Sentences with phrase «make road»

She also coordinated Make the Road's Citizenship Education Program to help members pass the exam to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Prior to her work in the city, Kate worked with one of CPD's network members, Make the Road New York, where she helped to connect under and unemployed immigrant New Yorkers to quality training programs and sustainable jobs.

The complainant organizations include the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, La Fuente, Make the Road New York, Alliance for Quality Education, New York Communities for Change, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, Community Service Society of New York, Garifuna Coalition, USA Inc., DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving, the Brooklyn Movement Center and UPROSE.

This year's AOCC, «We Make the Road by Walking»: Education for Leadership and Transformation, brought together alumni, students, and community members over several days, to contemplate building paths to a more just society, one in which individuals, their communities, and society are...

This year's AOCC, «We Make the Road by Walking»: Education for Leadership and Transformation, brought together alumni, students, and community members over several days, to contemplate building paths to a more just society, one in which individuals, their communities, and society are transformed.

Gary Oldman has been the presumed front - runner in this category from the moment his role as Winston Churchill was announced, and despite being blanked by most critics» awards, he is still in prime position — though recent rumblings about his biography may make the road to a win a bit tougher.

While this doesn't matter as much when it comes to winning an Oscar (see «King's Speech» vs. «The Social Network»), it can make the road to nominations harder.

Because it stars Sharon Stone, who should be able to attract enough fans to make this road movie worth the trip.

He resisted making the film immediately because he did not want to make another road movie in close proximity to About Schmidt and Sideways.

For those who equate France mainly with Paris, here's a movie set exclusively on Brittany's coast and on only about a 25 - mile stretch of it — Poirier has suggested that part of his idea was to make a road movie mostly without cars.

Director of Y tu mamá también Alfonso Cuaron talks to Jason Solomons about his latest film, Año uña, and his plans to make a road movie in Britain

While the doc flounders as a coherent story of human folly, it's a cheeky travelmercial guaranteed to get the curious to make the road trip to this near - abandoned resort.

Our goal is to make that road more manageable and to make your experiences better with more potential for lasting happiness in your life.

«Make the road interesting» with Trucker Chat City.

When I shop at my local supermarket or make road trip snack stops at gas stations, I'm always on the hunt for healthy snacks to fuel myself and my family.

Or make a road twice as thick.»

Working Families Party, NOW - NYC, New York Immigrant Action Fund (the 501c4 arm of the NY Immigration Coalition), VOCAL - NY Action Fund, Make the Road Action, Citizens Union, Rev. Dr. A.R. Bernard, Bertha Lewis (Executive Director of the Black Institute), former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Gloria Steinem.

Working Families Party, NOW - NYC, New York Immigrant Action Fund (the 501c4 arm of the NY Immigration Coalition), VOCAL - NY Action Fund, Make the Road Action, Citizens Union, Rev. Dr. A.R. Bernard, Bertha Lewis (Executive Director of the Black Institute), former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz

To announce the formation of the Complete Count Committee, Marshall was joined at Borough Hall by Ligia Jaquez, deputy regional director of the U.S. Census Bureau; Stacey Cumberbatch, the 2010 census coordinator for the city; the Rev. Floyd Flake of the Greater Allen AME Cathedral; Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of Make the Road New York; and S.J. Jung, president of the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing.

Gathered outside Mr. Cuomo's Midtown office, the activists from left - leaning groups including Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change and Crown Heights Tenant Union called the Democratic governor a Republican, said he had done the equivalent of urinating on them, and even claimed he would be arrested before he sought re-election in 2018.

And Javier H. Valdés, the co-director of Make the Road New York, another advocacy organization pushing for immigrant rights, described the decision as «a step backwards for the rights of immigrants in this country.»

Liberal activists from organizations like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York shouted «slow it down» at Mr. de Blasio as he entered City Hall this morning, calling for him to pump the brakes on his plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods across the city to allow for more building density and, in turn, more affordable housing.

The Coalition for the Homeless employs consultant Berlin Rosen — a firm with close ties to Mr. de Blasio — as its press representative, while other groups involved in the report like Make the Road and New York Communities for Change are linked the the mayor's allies in the Working Families Party and in the labor movement.

Make the Road New York and other community groups and labor unions are pushing the proposal.

