{"id":219282,"date":"2021-04-05T02:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/easter-protesters-demand-cuomo-give-aid-to-excluded-workers\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T02:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:59:33","slug":"easter-protesters-demand-cuomo-give-aid-to-excluded-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/easter-protesters-demand-cuomo-give-aid-to-excluded-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Easter protesters demand Cuomo give aid to ‘excluded workers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Easter protesters demand Cuomo give aid to ‘excluded workers’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Dozens of New Yorkers and politicians gathered outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Midtown Manhattan office Sunday for an Easter \u201cservice\u201d to demand he app<\/a>rove a $3.5 billion fund for \u201cexcluded workers\u201d not reached by benefits during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In a flower-adorned spectacle that included communion to mark the holiday, the protesters called on Cuomo to support workers who labored during the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic but are unable to claim economic aid \u2014 including undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning of the pandemic, Andrew Cuomo made some decisions,\u201d New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams told the crowd at the event, organized by immigrant-advocacy group Make the Road New York<\/a>. \u201cHe said that black and brown people, primarily, had to go to work. They were essential, they\u2019re important. They had to go to work. They had no choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is New York State. There should not be anything called an \u2018excluded worker,\u2019 \u201d continued Williams. \u201cNo one should be excluded in New York State.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue has formed a schism between progressives in the state legislature and their more moderate Democrat counterparts, who fear that setting aside billions of dollars for undocumented immigrants would provide ready fodder for Republican opponents during the next election cycle.<\/p>\n

The fund \u2014 which would provide 187,000 immigrants and 87,000 recently incarcerated people with an average of $12,600 each \u2014 also has the ire of state Republicans, who say it\u2019s an inappropriate use of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

Even if the two Democratic factions reach an agreement with state budget talks now in overtime, Cuomo also opposes the measure as currently proposed, a source has told The Post.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Williams accused Cuomo of leaning on his \u201cprivilege\u201d to get through the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all understand that this governor probably doesn\u2019t understand sacrifice,\u201d he told the applauding crowd. \u201cBecause he uses privilege to get \u2026 his friends a test when other people couldn\u2019t get it. He used his privilege to have state workers help him write a book on a pandemic on leadership while he was lying about people dying in nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespeople have denied that Cuomo inappropriately prioritized those close to him for COVID-19 tests, and said that staffers only helped out with his book on a volunteer basis.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s office did not immedia<\/a>tely respond Sunday to a request for comment on the Excluded Workers Fund.<\/p>\n

Williams noted that some of the workers in attendance at the rally are on a weeks-long hunger strike to raise awareness for their plight.<\/p>\n

Cuomo \u201cis telling the folks who are literally on a hunger strike they don\u2019t deserve assistance, on Easter Sunday,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

On the holiday, Williams struck a biblical tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that he [Jesus Christ] despised the state oppression that came down on the people who needed help the most,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I know that if he was in earthly form again, this is probably where he\u2019d be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a flower-adorned spectacle that included communion to mark the holiday, the protesters called on Cuomo to support workers who labored during the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/figcaption>
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State Assemblyman Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan), a proponent of the fund, urged attendees to give his fellow lawmakers an earful in the days ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to raise our voices so the [Assembly] speaker and the [state Senate] majority leader and the governor hear our cry, that $2.1 billion barely scratches the surface of the need,\u201d said Epstein, referring to the figure currently being discussed in the state legislature. \u201cWe need more like $3.5 billion, because people are hungry. People are suffering. And we have the ability to fix it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to stand strong to say, \u2018We hear you, we see you, we love you, we stand with you and we\u2019ll fight with you to ensure there\u2019s money,’\u201d continued Epstein. \u201cEven though it\u2019s not a lot, it\u2019s money, because we recognize you\u2019ve been excluded from unemployment, excluded from healthcare, excluded from rent support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Epstein encouraged attendees to call their state representatives and say of the \u201cexcluded\u201d workers, \u201cWe will not leave them behind.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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