Continuing news coverage of women and immigration.
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.
newsHelping Brooklyn vendors and residents cope with earthquake traumaA mobile trauma unit was dispatched to help Flatbush Avenue's Caribbean store owners – Haitian, Jamaican, Guyanese, Trinidadian, Grenadian and other West Indian vendors – who were left traumatized by the tragic events in the Caribbean country. more> City won’t vouch for them: No solution for the unhousedIt's been over a month since Shemika Billups learned the New York City Housing Authority would not honor the Section 8 voucher it awarded her last autumn. The voucher, which should have gotten Billings out of a homeless shelter by subsidizing her ability to pay rent on an apartment, was withdrawn by the authority after it realized it couldn't fund the voucher for her – or more than 2,000 others. State cuts leave pharmacies strugglingRecent NY state budget cuts threaten the financial sustainability of many independent Arab-American pharmacies, and deprive their communities of the local pharmacist, whose role goes beyond dispensing medicines. more> Worried about losing SSI benefits, Korean seniors cancel travel to home countryStricter rules for keeping the Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which helps seniors to pay for food and a roof over their heads, have provoked much fear and worry for Korean-American elders. more> Immigration debate prompts growing Jewish-Latino tiesThe Jewish-Latino alliance on immigration issues builds on the heritage and experience of the Jewish community and on the enthusiasm and urgent needs of the Hispanic community. more> Several Indians on H-1B deported on arrivalReversing a standard practice of work-sponsored immigrants working at client sites, a new ruling bans such activity and has over-zealous airport security deporting legal immigrants on site. more> |
editorialsNo need to run for the hillsDuring his State of the Union, President Obama mentioned "fixing our broken immigration system" but did not include how reform would generate $1.5 trillion, and finally give immigrant workers and their families a sense of security. more> Supreme Court decision complicates Black PowerThe Supreme Court, in its recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, may have complicated the growth of Black elected officials by their 5-4 conservative majority giving corporations carte blanche authority to directly spend money in elections. more> Murphy takes the soupCongressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) is a disgrace to his Irish roots. Last week, he was one of just nine Democrats who voted to never allow "amnesty" for undocumented persons in America. more> briefsTwo city districts top nation’s food-starved
VIDEO :: NY1 reports that two of New York City's Congressional districts top the list of food starved areas in the nation. more> |
FPI releases detailed data Immigrants' contribution to New York metro economy
David Kallick of Fiscal Policy Institute releasing data about immigrants contribution to NY economy at a press breifing organized by NYCMA in collaboration SEIU 32BJ on January 21st, 2010. Photo by Mohsin Zaheer
NY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli tells ethnic mediaNew York's budgetary challenges to persist
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli addressing the ethnic and community media at the open house organized by New York Community Media Alliance. – Photo by Mohsin Zaheer
Ippies Awards 2009 Full House at Ippies Awards 2009
Net Neutrality 
NYCMA takes a stand on net neutrality at City Council Hearing held on 11/20/2009 (Read full text)
Read Blog: Net Neutrality & Social Justice for NYC's Immigrant Communities Health care briefing for ethnic media: Immigrants have a huge stake in reform
New York Immigration Coalition Executive Director Chung-Wha Hong addressing members of ethnic media at the briefing. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz
New York needs new direction, new leadership, says Bill Thompson
Democratic candidate for Office of New York City Mayor, Comptroller Bill Thompson addressing New York's ethnic and community media at a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance on October 26. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz
Equal opportunity, equal protection to NYC’s communities, Councilman Liu promises ethnic/community media 
John Liu addressing New York's ethnic and community media at a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance on October 27. -- Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz
We need more immigrants, not less, Bloomberg tells ethnic, community media
Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressng a press conference organized by New York Community Media Alliance for the city's ethnic and community media on October 8 at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown. – Photo by Aleksandra Slabisz
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