Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 31: Friday night’s Critical Mass bike ride was played as a First Amendment “showdown” over the NYPD’s new parade rule, which requires groups of 50 or more to get a permit to… Read moreNYC: Critical Mass tests new police regs
From the New York Post, Nov. 3: Ground Zero’s “Angel” Nun Dies An Episcopal nun who spent five months blessing remains at the World Trade Center died this week and has been granted her dying wish – to be autopsied… Read moreNYC: another Ground Zero martyr
A small tentative step in the right direction—a little counter-vortex against the general downward spiral of global civilization towards ecological hell, permanent war and petrochemical totalitarianism. From amNewYork, Sept. 13: City puts forth ambitious bike plan After a series of… Read moreNYC bicyclists win another round
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Sept. 12: Conspiracy Types Lecture Regular Folks at Ground Zero The fifth anniversary of 9-11 brought more sorrow and anguish to New York, but also more questioning of the official narrative of the… Read moreConspiracists crash Ground Zero —again
The latest in Bush’s 9-11 exploitation propaganda blitz. This is especially perverse given how the first responders have been shamelessly screwed by the federal government. The trick for New York activists is to find some way to protest this without… Read moreBush propaganda machine exploits NYC first responders
It is a truly appalling spectacle to watch former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman and New York City officials pass the buck for the deadly 9-11 health fallout back and forth like a shuttlecock. Whitman said in a “60 Minutes”… Read more9-11 health impact dispute: “We never lied,” Christine Whitman lies
From Newsday, Aug. 24: Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are being profiled by Homeland Security officers at Kennedy Airport, civil liberties groups said Wednesday, citing a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai… Read moreEthnic profiling at NY’s JFK airport
This comes, of course, in response to activist pressure. On Aug. 17, a lively grassroots “public hearing” on the proposed regulations was held at St. Marks Church in the East Village, where at least three City Council members spoke out… Read moreNYC: another victory in Critical Mass struggle
One year after the hysteria that followed the London bombings, we are treated to yet another terrorist scare emanating from the UK, with the alleged plot to blow up airliners mid-flight by mixing combustible liquids, supposedly discovered in the nick… Read more2nd Circuit upholds subway searches
Another turn of the screw. The NYPD unveils draconian new regulations in the ongoing crackdown on the Critical Mass bicyclists. The elitist New York Timess refuses to put this fine July 21 column by Clyde Haberman online for free, but… Read moreNYC: new regs in Critical Mass crackdown
“¡Farouk Vive! ¡La Lucha Sigue!” Vigil Commemorating the Life of Farouk Abdel-Muhti New York-based Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti died suddenly of a heart attack on July 21, 2004, three weeks before his 57th birthday and 100 days after he was… Read moreNew York activists remember Farouk Abdel-Muhti
Remember how the firefighters, cops and rescue workers who answered the call of duty at New York’s Ground Zero were exploited shamelessly for war propaganda—as if saving lives in New York was somehow the same as taking lives in Iraq?… Read moreNYC: no 9-11 liability
