The Exiles directed by Kent Mackenzie Milestone Films, 1961 “I’m not going to let you know how scared I sometimes get of history and its ways,” declares Jackson Jackson, the young Spokane (Wash.) narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (from Ten Little Indians), “I’m a strong man, and I know that silence is the [...] read more »

We hope you can join us for an amazing night featuring these amazing guests, Sept. 13 at 8:00pm. Naomi Klein is author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” and “No Logo” Jeremy Scahill is the author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square. Meet the [...] read more »

On July 17th, the next sad chapter of the city’s failure to stand up to Columbia University’s plans to build a new campus in West Harlem-Manhattanville unfolded as the Empire State Development Corporation, the state body that has the power to seize properties from local business-owners and turn them over to the university, issued its [...] read more »

  One of the largest progressive community based organizations in the country, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced its founder has stepped down. Wade Rathke, who founded ACORN in 1970, left his position as the organization’s chief organizer after an embezzlement scandal that occurred eight years ago surfaced last month involving his brother [...] read more »

Hancock Directed by Peter Berg Blue Light, 2008 Like its title character, Hancock is best described as a mighty mess, which bursts forth uncontrollably, leaves myriad loose ends dangling and is attributable to an utter lack of pedigree. The first black blockbusting superhero, John Hancock is an ageless, all-powerful immortal adrift in a film that does not retool [...] read more »

The cover story for the April 25 Indypendent featured Simeon Ferguson, an 86-year-old Crown Heights man suffering from dementia who had been saddled in 2006 with a $450,000 option adjustable rate mortgage (ARM ) that was fairly guaranteed to put his house in foreclosure. It was the kind of deal his bank—IndyMac—specialized in: highly profitable [...] read more »

Sixty people gathered outside the Canadian consulate on Avenue of the Americas July 9 to call for the Conservative Party-led government of Canada to honor the House of Commons measure that calls for asylum and residency for United States war resisters living there. At the end of the protest, petitions were delivered to the [...] read more »

In June 2004, New York City-based community activist and journalist Rosa Clemente helped found and coordinate the first-ever National Hip Hop Political Convention in Newark, NJ, which brought together over 3,000 people from across the country. Speaking afterward with The Indypendent’s Ana Nogueira, Clemente summed up her efforts: “If we don’t make some power moves [...] read more »

Mountaintop-removal mining is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of extraction there is. As practiced by coal companies in the Appalachians, it involves literally blowing up the top of a mountain to get at the coal below and then dumping the toxic slag in nearby valleys and streams. Wanna do something about it? Come [...] read more »

The Rupert Murdoch owned New York Post is notorious for spinning facts to meet its right-wing world view. But is it also missing the facts? Today’s screaming headline “HOME STREET HOME, Absentee bum booted from apt.” is an article about an evicted Hell’s Kitchen tenant, Michael Tsitsires, and omits [...] read more »