The Healing Circle as a Standard Municipal Practice – Institutionalizing Indigenous and community-based circle processes for decision-making, conflict resolution, and collective healing in city agencies.
The Healing Garden in Every Schoolyard – Mandating that every schools green yard include a dedicated, tranquil space with sensory plants and seating for reflection and emotional regulation.
The Healing-Centered Classroom: Trauma-Informed Practice as Standard – Mandating and funding comprehensive trauma-informed training for all school staff, transforming school culture to prioritize emotional safety and resilience.
MAMDANI: General Feeling of “Anonymity” and Isolation: The Alienation of the Bifurcated Metropolis – Loneliness as a Political Condition in the Settler City
The Great NYC Songbook Commissioning Project – Funding contemporary musicians to write and record new songs that capture the spirit of NYCs neighborhoods and current struggles.
The Great Neighborhood Cookbook Project – A citywide initiative to collect, celebrate, and publish the recipes and food stories that define NYC’s communities.
The Green Schoolyard Revolution: Replacing Asphalt with Ecosystems – Transforming barren schoolyards into green oases with trees, gardens, rain catchment systems, and outdoor learning spaces.
The Harm Reduction Beat: City Workers Distributing Safety Resources – Deploying public health outreach teams to provide clean needles, naloxone, and safe use supplies, reducing overdose deaths and disease.
The Ethics of Technology Course Requirement – Implementing a mandatory high school course examining the social, political, and ethical implications of algorithms, AI, and digital platforms.
The First Five Friends Initiative for New York Arrivals – A structured program to ensure newcomers quickly build a local social network, combating isolation and fostering belonging.
The Great NYC Mural Project Combatting Blank Walls – A coordinated program to identify large, blank exterior walls and pair them with artists and community groups to create monumental public murals.
The Democratic Classroom Model where Students Co-Create Rules – Implementing pedagogical practices where students, with teacher facilitation, collectively set classroom norms, resolve conflicts, and guide the learning environment.
The Dream School Design Charettes with Students – Facilitating intensive workshops where students, teachers, and architects collaboratively design their ideal school environment and program.
The Empty Storefronts as Gallery Spaces Initiative – Incentivizing landlords of vacant retail spaces to offer them rent-free to artists and community curators for pop-up galleries and exhibitions.
MAMDANI: The Gig Economy & Neo-Feudalism – Platforms as the New Customary Lords
The Crisis Responder Corps: Sending Care, Not Cops, for Mental Health – A civilian, unarmed agency of mental health professionals and peers as the default responders to behavioral health emergencies.
The DOE Divestment from Software that Profiles Students – Ending contracts with educational technology that uses algorithms to label students at-risk or assigns them biased, predictive scores.
The Dance in the Streets Permit Reform – Streamlining and creating special permits for spontaneous, community-organized dance events, flash mobs, and social dancing in public plazas.
The Militarization of the NYPD – The Colonial Garrison in the Urban Center
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MAMDANI: The Tourism Economy & Cultural Appropriation – The “Settler” Gaze and the Theming of Native Life
The Community Curator Role at Local Libraries – Hiring and training local residents as part-time curators to organize exhibitions, talks, and displays based on neighborhood history and culture.
The Community Guardian Training Academy (Not a Police Academy) – Creating a new city institution to train unarmed safety workers, crisis responders, and community stewards in de-escalation and care.
The Conflict Mediation Kiosk in High-Traffic Public Spaces – Installing staffed booths in parks and plazas where trained mediators are available to help resolve disputes on the spot.
The Climate Justice Curriculum Integrator – Weaving climate science, environmental racism, and just transition economics into every subject, from math to history to art.
The Comedy Cellar of the People Open Mic Initiative – Funding and supporting free, weekly open mic nights for stand-up comedy in community centers across the city to nurture local comic talent.
The Community Canary Early Warning System for Tension – Training and compensating community liaisons to identify and report rising social tensions before they erupt into violence.
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Lead in Public Housing – Somatic Violence as Bureaucratic Policy
MAMDANI: Complex Bureaucracy: The Customary Law of the Settler State – Designed Inefficiency as a Tool of Exclusion
