By James Lane Over 3,000 people gathered at Liberty Plaza in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning to defend the peaceful Occupation near Wall Street. The crowd cheered at the news that multinational real estate firm Brookfield Properties will postpone its so-called “cleanup” of the park and that Mayor Bloomberg has told the NYPD to...
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By James Lane What/Who is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing they all have in common is that they share the mantra “We Are The 99%” that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the...
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By James Lane Do not let the headline scare you too much. This article is not about the infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus, but instead it’s about the six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. Dengue Fever has been on tour in the...
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By James Lane In cities large and small, the union and immigrant movements united in peaceful demonstrations yesterday to fight back together against austerity, racism and cutbacks. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner bill back in 2006. The powerful culmination that spring was May 1, when –...
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By James Lane On April 20, 2010 an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect killed 11 men working on the platform, injured 17 others and ruptured a wellhead which would create the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. On July 15, 2010...
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Hot Indie News reporter Yvonne Gougelet is reporting from Washington D.C. this weekend from Power Shift, the largest grassroots Clean Energy training ever held. Over 10,000 concerned Americans have come to D.C. this weekend to urge Congress to end their ties with Big Polluters who are destroying our precious eco-system and causing wide spread...
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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 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 The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute held an eclectic forum today at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York that featured Zara Phillips and Darryl (DMC) McDaniels and in a rare public performance. The focus of this event was to highlight the need for states to restore adult adoptees’ access to...
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