The Christian Science Monitor had a story on mutual aid networks in our district that included the COVID Care Neighbor Network.
This is a crucial moment in the movement for criminal justice reform in this country. As a candidate for the NYS Assembly, I would also like to discuss my experience as an assistant district attorney for over 20 years. Unfortunately, our system is bogged down with low-level non-violent crimes that should not be in the… Read more »
There’s so much going on, it can be easy to forget about voting. But now more than ever, we need representation that will fight for the things our community needs. This June there will be a pivotal democratic primary. For years, the Queens Democratic machine made sure we had no choice, if we went to… Read more »
I believe in community and building it has been something I’ve been doing most of my life. When a community comes together for a common cause, seemingly insurmountable problems can be solved or mitigated. The way our neighbors have been supporting each other through COIVD-19 has been awe-inspiring and written about here. COVID Care Neighbor Network (CCNN) started… Read more »
I have been posting useful information on this [jhfamilies] listserv for a decade and have tried to keep politics to a minimum. However, several posters have made wild assumptions about my legal career, community service, and activism, so I wanted to respond. For almost 20 years, I have worked daily to make this a better… Read more »
The brutal killing of George Floyd has rattled the country. Ever since video cameras captured the beating of Rodney King back in 1991, we have seen countless people of color killed by police officers. These deaths sicken me and make me angry, as they do much of our country. We have had enough. The question… Read more »
As the story itself says–“It all began with a Post-it Note”; it then became a mutual aid network led by Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo, who put her AD 34 campaign on hold to set this up, that has organized over 700 volunteers, delivered 800 bags of groceries and helped 1,000 neighbors. QNS.com has a story on this… Read more »
NPR had a story on hunger in NYC, with a spotlight on a case study in Jackson Heights that was helped out by the COVID Care Neighbor Network
Nuala has been an advocate for open streets where people can have room to breathe in a socially-distant fashion. A stretch of 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights was one of the first streets to have been opened. Watch the NY1 coverage.
It’s no secret that Nuala has been a long-standing safe streets advocate. In the context of COVID, that involves advocating giving New Yorker’s space to breathe at a safe distance. WPIX did a story after the mayor, in the face of the City Council pushing for exactly such a measure, announced his acquiescence in that…. Read more »