ABC News – ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks to New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif about the subway shooting in Brooklyn impacting her community, and what the city should do to curb violence [Watch Here].
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics – “When today’s guest, NYC Councilmember Shahana Hanif, ran for office, she knew it wasn’t going to be an easy job. So, she reframed the campaign– her race wasn’t just a job, it was a commitment to her city. A commitment to the neighborhood that raised her. Shahana, AKA Shahana from BK, is the first Muslim woman elected to New York City Council and the first woman Council Member for the 39th District.
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Patch – “Since COVID-19 hit New York City, women, and especially women of color, have been forced to bear the brunt of the economic and emotional toll,’ said Park Slope City Council Member Shahana Hanif, pointing to a first-of-its-kind report concurrently released by Council Member Tiffany Cabán and City Comptroller Brad Lander, which analyzes the gendered impacts of the pandemic in NYC and outlines policy changes that would promote a feminist recovery.
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Gotham Gazette – “Among a series of March hearings held by the Council on Mayor Adams’ $98.5 billion preliminary budget plan, representatives from the Mayor’s Office on Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and advocates appeared before Council members to discuss the allocation of resources to the city’s different programs designed to support and empower immigrant communities. The hearing was led by Council Member Shahana Hanif, a recently-elected Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Council’s Committee on Immigration.
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Patch – “A Park Slope leader joined immigrant rights advocates speaking out against Mayor Eric Adams’ choice to appoint a former City Council Member, whose been criticized for cultural insensitivity, to his administration. ‘I cannot in good conscience support someone who has made comments pitting one group against another or someone who has actively fought in the Council to restrict the rights of immigrants,’
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Middle East Eye – “Hanif, who later called on Miller to be fired, told MEE she was dismayed that he refused to accept the intrusive and destructive effect surveillance had on the Muslim community. ‘The police department conducted this entrapment, this racial profiling and sent informants into our communities to target and violate innocent, innocent people,’ Hanif said.
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Daily News – “Democratic Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, whose questioning of Miller prompted his comments at the hearing, told the Daily News on Monday that his testimony made her ‘blood boil.’ ‘Under oath, this man tried to erase the traumas that we’ve experienced as a community,’ said Hanif, who became the first female Muslim member of the Council when elected in November.
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Brooklyn Downtown Star – “New York City Councilman Lincoln Restler and Councilwoman Shahana Hanif aren’t cut from the same cloth. Restler got his start with reform-oriented politics by co-founding the New Kings Democrats – a group that helps elected transparency-oriented leaders. Then he beat the Brooklyn machine in an unusually high profile race for District Leader before working for the De Blasio administration.
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City Limits – “Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, chair of the Council’s Immigration Committee, said her office invited OCCF representatives to testify at Monday’s hearing in order to clarify the situation and to provide basic information, like how many detainees have been vaccinated so far at the facility against COVID-19. ‘But they declined our invitation and will not be appearing on Monday’
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Next City – The safest communities are not those with the most police; they are the ones with the most resources from Council Member Shahana Hanif & Rochester Council Member Mary Lupien [Read More]
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