July 1, 2016 We had 15 union members off to Las Vegas this past week for the conference of our parent union, the National Organization of Legal Services Workers. Here we are with UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner. We heard a personal address from Elizabeth Warren: We were inspired by progressive elected officials from […]

June 24, 2016 “In the old melting pot streets of the New York’s Lower East Side — at Mobilization for Youth [now MFY]… — the poor are treated not as charity cases but as clients….There may be no busier group of practitioners in the city.” This 1968 New York Times Magazine article profiled MFY (then known […]

June 17, 2016We honor the passing of Afeni Shakur Davis, the mother of Tupac Shakur, who worked as a paralegal at Bronx Legal Services and was a Legal Services Staff Association union member in the 1970s and early 1980s before moving out of state. Long-time Bronx Legal Services staff members remember Afeni as a radical […]

June 17, 2016 At the beginning of June, LSNYC and MFY learned that the proposed City Council budget reflected a severe cut to significant immigration funding. This IOI (Immigrant Opportunities Initiatives) funding was money that both legal services providers had been receiving for a number of years and had come to count on. LSNYC was […]