Issue 270
The Indypendent
Issue 270
Mar 31, 2022
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In these doom-laden times, a Bob Marley song tells us what we need to know.
The City’s plan to move 250,000 retired municipal workers from Medicare to an inferior, privately run plan has been thwarted for now.
Welcome to the New Cold War and the Return of Nuclear Brinkmanship
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought back unsettling memories of the Cold War and the nuclear brinkmanship that came with it.
As Historic Election Begins, Meet the Workers Who Built a Union at Amazon’s Staten Island Complex
Today kicks off the first day of a five-day union election at Staten Island’s largest Amazon warehouse, JFK8. Meet some of the Amazon workers who are determined to win the election and transform how the company treats its workers.
Get Ready for a Government-Engineered Increase in Unemployment
The Federal Reserve’s plan to begin raising interest rates this month to fight inflation will harm millions of working class Americans. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Chile Shows How Social Movements Can Win Elections
Gabriel Boric was sworn in today as Chile’s most leftwing president since Salvador Allende. Chileans’ commitment to replacing the country’s neoliberal constitution shaped last year’s presidential election.
In Search of Utopia: New Book Explores the Troubled History of America’s Intentional Communities
When teacher-writer Adrian Shirk began working on Heaven is a Place on Earth, she set out to create a…
As a child, Christina Zawerucha traveled on Saturday mornings to the East Village’s Little Ukraine district to immerse in her family’s Old World language and culture. Over the decades, her relationship to that culture became more complicated. One thing she was sure of until this past Thursday, she writes, is that Ukraine would always be there.
Homeless New Yorkers Respond to Mayor’s Plan to Boot Them from Subway System
“There’s got to be a better way to handle the situation,” says one homeless man who ended up on the streets following an eviction. “It’s inhumane to not let people sleep in the subway system.”