For Alderman​
WARD 8
PRESS & RESOURCES
PRESS
La Voz, Radio Kingston, Interview with Mariel Fiori, 10-7-25
Daily Freeman article, Oct. 5, 2025
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OTHER RESOURCES
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Kingston & Ulster Resources
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Ulster Immigrant Defense Network -- UIDN
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Indivisible Ulster
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, book by Jane Jacobs
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Street Fight, book by Janette Sadik-Kahn. Janette is a former NYC Commissioner of Transportation and an advisor on transportation and urban issues
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Reasons to be Cheerful -- website and e-newsletter with a collection of positive change examples: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/collections
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The American Human Development Report -- website and publications that measure the well-being of American communities throughout the U.S. Instead of looking at the GDP and asking "how's the economy doing?" their approach asks "how are people doing?" See: measureofamerica.org
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More Than Just Food, article from Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land and Agriculture in the Americas, by Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds, Created for the U.S Food Sovereignty Alliance, 2012. See page 49-51. Features a conversation with Ruth Katz, former Executive Director of Just Food, on the impacts of the organization's work.
Link to book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22247818-harvesting-justice
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SELECT WRITINGS BY RUTH KATZ
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Letter in response to article "Taming the High Cost of Rental Housing," New York Times, print edition, July 21, 2019.
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Letter in response to article “Migrants Confront Judgment Day,” New York Times, print edition, March 8, 2017.
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“You Are What You Environmentally, Politically, Socially and Economically Eat: Delivering the Sustainable Farm and Food Message,” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, September 2010. (PDF on the right)​​