Happy April! As we do on the second Tuesday of every month, we are meeting this evening, 6:30–8pm, at Various/Artists (19 Essex St). We plan on wrapping up early to do some wheatpasting in the vicinity — help us make more prints to wheatpaste next Monday at the Borough Based Liberation Project in Chinatown! (Details below)
This Thursday at noon, join us at City Hall to support the launch of home care workers’ hunger strike demanding an end to unconscionable 24-hour shifts. See below for more details and other ways to support them!
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Storefront for Art and Architecture last month for Homes for People, Not for Profit! We were thrilled to revive stencils from Storefront’s 1985 Homeless at Home project, along with some contemporary additions. Participants painted them on a giant banner, as well as on prints that we’re excited to wheatpaste throughout the city (sign up to help us do that here).Many thanks to Alex Strada and Storefront for also giving us the opportunity to share and reflect upon our past decade of organizing and artmaking — so much both has and hasn’t changed since 2016! (This Saturday, the Center for Brooklyn History is hosting a conversation on narrating displacement in the context of asylum and city shelters, followed by a walkthrough of Alex’s public installation; RSVP here).
Photos courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture
If you weren’t able to join us at Storefront last month, don’t fret! We will be holding another iteration of our stenciling workshop next Monday, April 20, 6:30–8pm, as part of the week-long Borough Based Liberation Project (127 Walker St), located next to the megajail that the city is intent on building.
All materials provided and no need to RSVP; just bring your creative energy!
Graphic courtesy of the Borough Based Liberation Project
City Council Speaker Julie Menin promised to bring the No More 24 Act — which would end abusive 24-hour home care shifts — to a vote, but capitulated to external pressure at the last minute. In response, home care workers will be launching a hunger strike at City Hall this Thursday at noon. Show up for them and demand an end to 24-hour workdays in NYC, once and for all!You can also donate to the workers’ hunger strike support fund and call/email Speaker Menin, Mayor Mamdani, and your council member (scripts here).We also recommend reading Documented’s excellent coverage of this fight, which reveals how the mayor has intervened to block passage of the bill as written, in order to make 24-hour shifts optional rather than prohibited.
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