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  • | Kristen Richardson JordanPhoto rojas4mayornyc | MR Online

    “Culture Shock”: Harlem’s Socialist City Council member Kristin Richardson Jordan reflects on her first three months in office

    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.

  • | Its Time for the Left to Embrace the Critical Race Theory Debate | MR Online

    It’s time for the Left to embrace the Critical Race Theory debate

    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.

  • | The Student Workers of Columbia shut down classes on Columbias two Upper West Side campuses on Dec 8 | MR Online

    Solidarity wins in Columbia strike victory

    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.

  • | Demonstrators at the intersection of Trinity Place and Rector Street on March 24 1988 | MR Online

    ACT-UP and Win: a riveting account of NYC activism during the AIDS crisis

    Originally published: The Indypendent on December 6, 2021 by Jessica Max Stein (more by The Indypendent) (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.

  • | This is what Police State looks likeThe NYPD kettles OWS protesters as they cross the bridge in the March to Brooklyn | MR Online

    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.

  • | 6 days ago The Indypendent Americas Unfinished Revolution Where Do the George Floyd Protests Go From Here | MR Online

    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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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
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    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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