Ending the ICE Age
Two new books shed light on 30 years of struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and beyond.
The Indypendent
Renée Feltz
Overseers Everywhere—Still We Rise
In his new book, “The Overseer Class” Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the skulls of their own.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani may have the momentum to finally push forward a “Trash Revolution” that stalled under past administrations.
Following Mamdani’s recent push to clean the city, let’s look back to the garbage movement of the 1960s
Book Review: How We Lost Roe to an Anti-Choice Minority
Amy Littlefield engages readers with a mystery novel-like structure of her investigation into the downfall of Roe v. Wade
Many New Yorkers now carry a whistle to sound the alarm when they see teams of armed masked agents…
Like the unlawful domestic intercepts that the PATRIOT Act secretly authorized, critics say these new attacks on dissent and the right to freedom of speech and association pose more of a threat to the stability of the country than the Antifa menace Trump tries to conjure up — which is a far cry from its glory days.
Rejecting the Southernification of MLK
Historian Jeanne Theoharis was in Los Angeles, scouring old copies of Black newspapers for coverage of the city’s Civil…
Petrostate Stalemate: COP29 Report Back
In Azerbaijan, rich nations and their fossil-fuel industry lobbyists faced off on one side with poor nations and climate activists on the other
Encampment arrestees confront legal system with solidarity.