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JUNE 2 — A “no Pride in genocide” @actupny protest began at Hudson River Park and ended at Chelsea piers, where demonstrators staged a die-in for 241 seconds, the # of days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Medium police presence; some Zionist agitators; no arrests. 🎥 N Constantine
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This is not ok. Cops are covering their badges in Flatbush.
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There’s a contingent of Biden staffers protesting here at the demonstration in DC. The crowd stretches from Freedom Plaza to the Capitol and beyond.
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“Brothers and sisters and students at City College, it is not enough to demand ceasefire. How about this? Make your demand cease occupation!” says still incarcerated Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal from a timed prison call that was amplified from someone’s phone.
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NYC immigrant rights leader Jean Montrevil was deported to Haiti earlier today. He had lived in NYC for 31 years and has four U.S.-born children. @thenyic
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"Every time there's a union strike you have to respect it," says @SusanSarandon who joined striking writers from @WGAEast Wednesday on their picket line outside Netflix's NYC offices. Video: Sue Brisk @beafree @krystalball @marwilliamson
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BREAKING: Activists from many groups around the city are blocking outbound traffic at the Holland Tunnel. They are also blocking Manhattan side entrances to the Brooklyn, Manhattan & Williamsburg bridges right now in a multi-pronged action in the name of ending the siege on Gaza.
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Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, student protesters chant “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop! We will not rest!” and students pass out copies of The Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec .
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The group of protesters with @jvpny has spread to the street and arrests have begun. It now seems like there are 2000-3000 demonstrators.
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BREAKING: The New School student protesters increase pressure on the university by taking the lobby of Parsons in addition to their main encampment. They outside of Parsons @ 3 pm, then entered the building en masse, claiming it as theirs until The New School divests from Israel.
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The crowd of pro-Palestine protesters in DC’s Freedom Plaza is growing by the second. The message is loud & clear: Free Palestine, ceasefire now, Biden is backing genocide. Chanting echoes from side streets that feed into the plaza while the central crowd listens to speakers.
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@ColumbiaSpec “You’re doing great!” says physicist & Columbia alum Eric Lerner, who participated in the 1967 anti-Vietnam War protest occupations that roiled the university. Both Chapel Hill & Yale students have now also erected Gaza solidarity encampments! @ColumbiaSJP @UNC_SJP @yalies4pali
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And why masks when you have guns?
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We just arrived back at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia and it’s going strong. More people than when we left last night around 10 pm (400?. The vibe is calm, steadfast as a Palestinian singer sings a protest song.
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(1/3) More than 50 protestors from NYC & CT shut down Pratt & Whitney Factory in Middletown, Connecticut demanding it halt its profiting from ongoing genocide in Gaza; Israel has been using planes powered by Pratt & Whitney’s engines to drop bombs on Gaza. Demonstrators are…
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A few minutes later, with more energy and people, the chant of anti-Zionist Jews and their supporters is, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
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Eric Adams gave away the store in the new contract he reached with the police union, @JohnTeufelNYC writes. If City Council doesn't intervene, he adds, then "we live not in a city, but in a police department with some minimal public services attached."
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Students at NYC's Fashion Institute of Technology continue chanting for a free Palestine when campus cops come to dismantle the encampment they set up earlier today. Video: Ellen Davidson
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Earlier in Brooklyn, NY an autonomous group of activists & protesters marched from Fort Greene Park to NYPD’s 84th Precinct. The group wants an officer off the force for pulling his service weapon on protestors a few weeks ago. They also marched in solidarity w/ Treyvon Martin.
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NYU Arabic Lit Professor @sinanantoon , along with ~20 other faculty members were arrested as they attempted to protect students from the police on Monday at NYU’s Gould Plaza. 150+ arrests by NYPD that night, at least 100 being of student protesters. 📷 N Constantine. @wawog_now
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Replicas of graves and corpses serve as a stark reminder of the urgency of the situation at hand.
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When owner of Al-Aqsa Restaurant & Bakery Mahmoud Kasem saw that this press conference — organized WOL Palestine in response to the NYPD’s bloody policing of Saturday’s Nakba protest in Bay Ridge — was happening he prepared some falafel & tahina and brought it over to the event.
