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258: October 2020 THE HOW BIG TECH EVADES STUDENT PRIVACY LAWS, P6 INDYPENDENT #258: OCTOBER 2020 DIARY OF THE NYC LEFT THE INDY’S GREATEST HITS, ITS ZANIEST MOMENTS & HOW IT BECAME A NEW YORK INSTITUTION 2 TARKELA MIKAEL JOHN TARLETON, P16 2 THE INDYPENDENT THE INDYPENDENT, INC. 388 Atlantic Avenue, SAVE THE 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 212-904-1282 www.indypendent.org Twitter: @TheIndypendent facebook.com/TheIndypendent DATE! BOARD OF DIRECTORS INDY BENEFIT HOUSE PARTY ON ZOOM! Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, Alina Mogilyanskaya, Ann Schneider, John Tarleton 2O EXECUTIVE EDITOR OCTOBER 1 • 7:30–8:30 PM John Tarleton VOLUNTEER MANAGING EDITOR 20 YEARS OF THE INDY Pat Rough We’ll be joined by a panel of political organizers and thought leaders who will update us on the latest from the movements they are involved in and the plans they CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ellen Davidson, Alina are making to go forward. Mogilyanskaya, Nicholas Powers, Steven Wishnia ILLUSTRATION DIRECTOR JABARI BRISPORT The newly elected democratic socialist state senator from District 25 in Brooklyn. He Frank Reynoso is also the rst openly gay Black State Senator in New York history. DESIGN DIRECTOR Mikael “100th Issue” Tarkela ALEX VITALE DESIGNERS A professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Leia Doran, Anna Gold, Evan Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing. Sult ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER SANDY NURSE Amba Guerguerian The founder of BK ROT, a co-founder of the Mayday Space, a direct action organizer and a carpenter. She is running for New York City Council in District 37. INTERNS Katya Schwenk AIXA RODRIGUEZ GENERAL INQUIRIES: An ESL teacher and a member of Bronx United Educators and the Movement of Rank [email protected] and File Educators, the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers. SUBMISSIONS & NEWS TIPS: [email protected] TOM ANGOTTI Author of New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate ADVERTISING & PROMOTION: and co-editor of Zoned Out: Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York [email protected] City. He is professor emeritus of urban policy and planning at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS Linda Martín Alcoff, Charlyne WE WILL ALSO BE SERENADED BY Alexis, Eleanor J. Bader, Bennett Baumer, Sue Brisk, REVEREND BILLY AND MEMBERS OF THE Valerio Ciriaci, Rico Cleffi , Renée Feltz, Lynne Foster, CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING CHOIR Esteban Guerra, Theodore Hamm, Em Gage Hammer, This event is a fundraiser for THE INDYPENDENT. Please give generously by David Hollenbach, Manvi Jalan, Carrie Klein, Derek making a one-time or recurring monthly contribution at indypendent.org/donate. Ludovici, Leonardo March, Your support makes all our work possible. Gary Martin, Farid Nassif, Tiffany Pai, Mark Read, Reverend Billy, Olivia Riggio, RSVP by emailing [email protected] Rosie Rudavsky, Steven Sherman, Maresi Starzman, and Tyrone Wallace. VOLUNTEER DISTRIBUTORS Erik Anders-Nilssen, Eric Brelsford, Chris & Pam Brown, Hank Dombrowski, October 2020 Joseph Epstein, Kim Frazcek, Lew Friedman, Tami Gold, ADVERTISE IN THE INDY Priscilla Grim, Laura Kaplan, • GREAT RATES Michael Korn, Carol Lipton, • UNIQUE AUDIENCE Ashley Marinaccio, Christine • PERSONAL ATTENTION FROM US Miller, Saul Nieves, Tom O’Keefe, Caroline Rath, Liam • FREE HIGH QUALITY DESIGN AT NO EXTRA CHARGE Reilly, Norm Scott, Carol THE INDYPENDENT Smith, and Becky Vaughan. 212-904-1282 • [email protected] 3 IN THIS ISSUE THE NEWS IN BRIEF, P4 Cops vex food vendors, pandemic slams renters, hard hats demand justice, Industry City victory, NYC “anarchy.” SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM, P6 As more classrooms go online, profi t-hungry ed tech companies fi nd it easy to ignore student privacy requirements. SOCIALIST SQUAD, P8 With 35 seats opening up due to term limits, the New York City Council could shift dramatically to the left in 2021. AUSTERITY OR LIBERATION?, P11 NYC’s powerful real estate industry has been rocked by the 2O pandemic. But will working-class New Yorkers pay the price? SWING DANCE, P12 One group of New Yorkers is fi nding a way to make a difference in the handful of states that will decide the 2020 presidential election. ONE SLOPPY JOE, PLEASE, P13 A Biden victory would be a band-aid, not a cure. But the alternative is unfathomably worse. 