Youth, Advocates Stand with Speaker Quinn in Support of the Student Safety Act
Leave your thoughtsStudents and parents today joined New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the Student Safety Coalition at City…
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Family of Slain Ecuadorian Immigrant Fights Hate Crimes
Leave your thoughtsNEW YORK You dont have to be gay to be a victim of homophobia.The Sucuzhañay family knows this all…
Safety Agents Arrested Thousands Of Students Last Year
Leave your thoughtsThis week, a high school teacher sued the city, claiming that a rough schedule filled with rowdy freshman was going…
New Law Would Track Race of Suspended Students
Leave your thoughtsCITY HALL Officials worried that factors like race play a role in which students get suspended have proposed new…
Dream Act Still On Hold
Leave your thoughtsThousands of undocumented youth and their families nationwide celebrated the House of Representatives passage of the DREAM Act by a…
States Stand Up for Workers By Passing Wage Theft Protection Laws
Leave your thoughtsThis week, New York Governor David Paterson signed the Wage Theft Protection Act into law, ending a long grassroots and…
Sunnyside Worker Says His Wages Were Stolen
Leave your thoughtsAt a rally outside an Associated Supermarkets store in Sunnyside last Friday, Sergio Guzman,** a Latino immigrant, claimed he had…
Thousands of Students Arrested by Safety Agents Last Year Raises Parents Concerns
Leave your thoughtsMore than a thousand students were arrested by safety agents last school year, and nearly 300 were collared during just…
Paterson Signs Wage Theft Prevention Act
Leave your thoughtsLabor rights organizations and workers were celebrating, after the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) was signed into law by Governor…
Begging for Your Pay
Leave your thoughtsRomulo Saldana** was looking for work. It was 2001, and Saldana had moved to East Harlem from a small town…