The strike began Nov. 3, with union members calling for higher wages and more protections for graduate and undergraduate student workers
Recently released data highlights the program’s successes so far, but also reveals where it falls short in meeting community needs.
he garment strike teaches us lessons about racism, alliances, and Asian American activism for economic justice that are still useful today.
On May 1, tenants of 81 Bowery in New York City released a black and white banner from the top of their apartment building that said “Rent Strike!” in both English and Chinese. They joined thousands of tenants across the city and country who are demanding that landlords cancel rent.
On Friday, April 24, hundreds of graduate student workers at Columbia University went on a rent and work strike following the administration’s refusal to sufficiently protect them from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This movement comes on the heels of an unnamed student filing a class-action lawsuit against
(Content note: This article contains mention of racial slurs and sexual vulgarity.) Retaliatory harassment, surveillance, caging, physical abuse, death threats, and poisoning are all tactics the United States government may classify as torture. Yet they have all been employed—and therefore tacitly sanctioned—by the New York City Police Department
Sheila’s 25-year-old son has been detained pretrial at Manhattan Detention Center (MDC) for almost three years. He hasn’t yet been convicted of any crime, but he’s losing hope that he’ll ever see home again. Two weeks ago, he told his mother that he’d lost his
In Brooklyn, an Asian man is fighting for his life after being stabbed more than a dozen times in a suspected coronavirus-related hate crime. The attack isn’t the first of its kind, and with infection fears heightening around the globe, the number of racist incidents targeting the Asian community
Dolita Wilhike’s portrait is cast in sepia, her head tilted to the right and eyes fixed upward. The image evokes the iconic portrait of activist Angela Davis. However, surrounding Wilhike’s face is an image of the American flag. From afar, the image is simple: Wihilke’s face superimposed
In 2018, an estimated 5 in 1,000 Americans were employed as professional artists. That same year, there were approximately 7 in 1,000 people incarcerated in American prisons. In states like Oklahoma and Louisiana, that number is more like 10 in 1,000. The Pencil Is a Key is
Recently in New York City, two women selling churros were arrested and faced fines for vending in a transit station. The videos of their violent arrests went viral, shining a light on the ways that poverty, city bureaucracy, and law enforcement combine to make public spaces unsafe for Black and
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