We are thrilled to announce that @newmarkjschool has received a $10 million gift to kick off a campaign to become tuition-free by 2026 — the school’s 20th anniversary. The donation comes from @CraigNewmark Philanthropies. (1/5)
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Six immigrant women formed the city's first storefront laundromat union with the help of @LWC_workers.
Their company hired a "Union Avoidance" consultant to dissuade them and fired them anyway.
Read all about it in my latest for @Documentedny
https://t.co/WFfFiOGw8Y
Thread: I didn’t go to Harvard. I didn’t go to Columbia J School. I went to Brooklyn College which is a great city school but maybe not what many think it takes to get into the building on 620 8th Avenue. The New York Times building. I didn’t grow up rich. I grew up in the hood.
“We don’t work as a hobby, we work to make a living but they don’t even want to give us the basic things to keep us safe. The abuse is real. They are taking advantage of our undocumented status.”
My latest for @Documentedny
https://t.co/uLnBSvdfDB
I haven't ever really had this happen to me before, but have any of you ever gotten to your laptop and been like "I cannot do journalism today" or just been really frustrated? How do you combat this? And please don't say coffee because I already had four cups
CURRENTLY: Delivery workers and indigenous people from Latin America are gathered at Union Square. It’s the 1st Indigenous People’s Assembly. They are calling for language justice, delivery worker protections and taxing the rich.
I’ve struggled lately, feeling like I didn’t accomplish enough or do simply enough this year.
If you’re reading this, you’ve made it this far, and that alone is worth taking pride in. Nothing that happened this year was normal, and simply making getting through it all is enough.
BREAKING: VICTORY in the courts for #DACA! Today the Eastern District of New York ruled in our case with @MaketheRoadNY and @WiracYls to undo the harm of the Trump administration’s latest attacks on DACA. Here’s what you need to know 👇
When @THECITYNY tracked down the addresses of the nearly 1,800 people in the MISSING THEM database, it revealed clusters of deaths among people who lived near the Cross Bronx Expressway. Data backs the findings. https://t.co/Ir610pHIwU
Nemo and Mickey, @NYCHousing's bedbug-sniffing beagles, are getting older and inching toward retirement.
Now, the agency is searching for the next generation.
https://t.co/Im0A8wGuWh