Lawsuit: Islip Town’s voting system blocks Latinos
Leave your thoughtsA group of Latino residents and advocacy groups is suing Islip Town, claiming the system of electing the town board…
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Lawsuit Says Voting System in Long Island Town Shuts Out Latinos
Leave your thoughtsFor Maria Hernandez, the chief problem in Brentwood, her Long Island hometown, has always been the streets and their state…
Long Islanders protest Trump immigration policy
Leave your thoughtsLong Island religious leaders and pediatricians gathered in Huntington on Thursday to protest the practice of children being separated from…
Activistas: La retórica deshumanizante de Trump no es bienvenida en Nueva York
Leave your thoughtsNUEVA YORK.- Apostados ante el edificio de la Legislatura del condado de Nassau en Mineola, Long Island, defensores de los…
Immigrant and civil rights advocates protest Trump visit
Leave your thoughtsLong Island immigrant advocates rallied a day ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Bethpage to say they do…
Caen dos empleadores por robo de salario a hispanos en Long Island
Leave your thoughtsEran dueños de plantas de procesadoras de carne. Falsificaban los registros de nómina para no pagar lo justo a los…
Hearing on raising minimum wage for tipped workers draws 500
Leave your thoughtsAbout 500 people attended a contentious, day-long hearing in Farmingdale on Friday about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to raise…
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.
Meet the Salvadoran New Yorkers Trump Wants to Deport
Leave your thoughtsWhen the Trump administration announced in January that nearly 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States would lose their immigration status in…
From School Suspension to Immigrant Detention [excerpt]
Leave your thoughtsAs the Long Island murders made national news, the suburban community became an emblem of what legislators called a gang “epidemic”…