Our December-January Double Issue
One of 2022’s most encouraging developments has been the explosive growth of militant labor union organizing among a younger generation of workers that is fighting back against a plutocratic status quo. In our December-January double issue we continue our full-throttle labor coverage with stories about Amazon warehouse workers starting their own newspaper, Starbucks baristas organizing in a dystopian coffee shop of the future, bicycle deliveristas organizing to defend themselves after the NYPD blew them off, New School professors going on strike and winning big, and more.
Workers at Dual Starbucks-Amazon Go Store Take on Union-Busting Giants
By Dylan Rice
Amazon Labor Union Newspaper Revives Independent Labor Press
By Katie Pruden
NYC’s Delivery Boys Band Together to Protect Themselves from E-Bike Theft and Traffic Accidents
By Dashiell Allen
Collective Action Wins: New School Adjuncts Claim Victory After 24-Day Strike
By John Tarleton
Fighting The Man at 30,000 Feet and Winning
By Jessica Max Stein
Automation Nation: Who Will Reap The Benefits As AI Transforms The Economy
By Amba Guerguerian
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We are in the middle of our annual winter fund drive. Please give if you can. In his Page 2 Editor’s Note for this issue, our Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton shares a few thoughts on the incongruities of the world’s richest man buying Twitter for $44 billion and then promptly wrecking it while grassroots media outlets like The Indy persevere with the support of their readers.
Elon Musk Will Never Own The Indy
By John Tarleton
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Brooklyn’s Hakeem Jeffries Becomes The House’s New Top Democrat
By Theodore Hamm
Queer and Trans NYCers Respond to Colorado Springs Mass Shooting
By Blake McMillan
Remembering The Sixties Generation
By Nicholas Powers
Why The Haters Hate: The Attacks Won’t Stop with LGBTQ People
By Nicholas Powers
Con Ed Is Seeking Double-Digit Rate Hikes; Astoria Residents Respond
By Jenna Gaudino
While My Qatar Gently Weeps
By Steven Wishnia
Reverend Billy’s Revelations
By Billy Talen
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s bombshell announcement on Thursday that she is nominating conservative appeals court judge Hector LaSalle to be the next Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has rocked New York politics. Ten Democratic state senators, several major labor unions and an array of advocacy groups have already come out against LaSalle’s nomination. On Tuesday’s Indy News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we spoke with Socialist State Senator Julia Salazar who has been a vocal critic of LaSalle’s nomination. In a wide-ranging interview, Salazar shared her views on the relationship between politics and the law, Hochul’s abuse of identity politics, why LaSalle’s past anti-choice and anti-union rulings are deeply troubling, and updated us on the conversations she is having with her State Senate colleagues who will determine LaSalle’s fate.
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