Our newsletter this week features an in-depth article on the status of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The fate of tens of thousands of young DACA recipients here in New York is at stake as legislative and judicial wrangling continues, and real lives are upended by uncertainty and the threat of deportation. Read More
In this newsletter, we celebrate a season of debt relief for taxi workers—the triumphant result of years of resolute organizing, sacrifice, and deep solidarity. And we challenge the revival of austerity politics, which aims to keep us frozen in a winter of injustice and income inequality. Read More
This week, our update on the latest twist in revisions to NY City Council district maps and a brief comparison of immigration courts in New York and Florida, in what some officials have called the “human trafficking” of migrants by Florida’s governor. Read More
We return to the deeply local and global story of migrants being bused from Texas, Arizona, and Florida to northern sanctuary cities. Led by grassroots immigrant justice groups, New York City struggles to respond to the immediate needs of thousands of new arrivals. Read More
We bring you a local story of one immigrant family’s successful struggle to stay together. Then we get behind the recent headlines about busloads of migrants landing in NYC. Sent by Republican governors hungry for a media spectacle. Read More
We bring you two stories this week that are especially close to our heart—the controversy over school funding, which affects nearly a million working-class children and teens in NYC; and the work of immigrant artists representing the everyday worlds of migration, resistance, and strength. Read More
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