REMARKS
Council member emphasizes importance of hearing and supporting marginalized communities
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Council Member Carlina Rivera expresses gratitude for the testimonies and emphasizes the importance of the hearing in bringing people together and sharing information. She highlights her commitment to supporting marginalized and disenfranchised communities across the five boroughs.
- Acknowledges the need to support individual artists more robustly
- Mentions learning from the testimonies and the importance of uplifting marginalized communities
- Expresses surprise at the difficulty in obtaining a 2-day permit for indigenous events
Carlina Rivera
1:36:06
Amazing.
1:36:07
I just, thank you for for for sharing that.
1:36:11
Thank you to all of you.
1:36:12
I agree that, you know, one of the there's a few things that we hope hearings these hearings will do.
1:36:18
Right?
1:36:19
In addition to bringing us all together, sharing information.
1:36:22
I think that's incredibly important.
1:36:25
There are groups of many, many different sizes across the 5 boroughs and so we try to support them all equitably.
1:36:31
But I agree that individual artists were working on supporting them in a more robust way.
1:36:37
So I appreciate your comments on that, and it is it is meetings like this where we're hoping through this testimony, I've certainly learned a lot, and I'll continue to as we hear from the other amazing, stakeholders, but really trying to uplift the most, you know, marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
1:36:56
I feel like that's why I'm in office.
1:36:58
That's what I'm supposed to do.
1:37:01
Every community is different, every elected official is different as well.
1:37:05
But I want you to know that well, one is I mean, they can do like a 3 day concert in Governors Island, but they can't give you a 2 day permit.
1:37:13
Anyway, we're gonna we're gonna work on that.
1:37:16
But I think to your point of the shared responsibility, I, I appreciate that language because it is about the generations to come and about the work that you are doing to be very, very inclusive of, of indigenous peoples.
1:37:30
I'm, I'm very grateful and of course to the Museum, a very big fan.
1:37:36
So I guess my question is on, on funding, you all are looking for different revenue I mean, different funding sources.
1:37:46
I'm I know the city is helpful to cultural institutions and groups, but even that is limited.
