City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Queens immigrants urge lawmakers to pass DREAM Act
Leave your thoughtsNew York State DREAM Act would help undocumented immigrants attend college with financial aid; issue takes center stage at Queens…
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Broadcast: Stop and Frisk Trial: Day 7
Leave your thoughtsThe Stop and Frisk trial continued in Federal District Court with testimony by the three police officers who stopped and…
Respondiendo al llamado
Leave your thoughtsLa semana pasada en estas páginas, la Editora de Noticia, Eliana López, escribió sobre la necesidad de cultivar latinos que…
Workers allege wage issues in Fire Island cleanup
Leave your thoughtsWorkers hired as part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to clean up post-Sandy storm debris on Fire…
Video: Fire Island cleanup crews protest pay
Leave your thoughtsFire Island cleanup crews [including members of Make the Road New York] protested their pay today. Many of the workers…
New eatery wage board in NYS budget bill
Leave your thoughtsWaiters, busboys and other food service workers who receive tips could potentially see their incomes rise under a last-minute deal…
Quinn Is Said to Be in Talks Over Sick Time
Leave your thoughtsHer stance on the issue has been loudly booed at public forums, picked over in newspaper editorials and derided at…
Immigration Reformers Keep Up Pressure on Senate
Leave your thoughtsAs the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight struggles to put together a legislative package for comprehensive immigration reform, the most…
Casa Blanca homenajea a 11 activistas de inmigración
Leave your thoughtsLa Casa Blanca homenajeó el martes a 11 activistas comunitarios dedicados a impulsar una reforma migratoria que resuelva la situación…
Call Sen. Schumer This Wednesday for Immigration Equality for LGBT
Leave your thoughtsImmigrants’ rights advocates on Long Island are asking everyone who believes in social justice to call Senator Chuck Schumer on…