THE#201: OCTOBER 24–NOVEMBER INDYP 23 A FREE PAPER FOREN FREE PEOPLEDENT MEXICO MURDER MYSTERY, P14 | THE NEW FACEBOOK? P22

GREEN PARTY RISING P6

AFTER THE CLIMATE MARCH, P8 ROB LAQUINTA

EPIDEMIC OF FEAR FERGUSON PHOTO THE PLAGUE THAT’S WORSE THAN EBOLA ESSAY, P12 NICHOLAS POWERS, P4 2 THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 Beth Whitney, Keith Williams and and Wolf. Williams Amy Keith Whitney, Beth Wasserman, Matthew Valkury, Lucy Terros, Diego Szpunt, Gabriella Sudin, Sembokuya, Marlena Buczek Smith, Elke Pugh,Ann Schneider, Jim Secula, Maiko Maya Peraza-Baker, Anna Polonyi, Andy Newton, David Mike Moore, KatieMeadow, Mathews, Gary AnnMary Larsen,Martin, Christine LaQuinta, Keita, Rob Krause, Timothy Mamoudou Kirchner, Marty Johnson, Adam J, Dondi Hollenbach, David Michael Hirsch, Gonyo, Robert Foster, Lynne Feltz, Renée Chung, Jin Hye Carmona, Baumer, Bennett José Byun, Catherine Bilimoria, Devika Bader, J. Eleanor VOL T HE AD SUBMISSIONS AND NEWS TIPS: NEWS AND SUBMISSIONS U Steven Arnerich, Rafa Calleja, Calleja, Rafa Arnerich, Steven [email protected] facebook.com/ NTEER 388 A 388 Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, Gold, Anna Davidson, Ellen INDYPENDENT V [email protected] ILL Twitter: @T Twitter: CONTRIB THE INDYPENDENT, INC. INC. INDYPENDENT, THE ERTISIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS: OF BOARD [email protected] Alina Mogilyanskaya Mogilyanskaya Alina www.indypendent.org GENERAL INQU GENERAL M U EX CALENDAR Seamus Creighton Seamus tlantic Brooklyn, NY 11217 NY Brooklyn, STRATION STRATION HEAD Nicholas Powers Nicholas CONTRIB ANA Ellen Davidson, Davidson, Ellen Mikael Tarkela Mikael Frank Reynoso Frank EC Rebeca Ibarra Rebeca John Tarleton John John Tarleton John Alex Ellefson 212-904-1282 DESI Anna Gold Anna U F INTERN: G AND PROMOTION: G AND U G ELLO TI

Avenue, 2nd Floor 2nd Avenue, DESI IN TIN he G VE VE T NERS: G EDITOR: he U I

G E ndypendent W: EDITOR EDITOR TORS: DIRECTOR G I NER ndypendent DITORS IRIES: Sam Alcoff, Alcoff, Sam : : : : : A ANNUAL FUND DRIVE ON nycsocialist.org Queens Heights, Jackson Fl 2nd Ave, 37th 76-11 House Pride Queens Party. Families Working Bill de Blasio, Elizabeth Warren and the the and Warren Elizabeth Blasio, de Bill as such actors political and activists of roles the include will discussion The left. the to Party Democratic the push to strategy progressives’ of discussion OVER THE DEMO THE OVER 12-6pm • Free •Free 12-6pm 1 SAT NOV DI •Free 7pm 29 OCT WED S MONTHLY IF YOU WOULD AONE-TIME LIKE MAKE TO OR RECURRING $500, $1000 OR MORE, MAKES ITALL G SU A FREE PRESS ISN’T FREE. COMIN •bluestockings.com 212-777-6028 St Allen 172 B Internet. the on Disobedience Civil and Hacktivism Actions, DDOS Swarm: of author the is Sauter ism. activ- online about adiscussion lead will panelists other and Sauter Molly Author DI •Free 7pm 27 OCT MON IN EXH •Free times Various THRO OCT/ I more. and strikes hunger prison people, queer and women incarcerated of struggles the prisoners-as-laborers, education, imprisonment, political Rebellion, Attica the include Subjects allies. their and people incarcerated by produced materials cultural features exhibition this complex, prison-industrial the of interferencearchive.org B #4, St, 8th 131 nterference luestockings luestockings SC SC SI TLANTI EN IVIN IBITION DE/ U U

SS SS UG PP OUT ION ION H NOV D AC .” Recasting the history history the .” Recasting : “SELF-DET A : C : THE COMING SWARM. SWARM. COMING THE rchive Bookstore & Café &Café Bookstore ORT klyn G TOD AN CR 16 THE LEFT LEFT THE

ATI

C PARTY? A C PARTY? C AVENUE, 2ND FLOOR •B ERM HE AND The Coming Coming The DONATION, VISIT TA INATION KE KE AY! CK OR MONEY ORDER TO AI NO DS DS HEL WHETHER YOU $25, GIVE CAN $50, $100, $200, 212-780-9386 •nuyorican.org 212-780-9386 B&C Aves btw St 3rd East creativity. cultural of hub long-standing this honoring while games carnival and food performances, musical readings, poetry of afternoon an Enjoy party. block community this at Café Poets Nuyorican the of niversary PART BLOCK 212-477-4022 •lesecologycenter.org 212-477-4022 &Lenox Ave 5th Between St 110th Park Central Center, Discovery Dana at lesecologycenter.org. required is Registration soil. usable into food leftover transferring of processes the to relating education with along city the in options composting on workshop AN PARTY: 2ND 2ND PARTY: thecommonsbrooklyn.org B St, Fulton 647 Café Ghost Hungry the at Meetup Project. Education Marxist the benefit to go donations All transformation. the behind strategy the explore will tour the Henwood, Doug journalist by Led true. coming been have dreams their decade, last the over and decades, for boards drawing planners’ on been has Brooklyn TION WA $20/$40/$80 donation •Suggested 10:30am-3:30pm 9 NOV SUN WO •$5 1-3:30pm 8 SAT NOV ravages of climate change. Panelists will will Panelists change. climate of ravages exposed N P student •$15/$10 7pm NOV MON AN YC. D CO LK RKSH EL: EL: Hurricane Sandy dramatically dramatically Sandy Hurricane OF BR OF IN G S G P US OFF GET A TO TO MP G New York’s vulnerability to the the to vulnerability York’s New OP: F OP: TOU WARD APOST WARD V OS OO 10

ANNUA Y. TIN OO KLY Celebrate the 41st an- 41st the Celebrate R: T R: klyn

D WASTE REDUC D WASTE G N. The upscaling of of upscaling The N. HE M HE

IN L NU THE C THE

AN DE -C YORIC H AR T ATTANI IT BON Y. C. 1 AN HE IN A OON!<<<<<< TION

ZA- DYP

, BUT YOU CAN INDYP 718-624-5921 •brooklynpeace.org 718-624-5921 B St, Orange 57 wage workers at an Upper East Side deli deli Side East Upper an at workers wage FEEDS. P provided. be will drinks and dinner and address keynote the give will Chomsky dinner. gala and a reception with anniversary 30th its commemorate and Chomsky Noam intellectual public celebrated honor will Peace for Brooklyn •bronxmuseum.org 718-681-6000 Bx Concourse, Grand 1040 Fl 2nd Museum, Bronx songs. and poems stories, contribute to encouraged is audience the which in mic open an with end will event The Bronx. the of reotypes ste- the challenge to voices their raise will musicians and poets Storytellers, thehandthatfeedsfilm.com •docnyc.net thehandthatfeedsfilm.com A 6th 323 Center IFC 13-20. Nov. running festival, NYC DOC the of part as Premiers win? they Will acontract. for fighting and union dent indepen- an forming by deportation risk FILM PREMIERE: THE H THE PREMIERE: FILM •Various 2:30pm NOV SUN P GALA: •$150 6pm SAT NOV CO •Free 6:30-9pm NOV FRI •icp.org 212-857-0000 1133 Photography of Center International resiliency. infrastructure ensure and change climate to adapt tion, consump- fuel fossil and emissions bon car- reduce to efforts city-level explore lymouth Church Church lymouth MM Ave of the A the of Ave ROOKLYN, EN UNIT A group of undocumented low- undocumented of Agroup AT ve 14 HM 15

16 Y V

D T EN

AKERS AKERS GREAT HEAD klyn OI A HUGE DIFFERENCE mericas HE ENT.OR CES: BR CES:

D TO AN

PEA ENT ON INDYP D TH X S CE. AT TO

NY RI BE G/D ES. S

HOW YOUR 11217 EN CON S OF THEIR SEC BIRTH GOL INDYP SEPTEMBER 9, 2014!SEPTEMBER Bruce Markow, Peter Pasco, Anne Price, Price, Anne Pasco, Peter Markow, Bruce Lippman, Susan Band, Korona Ray The Kornhauser, Barry Gorman, Judy Glick, Mike Campbell, Sally including ers, perform- of program special the with aball have Come strong. going still is Voice Peoples’ 1979, in doors its opening ANNI 212-787-3903 •peoplesvoicecafe.org 212-787-3903 St E35th 40 Café Voice Peoples’ Suffet. Steve and Stone Rachel Louie, Professor V PEOPLES’ MUSIC: •$18 8pm 22 SAT NOV GINS ITS IMONE ONATE D GRATULATIONS TO TO GRATULATIONS START VERS AND AND DENT •388 EN

H D ARRIET ARRIET ARY CELEBR ARY ENT SAM ALC SAM . STALWARTS ALC OI OFF OR ON CE CAFE 35TH CAFE CE OFF ATION BY D C ON THE ON THE , BORN , BORN . HIL A . After . After NNA NNA D, N INA INA 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS INDYPENDENT THE

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October EBOLA AS FANTASY By Nicholas Powers 4 Ebola gives life to the right-wing fantasy of pristine whiteness and the menace posed to it by the wretched of the Earth.

THIRD PARTY BREAKTHROUGH? MANY PATHS OF ACTION INTERVIEW WITH LESLIE CAGAN By John Tarleton A half-dozen climate activists discuss ways to By John Tarleton 6 With growing support from the traditional 8 continue working for climate justice now that the 10 A key People’s Climate March organizer offers a Democratic Party base, the Green candidate for People’s Climate March is over. behind-the-scenes look at how the historic event governor, Howie Hawkins, is poised to make the came together. strongest showing of any independent third party candidate in New York State history. SUBWAY SURVEILLANCE By Rebeca Ibarra 11 The MTA plans to install surveillance cameras inside more than 900 subway cars. Will this initiative do more harm than good?

FERGUSON PHOTO ESSAY By Ellen Davidson Two months after the police killing of Michael Brown, protests 12 continue in Ferguson, Missouri. A SHOCKING CRIME ROCKS MEXICO By Héctor Agredano Rivera 14 The killing and kidnapping of dozens of teachers’ college students have sparked nationwide protests.

THE FRENCH DISCONNECTION STANLEY ARONOWITZ DOES IT LOOKING BACK By Mike Newton By Anna Polonyi Ralph Fascanella’s fondness for the working 16 François Hollande had promised to safeguard 20 AGAIN By Michael Hirsch 21 class New York of his youth shines through in an France’s generous welfare state. Then the Socialist In his new book author and agitator Stanley exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum. president did an about-face. Aronowitz insists labor’s future lies in taking bold action on behalf of all workers.

HOW IDEALISTIC IS ELLO? By Alex Ellefson Ello is a new social networking site that vows it will not 22 sell user info to advertisers. So what do its venture capital investors want? 4 THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC boy was bitten by one and became infected. young the that think They village. the near mappedthe current outbreak to a bat colony Berlin, of Institute Koch Robert the of dertz carry the Ebola virus away unwittingly with them. many and respects, their pay to friends, whoprepare it forMournerscome afuneral. and family by handled is body her Later, street. the fevera in in haze stumbling andblood up coughing is she dies, he after fl Days eyes utter. his as down him washes hands.hiscradledisHe bymother,his who into vomits boy 2-year-old a village Meliandou, of Guinean the in — 2013 December ORIGINS OF THE DISEASE W By Nicholas Powers EBOLA AND THE POLITICS OF PARANOIA FACTOR FEAR to stop fl ights from West Africa. And seal seal And Africa. West fl from stop ights to want They Ebola. about alarms sound tives on scapegoats. turned It’s happening again as conserva- and barricades behind hidden Jews. was it century, 14th the of Death Black the during ago, years of and hundreds panic gay men the HIV during yesterday itwas immigrants, Westis African Todaybigotry.it the is remains what death, carrying off however many or passes, few to disease an early the When danger. a become themselves that fears social underlying ignite la, SARS or swine fl u breaks, the risks quickly When news of an infectious disease like Ebo- infected with something worse than Ebola. we’rethat myrealized Ihead, Shaking train? this on here itWas spread? it York.Had right New in it with diagnosed was doctor a where Then, jetpassengerhe died. to Dallas, infected an by carried was and Leone Sierra virus has spread through Guinea, Liberia and Whatifone ofthem hasEbola? Thedeadly be from Ebola but from the politics of fear. won’tit die, they If beings. human million a percent, we’re70 lookingat at stays the rate death of mortality roughly the if And fected. in- be will people million 1.4 that possible January,it’sByweek. a cases new 10,000 to pace up pick could outbreak the December, Health Organization (WHO) warned that by World The isolation. not intervention, need make contact tracing nearly impossible. They do,itwhenwill they And run. will they tals, If hospi- escape. or doctors new no to hope, no see they trying people panicked are both, that causemass death. unnecessary or psychological physical, whether “walls,” those exactly it’sBut sick. the quarantine to walls build And America. Fortress become we demand They Mexico. with border the ACTUALLY HARD TO CATCH. TO HARD ACTUALLY IS IT NOW BECAUSE UNTIL EPIDEMIC AN NOT BECOME HAS EBOLA IS, IT AS DEADLY AS A team of researchers, led by Fabian Leen- Fabian by led researchers, of team A hogot itr, erfie pol have terrifi history, people Throughout ed fithe plague. isa Paranoiaof symptom rst On the other side, trapped in quarantine, quarantine, in trapped side, other the On h pol wt arot luggage. airport with people the train left Jamaica Station, I studied flI coughed, he hen the As inched. lives and who dies is not about the disease disease the about not is dies who and lives ofAllthis means that thefi naltally ofwho transfusions. blood and plasma and therapy virusbut only stabilize the body with hydro- the cure can’t Doctors symptomatic. only is Treatmentis.outbreak the oflocation the in howdeveloped infrastructure care health the on depending percent, 90 to 25 from where up blood. The whites of the eyes may go red. the body to bleed internally. They may cough microscopiccapillaries,thecausingholes in drills Ebola rash. skin a get may and breath of shortness and pain chestfeel then will ual possible to others.infect individ-infected An days after exposure, and after that it becomes aching joints. They appear between two to 21 in open wounds, then you get infected. like the nose, mouth, eyes, vagina or anus, or intoorifigets virus the If oftransmission. ces method the is — urine or milk breast sweat, tears, mucus, semen, vomit, feces, blood, fl — bodily person’s uids infected an contact with Direct catch. to hard actually is it epidemic nowuntil is because an become not has Ebola son growing exponentially. is rate transmission the more and times many be many number real The estimation. openly under- an is this acknowledge institutions mental govern-otherand WHO the Butdeaths. 5,000 almost and cases 10,000 nearly reports WHO the writing, this of As now. until incidents, smaller and sporadic only there been have then Since 224. took later Uganda in outbreakanother years Five Congo. of Republic Democratic the people in 254 killed virus 1995, the In these ones. major of were Three recorded. been have outbreaks Ebola people. by thebats arecaught and eaten when Or directly, by humans. huntedeatenandare turn in that gorillas, like animals ing graz- by off polished then is that fruit partly-eaten drop they after them from spreads reservoir. natural Ebolaitsas act but virus the to immune gins with fruit bats, which are be- epidemic Each Zaire). as known (formally Congo the of Republic Democratic the and Sudan in fi out broke rst h mraiy ae f bl cn e any- be can Ebola of mortality rate The fiThe symptoms rst fatigue,are fever and onedeadlyrea-is,itAsas fi least fteen at 1976 Since Ebola 1976, in Discovered n Tms lge u wt te otr of lottery death. the with but plague Times End an with dealing not are We it. surrounding history economic and political the but itself of disaster. dish petri a into Africa made has perialism im- Western that is which history, unspoken an is statement simple his Behind this disease.” treat to space of facilities, care health a professionals, medical of just shortage complete is eyes “There camera, frustration. the with at knotted looked as said Gold latrine. the in lay hospital’s man the Ebola-stricken an At entrance, street. the in cardboard with covered corpses recorded cameraman his Hospital, Redemption city’s the visit News Vice When symptoms. its detailing and virus the of warning murals Liberia, street bright Monrovia, see people of streets rain-swept the On sign. the read REAL,” IS “EBOLA DISASTER OF DISH PETRI THE “Everything is completely overwhelmed,” overwhelmed,” completely is “Everything eotr an Gl wn to went Gold Danny reporter one-fi fth its original size, half of Liberia’s Liberia’s of half size, original its one-fi to fth forest Guinea’s down. cut have sawed men of been Armies have forest of swaths huge Africa, for scramble millennium’s new to put going a lot outof ofpeople business.” are “you said, Liberian, a Coleman, ferson meat,”ofJef- kinds certain youeat can’t “If whole a sale. for was bushmeat ban, illegal of warehouse government a despite that Liberia in Outbreak Ebola the and ply. The The ply. sup- food havesecure a people when curbed is pandemic Ebola The economies. carious pre- and crime high services, public sparse borders, porous governments, central weak have nations These index. States Fragile its of bottom the Li- near Leone Guinea, Sierra and beria put environment countries, developing security of the assesses which Peace, for Fund tank think D.C.-based tatters. The in infrastructure African West left neocolo- that corruption local and imperialism, war civil nialism, of centuries the is Deforestation is the other element. In the the In element. other the is Deforestation The fi rst social condition of this outbreak outbreak fi this of The condition social rst Vice News Vice danger of outbreak will only be be only will outbreak of danger and repeated specifithe monkey bat then cally, bushmeat, in- is fected Ebola for vectors disease main the of one If scarcity. food one. litical it’s po- a disaster, biological a not In the wake of poverty comes comes poverty of wake the In segment segment Monkey Meat Meat Monkey showed showed

