Easter protesters demand Cuomo OK aid to ‘excluded workers’

Dozens of New Yorkers and politicians gathered outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Midtown Manhattan office Sunday for an Easter “service” to demand he approve a $3.5 billion fund for “excluded workers” not reached by benefits during the pandemic.

In a flower-adorned spectacle that included communion to mark the holiday, the protesters called on Cuomo to support workers who labored during the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic but are unable to claim economic aid — including undocumented immigrants. “At the beginning of the pandemic, Andrew Cuomo made some decisions,” New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams told the crowd at the event, organized by immigrant-advocacy group Make the Road New York. “He said that black and brown people, primarily, had to go to work. They were essential, they’re important. They had to go to work. They had no choice.