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251: October 2019 • Indypendent.Org App-Drivers The = nyC’s neXt soCialist Wave — P6 = IndypendenT #251: OCTOBer 2019 • IndypendenT.OrG App-drIVerS FIGhT BACK p4 nAOMI KleIn On The Green new deAl p14 pUnKS wITh A pUrpOSe p19 InSIde The AMAZOn esteBAn GUerrA why The wOrld’S lArGeST rAInFOreST COnTInUeS TO BUrn And hOw IT AFFeCTS US All BrIAn MIer repOrTS FrOM BrAZIl, p12 COME CELEBRATE WITH US! ’S 250TH ISSUE PARTY SATURDAY OCT 19 AT SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER SEE PAGE 7 FOR PARTY DETAILS 2 Community The IndypendenT Calendar THE INDYPENDENT, INC. 388 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, ny 11217 212-904-1282 www.indypendent.org twitter: @theIndypendent facebook.com/theIndypendent BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, place new yorkers Alina Mogilyanskaya, Ann turn for hard-hitting Schneider, John Tarleton reporting that pulls no punches. this fall EXECUTIVE EDITOR: oCtoBer we published our John Tarleton 250th issue. Join us MANAGING EDITOR: TUE OCT 8 SUN OCT 13 Columbus’s landfall and sup- at the sixth street Community Peter Rugh 2PM–tBA • Free 12PM–6PM • Free port the call for nyC to change Center saturday, oct. 19 as we ACtIVIsM: reBeL Fest MArKet: Jersey CIty oDDI- Columbus Day to Indigenous mark this momentous occasion. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: teach-ins, workshops, art mak- tIes MArKet Peoples Day. speakers include Performers include: reverend ellen Davidson, Alina ing, meditation, yoga, live music, Featuring over 70 purveyors of Pua Case, of the fight to save Billy & the stop shopping Choir, Mogilyanskaya, Nicholas talks and nonviolent direct action the old and the odd. Hawaii’s Mauna Kea mountain; outernational, sleepy Kitty, and Powers, Steven Wishnia training hosted by extinction HARBORSIDE JC and LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Grace Bergere. there’ll be a rebellion as part of Xr Global 210 Hudson St., Jersey City standing rock’s sacred stone live auction, plus drink specials ILLUSTRATION DIRECTOR: rebellion nyC. Civil disobedi- Camp Founder. (including an exclusive Indypen- Frank Reynoso ence protests will be taking place SUN OCT 13 Randall’s Island, NYC dent-inspired cocktail). throughout the week. 2PM–4PM • Free SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY DESIGN DIRECTOR: Mikael Tarkela Washington Square Park, Mnhtn nAtUre: eCosoCIALIst HIKe: THU OCT 17 CENTER MArIne PArK sALt MArsH 7PM–9PM • Free 638 E. 6th St., Mnhtn DESIGNERS: WED OCT 9 Join the nyC Democratic social- LIt: oCeAn VUonG, WItH DA- leia Doran, Anna Gold, evan 7PM–9:30PM • Free ists of America’s ecosocialist rIn strAUss SAT OCT 19 Sult BooK LAUnCH: CAPITAL IS DEAD Working Group for an easy walk ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On 7:30PM • $79 & up By MCKenZIe WArK through Brooklyn’s largest park, Earth We’re Briefl y Gorgeous, was MUsIC: tHe orIGInAL MIsFIts ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER: Join McKenzie Wark in conversa- one of the few remaining pre- published by Penguin Press this enjoy a ghouls’ night out, just in Dean Patterson tion with natasha Lennard around serves of liminal wetland space summer. He is also the author of time for Halloween. the launch of Capital Is Dead: Is in nyC. salt marshes and wet- the poetry collection, Night Sky THE GARDEN INTERN: This Something Worse? Wark lands are diverse ecosystems, with Exit Wounds, winner of the t. 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, Mnhtn Garret Reich argues that the all-pervasive supporting hundreds of species s. eliot Prize. He’ll be in conversa- presence of data in our networked of birds and fish, and are protec- tion with national Book Critics SUN OCT 20 GENERAL INQUIRIES: [email protected] society has given rise to a new tive against storm surges but also Circle Award winner Darin strauss. 2PM–4PM • Free mode of production, one not ruled uniquely climate-vulnerable. LILLIAN VERNON CREATIVE tALK: Meet CrAZy Horse FAM- SUBMISSIONS & NEWS TIPS: over by capitalists and their fac- SALT MARSH NATURE CENTER WRITERS HOUSE ILy eLDer & AUtHor MAtson [email protected] tories but by those who own and 3302 Ave. U, Bklyn 58 W. 10th St., Mnhtn Crazy Horse family elder Floyd control the fl ows of information. Clown, sr. and author William ADVERTISING & PROMOTION: VERSO BOOKS SUN OCT 13 SAT OCT 19 Matson discuss and sign their [email protected] 20 Jay St., Suite 1010, Bklyn 6PM–9PM • Donations welcome 11AM–5PM • Free book Crazy Horse: The Lakota sCreenInG: THEY LIVE PArty: sUPer sÁBADo: DIA De Warrior’s Life and Legacy based VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: SAT OCT 12 Horror and socialism have long MUertos CeLeBrAtIon on the family’s oral history. linda