ANDY PUGH 5 THE INDYPENDENT THE

FEAR FACTOR 2014 23, 24–November October EBOLA AND THE POLITICS OF PARANOIA

forest has been sold to logging companies and Sierra Leone “familial connection with Africa.” The Ebola crisis is the the world have already moved us rightward, reinforcing a is at risk of becoming a bald wasteland. As people drive site where fears of a rising tide of people of color, engulfi ng conservative vision across the divide between the Third and deeper into the woods to mine, log and clear land for crops, the City on a Hill, is rendered legible and concealed at the First Worlds. human beings become more exposed to bats and monkeys same time. The implicit confl ict is between the wretched of One answer is that we are living in an era of austerity that may have Ebola. the Earth and the pristine whites whose skin is the illumi- whose drama of scarcity is translated in art through zombie Another social condition worsening the epidemic is that nating beacon of civilization. and apocalyptic narratives. The transformation of the living people in fragile states are often deeply suspicious of their At the most obscene end, racial paranoia becomes geno- to the rotting, smelly and hungry undead is a representa- governments. Years of struggle for power among ethnic cidal. “I rather admire the effi ciency of Ebola. From a Mal- tion of the social trauma of people losing their class status groups has left many governments washed in blood, and thusian and marketing perspective it’s beyond reproach,” and plummeting into poverty. Until the taboo of openly without a popular mandate, governments are seen as a said British television personality and weekly Sun columnist questioning capitalism is fi nally and fully purged, these cin- tool of the few. When they do have legitimacy, hollowed- Katie Hopkins. Her racial cleansing rhetoric was echoed by ematic fantasies will bandage that trauma with supernatural out infrastructure systems and endemic corruption make Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right party Front imagery. it nearly impossible for health agencies to spread news to National, who advocated Ebola as way to deal with the The zombie apocalypse narrative is currently the domi- people quickly and effectively. And even when they can, they “population explosion” and France’s “immigration prob- nant fantasy narrative, so when Ebola broke out, it was as if must often do it painstakingly via radio, murals or word of lem.” Mischievously, he said, “Monsieur Ebola could sort that imaginary world broke into our real one. In a suspen- mouth, since the literacy rates in the three hardest-hit coun- that out in three months.” sion of disbelief, the pandemic we long imagined appeared tries are so low. In Guinea it is 41 percent, Liberia 60 percent Plague paranoia runs both ways, going from the privileged in news headlines. It’s as if we were suddenly thrown into and Sierra Leone 35 percent. to the oppressed and back again. In a bottom-up fantasy of the series The Walking Dead or Contagion. All of this creates a powder keg of fear and rage. Monro- omnipotent evil, one that mirrors the racial paranoia of the The emotional engine of the zombie End Times plot is that via’s largest slum, West Point, was put in quarantine when right wing, Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation we must kill those we love because they’ve changed into the Ebola was detected there. When the nearly 80,000 residents of Islam, wrote in the Final Call that Ebola was designed to undead. The lesson is that to survive in the new dystopia, woke up to nests of barbed wire and soldiers, they reacted kill Black people. we must be cold and cruel enough to kill. After the lights by rioting in the streets, some shouting, “There is no Ebola.” “What is the method that they [the U.S. government] are of the fi lm or computer screen fade and we walk outside, Finally, in the Global North the neoliberal push for going to use to depopulate [the world]?” he asked. Among the narrative of survival scarcity may become our political privatizing social services and the market focus on profi t- the tactics he suggests are under consideration is “disease in- response to a world fi lled with the poor and desperate, until able medicines has stalled the search for an Ebola vaccine. fection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which we get infected too. In a vicious cycle, government agencies are defunded and are race targeting weapons.” He went on to say that it would then with a skeletal staff are expected to operate fully. exterminate Black people but leave whites untouched. Fol- THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL HEALTH When they can’t, the blame is put on them, not the budget lowing him, singer and domestic abuse expert, Chris Brown “Life is rough, and then you die,” Dr. Soka Moses said at cuts. Dr. Frances Collins, head of the National Institutes of tweeted, “I don’t know … But I think this Ebola epidemic the JFK Ebola Treatment Center in Liberia during a CNN Health, recently said, “Frankly if we had not gone through our 10- year slide in research support, we THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE NARRATIVE probably would have had a vac- cine in time for this.” IS CURRENTLY THE DOMINANT FANTASY Dressed like astronauts, doctors and nurses in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are fi ghting to keep NARRATIVE, SO WHEN EBOLA BROKE OUT, IT patients from dying. Baking inside their protective gear, they see new WAS AS IF THAT IMAGINARY WORLD BROKE waves of sick and panicked people arriving at their doorsteps every INTO OUR REAL ONE. day. In the slums, more and more of the dead are found in the streets. And none of this, none is a form of population control. S–t is getting crazy bruh.” interview. “If we don’t do it, who will do it for us? We have of this had to happen. In a YouGov poll, 59 percent of African-Americans think to take the risk.” more would have been done to fi ght Ebola if had begun in In the report, a nurse allowed the news crew to fi x a THE TWO FACES OF PARANOIA Europe. Some Black people see it as a terrifying agent of camera on his head. Inside the treatment center, a half-con- “They don’t come close to me anymore. They don’t want to destruction that continues older biological attacks like the scious man turned on his stretcher, arm fl opping out as the shake my hand,” said Jonathan King, a Liberian in Staten Tuskegee Experiment. In it, rural Blacks were given syphilis nurse injected him with blood. In the hallways, people lay Island, during an NBC interview. Ebola has already hit New by the U.S. Department of Health, and then left untreated. on mats, hovering between life and death. The staff fi ghts York. Not only one case of the virus, but the fear of it. Ebola, deadly as it is, becomes deadlier when viewed to keep them alive, but no matter how much they do, the Nearly every single day the New York Post and Daily through the lens of racial warfare that these two opposing corpses pile up. News are screaming about Ebola. If it’s not a front page ideologies share. The implications were clearly demonstrat- Ebola will come and go but our response will linger long headline exclaiming “Ebola Here!” in reference to infect- ed in Nzerekore, a small village in Guinea, when eight aid after. It will set the precedent for how we will deal with ed New York doctor Craig Spencer, it’s about low-paying workers arrived to raise awareness about Ebola. The villag- the next pandemic. And there will be a next one. Climate screener jobs at the airport. The paper joins the rising cho- ers, scared that the aid workers were bringing the disease, change is throwing the ecosystem into chaos, our use of an- rus of right-wing hysteria about the disease propagated by hacked them down with machetes. Their mutilated bodies tibiotics has hit a wall and more people live in cities and the Fox News, the National Review, Rush Limbaugh and so were found in the latrine days later. surrounding slums than at any other time in history. We are many others. Racial paranoia, sometimes disguised, some- all interconnected by trade and travel, yet we live with os- times overt, runs through their commentary. The common AMERICAN CINEMA AND THE PLAGUE sifi ed political and economic structures like the nation and theme is that the fi rst Black president is exposing America to “First Ebola Zombie Captured,” shouted the Big American the corporation. It is in a crisis moment like this that our the diseased Global South in revenge for white supremacy. News headline. On the web page, a half-rotted Black man humanity is tested. We don’t have to turn away. We can do “Obama doesn’t want America to believe that we’re ex- with tangled dreads stared out in hopeless, half-dead agony. what Moses is doing with his patients — put our comfort ceptional. He wants us to be just like everybody else,” It was offi cial. The zombie apocalypse was here. and safety at risk to recreate that same comfort and safety said Phyllis Schlafl y, a conservative icon who campaigned Of course it was a hoax. The image was doctored. It was for many others. against the Equal Rights Amendment, in an interview with a mash-up between a zombie from the fi lm World War Z Here, in the Global North, the fi rst step is to turn away the right-wing World Net Daily. “If Africa is suffering from and a zombie mask sculpture. But not long ago an October from the racialized apocalyptic fantasy and see the human- Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, 2 ABC report showed a man, thought dead on the streets of ity of those who are suffering. “Working in a high-risk zone too. That’s his attitude.” Monrovia, be wrapped up by a full-suited burial crew and is highly dangerous,” Moses said. “You have so many pa- The fantasy of Black revenge pulses from the far right then begin, limply, to move back to life. tients in agony. And you see some patients and they are dy- to the center-right. Laura Ingraham, a Fox News pundit, Why is fear so contagious? Ebola will ultimately be con- ing, all you can do is watch them die. You pray for them and said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos that tained or tragically burn itself out among the poor. It is not hope that something miraculous happens.” Obama hasn’t banned fl ights from West Africa due to his a species threat. And yet the waves of terror sweeping across 6 THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 S By John Tarleton MEE million new jobs and end unemployment in the state. professorJacobson,byStanford would port Mark create4.5 Hawkins says his plan, which is based on a peer-reviewed re 2030.by sources renewablepercent100 energy to transition state’s the bankroll to wealthy substan the on from taxes increased revenues tially use would that Deal” New “Green pub funded voters. more to reach him allows a wayfully that system, in themes justicecare social andcombines environmental smartly health licschools and an end to high-stakes standardized testing single-payer — a Yorkers, New wealthy on taxes in increase substantial a wage, mum reporter. by this followed around being while by crat thrown supporters, house andall attend parties three non-Demo a of endorsement first-ever its considering club Democratic liberalof membersa with wouldcandidate meet the market, farmers’ the to trip a and prep debate to dition ad Day. In Election from out weeks three Sunday hectic a of Market. Farmers’ Slope Park the outside voters to himself we’reintroducing up,”goingcrowed while Hawkins governor. the enchantment incumbent with Democratic Party officeholders, minor all ofof whom handful share a a deepas dis well as Federation,Teachers Buffalo half-dozen teacher union locals across the state, including the a and York City New in clubs Party Democratic liberal eral sev from endorsements of string unpaid unprecedented an on up pick is who had Hawkins, climbed to 9 percent in statewide polls. He also began to mid-October leave fall fromthis by his job at shippinga UPS hub in Syracuse, Yet, Bush. crack W. George to race presidential rarely 2000 the and Florida tip to ing decades, two helpNader’sRalphinrole forcircles past liberal some in tized the of most stigma remain also They races. statewide in percentone ing for politics York cal office in the state. politi important most the for race desultory otherwise fall’s about,ofstory this asheemerged hassurprise asthe smiling be to lot a quitehave supporters his and Hawkins Actually, SURPRI 2014 ELE ing,’” he confessed, “it makes me smile. I think time friend of Hawkins. Co-Chair Gloria Mattera. candidate look “strident.” the hand chopstelevision distracting viewersthe and making ondslate.However, advisorswere morehis aboutconcerned thoughtful demeanor, was told he finished his answer six sec the people who pay for their campaigns.”to pandering are and industry gas and oil the by off bought been have politicians our of many too that “Except hand. half. in rates electric cut and jobs new of millions generate change, mate would he cli address insisted, plan, 15 in This sources years. his plan to convert the state to 100 percent renewable energy candidatety forgovernor, dove into thetopic bydescribing or 60 less. seconds in icy Hawkins pondered how he would best convey his Howie energy pol loader truck UPS race, governor’s York New year’s h cnepee f akn’ apin s pa fr a for plan a is campaign Hawkins’ centerpiece of The The candidate’s platform — a ban on fracking, a $15 mini Hawkins’ debate prep session was squeezed into the middle And, down. going is Cuomo ceiling. a hit has “Astorino New of margins farthest the on existed have Greens The “Well, think it about 20 more times,” Dunlea said. again. in chimed Mattera Hawkins grinned sheepishly. “Every seductive,” time I think “And ‘be charm long a Dunlea, Mark added charming,” be to wants “He State Party Green saidconversational,” be to wants “He “You don’t want to be robotic,” said one advisor. So what was a better approach? a and beard silver a with man soft-spoken a Hawkins, left his with air choppingthe no-brainer.” “It’ssaid, a He Hawkins, who is running again this year as the Green Par with Andrew Cuomo with Andrew in the only televised debate in this stonebrown 11 stage the daysbeforeto take wasscheduledhe Slope Park a of room living messy the in itting S E STORY CTIONS T THE AN ‘Oh, right.’ TI ” ------CUO multiracial neighborhood in San Mateo, Calif., just south of southjust Calif., Mateo, San neighborhood in multiracial a single-parent household in a in raised was 61,Hawkins, ‘WHERE’ the Democratic Party at the height of the New Deal in the the in Deal New the of height the at Party Democratic the of capitalists” “progressive the with itself align to decision has refused to compromise with the Hawkins system. two-party Party, Democratic the of wing leftish the to back state California legislator Tom Hayden, eventually gravitated tics. While somepoli radicals, such electoral as in Chicago 8 foothold defendant turned small a even gain to decades four past the over struggled has Left the time same the At more. gender, conscription, race, sexuality, health, nutritionmilitary about and thinks society our how of terms in earthquake cultural a triggered movements social ’60s-era The legacy. New Left of the ’60s,” Hawkins said. into what has become his permanent political settled home.and States United the of Party Green the co-founded Hawkins 1984, In politics. electoral in start his got Sanders Bernie Senator where Vermont, in Party Union Liberty the and election; presidential 1980 the in Commoner Barry gist ecolo the ran which Party, Citizens the 1968; in president Freedom Party, which ran Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver for and Peace the of behalf on working stints included odyssey dis was Hawkins mayed. young The movement. rights civil the of meanwhile, were already going into Republicans, backlash mode against the early The gains Party. Democratic all-white oppositionblacks in state’sworking-class tothatand official poor by led was which Party, Democratic Freedom sissippi Democrats had refused on national television to seat the Mis age of 12. the at 1964 in bug third-party the caught Hawkins 1960s, early the of protests rights civil the by Captivated shipyards. moved from the South the during war to work in the Bay Area had families whose with, up grew he kidsneighborhood the San Francisco. He speaks with still a twang he acquired from You lose your independent voice, even your in your even tive. alterna Instead, you endvoice, up fundamental becoming a liberal.” a as identity dependent independent your lose You influences. corporate other and industry estate real the and Street Wall on capitalists biggest the with coalition a in “You’re also explains, saying. of fond is Hawkins own,” our of major It’s parties. working time people had one decades. politics hasn’t left third-party wavered over five biography is a man whose belief in independent power movement of the 1970s. anti-nuclear the in together worked they since Hawkins known has who activist Party Green longtime a cabinet,”Cohen, Mitchelsays file a who is a serious policy wonk.is mind like “His solar andwind energy installed systems and ablue-collar that guy businesses small run and started has who socialist Teamster,a educated League- Ivy an is He paradoxes:interesting lican nominee, Hawkins’ biography is rife with County executive who asis the running Repub Cuomo like and Rob Astorino, the Westchester College. Community Manhattan of Borough at teaches who York City New in candidate oral wicz,ahistorian and former Green Party may Democratsnolonger are,” added Tony Grono youGreen New Deal, them remind of what the For Hawkins, the Left’s undoing can be traced back to its toback traced be can undoing Left’s the Hawkins, For complicated a inherited have Greens the case, that’sthe If the of expression political the as Party Green the see “I political His it. for looking years 20 next the spent He “I asked ‘Where’s my He party?’” recalls. the convention, nominating presidential year’s that At When progressives join with Democrats, he Democrats, with join progressives When two the own already percent 1 richest “The unconventional candidate’s the beneath Yet politicians corporate generic to contrast In you“When keep people reminding about the S MY MY P MO ARTY?’ - - - - - ing outside the Park Slope Farmers’ M Farmers’ Slope Park the outside ing Howie Hawkins campaigns on a Sunday morn- aSunday on campaigns Hawkins Howie V OTER

