Category: Profiles of MRNY

IN THE NEWS 2011: January-March Digest

April 1, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

Highlights from this quarter at Make the Road New York: · In January, Mayor Bloomberg signed…

March 30, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

Reaching out to local small business owners, in particular those of District 26, was the purpose of Councilmember Jimmy Van…

March 28, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

They may not have called it the American Dream but for centuries people have gone to America in search of…

March 21, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

On Saturday March 5th, close to 1,000 low-income and working class New Yorkers from Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island came…

January 18, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may be remembered as a crusader for civil rights, but he was fighting a different…

January 2, 2011 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

Latinos continue to shape the Big Apple in big and small ways. Here are a few of the emerging leaders…

December 31, 2010 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

At the turn of the year, Make the Road New York (MRNY) won an extraordinary number of legislative achievements, thanks…

December 14, 2010 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

MRNY Member Augusto Fernandez speaks at the signing of the Wage Theft Prevention Act, with Assemblyman Heastie, MRNY Deputy Director…

December 8, 2010 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

Four Harvard Law School students and one recent graduate have been chosen to receive Skadden Fellowships to support their work…

December 1, 2010 12:00 am Published by admin Leave your thoughts

In 2010, in what may be our biggest victory ever,MRNY attorneys, organizers, and members conceived of, drafted and spearheaded a…