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On Tuesday, April 29, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), member organizations, and elected officials rallied at the State Capitol's Million Dollar Staircase in support of the New York For All Act. The Act is a landmark piece of legislation that would prohibit state and local government agencies, including law enforcement, from collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE. We hear from the two emcees, Cassandra Bocanegra of NYIC and Iridian Riccobono Lucas of the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, followed by Assemblymember Karines Reyes, the lead sponsor of the bill; Jax a teenager from an immigrant family with Make the Road New York; Assemblymember Amanda Septimo; and Jessica Maxwell of the Workers Center of Central New York. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
Greg Smith, a reporter at THE CITY covers the alleged agreement between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration to support the president's mass deportation plan in exchange for dropping the corruption charges against him. Adams is scheduled to appear before federal court today on the motion to dismiss these charges made on his behalf by the Department of Justice. Natalia Aristizabal, Deputy Director at Make the Road New York discusses the Trump administration's attempts to circumvent sanctuary city laws and how organizers are working to protect their communities from immigration enforcement. The post Judge to Weigh NYC Mayor Eric Adams Corruption Charges Today appeared first on KPFA.
On Friday, Feb. 14, the state legislature held the budget hearing on the Governor's housing proposals. The state is in the second year of its Five-Year Housing Plan, a $25 billion dollar investment to create and preserve 100,000 affordable homes across New York, including 10,000 with supportive services. Tenant groups continue to push to prohibit eviction without good cause and to finally enact a Housing Voucher Access Program. In this segment, we hear testimony from Michael McKee of the Tenants Political Action Committee; Rashida Tyler of the Interfaith Affordable Housing Collaborative; Barbara Williams of Community Voices Heard; and Jennifer Hernandez of Make the Road New York. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
Harold Solis, legal director at Make the Road New York, offers legal analysis of President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for those born to undocumented parents and the lawsuit brought forth by his organization, the ACLU, and other Civil and Immigration Rights advocacy groups.
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has created a conversation about the health insurance industry. One consistent problem we’ve been hearing from community members is how often their claims or pre-authorizations are denied, even when their doctors say the procedures are necessary. We spoke with Diane K. Spicer, supervising attorney at the nonprofit Community Health Advocates, on what to do if you receive an insurance claim or pre-authorization denial. Community Health Advocates: 1-888-614-5400 Community Service Society of New York: 212-254-8900 Make the Road New York, Health Services: 1-866-365-2724 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Cleveland Guardians 2024 season has come to an end with a 5-2 loss to the NY Yankees, and the Yanks take the ALCS. On today's show we are talking about the two big Home Runs we gave up, our pitchers still put up a ton of 0-run innings, Bo Naylor finally finds his swing to late, wrapping up my ALCS thoughts, and naming our MVP for the game. If you want to share your thoughts on anything Cleveland baseball you can find me on Twitter @daveyberris and email the show ClevelandBaseballMornings@gmail.com. Merchandise is available at https://clevelandbaseballmornings.myspreadshop.com/ for T-shirts, Hoodies, Coffee Mugs, and More!!!
Shain Filcher, Esq. (they/he/she), Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY is joined by Make the Road New York's Mateo Guerrero (he/el, they/elles), Trans Justice and Leadership Program Manager and Kendal Nystedt, Esq. (she/ella), Supervising Immigration Attorney to examine the intersection of surveillance, employment protections, sex work, and the immigration legal system. To learn more about current volunteer opportunities with Make the Road New York, visit https://mrny.my.salesforce-sites.com/VolunteerInquiry. To see what you missed at the 12th Annual TransLatinx March, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDGyVpUOYc.
In the Spring of 2021, dozens of immigrant New Yorkers, mostly women, launched a hunger strike that lasted 23 days and was the climax of a campaign to win an unprecedented $2.1 billion relief package for workers who had been excluded from unemployment benefits, federal stimulus checks, and rent relief. At the time, many thought the campaign's demands were out of reach, but as our guests Ángeles Solis and José Lopez of Make the Road New York explain, years of base-building made this seemingly impossible victory a reality — one that spawned similar demands in eleven other states. Founded in 1997, Make the Road New York, as José says, “focuses on the intersecting challenges that working-class and immigrant New Yorkers face every single day” — and with 27,000 members, it has become a powerful force for justice in the state. During the pandemic, a quarter of Make the Road New York members could not afford to pay rent or put food on the table, and ninety lost their lives. But desperation fueled a bold project of relational organizing, recruiting people in food pantries, leveraging mutual aid to build power, and calling out billionaire profiteers and tax cheats. Before the interview with Ángeles and José, Deepak and Stephanie contrast the approach to base-building in the labor movement (as covered in episode 3) with base- building in the community organizing tradition, drawing on four principles from legendary organizer Arnie Graf's book Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing. They also consider how community organizations can find the right balance between radical vision and practical change in the here and now. Episode 4 transcript
Listeners who work outdoors call in to share tips on how to keep warm and Nathalia Varela, workplace justice supervising attorney at Make the Road New York, explains how employees can assert their rights for a safe work environment.