OUTREA - - - - the final straw was Cuomo’s full-throated support for Wall for support Cuomo’sfull-throated was straw final the education,” public she said. on failed completely has “He infuriating. especially was grades early in children of testing standardized on off back to governor’s refusal the Karmen, For Hawkins. ports sup she reason a as fracking ban to Cuomo’srefusal cited of two enrolledchildren in Brooklyn public schools who also never felt so disenfranchised,” said Kemala Karmen, a mother Hawkins. Iwith attended parties powerful private interests with close ties to the governor. enrich to order in ruined being of verge the on are — other — public schools on the one hand, clean andair water on the goods common vital that fear who constituents from sponse governor’sthe cases, both haverepoliciesevokedvisceral a hot-buttonIn ofpublicthe by fracking. educationissues and canvassing for votes.” and ground the on boots his putting “He’srelentlessin been nal districts and 24 percent in Syracuse. showing polls himrunning at are 10 to 20 percent there insome upstate support, congressio statewide percent 9 the to votes. And now, there is this year’s In breakthrough. addition 2011,seat in Council aSyracuse City 100 losing by than less line for the Greens. A year later, he narrowly missedballot winningmuch-coveted a won and governor’srace the in votes U.S. Senate. So far he is 0 for 19. In 2010, he garnered 60,000 has campaigned for fromeverything Syracuse City Council to for public thein —past 20 running 21 times office He years. voice political own his maintained than more has Hawkins 20 CA bilitated the Left in the United States. United the in Left the bilitated de has estimation, Hawkins’ in that, reflex unthinking nent, perma a into decades the over to run-up hardened has — II WarWorld the in expedient temporary a asconceived nally origi — right far the oppose to 1930s. aCreating popular front CH: o oai Fin, rtrd dctoa psychologist, educational retired a Friend, Rosalie To “Being a public school parent has really politicized me. I’ve house two first the at find towasn’t hard frustration This part good in propelled been has year this rise Hawkins’ said. Gronowicz upstate,” stature of figure a “Howie’s Green Party candidate candidate Party Green M PAIGN S IN 21 21 IN arket. Y EAR S - - -

BAYRIDGEJOURNAL.BLOGSPOT.COM - - - 7 THE INDYPENDENT THE

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October

DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG

TUNE IN NYC RADIO WBAI 99.5FM 8am M-F NYC TELEVISION CUNY-TV A Daily Independent 6:30pm M-F, 1am Tu-F Manhattan MNN Global News Hour 8am and 7pm M-F with Amy Goodman Brooklyn BCAT and Juan Gonzalez 9am M-F DISH Network & DirecTV Free Speech TV 8am, noon, 8pm and midnight M-F 8am, noon, 7pm Sat 8am, noon Sun Link TV

MICHAEL O’NEIL 11am and 6pm M-F

GQ,QG\DGLQGG 30 RYAN DELANEY RUNNING MATES: Howie Hawkins campaigns with his running mate Brian Jones, an educator, actor and socialist who taught in New York City’s public schools for nine years.

Street-backed charter school operator Eva noting that the average Hawkins donor gives Moskowitz earlier this year, during Moskow- $70 vs. $7,000 for the average Cuomo donor. Educate! itz’s confrontation with Mayor Bill de Blasio In his fi rst appearance, he briefl y refer- Strategize! over his refusal to grant three of her privately enced his 1964 political epiphany before run schools access to public school buildings drifting further back in time to discuss 1944 Organize! that were already fully utilized. The fi ght and Franklin Roosevelt’s proposed Economic ended with Cuomo strong-arming a measure Bill of Rights and how his ambitious plans Resist! Create! through the State Legislature that requires to convert New York to renewable energy public schools to house charter schools free would fulfi ll the promise of FDR’s vision with of charge or for the Department of Education a green twist to address climate change. Your source for movement news in to cover the rent for charters that have to fi nd As Hawkins continued, the eyes of his their own buildings, depriving cash-starved supporters in the room started to glaze over, the U.S. and around the world public schools of much-needed funding. but they stuck with him and heard him out. “After that, there was no going back,” Chided afterward by Mattera for giving a Tools and campaigns to build Friend said. “If I had any thought of voting “history lesson,” Hawkins was clear and di- for him, that ended it.” rect at his second appearance, sharing more a movement that transforms the system. “He [Cuomo] doesn’t publish his own of his personal story about how his political schedule. He doesn’t interact with his con- convictions took shape under the infl uence of stituents. He’s not available to us,” added the civil rights movement and relating that to Susan Weltman, a retired social worker who the present moment and the rationale for his voted for Cuomo in 2010 but is supporting third-party candidacy. Hawkins this year. “The whole political spectrum has moved At both house parties, Hawkins urged at- tendees to donate to his surging campaign, Continued on page 19 8 THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 their thoughts. from grassroots organizers New York and elsewhere to share over decades? change coming the far-reaching about justice bring climate can a that build movement to do people can what us, behind lent direct actions that tied up the financial district for hours. of tip the Manhattan at and converged poured protesters onto Broadway Street Wall to Flood carry later, out nonvio day A afterwards. said Klein Naomi need,” we movement BUILDING AMOV BUILDING W By Fraczek Kim FIG T GRASSROOTS AFTER THE CLIMATE M fied natural gas (LNG) facility called Port Ambrose several Ambrose Port liqui called facility massive (LNG) a gas natural build fied to plans about informed get is do to system. energy our change to going are we wayif sustained a in projects these against organizing continue to able energy sources. However, that was only one day. We have and State by visiting our online interactiveonlinefrackingvisitingourofby Statemap and fracking’s impact onon our family, Bamberger Michelle petsDr. and byfood. book a for event release ing upcom an on details for website our check or page Facebook our join Fracking’sNotemails, Foodfor up Sign food. local healthy on based economy sustainable a promote and toxins from safe farms YorkState’s New keep to working keepers Not Fracking website of food distributorsfarmers, and shop Food our on shopping list a build towork togetherLet’s its. and wine, not as an industrial wasteland for Wall Street prof proud tradition of and farms vineyards. State’sYork New for up standing we’re fracking, By opposing products. agricultural other and grapes wine dairy, duce, groundwater,and abilitygrowhealthytoourproharming Thereiscompelling evidence that fracking poisons our land to website loop. the in our remain on newsletter Project Energy Sane the for up we work can for that’s together Sign wind offshore built right. then and — LNG wantnotdowe that message clear asend around the winter holidays, and we need all hands on deck to The environmental impact statement on the project is due out We have a real shot at defeating this port if we work together. on Culture. focus Ethical forYork New Society the at issues that fracking meetings Alliance Grassroots our NYC to comemonthly Additionally, Ambrose. Port veto to him tell what do we So do? exist. themselves want wind power, but the two projects cannot co toneed move to renewable energy,we residentsIsland Long and know we — area same the for proposed been has farm facility near New York City is reckless. Plus, an offshore wind ing Port Ambrose an obvious terrorist target. To build such a the Northeast. in fracking more to lead would which gas, for prices higher enormous profit. would atExporting allow companies Asia to obtainand Europe to gas export to is intent the that clear —Port claims Ambrose would be used to import gas, but it’s Islands Cayman the in based backers nameless of poration from the Rockaways. Liberty Natural Gas — a secretive cor coast N.Y.,the upBeach, just andLong fromoffshore miles But now that the largest-ever climate change protest is is protest change climate largest-ever the that now But Here in the New York City area, the first thing we need need we thing first the area, YorkCity New the in Here Third, get the bigpicturethefrackingThird,getYorkonNew in City food organic of land the as York’sbeshould New future Second, get involved with our Food Not Fracking Alliance. GovernorCuomo518-474-8390 atcall to is one Step and mak substance, volatile highly a is gas natural Liquified HT THE the streets of mid-Manhattan. “It’s a glimpse of the of glimpse a “It’s mid-Manhattan. of through streets the paraded Sep people on 400,000 history when 21 made tember March Climate People’s he ects and begin making a rapid transition to renew that it was time to put a stop to new fossilhen we marched fuelon September proj21, we made it clear EME The IndypendentThe F NT RA AC C KERS invited a half-dozen half-dozen a invited TIVISTS TIVISTS ------S as 3,000 protesters outmaneuvered the surprisingly docile docile surprisingly the outmaneuvered many protesters As 3,000 success. as overwhelming an was 22 September on 1%. the of rights the defend to army vate climate crisis and major news outlets from CNN to CNN from outlets news major and crisis climate fi making nancial “business as presumably usual” on that — day exceedingly difficult. Street Chambers to north blocks 14 traffic derailing and District Financial the in chokepoint Wall Street Bull — creating an eight-hour-long transportation to NYPD overtake the southern tip of Broadway at the iconic P SolomonBy Zak Sandy Nurse and L F Alliance, see meetup.com/NYC-Grassroots-Alliance. youare hereNYmap.org. and To a attend meeting of the NYC Grassroots saneenergyproject.org see information, more For Project. Energy SANE at coordinator a is Fraczek Kim group in your own backyard. the map, tell your friendsout CheckYork. and reach New outsustainable toand renewablea locala communityto road can build networks effectively, which is how we will make the at nizing a local level. weWhen eachlearn other’s stories, we orga are thatcommunities affected frontline the with users links and projects fracking proposedand showcasesexisting Here Are You state. this in works the in currently projects infrastructure fracking 40 least at are There infrastructure. time to put this administration to the test. it’sToblockades.clear: andlockdowns be to aboutmarches round and mic-checks from moving means It crisis. global atof scale confrontationalthe our actionsthatescalating are more bolder, for calling means this perspective, strategic a take advantagefull of these in opportunities the Fromfuture. toprepared should webe that suggest WallStreet Flood like events high-profile at appearances to sensitivity newfound NYPD’s The landscape. the at look fresh a take to munity commissioner,lice it’scity’sforthisjustice socialtime com flow of traffic. overfree the rights Amendment First prioritizing for day following the in credit claimed disruption and stride one-off the took administration the Instead Summit. U.N. the and March People’s Climate the between on a platform of “progressive” reform, especially sandwiched was Arrests.”too greataThis riskfor 1,000 a mayor elected MarchesforClimate, ThenCracks Heads onWall Street — Blasio “De headlines: alternate the Imagine relations.public of battlefield the on lose to had they moremuchhow mined complete. than felt less victory our moment, that At field. the across briskly stride to sedan black a from emerged Bratton Bill CommissionerPolice vehicle, transport Wall theAs last Street. protester was into escorted a prisoner Broadwayatsit-in and a during arrested being bear) polar a in New York for the U.N. Climate Summit. worldgathered120leaders than morebeforeday debatethe national the infiltrate to message our allowing Street,”Wall Now! racy THE EE Yet by nearly all accounts and metrics, Flood Wall Street Street Wall Flood metrics, and accounts all nearly Yetby The protestThe held at its core critique an anti-capitalist of the t h sm tm — vn oe motnl — e must we — importantly more even — time same the At po his mayorand the ofintentions true the of Regardless deter having us to battle this ceded had city the Perhaps (andpeople 100about with culminated day’sactions The ET’S PUT LOO capital, and the NYPD doesn’t hesitate in to act like a pri actions direct We’re Yorkofglobal New heart the difficult. is in City unpermitted large-scale, off ulling MANY POSSIBILITIESMANY T ran headlines like “Climate Change Protests on Protests Change “Climate like headlines ran D E EST VERYWHERE: D AR E B LASIO TO C H, W Democ HAT ------I Opal Plant By Pennie OP INDIG industry is causing and ways for people to get involved in in involved get to people for ways and causing is industry fuel fossil the crisis climate the refineries, the of dangers the to awareness bringing in successful highly were walks these prayer,elders in byNative toanother. American Led munity com refinery one from each, 14to seven miles from months, four for month each one walks, of series a were These year. Walks” last Healing Refinery Dots: the “Connect organized activists refinery frontline with solidarity in working group ues to opposition inspire projects. energy to extreme people. Idle No More has since gone international and Nations First ofcontin rights treaty abrogate toenedlong-standing Canadawhen the federal government inthat country threat across movementMore No Idle the sparked leaders women tems are are more likely to listen to our concerns. catelyinterconnectedbalancedand planet’s our climate sys how who deli people don’t understand we informed, well are world.the around manifesta When occurring crisis climate oftionsthe various the of aware remain as well as research the climate crisis. createdhave that systems political and brokeneconomic the people the hitting streets on a single day in one city to change March. However, Climate People’sit’s going to take the much more 400,000 than of forefront the at were communities now.mute — until voices essentially erful pow and important these made mainstream by the of respect lack the and stereotyping the genocides, The care. or notice munity project organizers in Brooklyn, NY. in Brooklyn, project organizers munity Flood Wall Street. They are small business andowners com Sandy Nurse and Zak Solomon were two of the organizers of ing and more resolved in our struggles. nore issues.fact, they these In demand for us to be more dar alternatives? sustainable of building the and action nonviolentonly direct a movement to chaos using social stave off for climate broad-based possible it Is scarcities? resource future during force of use excessive the foreshadow police local of militarization lence escalate amid worsening climate change? How does the repressionstatevio police andHow will us. with onremain til police brutality ends for everyone, it has ended for no one. that exists in our city and we must remind the mayor that groundun by police in Sunset Park. This highlights the nant disparitywoman Sandra Amezquita was violently slammed to the ty. In fact, two days before brutali of police instances other many among Flood Garner, of Eric Wall Street took place, preg sio’s year first in has office been marked by the police murder Bla De violenceNYPD. from the face constant communities brown low-incomeand blackthat fact the obscure to testers pro toward leniency one group of middle-class white, mostly all NYC residents. Weto must notextended allow the NYPD’s calculated be privileges and rights same the that demand R ee n h Sn rnic By ra or de o More No Idle our Area, Bay Francisco San the in Here We can also take action where we are. In 2012, indigenous It’s vital that we continue to stay current on climate science The voices of indigenous peoples and other heavily affected A climate justice movement worthy of its name cannot ig cannot name its of worthy movement justice climate A And still, the overarching questions we need to stay focused ESISTAN eae ad ey e nnidgnu pol see to seemed people non-indigenous few very and decades many for been corporations fuel have fossil corrupt world by devastated the around communities ndigenous ENS ENS ENOUS ENOUS N N EXT? EW PATHS OF CE W IS D OM ------9 T HE INDYP EN D ENT

