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Issue: March 20, 2009
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Bronx Bakery Battle: Striking employees at the Stella D’oro cookie factory in the Bronx have emerged as symbols of working-class resistance during a time of economic crisis New Rules Favor Developers, Critics Charge The Church of Stop Bloomberg: Reverend Billy Launches Longshot Mayoral Bid Fragmented Families: Immigrant Groups Push Obama, Democrats to Keep Campaign Promises Bridging the Gay-Straight Divide Homeless Advocates Criticize New DHS Rule: City Plan Could Close Down Dozens of Faith-based Shelters Tenants’ Voice: Fraud Common in Renovation Increases, Study Says Be the Media! Indypendent Anchor Coordinator Takes New Job Community Calendar Reader Comments Moving on from War: Antiwar Liberals Give Up Fight as Iraq, Afghanistan Conflicts Continue Taking on Coal Power: The Movement to Shut Down the Coal Industry is Not Waiting for Congress or Barack Obama A Feminist’s Look at Climate Change U.S. Takes Small Step in Easing Cuba Embargo The Great Unraveling: Global Economy Begins to Fracture as Leading Powers Pursue National Agendas Carrying the White Man’s Burden: Obama Pulls U.S. Out of U.N. World Conference against Racism All Eyes on New Salvadoran President: An Interview with Mauricio Funes Between Sex and War: A Review of Operation Lysistrata Roots of My Radicalism: A Review of Granny Made Me an Anarchist Slumdog Colonialism: Hollywood Mines Another Culture for Raw Material, Celebrates a Box-office Bonanza Rocking the Kashmir: Local Musicians Try to Humanize India-Pakistan Border Dispute A Look at Immigration Reform From Below: A Review of The Accidental American ARTICLES
By Sarah Secunda
Posted in Local
When the 136 factory workers at the Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. in the Bronx went on strike Aug. 13, they didn’t expect to be out on the street for long. Evelyn Rivera, who had only been at Stella D’oro since August 2007, recalls the reassurances she received from some of the factory’s older hands. “Maybe five weeks,” they told her. read more »
By Gerard Flynn
Posted in Local
Rule changes proposed by the New York City Department of Buildings in February have been slammed by critics citywide, and have raised fears that the changes could lead to a significant rise in illegal construction across the city and boroughs after they are implemented in mid-April. read more »
By Jacob Scheier Posted in Local
It’s hard to imagine someone as different from New York’s current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, as performance-activist William Talen (a.k.a. Reverend Billy), who recently announced his mayoral candidacy on the Green Party ticket. read more »
By Karen Yi
Posted in Local
The first workplace raid since the Obama administration took office signalled a break with candidate Barack Obama’s promises of comprehensive immigration reform and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s repeated remarks that immigration enforcement would focus on employers, not immigrant workers. read more »
By Ariel Tirosh
Posted in Local
When a boy in Joleen Hanlon’s second-grade class announced to his friends that he did not like girls, a classmate told him that someday he would marry one. Hanlon, an assistant teacher at a charter school in Astoria, intervened, noting that sometimes two men get married and sometimes people don’t marry at all. She was later reprimanded for her actions. read more »
Homeless Advocates Criticize New DHS Rule: City Plan Could Close Down Dozens of Faith-based Shelters
By Alex Kane Posted in Local
With the number of homeless families hitting record highs, a new plan issued by New York City’s Department of Homeless Services in December has advocates for the homeless worried about a cutback in services for the homeless citywide. Critics of the plan fear that more than 30 faith-based shelters might have to close and that overnight services in many drop-in centers would be eliminated. read more »
By Steven Wishnia If your apartment has been renovated and you’re paying more than $1,000 a month, there’s a strong chance the rent is illegally high. Fraudulent rent increases for apartment renovations are a major reason affordable housing is disappearing from New York, claims a recent study by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD). read more »
By Indypendent Staff Posted in Local
Teachers and families came to support the release of Struggle to be Strong: An Anthology of Empowerment March 12, a book written by 86 immigrant students at the International High School at Lafayette in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. read more »
By Jessica Lee Posted in Local
For many of the hundreds of Indypendent contributors and volunteers during the past eight years, it has been impossible to separate John Tarleton from the newspaper. Tarleton stepped into the office of The Indypendent in the spring of 2001 with a large backpack on his shoulders after a decade of traveling, writing and laboring as a migrant farm worker. A former daily news reporter, he immediately became involved in The Indypendent, a dinky newspaper struggling to define itself. read more »
By Indypendent Staff Posted in Community Calendar, Local
Events in and around the New York City area March 19 through April 19, 2009. read more »
By Indypendent Staff Posted in Local
Readers respond to the February 27th issue of The Indypendent read more »
By Arun Gupta
Posted in Columns, International
As the global economy heads for its first annual decline since WWII and the biggest decline in trade in 80 years, more and more commentators are using the term depression to describe the vertiginous economic collapse. read more »
By Jaisal Noor Posted in International
After taking part in preparatory discussions, the Obama administration announced on Feb. 27 that it would boycott the U.N. World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, April 20-24. read more »
By Roberto Lovato and Josue Rojas Posted in International
Though Funes, a former journalist, is the best-known Salvadoran on his country’s TV networks, he is little known outside the region. Thanks to a collaboration between The Nation and New America Media, reporters Roberto Lovato and Josue Rojas had the opportunity to interview El Salvador’s next president on the night of his election. read more »
By Judith Mahoney Pasternak Operation Lysistrata begins with the fable of the sparrow, related by Arab-American actor F. Murray Abraham. It goes on to tell the exuberant story of how, on the eve of war in 2003, two women in New York City organized an unprecedented “world-wide theatrical act of dissent.” read more »
By Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, many of us got from Granny what we didn’t get from Mom or Dad: attention, indulgence and wisdom, the stuff that molds identity and prepares us for the world. Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie describes his grandmother as his “strongest moral influence.” read more »
By Arun Gupta Although Bollywood produces more films and sells more tickets annually than Hollywood (and by some accounts predates its American cousin), it took a Western production team and finance, led by director Danny Boyle, to make a Bollywood film that garnered Hollywood’s highest accolades. read more »
By Stephen Nessen LYRICS WITH A PURPOSE: The band Zerobridge hopes their music will help bring a peaceful ending to the
conflict between India and Pakistan over the territory of Kashimir. read more »
By Karen Yi Weaving in the history of neoliberal policies in third world countries, Sen and Mamdouh underscore the global movements that force people to migrate, defying the argument that immigration can be “fixed” by sheer enforcement. read more »
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