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Break It Down

Marisa Hetzler — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:50:19 -0400

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Over the past several decades, many laws were passed to make the criminal and immigration legal systems more interconnected. As a result, the federal government, police, and prisons often share information about individuals and work together. This means that any contact with the police system can severely impact an individual’s immigration status. And in a system where immigrants of color are already disproportionately impacted by racist policing, this leads to even harsher consequences like deportation and family separation.

To help immigrants understand the risks of this contact, the Immigrant Justice Network (IJN) partnered with CUP and designer Emily Lin to create Break it Down! The bilingual English and Spanish guide explains the different ways that contact with the criminal legal system can impact your immigration status and how the systems are connected. With this information, immigrants can advocate for their rights when interacting with police and fight back against the unjust laws that impact them.

The Immigrant Justice Network launched Break it Down! at a training on decriminalization for community members in February 2022. The guide will be distributed to IJN’s network of local and regional immigrant rights organizations, criminal justice groups, and allied organizations.

Here To Stay

Clair Beltran — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:18:35 -0400

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Being an undocumented young person in the United States and trying to navigate accessing a green card can be overwhelming. And on top of that, some young people may deal with harmful relationships with their parents or guardians, leading to more stress in understanding their pathway to remaining in the United States. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) is a form of immigration relief created to support young people, but the process is complicated and young people need thoughtful information to make an informed decision. They also need the support of a lawyer to navigate the different steps.

That’s why The Door collaborated with CUP and designer Grace Han to create a fold-out poster in English, Spanish, and French called Here to Stay! The guide breaks down what SIJS is, the criteria to qualify, the process young people need to work through with the support of a lawyer, and the long-term benefits of SIJS.

The project launched at a press conference hosted by The Door. A young person, who applied for their green card through SIJS, spoke about their experience at the event. Designer Grace Han also spoke about what it meant to them to work on this project and how excited they are to see this campaign around the city.

The Door is distributing copies of Here to Stay! to thousands of young people in New York City in order to reach those who most need access to this information. With support from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, the campaign is also currently displayed on LinkNYC kiosks throughout the five boroughs.

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Marisa Hetzler — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 16:02:35 -0400

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What’s the difference between an independent contractor and an employee? And does it really matter? It turns out it really does! Getting misclassified could mean paying almost double in taxes and losing benefits you’re entitled to, including Social Security and unemployment compensation.

To help workers understand how to avoid misclassification, Philadelphia Legal Assistance’s Taxpayer Support Clinic collaborated with CUP and designers Mike Tully and Peter Gamlen to create Reclaim Your Worker Rights! The guide breaks down different tax forms for employees and independent contractors and explains how to avoid misclassification. It folds out into a poster that shows workers how to fight back if they’ve been misclassified, and how to get support to claim the benefits they deserve.

Philadelphia Legal Assistance launched the guide at a panel they hosted with other legal advocates to explain misclassification and its tax consequences as well as how it intersects with Social Security, unemployment compensation, wage theft, and other labor violations. They are distributing the poster to thousands of low-income workers locally through their own clients and at outreach events and nationally through other Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites, other social service and legal assistance providers, and their network of Low Income Taxpayer Clinics.

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Marisa Hetzler — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:22:47 -0400

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Every day, nearly half a million people who have only been accused of a crime are held in jail before their trial, mostly because they can’t afford to pay bail. And 70% of them are people of color. One proposed solution to lower the rates of people held in jail pretrial is to use Risk Assessment Tools (RATs) to help judges set a person’s pretrial conditions. RATs use demographic information to guess how a person accused of a crime will behave if they’re released from jail before trial. But the data that RATs use to make predictions reflects who is policed and arrested more often – not who commits more crimes. As RATs are being used more frequently across the country with little transparency, the racial disparities in pretrial detention have not improved, and in some places, have worsened.

To help communities understand how RATs work and how to organize for alternatives, CUP collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA and designer Katrin Bichler to create Innocent Until Proven Risky. The fold-out poster illustrates how pretrial Risk Assessment Tools work and how they can impact individuals differently based on their race and class. The guide folds out into a poster that explores community-based alternatives to RATs.

Innocent Until Proven Risky will be distributed through JustLeadershipUSA’s national network of organizers and community members.

Tenants Rights To Repairs

Marisa Hetzler — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:57:35 -0400

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A leaky roof. Broken elevators. Pests in your apartment. These are all common problems that tenants face in their homes. Usually, these get fixed by asking the landlord to make repairs. But some landlords refuse to make repairs in order to push tenants out and raise the rent. What do you do then?

