Striking, starving workers have feet washed by pols outside Cuomo’s Manhattan office on Holy Thursday
Leave your thoughtsFollowing a Holy Thursday custom, elected officials in Manhattan washed the feet of several workers engaged in a hunger strike…
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‘Fast for the forgotten:’ Workers in Manhattan go on hunger strike for more state aid
Leave your thoughtsWorkers excluded from the state’s pandemic relief programs are demanding funding from Albany — and going on a hunger strike…
Protest at Manhattan apartment of Amazon’s CEO focuses on worker safety and health
Leave your thoughtsA protest at a Manhattan apartment owned by Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos Wednesday afternoon sought to highlight safety concerns at…
Protesters call on Cuomo to support billionaires tax while highlighting food insecurity in Black and immigrant communities
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant families set up a long lunch table in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office this afternoon, but with…
Queens rallygoers urge Cuomo to tax billionaires to save low-income communities
Leave your thoughtsAfter Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would not sign a bill that Queens state Senator Jessica Ramos sponsored to place…
City’s own health care system expands to Brooklyn and Staten Island
Leave your thoughtsNYC Care, the de Blasio administration’s answer to universal health care for New Yorkers, became available to Brooklyn and Staten…
Fear of losing Federal money and reps, Mayor pushes city to complete census
Leave your thoughtsMayor Bill de Blasio brought together people from all ethnic and religious background in a call to complete the census…
Migrant children still in NYC to get free legal assistance
Leave your thoughtsThe city has set aside $4.1 million to provide additional legal assistance for migrant children, both unaccompanied kids and separated…
‘ICE OUT’ poster campaign aims to slow unlawful immigration raids
Leave your thoughtsPosters declaring that ICE agents need a warrant to enter will be popping up on buildings around the city, and…
Family of detained deliveryman Pablo Villavicencio rally for his release from ICE detention
Leave your thoughtsThe wife of an immigrant deliveryman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while delivering pizza to Fort…