Art From Ashes: The Refugee Teachers of Moria

When Europe's largest refugee camp burned down in September 2020, leaving more than 10,000 people displaced, a couple — as two art teachers — look back on their journey, their dreams, and their mission of education.

Directed and Produced by: Albert Han and Ero Partsakoulaki

In Fear of Deportation

When the risk of getting deported is always present, it’s hard for a teen to live a normal life.

Usually coming home from school is an ordinary and harmless journey for children. They aren’t likely to fear that they might not make it home after the school day ends. For years, so it was for Liz, a 14 year-old high school student who arrived illegally in the United States with her parents 10 years ago. It isn’t so normal for her any more. During the last three years, ever since Donald Trump became president, everything has changed.

Now, her biggest fear is an unexpected ICE raid happening at her school. Something that could lead to her immediate arrest and deportation. She lives in fear that she and her parents can be deported at any moment, so she regularly watches the news and is prepared to seek help from her relatives in the United States at a moment’s notice in the event her parents get arrested.

She is one of the 11,300 undocumented immigrants who live in the United States. according to an estimate by the Migration Policy Institute. Her parents crossed the borders illegally from Mexico and arrived in the U.S. when she was four. Since then Liz has grown up as an ordinary American kid, dreaming of going to college and spending the rest of her life in the country where she grew up and now calls home.

Street Vendors will loose their spots in New York City's Flushing neighborhood

Α legislation limiting street vendors on sidewalks in Flushing will force almost 30 vendor carts to lose their spots and 100 vendors will go unemployed, according to the Street Vendor Project. The legislation was approved in September 2018 by the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing approving a proposed legislation and will take effect 180 days after it becomes law.

More Food Trucks in NYC?

Getting a vending permit to operate a food truck in New York City is a major challenge. The city has capped the licenses known as “citywide” permits at around 3,000 since the 1980s.