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We Need You! Call us about many other upcoming & ongoing activities:
•Brooklyn Workers' Center: (718) 625-9092.
•Lower East Side Workers' Center: (212) 358-0295.
nmass@yahoo.com.


  • Press Conference Monday March 22, 2010: City-Backed 'Chinatown Working Group' Will Now Unite Lower East Side with Chinatown in Rezoning Plan - Latinos, African Americans and Chinese to Have Voice in Planning Process -- Call for 'Downzoning' to Protect Homes and Community. 11:30am at the LES Workers Center ... Read the Press Advisory (PDF) [03/21/2010]

  • "First Friday" Party - Celebrate International Women's Day. March 5, 7pm at the Brooklyn Workers' Center. Featuring DJ Namsung... Read more [03/04/2010]

  • "First Friday" Party - Karaoke Night! February 5, 7pm at the Brooklyn Workers' Center. Drinks, Food, Singing... Read more [01/31/2010]

  • Latino, Chinese, & African-American Working Families Announce Plans for the Rezoning of the Lower East Side and Chinatown. In a press conference on Wednesday, January 20th members of the Chinatown & the Lower East Side community spoke out against the displacement of Latino, Chinese and African-American people....Read more. [1/20/2010]

  • Friday January 8, 7pm - Kick off the New Year With NMASS - Dance Party Featuring DJ Namsung!...Read more. [12/23/2009]
  • First Friday December 4, Holiday Party - 7pm at the Lower East Side Workers Center...Read more. [12/01/2009]
  • First Friday Party Nov. 6 - Celebrate Rising Resistance to Bloomberg's Displacement of People of Color...Read more. [11/01/2009]
  • October 24 - Screening and Discussion of Political Developments in Venezuela and Ecuador - In light of the latest political developments in Latin America, members of NMASS will present a film and lead a discussion about examples of organizing taking place across the continent...Read more. [10/22/2009]
  • Yoga Classes, Health Classes, and Flea Market Fundraising Events... Read more. [10/15/2009]
  • Happy Hour Fundraiser Thurs. Oct. 1 2009 at Forbidden City Bar in the East Village - Help NMASS buy our new permanent space for the Lower East Side Workers' Center...Read more. [9/27/2009]
  • Tues. Aug. 11 - Join the Ain't I a Woman?!? Campaign & Garment Workers in a Protest Against Great Wall Corp. and Sliver Fashion. We Demand Manufacturer Accountability and an End to Retaliation... Read more. [08/10/2009]

  • NMASS Annual Summer Picnic at Sunken Meadow Park...Read more. [08/02/2009]

  • Latino Workers Sue Remi Restaurant for Wage Theft - The owners of Remi Restaurant have restaurants around the world, but force workers to work 70-100 hours/week, cheat them of overtime pay and charge them illegal fees... Read more. [6/26/2009]
  • Community Members & Workers Protest Museum of Chinese in America - Denounce Retaliatory Firing for Unionization and Racist Treatment of Workers like Coolies - On the first day the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) opens the doors of its new facilities, community members and workers will protest the museum's exploitative working conditions and retaliatory firing...Read more. [6/25/2009]
  • Support Nail Salon, Deli, and Other workers Fighting Sweatshop Conditions on the Upper West Side - Dear Friends and Supporters, the Justice Will Be Served! Campaign is calling on you to support beauty salon workers and other service workers in taking action against long hours, health issues and other employment problems they face... Read more. [6/16/2009]
  • Latinos and African-Americans Protest Exclusion by Bloomberg’s Chinatown Working Group from Community Planning - Lower East Side Community Speaks Up Against Displacement - On Monday, June 1st, at 6:30pm over 100 African-Americans, Latinos, NYCHA residents and other members of the Lower East Side community protested their exclusion by Mayor Bloomberg’s Chinatown Working Group... Read more. [06/01/2009]
  • First Fri., May 8 - Come to a video screening about the May 1 March for Equal Rights for All Workers - Find out how you can be part of a growing working people's movement to Tell President Obama to Repeal the Modern-Day Slave Law (aka, "Employers Sanctions")... Read more. [05/02/2009]
  • An Open Letter to Barack Obama - Dear President Obama: As you begin to take on the issue of immigration reform, we call on you to provide the leadership necessary to repeal the modern-day slave law that has devastated the lives of so many working people in this country: the Employer Sanctions Provisions... Read more. [05/01/2009]
  • March on May 1, 2009 - Tell Obama to Repeal the Modern Day Slave Law: Employer Sanctions - Equal Rights for All Workers! - Employers’ sanctions is a law that was passed 20 years ago in the name of punishing the employer, but in reality criminalizes immigrants and creates an underclass of labor who have no rights or protection under the law... Read More. [04/01/2009]