If you live in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City, you have the right to get repairs made in your home and to have access to essential services like heat and hot water. CUP, designer Kyle Richardson, and the Flatbush Tenant Coalition collaborated to create Tenants’ Rights to Repairs, a trilingual guide in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole that lets folks know their rights as tenants and what steps you can take if your landlord isn’t making repairs. It also highlights the important work of tenants’ associations and the power of organizing for housing in your building and community.

Flatbush Tenant Coalition is sharing the guide with their tenant associations and at their coalition meetings. They will also use the guide in their community-based Know Your Rights trainings and citywide trainings and events held in collaboration with the Right to Counsel Coalition and other housing organizations.

Women Know Your Rights At Work

siyona ravi — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:36:10 -0400

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In many workplaces, women and other marginalized groups, face gender discrimination from employers who don’t know or choose not to follow laws that protect workers. This is especially true for low-wage and high-risk jobs, like domestic, janitorial, or hospitality work.

People with these jobs are often discriminated against or harassed, not paid fairly, or forced to choose between working or caring for their loved ones. In many cases, employees do not speak up because they fear retaliation from their employer. These unjust pressures and situations impact their well-being, their family’s well-being, and their economic stability.

CUP worked with Legal Momentum and designer Vic Liu to create a fold-out poster in English and Spanish called Women, Know Your Rights! The guide breaks down New Yorkers rights in the workplace, around safety, fair pay, and discrimination, and protections they have, specifically against gender-based discrimination.

The guide illustrates how women can change their circumstances by knowing and advocating for their rights and the power of organizing with workers across other industries. With this information, workers most impacted by exploitative employers, will be able to identify unlawful decisions and behaviors, reach out for support, and ultimately change harmful situations at work.

Legal Momentum is distributing the guide in New York State to organizations that work to protect and serve the workplace rights of women.

From Shelter To Apartment

Clair Beltran — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:56:34 -0500

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Over a hundred thousand individuals and children find themselves in the New York City shelter system every year. In addition to the stress and emotional toll that’s caused by homelessness, these individuals must also navigate the daily challenges and requirements of shelter living and are often vulnerable to unjust treatment from shelter staff and unsuitable living conditions.

CUP teamed up with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, and design studio 13 milliseconds to create a foldout poster that breaks down people’s rights in homeless shelters and the different programs available to help them leave shelter and find affordable permanent housing. It also provides resources on other services shelter residents may have access to, like transportation benefits and storage grants, and what to do when your rights have been violated.

Safety Net Project staff, volunteers, and CUP staff launched From Shelter to Apartment with a day of outreach where the guide was distributed at food pantries, libraries, and shelters throughout New York City. The Safety Net Project continues to distribute the poster at different shelters through their Safety Net Activists (a group of members who are currently or formerly living in shelter) and their network of partner organizations who are also working with homeless New Yorkers, and at their weekly legal clinics.

CUP and the Safety Net Project worked together in 2020 to adapt this project into Spanish. You can get your copy here!

Shine A Light On Your Utility Rights

Sucharitha Yelimeli — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:03:46 -0500

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A final termination notice. The heating bill that’s four times what it was last month. A summons to court to meet with Con Ed. In all of these situations, you have rights—and there are resources available to New Yorkers who struggle to pay their utility bills. These consumer rights and programs are especially important for low-income people across New York State, who often have to choose between paying their utility bills and basic necessities like rent, food, medication, and school supplies. But consumers are often unaware of the rights they have to keep their essential electric and gas service.

That’s why CUP, Public Utility Law Project (PULP), and designer Hanna Kim teamed up to create Shine A Light On Your Utility Rights, the first guide to illustrate utility consumers’ rights in New York State. Simple text and visuals spell out practical steps you can take to tackle common utility problems, from being behind on your bills to dealing with a shutoff notice. At the center of the guide is a poster that helps people understand how to file complaints and access resources that can help them pay their bills.

PULP is distributing Shine A Light On Your Utility Rights to people across New York State in in-person trainings and through legal services organizations, housing rights advocates, and elected officials. PULP plans to present the guide at community meetings, health fairs, community board events, and senior centers.

Spanish and Haitian Creole versions of the guide were also launched in 2020. You can get your Spanish version here, and your Haitian Creole version here.

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Amanda Finuccio — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:41:52 -0400

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Web Training

Elijah Bobo — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:33:54 -0400

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Our Values Our Voice Our Vote

Christine Gaspar — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:19:46 -0400

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People who are incarcerated don’t have the right to vote in New York State. Their family and friends, along with formerly incarcerated people themselves, are also less likely to vote or engage in activities like community organizing. It can feel like one vote doesn’t matter, or be hard to know which elected officials support issues that matter to them. The result is a lack of representation of communities impacted by mass incarceration and the issues they care about.

