The Fund Excluded Workers (FEW) coalition, a campaign of over 200 New York advocacy groups, has been celebrating its legislative win and helping people apply to the new relief fund that was included in the state budget this past April.
After over a year of protests, activists were able to help get $2.1 billion in relief for excluded workers who were left out of needed aid programs. Workers from across the state showed civil disobedience in the form of a 23-day hunger strike and a march that shut down the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.
