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We had a special day with our new friends at @sumud_ensemble, a community of Palestinian and Māori artists in Aotearoa, joining the first rehearsal of “Asra: Stories of Palestinian Prisoners” by Rand Hazou (@rthazou ), a documentary theatre production using puppetry and audience participation that tells the stories of Palestinian prisoners. Thank you to Rand, @acaciaoconnor , and the entire team for such a warm welcome. We walked into the rehearsal very sad because it was our last day in Aotearoa, but it’s clear that this is not goodbye, but see you very soon! 🌞🌸

#aotearoanz🇳🇿 #puppetry #nztheatre #aucklandtheatre

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Last night New York City tenants won a historic victory as the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted to freeze rents on one and two-year leases.

The energy before the meeting was palpable despite the sweltering heat as hundreds of activists, organizers, and tenants waited to get into East Harlem’s Museo del Barrio, with ice pops and bottled water being passed around for temporary relief. Multiple chants echoed down the line: “Fight, fight, fight! Housing is a human right!” and “Up with tenant rights! Down with real estate!” The Rude Mechanical Orchestra energized the crowd with songs as they edged closer to the museum’s auditorium entrance. Attendees wore colorful shirts representing tenant organizing groups like CAAAV, NYS Tenant Bloc, and Met Council on Housing while waving multilingual posters declaring the need for a rent freeze. This is the first time since the RGB’s inception in 1969 that it has enacted a freeze on multiple-year leases, demonstrating the growing power of the city’s tenant movement.

Photos by @ashmarinaccio, @lizjuneinbloom and text by @monyakin , @karinajasmin_o_ , @boosted_cola , and Nuriel Vega DeGraff as part of a collaboration between @theindypendent and DocBloc’s Artist-Led Citizen Journalist Initiative, which brings together theatre artists and journalists to share in civic reporting and the growing need for community-based storytelling. To learn more connect @docblocprojects .

#citizenjournalist #rentguidelinesboardhearing #docbloc #theindypendent

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Tenants, organizers, advocates, and allies celebrate the Rent Guideline Board’s decision to freeze rents on all 1 and 2-year leases for rent-stabilized apartments.

Coming soon: @docblocprojects’ final story on the NYC rent freeze.

📸: @nurielveradegraff1

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“Freeze the Rent! Melt the ICE!” Organizers, and leaders from the New York State Tenant Bloc, West Side Neighborhood Alliance, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, and the Met Council on Housing chanted at a rally at Joan of Arc Park ahead of the fourth Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) hearing at Symphony Space in upper Manhattan. The activists were calling for a rent freeze for the city’s 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants. Performers from the Dominican Carnival Dancers, Drummers from CAAAV, and the DSA Choir supercharged the crowd’s energy. In Manhattan, New York City’s most expensive borough, rent stabilization protects against rising rents and evictions, even as the average rent has soared to $5,345.

✍️: @docblocprojects Arman Amin @monyakin @lizjuneinbloom @ashmarinaccio @karinajasmin_o_ @nurielveradegraff1
📸: @ashmarinaccio

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On Monday, I attended the Bronx Rent Guidelines Board hearing to fight for rent relief for the 2.4 million New Yorkers living in rent stabilized units.

If landlords can’t maintain our homes without jacking up rent—while their profits keep growing—they don’t deserve to own these buildings. It’s time for more publicly-owned housing that puts people over profit.

Join me on Saturday to discuss our socialist solutions to the housing crisis!

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As a part of my citizens journalist initiative project with @docblocprojects I co-wrote an article with my cohort on the Bronx rent-hike hearings. The stories told in this article are from the testimonies from this night as well as separate interviews. Link in bio

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“Freeze the rent; Slam the door; Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, in four,” Bronx tenants chanted as they marched down the Grand Concourse and rallied outside the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) Public Hearing in the main theater of Hostos Community College/CUNY last night, demanding that the RGB stop landlord bailouts and freeze rent for the 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants in the city on both one- and two-year leases.

