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Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge towards Manhattan on Thursday, July 29 in protest against Arizona's SB 1070 Bill, NYCMA interns Maria Karagianni and Stacey E. Williams report.
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NewsU.S. to establish special anti-terrorism unit in BangladeshWith a $100 million grant proposal, the “707 Special Battalion for Counter Terrorism” will be trained and later supervised by U.S. authorities. more> Women immigrants accuse Family Court of discriminationA group of Latina, Asian, African-American and newly immigrated women allege that they have been discriminated against because of the color of their skin, when the court ruled in favor of their white boyfriends, granting them custody of their children. more> Blacks have vital role in reinstating non-citizen voting rights for New YorkersBlacks, women and working-class immigrants have traditionally spearheaded the battle to give non-citizen residents the right to vote. Now, advocates are urging Blacks to step up again and help push for the signing of the Voting Rights Restoration Act. more> Indian arrested in massive U.S. immigration fraudU.S. immigration authorities arrested Narendra Mandalapa, a South Asian Indian, for filing nearly 1,000 possibly fraudulent labor-based petitions for computer professionals from India and Pakistan. Assets worth over $5 million were seized. more> Chinese immigrants expected to send home $500 millionInstead of using legitimate banks, undocumented Fujianese immigrants simply entrust their money to friends or people from the same village who are going back. When large amounts of money are concerned, it is sent this way in order to avoid being monitored by the authorities. more> |
EditorialsIRS targeting the poor further proof of the feds’ pro-rich prioritiesRecently, Congress learned that the IRS, apparently having locked in on an easy target to prove that they are diligent guardians of Uncle Sam’s money, has frozen the tax refunds that some 1.6 million poor Americans were supposed to receive for the past five years. more> Health insurance providers take on benefits’ swindlersThere are up to 150 different fraudulent insurance plans and discount cards disguised as medical insurance, deceiving hundreds of thousands of people into paying for phony insurance. But legitimate insurance companies are now beginning to take on the phoneys. more> Briefs |
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NYCMA holds training workshop for ethnic media journalists on Elections 2010
New York: New York Community Media Alliance hosted the first of two workshops -- Elections 101: NYC, Albany and the Elections 2010 -- on Thursday, July 15 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.
Student Internship
NYCMA Launches Summer 2010 Ethnic Media Internship Program!
Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.
NYCMA is thrilled to announce the start of our summer internship program. We are able to place high school seniors with a passion for journalism in the real world of pad and pen. Students are given a rare insight and understanding into the power and function of New York's community media and the ability to hone writing skills in preparation for a career in journalism. This program is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.
NYCMA holds first Net Neutrality Conference for ethnic media, Announces Writing Challenge
Helen Brunner, Director of the Media Democracy Fund addressing the inaugural session of NYCMA Forum on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities. – Photo by Zooey Salazar
New York Community Media Alliance hosted its first conference on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities, Tuesday, June 8 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. In attendance were journalists from a range of publications as well as many communications justice activists – all who sought to expose the connections between communications policy and the everyday life of community members. The conference also focused on wireless services and how their policies affect communities.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein addressing NYCMA Fellows
Chancellor Klein explained the challenges the DOE faces in the current environment of budgetary cuts and answered journalists' questions as part of NYCMA's eight-month long Ethnic and Community Press Fellowship -- Developing an Education Beet-II on April 8. – Photo by A. Sherpa
FPI releases data about unemployment rates for New York City residents
Fiscal Policy Institute has released a fuller set of data, with detail on immigrant unemployment by gender, and comparing recent immigrants with those who have been here more than 10 years. This is a data release from the Fiscal Policy Institute that is not connected with a full report. For information to explain how to read this data and comment on what it means, please contact David Dyssegaard Kallick (212-721-7164, ddkallick@fiscalpolicy.org), or James Parrott (212-721-5624, parrott@fiscalpolicy.org)