Indy Party This Thursday Evening: Don’t be shy — Come Say Hi
We launched The Indy 22 years ago this month. Crazy! A people-powered newspaper and website like The Indy isn’t supposed to exist in our hyper-capitalist society. Not for 22 years. But here we are. Newsrooms around the country are closing at record rates, yet we remain, determined to continue as an alternative to corporate media. We'll be celebrating all that and more this Thursday, Sept. 15 from 6-9 p.m. Please join us!
The party will be held this Thursday, Sept. 15 from 6-9 p.m. in the spacious Park Slope backyard of a couple of longtime Indy supporters. We’ll be joined by an all-star cast of special guests including Democratic Socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport, Palestinian-Muslim-American freedom fighter Linda Sarsour, legendary peace activist Leslie Cagan and Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. All guests are asked to act in a Covid-mindful way. For more about the party, click here. We can’t give out the home address of our hosts publicly. But if you would like to attend, shoot us a message and we will send you the address. If you can’t make the party but want to show your support for The Indy, you can visit our donate page.
Since we haven’t had one since the onset of COVID, this Indy party should be quite the bash. We tend to bring around an eclectic crowd! Imagine spending a mild summer evening in a garden, snacking and sipping as you meet fellow lefties of all ages and movement backgrounds from across the city, with tunes playing in the background as you celebrate your favorite radical newspaper.
Over these past 22 years, our “free paper for free people” has grown by leaps and bounds and become a unique fixture in the New York City media landscape, providing incisive coverage of visionary social movements while elevating the voices of those most impacted by pertinent issues. During that time, we have also expanded onto the web, on social media and host a weekly radio show on WBAI-99.5 FM. But it hasn’t been easy. If all of our readers donated $5 a year, we’d be smooth sailing, but until that happens, we count on readers like you. When you give $50 we can print another 500 papers, $100 equals another 1,000 papers, $200 another 2,000 papers.
The Indypendent is a community-based, people-powered newspaper. We are a family made up of journalists, photographers, designers, newspaper deliverers, radio performers, neighborhood activists, political organizers, radical thinkers and, most importantly, our readers. Thursday will be a great opportunity for our sprawling community (that is normally scattered all around the city) to come together and celebrate the continuation of this unique paper. Don’t be shy — come say hi!
