Eric Adams

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/13/2023
  

  Eric Adams's Involuntary Commitment Plan for Mentally Ill has a Long, Cruel History (and Won't Help)

  by Jeremy Peschard

  The history of involuntary hospitalization is one of the removal of the most marginalized and vulnerable people from society, in increasingly cruel and inhumane conditions, with treatment and reintegration to society an afterthought. It's unclear the New York mayor's plans will be different. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  3/3/2023
  

  Why Are Dems Surprised at Eric Adams's Rant Against Church-State Separation?

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  Democrats and secularists shocked by the New York mayor's declaration of religion as the heart of society need to confront facts: the church-state separation they revere has been all but entirely demolished. Secularists must now demand equal footing for their lack of belief.

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• SOURCE: HellGate
  1/20/2023
  

  What Happens When NYC Defunds the Libraries?

  by Allison Chomet

  The proposed cuts to library staffing, on the heels of cuts to public schools, city colleges, and social service agencies reflect the way that culture war panics about book content and drag story hours connect to the politics of austerity and privatization, even in liberal big cities. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/3/2022
  

  NY Mayor's Proposal to Lock Up Mentally Ill Has Long History

  by Elliott Young

  The impulse to heal the mentally ill has long battled the impulse to lock them up as a threat to the society. Eric Adams is trying to do the latter while claiming to do the former.