Alexander Zaitchik, American Independent News Network. May 15, 2012.
New York’s marijuana arrests, says a growing chorus of critics, are a prime example of how the nation’s drug laws disproportionately impact black and Latino communities.
As politicians demand cuts, New York's transit workers union pushes back on the austerity narrative and calls for better treatment for all working people.
Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch.com. January 22, 2012.
Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. November 22, 2011.
So far, the Occupy instigators and Occupy insiders have been doing a brilliant job of improvising a way that civil society can move forward into the unimaginable.
"Governor 1%" Cuomo can't catch a break--after being protested by Occupy Wall Street last week, this week his own police force is refusing to arrest protesters in his backyard.
Christopher Ketcham, Orion Magazine. October 7, 2011.
The corporate elite have wrecked New York's neighborhoods, driving out artists and intellectuals and stifling the creative culture that made the city so famous.
