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The State Must Act Now: Immigrant New Yorkers Need and Deserve Health Care for Long-Haul COVID, Too
NYLPI's Health Justice Director, Amber Khan in a recent op-ed for the Gotham Gazette focuses on the need for accessible health care for immigrants living in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. The op-ed shares the story of Gloria, an immigrant from Colombia, who...
Ruth Lowenkron Presents on Mental Health and Alternatives to Policing
NYLPI’s Director of Disability Justice, Ruth Lowenkron, participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Museum of the City of New York entitled "Envisioning Alternatives to Policing: Mental Health." The session -- the first of a three-part series on alternatives to...
Appellate Court Orders NYPD to Produce Body-Cam Footage of Fatal Police Shooting
As a result of NYLPI’s legal challenge, the New York Supreme Court has ordered the New York Police Department to produce virtually all body-worn camera footage of the fatal police shooting of Susan Muller in her home during a mental health crisis. The footage that...
Queens Deserves Better Than a New Peaker Plant
In a new op-ed, Senator Jessica Ramos, Jose Miranda, Jr. of Chhaya CDC, and Director of Policy Justin Wood of NYLPI lay out the problems with a new, natural gas peaker plant project proposed by the giant NRG corporation for Western Queens. NYLPI, through the PEAK...
NYLPI AND PARTNERS LAUNCH COMMUNITY SURVEYING INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS THE ONGOING POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
Over the last five years, 15 New Yorkers experiencing a mental health crisis were killed by the police, one person died by a self-inflicted gunshot during a police engagement, and another three were shot by police and left critically wounded. The scores of people...
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