Martín Alcoff, Charlyne 10:30AM–5PM • Free gone hand in hand. In Capital, Celebrate Mexico’s beloved 3,000 AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY Alexis, Bennett Baumer, Sue LIt: PeoPLe’s BooK FAIr Karl Marx writes, “Capital is dead year-old tradition that commemo- HOUSE Brisk, Valerio Ciriaci, Rico 39 Eldridge St., 4th Fl., Mnhtn Cleffi , Renée Feltz, lynne Browse collections from a variety labor, which, vampire-like, lives rates friends and relatives who Foster, emma Gaffney, of radical and leftist presses. only by sucking living labor, and have passed away, with face esteban Guerra, lauren Kaori THE PEOPLE’S FORUM lives the more, the more labor painting, art making, performanc- MON OCT 21 Gurley, Theodore Hamm, 320 W. 37th St., Mnhtn it sucks.” Catch this outdoor es and more. 7PM–9PM • Free David Hollenbach, Manvi screening of the cult-classic They EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO nIGHt sCHooL: eLeCtIons AnD Jalan, Sophia lebowitz, OCT 12–OCT 13 Live and help raise funds for the 1230 Fifth Ave., Mnhtn tHe stAte Derek ludovici, leonardo sAt–sUn 12PM–9PM • $15–$50 Brooklyn Democratic socialists Any socialist project that seeks March, Gary Martin, lydia FooD: neW yorK AFrICAn res- of America. SAT OCT 19 to engage in political struggle will McMullen-laird, Farid Nassif, tAUrAnt WeeK FestIVAL 472 79th St., Bklyn 7PM–1AM • $10–$20 donation have to come to a clear understand- Brady O’Callahan, Tiffany A showcase of the best of the PArty: CeLeBrAte 250 IssUes oF ing of what the state is. Focusing on Pai, Donald Paneth, libby African and African-inspired cui- OCT 13–OCT 14 A Free PAPer For Free PeoPLe the work of ralph Miliband, explore Rainey, Mark Read, Reverend sine in new york. Part of African sAt & sUn 11AM–2PM • Free For going on two decades, The which aspects of the state make it Billy, Chelsey Sanchez, Steven Sherman, Naomi Ushiyama, restaurant Week oct. 4–oct. 20. eVent: InDIGenoUs PeoPLe’s Indypendent has been the voice “capitalist” in nature. Isobel van Hagen, and Chris MIST HARLEM DAy CeLeBrAtIon of movements for social justice, MAYDAY SPACE Wright. 46 W. 116th St., Mnhtn Mark 527 years of survival since underground culture and the 176 St. Nicholas Ave., Bklyn VOLUNTEER DISTRIBUTORS: erik Anders-Nilssen, eric Brelsford, Chris & Pam Brown, Hank Dombrowski, Joseph epstein, Kim Frazcek, October 2019 lew Friedman, Mindy Gershon, Tami Gold, Priscilla Grim, laura Kaplan, Michael Korn, Jane laTour, Dave AdVerTISe In The Indy lippman, Ashley Marinaccio, UnIQUe AUdIenCe • AFFOrdABle rATeS • perSOnAl ATTenTIOn Christine Miller, Saul Nieves, FOr MOre InFOrMATIOn, eMAIl [email protected] Or CAll 212-904-1282 Caroline Rath, liam Reilly, Norm Scott, Carol Smith, and The IndypendenT Becky Vaughan. The IndypendenT 3 in this issue AppAllInG eXplOITATIOn, p4 Rather than pay their drivers a minimum wage, rideshare compa- nies are simply booting them off their apps when it is convenient. The newS In BrIeF, p5 Bailing out taxi drivers, short- changing the MTA, defending East River Park, registering to reBeCA AnCHonDo vote. here COMe The redS, p6 THU OCT 24 Look for a slew of new social- 7PM–9:30PM • in the neXt World: Honor ist candidates in the NY Dem Free those who have passed on in your life at primaries next year. BooK LAUnCH: a traditional Day of the Dead ceremony THE STARS AND hosted by the Museum of the American dOOFUSeS In BlUe, p8 THE BLACKNESS Indian on Nov. 2. How the NYPD arrested a vic- BETWEEN THEM tim, let a perp walk, and what Junauda Petrus- the cover-up says about our nasah reads from it’s dead around here: criminal justice system. her new book The West Village turns into the site of one The Stars and the of New York’s most rowdy and ghoulish CAlIFOrnIA SCheMInG, p9 Blackness Between parties every Oct. 31. New rent law reforms passed in Them, a work of California is a partial victory queer magic-real- but won’t go far enough to stop ism, liberation, Black diaspora THU OCT 31 landlords from gouging tenants. and astrological love. 6:30 PM – 11 PM • Free BLUESTOCKINGS BOOK- PArADe: West VILLAGe SAVInG MOney, SAVInG STORE, CAFÉ, & ACTIVIST HALLoWeen PArADe lIVeS, p10 CENTER the world’s most inventive Critics call Medicare for All a 172 Allen St., Mnhtn and hilarious costumes. this “middle-class tax hike,” but year’s theme is Wild thing. it’s actually less costly than our FRI OCT 25 6th Ave. from Spring St. to current system. 7:30PM • $10–$15 sliding 16th St., Mnhtn scale BehInd The FlAMeS & The MUsIC: HALLoWeen PUnK SAT NOV. 2 SMOKe SCreen, p12 sHoW to BeneFIt tHe 9AM-5PM • $5-$15 A report from Brazil on the BLACK trAns trAVeL FUnD ConFerenCe: WoMen, AC- driving forces behind the Ama- Bring your spooky wear. tIon & tHe MeDIA zon fi res. 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