Bill de Blasio Archives - Page 4 of 7

Bill de Blasio continues with RAD/PACT conversion of NYCHA public housing.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) has announced plans to convert more than 9,500 public housing residents under the controversial RAD/PACT scheme. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

May 7, 2021

de Blasio continuing with RAD/PACT conversion of NYCHA public housing, despite Schumer, Velázquez effort to fully-fund public housing

Mayor Bill de Blasio continues with NYCHA RAD/PACT conversions, despite effort by Sen. Charles Schumer and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez to fund public housing.

The U.S. Attorney's Office remained silent after Mayor Bill de Blasio both announced the restoration of COVID-19 testing data and questioned its accuracy, contributing to a sense of a loss of confidence in Government. Mayor Bill de Blasio's Official YouTube Channel/Fair Use

March 24, 2021

U.S. Attorney’s Office mum after missing COVID-19 testing data was restored without explanation by Mayor Bill de Blasio

The U.S. Attorney’s Office remained silent after Mayor Bill de Blasio both announced the restoration of COVID-19 testing data and questioned its accuracy, contributing to a sense of a loss of confidence in Government.

In the two days following the release of Government data by the NYC Health Agency showing COVID-19 positivity test results approaching 15 per cent., the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped releasing the data. NYC Health (Fair Use)

March 24, 2021

de Blasio administration mum as COVID-19 test data disappeared after positivity began to approach 15 per cent. in some NYC zip codes

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) refuses to address the disappearance of COVID-19 test data from the Government’s Web site.

Water, hot water, and heat outages continue unabated at NYCHA public housing developments, as do the RAD/PACT conversions that are privatising public housing by Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC). Throughout, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remains silent as she promotes a Green New Deal that has failed to improve the living conditions of public housing residents. Fight For NYCHA/File Photograph

February 10, 2021

AOC admits trades unions helped her author Green New Deal bill, explaining silence on RAD/PACT conversions at NYCHA

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to promote her Green New Deal for public housing that has failed to improve the living conditions of public housing residents, much less stop the RAD/PACT conversion that is leading to the privatisation of public housing.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) solicited assistance from her political supporters to engage in a coördinated campaign to flag her critics on the Twitter social media platform for censorship. Photograph by Ståle Grut, cropped from original (CC BY-SA 2.0)

February 7, 2021

AOC rallies supporters to engage in coördinated campaign to flag Twitter and Facebook critics for censorship

In an SDNY courtroom, motion practise in the Baez class action mold abatement case by NYCHA residents is set to collide with the inferior HUD Settlement Agreement negotiated by the U.S. Attorney's Office. The fate of the future of public housing hangs in the balance. NASA (Fair Use)

January 25, 2021

The de Blasio administration claims that RAD/PACT provide NYCHA an escape hatch from having to guarantee habitable living conditions to public housing residents

The de Blasio administration’s claims that RAD/PACT lead to greater protections for NYCHA public housing residents is under challenge in the Baez case.

Photographs included in the Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief show abuses by the New York Police Department and examples of injuries suffered by some of the participants in the George Floyd-inspired anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests of 2020. Office of the New York State Attorney General (Fair Use)

January 14, 2021

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss mum as State Attorney General Letitia James seizes moral authority to sue the NYPD over Constitutional rights violations

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is in hiding following having been trashed in Letitia James’ Federal lawsuit for apparently countenancing NYPD’s Constitutional rights abuses.

A report in the New York Times suggestions that scandals at the New York City Board of Elections is undermining confidence in the troubled Agency, even as more and more controversies are triggering allegations of voter suppression. Progress New York/File Photograph

October 27, 2020

Acting U.S. Attorney mum, as reports raise the renewed spectre of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is keeping quiet after allegations were made of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections.

A protester taken into custody by NYPD during the 29 Aug 2004 protest against the Republican National Convention in New York City. Source : Progress New York/Archive Photograph

October 19, 2020

At SDNY, decades of looking the other way as commended partner NYPD continue to engage in a pattern or practise of violations of Constitutional and civil rights

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York countenances systemic violations of Constitutional and civil rights by the New York Police Department.

As the intervention by Federal law enforcement agents in Portland, Oregon, triggered what the A.C.L.U. deemed a "Constitutional crisis," U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) made headlines by playing the victim card in response to the use of a sexist pejorative by a Republican Congressman. C-Span via YouTube (Screen Shot) (Fair Use)

July 28, 2020

AOC mum as Jimmy Dore rips into the Squad for enabling Nancy Pelosi to fully-fund Trump’s unconstitutional use of Federal Agents against protesters in Portland

Political commentator Jimmy Dore criticised U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for keeping mum as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supported funding of DHS Agents’ controversial tactics against Portland protesters.