AFTER THE CLIMATE MARCH, WHAT NEXT? 2014 23, 24–November October GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS SEE MANY POSSIBILITIES

solv- ing the problems. We have made a commitment to or- ganize the walks for a total of four years, with the last walk in 2017. Organizing work continues on the ground in the refin- ery corridor, which has become an important destination for tar sands oil from Canada and fracked Bakken crude from North Dakota, both of which are highly polluting even by the norms of the oil industry. In this milieu, the pre- dominantly people of color city of Richmond has become a focal point. Chevron is seeking a $1 billion expansion of its refinery there, which is already the largest stationary emit- ter of greenhouse gases in California. Years of community opposition have forced the world’s 12th largest corpora- tion to scale back the size of its proposed project while a

progressive city government has pushed ahead with pro- EY

grams that emphasize clean energy systems and green ITN jobs. TH WH

Our struggle for climate justice in the Bay Area is BE just one example of what good people working to- gether can do. We also must be prepared to join to- Blake Sugarman gether for more large actions to show our commit- graduated from New York Uni- ment, our solidarity and our love for the continuance versity last spring. He is a climate of life. We must be relentless, resilient, powerfully nonvio- activist, artist and a member of lent and kind to one another. The beautiful future that we are NYU Divest. all weaving together requires the best in us to create the best With so many concerned student, faculty and alum- for those yet to come. ni names displayed so boldly, it was impossible for Sexton to ignore us any longer. SKIP Pennie Opal Plant is a member of Idle No More San Francis- The action earned us a private meeting with both co Bay. For more information, see idlenomore.ca and face- Sexton and NYU’s chief financial officer Marty Dorph. Sex- THE NUCLEAR book.com/IdleNoMoreBayAreaCalifornia. ton agreed to our demands of 1) putting fossil fuel divestment on the University Senate agenda, 2) creating a subcommittee on divestment within the Financial Committee of the Uni- KOOL-AID, WE WANT versity Senate and 3) ensuring that we are able to present our proposal to the Board of Trustees in spring of 2015. These DIVEST NOW concessions are unprecedented for a student group at NYU. RENEWABLES By Blake Sugarman NYU’s 66-member Board of Trustees is filled with 1 per- By Mark Haim centers from finance, real estate, corporate media and pres- ll around the world, students are telling their univer- tigious law firms. If we can get this elite group to publicly nce upon a time, nuclear salesmen promised us sities the same thing: investing in fossil fuels is a bet disavow the fossil fuel industry it will be big news for the limitless, clean energy that would be “too cheap to Aagainst our future. Coal, oil and gas companies are movement. NYU would be by far the largest school to divest Ometer.” Well, in the ensuing decades, the so-called wrecking the planet’s climate and associating with them is no yet. It may seem unlikely, but with groups like the Rockefeller “peaceful atom” has traveled a long, circuitous route, experi- longer acceptable. Divest our endowment from these destruc- Brothers Fund announcing that they will divest from fossil encing along the way technology failures, phenomenally ex- tive companies. fuels, we are more hopeful than ever. pensive accidents, unresolved waste problems and — the in- New York University promotes itself as a “sustainability Momentum is building. The People’s Climate March in- dustry’s true Achilles’ Heel — massive cost overruns that led leader.” That’s why student activists like myself have been spired many new climate activists to get involved across the to the cancelation of the majority of planned reactors, forcing pressuring the powers-that-be at NYU to live up to that country, and we’ve seen the effects on campus. Our core utilities to write off countless tens of billions. The collapse of claim. We want NYU to recognize the contradiction between membership has doubled in the past few weeks. the industry in the late 1970s and early 1980s was cited in its sustainability efforts and its environmentally damaging Fossil fuel divestment offers climate activists a tangible Forbes Magazine in 1985 as “the largest managerial disaster investments. goal. It’s a local approach to a global problem that goes be- in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.” October 16 was a landmark moment in our campaign. For yond small lifestyle changes. We intend to change the public The industry has never recovered, and, despite bullish pro- the first time, we got to present the case for divestment to conversation. It’s past time for people to see climate change as jections of a nuclear renaissance made a decade ago, only a people with the institutional power to make it a reality. NYU a moral and a political issue. That’s why we draw inspiration tiny handful of new reactors are under construction today. has formed a “divestment subcommittee” within the Univer- from the anti-apartheid divestment movement of the 1980s. These are highly subsidized by both ratepayers and taxpayers, sity Senate to consider our demand and on this day they heard The tactic has proven effective before. as Wall Street won’t even consider investments as risky as new us out. College students are at the forefront of the divestment nukes without federal loan guarantees. They’re also behind This is good news for our campaign, but we did not get to movement. This is unsurprising. Students have always been schedule and over budget. this place without a struggle. After almost a year of trudg- on the front lines of social change, but divestment is far more But hope dies hard in the hearts, and on the balance sheets, ing through NYU’s narrow bureaucratic channels with little inclusive than that. Anyone who is part of a religious group of those companies pushing for a nuclear revival. And, in a progress, we learned a valuable lesson: sometimes it takes es- or a labor union or lives in a city or state with a pension fund time of growing concern over climate change, their public re- calation to be taken seriously. (i.e. just about everyone) can push for divestment in their lations machine has been working overtime to brand nuclear John Sexton, the president of NYU, ignored our request for community. To date, 181 institutions, including 13 U.S. uni- as a green alternative to CO2-belching coal and gas. In the a private meeting with him until we took direct action to call versities, as well as more than 600 individuals have divested real world, however, nuclear is just too slow and expensive to him out in public. At Sexton’s “town hall” meeting last April, over $50 billion in fossil fuel assets. Your organization could effectively address the climate crisis, which requires dramatic we unraveled giant scrolls with more than 1,500 petition sig- be next. To learn more about how you can get involved, see natures calling on NYU to divest its $3 billion endowment. gofossilfree.org. Continued on page 19 10

THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 L ST AND DEEPENING AND BUILDING MOVEMEN IT By John Tarleton was up with those subway ads proclaiming proclaiming ads subway those with up was what and speakers official nohad event toric dress lingering questions such as why this his flect on what had happened, as well as to ad marchand asked the veteran organizer tore onstrations over the past three decades. dem politicallargest country’s this of many familiar face on the Left who has orchestrated PCM’s Logistics Coordinator Leslie Cagan, a was activity this of and center the At volunteers. staff of hundreds and committees ing steerfactoworkinggroups,ofthreede ens J hipsters (and presumably everyone else). and bankers united had change climate that I ITSELF MAKE POLICY CHANGES. CHANGES. POLICY MAKE ITSELF DOESN’T AMARCH OF SIZE “THE T CLIMATE At an organizational levelAt some organizational an groups signed change protest? climate a at seen be usuallynot wouldwho you when reaction reachedout tolabor and community leaders initial the was What direction the from setting here on out. and movement this of color and working people are in the leadership of people that but ensures game a numbers just is how do we maintain that in a way that’s not question movement.real The of this character There was a conscious effort to recalibrate the environmental issues. That wasn’t an accident. than diversity one usually sees ethnic related to the climate and crisis or racial more much goodsignforanymovement. thereAlso,was a always That’s even. younger and too kids peoplenotjust—college ageschoolbuthigh an end but a part of a process. or beginning forward.It’s step that.Weanotdid important an is people of numbers sive mas represent you that show publicly to able being movement when any of course the in movement.ticemoments therearesaid,That jus climate the in moment new a marks fact inwhether yearthis monthsanothera tosix Cagan: Leslie did this protest achieve? whatstreets,the inpeople of crowds of ages creating besides impressiveMarch. But im Climate People’s the for out turned people OHN NT I caught up with Cagan a month after the after month a Cagan with upcaught I Thereweretremendous numbers youngof OOKS T E RVI HAS TO BE A PART OF A OF APART TO BE HAS RENG ,0 edrig raiain, doz organizations, endorsing 1,000 a was than more March with enterprise sprawling Climate People’s he ARLE EW T ON We’reforknow togoing not : An enormous number of THENING IT THENING BACK T M ------AR HA to give us Times Square. Times us give to departmentpolicethe pressure put onto fice mayor’softhe onpressure put to campaign targetedorganizedawe NYPD, madetheby was decision final a Before weeks. for issue Square.Times Square remained a contentious Union to Square Times through Circle lumbus problem. the solveto going was U.N. the thatbelieve to people lead shouldn’t we that sentiment Sundayafternoon.someaalsoTherewason muchhappeningFirstofAvenuethatpart on Wedidn’t wantThere’sU.N.thegototo not the United Nations? at ofinstead Manhattan of side farwestthe Why did the march end up on 11th Avenue on march. for the endorsement an least at getting of terms in day thewon organiza and tions their within struggled and pushed and this in invested peoplebecameof lot A have. can change ofthe impact climate example an as ories mem people’smany in fresh still was dy San Hurricaneof ry memo butthe crisis, environmental climatethe justice or on anything done hadnever groups Many is a new issue for us.” about talkThis it.to need we “Well said, on right away. Others of the people did that. did people the of heart of the city. And for most of the day, most tant thing for us all along was marching in the concededthat point, because the most impor wanted us out of the center of Manhattan. We leavetownmoreeasilybecause also theyand to buses their to getcould peopleAvenue so 11thpoliceinsistedonThe size. eventthis of an staging of part a are that details gazillion the arrangingof terms easier inlot tiationsa that’spartof what made therest of thenego think do I ButSquare. Times us giveto sion OnePolice Plaza.notdidThatlead deci toa thatthese mayoral aides madeinturn calls to mayor.knowWethe to close very Hall City Blasiopeopletodeclosetomadetiescalls in e rgnly atd o ac fo Co from march to wanted originally We Several unions and other organizations with T IS CONST T IS CH I SELF.” - - - NSI past three decades. three past C OALITION

FORCES D AN ER : ------Leslie Cagan (center) has been a lead organizer for many of this country’s largest protests over the the over protests largest country’s this of many for organizer alead been has (center) Cagan Leslie against fracking.” It’s a struggle going on in in on speaking going struggle fracking.”aIt’s someoneagainst have to need “We said, could have imagined that someone would have tonothave rally.a thereIf hadrally,beena I vatedifferences.ourwaswaythatOnedo to all our forces into the march and to not aggra lievebe it’s an They important job opportunity.pipeline. XL Keystone the building stance, some unions do not oppose fracking or another.onewithtives,oddssomeat Forin perspec of range wide a with coalition broad Oneofthebiggest factors was wasthatthis a People’s Climate March? the at speakers of roster no there was Why thatourorganizing wassetup. Groups could way the of example an was This too. cringe to I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. It caused me cringing. without it at lookcouldn’t I boat?same the in being bankers and hipsters about march was the for one Whatthe like ads subwaythe with up question: messaging Another that we have? focus justice environmental the in grounded moreis positionactuallythat a overto them win later, than rather hopefully, sooner and door theopen to wantyou door?do Or, the close to want you Do environment? the for they’rebad if evenjobs for good as see they tionshipto beto unions who support projects Thequestion whatisdoyou want your rela the climate? to devastating are which “No, said, have would unions trade the of some certainly And fight. big very a there’s many parts of the country. Here in New York, T A decisionA was made andtocongregatetry LY L ieie bt of both pipeline, XL ingtheandKeystone frack support unions that with ways part just not why So high cost, etc. very potentially the rally, a do to where issues: practical also against fracking.” There were speaking with somebody who’s stage same the on tobe going not we’re ------worthwhile to do. to worthwhile building its own power, then it was more than movementanotherandorganizinglevel toof alreadyitalldidit.wasif inAndto take this tojoin the movement and re-energized people people newinspired People’sMarch Climate ing on. that’sgo everything of trackkeepcan’t you movementwhena have Youyou know uses. termsin of its creativity and thetactics that it the types of communities that are involved and selfboth interms of its numbers, itits diversity, strengthening and deepening constantly and is building that movement a of part be to itdoesn’t by itself make policy changes. It has march, a of size thematter no that afterday the on realization the is demonstrations big without being pushed by people. powers-that-beown theiron actgoing to are 15, 20, 30 years. We also can’t assume that the foraction. We can’t putitput offfor another aware of the climate crisis and the urgent need rightbecausetime more people becomingare the was Thispeople. resonateswith that sue rightplace and the right articulation of the is very goodway. a it’salsoButtheand right time the in work to put are — mostly power peopleresources— and ongoing organizing this come together when there is already some likehistory. momentThingsin their with do makeseachprotestmassWhat uniquetohas in role organizing? you ahave played leading unique and similar to other mass protests that Whatmade the People’s Climate March both well, that doesn’t… movementcapture it forthis me. in be to diversity of range and hipsters is what people think we want the surprisedbutbankersputthosebyads.off If when you subway.” the ride going themyou’ll seesubwayand “We’resome adsbuy to said, basically they Instead, shouldsay?”they think allyou dowhat and to this overall effort by purchasing subway ads “We’regoing to going to make acontribution coalition, larger the to say not did They be. would content the what decided They subway ads. the bought and online money of lot Avaaz.org,wasitcase thiszation, raisedain organi particular one So thing. own their do I think we’ll be able to look back and say the these of all through runs that thing One only not were included, myself us, of lot A - - - - ALINA MOGILYANSKAYA NYC SUBWAYS 11 THE INDYPENDENT THE