Latino USA continues to mark its 30th anniversary and look back at its reporting throughout the last three decades. On today's show we look at immigration, then and now. Maria Hinojosa is joined by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, immigration and politics reporter for CBS; Natalia Aristizabal, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York; and Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. Together, they discuss immigration policies from the last 30 years.
Season 4 Episode 8 of Activista Rise Up is out now! This week on Activista Rise Up we were joined by Angeles Solis, a fierce organizer of the Workplace Justice Team at Make the Road New York. In this episode, we discussed how her organization works to build power for immigrant and working-class communities in New York State. Make sure to tune in to join the movement! To learn more about Make the Road New York, visit maketheroadny.org. To learn more about Angeles Solis, follow her on Twitter for more updates on her campaigns. The LAST episode of season 4 is dropping next Thursday at 5 p.m. EST. Follow me @DrCamposMedina on social media and visit my website to stay up to date: www.patriciacamposmedina.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dr-patricia-campos-medina/message
Paul Shechtman, comisionado adjunto de asuntos jurídicos del Departamento de Corrección (DOC por sus siglas en inglés) de la ciudad de Nueva York, dijo durante la audiencia que las autoridades de inmigración presentaron 92 órdenes de retención al DOC en el año fiscal de 2022, de las cuales ocho de esas personas fueron entregadas a las autoridades federales. Para hablar sobre lo que se dijo en la audiencia, los correos electrónicos y los proyectos de ley que restringen la cooperación con ICE, invitamos a Yasmine Farhang, directora de abogacía en Immigrant Defense Project (IDP por sus siglas en inglés) y Luba Cortés, coordinadora de defensa de los inmigrantes en Se Hace Camino Nueva York (Make the Road New York).
Join us for the first conversation in our Empowering Women in Today's World series, co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and the Mesa Refuge. In this conversation, join our host Lyons Filmer in conversation with Marielena Hincapié—attorney, legal and political strategist in the immigrant justice movement, and a leading voice in the national conversation on immigration. Another version of this audio podcast is available in Spanish. Marielena Hincapié is an immigrant from Medellin, Colombia. Growing up in Rhode Island as the youngest of ten kids, she became an interpreter for her parents at schools, hospitals, and government agencies where she learned about the structural barriers and inequities facing poor people in this country, especially people of color and immigrants. For 20 years, she served as executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the nation's leading organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants in the United States. Under her leadership, NILC has been at the legal forefront of the fight to stop President Trump's attempt to rescind DACA, successfully representing DACA recipients and Make the Road New York in a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court found that the Trump administration's rescission was “arbitrary and capricious.” Lyons Filter is the former program director at community radio KWMR in Point Reyes Station, California, where she served for 18 years. Her interest in radio began in college, where she was a music DJ and news reader. In the 1990s, she was a volunteer programmer at KPFA in Berkeley, where she produced and hosted programs on women's issues, drama and literature. She joined KWMR in 1999 and became its program director soon after. Among other programs, Lyons hosts “Mesa Refuge Interviews,” talking with the current residents of Mesa Refuge Writers Retreat. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.
This version of the discussion includes the Spanish translation audio from the original webinar. Acompáñenos en la primera conversación de nuestra serie Impulso a las Mujeres en el Mundo de Hoy, presentada por The New School at Commonweal junto con El Refugio Mesa. En esta conversación, acompañe a nuestra anfitriona Lyons Filmer en conversación con Marielena Hincapié, abogada, estratega en lo jurídico y en política dentro del movimiento de justicia para los inmigrantes, una voz líder en la conversación nacional sobre inmigración. Marielena Hincapié Marielena es inmigrante de Medellín, Colombia. Creció en Rhode Island, la menor de diez hijos, y se convirtió en la intérprete para sus padres en escuelas, hospitales y agencias gubernamentales, donde se dio cuenta de las barreras estructurales y las desigualdades que encara la gente pobre en este país, especialmente las personas de color y los inmigrantes. Se desempeñó por 20 años como directora ejecutiva del (Centro Nacional de Legislación Migratoria) National Immigration Law Center (NILC), la organización líder de la nación destinada a defender y promover los derechos de los inmigrantes de bajos recursos en los Estados Unidos. Bajo su liderazgo, NILC lleva la vanguardia de la lucha jurídica para detener el intento del presidente Trump de rescindir DACA. Ha representado victoriosamente a los beneficiarios de DACA y de (Se Hace Camino Nueva York) Make the Road New York en un caso de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos en el que el Tribunal determinó que la anulación impuesta por la gestión de Trump fue “arbitraria y caprichosa”. Lyons Filmer Lyons es la ex directora de programas de la radio comunitaria KWMR en Point Reyes Station, California, puesto que ejerció por 18 años. Su interés en radio comenzó durante la universidad, donde fue DJ de música y lectora de noticias. En la década de 1990, fue programadora voluntaria en KPFA, en Berkeley, donde produjo y condujo programas sobre temas de la mujer, drama y literatura. Se sumó a KWMR en 1999 y poco después se convirtió en directora de programación. Lyons es la conductora, entre otros programas, de (Entrevistas de Mesa Refuge) “Mesa Refuge Interviews” en el que charla con residentes del Retiro para Escritores de Mesa Refuge. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.
