Occupy Sandy: Building Community and Worker Power in Far Rockaway
“When the workers get together and decide how to distribute the income in such an enterprise, would they give the CEO $25 million in stock bonuses while everybody else can…
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Hospital Closures in Brooklyn and Queens: The Sick Get Sold out
There is a national trend of closing hospitals under the guise of saving taxpayers money. Brooklyn and Queens have been and continue to be negatively affected by the same trend,…
Three Months After Sandy: By The Numbers
Three months after Superstorm Sandy, thousands of New Yorkers are still recovering. We took a look through some of the numbers and this is what we found. Second Costliest Storm…
NY Fast Food Workers Serve Up a Fight for Economic Justice
The sidewalk in front of the Wendy’s on Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall was choked with people at noon on November 29th. The signs they held were mostly handmade, in English and…
“The Mold” in the Forgotten Rockaways
Nearly three months after Sandy, many Far Rockaway residents are still fighting to rebuild after the massive damage caused by the superstorm. Among the biggest threats in its immediate wake…
Hurricane Sandy Relief Turns to Protest
The stakes are high for people in the Rockaways. More than month and a half after Superstorm Sandy, winter is setting in and many of the ten thousand residents of…
Struggles, New and Old, Emerge in Sandy’s Wake
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City’s shores. The brewing struggles are taking shape amidst the popular…
Far Rockaway Recovers with A Little Help from Their Friends
Volunteers From Brooklyn and Upstate New York head out to the Rockaways to help their neighborhs recover. via VeccVideography/Vimeo
