NICE Participates at the Queens Town Hall Meeting with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio!
NICE members and Staff with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Councilmember Daniel Dromm.
On Tuesday June 8th, NICE members joined residents and members of other community-based organizations in Queens in a Townhall meeting addressing NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Four active members of NICE presented some concerns of recently arrived immigrants in our community. Directly addressing the Public Advocate, their questions focused on the necessity to build a workers’ center for day laborers and the protection of their rights as workers, more involvement on the part of the Queens DA office in small cases of fraud that are common among members of the community, the regulation of rent increases and the reduction of requisites that prevent our community from renting their own dwellings. Another key issue both for NICE members and for many other groups and individuals was the proposed budget cuts to the literacy/ESOL funding programs offered by community organizations such as NICE that are of vital importance for the development, access to services, and achievement of immigrants in this society. The public advocate was responsive to our community concerns and the members thought this forum was an effective way to be heard by legislators and get tangible results from their actions.
NICE Joins Major Rallies in New York City and in Washington D.C.!
On May 1st, NICE mobilized over 30 community members for the citywide May 1st mobilizations. NICE is proud to have marched with over 2,500 allies in NYC to demand just immigration reform and defend immigrant worker rights.
On March 21st, NICE mobilized over 150 community members for the March for America Rally. We joined immigrant rights groups from across the country in Washington D.C. in mobilizing over 100,000 people against repressive enforcement measurements and to intensify the legislation push for just immigration reform.
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NICE embarks on 2010 Census Outreach Campaign!
- On foot outreach at day laborer work sites
This year, NICE is participating in outreach efforts in Northwestern Queens for the 2010 Census. To increase awareness and participation amongst our communities that are at risk of being undercounted, NICE member-leaders have been trained as Promotores Comunitarios, or outreach workers. Promotores Comunitarios are making presentations and doing on foot outreach at local community centers, churches, the 74th St, transportation hub, the day laborer corners and other key sites in our community.
We are also planning a large scale assistance forum on March 27th at the Renaissance Charter School to help immigrant families and individuals fill out their Census Forms.
LISTEN To NICE Executive Director, Valeria Treves on Wednesday’s The Brian Lehrer Show, discuss the 2010 census and our communities here!
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NICE seeks Volunteers for its non-partisan 2010 Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Campaign! Click HERE for more information.
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NICE seeks a Volunteer IT Consultant! Click HERE for more information.
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NICE seeks Computer Help Night Volunteers! Click HERE for more information.
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NICE rented a bus to leave to Washington DC to participate in the Campaign Keep our Families Together, along with partner organizations from Queens 43 community members the western part of Queens left to Washington DC. It was a one day long event. We had four legislative visits scheduled, with Reps, Anthony Weiner, Joseph Crowley, Gary Ackerman, and Sent. Kristen Gillibrand. At the visits members gave testimonies of why it is urgent to pass an immigration reform. This was also to create momentum for the introduction of a progressive bill by Rep. Luis Gutierrez possibly by November. After the visits we rally along with thousands more, in front of the Capitol.
