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19 Jun, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Surrounded by so much joy today! A thread in celebration of Black liberation in NYC. 🧵
"It's good to see someone on the ballot who looks like me." 💜 ImageImageImage
Folks are fired up and ready to vote in Rochdale Village. ImageImage
Volunteering their time for progressive change in NYC. I'm fighting for their futures. ✊🏾 ImageImage
Celebrating Juneteenth NYC-style at this year’s Jubilee in Harlem and meeting some incredible members of our community, like my new friend, Maya. ImageImage
Honored to attend this year’s Juneteenth Family Festival and receive an incredible endorsement from @BLMGreaterNY. Our movement is growing — and today is a beautiful day to celebrate. ImageImageImage

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22 Jun
“My 16-year-old son: He needs a future. Please. Please.” Those are the words that have been ringing in my ears since I heard them last week. They are the reason I am running for mayor, though I don’t know the name of the woman who spoke them to me and may never meet her son.
This has been a hard-fought campaign played out at a time of great turmoil in our city and our lives. But it is also a moment when New Yorkers are coming together and the city is alive with possibility.
And when New Yorkers come together, hold and care for each other, even when we are strangers, there’s nothing we can’t do.

My campaign has proposed bold, progressive ideas that will transform our city and ensure New York City doesn’t just recover, but rises.
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21 Jun
Nothing makes me optimistic for the future of New York city more than talking to voters. Threading some of my favorite moments throughout the day today below! 🧵
“You keep me going!” ImageImage
"You got 6 votes out of my family!" Image
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20 Jun
If my father were alive he would be 90 years old. He only lived to be 42. But what he managed to do more fighting, more living, more loving in those 42 years than most of us get to do in a lifetime! He loved me and he was my world. 1/5 ImageImage
My father also worked ceaselessly with and for Black women! And he taught me that you never stop fighting for an end to poverty because for those who are given much, much is expected. 2/5 ImageImage
My father had been given much by grandparents, Olive & William Wiley. A US Postal Clerk, my grandfather wanted to be a journalist but he couldn’t afford college. But he edited a Black newspaper anyway and put 6 kids through college. 3/5 Image
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27 May
Latino and Hispanic New Yorkers are the very heart of our economy, our workforce, our culture & our vibrancy -- but they’ve long been denied a voice in our government and haven’t had leaders who recognize their contributions and prioritize their needs. No longer. 🧵
Like all New Yorkers, Latino New Yorkers deserve to be safe from violent crime and from mistreatment from the NYPD. When I’m mayor, we’ll make sure everyone has their civil and human rights upheld and protected.
The vast majority of our city’s caregivers and care workers are Latina or women of color. Care exists in many forms and when I’m mayor, we will acknowledge that care work is work!
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20 Apr
Today, George Floyd received some of the justice in death that he was not given in life.
We must do more than just reform policing.
We must look at each other and see human beings.
With hopes, dreams, and wishes.
That when we say Black Lives Matter we mean it.
Gianna Floyd, George Floyd’s six-year-old daughter, at the time of his death, said “Daddy changed the world.”

We must make Gianna’s innocent belief a truth!
As Mayor, I will put the public back in public safety. Black & brown New Yorkers need to know the police are going to treat them fairly if we ever need them. That starts with rightsizing the NYPD budget. I’ve committed to cut over $1B & invest those funds back into communities.
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12 Feb
It's time we take care of those who take care of us. And I have a plan to do it!

Use $300 million currently earmarked for the NYPD & corrections to give caregivers an annual income to compensate for their labor. No more making poverty a crime. Instead, we start solving poverty. Image
Women, particularly women of color, make up roughly 88% of the City’s paid caregivers, and 77% of its unpaid caregivers in families. Mostly overworked and underpaid, these caregivers from vulnerable communities need to be cared about to live with dignity.
Law enforcement budget keeps going up, but crime isn’t going down. Much of the crime we see is a symptom of poverty we create with low pay and joblessness. We can reimagine public safety.
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