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A Free Paper for Free People. Cuba’s Devastating Blackouts Worsened by U.S. Economic Blockade. Danny Valdes Nov 1. The Cuban government is struggling to keep an aging Soviet-era power grid running while crippling U.S. sanctions make it impossible for this tropical island nation to convert to solar, wind and hydro energy sources.
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Welcome to The Indypendent! We are a free, progressive monthly newspaper, online news site and weekly radio show. Founded in 2000, The Indy has become a New York City institution and a unique fixture in the city’s mediascape. We cover social justice movements here in New York and beyond and the issues they are concerned about because it is ...
What Does it Mean to Call Israel an Apartheid State?
Ellen Davidson Nov 3, 2023. What does it mean to call Israel an apartheid state? The word, meaning literally “apartness,” originally referred to policies introduced in South Africa in 1948. Although presented as a path of equal but separate development of racial groups in that country, like “separate but equal” in this country, it was ...
What If The British Had Won? | The Indypendent
Jun 30, 2016 · England’s Victory Over France Had Unintended Consequnces. It was, ironically, England’s victory over France for control of the North American continent in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) that laid the basis for their North American colonies to revolt just 13 years later. As the war with France ended, the British 1763 Proclamation prohibited ...
Twenty Years Later: How the New World Trade Center Became a …
A Free Paper for Free People. Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that rule New York City and even the United States.
Affirming the Outsider’s Eye: Adrienne Rich’s Legacy
Jessica Max Stein May 3, 2012. The 1960s found Adrienne Rich, like many women of her generation, plagued by disillusion. Born in Baltimore in 1929, Rich quickly achieved success by mainstream literary and patriarchal standards. She was just 22, a senior at Radcliffe College, when W. H. Auden chose her first book, A Change of World, for the Yale ...
The Battle of Seattle, 20 Years Later | The Indypendent
Nov 12, 2019 · E arly on a cold gray morning 20 years ago this month, a modest procession of people left a church in downtown Seattle heading for the nearby convention center. There were about 80 people in the group. They walked quietly, each person lost in a moment of personal reflection. Above them bobbed several brightly-painted paper mache monarch butterflies attached to long metal wires, a visual cue ...
Plugging NYC’s School-To-Prison Pipeline | The Indypendent
Sep 9, 2019 · When it comes to maintaining the 5,000-plus in-school police force, the city spends $350 million annually. The additional social cost of policing the schools, including a loss of future tax revenue when students fail to graduate due to suspensions, comes to $350 million a year, the Popular Democracy-UYC study found.
Take the Privilege Walk - The Indypendent
Aug 17, 2013 · The traditional "Privilege Walk" exercise helps unveil the distance between those who have privilege and those who don’t. That visible gap shows the work that must be done within the privileged group, but often still keeps the focus on privilege, relegating those who have less to the back. It can work well within a group whose goal is to ...
New York City | The Indypendent
A Free Paper for Free People. Welcome to FUNY! Dez Paul May 31. A member of the faculty at the City College of New York describes how the school became the Fenced University of New York (FUNY) in the weeks after the administration sent in the NYPD to dismantle its Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrest scores of students.