Desis Rising Up & Moving

We brought the noise to City Hall today to urge our Council Members to sustain the Mayor’s veto of Intro 175-B 📣 We marched, rallied, and picketed outside the gates to remind the Council loud and clear: New Yorkers will not stand by while our right to protest and speak out is undermined. Expanding police power and criminalizing dissent is not the future our city deserves. Speaker @speakermenin , @ericdinowitznyc , @galeabrewer , @cmtyhankerson , and @dr.yusefsalaam : New Yorkers are watching. Sustain the veto.

🚨URGENT: We need our Medicaid. We need our home care. Governor Hochul MUST tax the rich to defend New Yorkers from Trump’s healthcare cuts. She must decide: our lives or her donors? Get on the phones and call Governor Hochul’s office using the script below: ☎️ Hi, this is {NAME], calling from ZIP code [#####]. I’m calling to ask you to support taxes on the rich to fund a budget that works for all of us. Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will devastate hundreds of thousands of home care workers, older adults, and people with disabilities in New York. Half a million New Yorkers will be thrown off their Essential Plan healthcare on July 1, and that’s just the beginning. If the state budget doesn’t tax the rich, you are complicit with Trump’s cuts to healthcare. We’re asking you to be a governor for the working class, not the CEO class. Tax the rich.

LET THE RECORD SHOW: NYC's tenant majority just put rent freeze on the table 🔥🔥🔥 After years of organizing, working class and immigrant tenants are one step closer to freezing the rents. Last Thursday, the Rent Guidelines Board voted on a preliminary range for the rents of over 2.5 million rent-stabilized tenants--one-third of the city's renters. For the first time in city history, a freeze is on the table for BOTH 1- and 2-year leases. But we're not done until we make it a done deal--ahead of the final vote on 6/25, we need to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE: No increases on all leases. FREEZE THE RENT.

🚨 EMERGENCY RALLY ON NYC BUFFER ZONE BILL 🚨 We need you at an emergency rally TOMORROW at City Hall before the Council Stated Meeting. At any upcoming Council Stated meeting for next 2 weeks, City Council could vote to OVERTURN Mayor Mamdani’s veto 175B, a bill that would let the NYPD set up “police perimeters” around schools and broadly defined “educational” sites—giving them more sweeping power to crack down on protests and expand police presence. THAT ISN’T SAFETY. IT’S CENSORSHIP. We know how this plays out: more discretion for NYPD, less space for New Yorkers to speak out—especially for Black, Brown, immigrant, LGBTQ people, Muslim, Jewish, and young people. Help us send a clear message and join us. RSVP in the link in bio. #SafetyNotCensorship #NoTo175B

Mayor Mamdani just released his first executive budget and there's still a lot to digest and analyze (which we will!), but there's lots of good news (so far)! The deficit is closed. Libraries and parks are getting restored baselined funding. Hate violence prevention is funded at historic levels. The Office of Community Safety is being resourced. This is what fighting for working New Yorkers looks like. But our work isn't done. Albany still owes us recurring, reliable revenue through taxes on corporations and billionaires. Ad New York City must invest longer term in core essential services, housing, and the City’s social safety net to make sure already struggling New Yorkers can afford to stay in the city and thrive. Swipe to see what we won, what we're still fighting for, and what comes next. 👉 #PeoplesBudget #NYC #TaxTheRich #CareNotCuts

BREAKING—A Mayor committed to working class New Yorkers, partnered with robust movements, filled a $12 billion budget gap left behind by the previous administration. For the first time in decades, we are seeing that despite resistance from Albany, a mayoral administration with a will to deliver can make things happen through cost saving solutions, a pied-à-terre tax on the rich, and without cutting essential services. We don’t need to be stuck with annual political games around funding of libraries and schools. In a time of unprecedented corporate profits, tax cuts for billionaires on the federal level, and economic uncertainty for working people, Albany must #TaxTheRich.

⚠️ NYC: Your right to protest is on the line. ⚠️ The City Council may vote THIS WEEK on Intro 175-B. This bill could restrict protests near schools and silence dissent in our own neighborhoods. Mayor Mamdani vetoed the bill, but we must now ensure that City Council sustains that veto. We must make our voices heard. 📞 We’re asking you to make 6 phone calls today. Six council members, and just five minutes of your time. Their numbers + the script are all here in this post. Whether you stick to the script or speak from the heart, please just call and respectfully share what the right to free speech and assembly means to you, especially in the vicinity of NY’s educational institutions. 🔗 go to the link in bio to find which Council member represents your neighborhood Free speech belongs to all of us. Let’s protect it.

The parents and school communities of District 30 know what’s at stake when you criminalize our First Amendment rights to gather and protest 🗣️ We thank Council Members @voteshekar @tiffany_caban @juliej_won for protecting our right to defend our communities, and we hope that Council Member @cmshanelth will join us, stand with her community, and vote against 175-B We gathered outside our schools to say clearly: Sustain the Veto of Intro 175-B Intro 175-B would let the NYPD create “police perimeters” around schools and broadly defined “educational” sites, silencing protest in the very places our communities need to show up and be heard most. This is about our right to protect our schools from ICE raids, from transphobic attacks, from attacks on public education by private education and charter school billionaires That’s not safety. That’s censorship. Black, Brown, immigrant, and working-class New Yorkers live here. We organize here. We have every right to speak out here. 🛑 No police perimeters around our communities 🛑 No shrinking our right to gather and protest ✅ Sustain the veto. Stand with your neighbors. If we can’t protest, we can’t hold power accountable.

Yesterday, APICHA, DRUM, and Dawat screened Elijah, and for the film, it truly felt like a homecoming. ❤️ The screening took place at APICHA’s center in the heart of Jackson Heights — the overseas capital of Bengal 😝 — surrounded by an incredible community of organizers, artists, and changemakers. I’m so grateful to have spent time with such energetic homies who carry the courage and commitment to create change. Thank you all for making this screening possible, and for welcoming Elijah with so much warmth and love. 🙏 @drumnyc @apichachc @amaderdawat

Landlords lost and New Yorkers showed UP last night. Over 400 tenants, homeless New Yorkers, organizers and advocates showed up to the preliminary Rent Guidelines Board Vote where we demanded a rent freeze ❄️🥶 For years the RGB has been in the pocket of the powerful landlord lobby. Tenants spoke of being ignored and dismissed when they testified about landlord harassment, rising rent prices and disrepair. But yesterday the tides changed. The tenant power was undeniable and for the first time ever the RGB announced that a rent freeze was on the table for two year leases!! The fight isn’t done yet. This rent freeze is not guaranteed and we can only win it if we FIGHT for it. Click the link in the bio to join us on May 19th for a training on organizing your neighbors for the freeze. We can only win what we are organized to take so let’s finish the job and 📢 FREEZE THE RENT 📢

🚨BREAKING🚨 RGB PRELIMINARY RANGE OUT: 0-2% on 1Y leases, 0-4% on 2Y leases This is a historic moment--the city's FIRST TIME EVER in the history of NYC proposing 0% increases on both 1 AND 2 year leases. But our fight must go on. 2.4M tenants need a rent freeze: NO INCREASES ON ALL LEASES.

FREEZE THE RENT, MELT THE ICE. Today, Mayor Mamdani's Rent Guidelines Board will deliver a preliminary vote on rents for over 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants in New York City. Working class and immigrant tenants are calling on the RGB: No increases on all leases. A freeze would be our city's first line of defense against the triple threat of ICE escalation, austerity cuts, and wartime inflation. A historic crisis demands historic action: RENT FREEZE IS THE FLOOR.