Wednesday, June 24, 2020— Make the Road NV and school personnel joined the Youth Power Project leaders as they gathered in front of Desert Pines High School to combat the school-to-prison pipeline and call for the defunding of the Clark County School District Police Department. Angelica who is part of support staff in an elementary school, her role is to give …
The death of George Floyd sent shockwaves through the world as well as within the states. His death was a result of police brutality, an ongoing issue in America. Too many black and brown lives before him have died at the hands of the police. Many of the officers involved in excessive use of force that resulted in the murder …
A long history of segregation and racism has instilled systemic racism that in recent years has become even more prevalent due to the internet and sharing platforms. These issues are not sporadic or new, but they have always been. As a society, we now are banding together, regardless of differences, to reintroduce the conversation of racism and systemic racism to …
A message from the executive director Leo Murrieta of Make the Road NV View this post on Instagram A post shared by Make the Road NV (@maketheroadnv) on Jun 5, 2020 at 6:46pm PDT “As a community built up of Brown and Black people who are continually being demonized, harassed, whose families are ripped apart, and murdered by …
Every Monday and Thursday for the past few weeks, DACA recipients wake to the possibility that they will lose their protected status due to the pending Supreme Court decision. As another Monday passes, the uncertainty continues for DACA recipients. Ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program now would leave many mixed-status families at risk during this COVID-19 pandemic. Not …
For Make the Road Nevada (MRNV), the new year has started off with a big fight for housing. Beginning Thursday, January 9th, the Las Vegas community showed up to Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s State of the City to oppose her continued criminalization of the homeless population in Las Vegas. The following Wednesday the 15th of January, we showed up to protest …
On August 26-28th 2019 Make the Road Nevada showed up to the People’s Convention with the Center for Popular Democracy affiliates from across the country in Detroit with over 60 members. On Friday, the first day for MRNV started with a march to the Cobo Center, where everyone was welcome with a party of people dancing to drums. As the event …
Three mass shootings rocked the nation in less than one week, resulting in over 40 innocent lives being violently ripped from their families and more than 70 injured. Las Vegas knows all too well what a mass shooting can do to a community, the effects of the October 1st Route 91 massacre are still fresh in the minds and lives …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nevada’s Legislative Session Wraps up Las Vegas, NV – Since the beginning of the 80th Nevada legislative session, Make the Road Nevada (MRNV) members focused their organizing efforts to pass policies around economic, immigrant, and housing justice. In coalition with partners like Time to Care Nevada (TCNV) and the Nevada Immigrant Coalition (NIC), we achieved landmark policies …
Many survivors, undocumented workers from the October 1 Massacre in Las Vegas and Make the Road Nevada members gathered outside the police headquarters on June 12 to meet with the sheriff of Clark County, Joe Lombardo. For the past eight months, shortly after the Route 91 country music festival shooting occur, Make the Road Nevada together with other partners in …