With just nine days left before the state’s budget is due, Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, and other Democratic lawmakers are demanding that their version of the Child Victims Act (S.809) with a one-year look back window be included in the final budget. In recent years, many pieces of legislation similar […]
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Actor and activist Corey Feldman challenging Senate GOP on Child Victims Act
Actor Corey Feldman and Team USA volleyball player Sarah Powers-Barnhard have joined the fight to push Senate Republicans to pass the Child Victims Act. A coalition called “New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators” is gaining supporters in its drive to finally pass the Child Victims Act (S.809) this legislative session. Feldman […]
Advocates, lawmakers launch early effort to pass Child Victims Act in 2018
Survivors, legislators and children’s advocates are organizing early with the goal of finally getting the Child Victims Act across the finish line and on to the governor’s desk before the end of the 2018 legislative session. One group, New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, kicked off its advocacy for the coming […]
“Jazz funeral” mourns bills killed by IDC
Critics of the Independent Democratic Conference held a funeral Wednesday for all the bills that died at the hands of the IDC this session. The activists say that in a moment when New York state has the opportunity to be a national example of how to resist, from the activist […]
Letter: “I realized I was doing what my abuser did to me 46 years ago. I was blaming myself.”
I just spent half a year advocating for the Child Victims Act alongside a group of dedicated and courageous survivors and supporters. We went wherever we could to be seen and heard. We spoke of our own experiences in order to show how children of today and tomorrow would be […]