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New York State’s eviction moratorium is set to end on Jan 15th leaving many displaced. Tenant activists marched on billionaires row to demand @GovKathyHochul halt evictions and extend the ban through the end of June 2022. @CHTenantUnion @nycDSA 🎥: Ken Lopez @htownslack
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HAPPENING NOW: As people exit Grant Central station, hundreds of protesters organized by @jvplive chant “Ceasefire Now!”
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A victory for a former Bernie organizer in a Queens City Council special election on Tuesday will further jolt NYC politix. The billionaires who are desperately trying to stop her appear to agree. @lsarsour @NaomiAKlein @SarahKSilverman @janeosanders
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@ColumbiaSpec @ColumbiaSJP @UNC_SJP @yalies4pali An Arabic music student ensemble just played in the “liberated zone,” and the performance turned into a dabke circle by the end. The cops totally backed down for now (none are looming) — NYPD blamed Shafik for calling them in after bad press from yesterday’s mass arrests here.
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#NYC : 'Stop violence against women' dozens are protesting in Washington Park against feminicides. #NiUnaMenos
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In the #WomensMarchNYC scores of people are protesting violence against black lesbians demanding acknowledgement of the four black lesbian women murdered last month. #SayHerName #WomensMarch
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Thousands of voices joined together to sing the Palestinian national anthem before starting the march, which is still ongoing — but many protesters have already arrived at the final destination, the White House.
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Deliveristas and supporters in Times Square celebrate historic legislation that will go into effect tomorrow for 65,000 delivery workers in New York City. Workers will now have access to restrooms, fair pay, and tip transparency. @AOC @workersjusticep 🎥: Ken Lopez @htownslack
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Their message is clear. Scores of activists that blocked the Holland Tunnel outbound are now being amassed, seated, near the main entrance before the NYPD takes them off to jail. All three Lower Manhattan bridges have also been blocked. See thread.
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12 days and getting stronger at New School.
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Students at The New School are escalating their occupation of the building today by shutting down the entrances to the university center to establish the area as a Gaza Solidarity Block until the school meets their demands to divest from Israeli occupation. 🇵🇸
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Fired Starbucks worker-organizer Laila Dalton speaks outside Howard Schultz's multi-million dollar Manhattan home on Labor Day as @Shut_downAmazon of @amazonlabor looks on. Hundreds of marchers then headed to Jeff Bezos's Midtown mansion. Photos: @ninaberman @SBWorkersUnited
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Hundreds of New Yorkers from the Protect The Results coalition marched down 5th Avenue within the past hour demanding that all the votes be counted in the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Photo: Sue Brisk @beafree
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On the second day of a hunger strike by taxi drivers who have been left deep in debt by artificially inflated medallion prices, @aoc visits them at their encampment outside City Hall. Photo: @augustinetang @NYTWA
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W/ NY state and local gov't failing to adequately respond to the public health crisis caused by toxic wildfire smoke from Canada, @nycDSA distributed 1000s of N95 masks on Thurs. to essential workers and public housing residents on the Lower East Side. Video: Sue Brisk/ @beafree
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While the Israeli death toll from Hamas’ attack remains at around 1,400, the Gaza death toll since Oct. 7 is over 9,200, not including all the bodies still stuck under the rubble. This group of DC protesters printed out the names of the deceased Gazans. It’s a long list.
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New Yorkers are taking over privately-owned public space at Trump Tower: | #TakeTrumpTower #Divest
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(1/4) From a 10/27 @CHTenantUnion press release (see attached): On Tuesday evening 10/25 over 40 community members on the 900s block of Park Pl. in Crown Heights had their first block association meeting in years to discuss strategies for defending their neighbor Francis Roberts
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Columbia students race to another lawn to continue occupying campus in their campaign to force the university to divest from Israel. The Gaza Solidarity Encampment is being ransacked by police, and dozens have been arrested, incl. two legal observers (4th slide) 📷 N Constantine
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Indy photog Neil Constantine was arrested today ~3:30 pm while covering the mass demonstration for Palestine today as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. We demand @NYPDnews release Constantine & that it stop targeting journalists and protesters exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
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Around 200 members of university faculty unions & civic groups rallied outside the stock exchange to protest the vote on tax cuts for the richest Americans and corporations. #GOPtaxscam
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New York State Assemblymember for District 36 @ZohranKMamdani joins @SW_Columbia on the picket line today #CUonStrike video by @lilalivingstonw
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Capitalism has failed a whole generation. No wonder they are moving left and embracing socialism. Party with the @DemSocialists party!
