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A Free Paper for Free People. Cuba’s Devastating Blackouts Worsened by U.S. Economic Blockade. Danny Valdes Nov 1. The Cuban government is struggling to keep an aging Soviet-era power grid running while crippling U.S. sanctions make it impossible for this tropical island nation to convert to solar, wind and hydro energy sources.
About Us - The Indypendent
Welcome to The Indypendent! We are a free, progressive monthly newspaper, online news site and weekly radio show. Founded in 2000, The Indy has become a New York City institution and a unique fixture in the city’s mediascape. We cover social justice movements here in New York and beyond and the issues they are concerned about because it is ...
Affirming the Outsider’s Eye: Adrienne Rich’s Legacy
Jessica Max Stein May 3, 2012. The 1960s found Adrienne Rich, like many women of her generation, plagued by disillusion. Born in Baltimore in 1929, Rich quickly achieved success by mainstream literary and patriarchal standards. She was just 22, a senior at Radcliffe College, when W. H. Auden chose her first book, A Change of World, for the Yale ...
What If The British Had Won? | The Indypendent
Jun 30, 2016 · This grievance was motivated by Virginia Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s November 1775 proclamation stating that any person held as a slave by a colonist in rebellion against England would become free by joining the British forces in subduing the revolt. While 5,000 mainly free Black people from northern colonies joined with the colonists ...
Take the Privilege Walk - The Indypendent
Aug 17, 2013 · The traditional "Privilege Walk" exercise helps unveil the distance between those who have privilege and those who don’t. That visible gap shows the work that must be done within the privileged group, but often still keeps the focus on privilege, relegating those who have less to the back. It can work well within a group whose goal is to ...
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A Free Paper for Free People. Welcome to FUNY! Dez Paul May 31. A member of the faculty at the City College of New York describes how the school became the Fenced University of New York (FUNY) in the weeks after the administration sent in the NYPD to dismantle its Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrest scores of students.
Twenty Years Later: How the New World Trade Center Became a …
A Free Paper for Free People. Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that rule New York City and even the United States.
What I Learned at The Indypendent
In my five years of volunteering at The Indypendent, I’ve designed ads and layouts, illustrated numerous covers, written an article, produced short films, passed out issues at rallies and protests and worked through the night alongside other dedicated volunteers to get the paper to the printer just under the wire.At times it’s been a lot of work, but it‘s also been absolutely, without a ...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Review of Revolutionary Suicide
He endured dark nights that ended with a spiritual discipline that made him invulnerable to pain or temptation. Newton was released, trapped and shot, tried for the murder of a policeman, imprisoned and released again. With his murder in 1989, Newton found eternal life in the memory of the people. Revolutionary Suicide is quick, fluid and elegant.