Neffritte Larkin
Neffritte Larkin
Host Committee
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Peace & Social Progress in Vietnam (1975–2025) Host Committee (in alphabetical order): Rabab Abdulhadi, Heather Carlos, Paddy Colligan, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Neffritte Larkin, Duong Nghe Ly, Michael McPhearson, Radhames Morales, Ngo Thanh Nhan, Jorge Luis Rocha, Franklin Siegel, Kim To, Ani Toncheva, Claire Tran, Jae Tran, Loan Tran, Juliet Ucelli, Anlin Wang, Cora Weiss.[1]
Hospital protest
March 2021, Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz joined City Council candidate Shekar Krishnan, union representatives and members of the New York State Nurses Association at Elmhurst Hospital to protest Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $600 million budget cuts to public hospitals.
Krishnan, a community activist and civil rights lawyer specializing in fighting housing discrimination and preventing community displacement, co-founded Communities Resist, a legal services organization that addresses housing and racial justice in Queens and Brooklyn.
Neffritte Larkin spoke on behalf of the New York State Nursing Association, which represents more than 9,000 workers in the city’s public hospital system.
“We are the frontline workers. We were here every single day and we’re still here,” Larkin said. “For Governor Cuomo to even suggest that there will be budget cuts to our safety net hospitals is a gross insult not just to the communities of color but also to the workers.”[2]