DA Candidates Stake Out Positions on Sex Work Decriminalization
Leave your thoughtsJennifer Orellana, a transgender woman and former sex worker from Jackson Heights, asked six of the seven announced candidates for…
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JPMorgan Chase Stops Funding Private Prison Companies, and Immigration Activists Applaud
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant rights advocates and organizers protesting the Trump administration’s policies celebrated a victory this week after JPMorgan Chase & Company…
JPMorgan Chase Is Done With Private Prisons
Leave your thoughtsAfter years of targeted actions by everyday activists and concerned shareholders, JPMorgan Chase announced early this morning that they will…
Celebran la decisión de JPMorgan de poner fin a su relación con la industria de las cárceles
Leave your thoughtsNueva York, 5 mar (EFE).- La comunidad inmigrante de Nueva York celebra hoy la decisión de JPMorgan Chase, el mayor…
New York Sex Workers Are Working to Decriminalize Their Trade
Leave your thoughtsBianey García arrived in New York City from Mexico in January 2005, 14 years old, alone and without a warm…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez targets New York’s campaign finance laws
Leave your thoughtsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting involved in the state’s campaign finance laws, calling for limiting the influence of big donors.…
‘The Police Act Like We Are Nothing’
Leave your thoughtsA new coalition of people in the sex trades wants New York to become the first state to fully decriminalize…
New York Lawmakers Join Activists in Fight to Decriminalize Sex Work
Leave your thoughtsDecrim NY is a new coalition of sex workers, state lawmakers, and advocacy groups who want to make New York…
A Multimillion-Dollar Payday, at the Carwash
Leave your thoughtsWage-theft cases are notoriously hard to prove, and they almost never pay out. But for some of the most marginalized…
‘It’s persecution’: New York City delivery workers fight electric bike ban
Leave your thoughtsHermalindo Carrillo was out on his bike making a food delivery last winter when ice on the streets caused him…