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Standing Up for Justice (opens the original)
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Back from the summer, we devote this issue to some key issues confronting New Yorkers: closing the jails on Rikers Island and protecting families from ICE during this school year. We end with the Art of Movement Building featuring Third World Newsreel and then an announcement of a Town Hall on the MDC in Brooklyn.Towards Closing Rikers: The Last Penal ColonyOn August 31st, just days after the seventh death of a person in DOC custody this year, some 500 people gathered on lower Broadway outside C
"I Still Keep Fighting to End this Condition for the Generations to Come ..." (opens the original)
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On July 8th, President Trump apparently snuck off a plane in a shipping container, providing a moment of levity in what has been a not very funny summer. This past July was the hottest month on record. Wildfires raged in Washington, Utah, Canada, and across Western Europe, making the helllscape imagined in the Mad Max movies seem less and less like science fiction. The Trumpsters’ only answer seems to be more drilling.The war in Iran has dragged on for five and a half months, the Trump administr
From NYCHA to ICE: Fighting Displacement and Deportation (opens the original)
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This issue of Local Action includes a focus on the planned demolition of eighteen buildings of public housing in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). After years of opposition by tenants and their allies, recent court decisions have cleared the way for the demolition to go forward. These plans were developed under previous mayors and are supported by Mayor Zorhan Mamdani’s administration. Our interview with activist Layla Law-Gisiko provi
Euphoric Victories ... Enduring Realities (opens the original)
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Candidates allied with Democratic Socialists of America and Mayor Zohran Mamdani won big victories in NYC’s Democratic Primaries last month. In this issue of Local Action, Paul Wasserman muses on the implications of those victories for the City and for the grassroots left. While we’ll keep an eye on electoral politics in the Mamdani era, our main focus will remain on documenting grassroots activism and the harsh social realities shaping the lives of far too many of our fellow New Yorkers. To tha
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