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There are groups of activists blocking all four outbound paths to the Holland Tunnel. At the main entrance to the tunnel, protesters are now being arrested. A cop just said, to another, “Just get them one by one.” Now the activists are chanting “Let Gaza live!”
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"Adams will eventually bring himself down, and the tidal wave created by his fall will sweep away everyone close to him. He is reckless and ego-driven, convinced of his own greatness. Never throw your lot in with someone who buys his own bullshit."
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When the indictments inevitably start raining down, we should all remember that this was completely expected, that Eric Adams surrounded himself with fraudsters, enjoyed shameless favor-trading, and never met a crook he didn't want on the payroll. He was telling us all along.
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A very large crowd at Foley Square for the students and workers march for Palestine.
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President of @amazonlabor Chris Smalls ( @Shut_downAmazon ) is uptown at the @SW_Columbia strike showing worker solidarity and urging others to join! Union power! Video by Sue Brisk @beafree
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Thousands amassed in Bryant Park for Labor for Palestine march organized by @nycDSA w labor unions representing 350,000+ workers & Palestinian, Jewish orgs. The demonstration is now outside AIPAC’s NYC HQ. The writing is on the wall. “AIPAC guess genocide. NY elected complicit.”
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Hundreds of Columbia University students and their supporters rallied & marched on the perimeter of the campus today. They were responding to the university administration's move to ban two pro-Palestinian students groups for protesting Israel's assault on Gaza. Video: Sue Brisk
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Chanting "union power," hundreds of striking @SW_Columbia members marched through Washington Heights and West Harlem in the past hour. They have been on strike since Nov. 3. @al_bradbury @JonahFurman @DSA_Labor @nycDSA @MariaOrdonezNYC
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Anti-war activists from @answercoalition @pslnational @codepink and other groups rallied today at Times Square to call for an end to the war in Ukraine. "We need to build up a grassroots movement that says this war has to end," said @medeabenjamin . Photos & Video: Sue Brisk
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As GOP took control of the House today enabled by Dems losing 4 NY seats, @NYPANetwork rallied on City Hall steps calling on NY Dems to oust party chair Jay Jacobs & embrace their grassroots base. Speakers included @JumaaneWilliams @jessicaramos & @RJackson_NYC 📸Ash Marinaccio
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BREAKING: We found out that not only did GSG, a dem polling and consulting firm, help Amazon curate its union-busting campaign in SI. Both parties also failed to file legally-required paperwork disclosing their relationship. 😡 @amazonlabor @CDAW_National
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This is the fruit of the unprecedented upstate-downstate alliance that got rent law reforms enacted in 2019. Cities outside the NYC Metro Area can now opt-in to rent stabilization as well to protect their tenants.
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Thanks to the organizing of these beautiful people, Newburgh, NY voted UNANIMOUSLY to adopt rent stabilization!
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Earlier today, hundreds of Jewish antiwar activists occupied the lobby of NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center as Genocide Joe taped an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Myers." More than 50 demonstrators were arrested. Photos: @eframphoto
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JUST NOW: The arrests today out in Bay Ridge have been extremely violent as protesters commemorate 76 days of Nakba in Palestine. We saw multiple protesters being dragged limp and have heard reports that protesters were knocked unconscious.
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Chanting "The rent is too damn high!" 100s of protesters w/the @housing4allNY coalition marched through the rain and over the BK Bridge this afternoon demanding that Albany pass sweeping legislation to protect tenants and build more affordable housing. Photos: Sue Brisk/ @beafree
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- @SBWorkersUnited members from across the NYC region celebrated May Day Monday by marching on the boss and making them listen to their bargaining demands, whether they wanted to or not. Video: @beafree
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Climate activist marched through Midtown Manhattan to @KathyHochul ’s office demanding the Build Public Renewables Act be passed. At least 10 arrests were made during an act of civil disobedience in front of the Governor’s office. @nycDSA @nycdsa_ecosoc 🎥: Ken Lopez @htownslack
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Can Jabari Brisport pull off the big upset today in his race for the 35th District City Council seat in Brooklyn? He would be the first Socialist elected to the Council in more than 60 years. #voteNYC #ElectionDay
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As thousands march in Astoria, Queens' "Little Egypt" demanding a Gaza ceasefire, the NYPD separates onlookers from demonstrators. This overbearing approach to policing protest is a big part of why the NYPD's exceeds its overtime budget by hundreds of millions of $$ every year.