  • A Message from the JWBS! Campaign Regarding Ollie's Noodles and Sweatshop Conditions on the Upper West Side - Dear Sisters and Brothers... For many years Tsu Y. Wang has profited to the tune of millions of dollars from dozens of restaurants, such as Ollies' Noodle Shop & Grill/ Tomo Sushi/ Vine Sushi (formerly known as Café Swish), among many others.... Although the NY State Department of Labor has taken a good step towards recovering wages, they have only recovered a small percentage of what Wang stole from workers... Read more. [03/21/2009]

  • Friday May 2, 2008 - Come to a Special Mayday Celebration at our Brooklyn Workers' Center, 7pm. 93 Third Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. [4/18/2008]
  • Lower East Side Community Outdoor Film Screening Friday, July 2 -- 7-11PM Click for info
  • Open House Saturday May 22 4pm-8pm at The Lower East Side NMASS Workers' Center 77 Ludlow St. (between Grand & Broome in Manhattan)
    Food, refreshments, music and an opportunity to talk and find out more about NMASS. Call 212-358-0295 for more. F train to Delancey, walk 1 block west to Ludlow, turn left and walk 1&1/2 blocks south.
  • Hunger strike documentary to be included in the Worker Arts & Media Festival!
    Where: Cinema Classics Movie Theater at 332 E. 11th St.
    When: Sunday May 9, 2004 at 6pm
    Admission: $5
    The documentary about the 7-day hunger strike held last May by 14 injured workers outside Governor Pataki's office is being included in this evening of short films about recent worker actions around the world. The Worker Arts and Media Festival 2004 is
    organized by Mugsy Records and the Artist Worker Action League.
  • FRIDAY APRIL 2, 2004
    First Friday Party - Karaoke Night!
    DRINKS * FOOD * SINGING
    7pm @ NMASS' Lower East Side Workers' Center
    77 Ludlow St. in Manhattan
    Our monthly party is back! Call 212-358-0295 for info or just to let us know you're coming. F/J/M/Z trains to Delancey St, walk 1 block west on Delancey, left on Ludlow walk 1-1/2 blocks.

  • WEDNESDAY MARCH 31, 2004
    Had Enough of Pataki & LMDC?
    SAVE THE LOWER EAST SIDE NOW!
    PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY
    12 p.m. at 250 Broadway (across from City Hall)
    Call NMASS Lower East Side Workers' Center at (212) 358-0295 for more information and to get involved in the fight to save our community!
    [03.29.2004]
    Click here for full info

  • SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2004
    RISING FROM OUR HARDSHIP: Hunger Strike For Our Health
    VIDEO SCREENING
    7:00PM - 8:30PM @ the American Indian Community House, 404 Lafayette Ave, 8th Floor (btwn W. 4th & Astor Pl.)
    click for full info... (Updated 2/26/04)

  • Saturday, October 18, 5pm-8pm
    Come celebrate recent victories we've achieved together!
    Enjoy food and conversation and check out our new Workers Center in Lower Manhattan.
    77 Ludlow St. between Grand and Broome. Take the F Train to Delancey/Essex, walk one block west along Delancey to Ludlow and walk south on Ludlow for 1-1/2 blocks. Call NMASS at (718) 625-9091 to RSVP by Friday October 17.

  • Tuesday, October 14, 2003
    Read About Last Years' Attack on Injured Workers and Organizers.
    Come to the trial of two of those arrested for marching
    Affirm Our First Amendment Right to Speak Out for Our Health.
    Vans & cars leave the NMASS Brooklyn Center at 30 Third Ave. 5:30am.
    The trial begins at 9am at the Albany Courthouse on Morton Avenue.

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