By James Lane The United National Anti-War Committee held one of the largest rallies in years at New York City’s Union Square on Saturday that also featured a march down to Foley Square where there was a peace festival. Themes of the rally included: an end to the wars overseas and an immediate withdrawal...
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By James Lane DAY OF RAGE Protest Against Budget Cuts March 24 Thousands of labor unionists, students and community activists rallied at City Hall and marched chanting through New York City’s financial district yesterday, protesting threatened budget cuts that would cause schools to close, tuition to rise, cut social services drastically and bring thousands...
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Will Challenge Major Parties on Peace, Budget Priorities, Single Payer Health Care, Worker Rights The Green Party of NY State has officially nominated Ian Murphy as its candidate for upcoming special Congressional election in the 26th District. The Green Party said it wanted to provide an alternative to the anti-worker, pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-environmental agenda...
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By James Lane As I read through this year’s Left Forum program guide and try to strategically plot a course through all the staircases and hallways of Pace University to attend my preferred panels of interest, it is refreshing to see and hear so many progressive intellectuals gathered together in one place with the...
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By James Lane Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. It provides a unique space for the generation of ideas crucial to theorizing and building a resurgent Left. This year’s Forum is being held at Pace University...
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By James Lane New York State Assemblyman David Weprin proposed new legislation for an “Adoptee Bill of Rights” at City Hall on Sunday. The bill would provide adults who were adopted as children with a legal right to access their original birth certificate. He was joined by supporters from the Unsealed Initiative. Under the...
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By James Lane Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and his chief of staff Carlo Scissura have both been fined for breaking the city’s conflicts of interest law. The violation occurred in 2009, when Markowitz used Scissura, to handle the closing on his new home. The city’s ethics law prohibits public servants from entering into...
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(Rochester) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called today for New York voters to “support the Hawkins Prosperity Plan rather than the Cuomo-Duffy Austerity Plan.” “The Democrats are trying to win votes by scaring people about Paladino, who is indeed a scary person – a bigoted, rich, political insider posing as an...
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Hawkins Wants a Ban on Hydrofracking, Cuomo wants to Study Howie Hawkins has agreed to participate in a Monday October 25th debate on hydrofracking and energy policy at Nottingham High School, East Genesee St., Syracuse NY. So far, Libertarian candidate Warren Redlich and Freedom Party candidate Charles Barron have also agreed to debate. Sponsors...
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Lawrence Opposes FDA Approval of Frankenstein Fish (Ithaca) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, today called for a ban on the planting of genetically modified crops in New York State. The Greens have previously drafted state legislation to impose a five year moratorium on the planting of such crops. “Americans have become...
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