Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎 @alexaforcouncil Twitter profile

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

8 months

Two years ago, we proved that South Brooklynites wanted to see an accountable, transparent, and compassionate government. And two years later, we’ve just resoundingly confirmed that no amount of fear mongering or snake oil salesmanship can change that.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Prayers to the family of the person who died b/c they were pushed into the tracks. Paris manages to have these in their subways. Imagine if we did the same? Among the benefits: saves lives, saves lives, saves lives. We deserve better.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

NYC just announced the indefinite closure of all schools, effective tomorrow, due to the uptick of coronavirus cases in New York City. How are working families expected to manage their lives & their children given such short notice & this massively confusing situation?

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

It's official, I've been sworn in as the next Council Member for District 38! I am so grateful for everyone who supported me along the way, especially my friends and family. I’m ready to get to work and deliver results for the most vulnerable people of our city. ¡Pa’lante! 🇵🇷✊

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I have some really exciting news to share: WE WON! 🎉 While the Board of Elections is still finishing its final tabulations, our campaign has crossed the 50 percent threshold for victory. This is such a meaningful day for the movement we’ve been building. [THREAD 🧵]

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

We won last night. Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, the struggle continues. ✊🏼 I am a part of a movement. I'm a member of the largest socialist org in the United States, @DemSocialists . Will you join DSA, and keep fighting alongside me? 🌹 JOIN:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are being violently attacked in their places of worship and inhumanely evicted from their homes. The U.S. must not turn a blind eye to these atrocities. We have a moral obligation to condemn violence and hatred in all forms.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Justice LaSalle is the wrong choice for Chief Judge. I urge members of the State Senate to reject this nomination and demand the Governor put forward a new nominee who doesn’t put our communities or their rights at risk.

Tiffany Cabán

@tiffany_caban

2 years

Call your State Senate reps and tell them to reject this nomination. There were 3 potential candidates with the qualifications and values necessary to bend our unjust court system a bit closer to true justice and equity. Hector LaSalle was not one of them.👇🏽

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

1 year

As a CUNY alumna, I stand in solidarity with Fatima Mousa Mohammed and commend the CUNY Jewish Law Students Association’s strong statement. Shame on @ChancellorCUNY and @CUNY trustees on their hollow statement.

Peter Sterne

@petersterne

1 year

CUNY Jewish Law Students Association released a strong statement in support of the student who criticized Israel in a graduation speech: "If CUNY Law wants to show it cares for its Jewish students, it can do so by showing it cares for Fatima."

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

8 months

We stand with @RepRashida ! ✊🏼 We stand with @RepRashida ! ✊🏼 We stand with @RepRashida ! ✊🏼

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

All In for @Indiawaltonbflo !!!

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

It’s a damn shame that @Columbia is sitting on a mountain of cash and refuses to pay their workers fairly. I stand in solidarity with @GWCUAW workers on strike. 🥖🌹 You deserve a fair contract, and you’re going to win one! #1u

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Showing love from Brooklyn to Buffalo with the incomparable @Indiawaltonbflo . We are not only dreaming of the socialist world we want, we are making it happen! @nycDSA @BuffaloDSA @NYWFP

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

We know the story. A 16-yr old, falsely accused of stealing. Charged w/ violent felony. Can’t make bail. DA withholds evidence. Slow to trial. 3 yrs later he’s set free, but Kalief Browder takes his own life. @GovKathyHochul : Don't take us backward.

The governor’s plan will create more Kalief Browders

The death of my brother Kalief Browder sparked an international outcry — not just because of the terrible injustices he faced, but because he defied the odds, refused to plead guilty to a cri…

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Our public libraries are essential public spaces that offer world-class cultural programming and open access to research materials. Say it with me: No cuts! ¡No pasarán!

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@jacobin

2 years

NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

I am honored to serve as Chairwoman of @NYCCouncil ’s Committee on Public Housing. I will fight to keep public housing as a public good and to advance a vision for public housing that is resident-led and centered.

Jeff Coltin

@JCColtin

2 years

New York City Council committee assignments and chairs. There's a new subcommittee on COVID Recovery and Resiliency, chaired by Moya, and a special committee on the Twin Parks fire, chaired by Feliz.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Let’s make mandatory parking minimums a thing of the past. Why should we have to give up more units of affordable housing to make room for cars?

