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A Tax Day Debate with Uncle Scam
A specter is haunting Midtown—and the specter’s name is Uncle Scam. In late March, U.S. stalked the No Kings…
Home Care Workers Announce Hunger Strike After Another City Council Delay On No More 24 Legislation
Council Speaker Julie Menin promised to workers that she would submit the bill to be voted on in April
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has sided with the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Members of a Brooklyn-based Teamsters local tried to go on the record with a vision of solidarity between all workers
Carl Miller Murder Conviction Overturned, 46 Years Later
Miller spent decades in prison insisting he did not kill Rabbi David Okunov in a high-profile 1979 murder in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
“When We Are Kin”: A Vision of Black-Native Solidarity
Historian Kyle T. Mays fluxes between pragmatism and idealism while recounting a history and future of collaboration and conflict between Black and Native Americans
“André Is an Idiot”: Laughing in the Face of Death
An eccentric 55-year-old man with a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis decides to make a documentary about his own demise
NYC Puerto Ricans Call on JPMorganChase to Cut Ties with Luxury Mega-Resort Project
Protesters say the 2,000-acre Esencia development would do irreversible harm to Cabo Rojo’s ecosystem and overrun the local working class community
Protest Buffer Zone Legislation Faces Hail of Criticism After City Council Passage
The legislation, passed by the city council last week, comes after pro-Palestine protestors demonstrated against the illegal sale of Palestinian land at synagogues
The US-Israel war on Iran is an epic disaster in the making.