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Zachary Lerner

@ZacharyLerner

Deputy Executive Director for

Organizing people to fight for better housing, schools and jobs in our communities

Brooklynnycommunities.orgJoined May 2011

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We fucking did it! $2.1 BILLION! I can’t stop crying

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#ExcludedNoMore

BREAKING: NYS budget establishes first-in-the-nation Excluded Workers Fund! This victory comes after one year of statewide organizing efforts from the #FundExcludedWorkers Coalition — led by impacted workers, culminating in two hunger strikes. History is made today!

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🔥HUGE TURNOUT! over 100 legislators and staff joined us today for a legislative briefing on the Unemployment Bridge Program! 2023 is the year we secure safety net access for 750k New Yorkers to be #ExcludedNoMore ✊ Let's get it done! 💪

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🚨Take Action 🚨 Over 200 workers went to Albany yesterday to tell their legislators to #RaiseTheWage. Let’s keep the pressure up. Call your state senator & assembly member today & tell them to sign on to

and my #RaiseTheWage Act 📞

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💫 NEW from USA Today: “We are trying to create a safety net that is available and accessible to all New Yorkers, regardless of the type of work they do and their documentation status. That safety net really is a human right.” -

@KarinesReyes87

Safety net now! #ExcludedNoMore

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Packed bus on the way to Albany because $15/hr is not enough. Corporations have gotten richer while we struggle to pay for rent and food Let’s #RaiseUpNY and increase the min wage to $21.25 and index to inflation and worker productivity

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starts big rally with 200+ people and over 20 state legislators to win #GasFreeNY. Let’s go: ✅save money ✅create jobs ✅fight climate change ✅prevent childhood asthma Hochul and Senare support and it’s time for

to join!

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Our statement in response to Mayor Adams 🙄 #GasFreeNY docs.google.com/document/d/14z

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Ethan Stark-Miller

.@NYCMayor doesn't endorse @GovKathyHochul's effort to ban gas stoves, says "good cooks use gas stoves," also acknowleges taste for branzino, in response to Q from @Kyle_Schnitzer

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"The Capitol is littered with the political corpses of people who thought they could undermine Andrea Stewart Cousins"

Math not on Hochul's side in battle over top judge pick Hector LaSalle

Simple math is working against Gov. Kathy Hochul in getting centrist Judge Hector LaSalle confirmed by the state Senate even if she somehow forced a floor vote by leaning on the courts.

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@AndreaSCousins

🔥🔥🔥🔥 #NoOnLaSalle The people of NY have elected a supermajority Senate to fight for our NY not cave to another bullying wannabe tyrant governor.

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Uniquely strong statement from ASC, who calls out Gov. Kathy Hochul’s argument against the Judiciary committee’s decision as “a dangerous infringement,” but does not mention the governor by name.

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We braved the cold rain to demand we #TaxTheRich in front of a Park Avenue building with one of the highest concentrations of wealth in NYC. I’m proud to sponsor the capital gains tax bill so ultra wealthy New Yorkers pay their fair share #InvestinOurNY

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Join us and many others in Albany on Tuesday to end gas in new construction and kick fossil fuels out of buildings to: ✅save money ✅create jobs ✅fight climate change #GasFreeNY RSVP/get on a bus here: actionnetwork.org/events/fossil-

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DRUM #MayorDefundedOurSchools

We need a progressive tax bill to support New Yorkers who are struggling while millionaires and billionaires profit from our hard work!! Our member Maria spoke today about why we need to #TaxTheRich to #InvestInOurNewYork #FundOurFuture!

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Today we stood outside in the rain at 740 Park Ave, the wealthiest building in the country, to demand Billionaires pay what they owe. Billionaire wealth has skyrocketed in NY and the number of wealthy has increased We must #TaxTheRich to #InvestInOurNY

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✊🏾 Excluded workers are a vital part of our economy. That is why as a member of the Labor Committee, I was proud to join

in #Albany to support the launch of the #UnemploymentBridgeProgram (1/2)

#ExcludedNoMore and Assemblymember Steven Raga

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After the amazing #nycnursestrike, our members continue to stand in solidarity with

fighting for health equity and safe staffing at

@NYCHealthSystem

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If you’re wondering why NY Dems did no Santos oppo Why Jay Jacobs still has a job Why NY lost 4 blue House seats … It’s because this is our Governor:

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Hochul needs every Republican vote she can get for LaSalle, but it certainly does not look good for her and her decision making that LaSalle has unanimous Republican support.

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#BlackLivesMatter

@Charles_Darkley

NYS lost 1.5% of its people last year NYS gained 8% more people making over $10M a year. This is what it looks like when you cater to the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. This is what facilitated unaffordability looks like. It doesnt have to be this way.

