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4 days ago · On Friday, over 30 protestors gathered outside Brooklyn’s Board of Elections’ office to demand a transparent audit of the write-in votes cast in the 2024 New York congressional elections for Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl whose recorded phone calls for help to the Palestinian Red Crescent before she was killed by an Israeli military tank, which fired 355 …

On January 11, 2018, immigrant-rights leader Ravi Ragbir reported to Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Lower Manhattan for a regularly scheduled check-in. Ragbir’s 2001 conviction for wire fraud and his subsequent activism made him a target for deportation.

Dec 28, 2024 · The world’s most pressing problems are systemic and require collective action. They cannot be solved by individual acts of virtue, no matter how well-intended.

Nov 8, 2024 · A Free Paper for Free People. Amanda Raker and Bryan Fotino of the Bronstein Tenant Union encourage people to support tenants in their near decade-long fight with Bronstein Properties on The Indypendent News Hour.. What our tenant union is experiencing is not unique.

Jan 3, 2025 · Check out 52 of The Indypendent’s best articles from 2024 — one for each week of the year — as we look back at our coverage of a dizzying 12 months that saw college campuses revolt against genocide, the implosion of New York City’s mayor and another spectacular face plant by national Democrats, the many consequences of which we began covering as soon as the ballots were counted.

Jan 22, 2025 · Until recently, probably the most famous person to hail from my hometown of West Islip, Long Island, New York, was the actor Ken Marino, star of Wet Hot American Summer, Party Down and other entertainment fare. Marino is a good “most famous.”

Jan 7, 2025 · Our Top Stories of 2024: 52 Reasons to Support The Indy. By Indypendent Staff Jan 3. Check out 52 of The Indypendent’s best articles from 2024 — one for each week of the year —…

Jan 21, 2025 · Friedman names white supremacy as central to carceral logic. Her research, using archival sources and in-person interviews with formerly incarcerated members of the Aryan Brotherhood and Black Guerrilla Family, reveals the ways racial bigotry props up an unequal and unjust social order.

Sep 7, 2024 · Michael Lerner, the influential author, editor, anti-sectarian rabbi, co-founder of Tikkun magazine, and for decades an indefatigable curator of any and all perspectives that could help heal a broken world, died August 28 in Berkeley, CA. He was 81. For half his life he had believed that contemporary Jewish life had lost its connection to the sacred, and that that connection could be restored.