New Yorkers Fight to Aid Child Victims of Trump’s Family Separation Policy
Leave your thoughtsOn Thursday night, across the street from rows of garbage trucks parked under Metro-North train tracks, more than a hundred…
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Bushwick Residents March to Block New DeKalb Monolith
Leave your thoughtsFew intersections are more focal for Bushwick residents than the corner of Wyckoff and DeKalb avenues: There’s a post office…
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…
Immigrants Tell Trump: We Won’t Trade Our Freedoms
Leave your thoughtsMarchers seeking a “clean” renewal of the DREAM Act cross the Sunrise Highway en route to Congressman Peter King’s office…
My Existence Is Resistance
Leave your thoughtsAfter a sleepless night, Bianey García-D la O woke up on a recent rainy Sunday to begin what she would…
State Senator Calls de Blasio’s IDs for Undocumented Immigrants A “Terrorist Empowerment Act”
Leave your thoughtsEarlier this week, new mayor Bill de Blasio’s State of the City address set some pretty ambitious policy goals: he…
An Op-Ed by Brooklyn District Attorney Candidate Abe George: Stop Arresting New Yorkers for Carrying Condoms
Leave your thoughtsCarrying a condom in New York could lead to your arrest. Why? Because it is legal for law enforcement to…
Is New York on the Verge of Ending Its Condom Bait-and-Switch?
Leave your thoughtsOver 100 advocates, including public health groups, LGBTQ organizations [including Make the Road New York], civil and human rights nonprofits,…
Bloomberg to Pass New Law to Keep NYC the Most “Immigrant-Friendly” City in the U.S.
Leave your thoughtsToday Mayor Bloomberg will sign off on two hefty pieces of immigration legislation that will maintain New York’s reputation as…
Profiled by NYPD, Transgendered People in New York Fear Carrying Condoms
Leave your thoughtsThree years ago, Bianey Garcia was on 86th Street in Jackson Heights with her boyfriend. It was late at night,…