In this week's show, Host John Tarleton takes us through an election-night special edition as voters cast ballots in Democratic and Republican primaries for all statewide offices and all 150 seats in the NY State Assembly. In a heavily Democratic state like New York, the primary is often the race that determines the winner in the general election in November. In this segment, we speak with Ana María Archila, Working Families Party nominee for Lt. Governor who some observers think could pull off the biggest upset of the night. She's a longtime social movement leader with Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy, which she co-founded. She vowed to make the Lt Gov's office a hub for organizing and pushing the Governor to take more pro-working class positions.
Links for Pam Covarrubias:https://www.spreadideasmovepeople.com/tappinghttps://www.instagram.com/cobiux/Links for Maria Elena Perez:https://www.instagram.com/maria.elenaperez/ Pam Covarrubias Pam is dynamically skilled as a Liberation Business Coach, EFT Practitioner, Podcaster, and Recovering Procrastinator. She primarily spends her time elevating first-generation business owners by helping them remove the shame around making money and connecting to their inner voice so they can create liberated business practices.She dreams of co-creating a future where work supports everyone without glorifying productivity and by honoring our inner energy seasons. Pam's approach is a dance between practical success strategy and intuitive personal discovery that helps humans stay true to their unique story as we decolonize business practices.Pam's goal is to remove the damages Calladita Culture™️ has instilled in first-generation humans in the United States. A topic she explores in her weekly podcast Cafe con Pam, staying quiet and submissive is not a stance she supports.Pam guides her clients to honor their heritage while leveraging the resiliency they've built as they've navigated existing in two cultures.Pam is grounded in the teachings of mother earth, her mother and grandmothers' wisdom, as well as technically trained in Clinical EFT. She holds a Life Coaching Certification, Crystal Healing Practitioner Certification. Pam is also rooted in practical knowledge from her BFA, certificate in Women in Entrepreneurship by Cornell University, and additional business trainings she's attended.She is honored to have been named one of the best Latinx Podcast to listen to by Oprah in 2020 and 2021. When Pam isn't guiding her clients to create liberated business models, you can find her drawing, getting lost in the woods with her partner David and dog Thor. Maria Elena Pérez:Maria Elena Pérez has 15 years of experience in social justice organizations, including ten years in executive leadership.She is the founder of HealSana, LLC and an organizational consultant and trauma-informed healing practitioner with Strategies for Social Change.Maria Elena worked at both local and national organizations including the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, the National Institute for Reproductive Health, and Make the Road New York. During her career, she's been a bilingual spokesperson on social and reproductive justice issues, led during critical leadership transitions, and has played key roles in facilitating organizational development and change management processes internally.Maria Elena is also a Certified Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Practitioner and works 1:1 and in group programs with women of color to heal generational patterns, wounds, and traumas.A Licensed Master Social Worker in the State of New York, Maria Elena holds an M.S.W. from the City University of New York, Hunter College, and a B.S. from New York University. She is a first-generation Latina born to Dominican and Puerto Rican parents. This episode was brought to you by CONSENTparenting™ Learn more at consentparenting.com
An interview with Kendra Cornejo of Make the Road New York speaking about the intersectional community organizing work that the grassroots community organization is working on surrounding housing rights, the rights of public school students and undocumented people. Kendra speaks about the efforts that Make the Road New York undertook to demand relief support for undocumented people within the context of the pandemic, a campaign that was successful, resulting in billions of public funding for undocumented people and families. Kendra also speaks about the organizing efforts within the project surrounding a call for an end to detentions within public schools in New York state, a reality that often results in sever disruptions for students from marginalized communities, breaking efforts to succeed within the public school system against the odds. Information on Make the Road New York here: https://maketheroadny.org Music on this edition is from the Crépuscule album by Rêves sonores. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.
Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022.
On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022. —Kristen Gonzalez, 26, a socialist from Queens, is running for State Senate. If elected, she will make history as the youngest woman ever elected to the New York State Senate. She's been off to a fast start since entering the race, with endorsements from the NYC Democratic Socialists of American and the Working Families Party. —We talk with leftist political comic Francesca Fiorentini. She's the host of the Bitchuation Room podcast which brings together political comics, activists and thinkers. She also appears on The Damage Report on the Young Turks Network and is the host and lead writer for AJ+'s Newsbroke which airs short, entertaining videos that use a light-hearted approach to unpack complex topics such as white fragility in the workplace and the history of socialism in America. She's done all this while facing the challenges of breaking into a field where the voices of women and people of color have historically been marginalized.
Feb. 17, 2022 - While the New York State Democratic Convention in Manhattan was intended to be a heavily scripted event, the opening night deviated from the establishment's plans when progressive activists held a speak out outside the party's pep rally, calling for tenant protections and investments in the Excluded Workers Fund. Make the Road New York lead organizer Angeles Solis discusses the policy priorities and why they chose the site of their protest.
