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Tuesday March 17, 2009

Cut Cake, Not Train Service

Boston - ACE-EJ holds bake sale for MBTA. View the video now.Read More >

Tuesday March 17, 2009

RTTC NYC Delivers a Message To Mayor Michael Bloomberg

New York City - RTTC NYC Delivers a Message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. View the video from their awesome protest!Read More >

Tuesday March 17, 2009

Protesting Bloomberg

New York City - First an ornery groundhog, now angry demonstrators; Mayor Bloomberg is finding it tough to catch a break this week. A grassroots coalition calling itself Right to the City-NY has claimed responsibility for disrupting the mayor's speech this afternoon at a lunch hosted at the Grand Hyatt by Crain's and business groups entitled "The Future of New York City."Read More >

Tuesday February 10, 2009

VICTORY for New On Sang Workers Campaign!

SF Bay Area - *VICTORY for New On Sang Workers and their fight to protect worker's rights!**Join CPA members and New On Sang workers on Sun, Feb. 22 afternoon, exact time TBA, for Celebration and Press Conference!On Sunday, Feb.Read More >

Friday February 06, 2009

NY state says sewage plant is a rotten neighbor

New York City - A sewage processing plant that nearby residents say produces a stench variously described as raw sewage, feces, manure and burning flesh was sued Thursday by the state attorney general.The odors emanating from the privately run New York Organic Fertilizer Co.Read More >

Thursday February 05, 2009

A tale of two commercial corridors

SF Bay Area - It was the best of times (for well connected developers on Mission Street and anti-formula retail activists on Valencia Street) and the worst of times (for folks interested in restoring the New Mission Theater as a true community serving institution, affordable housing advocates, and fans of good planning and clean governmentRead More >

Wednesday February 04, 2009

Assembly Passes Rent-Regulation Revisions Opposed by Landlords

New York City - The Legislature on Monday took the first step toward a sweeping revision of the state’s rent-regulation laws.The Democratic-led Assembly passed a broad package of legislation designed to restrain increases on rent-regulated apartments statewide.Read More >

Tuesday February 03, 2009

Temporary immigrants forge enduring ties

Boston - Gonlakpor Gonkpala was a bright-eyed college student from Liberia when he arrived in the United States in 1982. His stay was supposed to be temporary.But with a civil war raging in the West African nation, he and thousands of other expatriates were allowed to remain until it was safe to return home.Read More >

Thursday January 22, 2009

Activists call for platform affirming immigrants' dignity

Providence - A group of community activists yesterday "demanded that the Democratic Party of Rhode Island "honor its stated principles" by adopting a platform "in favor of the dignity and human rights of immigrants, regardless of immigration status."With the inauguration of our new president, a new era begins for the United StRead More >

Friday December 19, 2008

Gov. David Paterson has a promise to keep: Increase the basic welfare grant

New York City - Nearly lost in Gov.Read More >

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