Christie tackles immigration question at conference
Leave your thoughtsFor the second time in less than a week, Governor Christie on Tuesday used a question about immigration to draw…
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Adams, Reynoso Stand With Make The Road New York
Leave your thoughtsBrooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Bushwick City Councilman Antonio Reynoso today joined with the grassroots organization Make the Road…
Make The Road is Marching Today Against Bushwicks Luxury Development Colony 1209
Leave your thoughtsIt comes as no surprise that Bushwick residents aren’t exactly in love with the luxury apartment building, Colony 1209 at…
Access to Condoms: Partial Win in 2015 Budget
Leave your thoughtsAt the conclusion of a highly-contested budget season few advocates are claiming victories. Fair wage activists, ethics watchdogs and DREAMers,…
Neoyorquinos piden políticas verdes
Leave your thoughtsA tres años del huracán Sandy, la puertorriqueña Raquel Rivera sigue sufriendo los estragos de la catástrofe luego de perderlo…
The Makings of a Fast-Food-Worker Movement
Leave your thoughtsEven though Roderick Livingston works at Taco Bell and McDonald’s, he still goes hungry. For much of the last two…
Activists urge City Council to drop plan to hire 1,000 NYPD cops
Leave your thoughtsNearly 60 progressive groups urged the City Council Thursday to drop its plan for 1,000 new cops. Communities United for…
Hoping for reform, talk explores details
Leave your thoughtsLast Wednesday evening, residents, elected officials and advocates gathered in Jackson Heights to talk about a topic close to the…
Mixed response to Cuomo’s minimum wage comments
Leave your thoughtsGovernor Andrew Cuomo’s comments about the non-urgency of increasing the state’s minimum wage drew a mixed response from advocates and…
Video: Fast-food strikes widen into social-justice movement
Leave your thoughtsLow-wage workers — and their sympathizers — had their say coast to coast on Wednesday. Thousands of workers and protesters…