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Thursday September 10, 2009

NYC Council Candidates Get FIERCE

New York City - In an August 28 Friday Forum hosted by FIERCE, a Chelsea-based advocacy group for LGBTQ youth of color, District 3 City Council candidate Yetta Kurland repeatedly signaled her personal identification with the struggles those young people face.Read More >

Thursday September 10, 2009

Victory Rx for Healthy NY

New York City - Just months after winning landmark civil rights complaints against New York State’s largest pharmacy chains requiring comprehensive new translation and interpretation services at close to 3000 pharmacies statewide, Make the Road New York has catalyzed the passage of City legislation requiring similar services at all chain pharmaciesRead More >

Wednesday August 05, 2009

Homeless New Yorkers Occupy Vacant Lot, Create Tent City, Demand Change

New York City - On Thursday, July 23 at 11am, members of Picture the Homeless and their allies orchestrated a spirited occupation of a warehoused (vacant) property, currently owned by the firm JPMorgan Chase, a recent beneficiary of billions in taxpayer bailout money.Read More >

Wednesday August 05, 2009

Landmark HIV/AIDS Affordable Housing Bill Passes NY Senate

New York City - Bill Would Create An Affordable Housing Protection For 11,000 Low-Income People With AIDS At Risk Of Eviction; Advocates Look to Assembly and Governor Paterson to Approve It,Read More >

Tuesday April 07, 2009

Queer Youth Of Color 'Fenced Out' in NYC

New York City - Fenced Out (Video Clip) Fenced OUT documents the struggle of LGBTSTQ youth of color to save the Christopher Street pier and the West Village from re-development and gentrification. While researching the history of the pier, FIERCE! members discovered past generations of queer peoples' fight for use of public spaces at Christopher Street and the piers. Watch it now.Read More >

Monday April 06, 2009

Make The Road NY's 2nd Annual Community Assembly a Success

New York City - On March 7 close to 1,000 low-income, mostly Latino, New Yorkers from Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island gathered together for MRNY's Second Annual Member Assembly. It was a very spirited affair.Read More >

Friday March 27, 2009

Voice of the Young People

New York City - LS, a member of FIERCE, discusses why he is working hard to get a 24 hour LGBTQ Youth Center built on Pier 40 in Manhattan. FIERCE's Our SPOT campaign works to redevelop the pier with the community's needs as priority. Listen to the public service announcement now!Read More >

Tuesday March 17, 2009

RTTC NYC Delivers a Message To Mayor Michael Bloomberg

New York City - RTTC NYC Delivers a Message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. View the video from their awesome protest!Read More >

Tuesday March 17, 2009

Protesting Bloomberg

New York City - First an ornery groundhog, now angry demonstrators; Mayor Bloomberg is finding it tough to catch a break this week. A grassroots coalition calling itself Right to the City-NY has claimed responsibility for disrupting the mayor's speech this afternoon at a lunch hosted at the Grand Hyatt by Crain's and business groups entitled "The Future of New York City."Read More >

Friday February 06, 2009

NY state says sewage plant is a rotten neighbor

New York City - A sewage processing plant that nearby residents say produces a stench variously described as raw sewage, feces, manure and burning flesh was sued Thursday by the state attorney general.The odors emanating from the privately run New York Organic Fertilizer Co.Read More >

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