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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.”
NY State Must End Subsidies for Powerful Chinatown Non-Profit That Exploits Home Attendants
The Chinese-American Planning Council receives more than $200 million per year from Albany while engaging in rampant worker abuse and wage theft. Now, its legislative allies are trying to steer more money its way.
A grieving widow and an untamable horse are at the center of this heartfelt meditation on freedom, love, patience and compromise.
CUNY Adjuncts Dish Out Demands at “Brunch with Felo”
CUNY Chancellor has devastated student enrollment, faculty jobs with rigid in-person teaching requirement, protesters say from in front of his home.
“Occupy The Breakroom!” Amazon Union Prepares for Election Showdown at Staten Island Warehouse
Only the second time that Amazon workers have forced a union election against their notoriously anti-union employer.
After 10 Months, Teamsters Still on Strike at Brooklyn Oil Terminal
Ten dollar an hour pay disparity fuels oil terminal workers battle with billionaire boss.
Reverend Billy’s Revelations: Looking Back on the Long Struggle to Unionize Starbucks
“We sip our cappuccinos on the shoulders of giants,” Reverend Billy says in this month’s advice column.
Human History, Retold by David Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber’s final book is an epic, ambitious romp through the past 30,000 years of social evolution.
The US is Reaping What it Sowed in Ukraine
Will the prospect of a 21st Century version of the Cuban Missile Crisis be enough to bring America’s irresponsible leaders to their senses?