CUP worked with the Alliance of Families for Justice and designers Karl Orozco and Tahnee Pantig to create a fold-out poster in English and Spanish called Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote. The guide breaks down who the decision-makers at different levels of government are, and shares other civic engagement strategies, like voting and community organizing.

The guide illustrates how family members of people who are incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people can have an impact on legal system reform and ultimately end mass incarceration through voting and other forms of civic engagement. With this information, those most affected by mass incarceration will be able to play a more active role in determining policies that affect them and their loved ones.

Alliance of Families for Justice is distributing the guide to tens of thousands of people in New York State, including directly impacted family members visiting their loved ones in prisons upstate, local community-based organizations, and elected officials.

Get your copy here!

Making Policy Public

Clair Beltran — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:08:17 -0400

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Freedom To Thrive

siyona ravi — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:40:10 -0400

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Communities across the country are looking for ways to reduce the number of people who are incarcerated or held in detention centers. Authorities like judges, police, and immigration enforcement agents believe that one way to tackle this problem is through a set of technologies and policies known as e-carceration. E-carceration, short for electronic incarceration, is when authorities use surveillance technology like ankle monitors, cameras, and GPS to track and control people in their own communities.

While e-carceration might get some people out from behind bars, the same technology makes it much easier to monitor and punish more people overall. Black, brown, and immigrant communities have become the biggest targets. Having fewer people behind bars, but giving authorities more power to punish communities of color is not a just solution to the problems of mass incarceration.

To help communities understand how e-carceration works and the consequences for Black, brown, and immigrant communities, CUP teamed up with Freedom to Thrive and designers Shreyas R Krishnan and Kruttika Susarla to create Not on our watch! The foldout poster explains and illustrates the concept of “e-carceration” and how it perpetuates a system of mass surveillance of communities of color. Available in English and Spanish, Not on our watch! also highlights community actions that have been taken across the country to offer alternatives to our current systems of incarceration and surveillance.

Not on our watch! is being distributed across the country through Freedom to Thrive’s network of organizers and community members.

Welcome To Healthcare

Mark Torrey — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:49:00 -0400

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Figuring out how to afford health care is complicated no matter who you are. But it’s even more challenging if you are an immigrant. Many insurance programs are restricted by immigration status, materials are often not available in every language, and it can be intimidating for someone who is unsure about their immigration status to sign up for a government program.

But there are basic health care rights that all immigrants in New York State have, like the right to translation, or health coverage for children and pregnant women. And there are a number of options to help low-income immigrants pay for health insurance.

To help the thousands of immigrants in New York State make their way through this complex process, CUP worked with the New York Immigration Coalition and designers Pratima Mani and Partner & Partners to create Welcome To Health Care! This issue of Making Policy Public is in Both English and Spanish, and features a visual breakdown of programs that help immigrants keep their health care costs affordable, and lays out their health care rights.

Welcome To Health Care! launched at a public distribution event with NYIC and The Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia. It is currently being distributed by community groups working on health care issues across New York State. The English/Spanish version of the project was updated in 2019.

A Traditional Chinese version of the guide was also launched in 2019. You can get your Traditional Chinese version here.

Recently, the government has announced changes to the rules it uses to determine if someone is a “public charge.” This complicated set of rules can limit the healthcare options of some immigrants and potentially impact their immigration status. To help them make a decision about which government programs are safe to use, CUP worked with NYIC to develop a one-pager about who is affected by “public charge” rules and translated it into many languages: English/Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, French, Korean, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Hindi, and Portuguese. To download copies, click here.

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Elijah Bobo — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:31:38 -0400

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What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place

Clair Beltran — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:48:24 -0400

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Choosing where to live, who to live with, and how to live one’s life are basic rights. But for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) it can be particularly difficult to access those rights. In the past, living with family or in group homes may have been the only option. Today, many people aren’t aware of the different funding and supports available to help them live on their own. Even more challenging, applying for and finding the right housing is a complicated process that can take a long time.

To help people with I/DD understand their options for living independently in New York State, CUP worked with AHRC-NYC and design studio Second Marriage to create What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?, an illustrated guide. The foldout poster helps people with I/DD understand their rights and options, and address their questions on living independently. The guide also serves as a planning workbook to be filled out by people with I/DD and their supporters when they are preparing to live independently, complete with a list of resources on funding and where to get help.

