What We're Working On NOW

We are working with the Ain’t I A Woman Campaign to help home attendants—predominantly immigrant women of color—who  are forced to work sleepless 24-hour shifts, for multiple days in a row. They care for our elderly, disabled, or severely ill loved ones who need 24-hour care. Everywhere else in the world, 24-hour home care work is split into 8- or 12-hour shifts. 24-hour workdays destroy workers’ bodies and families, and endanger patients’ lives.

Home attendants recently went on hunger strike for 6 days outside of City Hall, demanding an end to 24-hour workdays. But NYC Speaker Adrienne Adams refuses to bring the “No More 24” Act (Int 175) to a vote.

We are working with the New Yorkers for Equal Rights coalition to help pass The NY State Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This ballot amendment would prohibit discrimination by the government based on a person’s ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex — including their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes. 

It would also protect against any government actions that would curtail a person’s reproductive autonomy or their access to reproductive health care. The ERA would, for the first time, explicitly include language to clarify that discrimination based on a person’s pregnancy or pregnancy outcome is sex discrimination – an essential clarification given the national trend of criminalizing people for various pregnancy outcomes, as well as the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.

We are tabling and setting up distribution sites in high-demand areas with kits that include Plan B, condoms, pregnancy tests, and socialist feminist literature for people to take for free. 

Our first distribution location is in AOC's district office in the Bronx, at 1371 Herschell St, Ground Floor Office, Bronx, NY 10461.