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October

MTA BIG BROTHER? JOSE CARMONA

By Rebeca Ibarra according to Hosinski, had also dropped by double digits com- dler, or fare evader that is left unchecked can have a negative pared to last year. impact on the sense of safety and security of subway riders,” he Metropolitan Transportation Authority will place “The cameras have been a factor,” Hosinski said. “They Fox wrote. “That doesn’t sit well with us.” New York City subway riders under increasing surveil- have helped identify patterns and pick up on incidents that go Increased surveillance could result in increased targeting of Tlance in the coming decade. unreported [and] have become an invaluable tool for police and minor offenses. Like Ray Kelly before him, Bratton is “explor- Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has championed the idea investigations.” ing and increasing the use of technology,” Vitale said. “He is of installing cameras inside subway cars for months, saying he Although the CTA operates the nation’s second largest public also doubling down on ‘quality-of-life’ and ‘broken windows’ would like the New York Police Department to someday be transportation system, it is still much smaller than the MTA’s policing. That’s very troubling.” able to monitor all 6,325 subway cars in real time. On Oct 1, New York City Transit arm, with 1,356 rail cars compared to According to Vitale, Bratton has managed to convince people Public Advocate Letitia James released a letter from the MTA New York City’s 6,325; and an annual ridership of 229.12 mil- that the NYPD’s “broken windows” policy of targeting minor in which it committed to installing cameras on 904 R211-class lion, compared to New York City’s 1.708 billion. offenses helps prevent more serious crimes from taking place. subway cars that it expects to order as part of its 2015-2019 City Councilmember Jimmy Vacca (D-Bronx), who has long “It defi es logic,” Vitale said, “to believe that getting rid of all capital plan. The agency had previously ordered 300 other advocated increased surveillance in trains, told The Indypen- the panhandlers could bring down crime.” trains that will be capable of having cameras installed inside dent that cameras would be “an important tool to fi ght crime.” Nearly 2,000 homeless people inhabit the subway system. of them. He said “cameras are proactive and are also a deterrent.” They are more likely, Vitale added, to encounter a police offi cer The cameras are likely to cost millions of dollars to install than a social worker and bear the brunt of “quality-of-life” and will not be able to provide police real-time images, at least LIMITED VALUE policing. for the foreseeable future. Surveillance supporters hope the Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College professor of sociology and au- “The [homeless] population is fi guratively and literally going cameras will reduce crime in the subway system, including sex thor of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign underground,” said Dave Subren, a member of the advocacy crimes against women, which, according to a statement from Transformed New York Politics, disputes this, saying, “Real- group Picture the Homeless (PTH). He said this has alarmed the Public Advocate’s offi ce, occurs mostly on trains. However, time observation of thousands of subway cars is never going to the city’s increasingly gentrifi ed population. “Increased surveil- critics worry that expanded surveillance inside subway cars be feasible.” lance is only there to appease the public,” Subren concluded. will be used to target minor “quality of life” offenders such as The cameras might be helpful in “catching someone later,” the homeless and subway performers. Vitale said. “But there’s no real evidence of cameras having a BUSTING THE BUSKERS The MTA has previously sought to install closed-circuit tele- deterrent effect, like most would like you to believe.” Subway performers have also been targeted by “broken win- vision cameras to monitor its stations, tunnels and platforms. A 2006 report by the New York Civil Liberties Union also dows” policing. In 2005, the MTA signed a $205 million contract with Lock- concluded that cameras can help in police investigations, but Michael Christian moved to New York from Vermont in heed Martin for a “state-of-the-art electronic security pro- play no signifi cant role in stopping crime. According to the 2011 and was excited to play his violin underground, only to gram” that would operate throughout the system. However, report, “cameras cannot prevent bad things from happening be arrested by an undercover police offi cer his second time per- the contract was terminated in 2009 and the MTA and Lock- — and the money spent on them may, in fact, divert resources forming at the Spring Street station on the C line. heed Martin remain entangled in a costly legal battle over who from more effective crime prevention strategies and tactics.” Christian, a member of the arts advocacy group BuskNY, is to blame for that fi asco. There are already 4,000 cameras placed throughout the said there has been a rise in the ticketing and arresting of artists When asked if the plan to have trains outfi tted with cameras system, Jim Gannon, director of communications for Transit despite the fact that performing in the subway has been legal risked going the way of the Lockheed Martin contract, MTA Workers Union Local 100, told The Indypendent. Most of since 1985. The violinist was surprised when, instead of notic- spokesman Kevin Ortiz told The Indypendent the project had them go unmonitored. “They’re only used if something hap- ing a decline in unlawful arrests with the new administration, “completely different infrastructure and scope,” though he did pens,” he said. “as soon as January rolled around we started hearing of more not elaborate further. Gannon said the expense seemed unnecessary “if there isn’t people being confronted by police.” Ortiz did not comment on whether the cameras in R211 sub- going to be the capability of real- time” monitoring. However, More offi cers are being sent into the subway to combat “low way cars will someday be integrated into a security network he said, “There’s no reason for us to oppose that as long as level violations” while being unfamiliar with MTA rules and that can be monitored in real time, or on the expected cost of whatever is being compiled doesn’t go to some digital black regulations, Christian said. “The costs of implementing these installing such a complex system. “One step at a time,” he said. hole.” rules, the expenditure that’s necessary to arrest someone danc- “We are focused on getting a system in place for the R211s.” Vitale also expressed concern about how the MTA and the ing on the train, to hold him for two nights and to process all The MTA, the largest public transportation agency in the NYPD would handle the footage. “One of my main concerns the court work, is a huge amount of [taxpayers’] money for nation, would follow in the footsteps of the Chicago Tran- about the use of this kind of widespread videotaping is what quite a meaningless goal.” sit Authority. In 2011, the CTA embarked on an ambitious happens with the data,” Vitale said. “This data should not be As far as cameras go, Christian told The Indypendent that plan of installing more than 1,800 cameras in fi ve months, used for just creating intelligence fi les on people when there’s while the NYPD’s stated policy objective is not to arrest more spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski told The Indypendent. no evidence of a crime being committed.” musicians, the performing community remains skeptical of po- They outfi tted 834 subway cars with multiple cameras, some lice intentions. The irony of the crackdown is not lost on him. of which have live feeds viewed from a control center in the ‘BROKEN WINDOWS’ GOES UNDERGROUND “Subway performance is one of the most appreciated ele- city’s Offi ce of Emergency Management. The subway system’s rate of serious felonies has decreased by ments of the transit experience,” Christian said. “In fi ghting The CTA released a report this June saying violent crimes on 85 percent from 1990 to 2013, according to a Daily News op- quality-of-life offenses [they] have succeeded in decreasing the buses, trains and station platforms had declined “more than ed penned this summer by NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Fox. quality of life.” 34 percent compared with the fi rst half of 2013.” Robberies, Nonetheless, there has been an increased crackdown on low- vandalism and thefts, the most common crimes on the CTA level subway offenses this year. “Each illegal panhandler, ped- 12 THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 T matter!” lives “Black don’t up, shoot!” “Hands Mogilyanskaya Alina by Text Davidson Ellen by Photos THOU S ENDING POLICE ENDING rest until we get justice.” get we until rest “No one of is cent words to going resident, one Ferguson re- the In station. police local the at protest to day after day return people community, the through swirl process is the of legitimacy the about indictment suspicions as 7,and Wilson’s January about decision a for deadline arrested. were Dozens disobedience. civil and actions direct rallies, with — more and ments depart- police nation’s the of militarization the color, of communities against violence normalized enforcement, law in accountability of lack and bias racial — murder the underlying issues systemic to responded and son, Wil- Darren killer, Brown’s of indictment the demanded Demonstrators October.” “Ferguson dubbed of resistance acts in part took out-of-towners and residents Louis 25. Powell, Kajiembe 18, and Myers, Vonderrit men, black young other two of Area Louis St. crack- police Greater the in killings violent police subsequent the and downs by punctuated death, Brown’s movement. national organized an since into grown have rage and grief of expressions erupted. initial protests Those hours, four than more for street on the left was body his and 9 August on Missouri, guson, Fer in officer police white a by shot was teenager black Messages at the march aired a multitude of grievances. of amultitude aired march the at Messages death. Brown’s Michael of wake the in justice racial for struggle the in leaders young as emerged have Both crowd. the to salute Power aBlack in arm her raises United, Activists Millennial of Yates, Ashley while march the followed that rally the at speaks Tef as Poe, known Jackson, Kareem artist hip-hop Louis St. more. and members union labor youth, faith, of people activists, of-state out- and local included and people 3,000 as many as numbered crowd The Plaza. Kiener at arally with concluded and Louis St. downtown through wound march 11. The October on Louis St. in march All” for a“Justice in participated Thousands Tensions remain high in Ferguson. The grand jury jury grand The Ferguson. in high remain Tensions of of the 10-13,St. weekend October thousands During since Ferguson in place taken have protests Daily for justice for Michael Brown. After the unarmed unarmed the After Brown. Michael for justice for struggle the of calls clarion the become have hese TI LL SEEKLL S AND BRUTALITY S TURN OUT FOR FERGUS ING JU - STI CE ON OCT OBER established civil rights figures and institutions in the process. the in institutions and figures rights civil established challenging and response local the of much coordinating death, Brown’s after son Fergu- in ground the on leaders as emerged people black working-class and Young station. police Ferguson the to shot, was he where Apartments, Green Canfield by memorial Brown Michael the from marched 11, activists October Saturday, On arms. both up raise march the in participants protests, Ferguson the of gesture adefining become has what In skin. brown her of because atarget as seen being decries woman A young 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was killed by an off-duty police officerOn Octoberon 12, protesters gathered near the convenience store where hoodLouis. in St. Protesters march from the store on Shaw Avenue where Vonderrit Myers was killed to the center of the Shaw neighbor hopscotch. and rope jump playing by inter- an neighborhood block Shaw the in marchers ajoke,” section it’s think they agame, it’s think “They chant, protest Ferguson now-popular the on atwist In ers Sr. holds a photograph of My Vonderrit Here, 8. October another convenience store. convenience another that night after doing a sit-in at teen others were arrested St. Louis University. Seven sit-in at least 1,000 strong at a with night the ended and marched through the streets After the rally, protesters his son and the teen’s mother. - - - morning of October 13. the on station police Ferguson the to a march others, including philosopher Cornel West, led since spread Clergy to leaders other states. and 40 were arrested. line of police and more than the through got participants in the pouring rain. Some repent to police the asking praying policeand station, in gearriot at the Ferguson kneeled in front of police clergy the of Members Carolina last year and have North in began that actions Monday” “Moral ongoing to alluding disobedience, civil of Monday” “Moral a as ers Ferguson October organiz by dubbed was 13 October rialize Michael Brown. Michael rialize memo- to lot parking station police Ferguson the in chalk yellow and white in abody of outline an drew Protesters

-

T INDYPENDEN THE

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October 13 14

THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 LATIN AMERICA LATIN Students from the Normal School at Ayotzinapa are no strang- T ByAgredano Rivera Héctor STUDENTS43 RUN-IN DISAPPEARED AFTER CORRUPT WITH POLICE FORCE MEXICO MURDER MYSTERY (PRI) (PRI) has been strongest. reform agenda of the Institutional ruling Revolutionary Party Guerrerostate,where opposition toneoliberalthe education in — union teachers national the of section left-wing the — Workers(CNTE) Education of Coordinator National the of police. with clashing and highways blockading often curriculum, its and school the reform to efforts posed op- and funding more for fought has FECSM the years, For ever, has threatened the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa. how-underfunding, Chronicteachers. withtogether school the runs and curriculum the organizes (FECSM) Mexico of tant student union. The Federation of Socialist Rural Students school as a “breeding ground for guerrillas.” Rojas, studied there. Thus, the government often refers to the fi ght- guerrilla ers, including and Lucio Cabañas Barrientos and Genaro leaders Vázquez radical best-known Mexico’s of legacy,left-wing some andfor this wellknown school is The schools, Ayotzinapa is one of the few schools that preserved it. curriculum was adopted throughout the schoolsocialist asystem. 1930s, the in Cárdenas Lázaro of presidency the During Mexico.throughout communities rural educationto part of a national program to train teachers and extend public as 1926 in established collegeteachers’ a is school The rero. Guer- of state the ofcapital the Chilpancingo, near is napa indefi nite strike until an thefor missing called have students colleges teachers’ are found.rural the and union ers’ tinueacross the country. The left wing of the national teach- the Iguala mayor, protests, mobilizations and blockades con- nappings. kid- andmurders overthe charges criminal faceto yethave custody,but into taken been already have members, Unidos miss- the for ing students. More 20 than police, as well look as some Guerreros to police federal and army the in send to ings took place. themayor of Iguala, who has been in hiding since the shoot- thatGuerreros Unidos hasties tolocal politicians, including indicate investigations Recent Unidos. Guerreros ganization turnedthe 43 missing students over to the local criminal or- some of the students may be alive. still that hopeofexpression an as and efforts organizing their in using the slogan “ are Many injured. 25 left also which shooting, police the in missingstudents crossesandnamesthosewithofthe killed the of names the with banners and signs carrying protesters demonstration, mass 9 OctoberAyotzinapa an in collegeled political violence in more than a generation. of act brazen most the in murdered feared now students ing Mexico, fi xing the nation’s attention on the plight of the miss- may be necessary to determine their identities. testing DNA of months say authorities Mexican — bodies maimed and burned of dozens contain graves The seen. last mass graves near the location where the student teachers were after police killed six of them in two shooting incidents. buses ontoherded being seen last wereteachers student The Graduates from Ayotzinapa have also been the backbone the been also haveAyotzinapa from Graduates Theschool has a strong tradition of resistance and a mili- other at out phased slowly was curriculum the Although IsidroRaúlBurgosTheNormalRuralSchoolAyotzi- at locate and bodies the identify to work authorities While governmentfederalforced the has outcry international An Parents of the victims and other students suspect that police teachers’ the from students and parents City, Mexico In ofhorrortoshockledand acrosshasall discovery theBut shallow several of discovery the amid came marches The students from the Normal Rural School at Ayotzinapa. missing 43for justice demand to October early in ico Mex-ofthroughout peopleof ens marched thousands Hasta encontrarlos Š  ™  Š ” (“Until we find them”) students attempting to escape. crowd scattered, the their directed gunmen fire straight at the gathered at the scene. Two students died instantly, and as the crowdfi openedthe on immediately re and up showedve- hicle police a and truck pickup unmarked an way, under was two hours away — to join their — classmates. wayIguala to their made Ayotzinapaalso hadfrom dents turnout from teachers and townspeople. A large groupSeveral strongoutletsmediaofwerepresent,athere was and stu- driver and a woman who was passing by. player, onesoccer people—bus the three killing it,attacked and teachers student the of buses the with Chilpancingo, of belonging to a local third-division soccer team, the Avispones conference. a press dentteachers reached out to classmates totheir join forthem stu- the and newspapers, calling began teachers Local port. sup- offering and wounds treating students, the helping gan Assoon as the police left, people from the neighborhood be- caravan got off to negotiate with police the toof letfront themthe through.at bus the from group small a Then them. surrounded and road the blocked once they reached of the outskirts the city, the police and them, followed vehicles police eral studentsthebusstation,them.Asthe left sev- with cooperate to drivers the convinced and company bus local a from buses three seized ed to the bus station. retreat- students the so entering, from students event,a ing political but the policebarred local Iguala’scentral plaza, where to the mayor’s way wife was their hold- made also activists The cans. in donations collecting house, to house wentfrom and corners city,street onthestood attend canvassed They student upcoming congress. an to funds raise to Iguala of city the on disturbing. deeplyemergedishas general that picture the However, websites. news YouTube online and channels interviews, radio media, social via surface to begun recently only have survivors place on the night of the 26th. Testimonies from students on the eve of the 1968 Olympics. disappeared university and killed forces army whenTlatelolco, of massacre the since Mexico in seen been hasn’t Po- scale this on unprecedented. violence lice is 26, September Friday, on suffered they attack the but resistance, of history their given police, by harassment to ers the ambulance to the hospital. escorted even truck police one and injured, the for bulance themfrom thescene. Thestudents leftbehind called am-an took and trucks police into students 43the ofcorralled then ond sec- time, 17 a students had for been injured, stoppedthree critically. Police shooting the Once buses. the under and and were bleeding badly. Police opened fiinjured re been had classmatesagain. their ofsome that and students, buses with their hands in the air, telling police that they were teachers toscattered seek cover from the gunfire. off to negotiate at and directly the bus gotten windows. studentThe had who students the at shooting buses, of caravan Afterthis second shooting, the survivors recounted ahar- conferencepress the worstwasButthe yettocome.While began. conference press the time the by midnight was It Meanwhile, in another part of Iguala, police confused a bus Chaos ensued. Without warning, police openedpolicefi WithoutChaosensued. warning, re onthe teachers student the station, bus the at Once converged teachers student day, the During took what exactly establish diffi to is cult It Again, students sought cover — on the ground, between between ground, the on — cover sought students Again, the exiting shootingbegan the stopped, When activists the Š  ™  Š alive. seen last were students Iguala,the where of city the near one this like graves mass other of discovery the to led has students CRIME SCENE: dents from Ayotzinapa have shaken all of Mexico. Pressure Pressure Mexico. of all shaken haveAyotzinapa from dents Theshootings in Iguala and the case of the disappeared stu- flayed, and his eyes had been removed from his eye sockets. been had face His before. night the police by taken students the of one Mondragón, César Julio of body the found they There, shooting. the of scene the toan- returned studentsfor swers, Looking before. night the made been had arrests no and custody in held being was nobody that them told ever, class- 43 the of mates release taken in the the police trucks demand the night to before. Police, precinct how- police local them. soaked rain while dawn for waiting lot, vacant a in refuge sought then group his of rest the and Marco hospital. other an- to Edgar take todriver taxi forceda they about 3am, At guns drawn. These soldiers also refused to help them and left. their with in groupsoldiersofburst awhen 2am, until there remained classmates his and Marco hospital. the left nurses because they feared for their own lives. found a hospital, health care workers were afraid to help them Taxi drivers refused to give them a city.ride, and the when into they fi teeth, his shattered nally and cheek his entered that bullet a from injured badly was who Edgar, named student them. Well, face them. confront Face tothem and wanted You handle trouble. it.” for looking were You up. students asked for help, the soldiers told them: “Shut up, shut the whenaway, blocksand military few convoya stoppedthem a from Soldiers markedvehicle opened fi toward re. un- the assoon as citythe ran classmates his and he said second shooting, the García, of survivor a Omar tes- his timony, In scene. rowing The search for 43 missing missing 43 for search The When When morning broke, the students began to regroup at the After helping to ease the bleeding and stabilizing Edgar, the Marcosexplainedclassmatesfew howaand he carried a Š  JOSÉ LUIS DE LA CRUZ disappearance of the students. the of disappearance the orchestrating of accused is Iguala of Velázquez Abarca CORRUPT: ™  Š Mayor José Luis Luis José Mayor 15 THE INDYPENDENT THE

