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A Parisian Present Intrudes on a Long Island Past in Mary Fleming’s ‘Art of Regret’
At the start of Mary Fleming’s insightful second novel, The Art of Regret, Paris resident Trevor McFarquhar is something…
Weekly NYC Events Calendar: Oct. 3–9
The Indypendent’s curated events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. Sign-up for our regular e-newsletter and…
Building a Solidarity Economy in Jackson, Mississippi
The sun beats down on a mostly unoccupied shopping complex, surrounded by food banks and homeless shelters. On a…
‘Fighting Forward’ with Cooperative Power in the Bronx
The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative’s headquarters are on a side street off Fordham Road, the borough’s main shopping strip.…
New Yorkers Unite in Outrage as Trump Comes to Town
Hundreds of New Yorkers found themselves “United in Outrage” following the United Nations Climate Action Summit ahead of the…
Community ‘Buries’ a Plan to Destroy East River Park
Amid giant puppets and the wail of bagpipes, a crowd of 300 Lower East Side residents marched through their…
Weekly NYC Events Calendar: September 26 to October 2
The Indypendent’s curated events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. Sign-up for our regular e-newsletter and…
Voices of the NYC Climate Strike
“If it’s true that the US military is the world’s biggest polluter, then I think we need to do…
Dispatch From the NYC Climate Strike
They put the number at 300,000 — but who knows? The important thing wasn’t the number. A new generation…
Millions Take Part in the Largest Climate Strike Ever, in NYC and Around the Globe
A quarter-million people joined the strike in New York alone.