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Sophie Grassotti, an 11th grader at Professional Performing Arts Schoo, explains why students gathered outside City Hall today to call on the Adams administration to rescind hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed school budget cuts. Video: Sue Brisk @leoniehaimson @DrKYSR
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"I would trade nothing for rollbacks on bail reform," @phara4assembly told The Indypendent News Hour on @WBAI -99.5 FM. She says state budget talks remain deadlocked due to the far-right demands of NY Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Happening Now: Demonstrators w/ @strikemoma marching through Manhattan in solidarity w/ Palestine & Columbia to resist colonialism and imperialism. According to the group calling out board members of the MoMa, each site visited is tied to imperial crimes. 🎥: K. Lopez @htownslack
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Fired Starbucks worker-organizer Laila Dalton speaks outside company CEO Howard Schultz's multi-million $$ Manhattan home on Labor Day as @Shut_downAmazon of @amazonlabor looks on. Hundreds of marchers then headed to Jeff Bezos's Midtown mansion. @SBWorkersUnited @e_lemmerman
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It's getting raucous out here! 100s of striking @nynurses outside Mt. Sinai Hospital are chanting & singing as passing cars & trucks honk in solidarity. Video: Sue Brisk #NYCNurseStrike @OccupyWallStNYC @nycDSA @DSA_Labor @JoshuaPHilll @JonahFurman @clenchner @disruptionary
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Elected officials who joined the sea of humanity demanding #CeaseFireInGaza in Grand Central tonight include @JuliaCarmel__ @EmilyAssembly @ZohranKMamdani @alexaforcouncil @JabariBrisport and @SenatorRJackson .
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MASSIVE: 300 Jewish New Yorkers, allies and elected officials arrested at Grand Central for ceasefire and a free palestine 🇵🇸 @jvpliveNY @jvplive
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Anti-abortion Catholics were greeted this morning by repro rights defenders from @nycforabortion as they prepared to march from Old St. Patrick's Basilica to a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic. A wall of cops were on hand to escort the anti-choice marchers. 📸 Rachel Cobb
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A raucous crowd of 100+ people came out Friday evening to support @DitmarsSBWU & the @SBWorkersUnited movement after a worker-organizer @ the store was fired. The baristas were joined by @amazonlabor reps, local electeds & members of several socialist orgs. Photos: Olga Fedorova
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4/9/23 SUNSET PARK After Plaza Tonatiuh vendors were stopped from setting up by police on 4/2, they decided not to vend & to only hold an Easter Celebration w/ traditional dance, free food & children’s activities. Still the NYPD & Parks shut it down, claiming unlawful assembly.
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Immigrant vendors at Plaza Tonatiuh, an open-air unpermitted weekly market in Sunset Park, refused to back down when NYPD confronted them on Sunday morning. They have vowed to return this Easter Sunday from 9am-9pm. @AshAgony @MexicanosxU @ImmigCoalition
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The political and media establishment have aimed their fury at @nycDSA for the past 2 weeks cuz it's a movement strong enough to elect socialists like @ZohranKMamdani @JabariBrisport @marcelaforny @phara4assembly @tiffany_caban & @alexaforcouncil who won't bend the knee to them.
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BREAKING: NYC-DSA elected officials are marching down East 41st with hundreds of New Yorkers to demand a #CeasefireNow #NoMoneyForMassacres 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Picket line means: don’t cross! @SW_Columbia at every entrance of @Columbia University NOW #CUonstrike video by @lilalivingstonw
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Chanting "Biden, Biden, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" More than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched today through the streets of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn calling for an end to U.S. support for the Occupation and for Israel's war on Gaza.
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(1/3) Some faces and scenes from the Teamsters Local 202 picket line at Hunt’s Point Market. In order of appearance: Tommy has been in the union for 22 years, Alvaro for 26, Darren for 31, William for 21, and Francisco for 35. They’ve been spending 10-14 hr shifts on the picket
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Breaking: A judge has ordered ICE to return Ravi Ragbir to be held at a detention center in the NYC area as he appeals his case: … #IStandWithRavi
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And @Shut_downAmazon even led a chant at the @SW_Columbia strike that escalated today as picketers successfully blocked entries to @Columbia campus!
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President of @amazonlabor Chris Smalls ( @Shut_downAmazon ) is uptown at the @SW_Columbia strike showing worker solidarity and urging others to join! Union power! Video by Sue Brisk @beafree
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"All the technology they are selling inside that building is being used to murder Palestinian children."