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October

¹7bWaO\OPa]ZcbS]cb`OUSbVOb1VSZaSO ;O\\W\UWaQc``S\bZgZO\UcWaVW\UPSVW\R PO`aeVWZabbV]aSaVSVSZ^SRb]Sf^]aS eV]O`S^]bS\bWOZZgUcWZbg]TVc[O\ `WUVbadW]ZObW]\aS\X]gW[^c\Wbgº 3`WYO5cSdO`O@]aOa /[S`WQOa2W`SQb]` /[\Sabg7\bS`\ObW]\OZ !8cZg  "

:SO`\[]`SOP]cbVS`]WQEWYW:SOYaeVWabZSPZ]eS`T]`[S` CA/`[gW\bSZZWUS\QSO\OZgab>411VSZaSO;O\\W\UOb

WN.COM eeeQVSZaSO[O\\W\U]`U

+RQRU1RDP&KRPVN\ DQGFHOHEUDWHWKHWKDQQLYHUVDU\ RI%URRNO\Q)RU3HDFH

7KH3DWKPDNHUVWR3HDFHZLOOKRQRU 1RDP&KRPVN\ OLQJXLVWDXWKRUSROLWLFDOFRPPHQWDWRUDQGDFWLYLVW DQGDQG

AZCENTRAL.COM %URRNO\Q)RU3HDFH NOT FORGOTTEN: Demonstrators in the center of Mexico City carry photos of the 43 FHOHEUDWLQJ\HDUVRIZRUNLQJIRUSHDFHDQGMXVWLFH missing students. 5HFHSWLRQ*DOD'LQQHU from parents and classmates of the missing responsibility for the events in Iguala and has students have led to a political crisis in the called for a statewide referendum on whether 6DWXUGD\1RYHPEHU Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). he should step down. WRSP Historically, the PRD was an opposition Meanwhile, President Enrique Peña Ni- party to the PRI, now back in power under eto’s response to the crisis in Iguala has been 7LFNHWV,QIRUPDWLRQ 3O\PRXWK&KXUFK President Enrique Peña Nieto. But the PRD less than inspiring. On October 9, while 9LVLWEURRNO\QSHDFHRUJ 2UDQJH6W%URRNO\Q1< has degenerated considerably over the last thousands of people marched in the streets two decades. For example, Guerrero gov- of Mexico City to demand justice for Ayotzi- How Should the US Respond to Crisis in the Middle East? ernor Ángel Aguirre Ribero belongs to the napa students, Peña Nieto was in Monterrey PRD, and his administration has been tainted inaugurating a sports complex and taking ISIS & the Crossfire in Syria + Iraq: Which Way for the US? by a series of political scandals linked to cor- selfi es with the crowd. Monday, November 10 at 7:00 pm ruption and organized crime. The PRI undoubtedly hopes to take advan- Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian Church, 85 S. Oxford St., Ft. Greene Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez tage of the political crisis shaking the PRD in with Raed Jarrer, Zachary Lockman + others also belongs to the PRD and has been in hid- the wake of the Iguala shootings. But the 43 Sponsored by Fort Greene Peace. More at brooklynpeace.org ing since the shootings took place. The left missing student teachers and the nine mass wing of the PRD in Guerrero had pressed graves discovered so far also refl ect poorly on Join BFP! Visit bit.ly/bfpmember or call us! charges against him in 2013 for his associa- the president and his party, since they have To be as effective as possible, to amplify our voice, to expand our tions with the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel, but tried to push the issue of violence and secu- programs + outreach, we need YOU to join us & become a BFP member. the general prosecutor’s offi ce never followed rity to the margins while courting foreign in- Celebrate 30 years of BFP working with peace and justice with us! up on the accusations. New investigations vestment with new neoliberal reforms. now link him to the criminal organization Furthermore, the PRI fi nds itself in a politi- brooklynforpeace Guerreros Unidos. cal bind after student strikers at the National Celebrating 30 years Despite recent events in Iguala, the national Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City brooklyn4peace %URRNO\Q)RU3HDFH director of the PRD has yet to call on Aguirre rejected a government “non-offer” to resolve Founded 1984 brooklynpeace.org | 718-624-5921 Ribero to step down from his post. Instead, brooklynforpeace Aguirre Ribero has vehemently denied any Continued on page 19 16

THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 NE ONC RE FRENCH THE WILL CUTS. D S THE D Polonyi By Anna F as Greece and Spain, France at first steered first at France Spain, and Greece as Macron. Emmanuel banker, conservative a by re placed was Montebourg measures. austerity of outspokenMontebourg, an critic Arnaud ter Minis Economy firing in months, six time than less second the for cabinet his shuffled declarationTherehad hedaysaftercame business!” love professed: Valls, “I Manuel minister, prime his of CEOs, a woo gathering to hoping August, way. In long a come has economy. stagnant country’s for the to blame tionthatfelt thattraders on Wall were Street popula a from ovation standing a received one of the EU’s white elephants ever since, with since, its debt climbing ever over the EU elephants norm since white EU’s the of one capped at 60 percent of GDP. France has been the condition that members’ national debt be on — history French in president Socialist other only the Mitterrand, Françoisby oned champiwaswhicheurozone projectthe— relentless. been has standards reduction deficitdebtandEU meet Brussels to and lin thenational poverty line, pressure from Ber increasing number of people are living below unemployment in France is on the rise while and And own. itsan onbudget the up beef to from France’s ultra-rich, but it wasn’t enough 2012. France’sintroducedinin budgetheitwhen holes the of some up patch would hoped he measure a — wealthy the on taxes raise to debt. One of Hollande’s flagship reducereforms was to spending public slashing of clear nie te Erpa cutis such countries European other Unlike government Hollande’s later, years Three In the 1990s, Germany came on board with ill-will undying him earned move The OLI RAN EM declared: declared: “My enemy is finance.” He campaign, Hollande François President presidential French his uring BE RALIS E MORE? ANDS FOR D FOR ANDS OCIALISTS OCIALISTS M CE VS. H ------Party has hit a historical low point, the Ecol the point, low historical a hit has Party FrenchCommunist the2009, in reforms sity zation is weak after its failure to stop univer Socialists,studentthewithmobilicozy are winter day in Normandy: Some of the unions a as grim as aboutlooks landscape political historian of the Socialist Party. The left-wing a splintered,” Castagnez, Noëllinethis says been never have they and left, the on ment the ignored march. unions other four The ments. anywhere near those of previous mass move in the streets, but their numbers did not come mid-October.in Tens ofthousands marched called for a general protest against the budget far. too goes it France, in many for enough, not it’s that mayfind Commission European the Though comeoutstate’s ofthe will welfareprogram. lion over and years, most the next three of it bil $63 save to plans government The fits. employmentandbene family down cutting pic different ture. It a slashes public spending by paints $27 billion, September, in veiled un budget, 2015 France’s modernity.” “it’s (OECD), Development and Cooperation ic for Econom at Organization at the a meeting financial the right. to concessions similar made has Hollande — GDP of percent 100 than held by the United debt States, for its is part, more the — Republicans with issues getary bud on Bargain” “Grand so-called a strike to tried has Obama Barack President as Just ‘ t hi hes te oilss o fid them selves find in a mess of now their own making. Socialists the heels, their at today.ofrest Europe the and Germany With GDP of percent 90 over reaching and 2000 IT Tee s cran ere f embarrass of degree certain a is “There France in unions major five the of One “It’sausterity,”not said recently Hollande ’S MODERNITY AUTE EMB EE P B ’ RAC UDG F INAN E ET ET ------VOLT aia lf, h nw “ new the left, radical are ogists divided among themselves, and the austerity measures. austerity introduce to Merkel Angela Chancellor German from pressure heavy under been has Hollande I SU his same-sex marriage bill in 2012. Despite 2012. in bill marriage same-sex his to opposition in bloom into came All,” for gay movement, havereactionary:conservativebeenthe anti- During Hollande’s tenure, the largest protests results. political serious achieving in cessful suc been have none but France, in protests the dropped plan. government The streets. the flooded schoolers high France’sand students fire. and — hire to easier 26 under anyone In it2006, tried to pass a labor bill that made plan. the dropped government The country. the paralyzed that strike a sparking benefits, France — movement student 1968 the like landmarks recent more and 1871, in mune 1789 and 1848 Revolutions to the Paris the Com from ranging — revolt of legacy a With RESISTANCE cialist cialist Party. Though it claimed to be Marxist So the within existed always has tionaries ing up a fuss. kick without reformsimplement structural new cabinet of a Hollande loyalists, of called in favorto in muzzled was faction left-wing September,party’s the In dissent. byinternal unclear in its program at best. ary,” says Castagnez. revolution from is far text The but it is there. named, quite never is liberalism social see that will you principles, of statement latest you “If right. the Party’s look at Socialist the up until the 1970s, it has since towarddrifted Since Since then there has been a smorgasbord of h rf bten eomss n revolu and reformists between rift The ravaged is Party Socialist the Meanwhile, RRENDER: CE French President François François President French Manif Pour Tous, ol ak retirement back roll to attempted ernment to be. what used of shadow pale a are they Paris, in Sunday given any on protest a across stumble still can you pro Though tests. street for home spiritual the as world the by seen long was Front de Gauche,deFront n 95 te gov the 1995, In or “Protest ” is is ” ------

OLEVY/WIKIPEDIA political alternative,” Salmon says. real a into wouldtranslate actions howtheir is question real The street. the to down go to ready very are people many or Because not. protesting out are people whether isn’t here issue real “The why. understanding to keyis Salmon, accordingto sociologistAnne failureoftheandpassé, may now be was bill the passed. efforts, best participants’ N far-right the of strength the fed has disenchantment Their 2013. in bill marriage same-sex France’s against cess suc- without protested people of thousands RESENTMENT: OF POLITICS cess is important,” says Salmon. impressive. At some point, the feeling of suc when you see the National Front it’swinning, So humiliating. that’s happens, nothing and you“When go out onto and theshout streets lotto do France’s with of feelings impotence. a has Front’s success National the to Salmon, 2017.According in elections presidential for Pen Le bea might candidate popular Marine indicated that polls September to reaction in recently said Valls Manuel Minister Prime pectations by winning a dozen cities. UMP. TheNational Sarkozy’sFront surpassed Nicolaseveryone’s presidentex former and Party Socialist its main opposition party, the snubbed voters spring, this elections cal haschalked up unprecedented losuccess. In Pen’s Le daughter, Jean-Marie candidate tial presiden former Pen, Le Marine by headed party anti-immigrant The Front. the for National fodder and — frustrating is ership sand only to be ignored by the country’s lead Marching in the streets by the hundred thou THE Faith in the power of mass popular protest “The “The radical right is at the gates of power,”

FAR

RI G HT ational Front. ational Hundreds of of Hundreds Manif, ------

17


    INDYPENDENT THE



October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October


                      TVMONDE.COM
         !        "   #$%&     '!  ( )   * + !,     & 

    & &-- ./ ANSA.IT ON THE RISE: Marine Le Pen, lead- er of the anti-immigrant National Front, could be the big political winner in France.

