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   The Economic Justice and Democracy Project combats the political vulnerability of low-income, immigrant New Yorkers through grassroots leadership development, public policy advocacy and community organizing to enforce and expand the civil rights of limited English- proficient New Yorkers. Recent Accomplishments
» Responding to months of direct pressure and media advocacy by our members, and civil rights complaints filed by Make the Road by Walking, the New York State Attorney General signed corrective action agreements with two of North Brooklyn¹s biggest hospitals (Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center) to ensure equal access to services for the hundreds of thousands of limited English proficient (LEP) New Yorkers who rely on these institutions for their health care. Additionally, last year, Make the Road by Walking and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest successfully negotiated a third agreement with Brooklyn Hospital. Under these agreements, all three hospitals have agreed to hire new staff interpreters, hang new multi-lingual signs, create complaint procedures for LEP patients who do not receive interpretation services, and designate senior staff to oversee the provision of language assistance services at the hospital.
» By documenting and raising public awareness about rampant national origin discrimination within numerous government agencies in New York, Make the Road by Walking was able to spearhead a successful campaign to pass innovative civil rights legislation called The Equal Access to Health and Human Services Act (Local Law 73 of 2003). As a result, the city¹s Human Resources Administration is now ensuring equal access to vital government benefits like Medicaid, Food Stamps and public assistance by providing translation services to the twenty-five percent of New Yorkers who are still in the difficult process of learning English. . We have also filed and won national civil rights complaints and federal class action lawsuits based on national origin discrimination. As a result, many other city government agencies (the Department of Health, the Administration for Children¹s Services, and the Department of Homeless Services) have begun to keep records and make public reports about: » How many New Yorkers served by these agencies need language assistance services; Key Partners
Latin American Integration CenterNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) Hermanas Mirabal New York Civic Participation Project (NYCPP) New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) Commission on the Public¹s Health System For more information, contact: organizing@maketheroad.org Articles Multidinaria protesta para criticar la gestión del alcade Bloomberg The New York Times, 2003-03-08 Salud en su idioma The New York Times, 2003-03-04 Wyckhoff Hospital Will Provide Translators Ridgewood Times, 2003-03-13 Press Releases Scores of Latino Immigrants and Their Children to Deliver Postcards to Mayor Bloomberg in Support of Civil Rights Legislation 2002-07-30 Low-Income Women Decry Exploitative and Dead-End Workfare Programs on the 5th Anniversary of Welfare “Reform†2002-08-20 Workfare participant forced to work at McDonald’s for his welfare check and Food Stamps 2002-09-09 Photogalleries Test Event 2004-04-22
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