OWS Crowd Disperses to Plan “Day of Action”
A much smaller group of protestors gathered at Zuccotti on Wednesday morning. Few protestors slept overnight. Photo by Neha Banka. Zuccotti Park was less crowded on Wednesday, but Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleOccupy “Day of Action” Ends with March into Brooklyn
Update from last night’s Brooklyn Bridge march: Protestors leave Foley Square and march to the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo by Shane Hunt. The Occupy Wall Street movement poured into New York’s most populous...
View ArticleA Rally for Muslim Rights Echoes Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring
Muslim Protestors praying in Foley Square on Friday afternoon. Photo by Rose D'souza Dozens of people gathered at Foley Square Friday to protest against the NYPD, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and...
View ArticleFor Occupy Wall Street, the Honeymoon is Over
Andrew Katz / The Brooklyn Ink It took mere hours on Nov. 15 for hundreds of New York Police Department officers, under the orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg for what he claimed to be deteriorating...
View ArticleHundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike
As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest. For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside...
View ArticleConey Islanders Rally Against Education Budget Cuts
Students, teachers, parents and local union members marched Wednesday through Coney Island to protest state and city budget cuts to education. Protestors hold signs at Coney Island march on Wednesday...
View ArticleWhile Syria Bleeds… [Video]
As the uprising in Syria worsens, the Syrian community in Bay Ridge reflects on the situation with feelings of grief, hope and anger (photos by AP and video footage by AP and YouTube) Produced by...
View ArticleResidents Fight the Sale of Library
Brooklyn Heights residents are protesting a plan to sell the city-owned Brooklyn Heights Library to a private contractor who would build a high-rise over it. The tower would include a new branch...
View ArticleCommunity Leaders Call for an End to East Flatbush Unrest
Council Member Jumaane D. Williams and community leaders giving speech at the conference on the corner of Church Avenue and East 55th Street Thursday afternoon. After a third night of protests over...
View ArticleDo Cops Ever Get Indicted? Two Just Did
By: Nardos Mesmer NYPD Cops Hit Unarmed Teen As He Surrenders With His Hands Up The recent decisions of grand juries not to indict two police officers—NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric...
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