Happy May! As is the case on the second Tuesday of every month, we are meeting this evening, 6:30–8pm, at Various/Artists (19 Essex St). We made more prints to wheatpaste at the Borough Based Liberation Project last month, so we plan on wrapping up early again to do some pasting in the vicinity.
This Friday at noon, join us at City Hall to demand that Speaker Menin submit the “No More 24” Act as originally written, without loopholes that permit abusive 24-hour home care shifts to continue. See below for more details and other updates:
“No More 24” rally this Friday at City Hall
Graphic courtesy of Ain’t I A Woman!?
After home care workers staged a weeklong hunger strike at City Hall last month, City Council Speaker Julie Menin promised to bring the “No More 24” Act to a vote by May 14th. Under pressure from the mayor and Legal Aid Society, Menin submitted revisions to the bill that will allow 24-hour shifts to continue, under the guise of “consent.”
We must reject all bad-faith attempts to pit workers against patients; as disability advocates recently stated, “The narrative that stopping the 24-hour workday hurts disabled people is pushed by the exploitative insurance companies and home care agencies creating these violent conditions, obscuring that they are truly the ones to blame.”
The fight for dignified working conditions for home care workers is also a matter of disability justice, and we must demand nothing less than a permanent end to 24-hour shifts. See you this Friday at City Hall!
Stenciling workshop at the Borough Based Liberation Project
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Borough Based Liberation Project on April 20th! We were delighted to make more prints to wheatpaste throughout the city — using stencils we produced for our Homes for People, Not for Profit workshop at Storefront for Art and Architecture back in March.
Waiting for some of our prints to dry…
Walkthrough of Mulberry Bend on 5/31
On Sunday, May 31st, at 3pm, join us for a walkthrough of Mulberry Bend with curator Dylan Seh-Jin Jim. Referring to Mulberry Bend, an immigrant “slum” that New York City razed in the late 1800s to build Columbus Park, the exhibition explores the relationship between art’s autonomy, use value, and civic function by responding to contemporary subjects such as the neighboring megajail, immigrant canners, and hostile architecture.
To RSVP for the walkthrough, please email [email protected].