The ABCs of Austerity: Adult Literacy Classes Face Budget Axe
Julio Forbes sneaks into the intermediate ESL class almost half an hour late, red folder in hand and ready…
The Indypendent
New York
ICE Breakers: Public Defenders are Standing Up for their Undocumented Clients in More Ways than One
The increasing detention of undocumented immigrants inside New York City courthouses is spurring protests from the public defenders who…
New York’s sort-of-third party has won some big victories in the past two decades but its future is uncertain after defying Andrew Cuomo and his labor allies to endorse Cynthia Nixon.
Saheed Vassell: Killed by Gentrification?
An influx of affluent white residents and police abuses often go hand-in-hand, but the reality, in this case, may be murkier.
Demanding Renewables Not Pipelines, Environmentalists are Heading to Albany
That’s it, we’re storming the castle. On April 23, thousands of New Yorkers are showing up at Gov. Andrew…
Crown Heights Residents Demand Justice for Saheed Vassell
Joey Katabi, who works at Carroll Street Food Corp on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, offered a lighter to…
After Suicides, Calls for Reforming New York’s Ride-For-Hire Industry
There have been four suicides in New York’s ride-for-hire industry in four months: livery drivers Danilo Corporan Castillo and…
Albany. Here in Gotham we rarely think of this quiet city of 100,000 people that lies on the west…
A coalition of progressive state legislators and legal organizations is campaigning for legislation to repeal New York State’s “blindfold…
Meet Marty Stolar, a Lawyer Who Carries Protests into the Courtroom
At the point where a demonstration is marching and if I turn right I’m going into an arrest situation…