A Covid Epicenter Hustles Back to Life: ‘What You See, It’s Survival’
Leave your thoughtsAt Make the Road New York, a community organization, about 600 people still collect food each week at their Jackson…
Category: COVID-19
The Struggle to Improve Vaccination Rates Among Latinos in New York
Leave your thoughtsMembers of the city’s undocumented community faced even greater obstacles. Rebecca Telzak, the deputy director of the immigrant-advocacy group Make…
Mutual Aid Efforts Are Working to Fill the Gaps of Biden’s COVID Response
Leave your thoughtsNorCal Resist is just one of many organizations running stimulus check redistribution campaigns around the country, from California’s UndocuFund to New Mexico’s Santa…
AOC launches effort to increase vaccinations in Corona with Spanish-language video series
Leave your thoughtsIn order to encourage community members in Corona to get their COVID-19 shot, Queens/Bronx Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has launched an…
Queens COVID-19 Center of Excellence to treat recovering patients opens in Jackson Heights
Leave your thoughtsA COVID-19 Center of Excellence, a community health clinic that will provide comprehensive short- and long-term care for recovering COVID…
Exigen a Cuomo paquete de ayuda para inmigrantes excluidos de alivios del COVID-19 en Nueva York
Leave your thoughtsFalta poco para que se cumpla el primer año del arribo de la pandemia del COVID-19 a la Gran Manzana que hasta ahora ha…
Proof-of-Work Requirements May Keep Eligible Immigrant Workers From Vaccines, Advocates Worry
Leave your thoughtsLast week, New York expanded the categories of workers who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, which now includes…
Queens lawmaker joins organizers to end tax breaks for wealthiest New Yorkers
Leave your thoughtsAssemblyman Ron Kim joined statewide elected officials, grassroots organizations and advocates on Tuesday, Jan. 5, outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s…
Progressive groups unite to focus on taxing the wealthy
Leave your thoughtsWith New York anticipating a multi-billion-dollar deficit for years to come, progressive groups are uniting in their efforts to convince…
New Coalition Urges Cuomo to Raise Taxes on Wealthy
Leave your thoughtsChants of “Tax the Rich” bellowed from those who gathered in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office as a new…