Continuing news coverage of women and immigration.
FPI data about NYC employment gap
NewsEdgy effort to redirect Jewish political debateHip Jewish Web sites with strong appeal to younger Jews will be surveyed on domestic issues. The goal is to start creating networks of young activists who believe the traditional Jewish organizations do not represent their interests. The responses will be handed to all presidential campaigns to encourage a broader discussion. more> MTA sued for racial discrimination"Shoot the Hispanic target" was the title of an email sent by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) boss to other supervisors at the agency. The message consisted of a video of two agents at a police practice firing range. Laughing uproariously, one of the agents fires while he shouts an obscene word in Spanish. more>
NY entrepreneurs support immigration reformAlthough New York is still far from developing a common front of entrepreneurs and business owners who advocate for the undocumented – at least not at the pace it is happening in the rest of the country – there is among New York business people the spirit and the will to demand immigrants' legal participation as an important force in the economy of the Big Apple and the nation. more> High demand for illegal Chinatown apartmentsA Chinese real estate agent said that the proliferation of illegal subdivisions of Chinatown apartments has everything to do with high demand. Chinatown is considered to be the center for most Fujianese immigrants in the United States. Many of them, especially those who live in other states, see New York’s Chinatown as the focal point of businesses. more> Labor federation declares nation’s workplace unsafeAccording to the AFL-CIO study, there were 5,734 fatal workplace injuries with significant increases in fatalities among African-American, Latinos, foreign-born and young workers in 2005. more> |
EditorialsSuffering from immigrant schizophreniaThere was an interesting moment during an episode of The Sopranos a few weeks back. One character recalled that his immigrant ancestors came from Italy into the United States by way of Canada. He paused, then added, “They should build a wall these days, though.” This is a stark example of what you might call immigration schizophrenia: a profound confusion when it comes to one’s personal ethnic history and immigration in general. more> City’s weird water logicTo penalize rate payers for being conservation-minded, the author said, rates for homeowners and landlords will rise by 11.5 percent in July, and the Board projects similar increases for next year and the year after. more> My escape from high school“That doesn’t mean things are hopeless for all the other bored high school students out there. I think the most important thing that I did was decide to take control of my education and my future. Anyone who puts their mind to it can change their attitude,” the author said. more> Briefs |
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(From L to R) Eric Schneiderman, Eric Dinallo, David Mark Greaves, Richard Brodsky and Sean Coffey at the election debate organized by NYCMA on September 2nd. Photo by Hana Kim
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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.
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 InternshipNYCMA 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 residentsFiscal 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)
