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Sick leave bill sparks rally
According to The Bureau of Labor, 37 percent of the lowest-income workers in the New York City area can’t take a single day off and get paid.
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Adopt a geranium
This event, which is part of Downtown Alliance’s larger Going Green Downtown initiative, provided free geraniums to anyone who lives in, works in or visits lower Manhattan, according to a press release from Downtown Alliance.
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Graffiti group memorializes the dead
Bronx group spray paints murals to memorialize the dead.
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Bronx morticians cope with humor
After days filled with burned, stabbed, shot and decapitated bodies, some Bronx morticians cope by maintaining a sense of humor.
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Domestic abuse survivor gives back
Wanda Roman, who escaped an abusive relationship, now counsels other domestic violence survivors.
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To protest domestic abuse, a 7-mile march
Domestic violence survivors, some wearing wedding veils, and anti-abuse advocates marched 7 miles through the Bronx.
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Activists: ‘Save your plastic bottles’
Every year, New Yorkers throw away 25,059 tons of recyclable plastic bottles in their household garbage, environmental activists say.
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Retirement home residents protest wars
Residents of a Manhattan retirement home protested the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on Saturday.
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Eight months later, little relief in Haiti
Eight months after an earthquake devastated Haiti, millions are still suffering, protesters said at a Saturday rally.
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Justice sought for death of Brooklyn man
Family and friends of a mentally ill man who died in 2008 after he was Tased by an NYPD officer held a candlelight vigil this week.