Tenants group demands rent be cancelled outside cancer patient's home

 

 Sunnyside Post

Long-time Queens Assembly Member Catherine Nolan has disclosed that she is recovering from cancer surgery.

Nolan, who has represented the 37th Assembly District since 1985, said that she has undergone surgery and is now recuperating at home.

She did not reveal what type of cancer she has – nor the extent of the cancer – but said it will require further treatment.

“I want to announce that I am home recovering from surgery and will be following it with chemotherapy,” Nolan said in a statement Thursday.

Nolan, whose district covers Long Island City, Sunnyside, Ridgewood and parts of Astoria, said that her illness has not affected her work and she will continue to serve her constituents.

“I have been able to fully participate and vote in the Assembly’s legislative session via zoom,” she said, adding that issues like paid family leave, workers’ rights, education and health care are at the front of her agenda.

“I am fortunate to have a great medical team, a loving family, and a very dedicated staff,” Nolan said.

 

Maybe the Ridgewood Tenants Union should have rethought this considering how bad the optics are to scream in front of Nolan's house while she's recovering from a potentially terminal disease, especially since not one of these sign holding gentrifiers against gentrification is in danger of eviction as per their own words.... 

 Then again, they aren't known for their intelligence. More for their blatant racism. - QC

Quite peculiar that RTU's organizer suddenly got camera shy. Even more peculiar is that this activist group seems to get smaller and smaller. Smells very fishy. - JQ

Manufacturing consent of "cancel rent"

 New York Gentrication Watch

Meet Donnette Letford, a victim of COVID-19 and needing rent relief. If you learn of her plight, you will understand why this unfortunate victim of COVID-19 has become the focus of so many pro-cancel rent articles, and why it’s imperative that we cancel rent for everyone–not only just here in the United States but around the world!
Now, before you roll your eyes in disgust at the very mention of “cancel rent”, listen to Letford’s story of tale and woe and see if it won’t change your mind. Here goes:
Donnette Letford is a single mother of three from Flatbush, Brooklyn–and an American–who can’t pay rent because her small business folded due to COVID-19. At least that’s what Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic wrote in The Cancel-Rent Movement:

 

Oh, wait…did Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic say she lived in Flatbush? Because according to Shannon Ferry of NY 1 in City Tenants Advocate for a Rent Freeze, Weigh Possibility of a Rent Strike, she lives in Canarsie–