As part of the ongoing reFORM Mondays, USA campaign for immigration reform, local immigration and deportation defense attorney Ian Hinonangan is inviting interested parties to his law office this evening for a “legislative action” day. Tonight’s program will focus on the economic benefits to be reaped by comprehensive immigration reform, and it will be capped [...]
Ian Hinonangan straddles two worlds in his daily life. He is an immigration and deportation defense attorney, and he’s also the owner of the Lenapeeps Art Gallery in Bergen Hill and the Downtown cafe The Warehouse. Tonight, Hinonangan is launching a project that incorporates both selves — “reFORM Mondays, USA,” a six-month series of talks, [...]
Have you ever been so peeved with something going on in your neighborhood, on your block or in City Hall that you’ve wondered how to personally get involved, but shied away when the process seemed perhaps too daunting to undertake?
A free forum being held on Thursday at City Hall aims to help folks like [...]
“What do we want?” cried Joyce Willis on the bullhorn. “Cleanup!” was the response from the crowd of fifty or so residents and activists gathered at 900 Garfield Ave., the site of toxic chromium deposits and the flashpoint of a political battle that has pitched the community against property owner PPG Industries and the city.
In [...]
Early in February, while checking the streams of Facebook status updates of my acquaintances, I came across an interesting tidbit: Someone had joined the group “Save the Jersey Journal.” Since then, the group has grown quickly as the fate of the 142-year-old newspaper remains uncertain.
- At last night’s City Council Caucus, Jersey City’s assistant business administrator John Mercer gave a presentation on the proposed “green” ordinances that first surfaced in the middle of last month on a Council agenda. The four proposals will be back on the agenda at Wednesday’s Council meeting. One of the proposals would refund [...]
The morning of the protest began early, with excitement and anticipation of “the big turning point” event — the January 27th march on Washington to stop the war. I’d sort of lost count of the number of trips to D.C. and other large protests I’d been to since before the war even began. Each time, [...]
written with Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
I’m no art expert. But when asked to think of why I’m angry about what’s been going on in our country, images pop into my head.
Photos of torture from Abu Ghraib and the desperation from Katrina captured and deepened my disgust more than anything I simply read.
And so, while image control has [...]
When Gov. Jon Corzine’s final budget was passed in July, almost two months after the Spring 2006 semester’s end, Rutgers students and faculty may not have had school funding on their minds. Yet those hardest hit quickly became aware of what these slashes in New Jersey’s higher education budget would mean.
“I have already been severely [...]
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