Issue 249
The Indypendent
Help us reach our 40K goal. We're more than halfway there already!
Issue 249
Aug 7, 2019
Download PDF
In ‘One Foot In the Grave’ Working-Class Heroes Fight Zika
A working-class hero is something to be,” sang John Lennon, author and activist, Timothy Sheard proves him right in…
No Borders For These Critters: Climate Change Spurs a Great Migration
Climate change will have a profound impact on where people live and work in the 21st century. In fact,…
Trapped in Malta: The Mediterranean Island is Putting Refugees Between a Rock & a Hard Place
“Everyone was so scared on the boat,” says Bokretsion Gebrekidan, a 39-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker, recounting his journey from…
Spike in Traffic Deaths has Cyclists Wondering if NYC Drivers have License to Kill
When 30-year-old Em Samolewicz was killed on Brooklyn’s Third Avenue on July 29, after she was hit by a…
It Was Slated to be a Natural Gas Terminal, Then Environmentalists Raised their Voices
Everything appeared to have been worked out. A $25,000 donation had been made to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign…
Meet the Tenants Fighting Barberry Rose Management, Landlord From Hell
New York State passed laws in June that dramatically strengthened its rent regulations, but tenants in Inwood are still…
“Kids in Cages” at the Border Find Terra Firma in the Bronx
Unaccompanied children who come alone from Central America to seek asylum in the United States have complex legal, medical…
Sewing Dissent with Textile Artist Diana Weymar
The words, stitched in black, glare out from the center of a handkerchief, decorated with a motif of pink…
How Trump Uses Fear Of Immigrants To Stoke Civil War
In Minnesota, officers smashed a car window and dragged the undocumented worker out. The ICE raids to deport some…
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…
Trump Goes To Hades as Theater for the New City Takes to the Streets
During the 1970s, Theater for the New City played a crucial role in Off-Off-Broadway’s emergence, revolutionizing New York City…
Thursday marks the nine-year anniversary of a brutally violent street fight on the usually placid streets of Park Slope.…
Brooklynites Rally to Save Former Underground Railroad Hub at 227 Duffield St. From Demolition
The street is lined with highrises. Only one three-story building remains today, a reminder of this downtown Brooklyn block’s…
It’s crucial for us to raise $40,000 in our annual, year-end fund drive. We’re more than one-third of the way there but have a ways to go. Please give today so that we can continue providing the smart, fearless journalism you expect from us.