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Vichal Kumar wants to bring a public defender’s fight to Congress
Epicenter NYC and TBN24 invited several incumbents and challengers in key primary and midterm races across New York City to participate in the Candidate Conversations series. Interviews with other candidates will be scheduled and published ahead of the June primary. Are you running? Drop us a line at hello@epicenter-nyc.com The early voting period is from…
ICE’s shock and awe
Trump’s immigration agenda relies on fear and spectacle as much as raw enforcement
NYC joins National Shutdown Friday to protest ICE enforcement and deaths
A wide range of residents, businesses and labor organizers across New York City are joining the strike on Friday for a day of no work, no school and no shopping. The action is meant to protest the federal immigration enforcement operations that have left at least eight people dead in the first month of 2026.…
You’re part of a caste system in NYC. Here’s what you can do about it
Yashica Dutt can’t forget when a graduate student died by suicide in India after denouncing caste discrimination. The student, Rohith Vemula, took his life in 2016 after his university suspended and harassed him and other activists from the Dalit caste, once called “untouchable,” the lowest tier in Hindu social hierarchy. Now Dutt wants New…
An assault on Jackson Heights and our way of life in Queens
Jackson Heights woke up to the sound of helicopters. Almost instantly, there were posts on Facebook and text messages reporting sightings of ICE at 89th Street and 34th Avenue. ICE agents had actually arrived before then, entering the neighborhood in the early morning hours of Thursday, Dec. 4. Long before TV trucks showed up, tinted…
Anatomy of a raid
This week, a relative stalemate that had held between New York City and an incredibly emboldened and aggressively militarized federal immigration enforcement apparatus seemed to crumble as dozens of federal agents swarmed around Canal Street in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, and spent a couple of hours trawling around, sporadically detaining people and arresting few, and…
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