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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.
newsWhen Brooklyn projects go down, what will go up?The New York City Housing Authority announced in February that after years of inaction, Prospect Plaza was now so deteriorated it needed to be torn down. It is the first time New York City is demolishing an entire high-rise public housing development. more> NY's Native Americans outraged over Bloomberg's 'cowboys and Indians' remarkThe remarks have drawn the ire of tribes in the New York State area and beyond, invoking stereotypical and offensive imagery and the use of violence against native people.
VIDEO :: Representatives of Native American Tribes and organizations call on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for his racially insensitive remarks. more> New Fujianese immigrant youths face struggles for arriving in America too youngMany Chinese teenagers are being smuggled to America. But, due to lack of life experience and limited venues for legal immigration, they are struggling and facing problems here. more> Illegal Filipino mom spared from deportationThanks to a new policy by the Obama Administration, it makes it easier for the illegals who are spouses and family members of Americans serving in the military to gain legal status. more> Mosque PerspectivesFinding a middle way: Is an Islamic center necessary at Ground Zero?
VIDEO :: Gwen Ifill gets three views from Rev. Welton Gaddy of Interfaith Alliance, Professor Abdullahi An-na'im, and Cynthia Mahmood a senior fellow at the University of Notre Dame on the controversy surrounding the construction of Islamic Center near Ground Zero. more> Let freedom ring
VIDEO :: Interfaith leaders met at a Muslim Center in Jamaica, Queens on Friday to express support for the controversial proposed mosque near the World Trade Center site. NY1 reports. more> |
editorialsA wave of anti-immigration xenophobiaAversion to illegal immigrants is intensified by discussions on repealing constitutional provisions that guarantee citizenship to every individual born in America, although politically speaking, the chances of overthrowing the 14th Amendment are very small. more> Hostility, classism, elitism, sexism in the treatment of Shirley Sherrod: Why it matters to all of American cultureThe source of hostility comes from the larger society, but sadly, too frequently they come from within our own community. more> Where’s the leadership?Pakistan's greatest flood disaster offers a unique window of opportunity to the international community, particularly the U.S. and other western powers, to make good on their claim of friendship with Pakistanis. Public opinion polls released by the PEW research institute revealed that a majority of Pakistanis consider the U.S. an enemy. more> “Conspiracy” against Alianza Dominicana and leadership silence in New YorkThe City of New York owes more than $2 million to Alianza Dominicana. There are 300 employees whose salaries are not being paid as a result of this debt. Not one political leader says anything? Where then is the leadership that they praise so much? more> briefsAdolfo Carrión: The mortgage crisis continues
VIDEO :: The president's HEMP plan did nothing to save the average or middle class Americans home, making the housing crisis worse. more> Community PoliticsA third party: The choice for African Americans and other marginalized groups
VIDEO :: Candidate Charles Barrron, City Councilman from Brooklyn, spoke with Capitol News Tonight. more> |
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NYCMA Announcements
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)