The IndypendenT #241: nOVeMBeR 2018 • IndypendenT.ORG AMAZOn’S nyC pOWeR pLAy p5 The MeXICAn BeRnIe SAndeRS p14 FILM: GAy SOCCeR heROeS p19 The BeGInnInG OF The end hOW MUCh LOnGeR CAn TRUMpUBLICAnS hOLd BACK The FUTURe? By nIChOLAS pOWeRS DAVID HOLLENBACH Reverend Billy The StopShopping Choir LOVE NO BORDER Sundays at 2pm $15 nov 25 dec 2, 9, 16, 23 Joe's Pub at The Public 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: THRU NOV 24 SCREENING: AT HOME IN THE PEOPLE’S FORUM GIVING: VEGAN THANKS- Six short films by black Ellen Davidson, Anna Gold, WED–SUN 1PM–6PM • UTOPIA 320 W. 37th St., Mnhtn GIVING BONANZA creators, each demon- Alina Mogilyanskaya, Ann FREE In the 1920s, thousands of Help share vegetarian gro- strating different nar- Schneider, John Tarleton ART: A CONFLICT OF immigrant Jewish factory NOV 16–JAN 31 ceries and gourmet vegan ratives of black culture. INTEREST workers escaped New TUE–FRI, 11AM–6PM, meals with thousands Talk to the directors after EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Featuring six artists York’s slums into the com- SAT by appointment • in need at the world’s the screening. John Tarleton whose interpretations munity of their dreams; FREE largest vegan Thanksgiv- STARR BAR ASSOCIATE EDITOR: of the phrase “confl ict four apartment houses PHOTOGRAPHY: AUNTY!: ing. In addition to giving 214 Starr St., Bklyn Peter Rugh of interest” range from they built in the Bronx AFRICAN WOMEN IN out 100,000 pounds of political to surreal. Not to that they owned and ran THE FRAME, 1890 TO THE groceries, clothing and TUE NOV 20 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: be missed: Stephen Hall’s cooperatively. At Home PRESENT books, the folks with 7PM–9PM • FREE Ellen Davidson, Alina urgent animal portraits in Utopia focuses on the Featuring a trove of Community Solidarity will MEMORIAL: TRANSGEN- Mogilyanskaya, Nicholas and the work of Robert United Workers Coopera- original, archival, vintage also be dishing up a vegan DER DAY OF REMEM- Powers, Steven Wishnia Ross — a builder, writer, tive Colony, also known and contemporary im- feast made up of dozens BRANCE actor, fi lmmaker, bon to local police as Little ages spanning the African of delicious appetizers, Come refl ect on and ILLUSTRATION DIRECTOR: vivant, raconteur and man Moscow because it was continent, this exhibition entrees, desserts and honor the lives of trans and Frank Reynoso about town who is exhibit- dominated by Communists. centers images of African beverages. To get involved gender-nonconforming ing his disturbing dioramas LMHQ women and engages write to volunteers@com- community members lost DESIGN DIRECTOR: to oppression, stigma and Mikael Tarkela for the fi rst time. 150 Broadway, Fl 20, Mnhtn with the nuances of the munitysolidarity.org or call WESTBETH GALLERY “Aunty” as both a colonial 631-223-4370. violence. Dinner will be DESIGNERS: 55 Bethune St., Mnhtn WED NOV 14 construction and honorifi c COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY served and mental health Leia Doran, Anna Gold 6:30PM–8:30PM • of African womanhood. 99 W. Columbia St., Hemp- clinicians will be on site for THRU DEC 22 $30–$40 Opening reception on stead, NY emotional support. There DIGITAL MEDIA DIRECTOR: SAT, 4PM–5:15PM • $5 FOOD: COOKING AS Thursday, Nov. 15 from 6 will also be a separate Elia Gran suggested donation INHERITANCE: BEYOND to 9pm. SUN NOV 18 quiet room for refl ection. WELLNESS: RAGE YOGA SOUL FOOD IN THE AFRI- UNITED PHOTO INDUS- 4PM–6PM • FREE THE LESBIAN, GAY, BI- INTERN Stretch, move and rage CAN DIASPORA TRIES MUSIC: SIXTH ANNUAL SEXUAL & TRANSGENDER Chelsey Sanchez while listening to punk, Join chefs Carla Hall 16 Main St., #B, Bklyn WOODY GUTHRIE BROOK- COMMUNITY CENTER hip-hop, metal, hardcore and Pierre Thiam as they LYN HOOT 208 W 13 St., Mnhtn GENERAL INQUIRIES: discuss intersections of SUN NOV 18 A round-robin songfest [email protected] and industrial music. THE DREAMHOUSE food, diaspora, memory 2PM–7PM • FREE featuring six folk art- NOV 25–DEC 23 SUBMISSIONS & NEWS TIPS: 