LATINO COMMUNITY MEMBERS DECLARE, “WE DESERVE TO BREATHE!”
Leave your thoughtsFor Immediate Release Hospital, Elected Officials and Advocates Release Report Linking Severe Asthma Epidemic in Bushwick to Poor Housing Conditions and Lack…
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Asthma’s infesting Bushwick
Leave your thoughtsRampant rat, mouse and cockroach infestations in Bushwick apartments cause asthma rates to be four times higher than the city…
Study Links Poor Housing, Asthma Attacks
Leave your thoughtsWhen Gloria Reyes’s heat shut off on a freezing night last week, a burning sensation flared in her lungs. Her…
Inmigrantes desafían veto de Bloomberg
Leave your thoughtsNueva York El alcalde vetó una ley que forzaría a su Administración a ampliar los servicios de traducción en…
Translation Bill Nixed
Leave your thoughtsOn Friday, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the Education Equity Act, a hotly contested bill that would provide translation services to parents…
Mike Veto Doesn’t Translate: Activists
Leave your thoughtsAdvocates for immigrants scolded Mayor Bloomberg yesterday for vetoing a bill to increase translation services for non-English-speaking parents of public…
What’s Mike Got Against Ed Equity?
Leave your thoughtsThousands of immigrant parents of public schools students in the city cannot get effectively involved in their children’s education. Often…
Inmigrantes: Bloomberg Abre Las Escuelas
Leave your thoughtsNueva York En noviembre, la mexicana María Lozano acudió a una cita con una trabajadora social en el instituto…
Mayor pressed on School Translation Bill
Leave your thoughtsMayor Bloomberg is on a collision course with the City Council over a recently passed bill to increase translation services…