20-YEAR ODYSSEY, P16 A longtime Indy editor looks back on the implausible history of NYC’s last great newspaper and what the left can learn from the experience. ANOTHER JOURNALISM IS POSSIBLE, P18 Highlights from two decades of The Indy’s best coverage. TESTIMONIALS, P20 Some of our favorite readers share their thoughts on what “a free paper for free people” means for New York City. SO YOU WANT A FREE PRESS, P22 Fearless independent journalism can only survive with the support of its readers. Find out how you can do your part. FROM MEGA-EXPLOSION TO MUTUAL AID, P26 What do you do when your dysfunctional government causes a humanitarian disaster and is too inept to repair the damage? Ask the people of Beirut. DON’T LET THE MUSIC DIE, P28 Independent music venues and the artists they feature have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. But help may be on the way. HOMELESS LIT, P30 A former vice presidential candidate has written a novel that humanizes the homeless for young adults, and the rest of us too. DAVID GRAEBER, PRESENTE P32 A friend and former collaborator of anarchist anthropologist David Graeber looks back on the remarkable life of the man who helped coin the slogan “We are the 99%.” THE TRUMP HELP HOTLINE, P34 The planet’s on fi re and so is Reverend Billy, plus how to resist a stolen election. INDY October 2020 RADIO NEWS THE INDYPENDENT Tune in on Monday evenings from 6:00 to 6:30 pm on 99.5 FM for the WBAI Evening News presented by THE INDYPENDENT. The show features writers and sources from The Indy’s biggest articles. Hosted by John Tarleton. Also available via streaming at WBAI.ORG. Indypendent Ad 5x7 06-23-15.pdf 1 6/23/15 1:56 PM 4 BROADCAST ON MORE THAN 1,300 PUBLIC TV AND RADIO STATIONS WORLDWIDE A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman and Juan González STEVEN WISHNIA STEVEN BRIEFING AN INJURY TO ONE: Construction workers rally near Penn Station Sept. 15 to demand ROOM the end to the “body shop” BY INDYPENDENT STAFF system of supplying low-wage nonunion labor to contractors. DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG COPS STILL GIVING STREET FOOD CONSTRUCTION Tune In Live Every Weekday 8-9am ET VENDORS $500 WORKERS PROTEST • Audio, Video, Transcripts, Podcasts TICKETS ‘MODERN DAY City police are still handing out summons- SLAVERY’ • Los titulares de Hoy (headlines in Spanish) es to street vendors despite Mayor Bill de Wearing orange-and-black facemasks and Blasio’s June promise to phase them out. waving “I AM Worthy” signs, more than • Find your local broadcast station and schedule “Unlawful vending can adversely affect lo- 200 construction workers rallied near Penn cal businesses and quality of life,” patrol Station Sept. 15, as Laborers Union locals • Subscribe to the Daily News Digest chief Fausto Pichardo posted on Twitter launched a campaign against the “body Sept. 14 after a sweep in the World Trade shop” system of supplying low-wage non- Follow Us @ DEMOCRACYNOW Center area. “Why do I have to feel like union labor to contractors. “It’s modern- a criminal if I’m just working?” food ven- day slavery,” John Simmons, who worked dor Nabil Boussbaa, who got a $500 ticket for a Long Island body shop that adver- for having his cart less than 12 feet from a tises itself as “a non-union, non-prevailing crosswalk, told The City. (The legal mini- wage” company, told the crowd. These “Arundhati Roy is one mum is 10 feet.) The Street Vendor Project, companies, which have provided labor to of the most con dent which supports vendors’ rights, estimates major local construction projects, usually and original thinkers that about 20,000 peddlers sell food and pay minimum wage and often hire parol- of our time.” other things on city streets, but the num- ees, who can be sent back to prison if they ber of permits to sell food legally has been don’t stay employed. —Naomi Klein capped at roughly 3,000 since 1983. About 1,350 people are on the waiting list, and “Roy’s . non ctional City Councilmember Margaret Chin (D- REPORT: PANDEMIC engagement with the Manhattan) has introduced a bill that SLAMS NYC conicts and traumas of would increase the number of permits. RENTERS a heedlessly globalized As many as four-fi fths of New York City tenants are having trouble paying rent world has manifested INDUSTRY CITY during the COVID-19 epidemic, the Met- the virtues of an ABANDONS ropolitan Council on Housing said in a uninching emotional BROOKLYN report issued in September. The tenants’- as well as political REZONING rights group’s survey of 406 people who intelligence. She Industry City CEO Andrew Kimball an- contacted it found that almost two-thirds continues to oer nounced Sept. 22 that he was dropping had already been spending more than 30 his application to have the city rezone the percent of their income on rent, and 79 bracing ways of 35-acre industrial complex on the Brook- percent had been laid off from work or seeing, thinking, lyn waterfront. The $1 billion project, the had their hours cut. Met Council’s tenant and feeling.” largest private rezoning application in the hotline is 212-979-0611. —Pankaj Mishra city’s history, would have converted former warehouses and lofts to offi ce, retail, and “No writer today, in India academic space.
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