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The Cost of Surviving in the Gaza Strip P12 P4 Issue #128, November 13 – December 10, 2008 the indypendent A FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE SPARE CHANGE? Post-election coverage starts page 6 ILLUSTRATION BY RUSTY ZIMMERMAN the Cost of the maCktivist, surviving in p15 the gaza STRIP deConstruCting p12 BloomBerg p4 nyc.indymedia.org • indypendent.org • us.indymedia.org community calendar NOV–DEC The next open editorial meetings for The loved ones lost at the hands of the police Indypendent are Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7pm. is acknowledged in contrast to the 4 W 43rd St, Room 311. All are welcome. demonization by the powers-that-be. Please send event announcements to The Gallery of John H. Holmes Com- [email protected] munity House of the Community Church of New York, 28 E 35th St (btwn Park & MON NOV 17 Madison Aves) 7:30-9:30pm • $5 Donation [email protected] DISCUSSION: “IS CAPITALISM THE INDYPENDEnt COMING APART? ELECTION SEASON 11am -3pm • FREE P.O. 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Since party following the performance. 10am-4pm • FREE and local elected officials to take a stand 2000, more than 600 citizen journalists, artists Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington FRI DEC 5 RECYCLE: COMPUTERS AND in support of labor standards for New and media activists have contributed their time Sq S (btwn Thompson & Sullivan) 8pm • $10/$6 kids ELECTRONICS. York’s 200,000 domestic workers. This and energy to this project. Winner of dozens of 718-220-7391 x23 • exitcuckoo4dwu@ PERFORMANCE: FRICTION FARM Drop off your old television sets, printers, critical workforce supports New York New York Independent Press Association awards, gmail.com AND BEV GRANT & THE DISSIDENT laptops, radios, cell phones, disks, wires families as caregivers and housekeep- The Indypendent is dedicated to empowering DAUGHTERS and computers. Sponsored by the Lower ers, yet works without a safety net, living people to create a true alternative to the corpo- 4:30pm • FREE Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters East Side Ecology Center. wages or basic labor standards. rate press by encouraging citizens to produce their EVENT: STOLEN LIVES INDUCTION offer an eclectic mix of songs of social PS 321, 7th Ave (btwn 1st & 2nd St) • City Hall, 260 Broadway (at Park Place) own media. The Indypendent is funded by sub- CEREMONY justice with a distinct woman’s point of lesecologycenter.org 718-220-7391 x23 or x11 • domestic- scriptions, donations, grants, merchandise sales, The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony view. Friction Farm are folk musicians [email protected] benefits and advertising from organizations with formally inducts victims of police killings who find inspiration in the ordinary. SUN DEC 7 similar missions. Volunteers write and edit arti- into the roster of the Stolen Lives Project. Good Coffehouse Music Parlor, 11am-1pm • FREE Next Issue: December 11. cles, take photographs, do design work and illus- It brings together family members to 53 Prospect Park West, Bklyn EVENT: CHILDREN’S VIGIL FOR THE HU- trations, help distribute papers, update the web- a space in which the humanity of their 718-768-2972 • gchmusic.org MAN RIGHTS OF DOMESTIC WORKERS site and more! The Indypendent reserves the right to edit articles for length, content and clarity. The Indypendent is the newspaper project of the reader comments New York City Independent Media Center, which is affiliated with the global Indymedia movement JUST LIKE US does not represent us, not one WAR OF WORDS CORRECTION: Due to an edi- (indymedia.org), an international network that is Responses to “Dreams from that loses. More choices give us Response to “‘Obscene Monu­ tor’s error, the New York City Eco- dedicated to fostering grassroots media produc- My Mother,”Oct. 27: more of a chance to be represent- ment to War’ Returns to NYC,” nomic Development Corporation tion. NYC IMC sponsors three other projects, ed in the selection. Oct. 27: was misidentified as the Empire the children’s newspaper IndyKids, the IndyVideo I can only imagine little kids —puccolo State Development Corporation news team and the NYC IMC open publishing reading their history books and I find it to be shabby journalism in an article (“City Carves Up website (nyc.indymedia.org). NYC IMC relies on seeing one line, Barack Husssin NO DIRECTION HOME when Mr. Stoner did not even E. 125th St. for Developers”) that volunteer participation and is open to anyone who Obama, first African-American Response to “Galveston Pushes seek comment from the Intrepid appeared in the October 24 is- is interested. president. I hope his autobiog- Gentrification by Hurricane,” Museum leadership when writ- sue of The Indypendent. raphy is required reading. Oct. 27: ing such a one-sided, bullshit VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: —F.E. Duncan piece on 12 people protesting Daniella Adams, Sam Alcoff, Chris Anderson, I feel like it is wrong to keep a the return of the Intrepid. Steven Arnerich, Eleanor Bader, Lindsay Ballant, Good to know that Obama is man away from his home when —Bill White, President of Gino Barzizza, Charlie Bass, Bennett J. Baumer, human like everyone else. Guess all he wants to do is check on the Intrepid Foundation MK Britton, Mike Burke, José Carmona, Chris Cascarano, Louis Joe Comeau IV, Kenneth that means he’s not gonna change things and make sure his place Crab, Ellen Davidson, Renee Feltz, Seth Fisher, anything either. Things never is still secure. If the city would Author’s Reply: THE INDYPENDENT Lynne Foster, Leo Garcia, Max Garcia, Aman change from above and hopefully have allowed its residents back I wonder if Mr. White would Gill, Shira Golding, Samantha Gorelick, Mary people will learn that Obama is in right away, many items could call every single other article writ- Heglar, John Isaacson, Alex Kane, Ruth Kelton, the perfect example of that. have been washed and salvaged, ten about the Intrepid “shabby 10, 2008 Jesse Kuhn, Judith Lantigua, Paul Leddy, Jamie —jared houses could have been opened journalism” because none men- Lehane, Jennifer Lew, Thomas Marczewski, up to air out and begin drying tioned the other side of the story Gary Martin, Rebecca Migdal, Ari Moore, Nik MORE CHOICES, PLEASE instead of containing the quick- — that there were protesters there, ECEMBER Moore, Alex Nathanson, Ana Nogueira, Jaisal Response to “Third Party—An growing mold. Damage would and that there are folks upset Noor, Donald Paneth, Nicholas Powers, Katrin Alternative Vote,” Oct. 27: have been done just the same, about the ahistorical (and pro-war) 13 – D Redfern, Aaron Reiner, Jacob Scheier, Ann but there would have been much nature of the museum’s exhibits. Schneider, Sarah Secunda, Jonathan Shannon, Thank you for presenting the more salvaged.
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