AHRC-NYC is distributing What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place? throughout New York State through their network of support sites and partner organizations serving over 15,000 people with I/DD.

Get your copy of the poster here.

Get Support In Housing Court

Yasmin Safdie — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:35:27 -0400

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When a landlord wants to evict a tenant, they take the tenant to Housing Court. In court, landlords almost always have a lawyer advocating for them, while tenants rarely do. When tenants do have lawyers, they are much less likely to be evicted.

To make sure people facing eviction have a better chance of staying in their homes, advocates successfully got New York City to pass the Right To Counsel bill in 2017. This new law guarantees a free lawyer to low-income tenants in Housing Court. But many tenants don’t know they have this right, don’t know how to get a lawyer, or don’t understand that a lawyer can make a big difference in the outcome of their case.

To get the word out, CUP teamed up with Housing Court Answers, the Right to Counsel Coalition, and designers Hanah Ho, Chelsea Atwell, and Ida Woldemichael to create Get Support in Housing Court. This fold-out poster explains who has the right to a lawyer, how to find your lawyer, and all the ways that a lawyer can help a tenant.

Get Support in Housing Court was launched virtually at Housing Court Answers’ annual conference to an audience of over 250 people. The Right to Counsel Coalition will use this guide as an organizing and teaching tool for the 30 organizations that make up their coalition. Tenant organizers will use the guide to educate tenants on the protections Right to Council provides, how to access them, and to reassure tenants they can successfully fight eviction threats from their landlords. Housing Court Answers also plans to distribute the guide at their tables in Housing Court and at their city-wide trainings and community outreach meetings.

Pulp One Pager

Elijah Bobo — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:59:42 -0400

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Web Training Test

Elijah Bobo — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:32:32 -0400

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Your Guide To Welfare In Nyc

Clair Beltran — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:17:40 -0500

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For nearly 350,000 New Yorkers, public assistance is vital lifeline for staying sheltered and fed. But wading through the maze of paperwork and appointments required to apply for benefits is an intimidating process. And applying is just the beginning: to keep their benefits, applicants have to keep track of regular appointments, complicated paperwork, and strict work requirements. If applicants have trouble navigating this system on their own, they risk missing out on the benefits they depend on to get by.

CUP, the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, and design studio All Other Services joined forces to create a fold-out poster that breaks down how to apply for and keep public assistance. Your Guide to Welfare in NYC is the first guide of its kind to present all of the information public assistance applicants need together in one place. Each part of the application process is visualized in easy-to-follow steps, including the kind of documents you need to apply and what to expect at benefits appointments. Information on how to deal with application problems is also included, so people can be prepared to protect the benefits they need to survive.

For the launch of Your Guide to Welfare in NYC, CUP and the Safety Net Project held a special event with NYC’s Human Resources Administration (HRA), the organization that administers public assistance. HRA Commissioner Steven Banks addressed a crowd of reporters, public assistance recipients, and advocates, highlighting how important Your Guide to Welfare in NYC will be to helping people get the benefits they depend on for survival. Safety Net Project client Wendy O’Shields also spoke, highlighting the difficulties she experienced while applying for public assistance for the first time during the recession. The poster, she said, represented “a blueprint for public assistance in 2015 and I hope it will be widely distributed!”

A Spanish version of the MPP was launched in 2015. You can get your Spanish copy here.

Vendor Power

Clair Beltran — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:28:17 -0400

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Did you know you can get a $1,000 ticket for parking more than 18 inches from the curb? When you’re earning an average of $14,000 a year, as many of New York City’s street vendors do, that can really get in the way of making a living.

In 2009, The Street Vendor Project, designer Candy Chang, and CUP created this issue of Making Policy Public to decode the rules and regulations for New York’s 10,000 street vendors so they can understand their rights and avoid unnecessary fines.The poster uses simple graphics and minimal text — in the five languages most commonly spoken among NYC’s vendors — to explain some of the most-often violated laws.

CUP and Street Vendor Project staff and volunteers launched the project with a sweep through the five boroughs to distribute over a thousand copies of the poster in a single day. The document’s portable format makes it easy for vendors to keep them on-hand. Street Vendor Project members tell us they even show them to police when there’s a question about a specific law!

Street Vendor Project has distributed thousands of copies to its members, and other organizations that deal with street vendor issues are using them, too.

Update: After years of fighting against Mayor Bloomberg and his $1,000 fines on hard-working street vendors, Street Vendor Project successfully campaigned to have City Council reduce the maximum vendor fine for minor offenses to $500. That’s still a lot of money for a street vendor violation, but this success demonstrates the growing power of the vendor community.

