Second Half of July Events Calendar
Poetry, dance, music, museum exhibits and more.
The Indypendent
New York City
Chelsea NYCHA Tenants Urge Halt to Plans to Demolish Their Homes
Residents of the Chelsea-Elliot and Fulton Houses warn that the city’s plan to tear down their current buildings and replace them with new ones is a land grab that will permanently displace them.
Participants talk about why they cherish an event that centers dykes and embodies the spirit of pride, which is protest.
Tenants Jeer Rent Guidelines Board As It Approves New Round of Rent Hikes
“We’re already making every penny stretch,” said one tenant after the RGB voted for rent increases of as much as 6% for nearly one million rent-stabilized New York City apartments.
New York Tenants Demand ‘Rollbacks Not Hikes’ at Rent Guidelines Board Hearing in Brooklyn
Ahead of the Rent Guidelines Board’s final vote on June 21, tenants gathered in St. Francis College’s auditorium to…
NYPD’s Internal Trial of Two Killer Cops Became a Theater of the Absurd
The New York Police Department sure has a funny idea of what justice looks like.
Exonerated 5 Member Yusef Salaam Returns to Harlem to Run for City Council
Salaam is easily the most progressive candidate in a race that also features two veteran state legislators. Plus, ‘Who are the Exonerated 5?’
On June 3, 2020, Floyd was experiencing a mental-health crisis while being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Guards responded by blasting him with several canisters of pepper spray.
This is Not a Watermelon: A Brooklyn-Palestine Solidarity Event in Dialogue with Protest Art
‘Making sure we remember every possible way — through education, through music, through dance, through art — is a part of resistance.’
As City budget negotiations commence tomorrow, all departments are on the chopping block except the NYPD, with many community programs at risk of being cut.