
Emily Nonko
Writer at Freelance
Co-Founder at Empowerment Ave News
Writing for Liberation, @empowermentave, and NYC-based freelance journalist.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
demo.gothamist.com | Neil deMause |Emily Nonko |Spencer Lee |testBy Neil deMause
Neil deMauseArticles by Neil deMauseThe old Board of Estimate first decided back in 1965 to slice up the city into cable-TV franchise fiefdoms, a setup that has survived largely intact. “It’s likely that this will be the second time that the city is called on to bail out Hudson Yards because of a lack of revenue.”While it might seem petty to try to make a multi-million-dollar decision based on a technicality, that’s how the MSG tax break got enshrined—permanently—in state law in the first place.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
demo.gothamist.com | Emily Nonko |Spencer Lee |Neil deMause
Emily NonkoArticles by Emily NonkoA new test article for mysterious error updatesPrison abolitionists admit they aren’t offering a plan to shutter New York’s jails tomorrow. But they see enough promise in alternatives to incarceration to hope a jail-free New York could become a reality.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
thenation.com | Christopher Blackwell |Emily Nonko
Society / October 25, 2024 Why We Need Prison Journalism More Than EverIf we lose incarcerated journalists, we lose a whole voice from the conversation. Ad Policy (Marcia Straub / Getty)During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, incarcerated people who were highly exposed to the virus found themselves with minimal information on how to survive.
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Sep 20, 2024 |
therumpus.net | Emily Nonko
The Empowerment Avenue collective emerged from a simple need: incarcerated folks have limited support, on top of no internet and email access, to get their writing out of prison and into the hands of editors. The founder, Rahsaan Thomas, was writing at San Quentin State Prison at the time, and envisioned an effort that could address that gap. Four years later, our efforts to support incarcerated writers have evolved into an inside-outside community surpassing all expectations.
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Mar 28, 2024 |
gothamist.com | Emily Nonko
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