
Our Top Stories of 2017 — 52 Reasons to Support The Indy


Check out 52 of The Indypendent’s best articles from 2017 — one for each week of the year — as we look back at our coverage of a dizzying 12 months that brought a racist orange-haired troll and his fellow kleptocrats into the highest levels of government and millions of people into the streets.
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The Staff of The Indypendent
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The Best of The Indy 2017
RESISTING TRUMP AND THE FAR RIGHT
Why We March
Afef Nasher | Elizabeth Press | Quon | Ann Schneider
75 Years for Protesting in Black?
Alex Kane
#Disrupt J20 Defendants Found Not Guilty
Gary Roland
No Finish Line in Sight: An Interview with Naomi Klein
John Tarleton
How to Confront the Right … and Win
Mike Ben Zev, Linda Martín Alcoff and Nicholas Powers
Talking to Your Kids About Charlottesville
Rebecca from Brooklyn
A Year of Living Dangerously (in Trump’s America)
Danny Katch
WOMEN IN REVOLT
Working-Class Women Say ‘#MeToo’
Camila Quarta
Finally Heard
Linda Martín Alcoff
The Politics of the Oppressed: An Interview with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Indypendent Staff
Poem: The Revolution
Eileen Myles
The Soviet Union’s Forgotten Feminist Revolution
Ann Schneider
ORGANIZING FOR POWER
The New Socialist Movement Taking Root in Brooklyn
Peter Rugh
Building Resistance on Trump Island
Jane Latour
Khader El Yateem, Man vs. Machine
Peter Rugh
Expanding the Electorate
Steven Wishnia
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
‘Walk With Me’
Renée Feltz
Where Moms and Kids Go Straight to Jail
Renée Feltz
These Dreams Won’t Be Deferred
Astha Rajvanshi
NEW YORK CITY LIFE
Why Your Commute Sucks
Peter Rugh
Statues We Love
Federico di Pasqua
Inside the Belly of New York’s Restaurant Beast
Gordon Glasgow
Manal Kahi Offers a Taste of the World
Indypendent Staff
Cuomo’s “Free” Tuition Plan is a Racist Snub to CUNY Students
Amir Khafagy
People of Color Fight For a Place in New York’s Money-driven Arts Ecosystem
Maya Chung
The Life & Death of a Newspaper
Steve Wishnia
De Blasio Reconsidered: An Interview with Juan González
John Tarleton
Not Your Grandpa’s Payphone
Jesse Rubin
NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AND GENTRIFICATION
Gentrification Prime: How Big Tech is sparking fears of mass displacement in the city
Peter Rugh
Jerk Chicken Vs. Gentrification
Colin Kinniburgh
Home Sweet Home: Low-income Tenants Win Right to Lawyer at Housing Court
Lauren Kaori Gurley
The Prospect Park Hotel
Rico Cleffi
PUERTO RICO
Solidarity in Action: Puerto Rico Relief Efforts Underway in New York
Lenina Nadal
A Storm More Severe: Disaster Capitalists Descend on Debt-ravaged Puerto Rico
Joel Cintrón Arbasetti
Island Of Light, Island of Shadow: My Journey Home to Puerto Rico
Nicholas Powers
P is For Privatization
Camille Baker & Lydia McMullen-Laird
NATIONAL
Life in the Balance: The Human Body has Become a Battleground of Meaning, Again
Nicholas Powers
Black Power Takes Root in the Heart of Dixie: An Interview with Kali Akuno
Marisa Anne Day
Here’s What Real Tax Reform Looks Like
Paddy Quick
Where Did the Peace Movement Go?
Ethan Young
INTERNATIONAL
Trump Through Mexican Eyes
Laura Carlsen
Colombia’s Precarious Peace
Mario Murillo
We’re All in the Same Boat: A DIY Lifeguard Crew Takes to the Mediterranean Sea to Aid Refugees
Elia Gran
The Revolt That Shook the World: What we can learn from the Russian Revolution and its subsequent demise
Pete Doleck
REVIEWS
L.A. Kauffman Gets the Goods
Steven Sherman
Dawn of the Social Thriller
Mark Read
One-Size-Fits-All Feminism?
Lauren Kaori Gurley
Sheer Punk Love
Brady O’Callahan
Queer Life Through the Ages
Gena Hymowech
Growth Sputters to a Crawl
Bennett Baumer
Police Are the Problem, Not the Solution
Michael Hirsch
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Photo credit (top): Elisha Terada.