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,…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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,…