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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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Tomasz Deptula, Editor of Nowy Dziennik/Polish Daily News, is the guest editor and Sharan Harper is the Multi-media Associate Editor of this issue
newsCall to action against inner-city violence"It's no surprise that youth violence has spiked just as New York City feels the full effect of a historic recession and tries to cope with terrible levels of unemployment in our African-American and Latino communities," assessed Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer.
VIDEO :: Rapper T.I. presents his K.I.N.G. Foundation at Anti-Gun Rally in Harlem, with Rev. Al Sharpton. more> Should we be done with bi-lingual education?Last year, Raymond's long career as an educator came to an abrupt end when Department of Education officials decided to do away with the automatic assignment of students with limited English skills to a bilingual program.
VIDEO :: Professor A. Picciano of Hunter College provides a brief history of bilingual education in America. more> Protections sought for foreclosed-upon rentersThe worst is yet to come for apartment buildings with too much debt. What will that mean for tens of thousands of tenants?
VIDEO :: NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn along with Council Members Gail Brewer, Robert Jackson, Dan Garodnick and Miguel Martinez joined together with tenants and various associations spoke out. more> A Father's fight to save his job: Stella D'oro strike"It's very hard when you go home and your wife asks every day, 'what happened?'" Torres said. "This company knows what they are doing. In the end, they make the community more poor. They are destroying lives. They are destroying families."
VIDEO :: Striking Stella D'Oro workers face the bakeries owners at the National Labor Relations Board on May 13, 2009. more> |
editorialsEight misconceptions about undocumented immigrantsThe conservative-leaning population of the United States that relentlessly criticizes undocumented immigrants often defends itself with arguments that have absolutely no basis in reality. more> Are Black elected representatives an endangered species?Ask any Black Democrats who sits in the New York State Senate about the chamber's portrayal in the media and the answer is simple enough: biased and without merit. more> briefsVets’ children visas stepped up
VIDEO :: Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) Speaks in support of H.R. 760, the Filipino Veterans Equity Act. more> |
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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)