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The Queens Center Mall is one of the most profitable malls in the country. Yet, as the Queens Center Mall Coalitionâs December report revealed, the Macerich Company receives over $100 million in tax breaks but most of the 3,100 jobs at the mall pay at or around the $7.25 federal minimum wage and do not include health benefits. As a result, the study found the mall has helped create an entire community that is struggling under the weight of poverty-wage jobs. "Even during the current economic downturn, while other malls and retail stores have lost some revenue, the Queens Center Mall has continued to pull in massive profits,â said Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York,...
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by Paola Reyes Published in Latin America News Dispatch  Â http://latindispatch.com NEW YORK â Over 120 people and 40 organizations participated in the Third Encounter for Dignity and Against Gentrification hosted by the Movement for Justice in el Barrio this past Sunday in East Harlem, New York. The meeting, referred to by the Spanish term encuentro, brought together activists from places as far as California, Puerto Rico, and Maryland. âThe objective of this third encuentro was to connect our struggle. Our struggle doesnât have boundaries,â said Filiberto Hernandez, a member of the Movement for Justice in el Barrio. During the five-hour-long encuentro, members of different organizations spoke about the ongoing struggles in their communities. Members of the South...
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MTA, City & State to Students: Drop Dead By Michael Gould-Wartofsky Public Hearings Begin Monday, Students and Families Fight for What's Fare Today, the Metropolitan Transit Authority launches a whirlwind tour of public hearings citywide. These hearings, though they may be for show, will be the first of their kind since December, when 585,000 student straphangers and their families got the following bit of good news from the MTA (it's always good news from the MTA): "Student fare discounts are proposed to be phased out. Beginning September 2010, the full-fare student discount would be discontinued...Beginning September 2011, students would be charged full fare for all trips." The subtext reads something like this: We're the MTA. We're $733 million in the...
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Restaurant Workers ROC the Nation With Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) Saru Jayaraman details the prevalence in the restaurant industry of wage theft, sub-minimum wages and widespread discrimination as well as ROCs innovative fightback which involved direct action, lawsuits, legislation, industry research and opening their own NYC cooperative restaurant âColorsâ. Responding to demands from around the nation ROC has expanded operations to 8 cities nationwide. *************** Tribecaâs Amish Market Accused Of Wage Theft in NYC Wage theft is epidemic throughout New York and the nation. The NYS Department of Labor announced a $1.5 million enforcement action against the Amish Market, Park Place store among a number of others over stolen wages. To protect themselves from this...
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Israeli ballerinas turned soldiers salute! ...
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Protesters in front of Leviev NYC ...
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Bloomberg: A person without numbers ...
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Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice - by Stephen Lendman On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined "Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges." At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she "faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed assault charges; life in prison on the firearms charge; and eight years in prison on each of the remaining assault charges. SIDDIQUI faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison on the firearms charge." On February 3, New York Times writer CJ Hughes headlined: "Pakistani Scientist Found Guilty of Shootings," convicting her on all...
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In the eight years since President Bush began the War on Terror, a number of Muslim charities, human rights groups, and community based organizations have been under intense scrutiny and surveillance by the US Federal Government. Muslim Americans have had their phones tapped, their financial assets frozen, and their places of worship infiltrated. The American intelligence community has been slowly bringing home many of the intelligence gathering tactics used abroad to now monitor and detain its own citizens. In this climate of profiling, and eroding civil liberties at home, we must consider cases such as the one of the American, Syed Fahad Hashmi, which illustrates the overreaching powers that have come to characterize the Federal Government, the intelligence community, and...
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An echo that turns itself into many voices, into a network of voices that, before the deafness of power, opts to speak to itself, knowing itself to be one and many, acknowledging itself to be equal in its desire to listen and be listened to, recognizing itself as different in the tonalities and levels of voices forming it. A network of voices that resist the war that power wages on them. â Words of the Zapatistas at the âFirst Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism.â An invitation to: Members and families of organizations, community members, and people of good conscience, who are fighting against displacement in their communities across NYC. From: Movement for Justice in El Barrio...
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