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February 2021

Immigration, Life in a Pandemic

  [caption id="attachment_23514" align="alignnone" width="1168"] Pedestrians walk through Manhattan's Koreatown, on 32nd Street between Madison Ave. and 6th Ave. on Saturday, February 27, 2021.[/caption] Asian Americans across the country have experienced wide-spread forms of harassment and violence triggered by Covid-19—and the community is speaking out about what is happening and organizing to protest against it. In recent weeks, there have been a disturbing spike of incidents. Just last Thursday, a 36-year-old Asian man was stabbed near the rally site and the week before a 52-year-old woman was forcefully shoved to the ground.  Both suffered severe injuries. According to the NYC Commission on Human Rights,

Politics & Policy

In January, New Yorkers learned more about the NYPD's use of a broad range of technologies designed to keep tabs on them. The documents released by the NYPD came as a result of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, known as the POST Act, passed by City Council in July. The documents provide detail into 36 separate surveillance technologies used by the department, ranging from gunshot detection to the employment of drones. New York civil liberty organizations on Tuesday called for more transparency into the ways that the NYPD conducts surveillance in an online event pulled together by 10 groups, including