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I confronted the executive editor of the New York Times…full vid coming soon. I was pushed by the security guards to the floor. Enjoy that video.

I confronted the executive editor of the New York Times…full vid coming soon. I was pushed by the security guards to the floor. Enjoy that video.

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This morning, in the South Bronx, yet another building has partially collapsed, this time at a NYC housing project called “Mitchell Houses” in the neighborhood of Mott Haven. Though no one has been injured, there will no doubt be a large displacement of families, including children and elderly people, in the poorest congressional district in the U.S., with a poverty rate of 35%. For the past 50 years, the South Bronx has consistently suffered “benign neglect” in the form of triage policies such as former New York City Housing Commissioner Roger Starr’s “planned shrinkage, ” which effectively committed poor neighborhoods to die, while critical infrastructure such as subway, bus services, fire stations, and public schools were all shut down, in order to feed a parasitical system of rentier finance and debt. Just near the over 100-year-old NYCHA buildings in the Bronx, which suffer from a lack of maintenance and disrepair, there are high rise apartments being built. The cost of just one studio apartment at these high rises is over $2600. Who exactly will be living there? Do we honestly expect that the poor residents who just had their apartment building blown up will be relocated there? No, of course not. Just like the people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, who are having their houses blown up, their healthcare system systematically destroyed, and their access to food, shelter, and water cut off by insane, genocidal madmen within the Netanyahu Government in Israel, the people of the South Bronx are being effectively told that they are useless eaters to be disposed of like cattle. This policy is being carried out by those currently representing the Bronx, especially my opponent, Ritchie Torres, the supposed young face of progressive reform within the Democratic Party, who is committed to sending billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to Israel, while they carry out what has been internationally denounced as a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Ritchie Torres, nearly 9 years ago while he was a member of the City Council of New York, had said that there was an operating deficit of $96 million in NYCHA funding. That amount is nearly $400 million now, yet is still a fraction of the amount Torres is committing to send to Israel, while his own constituents are neglected. Why doesn’t he bring that up now? Has Torres become so deluded in his Crusader-like zealotry for Israel, that he has forgotten about people he is supposed to represent? Perhaps he is just a genocidal maniac, and views the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with about the same amount of empathy as the people in the Bronx, which is why the policy is the exact same. In 2018, I lived in a basement apartment in the Bronx, where my ceiling collapsed as a result of sewage water leaking from the floor above. My apartment was completely flooded, yet, when I brought this up to my representative in a meeting I scheduled, he offered me a meager payout of $15,000, to “move somewhere else, and go to college. ” I outright rejected the offer, not only because it was hardly enough to look for another place within such a short amount of time, but also since other residents in my building were suffering the exact same conditions. Although the story regarding the Bronx would be seen by many to have no relationship to what is going on in Gaza, the principle is the exact same. Human beings are not being valued by our representatives. It is up to us, as individual Americans, in both cases, to stand up for people whose humanity is being disregarded everywhere. I am calling on people from all over the world, particularly those who are from the generations that must soon become the leaders of our nations, to join me in a non-violent Crusade for justice for all of the world’s people, from Gaza to the Bronx.

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