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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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A Free Paper for Free People. Op-Ed: Why I Regret Casting an Antiwar Protest Vote in 1968. Robert Levering Nov 1. While I see many parallels with the choice we faced back then, I now think differently about how to register my opposition to war.
Cuba’s Uncertain Future - The Indypendent
Feb 16, 2024 · Cuba is in a near-unprecedented economic crisis which it is still struggling to recover from, a crisis that has caused nearly half a million Cubans to leave the island in the last few years. This crisis fell on Díaz-Canel in 2019, the year he became socialist Cuba’s first leader that does not have the last name Castro.
Fighting for the First Amendment | The Indypendent
Credico, a stand-up comedian who once appeared on The Tonight Show, first became a dedicated political activist in the late 1990s, fighting against New York’s Rockefeller drug laws. In 2016 his close friend Margaret Ratner Kuntsler, then Assange’s lawyer, introduced him to Assange. Credico explains that he embraced the Australian publisher ...
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.
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A Free Paper for Free People. Issue Archive. 290. Oct 2024. View Issue Download PDF. 289. Aug 2024. View Issue Download PDF. 288. Jul 2024
Death By a Thousand Cuts: Community Leaders Unite to Save …
Mar 25, 2024 · A Free Paper for Free People. So when SUNY Chancellor John King announced a proposal in January to close Downstate and move some of its beds to Kings County Hospital across the street, community members were outraged.
What I Learned at The Indypendent
In my five years of volunteering at The Indypendent, I’ve designed ads and layouts, illustrated numerous covers, written an article, produced short films, passed out issues at rallies and protests and worked through the night alongside other dedicated volunteers to get the paper to the printer just under the wire.At times it’s been a lot of work, but it‘s also been absolutely, without a ...
How The Indypendent Has Survived & Thrived For Two …
John Tarleton Sep 26, 2020. As Priscilla Felia was driving through the desolate, boarded-up streets of Lower Manhattan one night a couple of weeks after the George Floyd uprising swept across New York City, she saw something that made her pull over. One of The Indypendent ’s bright red-and-white news boxes was standing alone on a street ...
America’s Age of Inequality | The Indypendent
America’s wealthiest tycoons have more economic and political power than any time since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Buff billionaire Jeff Bezos presides over his Amazon empire, real estate magnate Harlan Crow blows big bucks on Justice Clarence Thomas’ getaways, and rich-guy-reality-tv-star Donald Trump is running to be president again.