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I’m an organizer who also writes — about mass incarceration, the drug war, policy reform and organizing, and about how people work together to build a more just, equitable world. This is my personal site, and includes my published writing, talks and workshops I’ve given over the years, media appearances, and my blog.
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Latest Posts
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Rikers Island and Mental Health Report
Rikers Island and Mental Health: Pathways Toward Community-Based Diversion and Jail Population Reduction. By Michael Rempel, Krystal Rodriguez, and Kellyann Bock (Data Collaborative for Justice); Yonah Zeitz, gabriel sayegh, and Melanie Dominguez (Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice). November 2025 As New York City works toward its mandate to close Rikers Island, addressing the…
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OP-ED in the Amsterdam News: With Rikers Island, Eric Adams has made a bad situation worse
By gabriel sayegh 29 May 2025 The New York Daily News recently ran an exclusive story with the headline “NYC Mayor Adams exploring abandoning current plan to shut down Rikers Island.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Since taking office, the mayor has worked to undermine the plan. The Adams administration has repeatedly bashed the proposal the City Council approved in 2019 to close the…
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25 WTO Protest Facts @ 25
Designed version, for printing – downloand PDF here. By gabriel sayegh November 2025 In 1999, more than 80,000 people took to the streets of Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Millennium Round” Ministerial Conference. After months of organizing and planning, protesters engaged in creative nonviolent disobedience and shut down the first day of…
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