• With Rikers Island, Eric Adams Has Made a Bad Situation Worse

    With Rikers Island, Eric Adams Has Made a Bad Situation Worse by gabriel sayegh May 6, 2025 Last week, the New York Daily News ran an exclusive story with the […]

  • Testimony at Committee on Criminal Justice Hearing

    Thank you, Chair Sandy Nurse, for holding today’s Committee on Criminal Justice. My name is Yonah Zeitz and I am the New York Advocacy Director at the Katal Center for Equity, […]

  • Action Makes the Heart Grow Stronger

    Letter from Katal’s Co-Presidents No Kings, No Nazis, No Oligarchs: Coming Together to Fight Back  Dear Friends, We’re reaching out with some reflections about what’s happening in our count…

  • City Council asks judge to protect their power over Rikers ahead of receivership ruling

    Author: Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle 2/14/25 If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make […]

  • This is not normal. It’s time for action.

    Dear Friend, What’s happening right now in Washington, DC is not normal. Two weeks into the new Trump Administration, and the country faces a serious constitutional crisis. Trump is violating [&hell…

  • Sustaining Donor Drive: Email Fun

    Below is a fundraising email we sent out as a part of our Sustaining Donor Drive: Subject: [Silly photos and emojis inside] Dear Friend, As we approach the end of […]

  • 25 WTO Protest Facts @ 25

    For a downloadable version of this article, in PDF form, click here. 25 @ 2525 Fun or Otherwise Lesser-Known Facts to Mark the 25th Anniversary of the WTO Protests in […]

  • Giving Tuesday: Email Fun

    Below is a fundraising email we sent on Giving Tuesday: Subject: A silly email to brighten your day Dear Friend, We hope you are having a good day. At Katal, […]

  • Judge ‘Inclined’ to strip city of control of Rikers Island

    By Jacob Kaye from the Queens Daily EaglePublished on November 27, 2024 A federal judge said that she was leaning toward taking the extreme measure of stripping the city of […]

  • 25 years since “Battle in Seattle”

    It’s been 25 years since a massive public uprising in the streets of Seattle led to the shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Millenium Round” Ministerial Conference. That week became…

  • Whose Story of Seattle? A Protest History Misses the Point

    In 1999, a massive public uprising in the streets of Seattle led to the shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Millenium Round” Ministerial Conference. That week became a historic turning…

  • Organizing, Food, and Justice

    by Lorenzo Jones 6.20.2024 I feel like there is this throwback, distinct trajectory for community organizing that requires us to revamp our development of organizers, like having to develop organizer…