Transportation Alternatives

@TransAlt

2 years

It’s a racial justice issue and a social justice issue…we need to give up parking to support housing. @NYCCouncil38 Councilmember Alexa Avilés. No more parking minimum rules from the 1950s that encourage car ownership

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 months

In many ways history repeats itself. @Columbia seems to always be on the wrong side of history. As an alumnus, I am deeply ashamed and demand CU stop arresting, silencing, marginalizing students peacefully protesting against genocide. #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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@BTnewsroom

3 months

UPDATE: NYPD have entered the Columbia Palestine solidarity encampment and are threatening to arrest the protesters.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Welcome to our team, @AOC ! 🎉 I am so proud to be the D38 candidate that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is supporting. In Congress, AOC is a fearless leader fighting for universal healthcare and climate justice.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Campaign Manager is a One-Man Caravan 🔥 @BernieSanders

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Torture will not bring us public safety. I am proud to join 29 of my colleagues to say #HALTsolitary

#HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY

@NYCAIC

3 years

NEW: A MAJORITY of the 2022 NYC Council urged @ericadamsfornyc to reverse his plan to use solitary confinement. Solitary is torture. It causes violence. Proven alternatives with full days out of cell are better for safety and health. End solitary now!

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

It seems time to re-introduce myself! 👋🏼 I’m Alexa Avilés, and I’m the union-backed mom and proud Boricua fighting for education justice in South Brooklyn. ✊🏼📝 I’m running in City Council District 38 with the backing of @BernieSanders , @AOC , @marcelaforny and @nycDSA . 🌹

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Very proud to have marched in Bay Ridge with my daughter for Palestinian liberation. 🇵🇸 The energy was both youthful and intergenerational. But we were — we are — so determined. Our liberation is collective. ✊🏼 Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreePalestine

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

New York has an opportunity to reimagine our social contract and deliver for working people in this year’s Governor’s race. I am proud to endorse the tenacious, visionary @JumaaneWilliams for Governor of New York.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Yesterday, I got a mailer from Common Sense NYC, Inc. saying that I was too dangerous to the community I’ve been a part of for 2 decades. It's no wonder that Common Sense NYC, Inc. is spending a ludicrous amount of money attacking our people-powered campaign in District 38. 1/

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Protestors did not break in. They were Puerto Ricans from the island and the diaspora who had to address the disastrous impact the Junta is having on all facets of life in PR. Betty Rosa (a Junta member) is decimating public education on the island. #SOMOSPR2021

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@jlopezvarona

3 years

Now! Protesters break into SOMOS to protest the participation of Betty Rosa the member of the @FOMBPR who has pushed austerity and abuse in Puerto Rico! #abolishlajunta

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

#BREAKING : Our campaign is union-backed and uncompromising. 📰💪🏼 With the support of organized labor, I know that District 38 can lead the fight for fully funded public schools, housing for all, and workers’ rights. And we can win. Read the full release:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

"My DSA supporters are a diverse group of Sunset Park residents who organize locally around issues impacting workers. We share a vision of a NY that stops putting billionaires ahead of working ppl. That’s what union workers want, too." We're in the @WSJ :

Opinion | Big Apple Big Labor Is Becoming Progressive

In 2020 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was backed by 10 major unions and New York’s AFL-CIO.

www.wsj.com

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim siblings, in Brooklyn + beyond. I know that many may not feel as celebratory and joyous today, as we mourn those who have been murdered and jailed by the Israeli government. Still, from my family to yours — solidarity, love, and peace on Eid al-Fitr.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Thinking about how it’s Mother’s Day, and this is how our city treats so many working class immigrant women of color. Harassing people trying to make a living doesn’t make us any safer. Buy your flowers from a street vendor today 💐

Street Vendor Project

@VendorPower

2 years

Horrific treatment of Maria, a mother, immigrant entrepreneur & her *daughter* who filmed Earlier this week, Maria was arrested for selling mangoes & kiwis to customers she's served for 10+ yrs Shame on our city for choosing cruelty, instead of supporting hardworking mothers

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Congratulations to the amazing @tiffany_caban . We are so proud to stand with you and work with you to make our city better for all! @AOC #BoricuaPower @nycDSA 🇵🇷✊🏼🌹

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Boricuas 🇵🇷Presente for #Deliveristas ! @CarlinaRivera @tiffany_caban @AOC @workerjusticep @DesisRisingUp @LigiaGuallpa

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Voted with my hubby 🗳✊🏼❤️❤️❤️

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

Rep @NydiaVelazquez has endorsed our campaign for NYC Council D38! Rep. Velázquez blazed a historic trail as the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. I have tremendous respect for her & and I am honored. Join us:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

This is breathtakingly barbaric. There is absolutely NO justification for what Israeli forces are doing here.

