Immigrant business owners get little help from the city
Leave your thoughtsEsmeralda Valencia [member of Make the Road NY] was bewildered and angry. Sitting at a table in the small restaurant…
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Audiencia de LATFOR sobre proceso de redistribución distrital deja ver las preocupaciones de residentes de LI
Leave your thoughtsLa semana pasada tuvo lugar la única audiencia publica programada en Long Island para discutir los planes de redistribución distrital…
Hoy protestamos por amor a un sueño
Leave your thoughtsWilian Mejía es un estudiante de 18 años y miembro de Se Hace Camino NY. Cuando uno está creciendo te…
Students Lobby For Passage Of New York DREAM Act
Leave your thoughtsAbout a hundred students are heading up to the state capital today to advocate for the DREAM Act. The students,…
DREAMers descend on Albany to lobby for financial aid
Leave your thoughtsStudents from Brooklyn and Queens visited the Capitol today to lobby for the New York DREAM Act, legislation that would…
City kids lobby Albany lawmakers to pass state Dream Act
Leave your thoughtsHoping to put a face on the plight of undocumented college students, dozens of immigrant high school kids from the…
‘Mafia’ rige carritos de comida en Queens
Leave your thoughtsQueens – Una supuesta “mafia” de alquiler de licencias de carritos de alimentos tiene a trabajadores ambulantes hispanos laborando por…
Advocates for racial minorities say LI districts unfair
Leave your thoughtsMore than 25 organizations representing minorities held a meeting to analyze and discuss the impacts of the Legislative Task Force…
Undocumented immigrant youths launch action week aimed at passage of New York DREAM Act
Leave your thoughtsEverybody knows that dreamers never give up. And that’s true for the young, undocumented immigrant Dreamers who for 10 years…
Minorities Slam Revised Political Map
Leave your thoughtsSMITHTOWN, N.Y.—For decades, Long Island’s minority population has grown steadily, transforming the nation’s first suburbs from white, Republican bastions into…