Army Sgt. Matthis Chiroux Refuses His Deployment to Iraq

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El Pueblo Unido: Images of May Day 2008

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Community Response to Sean Bell Verdict Continues

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City Council Members Join PSC Budget Effort to Stop CUNY Cuts

City Council Members Join PSC Budget Effort to Stop CUNY Cuts Fourteen City Council Members joined more than 150 City University of New York (CUNY) faculty, staff and students at a City Hall press conference today calling on the Mayor and the City Council to restore budget cuts to CUNY that the Mayor proposed in his Executive Budget last week, and to provide additional, urgently needed funds for our city’s university. "Enrollment at CUNY is higher than it has been in 35 years, and students are streaming into the colleges to prepare for difficult economic conditions. This is no time to cut the City University ,” said Dr. Barbara Bowen, president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), which organized today’s...
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Coalition Against Privatization Protests GHI/HIP Privatization

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Civil Disobedience Pray-In Over Acquittals in Sean Bell Killing (photos)

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Jewish 'Schlockettes' Denounce Zionism At Radio City Israel Gala

Jewish activists remember the Nakba at Radio City Israel gala. ...
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Coalition initiates coordinated blockades in response to Sean Bell verdict

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The Indypendent Issue #119: Subprime Color Line

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Mothers call for Mother’s Day boycott of Israeli settlement-builder Leviev

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May 1st: Worker's in NYC Protest (Photos)

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Melissa Mark Viverito and Others Vote to Gentrify Harlem

To Our Fellow Members of the East Harlem Community, On Wednesday, as predicted, the Council Member who is supposed to represent our district, Melissa Mark Viverito, voted in favor of the 125th Street rezoning plan despite fierce community resistance from across Harlem. Although we are not directly affected by this proposal, as Movement for Justice in El Barrio, community members of East Harlem, we are against the plans that the Council Members and city government have to displace communities throughout Harlem. Movement for Justice in El Barrio was present to witness Melissa Mark Viverito in action at the Chambers of the City Council. Around 100 community members, mostly African American and Latino, from across Harlem were also present, relegated to...
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Make the Road, IWW Unite in Call for Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

Brooklyn, New York—Around 150 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge with Make the Road New York and the Industrial Workers of the World NYC Branch for a May Day immigrant rights demonstration. Flanked by red and black Wobbly flags and signs that read “Opportunity for Immigrant Workers,” the demonstrators chanted slogans like “Si se puede,” and “El pueblo, unido, jamas tera vencido.” There was a boisterous rally held before the march at Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn, with music, dancing and chanting. One song’s lyrics, roughly translated, said “we will overcome misery” and “we’ll have to break the chains.” “[Immigrants should] have the same rights as any other working person,” said Stephanie Basile, a member of IWW, the radical Wobbly...
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Howard Zinn Speaks in New York City

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Martin and Malcolm Alive in Today's Black Radicalism

The term “radical” is always subject to misunderstanding. During the recent controversy about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, many white Americans heard edgy black political discourse for the first time and were alarmed. It was to them radical. Yet today anyone out of the mainstream is considered radical. Such a definition is only a negative one and as such is useless. “Radical” refers to getting to the root or foundation of something. In that sense, a political radical is someone who attempts to get to the root of a problem and suggests a solution. Defined this way, one can be a radical from the political Right or the political Left, but generally speaking the term “radical” suggests someone on the Left.
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Community Groups in Harlem Protest Council Members Efforts to Gentrify Their Communities

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We Are All Sean Bell: Images of People's Justice, Part 1

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“50 Shots Equals Murder!” Sean Bell Supporters Take It to the Streets on Friday

Chanting “50 shots equals murder!” a crowd of about 800 demonstrators marched through several Queens neighborhoods Friday evening denouncing the acquittal of three police officers implicated in the shooting death of Sean Bell. The march began near the Queens Criminal Court building where Judge Arthur Cooperman issued his verdict Friday morning and wound its way to the site of the Kalua Cabaret where Bell, 23, was killed and two of his friends severely wounded in a barrage of police gunfire in the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2006. All three of the men were unarmed. Before the march began, anti-police brutality activists and several family members of people slain by the NYPD spoke to the crowd which gathered...
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The Indypendent Issue #119: Subprime Color Line

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The Benefit of the Doubt

Yesterday, the NYPD announced the launch of Operation TORCH, a new initiative bringing police with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs into the subway system. Today, in Queens, Judge Cooperman ruled that the officers involved in the killing of Sean Bell are not guilty on all counts. It's hard to believe the timing was coincidental - the images on the news of huge men decked out in black uniforms with submachine guns and dogs are a not so subtle reminder of the power of the NYPD, just in case anyone got it into their heads to get up in arms, so to speak, about the ruling in the Bell case. But let's give the NYPD the benefit...
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