You're receiving my Tuesday podcast because you're a paying subscriber of Maybe Baby. Thank you! To listen in your preferred app, click “Listen in podcast app.” Then it should automatically populate there every week.Hey!Welcome back to Dear Danny, my podcast version of Dear Baby wherein my friend Danny and I discuss your questions and more. Today we'll be talking about cologne, body image, infidelity, moving in with a partner, road trips, how to make friends as an adult, and whether Danny is nice enough on this podcast. I also randomly throw in a Dave Chapelle take in the beginning of the ep that I regret! Lol. Because ultimately I'm less interested in whether Chapelle is worthy of being a thought leader and more interested in how we, as a culture, respond to bad ideas. But I guess that's an essay for another time. Anyway thank you for being here, and thanks for dealing with Danny's underground-sounding audio (he literally was underground when we recorded, in his defense).Hope you enjoy!HaleyThis month a portion of subscriber proceeds will be redistributed to Make the Road New York, the largest progressive grassroots immigrant-led organization in New York state, focusing on issues like education, housing, immigration, policing, and labor justice.Give me feedback • Subscribe • Request a free subscription • Ask Dear Baby a question This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haleynahman.substack.com/subscribe
Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities. Born in Veracruz, Mexico and raised in Veracruz and Chiapas, Bianey describes the transphobic violence that forced her to relocate to Tijuana at 14 and subsequently New York City. Bianey recounts her initial experiences as an undocumented, trans woman of color in New York including finding trans community and the transphobic and racist policing that resulted in her incarceration at Rikers Island. Later, she describes her involvement with the Trans Immigrant Project and the first Trans Latina March, obtaining a green card, and her plans to revisit her family in Mexico for the first time in 12 years. (Summary by Micah Katz.)
Durante 23 días, un grupo de inmigrantes indocumentados se pusieron en huelga de hambre logrando que la Asamblea de Nueva York y al gobernador Andrew Cuomo aprobaran $2,100 millones de dólares para crear el Fondo para Trabajadores Excluidos. Rubiela Correa, quien es originaria de Colombia, donde tiene un hijo, nos cuenta cómo se integró a esa lucha con la que abrió la puerta al activismo, junto a Make the Road New York, por sus derechos y los de otras personas en medio de la pandemia de COVID-19.
Maria and Julio discuss the latest in federal and state legislation, including President Biden's executive orders on gun control and the anti-trans bills that have been introduced in states across the country. They also talk about the COVID-19 relief fund for undocumented immigrants in New York, which was passed in the state this week following a 23-day hunger strike. We hear from Angeles Solis, the lead organizer of the workplace justice team at Make the Road New York, who organized the strikes with the Fund Excluded Workers Campaign.To learn more about how you can help support undocumented workers and the Fund Excluded Workers Campaign, follow the movement on Instagram, Twitter and read about the latest in their initatives. ITT Staff Picks: Allison Dikanovic and Josefa Velásquez of The City report on the eligibility requirements, payment amounts and documents needed to qualify for the Excluded Workers Fund.Cheryl Reeve, the head coach and general manager of the Minnesota Lynx, writes for Sports Illustrated about how there is no room for discrimination against trans athletes in sports. Sam Levine, voting rights reporter at The Guardian, writes about the advancing bills on voting restrictions in Arizona and Texas, which include provisions such as limiting early voting hours, making it harder to vote by mail and more.Photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mar. 19, 2021 - Deborah Axt, Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York, discussed a budget proposal which is aimed at helping New York's excluded workers.
On episode 30 of “The Activist Files,” Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Attorney Chinyere Ezie talked with Make the Road New York's Lead Organizer Eliana Fernandez about the impact organizing played in the two key Supreme Court of the United States' decisions – Wolf v. Vidal, the decision that preserves Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which Eliana was a plaintiff, the Bostock/Zarda/Stephens cases, which the Court found that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The movement lawyers and activist agreed the organizing and narrative shifting in some of the cases had the justices so worried that the credibility of the court was brought to the forefront. Eliana talks about her brave decision to be a plaintiff in the DACA case – she's a DACA recipient and a mom, who didn't want to be separated from her children. She said Make the Road New York protected her and gave her the tools to empower the movement. And Chinyere, who wrote an amicus brief in Aimee Stephens, of R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and attended the argument, tied this Title VII case to Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, which held that Catholic elementary school teachers are “ministers,” so they cannot sue their employer for employment discrimination. While Our Lady of Guadalupe is not about LGBTQIA+ rights, it impacts that community because statutes that prohibit discrimination, from age to disability, were not applied to this case because the employer is a religious organization and the employees, who were subject-matter teachers, were classified as “ministers.” Chinyere noted that Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru did not have a large movement behind the case and wonders if the court didn't feel compelled to uphold the anti-discrimination statutes because of the lack of public awareness and involvement. Resources:· Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda· Aimee Stephens, of R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission· R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Aimee Stephens (Amicus)· Bostock v. Clayton County· Publ
