The lag in Latino political representation
Leave your thoughtsRecent years have seen only slight improvement in the number of Latino elected officials. Instead of a “blue wave” or…
Category: Civic Engagement & Voter Power
Esta es la hora límite para registrarse para votar
Leave your thoughtsHace un mes más de 1.5 millones de personas salieron a votar en las elecciones primarias en Nueva York. Aunque…
Local advocates focus on push to register minority, immigrant voters
Leave your thoughtsJust hours after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. citizen at the Alfonse D’Amato U.S. Courthouse in Central…
National Voter Registration Day: Get your questions answered and sign up to vote!
Leave your thoughtsNEW YORK (WABC) –WABC-TV, Hispanic Federation and Univision are joining forces to raise awareness about the upcoming National Voter Registration…
Inmigrantes en NY ven el voto como arma de defensa contra atropellos de Trump
Leave your thoughtsNuevos ciudadanos y jóvenes nacidos en NYC que votarán en las primarias, aseguran que los comicios son una manera de…
“Soñadores” muestran su poder activando votantes para las elecciones
Leave your thoughtsEl próximo 13 de septiembre se llevarán a cabo las elecciones primarias para elegir a los legisladores estatales que desde…
Lawsuit reveals flawed census citizenship question
Leave your thoughtsThe decision to include a specific question on citizenship on the upcoming 2020 Census is a controversial one, long suspected…
Judge allows lawsuit against Trump’s census citizenship question to proceed
Leave your thoughtsA federal district court judge on Thursday denied a request from the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its decision to…
Opinión: Las Familias Trabajadoras Necesitamos que Repares el MTA, no Reparaciones Cosméticas
Leave your thoughtsLa semana pasada, la Junta directiva de la Autoridad Metropolitana de Transporte, conocida como MTA por sus siglas en inglés,…
Long Islanders Reject Proposed Census Citizenship Question
Leave your thoughtsWe are community and labor organizations across Long Island who represent tens of thousands of working-class New Yorkers and care deeply about making sure that every Long Islander is counted in the upcoming decennial census. We write to urge you to reject the reckless request by the Department of Justice to add a new citizenship question to the 2020 Census. This unwise, and frankly dangerous, request would threaten the prospect of an accurate count across our state and the country, and it would fly in the face of years of research.