West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, lega...

@democracynow.org visited our weekday kitchen, Cafewal, last week to report on our program in which volunteers and immigrants support other immigrants. #mutualaid is a big circle! www.democracynow.org/2025/12/4/we...

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

Stop giving your money to billionaires. You can do it.

Your support allows @evlovesnyc.bsky.social to make these gourmet-inspired meals which we take and personally deliver to the Astoria Food Pantry.

Alone we can do so little.
Together we can accomplish so much

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@protagonistsoccer.bsky.social

EVLovesNYC x NYIFC Fall Trivia Night Leaves & Logic: A Fall Trivia Night to End Hunger

evloves.networkforgood.com/events/91864... Come and show off your mastery of arcane facts WHILE making $$ to feed New Yorkers. 10/15 at Chelsea Bell

evloves.networkforgood.com/events/89288... Come spin your wheels on August 21 with EVLovesNYC. @nyintfc.bsky.social

Hey, look! It's our Cafewal project in the news! Thanks @documentedny.bsky.social and @rojeda.bsky.social for coming to see what we are doing alongside the newest New Yorkers, asylum seekers and migrants.

Please join us in the fight for freedom from poverty and hunger this weekend by donating to @evlovesnyc.bsky.social

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#AstoriaFoodPantry

Therefore, OMB would be required to issue an order reducing spending by $330 billion by January 2026. Many accounts are exempted from sequestration, including Social Security and several programs affecting low-income Americans. But Medicare is not. There is a limitation on Medicare cuts of 4 percent of the program. In fiscal year 2026, that would come out to $45 billion. These cuts would increase with the growth of the program, hitting $75 billion by 2034 according to CBO. The total ten-year cuts would equal $490 billion. President Trump has promised that he would not touch Medicare over the course of his presidency; of course, he said yesterday that Medicaid wouldn’t be touched either, something he was told was untrue by House Republicans.

The bill adds $3.3 trillion in debt. That violates the statutory paygo law of 2010 that requires across-the-board sequestration cuts. Many accounts (like Social Security and some low-income programs) are exempted from that. But Medicare is not. Here's the breakdown:

Please watch @danfrompasco.bsky.social -- board member and chair of our political committee-- on the federal budget proposal and what it means for ALL New Yorkers.

A hungry city is not a safe city. A hungry city is a place where we have to lock up baby formula in cages in our grocery stores as people grow desperate for ways to feed their families. That’s not New York.
—Emmy Brett, Director, Greenpoint Hunger Program

Running for office? Currently holding office? Come work in our kitchen and meet the New Yorkers you hope to represent. You'll see how your votes on policies and budgets can mean life or death to food-insecure people.

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visits Cafewal's food-service job training kitchen in the winter of 2025.

EVLovesNYC Executive Director Tyler Jefferson and NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani pose in an industrial kitchen

Thank you, Zohran Mamdani, for your Q&A with asylum seekers about your platform and political views at Cafewal this winter. You listened to human stories about the very real struggle so many New Yorkers face when trying to access basic human needs. We will hold you accountable for these words.

Hi friends.

Food insecurity is a policy choice. It’s a non partisan issue and @evlovesnyc.bsky.social is committed to fighting against it. Whether it’s new NYers here to seek asylum in the face of harsh immigration crack downs, or a native NYer priced out of their home.

JOIN US! Perhaps recent hopeful NYC news inspires you to keep volunteering for something you care about. Perfect timing! Summer is the slowest time for volunteer signups (and donations, fwiw) at EVLovesNYC.

Sign up at evolves.nyc and come join us. We’ll even let you play with knives.

Council Members & Districts Together, we make the laws governing New York City

council.nyc.gov/districts/ Find your city council person here and call their office to urge them to increase emergency food funding (CFC) in 2026. This food provides a lifeline for our neighbors and food insecurity is getting serious.

Calling is an easy way to make a case for a kinder city

ICE Agents Arrest at Least Seven Immigrants as Courthouse Blitz Continues Some agents wore masks that shielded their faces, while government attorneys involved refused to give their names.

Another dispatch this one from 290 Broadway immigration court, where I watched government prosecutors dismiss deportation cases, only for ICE to detain people in the lobby below.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/29/i...

Please donate now! Every dollar you give translates directly into meals for food-insecure New Yorkers. Every Sunday, our group of friends gathers to cook more than 2,300 hot meals to share with food-insecure neighbors t...

Please donate to EVLovesNYC so we can feed people all over the city. Don’t wait until the end of the year — we can’t wait that long. The desperate demand for food, today and in the coming months, bids us to take on the work the government won’t do.
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MAGA may call the proposed budget that the House passed last week “big and beautiful” but it seems more “cruel and dangerous” to us.

The budget cuts federal food assistance for 1.8 MILLION NEW YORKERS, INCLUDING A HALF MILLION NY CHILDREN. 2/3

A volunteer readies a stack of hot meals for distribution

This budget “efficiency” means that parents will skip meals to make sure their kids can eat. Older New Yorkers on fixed incomes will resort to less healthy but more affordable food options. And many more working New Yorkers have to turn to food banks like EVLovesNYC to get through the week. 3/3

Priorities

We feed everyone else who needs a hot meal, including kids and seniors and immigrants and that quiet lady in your building. No one in NYC should go hungry. Help us? Your $$= good food for neighbors. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Tear apart fascism,
Not families.

We feed everyone else who needs a hot meal, including kids and seniors and immigrants and that quiet lady in your building. No one in NYC should go hungry. Help us? Your $$= good food for neighbors. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Governor Hochul Announces Free, Healthy School Meals for All Students in New York - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College) In her recent State of the State address, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that, in…

Great news: NY State will provide free meals to ALL public school students. www.nycfoodpolicy.org/governor-hoc...

@nyintfc.bsky.social Come play on our field!

EVLovesNYC 5th anniversary party this Friday!

Friday night plans= SORTED. Come and get it! evloves.networkforgood.com/events/85741...

Honestly? It's all there in the term 'mutual aid'-- helping YOU helps ME. Contributing to the community with hours or donations makes your life richer. Head to EVLoves.nyc to sign up!