Make the Road New York Fights to Ensure Respect and Dignity for New Yorkers
Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Make the Road New York (MRNY) is the result of a merger between two grassroots organizations with mutual goals. In 2007, the Latin American Integration Center and Make the Road by Walking merged to become MRNY and history is still being made. The merger of two of the Big Apple’s most effective and efficient grassroots organization was based on a strong natural partnership and resulted in a new state-level advocacy organization.
The result: MRNY, a new organization that combines the best of both worlds, namely, democratic responsibility and accountability toward low-income working people in New York, an innovative mix of principles and practices crucial in confronting social inequity and economic justice, and a strong sense of community among the stakeholders.
By combining the two grassroots organizations, MRNY is also building the power of both the working class community from its Make the Road by Walking component and the Latino community from its Latin American Integration Center part. MRNY has better tools in achieving dignity and justice for the communities that it serves, said tools of which are essential in the organization of people, innovation of policies, and transformative education as well as survival services.
The advocacy organization works in the following areas:
MRNY has achieved several notable goals including the launch of a campaign for the formation of unions in the car wash industry; the policy changes guaranteeing interpretation and translation of prescriptions in mail order pharmacies and pharmacy chains in the state; and the winning of a state Tenant Protection Unit designed to enforce the rights of tenants against lawless landlords, among others.
The result: MRNY, a new organization that combines the best of both worlds, namely, democratic responsibility and accountability toward low-income working people in New York, an innovative mix of principles and practices crucial in confronting social inequity and economic justice, and a strong sense of community among the stakeholders.
By combining the two grassroots organizations, MRNY is also building the power of both the working class community from its Make the Road by Walking component and the Latino community from its Latin American Integration Center part. MRNY has better tools in achieving dignity and justice for the communities that it serves, said tools of which are essential in the organization of people, innovation of policies, and transformative education as well as survival services.
The advocacy organization works in the following areas:
- Expanding civil rights
- Promoting health
- Winning workplace justice
- Improving housing
- Empowering the youth
- Improving public education
MRNY has achieved several notable goals including the launch of a campaign for the formation of unions in the car wash industry; the policy changes guaranteeing interpretation and translation of prescriptions in mail order pharmacies and pharmacy chains in the state; and the winning of a state Tenant Protection Unit designed to enforce the rights of tenants against lawless landlords, among others.
