Disparate groups make last minute budget pleas in Capitol demonstration
Leave your thoughtsA wide array of advocacy groups – asking for everything from affordable housing to the DREAM Act and workers rights…
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Dozens arrested at permitless Governor One Percent rally
Leave your thoughtsDozens of people have been arrested so far at a protest outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, with others out in…
59 Arrested at Capitol as Budget Talks Continue
Leave your thoughtsGovernor Cuomo and legislative leaders continue to meet behind closed doors to hash out a budget deal, while outside the…
Video:Occupy groups protest at State Capitol
Leave your thoughtsThat was just one of the chants Occupy Albany protesters were shouting outside Governor Cuomo’s office Thursday. More than 100…
Cuomo gets protests from the left, right in Albany
Leave your thoughtsWithin two days, religious conservatives and social liberals mounted separate protests outside Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Capitol office. Such protests…
Video: Políticos y activistas latinos buscan rescatar a la “Ley de Sueño”
Leave your thoughtsMientras un grupo de legisladores y activistas intenta resucitar la conocida como “Ley de Sueño” muchos aún se preguntan por…
NYC Housing Court Goes on Trial
Leave your thoughtsA consortium of tenant advocacy organizations held a mock trial of the Brooklyn Housing Court on Thursday in Brooklyn Borough…
Worker Advocates, DOL At Odds Over Wage Theft
Leave your thoughtsDespite having thousands of unresolved cases of proported wage theft on its hands, the Department of Labor [DOL] says it…
Fast Food Advocates Rally Against Wage Theft As Schneiderman Announces McDonalds Settlement
Leave your thoughtsOn the same day protesters gathered at McDonald’s restaurants nationwide to accuse the fast food giant of “wage theft,” New…
FAST-FOOD PROTESTS SHIFT FOCUS TO ‘WAGE THEFT’
Leave your thoughtsOrganizers of the fast-food protests for higher pay on Tuesday shifted their attention to another issue: “wage theft.” Protesters planned…