If you’re looking for an amazing project to volunteer your time with, you should check out the Street Vendor Project. Latino street vendors make up the core of street vendors across the nation.  Their services bring in almost $1.3 million dollars in increased revenue.  Yet, what we don’t see as we wait in line for […]

  NY Dreamers and Religious Leaders Launch Faith-Led DREAM Solidarity Initiative, Joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jose A. Vargas September 15, 2011 (New York, NY). Today, faith leaders, joined by Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and founder of Define American, and other DREAMers, launched a statewide initiative called, “New York State Congregations in solidarity […]

Ending Domestic Violence Requires Holding Police Accountable by ACLU  by Evelyn Atkinson and Sandra S. Park, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Are restraining orders just pieces of paper, or must the police take action when they are violated? This is the question raised by Valdez v. City of New York, a case challenging the failure of […]

After the commotion surrounding the passage of Arizona’s SB-1070 and the success by grassroots and civil rights organizations to enjoin the legislation from taking its full effect, we are still seeing the spread of “SB-1070”-type legislation all over the country. Point in case: Alabama. A couple days ago Alabama passed, what an NYT editorial called: […]