You can get a Vendor Power! of your own here!

What You Need To Know About Acs

Clair Beltran — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:33:33 -0400

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One of the scariest things that can happen to a parent is a knock on the door from the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), the agency responsible for investigating reports of child abuse and neglect. While ACS provides support services for families, they also have the power to remove children from their parents. Because many of the things that can trigger an ACS investigation are indistinguishable from other issues faced by families struggling with poverty, low-income parents are far more likely to be investigated than other parents.

To get the best results for their family, parents have to decide when to cooperate with ACS, and when to assert their rights – and that’s a tough decision to make. To help parents find this balance and know their rights, Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) teamed up with CUP and designer Manuel Miranda to create What You Need To Know About ACS – Parents’ Rights When Dealing With the NYC Administration for Children’s Services.

The poster also breaks down the complex and difficult to navigate ACS investigation process, so parents know what’s coming, and provides the tools to help parents know when and how to assert their rights. Parents can use the guide to prepare themselves during the steps in the investigation before their case goes to Family Court — where they can access legal assistance.

BDS launched the guide at one of their community offices to parents involved in the ACS process, advocates for parents, and general community members. BDS is distributing the guide directly to their clients, and through their network of social service partners and community organizations.

Get your own copy here!

"It is the most authentic document I’ve ever run across in all of my time since I first encountered ACS [in 1996]… This is really important.” – Community Member

Yours To Keep

siyona ravi — Thu, 30 May 2019 11:54:15 -0400

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While the peak of the foreclosure crisis has passed, thousands of New York City homeowners are still at risk of losing their homes. With the rising cost of living, unemployment rates, consumer debt, and predatory practices in the mortgage lending industry, low- and middle-income homeowners — often concentrated in communities of color — are especially vulnerable.

Foreclosure is a complex process filled with filing deadlines, court dates, and confusing interactions with mortgage servicers. But what is a foreclosure? And what does a homeowner need to know to keep their home?

CUP teamed up with the Legal Aid Society and design studio Work By All to create Yours to Keep, a bilingual, foldout poster in English and Spanish. By introducing players involved and breaking down key steps in the foreclosure process, the poster helps homeowners in NYC understand their legal rights and options to keep their homes.

The Legal Aid Society is distributing the guide at its weekly Foreclosure Prevention Clinics in the Bronx and Queens — the boroughs with the highest foreclosure rates in the city.

Es Tu Dinero Decides Tu

leigh taylor — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:27:04 -0400

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There are so many different ways to borrow, save, spend, and get money—from informal services like check cashers to more mainstream services like banks and credit unions. What’s the difference between them? Navigating the dizzying array of services can be overwhelming, particularly for non-English speakers. Though access to the mainstream banking system is fundamentally linked to economic prosperity, immigrants in the United States broadly lack such access.

CUP collaborated with Remás and designers Mary Voorhees Meehan and Neil Donnelly to create Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú to dispel some of the myths about financial services and give immigrants the tools to make choices that expand their financial opportunities. The publication demystifies some common questions about banking and immigration status, and offers detailed pros and cons of formal and informal financial services. The publication is currently available in Spanish, English and Bangla.

CUP and Remás launched the Spanish language MPP at a members’ meeting at Si Se Puede, an immigrant women’s housecleaning cooperative in Sunset Park. Remás is now distributing the publication to financial literacy organizations, consulates, and local businesses in Sunset Park.

CUP and Chhaya CDC launched the Bangla language MPP in 2014.

“Sometimes, the [banking] information is all in small print. And it’s hard to analyze your options. Americans always investigate down to the tiniest print. We should do the same. I’d like my community to be just as informed.” – Sandra, Si Se Puede member

You can get your your English language copy here, Spanish language copy here, and your Bangla language copy here.

Immigrants Ny

Clair Beltran — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:25:25 -0400

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Undocumented immigrants and their families are often vulnerable to illegal police tactics and citizenship scams. But there are basic rights and protections that all immigrants in New York State – regardless of their immigration status – have when interacting with ICE and applying for citizenship.

CUP teamed up with The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and designer Luiza Dale to create Immigrants & NY, a fold-out poster in English, Spanish, and French. The illustrated poster guides immigrants in New York State on how to avoid immigration scams, protect their families when interacting with ICE, and create a plan for their family in the event of deportation.

Immigrants & NY launched at one of New York Immigration Coalition’s Key to the City events, a monthly fair they host around the city to help immigrants access resources. Thousands of copies of the guide are being distributed across New York City and State through their coalition members.