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‘Care Not Cuts’: Broad Coalition Objects To $2.5 Billion Budget Cuts At City Hall Press Conference
Educators, Doctors, Social Workers, and Parents protested Mayor Adams’ November financial plan, which would cut $2.5 billion from all city agencies except for the Police, Fire and Sanitation Departments, putting many of the city’s essential social services at risk.
What The New School Adjunct Faculty Strike Means for One MFA Student
I’ve always wanted to be a writer, but my faculty is on strike. Little did I know that just…
Part-time faculty’s demands for a raise to address inflation are being ignored, even though management salaries increased by 45% between 2014 and 2019.
New Yorkers Protest China’s COVID Lockdown And Government Repression
Chinese protesters in New York call for an end to China’s zero-COVID lockdowns and fear retaliation from the Chinese government even from thousands of miles away.
Richard Fierro Is a Hero, but Let’s Not Overlook LGBTQ+ Activists Doing the Work
The public’s enthusiasm for a straight savior in the Colorado Springs Nightclub mass shooting says a lot about who we are able to see as heroes.
Workers Bring Black Friday Protest to Jeff Bezos’ Manhattan Mansion
On Friday, Nov. 25 around 11 a.m., dozens of workers-rights protesters in New York City gathered on the corner…
Sunset Park-Based Group Runs Outdoor Market and Political Education
Mexicanos Unidos operates a weekly unpermitted open-air market in Sunset Park. It also runs a radical political education program for its working-class immigrant members.
How the New York Democrats’ Midterm Debacle Unfolded and What Comes Next
A cascading series of blunders by leading NY Democrats handed half of Congress to the Republicans. Can the state party’s dysfunction be reversed?
Kingston Rent Guidelines Board Cuts Rents by 15%!
Landlords are outraged by the first-ever rollback.
History’s first fascist regime violently seized power in Italy in 1922. It continues to inspire the far right a century later.