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WEBRemembering Michael Lerner, 1943-2024, Jewish Voice of Conscience. Judith Mahoney Pasternak Sep 7. The influential rabbi and publisher of Tikkun magazine urged Jews to reconnect with their spiritual traditions while he resoundingly supported Palestinian self-determination. Culture.
Immigrants Rights Advocates Descend on Delaware
WEBDec 21, 2020 · In Delaware, hundreds of immigrant rights advocates led by Make the Road Action and Casa in Action came in a cavalcade from seven states and Washington D.C converging on President-Elect Joe Biden’s home city of Wilmington on Tuesday, December 15 to deliver a firm message— take decisive action …
Twenty Years Later: How the New World Trade Center Became a …
WEBA Free Paper for Free People. Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that rule New York City and even the United States.
SDS in the 1960s: From A Student Movement to National Resistance
WEBApril 17, 1965 – First National March Against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. SDS assembles over 20,000 against the Vietnam War and begins its meteoric growth. Refusing to exclude communist sympathizers or members, SDS breaks with its “parent” organization, the League for Industrial Democracy. April 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King ...
Meet the New Bluestockings - The Indypendent
WEBBluestockings Cooperative is New York City’s only trans, queer and sex worker-run bookstore, cafe and gathering space. Founded in 1999 as a radical feminist book store, it was located on Allen Street on the Lower East Side for more than two decades. In the summer of 2020, an unsuccessful attempt to renegotiate the building lease led to ...
Eight Things You Should Know About Roberto Clemente on the …
WEBDec 31, 2022 · This Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of baseball superstar Roberto Clemente. He and four others died in a plane crash shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve 1972 attempting to bring relief supplies to the victims of a massive earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua.
The Story of Hasidic Vilyamsburg - The Indypendent
WEBOct 27, 2021 · A Fortress in Brooklyn sets this stay-or-leave decision by a beleaguered Hasidic sect in a post-World War II outer-borough hinterland as a pivotal moment for the future Williamsburg. Jews had lived in the neighborhood for decades — the Williamsburg Bridge was nicknamed “Jew’s Highway” because …
Plugging NYC’s School-To-Prison Pipeline | The Indypendent
WEBSep 9, 2019 · When it comes to maintaining the 5,000-plus in-school police force, the city spends $350 million annually. The additional social cost of policing the schools, including a loss of future tax revenue when students fail to graduate due to suspensions, comes to $350 million a year, the Popular Democracy-UYC study found.
Affirming the Outsider’s Eye: Adrienne Rich’s Legacy
WEBJessica Max Stein May 3, 2012. The 1960s found Adrienne Rich, like many women of her generation, plagued by disillusion. Born in Baltimore in 1929, Rich quickly achieved success by mainstream literary and patriarchal standards. She was just 22, a senior at Radcliffe College, when W. H. Auden chose her first book, A Change of World, for the Yale ...
Interviewing the Oracle : Octavia Butler | The Indypendent
WEBOctavia Butler’s conversation style is like her prose: lean and to the point. Not that she does not have a lot to talk about. She has written eleven novels including Kindred, whose heroine keeps falling back in time to save her white slavemaster ancestor, and Parable of the Sower, a richly-imagined tale of a small band of survivors founding a new earth-centered religion in the midst of a ...