Thread by @JFREJNYC

@FEWCoalition is outside Gov. Cuomo's office in Midtown, celebrating Easter--a holiday of renewal--to ask "What have you sacrificed? While we were expected to sacrifice *everything*, working during the pandemic."

#FundExcludedWorkers

20 days without food; a year without relief. @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie we continue to look to you to deliver a fully accessible worker bailout fund.

"I want everyone to close their eyes and imagine what it will feel like when this Excluded Worker Fund is real, when we have won, when families no longer have to kill themselves with work day by day... This is a holiday about hope." - @AngeMariaSolis

"Hope is not based in optimism. Hope is based in a particular way of seeing, and *by seeing* we make it happen." - Father Juan Carlos Ruiz.

Eliana has been a street vendor in NY for 38 years. She has paid taxes every single one of them. She lost family & almost her own life to COVID, but has received nothing from the government. She has lost 14 lbs on the strike. "@NYGovCuomo, you have a heart. #FundExcludedWorkers"

@nychange member Rubi has been on the strike all 20 days. Her bravery is an inspiration to us all and a condemnation of any elected official who would vote to continue denying her and other workers this aid.

"People ask, 'How can you as an MD support people going on a hunger strike?' They're suffering 10-15% weight loss, half of strikers had undiagnosed hypertension. I support them b/c they are fighting for a greater good, against a far greater harm." -- Dr. Steve Auerbach

Brian was a hunger striker at the Bergen County ICE Detention Center just a month ago. He has lived the experience of our huelgistas. Undocumented persons are living the consequences of American imperialism: ICE, excluded workers, it's the same root cause.

@JumaaneWilliams invoking his Christian faith on this Easter Sunday. "[Jesus] despised state oppression... It pains me that you have to go on a hunger strike to be viewed as human."

@JumaaneWilliams cont. "@AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie, on Easter, in Jesus' name and all he stood for, we need you to have our backs in this fight, and we will have yours."

@AmandaSeptimo: "This is a message for *every single Democrat* who tries to betray our communities. We will not forget. This is not about charity; it is giving people what they deserve, what they worked for. We need to be honoring our neighbors."

@HarveyforNY "On Easter we have to raise our voices for the 500K excluded workers in NY, so the Speaker can't not hear us. We are in the last minutes of the budget. We need to stand strong and say we hear you, we see you, we will fight for you."

Aracelly is on her 10th day of hunger strike. "This is a Holy Day, a day about Resurrection and Hope. So why are we still here outside Cuomo's office, asking him to find strength to overcome his ego? It hasn't been 20 days--it's been a year!"