Big-City Mayors

So my call to you is to recognize that you can shape the future. The future is not just some experience. It's something to manifest. The future is inside of you. It's decisions, not conditions, that will determine our fate and future.

We have reached a tentative agreement with District Council 33, which must be ratified by its membership on a new three-year contract that, coupled with the one-year contract extension we agreed to last fall, will increase DC 33 members’…

The work stoppage involving the District Council 33 and the City of Philadelphia is OVER.

'No court has adopted the interpretation of Title IX that is being advanced by the Trump Admin'

They need to leave and they need to leave right now.

So, what problem were they here to solve? We didn’t ask for them to come.

I absolutely think they are, and we’ve been working together, along with the councilperson. These problems can’t be solved overnight.

And you know what? We have a police department.

I was horrified. What went through my mind was those occasions when I would travel overseas and see a city or a country under siege by their military in preparation for a coup. That’s the imagery that I had in my mind.

They need to leave because this is unacceptable.

They need to leave and they need to leave right now.

I met some of the children who had to leave the park today because of a military-style operation designed to strike fear in the heart of our city today. We will not be afraid and we will not be divided. We will stand TOGETHER.

It’s outrageous and un-American that the federal government seized our state’s national guard.

It is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in the parks.

I think the goal is to spread fear.

It’s outrageous and un-American to have armed vehicles in our American parks.

This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it…

You give me an opportunity, I’m going to win this race.

We’re going to allow the 91% of New Yorkers come out to the polls and tell us what they want.

We are going to register a million new voters.

I will fight antisemitism.

We can be free. And we can be fed.

New York, if we have made one thing clear over these past months, it is that we need not choose between the two.

Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.