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The IndypendenT #240: oCToBeR 2018 • IndypendenT.oRG WILL nyC SAVe MoM & pop ShopS? p6 noVeMBeR eLeCTIonS p11 SonGS oF ReSISTAnCe p19 We WILL Be heARd TheRe’S A CULTURAL ReVoLUTIon UndeRWAy ThAT BReTT KAVAnAUGh’S ConFIRMATIon CAn’T STop. LIndA MARTÍn ALCoFF, p4 DAVID HOLLENBACH 2 COMMUNITY CALENDAR The IndypendenT 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: EVERY MONDAY the Iron Triangle declared draconian immigration civics classes for green man Expressionism, the Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, 6PM–6:30PM • FREE a blight and marked for policies. card holders on the path to power and beauty of F.W. Alina Mogilyanskaya, Ann RADIO: INDY RADIO NEWS lucrative redevelopment, 59 East 4th St., Rm 7W, American citizenship. The Murnau’s unauthorized Schneider, John Tarleton Tune in Mondays at 6pm to the working class of Wil- Mnhtn 24-hour course prepares adaptation of Dracula has catch our new weekly news lets Point face off against permanent residents for the not diminished in the slight- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: broadcast with hosts Elia gentrifi cation and urban re- MON OCT 15 civics test portion of the est almost a century since John Tarleton Gran and Lydia McMullen- newal for the future of their 6:30PM–8:30PM • FREE U.S. Citizenship and Immi- its original release. Watch ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Laird. livelihoods and community. PANEL: REPORTING ON gration Services naturaliza- it as musicians with Tenth Peter Rugh WBAI 99.5 FM A discussion will follow this IMMIGRATION tion interview. Participants Intervention provide the documentary screening. Journalists and grassroots will explore the Historical score. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: THRU OCT 21 NEW YORK PUBLIC advocates discuss the Society’s museum and learn VIDEOLOGY BAR & CINEMA Ellen Davidson, Alina Times vary • $79 LIBRARY – SEWARD PARK impact immigration cover- about American history and 308 Bedford Ave., Bklyn Mogilyanskaya, Nicholas THEATER: WHAT THE CON- BRANCH age has had on immigrant government using objects, Powers, Steven Wishnia STITUTION MEANS TO ME 192 E. Broadway, Mnhtn communities and explore paintings and documents WED OCT 24 Fifteen-year-old Heidi ways reporters can amplify from its collection. Classes 6:30PM–8:30PM • $5 ILLUSTRATION DIRECTOR: Schreck put herself through OCT 15–NOV 19 the stories of immigrants are taught in English and PANEL: THE PATH TO A Frank Reynoso college by giving speeches MON, 6PM–7:30PM • $18 a more safely, ethically and are accessible to English POST-RIKERS NYC about the U.S. Constitution. session effectively. Panel moder- language learners. Hope for breaking the brutal DESIGN DIRECTOR: violence of Rikers Island Mikael Tarkela Now, the playwright and DANCE: AFRO-PUERTO- ated by Garry Pierre-Pierre, NEW-YORK HISTORICAL Obie Award-winning actor RICAN BOMBA DANCE W/ founder of the Haitian SOCIETY with a 10-year plan to close DESIGNERS: resurrects her teenage self JULIA GUTIERREZ-RIVERA Times and CUNY’s Center 170 Central Park W., Mnhtn the complex raises new Leia Doran, Anna Gold in order to trace the docu- Tap into one of the old- for Community and Ethnic questions on accountability, ment’s profound impact on est dance and musical Media. OCT 20–DEC 16 bail reform, borough-based DIGITAL MEDIA DIRECTOR: women’s bodies — starting practices of the Caribbean THE NEW SCHOOL WEL- THU–FRI, 3–7PM; SAT– jails, inmate release and Elia Gran with her great-great-grand- during this special class of- COME CENTER SUN, 1–5PM • FREE the persistent inability to mother, a mail-order bride fered by one of today’s most 72 Fifth Ave., Mnhtn EXHIBITION: WAR AND operate a humane criminal INTERN who died under mysterious noted Bomba dancers, Julia PEACE IN LIBERIA justice system, regardless Chelsey Sanchez circumstances. Gutiérrez-Rivera. Classes WED OCT 17 Tim Hetherington and Chris of location. Experts from NEW YORK THEATRE feature live drumming and 7PM–9PM • $6–$15 Hondros’ powerful photo- the CUNY Institute for State GENERAL INQUIRIES: are open to all skill levels HISTORY: MUSIC, RESIS- graphs played an important and Local Governance, the [email protected] WORKSHOP graphs played an important 79 E. 4th St., Mnhtn and appropriate for all TANCE, REPRESSION role in moving the world Mayor’s Offi ce of Criminal SUBMISSIONS & NEWS TIPS: genders. Using music, video selec- to action and ending the Justice and the Vera Insti- [email protected] THU OCT 11 FIT4DANCE tions, news clippings and Second Liberian Civil War tute weigh in. 6PM • $25–$105 778 Nostrand Ave., Bklyn records from extensive (1999-2003). Hondros risked BROOKLYN HISTORICAL ADVERTISING & PROMOTION: PARTY: WAR RESISTERS Freedom of Information Act death to send frontline im- SOCIETY [email protected] LEAGUE’S 95TH ANNIVER- MON OCT 15 fi lings — including never ages of women and children 128 Pierrepont St, Bklyn SARY CELEBRATION 6:30PM–8PM • FREE