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Statement From Layleen Polanco’s Family On Newly Released Footage Of Inside Rikers

June 13, 2020

Media Contact: Eliel Cruz, Director of Communications at AVP ecruz@avp.org, 917-727-2107 David Shanies, Attorney representing Polanco family david@shanieslaw.com 212-951-1710 The following is a statement from Layleen’s mother, sister, and brother, Aracelis Polanco and Melania Brown, Salomon Polanco respectively: “The Rikers video shows the world just how little these officers cared whether Layleen lived or died. Layleen’s su[...]

AVP Demands Divestment from Policing and Investment in Services for LGBTQ and HIV-affected Survivors

June 1, 2020

As Pride month begins in New York City with protests against anti-Black police violence and an ongoing global pandemic, the New York City Anti-Violence Project demands divestment from policing and investment in social services and resources for low-income New Yorkers of color. The last fifty years of LGBTQ lives in NYC were marked by protest: the Stonewall Riots, civil disobedience around the AIDS crisis, and vigils and rallies supporting the liv[...]

AVP OPPOSES NEW YORK STATE’S BAIL ROLLBACKS

April 10, 2020

AVP opposes New York State’s recently passed bail rollbacks which will put thousands more in jail, including marginalized and criminalized LGBTQ survivors of violence. New York City, NY – The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) opposes the actions of Governor Cuomo and the New York State legislature to rollback 2019 bail laws, which will put thousands more in jail, including marginalized LGBTQ survivors like Layleen Polanco, a Black [...]

AVP Says No to Rollbacks Against Bail Reform

March 13, 2020

New York City, NY - The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) joins NYC Against Hate Coalition and communities facing hate violence and intimate partner violence to demand “No Rollbacks” to the current New York State bail laws. AVP serves thousands of LGBTQ people every year, who as LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, immigrant, working-class, and low-income survivors of violence, were often themselves criminalized and detained because of the discrimin[...]

New York City Anti-Violence Project Calls for Puerto Rican Officials, McDonald’s Respond to Hate Violence Against LGBTQ People in Puerto Rico

March 2, 2020

NEW YORK, NY -- The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) joins Make The Road New York, community leaders, LGBTQ individuals, survivors of violence, and New Yorkers in gathering Monday, March 2nd at 6 PM in Jackson Heights, Queens, to mourn the death of Alexa, a transgender woman of color who was killed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the early morning of February 24th. According to reports, Alexa was homeless, seeking safety at McDon[...]

LGBTQ, Women, and Survivor Advocates Celebrate the Many New Yorkers Who Will No Longer Suffer the Harms of Money Bail & Pretrial Jailing

December 3, 2019

December 3, 2019 LGBTQ, Women, and Survivor Advocates Celebrate the Many New Yorkers Who Will No Longer Suffer the Harms of Money Bail & Pretrial Jailing New York - Today, leading LGBTQ, women, and survivor advocacy organizations, including Girls for Gender Equity, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New Hour for Women & Children Long Island, NYC Anti-Violence Project, Violence Intervention Program, Inc., [...]

A Special NCAVP Report on Anti-LGBTQ Violence During Pride

August 14, 2019

This year, Pride celebrations around the country marked June as the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and New York City hosted the international community for a World Pride celebration. While our communities experienced an increase in visibility, Pride season was also marked by repeated reports of violence in the LGBTQ community. Today, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) is releasing a special report, Pride and Pain: A [...]

Letter to New York City and State: #Justice4Layleen Demands

June 26, 2019

AVP Contact: Audacia Ray, Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy aray@avp.org, 212-714-1184 x 18 Media Contact: Eliel Cruz, Director of Communications ecruz@avp.org, 212-714-1184 x 26 Dear Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, We, the undersigned organizations have come together in response to the tragic death of Layleen Xtravanganza Cubilette-Polanco who died while being held on $500 bail in the Rose M. Singer Center at [...]

STATEMENT FROM THE ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ON PROPOSED HHS ANTI-TRANS RULE

May 24, 2019

In response to a newly anti-trans rule by the Department of Health and Human Services to limit the definition of sex discrimination, The New York City Anti-Violence Project released the following statement: "The proposed HHS rule attempting to limit the definition of sex discrimination would deny access to basic and potentially life-saving heath care to transgender, gender nonconforming (TGNC) and non-binary people and all those seeking reprod[...]

Statement from the Anti-Violence Project on Proposed HUD Anti-Trans Rule

May 22, 2019

In response to the newly proposed rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, that would allow for transgender people to be turned away from supportive housing, the New York City Anti-Violence Project released the following statement: “The proposed rule from HUD is cruel. It undermines the 2016 Equal Access rules, strips protections for vulnerable trans and gender non-conforming people, and could block access to supportive [...]

Diverse Group of NYC Community Organizations Rally For Hate Violence Prevention

March 27, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Eliel Cruz, Director of Communications, NYC Anti-Violence Project ecruz@avp.org 212-714-1184 FOLLOWING RISE IN HATE VIOLENCE, DIVERSE GROUP OF NYC COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, ELECTED LEADERS DEMAND A NEW STRATEGY Jewish, Arab-American, LGBTQ, immigrant, Black and Brown communities held a press conference today to announce new initiative that goes beyond policing, and press for City funding. NEW YORK C[...]

Open Letter by LGBTQ, Women & Survivor Advocacy Organizations in Support of Bail Reform

February 9, 2019

We believe in survivors. And we believe in real bail reform. Dear New York State Legislators and Governor Cuomo, As organizations committed to supporting survivors of intimate partner violence, we want to add our voice to the growing call for true, progressive bail reform in New York State. As anti-violence organizations, we support the elimination of money bail and the implementation of a pretrial system that substantially limits pretrial [...]