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Long Island UBP Campaign Launch happening now!!! #ExcludedNoMore✊

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Nadia Marin-Molina

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#Happeningnow powerful workers testimonies at the Long Island launch of the campaign for an Unemployment Bridge Program @lijwj @SEPAMUJER @workplaceproject @ndlon @fewcoalition #excludednomore

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Invest In Our New York Campaign

Unrigging a system that only benefits millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations is a national movement! The #InvestinOurNY Campaign is thrilled to join coalitions across the US in the fight to invest public funds directly into our communities.

washingtonpost.com

Billionaires in blue states face coordinated wealth-tax bills

State lawmakers are set to introduce bills this week that would test an unprecedented form of taxing the rich in several states where billionaires live.

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@GovKathyHochul

showed up to Sunset Park and not only used MLK legacy but also Sunset park community as pawns to push her conservative judge. And the worst part was she brought police with her and kicked out a respected, afro-latina leader who belongs to the church. #NoLaSalle

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Laborers Fight Back

Last week 500+ took the streets of NYC for #ExcludedNoMore ✊ (photos

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Nadia Marin-Molina

@nadianadiamarin

#Happeningnow powerful workers testimonies at the Long Island launch of the campaign for an Unemployment Bridge Program

@workplaceproject

#excludednomore

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New York Communities for Change

Must read piece by

on MLK day on why we need

@GovKathyHochul

to #RaiseUpNY and catch the minimum wage to $21.25 AND index it to inflation and worker productivity.

nydailynews.com

Dr. King’s legacy means raising the minimum wage

On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 94th birthday we recall his message that true racial justice goes hand in hand with economic justice as he told striking sanitation workers just weeks before his death...

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It’s scary! But we can turn this crisis into an opportunity: Solving the climate crisis creates good jobs, cuts air pollution and saves us money on bills by ditching fossil fuels. Already, our accomplishments, like NYC Local Law 97, are creating good jobs to cut pollution.

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Beautiful to see a packed house at our PopEd brunch this morning learning about what’s at stake if we fail to cut pollution by 50% by 2030. There’s so much to do in the next seven years to lessen the catastrophic impacts the #ClimateCrisis, but our members are ready to fight.

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, who jump-started the fight for climate action, explains

@GovKathyHochul

climate/jobs agenda. It’s a big deal!

What to Do When It Rains on the Winter Games

Governor Kathy Hochul’s ambitious climate plan for New York.

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By contrast, horse racing receives more than $250m in annual state subsidies and other giveaways. It generates no net income for the State but NYRA and wealthy owners profit.

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Inbox: ⁦@GovKathyHochul⁩ says in first year of mobile sports wagering, state generated more than $900 million

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Help us keep TJ housed. TJ is a single mom and one of our strongest leaders. During the pandemic TJ feel behind on her rent and couldn’t catch up while on a fixed income. Please donate if you can.

Help Thern Shivers from being displaced, organized by Thern Shivers

Hi, my name is Thern, and I’m fundraising to keep from being displaced. Like ma… Thern Shivers needs your support for Help Thern Shivers from being displaced

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EVERY worker in New York deserves economic security. Proud to stand with

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Alvaro of

closes out the presser & kicks off the first march of the

. “There is no bridge we can’t cross!” #ExcludedNoMore

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Housing Justice For All

Looks like

@GovKathyHochul

might have forgotten a few things in her housing plan this week: namely, any real protections for tenants or homeless New Yorkers. We’re here to remind her. This is what working families really want from Albany this year to solve the housing crisis.

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BREAKING: NYC nurses strike to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals were reached with both

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Hospital. Nurses won concrete enforceable safe staffing ratios in both deals and will be back on the job. 🔗: nysna.org/press/2023/bre

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The first time I saw

speak was at a rally for the original #ExcludedWorkersFund in 2021. She stood out from all the other speakers because rather than facing the cameras, she stood to address the workers. Now, we’re fighting for a structural fix. Good stuff 😤

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NOW: We are moments away from the kickoff for the Unemployment Bridge Program, right in front of the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges! Union members, freelancers, people in re-entry, and immigrant workers are ALL excluded workers. Together we’re fighting to be #ExcludedNoMore!

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“This program that was so successful and it changed lives needs to be PERMANENT.” Assemblymember

joins

in front of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges for the campaign launch of the Unemployment Bridge Program. #ExcludedNoMore

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Beautiful! 100s of Excluded Workers marching to a dangerous job site where an excluded construction worker died We need to make sure that Excluded Workers have a safety net to fall back on when they are unsafe at work. Pass the Unemployment Bridge Program #excludednomore

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“Today we announce this new bill, the Unemployment Bridge Program, a bill that outlines $500 million dollars to have a permanent fund for every single NYer who needs some relief.”

@NYSenatorRamos

at the

campaign launch today in NYC. #ExcludedNoMore

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Assembly Member Karines Reyes, R.N.

@KarinesReyes87

🚨STARTING SOON🚨

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THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE! Today we unveil the Unemployment Bridge Program! This is the year we create a safety net for excluded workers, not billionaires. Join us for live coverage & regional launches all over NY State this week! STAY TUNED.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance

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@RonnyJacksonTX

I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!

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📣THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE! Today we unveil the Unemployment Bridge Program! This is the year we create a safety net for excluded workers, not billionaires. Join us for live coverage & regional launches all over NY State this week! STAY TUNED.

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