by Communications Team | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Activist, I hope you’re doing well! So much has happened since our last check-in. We’re still going hard to defend our new pretrial laws. Republican lawmakers, district attorneys, prosecutors and law enforcement officials have been using tragic situations,...
by Communications Team | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Activist, This is an important time to make our demands clear to our leaders in Albany. Last week, Governor Cuomo unveiled his proposed spending plan for the year, totaling $178 billion. We expect one-house budgets from both houses of the Legislature soon, and...
by Communications Team | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Activist, I hope you had a nice, relaxing holiday week. Yesterday, we celebrated the federal holiday commemorating the legacy of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many of us may have started thinking more deeply about his vision for our country around his...
by Communications Team | Jan 21, 2020 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
Albany, NY – In response to Governor Cuomo’s 2020 state budget announcement, Jessica Wisneski, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York issued the following statement:“Here’s the headline from Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal: Cuomo again vows to protect...
by Communications Team | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Activist, It’s been a few months since our last check-in, and so much has been going on! First, let me start off by introducing myself: I’m Tanique. I recently joined Citizen Action as a communications manager, located in Albany. If I may be honest, it’s...
by Communications Team | Jan 9, 2020 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
Albany, NY — In response to State Senate Republicans calling for repeal of New York’s bail reform law, Jim Anderson, Vice President of Citizen Action of New York, released the following statement: “We know exactly what “dangerous” means to State Senate Republicans and...
by Communications Team | Nov 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Ivette Alfonso, President, Citizen Action of New York, and Rebecca Garrard, Statewide Housing Organizer, Citizen Action of New York Last week, four homeless New Yorkers were brutally beaten and murdered in New York City while they slept, and a fifth man was...
by Communications Team | Nov 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
by Clyanna Lightbourn Clyanna Lightbourn, Statewide Civil Rights Organizer for Citizen Action of New York, and John Legend, Founder of Free America, attended an MSNBC Town Hall event with Lester Holt on criminal justice reform at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New...
by Communications Team | Sep 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Blackout Creative Arts Festival is a love letter to our community! A celebration of Black culture, the festival is our iteration of Black August, a month of commemoration for Black resistance movements and the fight for our liberation. I want to take a moment to...