Join in on the fun Discord conversations by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave Andrea Haverkamp, president of CGE 6069, joins Laborwave to discuss chapters 5 & 6 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey; "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House!" Our conversation highlights the importance of connecting our movement histories to fight against the consistent bracketing of social movements as self-contained and insular phenomenons, making the role of staff transparent and accountable for developing the leadership of the rank-and-file, and also pose some hard questions for the IWW asking why is it so prone to the "one-man organizing show" written about in Organizing Work and what prevents its own policies and structures from being consistently implemented? Chapter 5 analyzes the strategies of UFCW's multiple union campaigns at Smithfield Foods, where in their third round after 10+ years they finally won a union through a deep organizing model that brought in community allies under a banner of social justice to win. Chapter 6 examines the "mobilizing model," with promise, of Make the Road New York, an immigrants rights organization with more than 15,000 dues-paying members. McAlevey argues key ingredients for their success include "high-touch" participatory democracy and power over staff afforded by MRNY members. This and more in our penultimate episode of Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts! Join us in discussion and some reading sessions on our Discord server! You can get in on the fun by becoming a Laborwave Patron at patreon.com/laborwave and joining as a Rank-and-Filer, or Committee Member, or Strike Captain. Once joined, you'll receive an invitation to our Discord where we have a pdf of the book, multiple channels for discussions, and voice channels for periodic reading and chat sessions together! Organizing Work, Beware the One-Man Organizing Show https://organizing.work/2019/07/beware-the-one-man-organizing-show/ Music: Thee Oh Sees- Bloody Water
Las instalaciones que albergan los históricos Capricorn Sound Studios, en Macon, Georgia, tienen que ver con el sello discográfico, el propio estudio de grabación, un museo, y un espacio de oficinas de la Mercer University. Nadie duda de que es el lugar más apropiado para reencontrar con tus raíces, si estas tienen que ver con el southern rock, como es el caso de BlackBerry Smoke cuyo último proyecto en forma de EP se titula Live From Capricorn Sound Studios. En la selección de sus seis canciones, dos de ellas pertenecen a Idlewild South, el segundo álbum de la Allman Brothers Band, con medio siglo de historia. Son "Midnight Rider" y "Revival", dos temas míticos. En este segundo caso, Charlie Starr y Paul Jackson se han repartido las intervenciones de guitarra de Duane Allman y Dickie Betts, el compositor del tema, y las Black Bettys aportan su poderío vocal en una canción atemporal llena de felicidad. Los tejanos Whiskey Myers se crecieron lo suficiente tras el éxito de su anterior trabajo, Mud, que para su último álbum, con su nombre en el título, decidieron tomar las riendas y prescindir de la producción del casi intocable Dave Cobb. Incluso se repartieron las tareas de composición y contaron también con la ayuda de buenos amigos. Se fueron al Sonic Ranch, cerca de El Paso, en Texas, y se pusieron a trabajar sobre una lista de más de 30 canciones. "Bury My Bones" es una canción que, compuesta por John Jeffers con Tennessee Jet, está inspirada por cómo se sentía a su vuelta de su gira europea del pasado año que pasó por primera vez por España. Ya que hablamos de Tennessee Jet, aquí está la primera muestra sonora de su nuevo álbum, The Country, que aparecerá a primeros de septiembre. Se trata de "Stray Dogs", una pieza narrativa para un artista tejano que está redefiniendo sus ideas sobre la country music desde la perspectiva de la Costa Oeste. Para ello se mudó a California y ahora ha contado con el arrope de la banda de Dwight Yoakam, con el añadido evidente del twang factor a sus propuestas y dejando un tanto de lado sus primitivas influencias de la Outlaw music de Waylon y Willie, e incluso el Bakersfield sound de Merle Haggard. "Stray Dogs" es un tema de tintes autobiográficos que TJ acabó de componer en el propio estudio de grabación y que muestra la tensión y la crudeza de tener que culminar algo inacabado por necesidad. Este tercer álbum del tejano parece haberse convertido en un punto de no retorno con respecto al pasado. Seguimos insistiendo en que el ambiente de Nashville está cambiando y que no todo está perdido. Daniel Donato nació allí hace 25 años y ha aprovechado tan bien el tiempo que se ha convertido en un exquisito instrumentista de su Telecaster que hace un par de años fue nominado por la Americana Music Association en esa categoría. Todavía recuerda que estando en secundaria tocaba en las calles de Lower Broadway ocho horas diarias cada fin de semana y se colaba en el Robert’s Western World para ver a la Don Kelley Band, que le fichó como guitarrista hasta que Paul Cauthen se lo llevó de gira. Con un estilo marinado en todos los clásicos de la country music como Merle Haggard, su favorito, también destila influencias de Grateful Dead en su álbum de debut, como queda perfectamente reflejado en "Luck of the Draw", con trazas de la vieja escuela y algún toque psicodélico. A Young Man's Country, que tiene prevista su salida para el 7 de agosto, fue grabado en el Sound Emporium de Music City con el guitarrista Robben Ford como productor. El incontenible Daniel Romano nos está dejando casi exhaustos en este 2020 con la publicación de hasta seis álbumes… por el momento. Como en el caso de Content to Point the Way, la cuarta de esas entregas, supone una apuesta poderosa por el mejor country rock con evidentes guiños a la herencia atemporal de un mito de la categoría de Gram Parsons, que parece haberle bendecido desde los paisajes de Joshua Tree. El canadiense nativo de Welland, en la provincia de Ontario, grabó este registro con The Outfit, su banda de acompañamiento, como un regreso de tintes sentimentales y decididos al country, consiguiendo una atmósfera llena de