Hector Lavoe, A No Show, Again: A Review of the Film “El Cantante”
By Bennett Baumer El Cantante (2007) dir. Leon Ichaso Now playing in theaters From stoops and tenements throughout New…
The Indypendent
By Bennett Baumer El Cantante (2007) dir. Leon Ichaso Now playing in theaters From stoops and tenements throughout New…
The Good Fight Completed: Moe Fishman 1915-2007
By Bennett Baumer Mosess “Moe” Fishman was a great man. A truck driver and laundryman who had to drop…
Art: Rusty Zimmerman By Bennett Baumer Dave Zirin begins his new book Welcome To The Terrordome in the hellish…
You just moved into a new apartment that is overextending your budget, but the location is great and the…
Taking on the Mob: Jersey Dockworkers Tell Corrupt Union Bosses to Take Long Walk On Short Pier
Longshoremen from Local 1588 in Bayonne, NJ hope that upcoming elections herald the end of Mafia domination of their…
Fighting for Union Democracy / East Coast Vs. West Coast Longshore Workers
Longshoremen on the docks in Bayonne, NJ. Photo: Antrim Caskey UNION DEMOCRACY The Longshore Workers Coalition (LWC) is an…
Longshore Bigs Bicker Over Broken Benefits
Clockwise from top left: John Bowers, George Barrone, Al Cernadas, and Harold Daggett Since beating a labor racketeering rap…
Two good collections of essays on feminism, politics, race and culture are available for fireside reading during the holidays.…
The Tenant’s Voice: Indy Readers Fight Back
It pays to read The Indypendent – just ask beleaguered Brooklyn tenants fighting mass eviction and the “demolition” of…
Mob Rule: A Review of “Mobsters, Unions and Feds”
Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement by James B. Jacobs NYU Press 2006 From…