Release Them Now… Or Expect a Massive COVID-19 Outbreak on Rikers Island
Drastic action is needed, writes the Central Brooklyn state Senate candidate Jabari Brisport.
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A Waiter’s Story: How COVID-19 Cost Me My Job & My Work Community
Here’s the view from inside one family-run establishment.
A View From Inside Rikers Island, Where Coronavirus is Spreading Behind Bars
The Indypendent spoke with an inmate at the Rikers Island on multiple occasions over the weekend. A participant in…
Solidarity In Action: Coronavirus Mutual Aid Networks Spring Up Across NYC
A table on Gates Avenue in Bed-Stuy offers free vegetable seedlings. Someone on Facebook announces they want to be…
Op-Ed: Don’t Let Coronavirus Further Cuomo and de Blasio’s War on Our Communities
COVID-19 is devastating our city like an invisible and deadly tornado. Small businesses are shutting down, while many workers…
Inmates on Rikers Island are Fighting for Soap: How to Show Solidarity and Prevent Corona’s Spread
You can’t practice social distancing in jail.
Vox Pop: How New Yorkers are Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Indypendent’s Carrie Klein hit the pavement this week, gauging how New Yorkers are responding to the threat of…
Calls Grow For Older Inmates, At High Risk of Coronavirus, to Be Released
Public health experts and prisoner advocacy organizations are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to take…
Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, New York Nurses Union Warns of ‘Extreme Understaffing’
As the coronavirus continues to spread in New York and around the world, we hear a lot about the…
Not Digging It: Unpopular Pipeline Sparks North Brooklyn Ire
In front of Victorino Cleaners on Moore Street, the pavement is jagged and cars are absent. Since April 2018,…
