May Indypendent: Why Did the Campuses Erupt?
The past month has seen the largest eruption of protest on American college campuses since the Vietnam War. In his cover story for this month’s Indypendent, John Tarleton reflects on how a live-streamed genocide, clueless neoliberal college administrators and our society’s post-9/11 obsession with “security” ignited those college campuses.
Campus Revolt: The Perfect Storm
By John Tarleton
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More Palestine-Israel Coverage:
Youth Movements, Then and Now
By Linda Martín Alcoff
We Need an Exodus from Zionism
By Naomi Klein
Fly a Kite for Refaat Alareer
By Amba Guerguerian
Op-Ed: Why Student Protests Are “Good for the Jews” and a Congressional Crackdown on Israel Criticism Is Not
By Jonathan Goldman and Jacob Leland
Nakba Day Protest Coverage
This past week thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets in Bay Ridge and Astoria to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba (or, “catastrophe”) when Zionist forces drove 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and depopulated more than 400 towns and villages in the process of founding the state of Israel. Reporting by The Indy’s Amba Guerguerian.
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New York City Coverage:
From city workers describing the impact of repeated mayoral budget cuts to immigrants fighting to make a new life to an in-depth look at what happens to prosecutors who railroad falsely convicted New Yorkers into decades in prison, our May print edition has more New York City news that matters.
Four City Workers Describe How Budget Cuts Impact the Public Services They Provide
By Indypendent Staff
The Scarcella Files: When Unethical Prosecutors Get Off Scot-Free
By Theodore Ham
Life On ICE: Marcial Morales is Still Fighting to Stay Here
By Amba Guerguerian
Nowhere to Go: Migrants in Flux After Right to Shelter Repeal
By Ariana Orozco & Manuel Lopez
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More Coverage
At an Exhilarating Labor Notes Conference, the Working Class Is Standing Up
By Eric Dirnbach
Poetry from Behind the Walls
By Moira Marquis
Reverend Billy’s Revelations
By Rev. Billy Talen