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Government giving you lemons? Occupy Queens says ‘make lemonade’
Sunday, in an attempt to “humanize” the protest and engage the surrounding community, the Occupy Queens movement set up shop next to the Jackson Height’s farmers market. Occupy Queens is a group associated with the Occupy Wall Street, a movement that has been protesting wealth distribution in Zuccotti park since September, 2011. Occupy rallies have been [...]
Thousands rally on Father’s Day to protest NYPD’s controversial ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy
Thousands marched in silence down Fifth Avenue on Father’s Day to protest the New York Police Department’s controversial “Stop & Frisk” program—a policing tactic critics say unfairly singles out young black and Latino men. As DNAinfo reported, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently defended “Stop & Frisk” to parishioners in Brownsville, Brooklyn on June 10. “There are some who [...]
Environmentalists bring anti-fracking call to Queens
Passers-by on 71st avenue in Forest Hills were stopped on Monday by canvassers in blue Environment New York t-shirts asking: “Do you have a minute to save the Catskills from fracking?” Hydraulic fracturing, known more commonly as fracking, is the controversial process used by energy companies to extract natural gas from shale rock located miles [...]
LIC community rallies against proposed $270,000 budget cuts to after-school programs
This afternoon, scores of pint-size protesters stormed the Our World Neighborhood Charter School (OWN) playground in Long Island City armed with hand-made posters and catchy rally chants. Occupy Sesame Street? Not quite.
Analysis: Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather at Citi Field for anti-Internet rally
CORONA, New York – In my knee-length jean skirt and long-sleeved black shirt I feel like I’m undercover, despite the fact that I wore a similar outfit each day for ten years while enrolled in Jewish Yeshiva day school. I’m not exactly wearing a black hat and fake mustache—but it’s a far cry from my usual [...]
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