Fanning resentment toward Brussels and Berlin, the National Front taps into French feelings of dashed “national dignity.” It is particularly popular with young French people: according to poll data, a third of voters under 35 cast their ballots for the National Front this spring. CGT.FR MORE DEMANDS PROTEST: French trade unionists rally in Paris against Hol- For decades, France has faced lande’s right turn on Oct. 16. mounting pressure to get on board with the neoliberal program. The French have Spain’s unemployment, Greece’s mounting thus far managed to sustain a generous wel- extremist right, Portugal’s buoyant debt. fare state, but the writing on the wall in the “You know how to boil a frog?” This is rest of Europe suggests it may not last long. A how a veteran French journalist respond- recent OECD report, released in October and ed when asked whether any mobilization publicly hailed by Hollande as he sat with the against austerity in France could be expect- leaders of the world’s fi nancial institutions, ed. “You put the frog in cold water. It won’t says France’s prospects are good — as long as try to jump out, because as the water gets it jettisons more of its labor regulations and warmer slowly, it won’t notice. Until the wa- social spending. ter boils that is, and then it’s too late.” Across Hollande is the most unpopular president the political spectrum, most would agree that on record, with only 13 percent of French the water temperature has been inching from people claiming to have a favorable view of lukewarm to hot. The French frog has always the Socialist leader in late September. This been highly self-conscious. It’s possible it is because he can afford to be. The French, might notice after all and jump. looking at the rest of Europe, are met with similar and discouraging prospects abroad: 18

October 24–November 23, 2014 THE INDYPENDENT INDYPENDENT BELOW TT ZIP 388 AVENUE, ATLANTIC 2ND BROOKLYN, FLOOR, 11217 NY CHECK OR ORDER MONEY MAKE PAYABLE TO PHONE EMAIL STATE ADDRESS NAME SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT MAILBOX: GET SUBSCRIBE NOW! 209 W. Houston St. Forum Film St. 248 Mercer Think Coffee Ave. Lafayette 339 Pentagon Peace St. Jersey 10 Mulberry Branch Library St. Prince 52 Books Jackson McNally 22 St. Mark’s Pl. rant Mamoun’s Falafel Restau Ave. 155First Theater for the New City 80 St. Mark’s Pl. Theater 80 St. Mark’s St. Allen 172 Bluestockings A Avenue 52 Food Key A Avenue 50 Bean Native St. 10th E. 331 Library Tompkins Square B Avenue 39 Union LES People’s Federal Credit Broadway East 192 Seward Park Library SOME 14th THE INDYPENDENT P ST LA . CES YOU FIND CAN - 17 8th Ave. 8th 17 Books Bank Left 208 W. 13th St. LGBT Center 22 E. 12th St. Cinema Village 66 Leroy St. Library Park Hudson 112 E. 96th St. 96th E. 112 St. Library 96th 444 Amsterdam Ave. St. Agnes Library Ave. 969 Lexington Books Shakespeare St. W.59th 537 Network Manhattan Neighborhood 51st St. 7 E. Consulate Venezuelan 942 Tenth Ave. Columbus Library 307 W. 26th St. Gristedes 209 W. 23rd St. Muhlenberg Library 23rd W. 119 Tek Serve 228 E. 23rd St. Epiphany Library 96th to 14th 13 ISSUES FOR $25 $25 FOR ISSUES 13 REGULAR SUBSCRIBER REGULAR INDYPENDENT.ORG ST . 200 Eastern Pkwy.Eastern 200 Museum Brooklyn 209 Joralemon St. Hall Borough Brooklyn BROOKLYN St. W.179th 535 Library Washington Fort Amsterdam & St. 156th W. Uptown Sister’s Books W. 503 145th St. Hamilton Grange Library St. 136th W. 104 Countee Cullen Library 343 Lenox Ave. Maysles Cinema St. 125th W. 518 George Bruce Library 9 W. St. 124th Harlem Library 203 W. 115th Library St. 115th Broadway and 114th St. Library Heights Morningside St. 110th E. 172 Aguilar Library St. 104th E. 175 nity Media Center El Barrio Firehouse Commu 150 W. 100th St. Library Bloomingdale ABOVE

THE IN DELIVERED YOUR TO STRAIGHT 96th 96th

OR USE THIS FORM ST . DYP “THE INDYPENDENT”“THE 26 ISSUES FOR $48 $48 FOR ISSUES 26 - REGULAR SUBSCRIBER REGULAR 203 Parkside Ave. Deli Parkside Ave. Franklin 496 Bedford Library Ave. Bedford 146 Kaisa’s Café Ave. Metropolitan 561 dromat Laun Community Metro St. Bogart 49 Café Swallow 30 Wyckoff Ave. Shop Coffee Starr Wyckoff St. Starr 214 Mayday Space St. Fulton 1014 Outpost Café Ave. Myrtle 429 Connecticut Muffin 25 Fourth Ave. Library Street Pacific 445 6th St. Library Slope Park Ave. 7th 316 Video Gallery Ave. 7th 130 Foods Key 837 Union St. Lounge Tea Ave. 7th 70 Cousin John’s Pizza Pkwy. Eastern 1044 Library Brooklyn EN D ENT : CITY CITY - 1007 Church Ave. Church 1007 Lark Café Rd. Cortelyou 1305 Cortelyou Library 546 FlatbushCompany Ave. Tea Tugboat 317 Columbia St. Columbia 317 Café Jalopy Ave. Atlantic 388 Commons Brooklyn 10001 Northern Blvd. Langston Hughes Library St. Main 41-17 Queens Borough Library St. 104th 38-23 Corona Library 35-81 81st St. Library Heights Jackson 40-19 Gleane St. Terraza 7 Live Music Ave. Greenpoint 43-06 Library Sunnyside St. 21st 37-44 Long Island City Library 2501 Jackson Ave. Court Square Library 45-30 23rd St. Court Square Diner Q AND SENDAND TO UEENS

13 ISSUES FOR $100 FOR ISSUES 13 ANGEL SUBSCRIBER ANGEL ORG. TACT@INDYP 1282 OR OR 1282 AT 212-904- US CALL LE PLAC GESTIONS FOR NEW NEW FOR GESTIONS SUG- HAVE YOU DO OR, WORKPLACE? OR SCHOOL BORHOOD, INDY IN YOUR NE YOUR IN INDY 928 Ave.Intervale Mothers on the Move 321 E. 140th St. Library Haven Mott BRONX HELP DISTRIB HELP TO WANT YOU DO St. Bay 208 Everything Goes Bookstore S 761 St. 160th E. Library Woodstock W. 78 St. 168th High Bridge Library 800 Manida St. PostPoint Office Hunts St. Manida 765 Center Hunts Point Recreation Blvd. Southern 877 Hunt’s Library Point TATEN TATEN AV E THE ES WE SHOULD SHOULD WE ES EM

I SLAN PAP AIL CON- AIL E UT ND ER? ER? E THE E THE D IGH E NT. - 19 T HE INDYP EN D ENT

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October

ters further. In a worst-case scenario for WFP, its vote total in the HAWKINS governor’s race could drop below the magic threshold of 50,000 Continued from page 7 votes needed to maintain ballot status for the next four years. “Losing to the Greens and falling down the ballot line would to the right, and the reason is because we don’t have a political be a huge blow to the WFP,” a former WFP staffer told The Indy- party that speaks for us,” Hawkins said as his audience nodded pendent. “It’s going to be harder to strut around as the left alter- in agreement. “I think we’re on the verge of something big. The native to the Democrats if they get fewer votes than the Greens.” question is whether there’s enough time.” The former WFP staffer questioned whether the Greens have the will and the organizational capacity to take advantage of a GREENS VS. WFP strong showing this election to build a party that can bring about Anti-Cuomo sentiment has been running strong on the Left all real change in a state that has endured decades of misrule and year. The labor-backed Working Families Party (WFP) briefly corruption on the part of both Democrats and Republicans. considered running an anti-Cuomo candidate on its ballot line in Hawkins will almost certainly be headed back to his overnight the spring. In the end it bowed to pressure from its Democratic job at UPS. Going forward, he sees the Greens taking root as the Party allies to once again put Cuomo on its ballot line, which second party to the Democrats in parts of the state and continu- minor parties are allowed to do under New York election law. ing to build from there. Other top state party leaders also insist “It’s a way for liberals to feel good about voting for conserva- that party-building work will continue after the voting is done. tive Democrats,” Hawkins says. “It’s an incremental process,” said state co-chair Michael WFP’s cautious decision rankled many of the party’s rank and O’Neil. “There are no overnight successes in true movement file. Party leaders insisted, however, that cutting a deal with the building.” governor was the smart move that would give WFP more influ- Meanwhile, Hawkins hopes his days of being seen as a fringe ence in a Cuomo second term. candidate are over. As Hawkins fills the void on the Left, WFP now faces the pros- “I’m not a protest vote,” he said. “People are voting for what pect of being routed by a party it has long regarded as irrelevant. they want. And if enough people vote for me, I will be the next Cuomo’s decision to bankroll the newly formed Women’s Equal- governor of New York.” ity Party (which gave him its ballot line as well) complicates mat-

Activists need to build broad coalitions and existing buildings. CLIMATE MARCH to push policies that will facilitate the rap- • Support net metering and feed-in Continued from page 9 id transition to a carbon-free and nuclear- tariffs incentivizing more distributed free future. The United States must follow renewable generations. reductions in CO2 emissions this decade. the lead of Germany, which has committed • Support utility-scale renewable energy Solar, wind, other renewables and efficiency itself to both the conversion to renewables projects, including offshore wind and improvements — reducing the energy need- and the phase-out of all dirty energy, in- the wheeling of power generated in ed per function — are not only safer, but cluding nuclear power. They’re succeeding wind-rich regions, like the High Plains, also faster and more affordable. in a much less sunny and windy location. via efficient high-voltage DC lines. The climate movement is on the right Surely the renewable-rich United States • Rally behind sustainable living educa- track as it seeks to halt the expansion of can as well, but this isn’t going to happen tion and projects to implement this fossil fuel exploration, extraction and by itself. in all aspects of life, from local food transportation, and presses for the rapid The climate movement needs to press production to cycling, mass transit, phase-out of coal-fired power plants and for both incentives and mandates to in- eco-villages, etc. other uses of carbon fuels throughout the crease investment in clean energy. The economy. public generally supports green, renewable The movement must work on public educa- It needs to be just as clear what it’s for. energy, and, when put to a vote, renew- tion, public policy, divestment campaigns This must be more than simply putting a able energy standards (RES) usually score and more to challenge the power of the price on carbon. Numerous studies, in- landslide wins. There is, however, growing fossil fuel industry, as well as to beat back cluding those by the U.N. Intergovernmen- pushback coming from the industry and false “solutions,” like nuclear power, that tal Panel on Climate Change and Ecofys Koch-funded groups including the Ameri- retard our ability to effectively address the looking at the global picture, as well as by can Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). climate crisis and present their own set of Stanford engineering professor Mark Ja- They are pushing the repeal of RES laws serious problems. cobson, who focused on the United States, via the so-called “Electricity Freedom have demonstrated the potential to phase Act.” Mark Haim serves as director of Mid-Mis- out fossil fuels rapidly, reaching levels be- Aside from seeking more green energy souri Peaceworks in Columbia, Missouri, tween 77 and 100 percent renewable by through stronger RES laws, and opposing a grassroots nonprofit that does education 2050. Accomplishing this, of course, re- ALEC, activists can: and advocacy at the interface of peace, quires focusing investment capital where it justice and sustainability. is most productive, and that means renew- • Support adoption of more stringent ables and efficiency, not nuclear power. energy efficiency codes for both new

with the Guerreros Unidos criminal organization. MEXICO Thus, the political panorama of Mexico has become increasingly Continued from page 15 complex. An array of social movements and struggles are developing organic connections while corrupt and ineffective politicians offer their grievances at the increasingly privatized public institution. nothing more than empty rhetoric — or worse. Striking students at the IPN have begun to fuse with other protest For now, though, all eyes are on Guerrero, where the cry of grief movements, including those seeking justice at Ayotzinapa. and rage rings louder than ever. The Insurgent People’s Revolutionary Army (ERPI) guerrilla group has also thrown its support behind the student teachers from An earlier version of this article appeared at socialistworker.org. Ayotzinapa and has created a special brigade to “settle accounts” 20

THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 I can design for you. for design I can the Indy. redesigning I am artist. an I am Bhavana Nancherla, Svati P. Svati Bhavana Nancherla, Shah Jospeh, Chad, Sonia Namita With INDIA IN CLASS AND CASTE HEALTH, ON DIALOGUES POLITICS: TRANS SAT SUGGESTED 15 NOV •$5 •7PM Parker Alan With Michael Parker by Alan HAPPINESS TOWN ON COMMITTEE THE SUGGESTED 14 NOV FRI •$5 •7PM Abulhawa Susan With in Mornings Jenin of author PALESTINE WITH ARCHIVISTS AND LIBRARIANS :(;56= ‹74‹ :<..,:;,+ radical bookstore | activist center | fair trade cafe bluestockings bluestockings.com present Susan Abulhawa, Abulhawa, Susan present 172 ALLEN 172 ST •ALLEN 212-777-6028

