TheHELP KEEP IndypendenT THE INDY GROWING, SEE P23 #225: JUne 2017 • IndypendenT.orG red sCare In parK slope, p4 BlaCK power In JaCKson, MIss., p10 rUsT BelT on Broadway, p19 repressIon IsraelIInC. CoMpanIes are MaKInG a KIllInG off TeChnoloGy perfeCTed oVer 50 years of oCCUpaTIon. By aleX Kane, p12 LYNNE FOSTER 2 COMMUNITY CALENDAR THE INDYPENDENT JUNE THE INDYPENDENT, INC. 388 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 JUNE 1 THRU AUG 31 nothing you love more than a good The activist, public intellectual and JENNIVERE KENLON EVERY THURS, 7–8 PM • FREE aria but you can’t swing MET Booker Prize-winning author of The 212-904-1282 STRETCH!: PROSPECT PARK tickets unless they fall off a truck. God of Small Things comes to BAM www.indypendent.org YOGA SUMMER 2017 SERIES No need to worry. Every summer for the launch of her moving new Twitter: @TheIndypendent The Trump Presidency is stressful; the company’s brightest stars take novel, The Ministry of Utmost Hap- facebook.com/TheIndypendent we could all use a break — just to the stage for free at city parks piness. In addition to reading from don’t break your back. Make sure in all fi ve boroughs. Ah, New York her latest work, Roy will speak to visit bendandbloom.com/park- in the summer — the rich can have about the creative process, partici- BOARD OF DIRECTORS: yoga, RSVP and sign a mandatory the Hamptons, we get the music. pate in a Q&A and sign copies of Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, waiver in advance or else you Visit metopera.org for times and her new work. Tickets at bam.org. locations. Alina Mogilyanskaya, won’t be able to join us! BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Long Meadow, Prospect Park 30 Lafayette Ave. Ann Schneider, John Tarleton TUE JUNE 13 – SUN JUNE 18 SAT JUNE 10 8 PM • FREE FRI JUNE 23 EDITOR: 10 AM • $5–$40 CONCERT: NEW YORK PHILHAR- 6:30 PM • FREE MONIC John Tarleton FUN RUN: 5TH ANNUAL RACE MUSIC: PHAROAH SANDERS AGAINST CAPITALISM Opera not enough? This year’s New One of the most important fi gures Compete (or work together) in York Philharmonic concert series in the development of free jazz, ASSOCIATE EDITOR: either the 5K or 10K race. There will caps off the orchestra’s 175 years saxophonist Pharoah Sanders Peter Rugh be radical water stations along the of serving New York City by explor- emerged from the storied and con- jog, a kid-created fi nish line and a ing Antonín Dvorák’s New World troversial John Coltrane ensembles barbeque at the end — $40 bucks Symphony with its theme of home. of the 1960s, where he eschewed CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: gets you all you can eat. Childcare Each of the concerts, taking place traditional jazz structures in favor Ellen Davidson, available. Proceeds go toward in parks across the fi ve boroughs, of expressionistic, wondrous, Alina Mogilyanskaya, sponsoring low-income travellers includes Dvorák’s masterpiece, nearly anarchic sound-making. to the annual to the Socialism Con- which the Philharmonic premiered. Prospect Park Bandshell Nicholas Powers, Steven Wishnia ference in Chicago this July. You can sing or play along with Prospect Park the orchestra in the “Goin’ Home” SUN JUNE 25 ILLUSTRATION DIRECTOR: 95 Prospect Park West theme from the largo section of the 12 PM • FREE Frank Reynoso symphony, conducted by Music PARADE: NYC PRIDE MARCH SUN JUNE 11 Director Alan Gilbert. See nyphil. Come out and commemorate the 11 AM • FREE org/parks for details. 47th anniversary of the fi rst Pride WET & WILD: KMERON/FLICKR DESIGN DIRECTOR: PARADE: PUERTO RICAN DAY March with over 2 million attend- Celebrate the Mikael Tarkela PARADE SAT JUNE 17 ees. Pride March is a celebration creative spirit of Corporate sponsors are pulling 1 PM • FREE of LGBT lives and community. Coney Island this out of this year’s Puerto Rican Day PARADE: MERMAID PARADE 36th St. at Fifth Ave. summer at the DESIGNERS: Parade and police have threatened Coney Island’s answer to Mardi Mermaid Parade. Steven Arnerich, Anna Gold to launch a sick-in protest, since Gras (minus the tourists), the Mer- SUN JUN 25 organizers announced they would maid Parade is the nation's largest 4 PM • FREE SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: bestow Oscar Lopez Rivera — who art parade and one of New York MUSIC: KRS-ONE THE waged armed struggle against City's greatest summer events. Whoop, Whoop! Hip-Hop word- POWER OF Elia Gran the U.S. occupation of the island A really good time will be had by slinger KRS-One (Knowledge KNOWLEDGE: in the 1970s — with the honorifi c all. Drink some beer, down a dog, Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Straight from the GENERAL INQUIRIES: “National Freedom Hero.” Don’t shuck some oysters, cheer on the Everyone) takes the stage in Coffey South Bronx, hip-hop [email