Barbara Serra

@BarbaraGSerra

2 years

Unbelievable pictures of Israeli forces attacking mourners carrying the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh to church for her funeral in Occupied East Jerusalem. Absolutely heart stopping moment when it looks like casket may fall. Live coverage on @AJEnglish

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

What do we want? TAX THE RICH When do we want it? NOW If we don’t get it? SHUT IT DOWN #TaxTheRich @nycDSA

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

1/5 Let's be clear: More cops in the subway doesn't make any of us safer. The NYPD criminalizes the very homeless people they claim to protect. We need to #DefundNYPD so we can in social services, including restoring the Dept. of Homeless Services.

500 More NYPD Officers Will Patrol Subway System After Fatal Stabbings On ‘A’ Line

"The A line is probably going to be the safest line in the city."

gothamist.com

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Yesterday, I was arrested at a housing justice protest, alongside Assemblymembers @marcelaforny and @ZohranKMamdani ; Democratic nominee for City Council, @SandyforCouncil ; and so many tenants and organizers. You deserve to know why we put our bodies on the line. [THREAD 🧵]

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Celebrating an incredible campaign and love of our community! #RoadtoJustice ⁦ @MaketheRoadAct ⁩ ⁦ @1199SEIU ⁩ @CVHPower ⁩

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I am so proud to receive the endorsement and support of Sunset’s very own @lsarsour , who stands proudly and unapologetically a Muslim Palestinian woman from Brooklyn. Her unrelenting fight for human rights and dignity for all people is unparalleled.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

When I made an endorsement early in this race – right when the governor released her initial, inadequate budget – I took some heat. Well if there was ever any doubt, now you know why I'm with @JumaaneWilliams and @AnaMariaforNY .

Make the Road Action

@MaketheRoadAct

2 years

When she ran for Congress, this is how Kathy Hochul talked about immigrant NYers. Now she’s the main obstacle to ensuring that immigrants access expansions of child care and health care in the budget. Doesn’t seem like “evolution” to us.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

This campaign, from the beginning, has been a part of a movement of working people in South Brooklyn. I am incredibly grateful. My full remarks:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

We’re entering an austerity budget next year because our state and local leadership have always placed the wealthy and few above working people. Our schools, hospitals, & key social services are always on the table. It’s doesn’t have to be that way. It’s time to #TaxTheRich 🌹

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

AdamToledo, 13 years old. He could have been my son, my nephew, my neighbor. Heartbroken. There is NO reforming this institution. They continue to kill us with impunity.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Solidarity with my colleague @Kristin4Harlem . To disrupt the cycle of violence we must speak up. We can acknowledge the full scope of human suffering. We mourn Officers Moya and Rivera, and we also offer our condolences to a mother who regrets ever calling 911.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Tomorrow, Nov. 2, is Election Day. 🗳 As a public school mom, education organizer and democratic socialist, it's important to me to show you what a brighter future can look like — and to tell you that a brighter future is very possible for South Brooklyn's working class. 🌹☀️

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

I am proud to stand with @nycdsa & @dsaforthecity in our shared fight for a better New York City. I am honored to receive this endorsement from the @dsaforthemany slate & from my powerful sister @marcelaforny . Join us: Support us:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Today, I’m joining with my sisters to invite our colleagues to join our call for the next City Council Speaker to be a woman of color who will have the backs of working class New Yorkers. It’s time to break the old boys club. …

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

I am honored to receive the support of the @NYWFP . The WFP has been leading the fight for real political change in New York and across the country for years. Juntos - Together - we will leverage our collective power to demand that our government prioritizes working people. 1/2

