From NY1, April 29: Seven Family Members Die After SUV Plunges From Bronx Parkway Police say seven Bronx family members spanning three generations died Sunday afternoon after the sports utility vehicle they were riding in flipped over a Bronx River… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
An April 9 report on WNYC Radio informs us that last year, 21 bicyclists were killed in vehicle crashes in New York City—but only two drivers were arrested. Local district attorneys, when pressed to cite convictions for cyclist deaths, gripe… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
As we have pointed out over and over, a driver’s license in New York City is literally a license to kill. Meanwhile, police crack down on the solution. From Transportation Nation, Feb. 15: NYPD Issued Almost 50,000 Bicycle Tickets in… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The New York Police Department, under fire from New York City Muslims, has announced that is ending its program of NYPD-CIA collaboration launched after 9-11. But calls mount for Commissioner Ray Kelly to step down.
From Lower Manhattan’s Downtown Express, Jan. 18: Girl killed on Delancey St. A 12-year-old girl on her way home from Castle Middle School on Henry St. was struck and killed by a car around 2:40 p.m. Fri., Jan. 13 at… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed over police barricades at downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, retaking the plaza before being evicted in a police charge.
The fact that New York CIty authorities had to go unilateral in the bust of Jose Pimentel—the feds declining to get involved for fear of “entrapment”—may spell the end of the endless scam of infiltrator-generated specious terrorism cases.
New York City police arrested some 200 protesters as hundreds converged on the Financial District for a “Shut Down Wall Street” action to note the two-month mark of the Occupation movement. Some 30,000 later marched over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hundreds of riot police descended on Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park after midnight, in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Occupiers are regrouping at other parks and preparing a “Shut Down Wall Street” action Thursday.
The fear of being seen as “socialist” is deep seated. It is time to get over it, and reclaim the word, as gays did the word “queer.” The concept that the Earth and its wealth belong to society must be redeemed. Everything, ultimately, is riding on it.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, in the third Internet edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, discusses 150 years of social struggle on New York's Lower East Side in light of the Wall Street protests.
From The Villager, Oct. 13: SUV driver arrested after assaulting pedestrian An interaction between a driver and a pedestrian in the East Village turned violent Friday evening when the former chased the latter into the St. Mark’s Bookshop, grabbed her… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
