Thread by @CCCR_NY

A 🧵on museum elitism 👇
NYC Museums that are part of @cignyc coalition are privately managed but use public facilities/resources and subsidies for operating, capital, energy, and other support in exchange for being stewards.
They are institutions for the people. And yet...
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These @cignyc orgs (which enjoy tax-exempt status) are mandating vaccines AND masks for ages 5+ despite @NYCMayor ending the #KeyToNYC.
We demand these institutions which are supported BY THE PEOPLE be open FOR THE PEOPLE w/o discrimination of vaccination status.
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Shame on the following for taking NYC resources while shutting out the unvaccinated:
❌@AMNH American Museum of Natural History
❌@cmomNYC Children's Museum of Manhattan
❌@whitneymuseum Whitney Museum
❌@Guggenheim Guggenheim Museum
❌@MuseumModernArt MOMA
❌@MoMath1 MoMath
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(cont'd)
❌@carnegiehall Carnegie Hall
❌@brooklynmuseum Brooklyn Museum
❌@MovingImageNYC Museum of the Moving Image

These museums don't discriminate against the immuno-comp, kids, etc👇
✅@cooperhewitt Cooper Hewitt
✅@metmuseum Metropolitan Museum of Art (mask only for 2+)
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@NYCCouncil should reduce subsidies by %-age excluded if @CIGNYC deprive kids from education/field trips, strangle NYC tourism! @NYCSpeakerAdams @CMRitaJoseph @CMChiOsse @EricDinowitz @CMAmandaFarias @CMSandraUng @CMFranciscoMoya @CMCrystalHudson @CMShahanaHanif @CMFarahLouis
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We know the kids who will be affected the most - 50% of public school students (most private schools have their field trips). This is inequitable, and @NYCCouncil should hold them accountable to follow @NYCMayor's lead on ending mandates for the public.
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