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NYC schools fail to protect students with disabilities from lengthy suspensions

By Alex Zimmerman | May 21, 2025, 3:05pm CDT After trading taunts with a classmate one morning in March 2023, Tristan threw a punch that busted the other student’s lip. A teacher who intervened wound up with a bloody nose and swollen lip in the ensuing scuffle. Then a ninth grader at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College Preparatory School,…
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New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order

Feb 3, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In a letter, James,…
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Texas sues New York doctor for telemedicine prescription of abortion pills

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor who allegedly provided abortion pills to a pregnant woman in Collin County, Texas. Dec. 13, 2024, 7:36 PM CST By Zoë Richards Texas sued a New York physician for prescribing a woman abortion pills, according to a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In the lawsuit, filed Thursday…
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How Columbia’s Gentrification Impacts Reproductive Justice in West Harlem

SEP 4, 2024, 9:24AM SURINA VENKAT The gap in access to reproductive health care caused by the closing of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital has not yet been filled in West Harlem. In 1990, at a protest against the move of reproductive care units from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in West Harlem to midtown New York that drew…
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Local Organizations

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The New York Civil Liberties Union

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) fights for civil liberties and civil rights through a multi-layered program of litigation, advocacy, public education, and community organizing to create a more open, just, and equitable society.

 

The Correctional Association of New York
The Correctional Association of New York (CANY) fights tirelessly for a more humane and effective criminal justice system, but they can't do it alone. Whether you've been incarcerated, know someone who has, or if you would simply like to help, CANY needs your support.

 

The New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Coalition) is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to eradicate domestic violence and to ensure the provision of effective and appropriate services to victims of domestic violence through community outreach, education, training, technical assistance and policy development.

 

Make the Road NY
Helping empower immigrant communities. Looking for outreach volunteers, classroom assistants and more to spread the word about Make the Road NY's adult education program. Outreach volunteers help plan and conduct outreach to organizations in the community that are working to strengthen marginalized communities with education.

 

New York Communities for Change
NYCC resists fascist and racist policies that affect our most vulnerable communities. NYCC leads know your rights trainings and a rapid response program to protect our communities against deportations, police brutality and evictions.

Day One NY
Day One partners with youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services, legal advocacy and leadership development.

 

We Are New York Values
Offering volunteer opportunities with multiple organizations standing for racial and social justice, from teaching coding to Black youth to offering administrative support and more.

 

Urban Justice Center - NYC
We advocate for a just, fair, and decent society, and mentor the next generation of social justice leaders.

 

Audre Lorde Project
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.

 

We Act for Environmental Justice
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.

Upcoming Events

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E-SIDE STORY- a dramatization and fundraiser to prevent teen Gun Violence.

E-SIDE STORY is a contemporary dramatization about Black /Latina teen life in urban cities in a season of social media beefs & gun violence A NITE OF THEATER THERAPY… LIVE STAGE VIGNETTE & BONUS “TALK BACK”- HOSTED BY DR. GEORGE JAMES, LMFT…EXEC. DIRECTOR C/O GEORGE TALKS, LLC. ALL UNDER THE STARS @ THE AFRICAN AMERICAN…

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Opera in the Park – Fairmount Park Conservancy

Join the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Opera Philadelphia for free performances at FDR Park on September 10 from 6:30—9:00 PM. Bring out the whole family for an evening of live music sets, food trucks, and opera on the big screen! This event is a partnership between the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Opera Philadelphia. 7:00: Live performances by…

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Garden Tenders: How to Start and Sustain a Community Garden

Are you involved in a new community garden or looking to start one? Join us to learn what it takes to get a community garden started, and how to keep it going. This is not a gardening class — we will cover recruiting and keeping volunteers; assessing and finding resources in your neighborhood; garden management; land ownership/security;…

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WPSR’s 2023 Health Justice Gala

About the eventWPSR’s 2023 Health Justice Gala Join WPSR for our annual Health Justice Gala on September 22, 2023! At WPSR’s annual fundraising gala, WPSR supporters like you gather to support and celebrate our work. This year, with your help we will raise $200,000 to fund our critical work confronting the gravest threats: the climate…

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Poets Laureate Reading

This event is FREE and ADA accessible. Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee. She is the current Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and Poet Planner for King County, Washington. Her…

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“On the Edge: 2nd International Latinx Performance Art Festival”

On the Edge: 2nd International Latinx Performance Art Festival is the second Latinx performance art festival based in Seattle, showcasing a wide range of experimental performance grounded in the themes of inclusion, identity and intersectionality. Featuring a wide range of pan-Latine/x artists and supporters, these performances will range from intimate, single-person storytelling, to medium-length, mixed-media group performances,…

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The Social Justice Film Festival

Through strategic partnerships with Pacific Northwest organizations working on issues of social justice, the Social Justice Film Festival features short and feature-length documentaries and narrative films related to social justice. As a movement, social justice promotes a global culture where equality is achieved on all levels. This includes issues pertaining to incarceration, the environment and…

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Seattle Broadway Inclusion Program

STG’s Broadway Inclusion Program provides theatre arts programming to neurodivergent and/or disabled community members and their families and caregivers. Participants tend to be between 8-50 years old, but all ages and abilities are welcome! Participants meet once a week to explore musical theatre and movement-based activities in a creative and safe environment. At the end…

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CL56: Heeding the Call of the Student

Where do the voices of students call you to take them? What do you hear that points to a path where their concerns and passions can drive a richer exploration of what you had hoped to cover anyway? Join us as we kick off our 8th season of Collab Labs with a discussion focused on…

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Forest Rescue at North SeatTac Park

“North SeaTac Park is a 200+ acre urban oasis four miles south of Seattle filled with creeks, wetlands, towering trees, and amazing recreational amenities. Tub Lake, thought to be the last true peat bog left in the Seattle area, is also in this park, Join us at this Green SeaTac Partnership event to help free…

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