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10/2/2010 NYC TWU 100 Members Speak Out-From The Bronx to DC. at "One Nation"

Labor Video Project | NYC Bronx TWU 100 members speak out about attack on transit workers & public 1 Comments more...

Building Bridges Radio: One Nation March on Washington

Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg | Your Community and Labor Report - National Edition 1 Comments more...

Hunter College Protests CUNY Budget Cuts! (Oct 7)

Hunter Fights Bac | 0 Comments more...

Talk on Fahad Hashmi Case, Oct. 8th

Felton Davis | Catholic Worker Mtg on case of Fahad Hashmi 4 Comments more...

Stormont’s Grand Central Station Marginalizes Irish-Language Communities

Ceithearna Coille Nua Eabhrac | Indigenous Language Silenced 1 Comments more...

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Victor Toro, an ex-political prisoner under Pinochet in Chile, is fighting deportation. more...


The Indypendent Issue 153: An Ocean of Troubles: Louisiana Gulf Communities Face a Slow Death by Globalization, Contamination and Catastrophe

The Indypendent Staff | Louisiana native Brian Marks reports: “The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has again focused the nation on southern Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. And again, this region is terribly misunderstood.

Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable. The national media have a tendency to see things through a close-up-lens — capturing the details while utterly missing the larger context. This disaster has not only been a long time coming, but it is only one of a series of disasters.

For the full article, see the link to “The Gulf Disaster: No End in Sight” below.

Also in this issue of the Indypendent: Arun Gupta on Israel and the flotilla massacre; Honduras one year after the coup; and an interview with a food justice activist. For all that and much more, see below.

Students Win Last Chance for Diploma || Flotilla Attack Fuels Movement Targeting Israel || Getting Real on Food with Jen Griffith || Out on the Streets: Understanding the Section 8 Crisis || Ticket to Ride: Students Win MetroCard Fight || The Gulf Disaster: No End in Sight || Cultural Extinction: Fear of No Recovery in the Gulf || Honduras on the March || The Victim that is Israel || /a> || Summer Lit Picks || Stage, Screen and Rooftop: Film and Comedy || Community Calendar || Reader Comments more...

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