With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks, City Council candidates fear their hopes of becoming the first person from their countries to be elected to public office in the United States will be dashed tomorrow, primary day.
Hubby Victor once headed the city’s largest municipal union, but Betsy Gotbaum has been frozen out of labor endorsements in the race for public advocate.
Jim Drake’s passing ends a storied organizing career that began with helping migrants in the Southwest and culminated in training a generation of neighborhood activists in Harlem, Brooklyn and the South Bronx.
Civil rights champion Norman Siegel wants the public advocate to be the city’s professional rabble-rouser, coordinating demonstrations instead of reports. Did Mark Green have it all wrong?
In the rush for the city’s lowest performing schools to turn themselves around, one state-certified Bronx high school teacher is battling to get his job back.
Norman Siegel, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union and free speech gadfly, was appalled when his campaign for the post of public advocate was banned from public parks.
Angered by high dues and high living by the head of the hospital union, a slate of insurgents are making a run at the local’s upcoming election.
A one-of-a-kind supplier of photographs of social change is going out of business, leaving editors wondering who will supply those images now.
They’ve been fired, gag ordered and even quit live on the air. But the WBAI’s resident firebrands haven’t given up–they’ve hired a PR consultant to wage war on their national board of directors.
A group of immigrant workers say they were forced to endure miserable conditions at a local chain of 99 cent stores–including being locked in overnight with no phones, no bathrooms, and only the food off the shelves.
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