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Zohran Mamdani’s victory should be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives (ricochet.media)
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[–] faxed@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have a look through Zohran's Platform.. what do we think of it? Here is the contents:

New York is too expensive. Zohran will lower costs and make life easier.

  • Housing

    • Freeze the rent.
    • Building affordable housing.
    • Cracking down on bad landlords.
    • Supporting homeowners and ending deed theft.

  • Safety

    • The Department of Community Safety

  • Affordability

    • City-owned grocery stores.
    • Fast, fare free buses.
    • Fighting corporate exploitation.

  • Early Childhood & Education

    • No cost childcare.
    • Baby baskets for New York’s newborns.
    • K-12

  • Paying for Our Agenda

    • Taxing Corporations & the 1%

  • Climate

    • Green Schools For A Healthier NY

  • LGBTQIA+ Protections

  • Healthcare

  • Labor

    • Raising the minimum wage to $30 by 2030.
    • Regulating delivery apps & protecting delivery workers.

  • Small Business

  • Libraries

  • Trump-Proofing NYC

[–] faxed@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Public transit should be reliable, safe and universally accessible. But one in five New Yorkers struggle to afford the ever rising fare. Adding insult to injury: our city’s buses are the slowest in the nation, robbing working people of precious time for family, leisure and rest.

Zohran won New York’s first fare-free bus pilot on five lines across the city. As Mayor, he’ll permanently eliminate the fare on every city bus – and make them faster by rapidly building priority lanes, expanding bus queue jump signals, and dedicated loading zones to keep double parkers out of the way. Fast and free buses will not only make buses reliable and accessible but will improve safety for riders and operators – creating the world-class service New Yorkers deserve.

Read More at The Nation

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