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 months

I encourage my NY neighbors to make their voices heard at the ballot box this Democratic primary season as I do every year @leaveitblankny is an opportunity to register our collective outrage over the Biden administration's continued policy of disregard for human life in Gaza

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

What an absolute honor to be endorsed by Sen. @BernieSanders ! Bernie is an organizer who is uncompromising in his demands — passionate, energetic. We need more tireless, earnest leaders who will stand up for the working class. ✊🏼 #NotMeUs

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

3 years

I’m joining with @AOC and @nycDSA to endorse @Adolfo4Council , @tiffany_caban , @jaslinforqueens , @alexaforcouncil for City Council.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

6 months

I was also on the call when @dr_yusefsalaam was pulled over with his family. Thankfully they are all safe. We know that not all stops play out or end this way. Like all agencies who report on their work, we must have the full data on NYPD stops . We will override the veto.

Emily Ngo

@emilyngo

6 months

. @NYCCouncil Member @dr_yusefsalaam , of Exonerated Five, was stopped by police last night, says when he ID’d himself as an elected and asked why he was being stopped, officer just said, “We’re done here”

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Yesterday, I was so honored to receive the @AOC @CouragetoChange PAC’s #1 choice in District 38! ✊🏼🌹 I’m so happy that the Courage to Change PAC joins our coalition of supporters, from DSA to Make the Road Action, from UFT to 1199SEIU.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Been seeing some new followers recently, so I think it’s time introduce myself! 👋🏼✨ Here’s a little about me, my family, and how fighting for education justice for my daughters + their classmates in Sunset Park led me to run for City Council in District 38. 🌹✊🏼

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I am proud to receive @JumaaneWilliams ' endorsement of our grassroots campaign! 🎊 Jumaane and I believe that our City's elected leaders should be organizers — people with deep roots in community, along with the commitment to fight for a city that works for everyday people. 1/2

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Good morning! Over the last few months, I’ve talked a lot about the #TaxTheRich campaign. NYS socialists and allies pushed for — and won — historical budget reforms at the state level this week. Now, I’m carrying on the fight for budget justice in my race for D38. 🧵THREAD:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

In case it wasn’t clear before, para que se quede claro ahora… Blaming the arrival of migrants to our City for a budget crisis of the Mayor’s own invention is a shameful lie and it is dangerous.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Private landlords got a bailout. NYCHA never saw a cent. These are the unintended but predictable consequences of putting subsidized housing last in line for ERAP funds. Our state government should fix it and fund NYCHA.

NYCHA Faces Financial Crisis as Nearly Half of Tenants Are Late on Rent, With Many Awaiting Missing...

The drop in rental income appears to imperil NYCHA’s ability to perform repairs to aging properties as required by a recent agreement with the feds.

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@alexaforcouncil

2 years

You know I stand with the compa @tiffany_caban , who has faced threats against her safety this past week. Championing real public safety means we have to call into question failed practices and attitudes. We won't be intimidated, we won't back down!

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@alexaforcouncil

3 years

My youngest daughter just turned 13 years old. Some of the people on the NYPD’s Gang Database are just as young as she is. I’m here at City Hall this morning to say that it’s time to abolish the Gang Database — this is a first, pragmatic step in creating a safer city.

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@THECITYNY

3 years

The NYPD gang database is a list of people that the Police Department has deemed to be members of a criminal group. Opponents of the database decry it as a virtual dragnet — much like the once widely used practice of stop, question and frisk.

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@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Uber owed NYC drivers a raise. Instead, they sued to stop it. Drivers called for an #UberStrike , today. Respect drivers and don’t cross their picket line!

NY Taxi Workers

@NYTWA

2 years

Good morning NYC! UBER DRIVERS ARE ON STRIKE!!! Here are drivers talking about why they turned off the the app today. “I can’t believe that Uber did this to us. With all that we do for Uber and then can’t bare to see us get a raise.”

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4 years

This mess is a direct result of the city not listening to educators & parents, not having a thoughtful plan that centers the children & families who need it the most & not having the political courage to make early plans and decisions. We all deserve so much better.

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@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Susan is a mom fighting for #PublicPower so that her kids have a livable future. New Yorkers pay the second-highest utility bills in the nation. And what do we get? -Bigger blackouts every year -Millions of shutoff notices -Deadly fossil fuel pollution

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3 years

20 days to elect the @DSAForTheCity slate of democratic socialists, so we can fight for: ⚡️ climate justice ⛑ public health ✊🏼 a people’s budget 🌹 good union jobs Together, we are so much more powerful than we would be alone.