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Outside a tech conference in Midtown NYC to sell Israeli tech to US agencies, about 100 rallied with @NoTechApartheid in dissent. NYPD’s SRG, a counterterrorism unit which shares training with the IDF, mobilized around the corner of the building. TARU flew a spy drone overhead.
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Today, @amazonlabor kicked off a phone banking campaign at @iacenter . If JFK8, the largest Amazon warehouse on Staten Island employing ~6K workers, votes YES to a union in their upcoming NLRB election March 25-30, they’ll be the first Amazon warehouse to do so. @Shut_downAmazon
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Long before Donald Trump came along, Haitians fought and won an epic revolution against slavery and white supremacy. #Shitholedon
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(1/2) Thousands March through Downtown Brooklyn for the Black trans liberation/protect trans youth march, which marks its second year after being the single largest-attended NYC protest last summer. Organizers called on participants to wear white, marking a time of crisis for...
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First Hector LaSalle, now Justin Driscoll. @nycDSA wields its inside-outside strategy to get results in Albany. All Three DSA State Senators were early opponents of the Driscoll nomination while DSA mobilized supporters on the outside to flood other Senators w/phone calls.
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Another successful campaign by NYC DSA/Public Power NY, this time to turn what's not historically been a contentious position into a progressive cause:
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The fact that NYU and Columbia are exempt from $327 million per year in property taxes while CUNY crumbles is scandalous.
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@palyouthmvmt @PeoplesForumNYC @jvpliveNY @wawog_now @Pal_ActionUS @Pal_action @thedianamoreno @UAW7902 Here is what the scene @ the Brooklyn Bridge is like, videos sent over by our photog Laura Brett. The final video is what’s going down now — NYPD breaking the blockade up. This reporter was told by a cab driver that all the bridges are closed and Canal St. is completely jammed.
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The @NYPD finds a new way to shock and disturb: “He pulled my pants down to my ankles and then made me walk across the Brooklyn Bridge naked,” says Maila Beach, 27, who was arrested at an April 24 protest against police misconduct. @avitale @changethenypd
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You can feel the upbeat energy and growing strength of the tenant movement as protesters marched in the rain across the BK Bridge yesterday. They are demanding Albany take the side of tenants over landlords as it addresses NY's affordable housing crisis. Video: Sue Brisk/ @beafree
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“Disclose! Divest! We will not stop! We will not rest!” chant Columbia students rallying outside the university. The protesters demand divestment from Israel but also that cops not be deployed at their school until May 17, which President Shafik stated last night. @ColumbiaSJP
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Beat the machine! Can @Ocasio2018 , former Bernie organizer, topple the king of #Queens ? Read all about it in #TheIndypendent 's new issue that is hitting the streets on Friday!
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(2/4) from months of escalating landlord harassment, which began after he refused a buyout for his brownstone apartment. He has lived in the 972 Park Pl. ground floor apartment for ~25 years. The harassment has become so extreme that it has impacted others on the block who are
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Hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters occupied MoMA in midtown Manhattan today calling for a free Palestine and an end to Western cultural complicity in Zionism. Photos: Dan Efram
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Teamsters Local 804 @804_local have arrived at the picket line to stand with @SW_Columbia as they shut campus down today #CUonstrike video by @lilalivingstonw
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Just now at an “All Out for Al-Shifa” @WOLPalestine protest organized, police quickly began arresting protesters after they started taking to the street. WOL leader Abdullah Akl was targeted for arrest. Arrests were violent; NYPD pushing and threatening press. 📷 N. Constantine
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Huge crowd waiting for Bernie in the freezing cold. New York is ready for a people’s revolution ❄️❄️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 @BernieSanders @People4Bernie @OurRevolution @DemSocialists @nycDSA
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This evening's Palestinian solidarity march saw thousands rally outside the Israeli consulate in Midtown and then march through Times Square. Photos by @AshMarinaccio . @protest_nyc @PeoplesForumNYC @AlAwda @nycDSA @OccupyWallSt @alexbkane
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NYC's only all women Brazilian Marching Samba drumline at the #WomensMarch2018 . @FogoAzulNY #WomensMarchNYC
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Jabari Brisport, a NYC Council candidate for District 35 was detained by the NYPD Monday afternoon for protesting at a public meeting held by the City Planning Commission (CPC).
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