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If you know anything about Neir’s Tavern, Woodhaven’s beloved nearly 200 year-old pub, it’s likely you know that it was once the location for scenes from the movie Goodfellas, that it once featured a bowling alley, but not many people know that organized basketball was once played there. Wait, what? Basketball, you say? Yes, basketball. Let me explain.
Queens community members rallied in Corona Plaza on Aug. 11 to speak out against ICE raids and to build the movement for immigrant rights. The rally demanded an end to mass raids and called for “Liberation, not deportation!”
Organizers were responding directly to U.S. immigration officials raid on numerous Mississippi food processing plants Aug 7, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.
“We are here to come together and defend one another-- we are here to fight. If ICE comes to Queens we’re going to make sure everyone has the information necessary to defend themselves, the information that can help make sure they don’t take you away, because this is a community of immigrants and we are staying here!” said organizer and Queens native Cathy Rojas.
Organizers gave out leaflets breaking down these rights, such as the requirement that to enter your apartment ICE agents must have a warrant signed by a judge. The rally organizers are shifting conversations around immigration to highlight U.S. government’s training of dictators and paramilitary death squads across Latin America, causing widespread violence through coups, such as the 2009 coup in Honduras, causing people to flee..
I am a lifelong Queens resident & the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act was just passed in Congress. I also live in the district which will be represented by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I've tried to get a response from her office to see where she stands on support for Alzheimer's research which disproportionately affects women and women of color.
16.1 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias and for three years I was one of them. When my mother was at home, I had no support. Assisted living is extremely expensive and being an unpaid caregiver took a mental, emotional and physical toll.
Eventually I was forced to make the difficult decision of placing her in Castle Senior Living.
It was a sad day indeed in Kew Gardens, Queens when Community Board 9 Queens voted down safety measures proposed by the DOT. The members of CB9Q unanimously voted to support the single-family homeowners association (Kew Gardens Civic Association) in spite of hundreds of residents on 116th, 118th and the surrounding streets begging for any safety measures to make their lives safer.
The Queens Free Press spoke with Yousuf Rezaur Rahman on the occasion of the opening of his new sporting goods store. YB Sports Junction sells primarily cricket gear, including a wide selection of bats, balls, helmets, pads, and jerseys—everything needed to play the game of cricket. But really YB Sports Junction is selling more than just a game.
The New York Public Interest Research Group’s Small Claims Court Action Center can guide you through the process! Our volunteer counselors will help you recover up to $5,000 through the “people’s court.”
I was raised on the edge
of the city others said
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In May 2006 the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), an organization headquartered in Washington D.C., asked former Canadian Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific David Kilgour and David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, to investigate the claims of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. They were able to pull together 18 pieces of evidence that point to systematic organ harvesting mainly from living Falun gong practitioners.
Breaking Ground, a non-profit organization serving the homeless, has proposed to use the now-vacant building at 100-32 Atlantic Ave. as a 50-bed transitional "Safe Haven" and "Drop-In Center." Various people in Ozone Park and Richmond Hill are fiercely against the idea.
George Zimmerman, defendant in the high profile Trayvon Martin case of 2012, was seen attempting to auction off the weapon used in the killing of the seventeen year old Trayvon Martin. Two attempts were made and on both occasions the auction websites rejected the posting.