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Social justice food truck to promote bail reform in New York City

May 7, 2018

Drive Change, a social justice organization that delivers its message with the help of a food truck serving locally sourced food, is kicking off an initiative called Awareness and Access Days, beginning May 11, to promote bail reform and educate needy New Yorkers about places where they can find healthy, locally sourced food, according to AMNewYork.

Drive Change provides direct assistance to help formerly incarcerated adults gain the skills they need to obtain employment in the culinary arts industry.

The organization looks to challenge the community to reimagine how the state's bail system works with a call-to-action event that goes beyond a simple food truck with a petition to sign. 

Rolling into Union Square in New York City around noon on May 11, Drive Change will hand out food to people and ask them to consider how the bail system affects low-income New Yorkers. DJ Moma of Everyday People will provide entertainment. 

Later this year, Drive Change will highlight the need to close the Riker's Island jail complex, and call attention to the poor state of food within New York jails, the report said.