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@alexaforcouncil

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It’s the holidays but nearly 60,000 New Yorkers lack housing. That is unacceptable. Housing is a human right and every New Yorker deserves a safe and dignified home. 1/

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@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Incredible energy on the @GSOCUAW picket line! ☀️✊🏼 It’s a beautiful day to fight for what we deserve! 🌹

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3 years

Out in Sunset Park with the Boricua Brigade 🔥💙🇵🇷 #RallyForOurFairShare

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@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Some very good news: In just *one week*, we hit our petitioning goal. Not only do we have enough signatures to get on the ballot, but we have over 1,000 autographs from our future constituents throughout District 38. 🎊 Turns out, we need a new goal: 2,700 signatures. 📋💥 1/

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3 years

. @DemSocialists played a crucial role in building this campaign, and also plays a crucial role in fighting for the things we all deserve — housing, healthcare, a good education, a people’s budget. I encourage you to join DSA today:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I’m proud to announce that our campaign has been endorsed by @sunrisemvmtnyc ! 🌅 Together we WILL build a better future for our city. I am in awe of Sunrise for their leadership in calling attention to the climate crisis while mobilizing a new generation of organizers. 1/

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Since 2011, Black and Latinx youth were the targets of 90% of arrests in schools, despite representing just two thirds of the student population since. All we want this holiday season @NYCMayor is police-free schools.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Good morning! 🌅 A quick re-introduction: I’m Alexa, and I’m the union-backed mom running for City Council in South Brooklyn’s District 38 (Sunset Park, Red Hook, South Slope). 👋🏼 Polls are open TODAY ‘til 9 p.m. Find your polling place: 📸: @karakul

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Look what came in the mail! 🔥 “ @marcelaforny is building a movement with and for the working class. So am I.” Thank you, @RoninWood , for designing such a powerful mailer! ✉️✊🏼🌹

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

1 year

We’re out here! 🖊️ 🖊️ 🖊️

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@alexaforcouncil

8 months

Polls are open til 9 p.m.! 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ Vote for care not cuts, compassion not division, investment not austerity. Find your poll site:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

Students return to New York City public schools tomorrow. And it is a damn shame that so many students will be returning to schools with fewer resources than they had last year. It’s still not too late to answer the prayers of many parents and faith leaders and #RestoreTheCuts

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@olympiakazi

2 years

This gathering was truly inspiring @NYCMayor needs to do the right thing & fully fund our schools. #RestoreTheCuts T.Y. @nycpa @NYCCouncil38 @LincolnRestler @CnDelarosa @ShahanaFromBK

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

Thank you @ZohranKMamdani & @JabariBrisport for delivering a beautiful 🌹 to Sunset Park this week. What a thoughtful and beautiful gesture and a great way to start this journey together! I look forward to fighting with @nycDSA to put el pueblo before profit. 📸 @karakul

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

The past week has been a whirlwind of joy, camaraderie, and above all, gratitude. [THREAD 🧵 — and it's a long one]

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

We’re told that evictions must move full speed ahead through the courts, but where is the due process for rent-stabilized tenants being gouged?

Bahar Ostadan

@BaharOstadan

2 years

NEW: @NYSHCR — the agency that investigates landlords accused of illegally overcharging for rent stabilized apartments — has a 4-year backlog of cases, @EmilyAssembly tells me:

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

Principals, teachers & parents have been screaming from the rooftops since the summer about the growing & glaring inequalities inherent in this slapdash approach. No solutions have been proposed or implemented that truly center students, parents, & teachers.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

1 year

The rent is too damn high - enough is enough

NYC-DSA 🌹

@nycDSA

1 year

🚨🚨🚨 Our endorsed socialist councilmembers @tiffany_caban and @alexaforcouncil just interrupted the vote of @NYCMayor ’s Rent Guidelines Board to raise rents for a million apartments 💪

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

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I’m honored to have the support of @nycDSA and been recently re-elected by District 38 to the NYC Council, but we need more of democratic socialists at every level of government 🌹 That’s why I’m endorsing Claire Valdez, Eon Tyrell Huntley, and Jonathan Soto for NY Assembly 1/5

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

I am devastated by the news of another violent crime against an Asian American woman, Christina Yuna Lee. We must end the culture of violence in this city. It starts when we care for one another, when we mourn, when we have each others’ backs.

