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newsCommunity outraged at proposed NYPD use of youth center"It's absurd," said Councilman Charles Barron. "How are you going to take away youth services? The reason you need the police is because we have no youth services." more> Young veteran forgotten by the systemIraq War veteran Luis Ricardo Munroe feels used – he made a sacrifice for this country and now, when it has no more use for him, he's thrown out into the street with no support at all. more> A fresh education threatened in Bronx schoolFor South Bronx kids used to seeing chicken fried in a cardboard bucket, spending recess with 15 live hens is an unusual lesson. But with a funding shortfall of $1.5 million, the school and its environmental programs are in serious jeopardy. more> Korean community invests in hot Queens real estateEven while the bottom has fallen out of the entire U.S. housing market, Koreans in New York are increasingly interested in the redevelopment of Long Island City in Queens. more> Asian American women entrepreneurs cry foul play with NYC government contractsWhile Asian minority women business entrepreneurs actively bid for government contracts and participate in networking activities, they did not receive a single contract this year. VIDEO :: Florence Kong, President of Kwan Wo Iron Works, Inc. and President of the Asian American Contractors Association speaks with Sachi Koto in the National Council of Asian American Business Associations. more> Exploring the culture of eatingTen youth spent the summer exploring the culture of eating in a city where some of the most iconic foods are the half-smoke: an extra large sausage split down the middle and usually topped with chili, and something called mambo sauce, which looks like ketchup but more gelatinous. The youth also looked at the challenges of some communities' access to healthy, affordable food in their neighborhood. more> |
editorialsListen to LatinosLatino voters are closely following the healthcare debate but a substantial percentage of the community feel neglected by their representatives. Latinos are clear in their preference for a government insurance plan for those without access to coverage.
VIDEO :: In August, Al Jazeera English reported that the Hispanic population in the US has high hopes that a currently debated healthcare strategy will increase its access to affordable care. Today, one in every three Latino residents has no health insurance at all. more> Defending the undocumented?Poles who do not support immigration reform don't welcome the inflow of Latinos into the United States. One can say they are racist; someone else might argue that they fear for the economy. Whatever their reasoning, Polish Americans have turned their backs on undocumented immigrants, including their own. VIDEO :: Movie Trailer: TONY & JANINA'S AMERICAN WEDDING, is a feature length documentary that gets to the heart of the broken U.S. immigration system, when after 19 years in America, a Chicago family is torn apart, as Janina Wasilewski is deported back to Poland. more> Not only for ourselvesActs of service must be linked to learning about and working to change the conditions that brought about the need in the first place. It's not enough to serve food in the soup kitchen; we must confront the root causes of hunger and work toward addressing the greater need. more> briefsGun violence: outrage and tears in community VIDEO :: From California to Illinois to Georgia, protests against gun and youth violence, spear-headed by Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. more> Black male unemployment comparable to Great Depression according to economic expert
AUDIO :: NPR reported on Sunday that the unemployment rate for all African-Americans is about 50 percent higher than the nation as a whole — and even higher for African-American males. 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.
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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)