A Waiter’s Story: How COVID-19 Cost Me My Job & My Work Community
Here’s the view from inside one family-run establishment.
The Indypendent
Amba Guerguerian
Inmates on Rikers Island are Fighting for Soap: How to Show Solidarity and Prevent Corona’s Spread
You can’t practice social distancing in jail.
Vox Pop: Reactions to Coronavirus From Around the World
Here’s how people young and old are learning to live with COVID-19 and the global disruption it has caused.…
Vox Pop: Fears of Coronavirus Mount in Working-Class Queens
This weekend, The Indypendent’s Amba Guerguerian spoke with residents of Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens over their mounting concerns…
Calls Grow For Older Inmates, At High Risk of Coronavirus, to Be Released
Public health experts and prisoner advocacy organizations are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to take…
The Fight to Preserve New York’s Numerous Languages
The auditorium at Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan was crowded with about one hundred people, helping themselves to the hot…
ICE Melt: Sunset Park Activists Respond to Feds Increasingly Aggressive Tactics
Early morning patrols distribute know-your-rights information in heavily immigrant neighborhoods
After ICE Shooting, New Yorkers Question Whether New York is a ‘Sanctuary City’ Afterall
A group of about 100 demonstrators gathered outside of Maimonides Medical Center on Friday afternoon in Borough Park, Brooklyn,…
