Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito shares her first-hand account the devastation in Puerto Rico for millions of Americans.
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New York City Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito and Mayor Bill de Blasio announce that NYC will be sending help to Puerto Rico. Learn more about how to contribute to the recovery efforts and text UNIDOS to 41444 to donate funds.
Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Members of Congress Espaillat, Gutierrez, and Grijalva join immigrant New Yorkers in front of Trump Tower to demand a clean DREAM Act.
Welcomed the John Lennon Education Bus Tour to City Hall! Learn more about the bus & what they do for our NYC schools & children!
Estaremos actualizando el sitio con los próximos talleres y eventos. Encuentre más recursos legales y otros recursos aquí: https://council.nyc.gov/immigrant-resources/
We’ll be updating our immigrant legal resource guide as workshops and events are scheduled around the City. To find a legal, mental or health provider near you visit: https://council.nyc.gov/immigrant-resources/
We are here today to say resoundingly – unwaveringly- to immigrant New Yorkers, to nuestra familia, that we stand by you and for you. While this President is abandoning you, WE will NOT!
We are New Yorkers and we know how to bring it. We’ve been preparing and are here to support Dreamers and our immigrant community with all the resources that we have available.
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When plans for the 126th Street bus depot threatened to disturb a colonial era African American burial ground, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito urgently acted to safeguard this ancestral space.
Together, Dr. Patricia Singletary, the pastor of the Elmendorf Reform Church who brought this issue to light, and Melissa created the Harlem African Burial Ground Task Force in 2009.
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