New York City

Community award to Rosa Maria de la Torre

Rosa Maria de la Torre, program coordinator of the Chelsea Housing Group at Hudson Guild in New York City since…

December 16, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, climate change and capitalist crisis

A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster tends to reveal a society’s strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities,…

November 8, 2012

NYC Mayor Bloomberg talks big, but made little infrastructure progress

New York — At a news conference in 2009, New York City billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated that “planning for…

November 4, 2012

Police brutality: An all-too-familiar story

A 22-year-old man looking toward the future has his life taken from him in a split second by a police…

October 11, 2012

Riders & transit workers protest anti-Muslim subway ads

New York — The capitalist media waged a frenzied war campaign against Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejahd while the United Nations…

October 3, 2012

New York cops shoot 10 during morning rush hour

New York — On Aug. 24, two New York police officers turned what by all accounts was a targeted killing by…

September 2, 2012