MRNY members deliver a message to lawmakers: Pharmacies without translation are dangerous.

On March 30, Governor Cuomo and the New York State legislature passed the landmark "SafeRx" legislation to ensure that all chain and mail order pharmacies statewide provide comprehensive translation and interpretation services for limited English proficient New Yorkers.

Now, all New Yorkers will get accurate information, in a language they can understand, about how to take their medications properly and safely.

This law is the first state law of its kind in the United States, and was orignially conveived of and advocated for by MRNY and our partner, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Safe Rx builds upon the City-level legislation requiring language access in chain pharmacies that we worked to pass in 2009, and culminates decades of work to improve language access in the healthcare setting.

Medication can be dangerous and it is essential that all New Yorkers are able to understand and follow their prescriptions. SafeRx makes fundamental improvements to ensure patient safety. Safe Rx:

1. Ensures Equal Access

2. Identifies Patients Who Need Help

3. Promotes Patient-Centered Prescription Labeling

Make the Road New York is proud to have worked closely with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Speaker Sheldon Silver, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, Senator Kemp Hannon, and Senator Tom Duane to protect the health of all New Yorkers!

MRNY youth rally to save NYC schools from closure and divestment

Last week, in a major youth-led victory, students at Bushwick Community High School (BCHS) successfully stood up for their school and saved it from a "reorganization" that would have been tantamount to closure.

BCHS was one of only two schools in a long citywide list that were spared the reorganization -- and it is largely because BCHS students got organized and made a powerful case to save an institution that, for many of them, is much more than just a school (...)

MRNY members march across the Brooklyn Bridge

On February 2, the New York Times published a powerful, heart-wrenching story of a young DREAMer (and MRNY member) named Antonio Alarcon.

In an op-ed, Antonio tells the story of his own family, describing how impossible economic circumstances forced his parents to abandon their home in the U.S. He speaks out against the destructive immigration policies spreading from state to state and ignorant calls from politicians for families to "self-deport."

Antonio is a brilliant young person, with a world of potential, but Congress' failure to pass the DREAM Act has left him with few options in this country.

New York has the opportunity right now to act where Congress won't, to help Antonio and hundreds of thousands of other young people to achieve a better future by giving them the means to go to college. New York State DREAM legislation is on the floor of the state legislature in Albany, waiting to move.

Sign this petition NOW to tell Governor Cuomo and the state legislature that you support the New York DREAM.