Adams made good on his vow. He replaced Schiraldi with Molina, who immediately … pushed out several top department staffers, including those who had elevated Munsky and sided with the LGBTQ+ unit in debates over where to house trans women.” https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/1/24/23567498/rikers-lgbtq-trans-eric-adams-corrections?utm_medium=mastodon #NYC #ShutDownRikers
IWOC NYCThousands of people in burning buildings? FDNY would try to save them.
Thousands of people with Ebola? DOH would try to save them.
Thousands of people still on Rikers? City gov’t *admits* it’s an emergency — yet prefers to scheme for new jails.