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October 13, 2008
1,000 low-income New Yorkers, mostly immigrants from Latin America, to hold massive community assembly in lower Manhattan and march to City Hall for a rally with scores of elected officials
Contact: CONTACTS: Ana Maria Archila, 917.330.5337 Andrew Friedman, 718.418.7690 x206 or 718.809.7158
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
Close to 1,000 low-income New Yorkers, mostly immigrants
from Latin America, to hold massive community assembly in lower Manhattan then march to City Hall for a rally with
scores of elected officials.
Marchers will call for budget fairness: a freeze on budget cuts to vital support services, like health and education services, and modest tax increases on the very wealthy as the way out of the current fiscal crisis
Marchers will also support innovative policy initiatives that benefit working class New Yorkers:
1) a crackdown on housing conditions that exacerbate childhood asthma,
2) translation of pharmacy labels, and
3) accountability for abusive police in City schools.
WHAT: Make the Road New York (MRNY), NYC's largest membership-led,
community-based organization's First Annual Democracy Day.
Low-income New Yorkers will be sharing their stories, in their
languages, with power brokers from around the city.
Musical performances will accompany the substantive policy part of the assembly. Hundreds will then march up Broadway to City Hall for a noontime rally at City Hall. Members of MRNY will meet with twenty City Council Members and top officials from the Bloomberg Administration to present the organization's platform for a Just New York.
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WHEN and WHERE: Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
10 - 11am: Auditorium at 52 Broadway, UFT Headquarters
11:15 - Noon: March from 52 Broadway to City Hall
Noon - 1pm: Rally at City Hall with elected officials
1pm - 5pm: Legislative Visits
*** PHOTO OPPORTUNITY ***
More on: Community and Electoral Organizing 
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 Victory for Immigrant Families: Preventing Unjust Deportations in NYCOn March 18, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg signed new legislation to stop federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using NYC’s criminal justice system to deport thousands of New Yorkers.
Building on legislation we helped to win just over a year ago, Local Laws 21 and 22 prohibit not only the Department of Correction but now also the NYPD from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals on behalf of ICE agents for detention and deportation. Each year, thousands of New York families will stay together who would otherwise have been torn apart by overly aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.
At a moment when the country is debating immigration reform, with these laws, New York City sends a clear message to Washington that tearing apart thousands of immigrant families is bad policy.
With your support, we look forward to winning national reform that keeps families together. We thank our partners at the Center for Popular Democracy, the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic and the bills’ sponsors, NYC Council Speaker Quinn and Council Member Mark-Viverito, for their courageous leadership. 
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