protected] let corporations and cops dictate masqueraders or paint your face Park with DJ Chuck Chillout. An legend KRS-One Puerto Rican politics. Come out and join the fun. activist and a poet, KRS-One is takes the stage for a SUBMISSIONS AND NEWS TIPS: and celebrate Puerto Rican culture. Surf Ave., Coney Island among the most infl uential rappers free concert in Coffey [email protected] Fifth Ave. at 44th St. alive. Park this summer. SAT JUNE 17 Coffey Park ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION: MON JUNE 12 3 PM • $6-$15 85 Richards St. [email protected] 6:30 PM • FREE FILM: NEWS FROM IDEOLOGICAL Red Hook, Brooklyn READING: NAOMI KLEIN ANTIQUITY, PT I Acclaimed journalist and bestsell- This sweeping cinematic essay MON JUNE 26 VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: ing author Naomi Klein argues that from Alexander Kluge draws on an 6–9 PM • FREE Sam Alcoff, Linda Martín Alcoff, Donald Trump is not an aberra- idea of the Soviet fi lmmaker Sergei FILM: OUR RESISTANCE, OUR Gino Barzizza, Bennett Baumer, tion but a logical extension of the Eisenstein’s: to make a fi lm version TIME, OUR SANCTUARY José Carmona, Renée Feltz, worst, most dangerous trends of of Karl Marx’s Capital that draws Youth showcase their fi lms about the past half-century. It doesn’t cut on the literary methods found in LGBTQ resilience against state Bianca Fortis, Lynne Foster, it, she insists in her latest work, No James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. violence, immigrant mental health Michael Grant, Priscilla Grim, is Not Enough, to merely resist. Our What Eisenstein had in mind is and building community defense in Lauren Kaori Gurley, Michael historical moment demands a cred- “something like a Marxist version the Trump era. This Global Action Hirsch, David Hollenbach, Gena ible and inspiring “yes”; a roadmap of Freudian free association — the Project screening features a pre- to reclaiming populist ground from chain of hidden links that leads us show reception and reverse Q&A! Hymowech, Dondi J, Colin those who would divide us. Book from the surface of everyday life RSVP at global-action.org. Kinniburgh, Rob LaQuinta, Gary signing to follow reading. Doors and experience to the very sources The New School Martin, Erik McGregor, Mike open at 5:30. Register via Event- of production itself,” writes politi- Tishman Auditorium Newton, Anna Polonyi, Astha brite. cal theorist Fredric Jameson. This 63 5th Ave. Cooper Union rare screening is sponsored by the June 2017 Rajvanshi, Mark Read, Reverend 7 E 7th St. Marxist Education Project. Billy, Jesse Rubin, Steven Sherman Verso Loft Matt Shuham, Pamela Somers, MON JUNE 12 – SAT JUNE 24 20 Jay St., Suite 1010 7 PM/8 PM • FREE Gabriella Szpunt, Leanne Tory- CONCERT: MET OPERA’S SUM- MON JUNE 19 Murphy, Matthew Wasserman, MER RECITAL SERIES 7:30 PM • $25, THE INDYPENDENT Beth Whitney, and Amy Wolf. If you’re anything like us, there’s READING: ARUNDHATI ROY TABLE OF 3 CONTENTS 4 ONE BUILDING, TWO REALITIES by Peter Rugh Integration versus McCarthyism at a Park Slope secondary school. 6 THE BRIEFING ROOM by Indypendent Staff News from around New York, the nation and the world. 8 HEAVY LIFTING by Colin Kinniburgh Warehouse workers take on their union-busting employer, B&H. 10 A CITY OF OUR OWN by Marisa Anne Day Black activists are building a solidarity economy in what was once a bastion of Southern racism. 12 CASHING IN ON REPRESSION by Alex Kane Israel is exporting technology honed over 50 years of occupying Palestine. 16 OPEN WIDE AND SAY ‘SOCIALISM’ by Paddy Quick Medicare for all is both the moral and the practical way to go. 17 AFTER THE FALL by Steven Wishnia A best-selling new book offers lessons from Clinton’s broken presidential dreams. 18 A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR RADICALS by Steven Sherman The tools now exist for volunteer-driven movements to scale up and win big. 19 BREAKING A SWEAT by Jamara Wakefi eld & Peter Rugh Lynn Nottage’s Sweat brings a dying town to life and could claim a Tony. 20 DIG INTO ROOTS MUSIC by Brady O’Callahan A new crop of country musicians are turning over fresh ground by drawing on tradition. 21 ‘WE WANTED A REVOLUTION’ by Mike Newton Brooklyn Museum showcases artwork from visionary Black women. June 2017 22 THE THIRD GENDER by Gena Hymowech Pre-modern prints on display at Japan Society challenge viewers to look beyond THE INDYPENDENT our ideas of the gender binary. 23 HELP BUILD THE INDY by John Tarleton The Indy’s circulation has jumped to 30,000 since last fall and we’re poised to grow more. Meet some of the volunteers who have helped us do it. 4 MISEDUCATION daddy, Is My prInCIpal a red? InTeGraTIon VersUs MCCarThyIsM aT parK slope ColleGIaTe By Peter Rugh cause it was the most demonstrable civil-rights viola- tion,” said Bloomberg.