Invest in Long Island’s Communities, Close Riverhead Jail
Over the past decade, Suffolk County’s jails appeared in the media as sites of violence and neglect. If incarceration…
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Cracking ConEd’s Grip On Our Energy Supply and Replacing it With Public Power
Eight-hundred and sixty thousand people lost power when Tropical Storm Isaias hit New York City in early August. It…
Activists Visited PBA Head Pat Lynch’s Home to Demand Police Accountability
About 100 Black Lives Matter activists from Bayside, Queens and other anti-racist, abolitionist demonstrators visited the home of Patrick…
Note: This the sixth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Tali…
The Queens state senator decries “completely out of touch” Cuomo, says NY progressive movement weighing possible 2022 primary challenge to Governor 1%.
A Life-Long Fight For Justice Spurred Alvin Bragg Into the Manhattan DA Race
Note: This the fifth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Alvin…
The Progressive Insurgency Against the Democratic Machine Shows No Sign of Abating
Tremaine Wright served on her neighborhood’s community board for more than a decade before being elected to the State…
Tenant groups in New York and around the country urge lawmakers to cancel rent.
Public Defender and Reality TV Star Eliza Orlins Wants to Clean Up the Manhattan DA’s Office
Note: This the fourth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Eliza…
Street Riders NYC: The Roving Black Lives Matter Protest Pedaling Through a Neighborhood Near You
Fifteen thousand bicyclists converged on Gracie Mansion this July, protesting police brutality and racism and calling on Mayor Bill…
