There was good news Monday for both stimulus checks and people who have been fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo continues to fight for his political life amid sexual harassment allegations.
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It’s no secret that construction work has long been a male-dominated industry. Erik Antokal is striving to change that.
“You have 50% of the population that has essentially been historically excluded from that incredible opportunity – what an untapped resource,” Antokal says.
After graduating from Tufts University in 2012, Antokal completed a fellowship with the Coro New York Leadership Center, where he was able to work with the United Federation of Teachers and 32BJ SEIU, the politically powerful property service workers union. Prior to joining Nontraditional Employment for Women, Antokal also worked for the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where he helped coordinate the city’s business improvement districts.
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It’s a lesson that we’ve not only had the past year to learn but hundreds of years. Directing our anger, fear, confusion, lack of information, or just plain pandemic exhaustion at marginalized groups of people is both harmful and counterproductive. Over the past year, there have been nearly 3,000 reported cases of anti-Asian attacks in the U.S., related to bigoted and incorrect rhetoric around COVID-19. Recently, those acts of racism have been on the rise again.
“These recent incidents are stark reminders that urgent action must be taken to protect our AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) community from hate, discrimination and violence,” Russel Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, said in a statement last month.