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Bushwick Residents Rally at City Hall to Decry Deadlock on Immigration Reform
Make the Road New York, a non-profit dedicated to representing the city’s Latino and immigrant communities.
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“Today we suffer, in November we vote,” dozens of protesters chanted in front of City Hall this afternoon. Some 40 people gathered to express dismay over yesterday’s Supreme Court deadlock over President Obama’s immigration plan, which would have given undocumented immigrants protection from deportation and the possibility to work in the United States. The rally was organized by the Bushwick chapter of
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Bushwick Residents Call For Gun Control in Wake of Shooting Near Police Station
Local elected officials attended an open meeting in Bushwick today, at the site of a shooting in broad daylight on Saturday that left five people hospitalized. Residents, most of them Hispanic, gathered on the sidewalk at Menahan Street and Knickerbocker Ave, holding signs that demanded “Stop Gun Trafficking.”
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