A top hip-hop concert promoter, a veteran entertainment lawyer and a music journalist talk about the past and present of protest music, especially its hip-hop variety.
East New York has long faced problems like poverty, disinvestment and crime. Now its worries concern gentrification and displacement. In a neighborhood confronting so many different risks, what role can…
Home to a growing Mexican population, key diplomats and economic interests vital to the government in Mexico City, New York is a theatre for the protest movement over the 2014…
Advocates using Theater of the Oppressed techniques are turning an empowerment tool developed in South America in the 1970s to homeless policy issues, with HUD and City Councilmembers in the…
From student protests to the People’s Firehouse to the picket lines and strategy sessions of tenant activism, Jay Small was a garrulous and upbeat presence in the movement to make…
The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.
A veteran Williamsburg organizer explains the reasoning behind a new organization being formed to resist displacement and, she says, defend renters of all stripes.
