Make the Road New York (MRNY)* builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.
*Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar. Searcher,
there is no road. We make the road by walking. -- Antonio Machado,
Selected Poems, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
Watch this video for an introduction to our organization!
On February 2, the New York Times published a powerful, heart-wrenching story of a young DREAMer (and MRNY member) named Antonio Alarcon.
In an op-ed, Antonio tells the story of his own family, describing how impossible economic circumstances forced his parents to abandon their home in the U.S. He speaks out against the destructive immigration policies spreading from state to state and ignorant calls from politicians for families to "self-deport."
Antonio is a brilliant young person, with a world of potential, but Congress' failure to pass the DREAM Act has left him with few options in this country.
New York has the opportunity right now to act where Congress won't, to help Antonio and hundreds of thousands of other young people to achieve a better future by giving them the means to go to college. New York State DREAM legislation is on the floor of the state legislature in Albany, waiting to move.
Sign this petition NOW to tell Governor Cuomo and the state legislature that you support the New York DREAM.
