Hiding From the End of the World
This was the Met Gala of 2024: gold, lit by white phosphorous. One block from the Gala protestors chanted, “Gaza! Gaza!” and waved Palestinian flags.
New York
There Is No Reform on Rikers Island
There are no rich people on Rikers Island. It is a factory of misery; it is capitalism’s real face.
The Murder of Jordan Neely: White Deputization and “Frontier Justice”
The fear that those redlined into crumbling apartment blocks, thrown into prisons and jails without remorse or pretense of justice, deprived of legitimate economic opportunities, shunted into under-funded schools, and driven into the lowest, most menial ranks of the U.S. workforce — might dare to rise up against those people who put them there.
Eric Adams Taunts New Yorkers Amid City-Wide Budget Cuts, Demos Drones Bought with Stolen Funds in Times Square
The NYPD purchased two of the drones, these “Digidogs”, for $739,000 using funds outside the official city budget through a program that incentivizes the NYPD to seize cash and other property from the community to be used for their own purposes.
New School Students Occupy University Center Until Union Demands Are Met
EDITORS NOTE: This statement was released by the New School Students Occupation on 12/8/22 and is reproduced here exactly as it was released, with their permission. In light of recent […]