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NYLPI & AARRG! Profiled by New York Community Trust
The work of Director of Disability Justice Ruth Lowenkron and Access-A-Ride Campaign Coordinator and Organizer Eman Rimawi with the Access-A-Ride Reform Group (AARRG!) was recently profiled in New York Community Trust's (NYCT) Annual Report. AARRG! was started in 2016...
CALL TO ACTION: ReusableNYC Coalition Calls on McDonald’s to Keep Toxins Out of Food Packaging
NYLPI’s partners in the ReusableNYC coalition have released “Packaged in Pollution”, a report indicating many national food chains still use toxic “forever chemicals” (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances , or PFAS) in single-use takeout wrappers and containers. These...
NYLPI Secures Housing Accommodations for Brooklyn Client
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) represented BMJ, a woman with multiple sclerosis who encountered numerous accessibility problems in her Brooklyn cooperative apartment, in violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act and New York State’s and New York...
NYLPI Celebrates the Re-Opening of Food Scrap Recycling Sites
After NYLPI and the Save Our Compost coalition restored $2.9 million for food scrap recycling in the City budget (a mere 10% of the 2019 allocation), community food scrap drop-off sites are gradually reopening. We're celebrating the reopening of the huge Union Square...
NYLPI Joins Community to Condemn Anti-Black Violence
June 3, 2020. Like you, we watched in horror the incidents of police violence again unfolding this past week and over the weekend. The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Police brutality during the protests that followed. It was a week of racism, this...
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Our work activates the power of New York communities as they lead the fight to make equal justice a reality. Together we attack systemic bias based on race, poverty, disability, and immigration status. Guided by their priorities, we use every tool available to create lasting change. We file lawsuits, organize, seek policy reform, educate, create pro bono partnerships, and build the capacity of local nonprofits to serve our communities.
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