The Campaign to Close Rikers is organizing a contingent to join dozens of other groups for the Care Not Criminalization March on May 24th @ 5pm. Join us to demand a stop to the Mayor’s budget that slashes essential services while spending more to police, surveil and jail us! If we want a budget that meets the needs of
We all have a stake in the New York City budget, and the Mayor’s proposal for the next fiscal year fails to make bold investments in housing, education, mental health and healthcare, services for young people, immigrants and LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers, transportation and other public infrastructure that we know can create real safety for all New Yorkers. Instead Mayor Adams wants to solve all of NYC’s problems with more police and criminalization, letting funding for care and services dry up. We can’t allow that.