melancolía que permite canciones enternecedoras como “Little Shirley Melrose”, gracias a la intervención vocal de Julianna Riolino. Tras el éxito del álbum Desert Dove durante el pasado 2019 que puso en órbita a Michaela Anne, la artista del barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn, aunque con residencia en Nashville, reclama la esperanza y el optimismo como dos piezas clave para seguir adelante y más aún en momentos como el actual en “Good Times”, su más rotunda novedad con el mensaje de que los "buenos tiempos" están a la vuelta de la esquina. De nuevo su buen amigo Sam Outlaw está a su lado, profundizando en ese camino de abarcar fórmulas más amplias que en registros anteriores, aunque no olvida su debilidad por Linda Ronstadt y Emmylou Harris, dos de sus heroínas. En estos momentos de nostalgia seguro que hemos recurrido en varias ocasiones a recuperar algunas grabaciones que tenían un tanto olvidadas. Los artistas de Americana también lo han venido haciendo y encontramos algunos resultados excepcionales. Es el caso de Erin Enderlin, que durante años ha firmado canciones que todo podemos recordar en las voces de Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire o Lee Ann Womack y que ahora ha preferido evocar una canción de 1987 como "Fishin 'In The Dark", que la Nitty Gritty Dirt Band incluyó en su álbum Hold On y que supuso su última visita a la cima de las listas. Para esta nueva versión, Erin Enderlin ha contado con la guitarra de uno de sus miembros fundadores, Jeff Hanna. Tras lanzar dos álbumes y un EP, Enderlin publicó el pasado año Faulkner County, que hace referencia a su tierra natal de Arkansas. La pasada semana recordábamos que Kelsey Waldon está nominada a los premios de la Americana Music Association en la categoría de Artista Emergente del Año. Ella cantó sobre sus orígenes en "Kentucky, 1988", uno de los momentos más personales de su álbum White Noise/White Lines y ahora ha querido regresar a su pueblo de Monkey’s Eyebrow para recordar sus primeros pasos, sus problemas familiares y las dificultades para resolverlas, desnudas y elocuentes. Ese trabajo, publicado en año pasado, supuso que tras 15 años sin hacerlo el sello Oh Boy firmara a un nuevo artista. Todo fue gracias al ahora desaparecido John Prine, que confió en la fortaleza de esta cantante y compositora de tintes rurales que ya había editado dos álbumes de forma independiente en 2014 y 2016. La última canción grabada por John Prine, "I Remember Everything", se ha convertido en directamente en No. 1 de la lista de ventas de canciones digitales de Billboard en el apartado de rock, suponiendo la más alta repercusión popular como intérprete del legendario músico, fallecido en Abril a consecuencia de la Covid-19. El tema, producido por Dave Cobb, fue grabado en la sala de estar de Prine el año pasado y no se había dado a conocer hasta que concluyó el homenaje virtual Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine, en el que intervinieron Kacey Musgraves, Vince Gill, Bonnie Raitt, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell y Amanda Shires, entre otros. Gracias a su emisión se ha recaudado recaudado casi medio millón de dólares para NAMI, Alive, Make the Road New York y MusiCares. Ayer se editó Monovision, el nuevo trabajo de Ray LaMontagne, lo que significa un distanciamiento con respecto a sus últimas grabaciones y una vuelta a las formas de los contadores de historias de los 70 recobrando los elementos comunes sobre la disidencia. Hay un cierto encuentro de consuelo y tranquilidad en las cosas simples y en las personas cercanas. Su tema de apertura, "Roll Me Mama Roll Me", es la primera invitación del músico de New Hampshire a recrearnos en una calidez relajante envuelta en pura artesanía sonora que nos permite volver a las raíces. La escucha en la radio de "Treetop Flyer" del álbum Stills Alone de Stephen Stills fue lo que impulsó a Ray LaMontagne a convertirse en cantautor. Lo descubrió un ejecutivo de RCA mientras teloneaba a John Gorka y Jonathan Edwards y sus maquetas, grabadas de nuevo, vieron la luz con el título de Trouble en 2004. Ahí empezó todo. Ayer se editaba el nuevo álbum de Will Hoge Tiny Little Movies, tras una batería de protestas viscerales que dieron forma a American Dream. El artista de Nashville no ha perdido su sentido crítico, ni endulza temas complicados como en el caso de una ruptura desordenada, que es el motivo de "Even the River Runs Out of This Town". Mantiene su crudeza, el tono reflexivo de su voz y nos hace comprender cuando las batallas están perdidas, siempre con algún acento que nos recuerde a Bob Seger, John Mellencamp o Tom Petty, y en ocasiones nos traiga a la memoria a Neil Young y sus Crazy Horse ya que Will Hoge grabó Tiny Little Movies con su banda de acompañamiento en las giras. En septiembre de 2008, Old Crow Medicine Show grababan su tercer álbum de estudio, Tennessee Pusher, con la producción de Don Was. En aquel momento, una canción como “Motel In Memphis” pudo pasar inadvertida ante la importancia que los críticos dieron a temas como "Methamphetamine", pero Ketch Secor ha querido ahora concederle la notoriedad que merece volviendo grabarla y añadiendo un vídeo que hace referencia al Lorraine Motel en el que fue asesinado en 1968 Martin Luther King. Ketch Secor ha vuelto a contar con la formación más habitual del presente de Old Crow Medicine Show, que incluye a Molly Tuttle en la guitarra acústica, Cory Younts a la mandolina, Robert Price con el banjo y Morgan Jahnig como bajista y Jerry Pentecost en la batería. Con ellos nos citamos para mañana en la sintonía de Radio 3. Escuchar audio
Immigrant Long Islanders are being hard-hit by the pandemic. Episode 16 of “Life Under Coronavirus” is an interview with Make the Road New York organizer Ana Flores. The Brentwood resident and immigrant from El Salvador talks about COVID-19 affecting close-knit households and the difficult situation for day laborers, factory and construction workers: work has dried up or puts them in danger of the disease, and staying home means a brutal loss of income.“It's not unknown that, you know, it's difficult to be an immigrant in this country,” Flores says. “We've seen that historically. But we're really taking a hit during this time.”
