Good Tuesday friends! Today on La Voz with Mariel Fiori is a political day.
I spoke with Ignacio Acevedo, an organizer with the New York Civil Liberty Union's Hudson Valley and leader of Las Mejores Huellas de los Inmigrantes, who is supporting asylum seekers who were taken from New York City to hotels in Newburgh, as a point person who told us how the current situation for the people are and their needs. Undergarments (socks, breeches), pants, shirts, and jackets are needed in small and medium sizes, as well as personal hygiene items and wrapped snacks. To send in donations, send a text message to 845-800-4340 to coordinate.
Yvette Valdés Smith, legislator and Minority Leader of the Dutchess County Legislature, and Veekas Ashoka, co-founder of Beacon Climate Action Now, told us about the welcome in Poughkeepsie for the eighty asylum seekers who arrived on Sunday, and their stance against County Executive O'Neil's anti-immigrant executive order. Beacon Climate Action Now (BCAN), Community Voices Heard, For the Many, Mutual Aid Beacon, Mothers Out Front Dutchess County, Beacon City Councilmember Dan Aymar-Blair, and Dutchess County Minority Leader, Yvette Valdés Smith, declared their support for all those who seek safety in our community. Ashoka said that the ongoing climate crisis is projected to displace 200 million people from their homes by 2050, according to a World Bank report published in 2021; and that they know that "when we give enthusiastically, we lose nothing; we gain a community of neighbors who will take care of us in return, and that makes us all safer".
In addition, journalist Amy Goodman said that the nuclear lesson from Hiroshima requires the G7 to push for peace in Ukraine.