Organizers from the New York State Tenant Bloc (@housingjustice4all ), CASA, CUNY CARES (@psc_cuny ) , Bronx Defenders (@bronxdefenders ), Met Council on Housing, the Democratic Socialists of America (@nycdsa ), and Youth Alliance for Housing, along with Councilmembers Pierina Sanchez and Althea Stevens, marched and rallied against predatory landlords, refuting landlords’ attempts to use their borough to block a citywide rent freeze.

Photos by @ashmarinaccio, @lizjuneinbloom , and @karinajasmin_o_ as part of a collaboration between @theindypendent and DocBloc’s Artist as Citizen Journalist Initiative, which brings together theatre artists and journalists to share in civic reporting and the growing need for community-based storytelling. To learn more connect @docblocprojects .

#citizenjournalist #rentguidelinesboardhearing #bronx #docbloc

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The NYC Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) began its public hearings yesterday at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens. The RGB is a nine-member board appointed by the Mayor that sets the annual legal rent increase percentages for rent-stabilized units in New York City.

More than 100 tenants rallied outside the hearing to call for a rent freeze for the 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants in the city, including 440,000+ Queens tenants, on both one- and two-year leases. The rally was organized by NYS Tenants Bloc ( @housingjustice4all ), Queens Tenant Coalition (@queenstenantcoalition ), and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (@caaavnyc ).

Three more public hearings will be held in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn before the final Rent Guidelines Board vote which will take place on June 25th at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan.

Photos by @ashmarinaccio and @lizjuneinbloom for @theindypendent as part of @docblocprojects “Artist as Citizen Journalist” initiative which brings together theatre artists and journalists to share in civic reporting and the growing need for community-based storytelling. The ACJ initiative tests a hybrid model of reporting and performance, positioning theatre artists as civic witnesses and collaborators in local journalism. To learn more visit docbloc.org or connect on Instagram @docblocprojects.

#rentguidelinesboard #nyprotest #queens #rentistoodamnhigh

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CP 2025 “I will always love you, Haiti.” #genesiscenterri #esol #haitiansinrhodeisland #artsineducation #creativepathways

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So honored to be a part of this Artist as Citizen Journalist initiative, that bridges theater and journalism in a shared act of civic reporting. I am alongside a fierce cohort led by the incredible @ashmarinaccio

We will be collaborating with @theindypendent on this initiative as well as working with @bechdelproject and @artny72

I can’t wait to start and share this work❤️

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Sneak peek from today’s UP! @undzerpurim at ART NY - a beautifully curated liberation carnival created by @kaplow21 , @gorenjeremy , @toni.mello and @mooreweirdwerds . It was an afternoon of brilliant performances, music, trainings, games, and the community coming together to raise money to support local Brooklyn families impacted by immigration actions and South Brooklyn Legal Aid.

On a personal note, it was also a wild convergence of the many worlds I walk in. I saw folks from various communities I’ve been part of over the last 20 years in NYC… friends, former students, colleagues, theatre folks who didn’t know I am a photographer and photography folks who don’t know I am in theatre. A reminder that NYC can be small sometimes.

So much fun.

📸 @ashmarinaccio

#nytheatre #nyphotographer #brooklyn #stopice

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See you Sunday!

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UP!, a mixed-multitude liberation carnival is an anti-imperialist benefit carnival supporting families in South Brooklyn through @mixtecaorg’s Legal Aid Fund - along with @docblocprojects, @radevolution,
@makingmenches_chs, @abolishice_nynj, @theaterworkersforaceasefire

There’ll be performances, music, street food vendors, food, carnival games, trainings, an all-out fun and irreverent time - every dollar raising money for South Brooklyn Legal Fund and families!

The only thing missing is YOU!

Tickets are donation based. No one will be turned away.

All proceeds going to South Brooklyn Legal Fund https://www.eventbrite.com/e/up-a-mixed-multitude-
liberation-carnival-tickets-1985675579110

Central Organizers are @wistariaproject and @pinkhquse

Link in bio to get your tickets ;)

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