As New York Fracking Moratorium Nears expiration, Activists Vow to Take Action
Hundreds of clinched fists were raised Wednesday afternoon at Albany’s Empire Convention Center. Behind a security checkpoint defended by…
The Indypendent
Peter Rugh
Hurricane Sandy Relief Turns to Protest
The stakes are high for people in the Rockaways. More than month and a half after Superstorm Sandy, winter…
Low-Wage Workers Rising Up in New York City
A line typically forms at the door of this Wendy’s in Downtown Brooklyn during lunch hour. Not today. That’s…
Low-Wage Workers Rising Up in New York City
The line typically forms at the door of this Wendy’s in Downtown Brooklyn during lunch hour. Not today. That’s…
Strike Launches Largest Union Drive in U.S. Fast Food History
While the emblems of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, KFC, Domino’s and other greasy dynasties are hard to escape in…
Struggles, New and Old, Emerge in Sandy’s Wake
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York…
Climate Change Lifts the Lid Off Inequality in New York City
On Tuesday morning, as New Yorkers were beginning to vote, 60 polling stations had been either destroyed or turned…
Building An Environmental Movement As Radical As Reality Itself
“System Shutdown,” read the screen above the Times Square subway entrance on Sunday afternoon. A gray sky had consumed…
Occupy Rebounds on the Strength of Environmental Solidarity
On the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, members of America’s wealthiest 1 percent were rounded up in…
Thousands Flock to Albany, Delivering a Pledge to Resist Fracking
Several thousand people flooded New York’s state capital Monday, delivering letters to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office containing pledges to…
