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  • | The NYPD arrests demonstrators en masse at Times Square during the George Floyd protests of 2020 Photo Ken Lopez | MR Online

    NYC’s $13 million settlement with BLM protesters “not a victory, but something to hold onto’

    Originally published: The Indypendent on July 25, 2023 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2023)

    An interview with longtime activist Savitri Durkee who was a plaintiff in the record-setting class-action lawsuit.

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    Why I wrote a book about my pet parrot

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 7, 2023 by Michael Smith (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2023)

    Michael & Debby Smith write about 30 years of living with a parrot whose intelligence and emotional awareness challenges our human-centric world view.

  • | Amazon Labor Union members including Christian Smalls Derrick Palmer and Tristian Martinez march from Jeff Bezos penthouse to Times Square in a Labor Day 2022 protestPhoto by Nina Berman | MR Online

    Amazon Labor Union’s small army of volunteer law students

    Originally published: The Indypendent on November 21, 2022 by Katie Pruden and Amba Guerguerian (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2022)

    Around 100 are helping in the battle against the country’s second-largest employer.

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    A grassroots tenant-organizing victory comes after Orlando and several cities across CA adopted rent control on Tuesday.

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    Originally published: The Indypendent on April 11, 2022 by John Teufel (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    Outsider-turned-insider looks for more allies as she fights budget cuts and a turn toward more intense policing.

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    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 14, 2022 by Linda Martín Alcoff (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.

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    Originally published: The Indypendent on January 11, 2022 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2022)

    Columbia’s student workers delivered an invaluable lesson—one day longer, one day stronger—that you don’t have to have to go to graduate school to understand.

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    10th Anniversary Occupy Wall Street: The Rise of Occupy Wall Street–The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left

    Originally published: The Indypendent on September 15, 2021 by John Tarleton (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2021)

    The idea—that 20,000 people would set up a round-the-clock protest encampment at the foot of Wall Street—had been proposed by Micah White of the Canadian magazine Adbusters without consulting anyone in New York.

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    America’s unfinished revolution: Where do the George Floyd protests go from here?

    Originally published: The Indypendent on June 5, 2020 by Tosh Anderson, Josephine Lee and Zishun Ning (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2020)

    It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for an end to state violence against black people into images of the criminality of black protesters and to call for an end to looting.

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