Stories by Laura Gottesdiener

Laura Gottesdiener is a freelance journalist and activist in New York City. subscribe to Laura Gottesdiener's feed

Posted on: Sep 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The NYPD has expanded into a massive global anti-terror operation with surveillance and military capabilities unparalled in the history of local US law enforcement.

Posted on: Sep 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

This release of the footage is the first major public documentation of the raid on November 15, 2011, when the police arrested an estimated 200.

Posted on: Sep 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

News Corporation corruption just keeps coming.

Posted on: Sep 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Depending on how you look at it, the plan is either a group of well-meaning 1 percenters looking to ameliorate the foreclosure crisis, or a bunch of rich vultures cashing in on struggling homeowners.

Posted on: Sep 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Fired by a union-busting boss, the workers occupied their restuarant and then opened their own sidewalk cafe--forcing their owner to cede to their demands.

Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Mayor Bloomberg's "personal army" heads to the Middle East. What could go wrong?

Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Thousands of nurses win first time union contracts in Texas.

Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

A caravan of peace activists from Mexico is connecting the struggles and violence caused by the U.S. drug war.

Posted on: Sep 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

According to Rolling Stone's Taibbi, either we wise up to Romney’s game, or we succumb to “a prairie fire of debt.”

Posted on: Sep 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Welcome to the Worker Justice Cafe.

Posted on: Aug 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Amen! Declares Republican lawmaker. Guess what he was so excited about.

Posted on: Aug 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

At a time when one in four children under the age of five are living in poverty, how could we justify cutting their access to early education?

Posted on: Aug 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

To celebrate two of the best athletes in history, the New York Times magazine online is running a video (shot by a man) about a photographer (also a man) taking photos of the two athletes who are not playing tennis and not wearing any shirts. 

Posted on: Aug 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Why mail a book about biology when you can deliver the lesson yourself?

Posted on: Aug 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Is the goal of breaking the glass ceiling preventing feminism from achieving its larger goals?

Posted on: Aug 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

According to a new study an annual income of $75,000 is required to achieve happiness.

Posted on: Aug 8, 2012, Source: Waging Nonviolence

These activists aren't waiting for the law to catch up.

Posted on: Aug 8, 2012, Source: Waging Nonviolence

The city has tens of thousands of of vacant, bank-owned homes and as many homeless citizens. Supply and demand seems to have gone haywire.

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The expansion is a classic too-big-to-fail project -- and you or your kids may be picking up the $5 billion tab.

Posted on: Jul 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Advertised as a way to target and deport “criminal aliens,” the reality is that Secure Communities is itself the danger.

Posted on: Jul 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rapinoe joins a small but growing club of elite women's athletes who have come out publicly.

Posted on: Jul 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants.

Posted on: Mar 29, 2012, Source: Waging Nonviolence

Across the country, homeowners, activist organizations, lawyers, unions and Occupiers are uniting to create a direct-action campaign against foreclosures.

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