Eric Adams

Eric Adams And The Death Of Black Politics

October 12, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black misleadership class, Black Politics, Corruption, Eric Adams, New York (NY), New York City (NYC)

We at Black Agenda Report were always skeptical that Black people would make any progress under the administration of New York City mayor Eric Adams. In our 2021 article, Elections and the Illusion of Black Political Power, this columnist wrote, “Adams speaks favorably of the business community, hence the campaign haul, and real estate developers and other wealthy New Yorkers made clear he was their choice. Fundraising prowess is always an indication that the people’s needs will not be met.” Two and one half years later, Adams not only proved BAR’s analysis of his politics to be correct, but his administration is dangling by a thread.

Mayor Adams Keeps Pushing Medicare Advantage Despite Latest Court Defeat

May 24, 2024 Joe Maniscalco, Work Bites. Educate! Eric Adams, Legal System, Medicare, New York City (NYC), Retirees, Teachers

The City of New York’s decision to keep trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage health insurance plan after yet another crushing court defeat on Tuesday has convinced many in the fight that Mayor Eric Adams and his privatization allies must be crazy. “Yesterday was a great day. Retirees won our case again,” retired public school teacher and Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee [CROC] member Sarah Shapiro told Work-Bites. “After spending two months deliberating, the court came down with a ruling in our favor. Yet, the city still vows to appeal again. Will the mayor and our union misleaders in the Municipal Labor Committee [MLC] ever learn? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome—these guys are insane! We vow to keep fighting!”

The Billionaires And Establishment Officials Unleashing Violence

May 22, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Campus Movement, Columbia University, Eric Adams, Israel, New York City (NYC), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Student Activism, UCLA, Zionism

It has been weeks since the brutal state repression and right-wing violence unleashed against some of the most prominent Gaza Solidarity Encampments, including the encampments at the University of California – Los Angeles and Columbia University. Since then, independent reporting has uncovered disturbing links between extreme-right counterprotesters and billionaire donors, as well as collusion between city officials and police conducting violent repression. At UCLA, Zionist counterprotesters conducted several rounds of attacks against the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Student organizers reported counterprotesters releasing bags of mice injected with an unknown substance, as well as cockroaches.

Columbia Crackdown Led By Professor Doubling As NYPD Spook

May 4, 2024 Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Campus Movement, CIA, Columbia University, Eric Adams, Gaza, Israel, NYPD, Palestine, Police, police brutality, Student Activism

The violent crackdown carried out on Columbia University students protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip was led by a member of the school’s own faculty, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared. During a May 1 press conference, just hours after the New York Police Department arrested nearly 300 people on university grounds, Adams praised adjunct Columbia professor Rebecca Weiner, who moonlights as the head of the NYPD counter-terrorism bureau, for giving police the green light to clear out anti-genocide students by force.

World’s Richest City Says ‘No More Room’ Left For Desperate Migrants

August 7, 2023 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Class Struggle, Eric Adams, Immigration, Migrants, New York City (NYC), Refugees

For the first few days of August, migrants seeking asylum from around the world converged outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, waiting for shelter openings. Around 200 migrants coming from countries such as Mauritania, Ecuador, Chad, Venezuela, Burundi, Peru, and Colombia resorted to sleeping outside on the city streets as they were denied entry into the overcrowded hotel. The city cleared the migrants and moved them using MTA buses to different city shelters on August 3. New York City has a unique “right to shelter” law, which means that the city is legally required to provide shelter to those who ask.

NYC Mayor Adams Is Met With Boos At CUNY Law School Graduation

May 15, 2023 Michael Gartland, NY Daily News. Resist! CUNY, Eric Adams, Higher Education, New York City (NYC), Student Activism

New York City, New York - Mayor Adams was greeted with boos and turned backs during a CUNY Law School commencement address Friday — a day after City University students and professors protested against budget cuts laid out in the mayor’s most recent spending plan. Friday’s public demonstration, which was reminiscent of NYPD officers turning their backs on former Mayor Bill de Blasio, came as the current mayor was urging graduates to “get on the field and participate about improving the lives of the people of this city.” As he spoke, boos could be heard echoing throughout the auditorium, with dozens of graduates turning their backs.

Eric Adams Prescribes More Cops And Prisons For Poor And Oppressed

December 16, 2022 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! Class Struggle, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Eric Adams, Human Rights, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Police

New York City, New York - Last week, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced his new directive allowing cops to forcibly remove people from public areas and involuntarily detain them for transport to hospitals. The mayor’s guidance expands previous definitions which allowed cops and qualified professionals to involuntarily detain someone if the individual is deemed to be a threat. Now, the new recommendations allow cops to detain people if they deem they are “unable to meet their basic needs.” Adams claims this decision is best for public safety and individual well-being, but his decision was never about public safety — it’s about hiding the effects of austerity, cuts in social services, and the vast inequalities created by capitalism in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

Groups File Emergency Request To Halt Controversial Mental Health Plan

December 11, 2022 Ali Bauman, CBS News. Resist! Eric Adams, Homelessness, Human Rights, New York (NY), New York City (NYC)

New York City, New York - Mayor Eric Adams' new plan to involuntarily hospitalize some mentally ill people living on New York City streets is facing its first legal battle. Advocates are arguing the plan is unconstitutional. Shannon O'Neill Fonseca was involuntarily hospitalized by NYPD officers in 2019 when her then-partner told 911 she was a danger to herself. "Some of the PTSD that I struggle the most with right now is from my hospitalizations," she said. "When I was discharged, I did not receive any type of support, there wasn't really an aftercare plan, it was so hard for me to submit any type of documentation and no one followed up with me." Fonseca has never been homeless herself but worries about the mayor's new policy directing police to forcibly hospitalize mentally ill homeless people who are deemed a danger to themselves or unable to meet their needs.

Media’s Crime Hype And Scapegoating Led To Crackdown On Unhoused People

December 8, 2022 Julie Hollar, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. Educate! Class Struggle, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Eric Adams, Health Care, Housing, Human Rights, Media, New York City (NYC), Police

New York City, New York - For some time now, news media have been conflating crime, homelessness and mental illness, demonizing and dehumanizing people without homes while ignoring the structural causes leading people to sleep on subways and in other public spaces. With New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ latest announcement that he would hospitalize, against their will, unhoused people with mental health conditions—even those deemed to pose no risk to others—in the name of “public safety,” the local papers once again revealed a propensity to highlight official narratives and try to erase their own role in conjuring the crime hysteria that drives such ineffective and pernicious policies. Adams, who made fighting crime the centerpiece of his 2021 campaign, announced his latest plan on November 29, his latest in a series of pushes to clear unsheltered people from the streets and subways of New York City.

The Crime Panic That Helped Elect Eric Adams Is Now Turning Against Him

November 5, 2022 Ashoka Jegroo, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Eric Adams, Media, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Police

New York City, New York - New York City’s cop-mayor is now trying to fight against the media-contrived crime panic that helped him become mayor. Former NYPD cop Eric Adams surfed into the New York City Mayor’s office on a wave of sensationalist crime coverage by mainstream media. Adams was happy to use the non-stop, hyperbolic coverage of crime, as well as the fear engendered in the public by that coverage, in order to justify doubling down on NYC’s racist police state. However, now that he’s been mayor for almost a year and will have to accept credit or blame for what’s happening in the city, Adams is suddenly trying to assure people that the public perception and media coverage of crime doesn’t line up with reality.

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