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Nos Quedamos says it’s set to rise again
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
New director takes reins of pioneering housing organization Nos Quedamos, the advocacy organization that has served South Bronx residents for nearly two decades on issues ranging from housing to immigration, is on the verge of a comeback, after nearly a year in limbo. The agency has maintained a low profile since allegations emerged last winter [...]
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Police Council hears protest of Occupy arrests
Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
Heated meeting dissolves in shouting Outraged by the arrest of five people at their general assembly in Mott Haven, supporters of Occupy the Bronx took their protest to the 40th Precinct Community Council. They left frustrated. Most of the 60 or so people who jammed a small conference room at Lincoln Hospital on Dec. 7 [...]
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Cops break up Occupy the Bronx rally
Posted on 04. Dec, 2011 by By Elizabeth Chen.
Police arrested five people at the Occupy the Bronx general assembly in Mott Haven Saturday, preempting the organization’s plans to hold a rally and “festival” in a community garden fenced-off by the city in mid-November. It was the first time police had moved on the borough’s arm of Occupy Wall Street since it began holding weekly meeings in October.
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Local residents join Wall Street protest
Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by By Alex Robinson.
A large crowd of people gathered at Fordham Plaza on Saturday to participate in the second weekly meeting of the Bronx’s own contingent of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Bronxites came together to join the global conversation that was started by a few hundred protesters in Zuccotti Park, a block-square plaza in Manhattan’s financial district, a month ago.
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From the editor: Occupy the Bronx
Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
“The Bronx is in the house,” thundered 60 or 70 people last Saturday afternoon as they marched into a public square in lower Manhattan. The chant announced their presence to more than a thousand demonstrators already assembled in Zuccotti Park to protest against corporate greed and a government that serves business and the wealthy at [...]
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Sen. Diaz says sex education belongs at home
Posted on 11. Aug, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. denounced the Bloomberg administration’s plan to revive mandatory sex education in public schools, saying the proposal violated the right of parents to decide what and how to teach their children. “In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to be the primary educators,” the [...]
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Serrano votes against debt ceiling deal
Posted on 01. Aug, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
Congressman José E. Serrano voted against the legislation raising the nation’s debt ceiling, saying the package urged on Congress by President Barack Obama and the leaders of both parties cut necessary programs and failed to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Engine 60 is saved from the budget axe
Posted on 07. Jul, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Cowbells rang in the sunlit square in front of the firehouse on 143rd Street and 3rd Avenue on June 29, as chanting residents rejoiced, celebrating the escape of their engine company from fiscal cuts. The city budget had put Bronx fire companies at risk of closure again this year, sparking weeks of protest from worried [...]
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Money woes close soup kitchen
Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 by Cheryl Chan.
Mott Haven food pantry may be next The soup kitchen run by the St. Benedict the Moor Neighborhood Center on St. Anns Avenue closed in November, leaving as many as 7,000 patrons a month without a source of breakfasts and hot lunches. Now, its landlord says the food pantry next door, which continues to provide [...]
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Oak Point PO set to close
Posted on 18. Mar, 2011 by Bernard L. Stein.
From the Bronx News Network By Rachel Sander Another Bronx post office — the Oak Point Station, located at 839 East 149th St. — is going to close. According to a press release from the United States Postal Service, the Oak Point post office will close its doors on April 22. “Given the extraordinary decline [...]