«It doesn't mean they are going to take all the paid sick days,» said Julissa Bisono, the workplace justice organizer at advocacy group, Make the Road New York.

But a source close to the IDC said it was the progressive Working Families Party, the teacher union - backed Alliance for a Quality Education, and other groups like Make The Road, which works on immigrant issues.

After the publication of this story, a spokesperson for Real Affordability for All, a coalition at the City Hall rally which includes New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York, denied that members of NYCC and Make the Road were among those that shouted at Mr. de Blasio.

The Stonewall Democrats and the Jim Owles club also endorsed Velázquez, who enjoyed the support of other leading progressive groups, including the Working Families Party, Planned Parenthood, Vote Pro Choice, Make the Road, TenantsPAC, the 504 Democrats, and Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Darian Agostini, 23, a youth organizer for Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group, told Observer he helped coordinate some students to ask questions at the town hall.

The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) was one of eight organizations that planned the spirited gathering, along with ACORN, Community Voices Heard, Make the Road NY, NYS Tenants & Neighbors Coalition, New York Immigration Coalition, NYC AIDS Housing Network, and the Working Families Party.

In response, Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY; Afua Atta - Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard; Jonathan Westin, Executive Director of New York Communities for Change; José López, Co-Director of Organizing, Make the Road New York; and Cecil D. Corbin - Mark, Deputy Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice issued the following statement:

Make the Road New York holds weekly workshops to help immigrants get legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Deborah Axt, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York, said: «By signing the Wage Theft Prevention Act, Governor Paterson makes a commitment that New York State will finally stand up for workers, crack down on lawless employers, and use the power of the State to ensure fair, treatment for vulnerable, low - wage immigrant workers.»

Bill Lipton, WFP's New York State director, claims Cuomo menaced unions or people that have financed WFP and affiliated groups such as New York Communities for Change (NYCC), Citizen Action, and Make the Road New York that endorsed Nixon.

Joel Martinez of the group New York Make the Road at a 2013 protest at a Manhattan carwash where workers had voted to unionize.

Some advocacy groups, including Make the Road NY, denounced it as insufficient.

Real Affordability for All, a collective of more than 50 activist groups like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York, blasted the agreement for not including enough affordable housing.

And as of Thursday night, a group of labor unions that have funded WFP and affiliated groups, like New York Communities for Change (NYCC), Citizen Action and Make the Road New York, are reportedly considering creating their own ballot line.

This morning, as Quinn formally announces her compromise version of paid sick leave at a press conference in City Hall's Red Room, liberal Councilwoman Gale Brewer will stand next to her, as will a panoply of the city's liberal interest groups: New York Communities for Change, Make the Road New York, SEIU 32BJ.

Prior to her work at a CMS, Salas directed litigation at Make the Road New York and held several senior management enforcement positions at the New York State Department of Labor between 2007 and 2012.

Sarsour served as emcee for the 5,000 - strong rally and musical celebration called «Rise Up: Immigrant Rights and Workers» Rights,» organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, New York Teamsters and Churches United for Fair Housing.

«When my son was in kindergarten he was always upset about going to school,» said RAFAELA VIVALO, a mother of a 2nd grader at P.S. 19Q and a member of Make the Road New York.

Councilman Antonio Reynoso joined former Assembly candidate Jesus Gonzalez and members of the immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action Fund to make a last - minute plea to Hispanics to vote along the Working Families Party line — which they argued is the ballot row most reflecting the interests of Latinos.

A Make the Road New York rally to support the immigrant community.

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Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

Walter Barrientos, political director for Make the Road Action Fund, argued that the Latino community could prove vital to Mr. Cuomo if he seeks the highest office in the land.

Updated to clarify that the group involved was Make the Road Action Fund, the political arm of the non-profit Make the Road.

A diverse set of organizations including MoveOn.org, Families USA, Greenpeace US, New York Communities for Change, Make the Road New York, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Working Families Party, and the New York State Nurses Association, will come together on the eve of the inauguration to make clear to President - elect Trump and Congress what is at stake if they move forward with their suggested policies and remind them that New Yorkers will continue to protect our people and the environment.

Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy recently exposed President Trump's corporate «backers of hate,» companies that stand to profit off an agenda so steeped in hate, prejudice, and greed, you would have to be willfully blind not to see it.