before released material being killed by the hundreds VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: War Resisters commemo- PHOTOGRAPHY: LIVING IN — historians Mat Callahan to front pages around THU OCT 25 Linda Martín Alcoff, Sam rates nearly a century of SANCTUARY: AN EVENING and Aaron Leonard tell the the world. Hetherington 2:20PM–3:45PM • FREE Alcoff, Charlyne Alexis, Gino vibrant, cross-movement WITH CINTHYA SANTOS- story of how some of the embedded with soldiers TALK: OSCAR LÓPEZ Barzizza, Bennett Baumer, community building by hon- BRIONES most prominent folk singers fi ghting dictator Charles RIVERA: PUERTO RICO’S Yousef Oussama Bounab, Taylor’s forces and provided FUTURE Pooja Chopra, Valerio Ciriaci, oring activists committed to Documentary photographer of the twentieth century Taylor’s forces and provided Rico Cleffi , Anne Derenne, peace and justice. Cinthya Santos-Briones will were subject to government documentation of the rebels Puerto Rican independence Federico di Pasqua, Renée DCTV share her latest work from surveillance and suppres- shelling civilians. He was leader Oscar López Rivera Feltz, Lynne Foster, Esteban 87 Lafayette St., Mnhtn her ongoing, long-term proj- sion. also targeted by Taylor’s spent 35 years in prison for Guerra, Lauren Kaori ect about undocumented THE PEOPLE’S FORUM assassination squads. “seditious conspiracy” until Gurley, David Hollenbach, THU OCT 11 families living in sanctuary 320 West 37th St., Mnhn BRONX DOCUMENTARY his sentence was commut- Gena Hymowech, Manvi 6:30PM–9PM • FREE in NYC churches. Angelo CENTER ed by President Obama in Jalan, Gary Martin, Lydia SCREENING: THE IRON Guisado, staff attorney at OCT 20–NOV 10 St. Mary’s, 364 E. 151st St., 2017. He discusses the state McMullen-Laird, Charina TRIANGLE the Center for Constitu- TUES & THURS, 10AM– Bronx of the independence move- Nadura, Farid Nassif, For decades, the Iron tional Rights, and Anu 12PM • FREE ment in the context of the Alex O’Brien Nicoll, Brady Triangle at Willets Point in Joshi, Immigration Policy CLASS: CITIZENSHIP SUN OCT 21 island’s ongoing fi nancial O’Callahan, Donald Paneth, Queens has been the site of Director at the New York PROJECT CIVICS COURSE 7:15PM & 9:15 PM • $22 crisis and Hurricane Maria. Dean Patterson, Mark Read, GUTHART CULTURAL CEN- Reverend Billy, Erin Sheridan, an interconnected network Immigration Coalition join Through the Citizenship SCREENING: NOSFERATU Steven Sherman, Apoorva of hundreds of small auto her to discuss strategies for Project, the New-York WITH A LIVE SCORE TER THEATER AT HOFSTRA Tadepalli, Naomi Ushiyama, repair shops. But with resisting President Trump’s Historical Society offers A masterpiece of Ger- UNIVERSITY and Amy Wolf. VOLUNTEER DISTRIBUTORS: Erik Anders-Nilssen, Eric Brelsford, Chris & Pam Brown, Hank Dombrowski, October 2018 Joseph Epstein, Ed Fanning, Kim Frazcek, Lew Friedman, Mindy Gershon, Tami Gold, Allan Greenberg, Priscilla AdVeRTISe In The Indy Grim, Zack Kelaty, Michael UnIQUe AUdIenCe • AFFoRdABLe RATeS • peRSonAL ATTenTIon Korn, Jane LaTour, Dave FoR MoRe InFoRMATIon, eMAIL [email protected] oR CALL 212-904-1282 Lippman, Ashley Marinaccio, Saul Nieves, Caroline Rath, The IndypendenT Liam Reilly, and Carol Smith. The IndypendenT 3 IN THIS ISSUE CoMInG FoRWARd, p4 We are living through a cultural revolution in which oCToBeR more and more women refuse to remain silent. Knee To The GRoIn, p5 A woman describes how she survived two attempted rapes. SAVInG neW yoRK, p6 A bill to preserve NYC’s small businesses might fi nally have its day after 32 years. BRIeFS, p7 779 Hempstead Turn- erational event gath- MUSIC: AWESOME Fossil fuels, corruption and a bit pike, Hempstead, NY ers Black memory TAPES FROM AFRICA of good news too. workers from across (ATFA) ©CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES FRI OCT 26 the country to explore Using twin tape decks CLeAnInG Up The IndUSTRy, 7PM–12AM • $5–$10 the purpose and need to unleash rare disco, p8 PARTY: REAL MON- of archives for Black soul and pop releases Laundry workers are fi ghting STERS! lives. Do you or your from West Africa onto for higher wages and safe Freddy Krueger folks have a special the dance fl oor, ATFA’s working conditions in El Barrio may chase us in our or important physical DJ set is unlike any and beyond. nightmares, but plenty photo that you don’t other. Joining ATFA of real monsters — know what to do with? are special guests one FoR ALL, p9 landlords, bosses, The experts with the Dâm-Funk, nicknamed A new movement breeds wardens and bankers Legacy Project will the “ambassador of solidarity among construction — stalk us during our share their knowledge boogie-funk,” and workers. waking hours. Drink and resources with Miranda Maxwell. and dance away the you. ELSEWHERE The GReAT GReen hope, p10 horrors of medical WEEKSVILLE HERI- 599 Johnson Ave., JOAN MARCUS The Green Party’s Howie debt, college loans TAGE CENTER Bklyn SPOILS OF WAR: Hawkins is the only progressive and high rents.