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Why Are Some Otherwise Progressive Members of a Brooklyn Food Co-Op So Opposed to a Boycott in Support of Palestine?

Kiera Feldman, Waging Nonviolence. August 17, 2011.

The Park Slope Food Co-Op is a progressive Brooklyn institution. But one very vocal faction is fiercely opposed to a campaign seeking justice in Palestine.

Vision: Progressives Consider Using Tea Party Tactics to Rebuild the American Dream

Rae Gomes, AlterNet. July 19, 2011.

At a "Rebuild the Dream" meeting, Brooklyn progressives ponder whether they have to act like the Tea Party in order to inspire change.

Inside the Surprising World of an Urban Underground Collective of Artists, Punks and Non-Conformists

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. June 13, 2011.

An intimate portrait of 13 Thames, a collective house in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that provides refuges for homeless street punks and idealists of all sorts.

The Terror Faced by Arabs and Muslims in the Aftermath of 9/11

Alia Malek, Free Press. September 11, 2010.

In an excerpt from "A Country Called Amreeka," navigating an environment hostile to muslims, a priest takes heart when a piece of history emerges from the rubble.

Outrage Builds Over Extermination of Hundreds of Geese from Major City Park in New York

Deanna Zandt, AlterNet. July 16, 2010.

The NYC govt. and the USDA quietly captured 250-400 Prospect Park geese and carted them off to gas them, needless deaths that won't prevent plane crashes.

From Baghdad to Brooklyn: My Journey with an Iraqi Refugee

Jennifer Utz, AlterNet. November 15, 2008.

From 2007 to 2008, I spent five months in Syria with Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee. Now, we are roommates in New York City.

Comic Dave Chapelle Misses Fundraiser for Brooklyn Congressional Hopeful

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 10, 2008.

Comedian's absence a setback for progressive, hip-hop themed campaign.

Zurana Horton’s Murder Gives Brooklyn a Ground Zero of Gun Terror

Curtis Stephens, December 31, 1969.


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