Battery Park City Protesters Occupy Beloved Park to Halt Cuomo’s Bulldozers
They say tearing up green space to build a concrete memorial to essential workers would be a monumental blunder.
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Brooklynites woke up last Thursday to find a newly erected, 14-foot-tall bust of George Floyd had been defaced overnight…
Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
Family vows to file a wrongful death lawsuit, demonstrators demand infamous jail be closed.
Remembering Mark Levitan: Comrade and Dear Friend
Even at 70 plus years of age, Mark Levitan was still climbing mountains, a diversion he cherished. Now, at…
Protester Alleges NYPD Stripped Her in Public
“He pulled my pants down to my ankles and then made me walk across the Brooklyn Bridge naked,” she says.
The Walgreens nurse jabbed me with the needle and it felt like a key opening a jail cell. After…
Preserving Black History at 227 Abolistionist Place
Brooklyn activists save former underground railroad stop from wrecking ball, plan next steps.
QAnon Recycles Anti-Semitic Imagery to Sell Hatred
This sprawling conspiracy theory rolls through America like a monstrous sticky ball, growing exponentially by pulling in the detritus of other conspiracy theories.
Neoliberalism by Another Name: From Trump’s Putsch to Biden’s ‘Moderation’
The shocking scenes from Washington D. C. have reinforced the idea that what the country needs right now is to ‘heal’ and avoid the excesses of both the right and the left.