Min Jin Lee

@minjinlee11

2 years

Christina Yuna Lee was a digital producer @splice . She was 35 y.o. Korean-American and a graduate of @RutgersU . She lived in a 6 story walk-up in Chinatown. On Sunday morning, a stranger followed her home and murdered her. May she find rest. May her family & friends find comfort.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

It's a good week to buy a churro from you favorite street vendor. 🥰 @VendorPower

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

A few celebratory, joyful moments from Election Day 🎉✨ District 38, it is such an honor to fight alongside you for the Brooklyn we deserve. ✊🏼🌹 (Thank you, Maria’s Bistro Mexicano, for hosting us last week!)

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Proud to be at today’s #TaxTheRich march with @nycDSA . ✊🏼 I am in awe of the powerful @jaslinforqueens , who says, “I don’t want another body on the frontline anymore. I want everybody to be taken care of.” 🌹❤️ #InvestInOurNY

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

I support good cause, and I urge my state colleagues to get it done this session. Our constituents cannot wait for the basic right to stability in their homes.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I am so proud to announce that our campaign has been endorsed by @UFT ! As a parent of public school students, this endorsement is especially meaningful. I know that our unions are fighting not just for their members, but for all of us — for all New Yorkers' health and safety.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

After you finished the laundry, checked on the girls and finished a canvassing shift, I want you to know how much I appreciate you, Frankie. Happy Father’s Day to an amazing dad and hubby! ❤️

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

We do have fun 😉😂

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

Our community in District 38 needs a #GreenNewDeal for Public Housing. We need debt-free college + universal pre-K. We need #MedicareForAll . We need to pass the #PROAct . ✊🏼 The filibuster prevents all of that.The time to chuck it is NOW. Democratize our government, @SenSchumer .

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

All my love and support for @JabariBrisport . Jabari and other progressives are facing real estate-funded attacks. Don’t let them take advantage of low turnout—Vote early and bring a friend! NYC needs this public school teacher continuing the fight for working class New Yorkers!

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

It’s Friday and all I can think about is making sure @SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi join me in the #NoCutsChallenge . The working-class people of Brooklyn need & deserve a Build Back Better Act with NO cuts. #PROAct , #GreenNewSchools @DSAecosocialism . Hold the line!

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

School workers, students + working-class parents are bearing the weight of @NYGovCuomo 's refusal to fund public schools. My daughters and I have been in this fight for a long time. We stand with @AQE_NY in the fight to #ProtectStudentsNotBillionaires . #TaxTheRich 📸: @karakul

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

1 year

Let’s not forget today about the #AdamsBudgetCuts this Mayor has pushed through in mid-year budget changes and that continue in his preliminary budget proposal. We can’t afford more cuts to essential services when so many New Yorkers are still struggling.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

I agree with @VendorPower : Street Vendors are an integral and vital part of New York City and deserve our support. The @NYCCouncil & @NYCSpeakerCoJo need to stop the punishment of street vendors and pass #INTRO1116 .

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

3 years

This race is about more than just me. It’s about the movement we’re building in Sunset Park. 🌅 That’s why I’m grateful to have the support of organized labor, along with movement organizations like @nycDSA and @sunrisemvmtnyc . Together, we ARE the movement. ✊🏼

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

I’m so happy to celebrate Pride with so many compas here in Queens today. Pride is political, and I’m proud to stand for housing, healthcare and resources LGBTQ New Yorkers need to thrive. 🌈✊

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

2 years

It’s a good day to make sure we have amazing women in office. I was proud to join my friend @marcelaforny to announce our support for @Britt4Congress in Sunset Park. Brittany is a veteran, Latina and organizer. We deserve leadership that shares our values and knows our needs.

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Alexa Avilés 🌹 愛麗莎

@alexaforcouncil

4 years

Yesterday a worker died in Sunset Park after being exposed to unsafe working conditions, conditions that had been documented for years. We must demand and ensure relief, support, and protection for all workers, including immigrant, undocumented, and contract workers.

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