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Justice for Javits Frimpong. I stand with Javits’ family and the Bronx’s Ghanaian and African diaspora communities as we mourn him. Javits could have been a student of mine. Javits could have been my child. To address the crisis of gun violence, we must tackle its causes at the root. Truly safe streets take strong schools and stable communities. Bronx workers produce billions in wealth every year. That wealth could make housing a human right in a city where a record 154,000+ public school students experienced homelessness in a single school year. It could fully fund our schools and guarantee free, universal healthcare, including mental health care in our own neighborhoods. Instead, our wealth lines billionaires’ pockets, while Congress hands ICE $75 billion of our tax dollars and cuts an estimated $1 trillion from Medicaid. What we need goes beyond one person or one election. We need a mass movement powerful enough to win a new system, one where working people hold the political and economic power to direct our resources toward the needs of people and the planet.