If you work in healthcare, food distribution, delivery services, telecommunications, and other fields deemed "essential." We take calls from folks in those jobs on their safety concerns. And, to answer those questions, an occupational safety official and a workplace justice advocate. Elizabeth Joynes Jordan, supervising attorney on the Workplace Justice Team at Make the Road New York, and Charlene Obernauer, executive director at The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), talk about how essential workers, on the front lines of the pandemic, can best stay healthy, and what they can demand from their employers in terms of protective gear and paid sick leave. More resources: Frequently Asked Questions from Make the Road NY on workers' rights in this moment.
In this session, originally recorded on February 26, 2020, we look at how to build democratic power for change. Our speaker for this session is Michal Hay, the Founding Executive Director of Progress Toronto. As an organizer, her focus is on bridging the gap between people and the political power needed for progressive change. Our cities are becoming increasingly unaffordable and income inequality is widening faster than ever before. People, communities, and an entire generation are being squeezed out. The decisions made in the halls of power can either take us down a more progressive path or deepen the divide. Unfortunately, many decision-makers are removed from the day-to-day experiences of the people they represent. So how can we influence and shape the decisions being made? What power do we have to create meaningful change and transform our cities? In this Five Good Ideas session, Michal Hay shares her experiences on building power, winning, and making change. She offers five good ideas for building democratic power to win. Five Good Ideas 1. The power we have is people 2. Our power increases as our numbers increase, and for that to truly/deeply happen we need distributed leadership 3. Invest in building power. That means training people and giving them the opportunity to apply the skills and lead 4. Share your strategy, goals, and priorities with people to help train and motivate them 5. Every campaign is an opportunity build power and ideally to build on what was built before Resources 1. Movement School’s Campaign Fellows. This 10-week intensive campaign simulation cultivates leaders to run, and win, grassroots campaigns. Movement School is an initiative connected to Justice Democrats, a coalition working to elect more progressives in America. https://www.movementschool.us/campaignfellows 2. Our Revolution. This organization was formed after Bernie Sanders first presidential campaign in 2016. Outside of the presidential election they have run issue-based campaigns and supported candidates in local and state election. https://www.ourrevolution.com/ 3. Barcelona en Comú. In 2015, Ada Colau became the mayor of Barcelona from a historic campaign that involved as many people. Her organizing and leadership is changing the city. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/22/barcelona-comun-guide-how-win-city-elite 4. Make the Road New York. They focus on building the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Check out their leadership development programs — and victories to be inspired. https://maketheroadny.org/ 5. Push Buffalo. A locally based organization that believes deeply in people power by mobilizing residents to create strong neighbourhoods with affordable housing through efforts like expanding local hiring opportunities, and advancing economic and environmental justice. https://www.pushbuffalo.org/mission/ For the full transcript, visit https://maytree.com/five-good-ideas/five-good-ideas-about-building-power-for-change/ About Michal Hay Michal Hay is the Founding Executive Director of Pro
0:08 – Ady Barkan is a social justice activist who has built three programs at The Center for Popular Democracy: the Be A Hero and Fed Up campaigns and the Local Progress network. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York and prior to that he was a Liman Fellow with Make the Road New York, where he represented low-wage workers seeking to recover unpaid wages and obtain safe and dignified working conditions. He graduated from Yale Law School and Columbia College. He lives with his wife Rachael and their two young children in Santa Barbara, California. Eyes to the Wind is a memoir and his first book. 0:22 – Vivian Ho is a journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian, Topic and the Boston Globe. Her first book is Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids. 0:55 – KPFA's Richard Wolinsky reviews Pride and Prejudice now showing at Theatreworks Palo Alto through Saturday January 4th. 1:08 – Albert Woodfox – for the hour – served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison in Louisiana – the longest period of solitary confinement in US prison history. In 2014, his conviction was overturned, and in 2016 he was released. He joins us now, to talk about his experience, and his new memoir Solitary. The post ‘No one should die for lack of care' Ady Barkan on the fight for universal healthcare; Plus: Albert Woodfox on more than 40 years in solitary appeared first on KPFA.
Host Jeff Simmons focuses on immigration with in-studio guest Mazin Sidahmed, co-founder and senior reporter at Documented, and interviews with Yaritza Mendez, Lead Immigration Organizer at Make the Road New York, and Anand Balakrishnan, Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, on Thursday, October 3, 2019.
