DRIVEN TO DESPAIR

While financial aid pours in to help workers whose jobs were based inside the Twin Towers, businesses one degree removed from the Trade Center are suffering alone: Last week, the limo business took a nose dive, and the drivers wonder how they will survive.

ORGANIZERS MOURN

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.

The Norman Invasion

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?

UNPLANNED LESSON

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.

FINAL IMPACT

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.

A NEW WAVELENGTH FOR WBAI

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.

BARGAIN BIZARRE

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.