With little funding and disagreements among the managers, the Colombian Civic Center (CCC) is having a hard time organizing the Colombian Independence Day festival scheduled for July 24. The festival has taken place for the last 25 years in Flushing Meadows Park. more>

The fate of several homeless day laborers, arrested by a police operation for which no department has taken responsibility, has still not been determined or solved. more>

Workers – the majority of them women – accompanied by political and community leaders – marched down Brooklyn’s Knickerboker Avenue, known as the “Street of Shame,” to demand to be paid what is mandated by law, $6.00 an hour. more>

Clad in hoods, with faces partially obscured, four Latino NYPD officers announced yesterday that they and others have been the victims of discrimination and harassment on the job at the hands of Sergeant Michael Patrone. more>