Issue 230

Issue 230
Nov 16, 2017
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Reviewed:
‘The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government and Cheap Lives’
By Bryant Simon
New Press, 2017
Reviewed:
‘Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change’
By Ashley Dawson
Verso, 2017
Taking a Knee, Keeping Hope Alive
Dear Reverend Billy, I can’t believe it’s been one year since Trump was elected. It feels like we fell…
Reviewed:
‘Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo’
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Reviewed:
‘Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
‘And The Weak Suffer What They Must?’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Nation Books, 2016
Maybe it is Thanksgiving, maybe it is Friendsgiving. You’ve been bragging all over town about the feast you are…
The MTA’s Next Big Boondoggle?
A $574 million contract was awarded to the company that botched Chicago’s digital fare rollout.
The Gospel and R&B legend once again plants her flag in the resistance.
Working-Class Women Say ‘#MeToo’
In the days and weeks since evidence of Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long pattern of sexual abuse surfaced, millions of women,…
November-December Community Events
SUN NOV 19 12PM–6PM • $2 suggested donation LIT: ZINE LAUNCH Got a Girl Crush — a blog and…
A Year of Living Dangerously (in Trump’s America)
It’s been a year since hell froze over. This should be a moment of sober reflection, but it’s still…
A Chance at New Life for an LES Community Hub
After fighting for almost 20 years to save and regain a beloved neighborhood community space, Lower East Side activists…
Listen to the November/December Indypendent
Indy contributors Gordon Glasgow, Camila Quarta, Nicholas Powers, Bennett Baumer, Nancy Romer, Brady O’Callahan, Federico Di Pasqua and Reverend Billy Talen read from their work.
What the Hell Does it Take to Convict a Cop of Murdering a Civilian in America?
Earlier this month, jurors at the New York State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn considered what, under different circumstances,…
Still Subversive: Punk Turns 40
Much is being made this year over the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. And rightly so. For all…
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