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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…
Defunding climate, funding for ICE. We are heading into a police state
You have likely heard: The Republican majorities in Congress, after a few weeks of back-and-forth where it seemed like Trump’s mass MAGA budget bill was actually at risk of failing, voted up the so-called “big, beautiful bill” by the slimmest of possible margins. You’ve also likely heard: Some of the most consequential aspects of the…
Stripping citizenship stokes a climate of fear—and that’s the point
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case that involves the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents with either temporary or no legal status, clearing the way for the policy to go into effect. In its usual mealy-mouthed way, the court didn’t actually rule…
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