M !"#$% T#&"$%# '&$#(!)$ *$+!,- ..(#&"$%#@,.#!%.'/. '#&,/'/%%$'(!)$.'/./.(#&"$%# +0!&!(/1.2#-*'#.0.'/. )!.$/.'/./(#&"$%# I 2014 Verso, by Stanley Aronowitz New Workers’ Movement The DeathandLifeofAmericanLabor:Toward a SAVE ITSELF HOW CAN LABOR REVIEW BOOK just for its own static or shrinking member- shrinking or static own its for just rediscovers its historic mission of fi ghting not rule and union resistance unless laborextinct where he says mass unemployment will be the people, but also looks at a problematic future 1930s and charts the the present in hard daystimes for glory working movement’s labor ness. Conscious- Working Class American of ing his seminal work, the past four decades since the publication of over done has Aronowitz work on builds It treatment. readable highly and compelling Movement Workers' New a ward book, The Death and latest Life of Labor: American To- His Center. Graduate CUNY prolific author and sociology professor at the the unions, WorkersAtomic and Chemical and Oil, Workers Clothing the with Amalgamated organizer union worker, factory former Aronowitz, Stanley by understood is it way the is new What’s closely. labor low any union’s agenda. tervening in home foreclosures, are not yet on in- including did, Occupy things outstanding Yorkwas City a lot — was the episodic. And Occupy received from labor — which in New groups supportEven rare.the sadly are radicals and community with alliances making and unemployed the organizing Yet, ment. move- progressive a multiracial of anchors broad-based, the be to potential the have theory, in and, left the on institutions eted mostlargestanddeep-pock-thebyfar main unchained. and home at capital, U.S. ofpower sheer there’s the Then work. steady less or more for strike to right workers.Unionleaders even tradedaway the noown enterprises with their voice run from to rein free employers allowing insu- unionism, contract organizers, emphasized who leaders union best lar labor’s often were ColdWarwhoofthe ofradicals onset atthe purges the South, the organize to drive war post- the of failure the many: are Labor” of or contingent jobs, when they work at all. explosion ofyoungpeoplework atpart-time od when pay is frozen, real wages andfall an peri- a in this — unionized are 14 in one just where workers, sector private for worse are numbers The nine. in one above hair a just is alone force labor civilian the in members union of number the Today poor. not part most the forfiwas the forhistory in time rst that class working a create to enough juiced economy employersthe and cautiousenough enough, strong were then Unions workers. moreAmerican one represented than in three oe f hs s e t pol wo fol- who people to new is this of None re- unions state, debilitated their in Even reasonsThe for the collapse of the “House F-I, h cmie organization combined the AFL-CIO, the form to merged federationslabor ing contend- two country’s the 1955, when n This latest not only harks back to the the to back harks only not latest This False Promises: The Shap- The Promises: False is a slim, slim, a is ery worker’sery fi the in family ght. ev- and worker every engaging for but ships codify work rules and prescribe a transpar- a prescribe and rules work codify goodpoints: lockthey wages in and benefi ts, their have Contracts shoe. the in rock the as itself collectiveAronowitz bargaining targets BEGGING’ ‘COLLECTIVE LABOR: OF FACE NEW in the workplace (such as the walkouts that that walkouts the as (suchworkplace the in action direct encourage advice: Aronowitz’s BOLDLYACT cycles. bust through goes in- regularly that market vestment booming a on contingent are that plans 401K on rely must employees sector private while workers government forefi pensions t defi ben- preserve to ned battles parochial or Medicare and Security Social of support in efforts defensive either are struggles, are, they as such Labor-led revolt. circumscribes management on dependency unions’ the all, home are than outsourced overseas. Worst of at jobs U.S. more destroying and speed ing gain- is economy the of sectors many across brave a new world It’swhere business-driven automation allies. labor alone let lapdogs, for looking even isn’t business point this At and welcomed by unions has come to an end. Deal New the by initiated cooperationment begging.” collective of today, Aronowitz says, “is now mostly a kind security.jobevenCollectiveand bargaining benefiwages, onsions conditionsworking conces- ts, unions major make to and forced were shriveled workers home at jobs good nothing, almost for work would that force work- a of search in overseas and Mexico to then South, fithe jobs, to rstmanufacturing fl of the ight With peace. labor bought egy arbitrary right to manage. employer’s the challenge and strike to right the birthright: their up give workers return, handling grievances, discipline and fi rings. In for system due-process agreed-upon and ent o te uhr te r o labor-manage- of era the author, the For strat- a such years boom postwar the In Striking fast-food workers demand a $15 hourly wage. hourly a$15 demand workers fast-food Striking a wonder. lossAronowitz’sAbsent trends. that, book is tics data would better demonstrate actual job Statis- of Labor of Bureau years 20 last at the look a when that, for evidence anecdotal on relies hebut precariat, aof creation the even throughout,a problem thatforoutstrips him unemployment mass of specter the uses He lostwork forand blown labor. opportunities of tsunami a into morphedwave jobless the Future, less future in his coauthored 1995 the bookofwave the as shrinkage job of idea the fiHe fl predictions. rst scarifying oated more his of some to trends the is quantifying not much, in it miss doesn’t he and target, the misses Aronowitz Where sanctimony.or ing hector- the without but prophet, secular a of tions. ambi- imperial ongoing actual with as jobs, fading hope of creating large numbers of new muchitsabout production,war with spiking as are presidents two last the by taken sures mea- war the that seriously take and dustries in- polluting in investing stop to mocracy,” de- workplace of question the seriously “take closed- virtually the transit.” of mass state down about hell “raise[ing] them among struggles, in community and partners job as but clients, their or earners wage purely as workers of thinking stop unions to wants He matters.) these in choice haveno currently they that recognizing step: how the product or service is made. (The fi in say rst a as well as design, and introduction control byoverchangedemanding logical its peopleintervenetoprocesstheoftechno- in working wants He level. poverty the below is wage minimum $15 a even — income sic ancehandling and fi ghtfor a guaranteed ba- griev- fi the protracted leave at don’t ghtback fast-foodthe galvanized workers movement), To its credit, the book reads like the words to movement the wants Aronowitz More. and the present book holds that that holds book present the and — Michael Hirsch — Michael The Job-

ANNETTE BERNHARDT/FLICKR PAINTING 32 years of celebrating music of peace and resistance! 21 E OF T HE TAT INDYP UM VIA ES EN SE D ENT T MU AR

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October LK A ICAN FO

ELL Nov 1 AN AMER Pearls of Wisdom with Thelma Thomas ESY FAS RT LPH RA COU Nov 8 Jack Landrón (a.k.a. Jackie Washington) UM VIA

LOOKING SE Nov 15 Rustic Riders T MU A AR BACK Jenny Murphy LK ELL Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget AN Nov 22

Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic FAS ICAN FO Peoples's Voice Cafe 35th Anniversary Celebration:

Both at American Folk Art Mu- LPH AMER seum Will feature a great lineup of our stalwart performers, and proceeds

Through December 1 ESY E OF RA will go toward keeping our sound system functioning. Join us! RT TAT ES COU “ hey used to deliver ice TOP: Ralph Fasanella. New York City, 1957. © 1957 Estate of Ralph Fasanella on those horses.” At the BOTTOM: Willem van Genk. Untitled (Brooklyn Bridge), 1960. Saturdays at 8 p.m. TRalph Fasanella exhibition Community Church of New York Unitarian-Universalist currently on view at the Ameri- multiple grinning Nixons hover spread recognition. His paintings 40 E. 35th St. Madison/Park can Folk Art Museum, an elderly above marching protesters, a can be seen in libraries, muse- New York, NY 10016 tour group reflects on the tiny de- baseball diamond, candy-colored ums and universities around the tails of New York City, a bustling newspapers, funeral processions country; the city of Lawrence doors open 7:30; wheelchair accessible 1957 painting by Fasanella made and a massive pink telephone. even declared a “Ralph Fasanella 212-787-3903 in celebration of the place where The painting’s title? Watergate, Day.” This exhibition, then, is www.peoplesvoicecafe.org he was born, raised and lived his of course. Funereal imagery a chance to go deeper. Beyond whole life. There are horses in comes up a lot in these paint- Fasanella’s bright colors and fun Suggested Donation: $18 or TDF; $10 PVC members the painting, and also traffic cops ings, often in the form of memo- details, there’s a dark and deep- More if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away and switchboard operators, park rials to slain civil rights leaders. ly personal sort of dread. In his benches and fire escapes, parents Fasanella’s scenes tend to include art, Fasanella’s wistful memories and children, billboards, bridges sign-waving demonstrators, of populist glory days are offset and a thousand other things. dwarfed by looming symbols of against a forward-looking sad- Fasanella taught himself to power: stately cast-iron domes, ness, an encroaching sense of paint while in his early 30s, by ornate church steeples and end- injustice and corruption in an in- which point he’d already been a less newspaper-headline ziggu- creasingly stratified America. garment worker, a truck driver, rats. In a piece about the death of Looking at New York City, the a gas station operator and, im- JFK, there’s even what looks like tour group talks about how the portantly, a union organizer. a combination brothel/Catholic streets of Manhattan aren’t so His paintings seem to bear the church, manned by a congrega- different now from how Fasanel- weight of a dense and demand- tion of robed Klansmen. In such la depicted them 57 years ago, ing life: each Fasanella canvas is works, it seems that Fasanella is except that where there used to its own richly populated world. questioning the nature of power be mom-and-pop businesses, Fasanella’s left-wing politics, in 20th-century America, with there are now impersonal chain born out of his days in the labor governmental, religious and so- stores, and where there used to movement, are a deeply felt pres- cial institutions coalescing into be working-class families, there ence in his works right through strange, new monsters. are now luxury apartments and Farewell Comrade/End of the Also currently on view at the empty condos. Fasanella intend- Cold War (1993-1999), his un- museum is an exhibition show- ed the painting as an apolitical completed final painting. In it, ing the obsessive, explosive, odd- homage to his hometown — it Lenin’s oversized corpse lies sur- ball experiments of Willem van was the mid-fifties, after all, and rounded by teeming crowds, and Genk. Like Fasanella, Genk was he was getting in trouble for his by books and placards named an old-time left-winger — though Communist leanings. But even with progressive heroes (Upton it seems he eventually grew dis- without overt political referenc- Sinclair, Arthur Miller, Mother trustful of any ideology what- es, that old lefty populism still Jones); Gorbachev, Clinton and soever — but his works do not comes through. At a time when, the Pope all make appearances; share Fasanella’s brand of earthy it seems, so many New Yorkers hapless subway commuters read humanism. Using complex col- are being displaced by the move- newspapers in which political lage techniques and intricate line ments of capital, it helps to see power struggles are treated as a art, van Genk shows us Soviet the city envisioned as a loud, giant ball game (“YANKS WIN battleships, Eastern deities, film busy, colorful place, one whose BIG! USSR FALLS!”). reels, fighter planes, locomotives life force comes from ordinary It would be easy, really, to dis- and illegible bits of text; he finds people and everyday concerns. miss much of Fasanella’s work a sort of raw fascination in the as cutesy, sentimental nostalgia. mechanisms of power. As a point — Mike Newton For example: his 1970s paint- of reference, compare Fasanel- ings of Lawrence, Mass., depict la’s depiction of the Triborough the great workers’ strikes that Bridge — as a soft, sponge-like, happened there in 1912 — two pastel-colored thing — with van years before he was even born. Genk’s Brooklyn Bridge (1960): But beneath the bright colors and hard-edged and imposing, with winsome little characters, there’s not a person in sight. a complex, cranky and mournful After decades of struggling to political vision at work. In one get his artwork shown, Fasanella 1976 painting, giant birds and eventually achieved more wide- 22

THE INDYPENDENT October 24–November 23, 2014 )LQDO:HHNHQGRI3HUIRUPDQFHV resistance totestinggone mad.” and elected union leaders describing the growing grassroots growing the describing leaders union elected and “ while making money hand over hand money making while testing industry, seem to win most battles.most win industry,to testing seem collects narratives from teachers,parents,students,academics from narratives collects in theU.S.overclimatechange. the intensestrugglethatisbeingwaged in nature,ExtremeWhetherbringshome and magicalexperiences W in theU.S.overclimatechange. the intensestrugglethatisbeingwaged in nature,ExtremeWhetherbringshome and magicalexperiences W ! WKHDWHUIRUWKHQHZFLW\QHWH[WUHPHZKHWKHUKWP ith plentyofdrama,humor e privatizers who close public schools and open charters, open and schools public close who privatizers e ith plentyofdrama,humor T 155 FirstAve(9th&10thSt.) heater fortheNewCity New York,NY10003 7 LFNHWV —Kenzo Shibata,—Kenzo the " st for their friends in the in friends their for st 6XQDWSP 7KXUV6DWDWSP 2 FWREHU More More ! an a Score a an Nation messaging, that users can purchase for a few dollars. forafew purchase can users that messaging, private like features, extra offering by revenue erate gen- will Ello that said hour. Budnitz an requests tion invita- 40,000 receiving was website the ny,reported entrepreneur compa- toy a and shop Vermont bicycle luxury a founded a who Budnitz, Paul CEO Ello’s spotlight, to the entering seemed after soon and manifesto nerve, a touch company’s The Ello. to over migrated names, real their using not were they cause be- accounts their disabled Facebook after outraged queens, drag of group re- a after attention immediately media ceived almost and service invitation-only sold.” and bought that’s product the are You ads. more ers show buy can so your youdata they Advertis- data. into converted and ed, record- tracked, is follow you link ery ev- and make, you friend every share, you post “Every website. manifesto, its on posted Ello’s reads advertisers,” vertisers. ad- to data that sell and activity users’ their monitor endlessly which Twitter, and Facebook like giants media social to alternative an for appetite mendous tre- a is there indicating — Google on trend fi the hottest was it fth point one at — exploded has company the in est Inter- advertisers. to sell information to user not and free ad be to promise current values,” Baio wrote in a post on Ello. on apost in wrote values,” Baio current their compromises it if even profiexit, an and tability towards pushed be inevitably will Ello investors, their mani- the festo. of out left was that detail a — the Northeast in located companies of portfolio million $25 a manages fi that rm investment Vermont-based a tal, Capi- FreshTracks from $435,000 accepted Ello that gate. the may have dead before it been advertising ofleft online ubiquity the to challenge attempt network’s social the business, emerging any face that challenges enormous community. ing exist- the maintaining while of users number in- creasing the accommodate to quickly site the scale to ing try- is challenge biggest company’s the that email via told Budnitz policy. invite-only the on.” going alot There’s thing. of kind that and groups and pages Facebook on ests inter- common have who people with connect to like to like people play Mafilike games Other a and others Wars family. and Farmville, and friends them their share and with pictures post to want they because go people there “Some to goes Facebook,” Craig. said future. its whether to secure people enough on in draw can Ello out still was jury the that said He able. order tosustain- in be of mass” users a “critical reach Business, Online an told Starting to Guide Everything fornow. least, At manifesto. the than further much go doesn’t advertisers escape to seeking those for refuge a provide and Facebook to alternative lar T Ellefson Alex By ELLO, GOODBYE? MEDIA SOCIAL Ello launched in early August as an an as August early in launched Ello by owned is network social “Your “Unless they have a very unique relationship with with relationship unique very a have they “Unless blogger Andy Last month, Baio technology revealed the overcome to able is company the if even But hence mode, To in beta-testing is Ello still its credit, somebody why reasons of number a are “There of author Craig, Randall expert media Social a popu- become could Ello that However, hope any The Indypendent The amount of interest due to its its to due interest of amount enormous an generated has site Ello networking social new he that social media sites need to need sites media social that The Indypendent Indypendent The The The

table. can’t table. Why we she conversation?” have said. this the wayoff are subsidies public still and itself taining sus- time hard a have to gong probably that’s native web. equitable and democratic to amore door the open could Internet, the before created were that companies media non-commercial to the similar nies, Express. American with history repayment poor a have patrons whose businesses at card his he used had recently because action the had taken it that explained company the score, credit lent excel- an had he Although reduced $3,800. been to $10,800 had from limit credit his said American that from Express letter fi a to nd Jamaica in eymoon exploitation. and of avenues discrimination for new allows practice The mining. data and advertising line principles?” those embody can people other that so them stitutionalize youin- do how and them yousupport do How them? you but have can “Because how principles, do you live told online, exist that inequalities Taylor, of Astra author it,” do to going they’re how know to users. monthly million 114 attracting information, despite unprofi users’ table its remains sell to refuses but tisements adver- has which Reddit, site media social the while revenue for 2013. annual Mean- in $50 billion almost earned it that announced Google while billion, $7.8 than more of revenue total reported Facebook Last year, lucrative. extremely are advertising online and — mining data to its principles Ello abandon pressure offerings.” public and tions recapitaliza- including exit of methods possible other are there however acquirer, an to company portfolio the of sale “the expects it that states website Tracks’ Fresh- portfolio companies. larger by their acquired eventually were in listed companies the of one-third least at that reveals website FreshTracks’ of analysis his brief cause a However, principles. never its abandon to would company capital venture the insisted “With Ello, we have a desire and we have an alter- an have we and desire a have we Ello, “With compa- Taylor Internet publicly supported that said hon- from his a returned man in 2008 For instance, on- to costs hidden are there that Taylorexplained want you but says manifesto Ello’s what like “I would capitalists venture why reason a there’s And Budnitz press, the with interviews previous In h Pol’ Platform, People’s The a book about the the about book a The Independent. Independent. The

GARY MARTIN 23 T HE INDYP EN D ENT

October 24–November 23, 2014 23, 24–November October