Dignity, Community, and Power Awards Gala
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New York State School Suspension Moratorium
New York State students lose thousands of days in the classroom each year because of suspensions, often for normal youthful behavior. As all
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Bring the Repeal #WalkingWhileTrans Ban to a Vote!
Black and Brown women deserve to walk the streets safely without the fear of being stopped, frisked and arrested. We are calling Speaker Carl Heastie
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Excluded Workers Need Relief
The COVID-19 crisis is hitting immigrants and Black and Brown New Yorkers the hardest, but our communities are being left out of relief.
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Reclaim Our Homes: Rent/Mortgage Suspension Now!
Everyday the housing crisis related to COVID-19 crisis gets worse and worse. It is impacting tenants, homeless New Yorkers, public housing residents, and
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The COVID-19 crisis and New York’s staggering inequality leaves the most vulnerable communities in unfathomable conditions. Why in an unprecedented health crisis is Governor
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Tell Amazon: Give ALL Workers 100% Paid Leave NOW and Tell Us Your Plans
As COVID-19 spreads, Amazon is again failing to protect our health – as workers, neighbors, customers – by failing to offer every person
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New York State must fight back against corporate attacks on workers’ rights. Support the EmPIRE Act!
In New York, our communities have organized and won critical victories for workers, including a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, protections against
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New Yorkers are committed to participating in the 2020 Census!
Since 1790, the U.S. Constitution has mandated that every U.S. resident regardless of age, citizenship status, or ability to vote be counted every
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A Victory for DACA Recipients!
We are thrilled to share another victory for DACA recipients in our lawsuit, Batalla Vidal v. Wolf! A federal court rejected the Trump administration’s latest attack. Here’s the latest: In July, after the Supreme Court ruled in our favor, Chad Wolf, the purported Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, issued a memo which prohibited first-time DACA…
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Tomorrow – Celebrate with Make the Road NY!
The big night is almost here! We hope you’ll join us for the Dignity, Community, and Power Awards Gala this Thursday, November 12 at 6pm EST. Be sure to bookmark maketheroadny.org/gala, where the event will be livestreamed. We’ll get the party started with a DJ set at 5:45pm, and kick the program off at 6pm.…
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Did you know Zoom has an interpretation feature?
Did you know that it’s easy to provide simultaneous interpretation in Zoom meetings? This makes meetings accessible for people who speak languages other than English, without making the meetings longer. This is a great feature for schools, community organizations, non-profits, and any other institution that uses video calls and wants to include people who speak…
Axios
Chad Wolf has not been serving lawfully as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, and therefore his suspension of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is invalid, a federal judge ruled on Saturday. Driving the news: Wolf issued a memo in late July that said DHS would no longer accept new DACA applications and would limit renewals,…
Democracy Now
In a victory for young undocumented people, DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, has been restored to near-full operation, after another federal judge ruled acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf was not appointed to serve in his role, and therefore did not have the authority to issue restrictions on the program. Javier Valdés of Make…
Gothamist
The NYPD has settled a lawsuit with a transgender woman who accused Bronx police officers of discrimination and harassment, closing one small chapter in a long-strained relationship between the police and the transgender community. As part of the settlement, the NYPD will redistribute existing guidance on the rights of transgender people to the entire department…