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If I was mayor I would throw a ticker tape parade for all the protestors who who bought me a sick jetski and boosted my retirement funding beyond what I thought was ever going to be possible!
Throughout the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio continually talked about how the first thing the city would do to mark its reopening, once it was safe to do so, would be to throw a parade to honor the first responders, essential workers and everyday New Yorkers who stepped up to help out during the crisis. And this week, he finally announced that parade is happening: the "Hometown Heroes" ticket tape parade will take place at 11 a.m. on July 7th along the Canyon Of Heroes in Manhattan. But among the groups signaled out for recognition, there was one glaring omission: funeral workers and other people in the funeral services industry.
That's a Wednesday. Guess where most frontline workers will be. Working. It's probably just going to be a parade for everyone else to pat themselves on the back for honoring them.
Also... educators?! They better invite the teachers that actually showed up. Catholic school teachers, for example. And they better not forget staff - the lunch crews and custodians never left the schools, not even last spring. And if Randi Weingarten shows up, the whole thing is officially a joke.
De Blasio’s Pandemic Heroes Parade Could Use a Clear Invite List ‘Honorees’ Say
With just over two weeks until a “Canyon of Heroes” salute to essential workers who kept the city going through the pandemic, some honorees said they’re still unclear on their place in the parade.
While City Hall has said retail, bodega and transportation workers will be among the groups represented on floats in the July 7 “Hometown Heroes” parade from Battery Park to City Hall, leaders of organizations that represent food-delivery workers and transit workers on Monday said organizers had yet to contact them.
“Rain or shine, rain, sleet or snow, during heatwaves, we deliver to people who can’t or won’t leave their homes or offices, to sometimes great personal sacrifice,” said Sergio Ajche, a delivery worker and leader of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a group of food delivery workers formed during the pandemic. “And I personally would like to have that work honored.”
I agree! I'm so thankful of the handful of small-ish grocery stores that remained open even during the height of the pandemic (late March thru all of April of last year) when all the big, major supermarkets closed all at once during the last week of March. I owe them big time otherwise, I would've had to make the trek and stand on the impossible lines at the local BJ's. I had them on mind when de Blasio announced this parade. I hope they get to march! (if they wish to).
If I was mayor I would throw a ticker tape parade for all the protestors who who bought me a sick jetski and boosted my retirement funding beyond what I thought was ever going to be possible!
It wasn't the just the protestors it was all the tax payers
we all gave you your great retirement package
you won
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