Take on Hate NY invites you to our Back to School Townhall for students, parents, teachers, and community members to discuss what we can do to make schools safer and more inclusive in our neighborhood. Join us at the Arab American Association of NY where we hear accounts of community members experiences of religious and […]
Join tenants and homeless New Yorkers in Central Brooklyn for a town hall about how we can win BIG in 2019 by strengthening the rent laws, expanding rent stabilization to cover more tenants, and committing funding to end homelessness. We are holding our elected officials accountable to the movement for housing justice! Hosted by UHAB, the […]
The fight to end NYC's homelessness crisis has gotten a huge boost in the last few weeks. On October 5th, one of our fearless leaders—Ms. Flowers—confronted Mayor de Blasio at the Park Slope YMCA to demand more housing for homeless New Yorkers. The videos we filmed went viral and media from across the country reported […]
TYS has met the workers' demands by paying the minimum wage and providing safety equipment. But now TYS is refusing to negotiate with its employees. They have cut their business hours and taken an additional day of work away from their employees, cutting workers' schedules by 13 hours a week. This is unacceptable. It is a […]
Laundromat workers across the city are taking the power back. It began at TYS Laundromat in Harlem. Now, laundromat workers in Brooklyn are taking a stand. For many years, these immigrant women workers have faced wage theft and abuse at the hands of their employer. Join us as we take to the streets in Bay […]
The NYS Parole Board is understaffed and annually denies parole release to thousands who should be free. Join us Thursday, April 4 at 10 am at Governor Cuomo's office in NYC to demand he fill the seven vacancies on the Parole Board with people who believe in transformation. #FreeOurElders
Whole Foods, our neighborhood grocery store, is a storefront of Amazon, which provide the core technology used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) to track, detain, and separate immigrant families. On Nov 1st! Join Your Neighbors to Tell Whole Foods/Amazon to STOP tearing families apart! At 4pm, gather at J.J. Byrne- Washington Playground in Brooklyn, […]
Workers who stand up against wage theft and sweatshop conditions are increasingly left with nothing to show for it. This is because our laws are weak and unscrupulous employers can easily close up shop (only to reopen under a new name), transfer their assets and empty their bank accounts. By the time workers win a judgment […]
On Wednesday December 4th at 11am on the Steps of Tweed, CEJ will be releasing a new report examining representation from 3-K through 8th grade curriculum and book lists. Last winter we released a report showing the lack of representation of students of color in elementary school curriculum, and this report examines early childhood and middle school […]
Join the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, Parole Preparation Project and others from across New York State in Albany all day on Tuesday, January 14 for a day of action to end death-by-incarceration and promote parole justice. We'll march, rally, and meet with legislators in support of our Elder Parole (S2144) and Fair and […]
Please join us on January 21 for the first major #HALTsolitary Advocacy Day of 2020 -- and our largest ever. The time is NOW to demand passage of #HALTsolitary! Thousands of New Yorkers are suffering in solitary confinement - for months, years, and decades. This torture must end NOW! The HALT bill has enough votes […]
New York State is home to 112 billionaires with over $525 billion in wealth, and dozens more live here part-time in multi-million-dollar luxury apartments that are their second, third, fourth or fifth homes. Meanwhile, our state faces a $6 billion budget deficit and Governor Cuomo is threatening Medicaid cuts and attacks on workers' rights. We […]
On January 1st, Governor Cuomo heartlessly vetoed the SWEAT bill, showing he would rather aid and abet criminal bosses who refuse to follow the labor law, than workers. The SWEAT bill gives critically needed tools to workers and the Department of Labor to stop bosses from transferring and hiding their assets and leaving workers who […]
On June 22nd, Governor Cuomo is reopening eviction courts even though there is still *no* plan for the millions of people who have lost income permanently and will be unable to pay back rent. Join us for a statewide day of action to keep eviction courts closed. All events will being at 8:30 AM. Please […]