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker and her new book of essays, Trick Mirror, is about to come out in August. Before writing for The New Yorker, Jia worked as a deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Jia and Julia talked about writing, real life versus online and print versus digital, how she learned to cook when she was in the Peace Corps., the role of cooking in her life now, a bit about her new book and her anticipation of it being out in the word. There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to Make the Road NY. Follow-up links: To learn more about Jia's and her work and her new book (and to order it!), head here. For Shauna Ahern's gluten-free pizza dough recipe that Julia mentioned, head here. For more about Make the Road New York, head here. For more about Julia and her work, head here. For more about the entire Great Jones set, head here. And be sure to enter the code 'COOKON' at checkout for $25 off!!!
Street Wannabes interviewed Justin Ferraro of The Rizzos and Casey Regan about Prom 2019 tomorrow Saturday 2/23! The Prom, a benefit show for "Make the Road New York" features (King Pizza Records) The Rizzos, The Mad Doctors, Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, PowerSnap and New Myths DJing at The Gutter. We also asked him about putting the prom together for its 5th year, the Blood Sweat and Beers "photobooth" at Prom, recording a new album, filming "Bedroom Eyes" with Bettina and Megan, and much more! Recorded 2/20.Prom 2019 is hosted by "Coach" David Napolitano and "Guidance Counselor" Casey Reganwww.facebook.com/TheRizzosBand www.facebook.com/events/754341971631840 www.therizzos.bandcamp.com www.instagram.com/therizzosband www.facebook.com/BedroomEyesShow www.bedroomeyesshow.com www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2-QdG2oN20u-6Q9Q9aQ2g www.kingpizzarecords.com www.streetwannabes.com
Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
This is a re-broadcast of the 9/6/18 episode. The show will return after Thanksgiving. On the #RADIO show this week we cover #SCOTUS, birth control, and choice; the power of art, music and politics intertwined; immigration and corporate accountability: and the power of your VOTE (so make sure you’re registered to vote!)! *Special guests include Dr. Colleen McNicholas, Physicians for Reproductive Health, @prhdocs; Kirstin Larson; Daniel Altschuler, Make the Road New York, @MaketheRoadNY, @altochulo; and Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising. featuring music from bensound.com
Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
On the #RADIO show this week we cover #SCOTUS, birth control, and choice; the power of art, music and politics intertwined; immigration and corporate accountability: and the power of your VOTE (so make sure you’re registered to vote!)! *Special guests include Dr. Colleen McNicholas, Physicians for Reproductive Health, @prhdocs; Kirstin Larson; Daniel Altschuler, Make the Road New York, @MaketheRoadNY, @altochulo; and Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising featuring music from bensound.com
A child dies after being detained at a Texas prison for refugees, Make the Road New York protests at the offices of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a police officer in Texas is found guilty of murder.
In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Between 2008 and 2009, the U.S. labor market lost 8.4 million jobs – 6.1% of all payroll employment – and the average household brought in roughly $5,000 less in 2009 than it did in the year 2000. Since then, the wealth gap has only gotten worse: the top 10 percent now averages nearly nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent. It should be no surprise, then, that Americans feel disenchanted. From Occupy Wall Street and more recent racial and economic movements to the left and right populisms of the 2016 election, Americans across the ideological spectrum are increasingly concerned by the concentration of both private and public power. Are our post-election politics on the precipice of change? According to Democracy Against Domination, a new book by New America fellow K. Sabeel Rahman, today's inequality crisis will only be solved with a complete overhaul of how we govern the modern economy. New forms of democratic action – strategies that tap into contemporary labor and racial justice movements – will be necessary to counteract both the legacies of the New Deal era and the problems of corporate power, too-big-to-fail finance, and political dysfunction today. On the evening following Election Day, join New America NYC to evaluate the economic policies of the past eight years and what the next Administration can do to turn today's "New Gilded Age" into a more responsive, inclusive economy. PARTICIPANTS K. Sabeel Rahman @ksabeelrahmanAssistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, New America Author, Democracy Against Domination Dorian Warren @dorianwarrenContributor, MSNBC Fellow, Roosevelt Institute Keesha Gaskins @keeshagaskinsDirector, Democratic Practice Program, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Daniel Altschuler @altochulo Managing Director, Make the Road Action Director of Civic Engagement and Research, Make the Road New York
YEA MAN! Podcast Ep. 9 The Road, New York City & RIP Rory Hill. by Rodrigo Torres Jr
A couple of weeks ago I followed my friend Jenevieve to work. Jenevieve works for Big City Walls, an institution, that coordinates murals with youth organizations in schools across New York City. She recently completed a mural at the corner of Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues with teenagers and young adults aged 13-21 from the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. The mural took four weeks to complete, from conceptualization to realization, and was funded by several organizations including Make the Road New York, CopWatch and Big City Walls itself. The role of such community outreach associations is to bring awareness and help to kids and their families on topics such as educational, immigration and housing justice, youth programs, and police brutality, which are relevant to the Bushwick population. In this podcast episode you will hear Jenevieve, her coworker Emilia and their students discussing the themes pictured on the mural and how they apply to the students personal lives.