10-22 Wyckoff Ave., Bklyn and cultural inheritance MARKET: SOCIAL JUS- ists performing songs SUN 2PM • $20 [email protected] from Tennessee to Sen- TICE HOLIDAY MARKET that the great American PERFORMANCE: REVER- TUE NOV 13 egal. Compare okra stews BY GREEN WORKER troubadour and Brooklyn END BILLY & THE STOP ADVERTISING & PROMOTION: 6:30PM–8PM • FREE provided by each chef COOPERATIVES resident Woody Guthrie SHOPPING CHOIR: AND [email protected] PANEL: BUILDING FROM and taste the lineage for Green Worker Coopera- sang. Come prepared to THEN THEY CAME FOR ALL THE LEFT: STRATEGIES yourself. tives is based in the South sing along. OF US VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: TO DISRUPT THE RIGHT MUSEUM OF FOOD & Bronx and serves immi- OLD STONE HOUSE OF The title of Reverend Linda Martín Alcoff, Sam How can the left develop DRINK grants and communities of BROOKLYN Billy and The Church of Alcoff, Charlyne Alexis, Gino more robust strategies 62 Bayard St., Bklyn color. It builds, grows and 336 3rd St., Bklyn Stop Shopping Choir’s Barzizza, Bennett Baumer, to undermine and disrupt sustains worker-owned new performance piece Yousef Oussama Bounab, THU NOV 15 NOV 18–20 refers both to the familiar Pooja Chopra, Valerio Ciriaci, the powerful ascendance green businesses to cre- Rico Cleffi , Anne Derenne, of the U.S. right? In the 7PM–9PM • FREE ate a local and democratic 7PM, SUN–TUE • $65 poem by Martin Niemöller Federico di Pasqua, Renée aftermath of the midterm ART: AN EVENING WITH economy rooted in racial MUSIC: THE PIXIES and to the detainment Feltz, Lynne Foster, Esteban elections, Barnard College POLITICAL CARTOONIST and gender equality. Sup- The post-punk infl uenc- of choir member Ravi Guerra, Lauren Kaori Activists-in-Residence MOHAMMAD SABAANEH port this and other coops ers are going back to Ragbir, director of the Gurley, David Hollenbach, Cara Page and Tarso Luís The renowned Palestin- and small businesses from their roots, celebrating New Sanctuary Coalition Gena Hymowech, Manvi Ramos and Director of the ian political cartoonist around the city at this their fi rst releases three and a target of Trump-era Jalan, Gary Martin, Lydia National Lawyers Guild discusses his life as an holiday market. decades ago, Come Pilgrim fear-mongering. McMullen-Laird, Charina Pooja Gehi, discuss. artist, current projects SWEET WATER DANCE & and Surfer Rosa. JOES PUB Nadura, Farid Nassif, DIANA CENTER, BARNARD and his work an educa- YOGA BROOKLYN STEEL 425 Lafayette St., Mnhtn Alex O’Brien Nicoll, Brady COLLEGE tor at the Jenin Freedom 876 Gerard Ave., 2nd Fl , 319 Frost St., Bklyn O’Callahan, Donald Paneth, 3009 Broadway, Mnhtn Theatre. The evening will Bronx TUE NOV 27 Dean Patterson, Mark Read, MON NOV 19 7:30PM–9PM • $8 Reverend Billy, Erin Sheridan, also include a silent auc- Steven Sherman, Apoorva TUE NOV 13 tion of two original works SUN NOV 18 7:30PM–10:30PM • FREE SCREENING: JULIO GAR- Tadepalli, Naomi Ushiyama, 6:30PM–9PM • $7 by Sabaaneh. 1PM–6PM • FREE FILM: WAVES OF BLACK CÍA ESPINOSA’S THIRD and Amy Wolf. VOLUNTEER DISTRIBUTORS: Erik Anders-Nilssen, Eric Brelsford, Chris & Pam Brown, Hank Dombrowski, November 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 nOVeMBeR IN THIS ISSUE nO MInOR InJUSTICe, p4 Around 40 migrant children taken from their parents at the border remain in custody here in NYC. WORLD, THIRD WORLD WAR FRI DEC 7 IT’S A JUnGLe OUT TheRe, p5 Shot in North Vietnam in 1968, the 6PM–10PM • $25–$30 Retail giant Amazon has Long fi lm contrasts the inhumanity of PARTY: BLACK TIE “SCHOM- TRAVIS SHINN Island City in its scopes for HQ2. the American war machine with BURG ANGEL” HOLIDAY PARTY the simple humanity and ingenu- Groove the night away with beats hOp A TURnSTILe, LAnd In ity of the Vietnamese peasants by DJ Poison Ivy. Proceeds ben- JAIL, p6 forced to take up armed struggle efi t the Schomburg Center’s work …if your skin is the wrong color. in order to survive. preserving and presenting global LIGHT INDUSTRY black history and culture. BRIeFInG ROOM, p7 155 Freeman St., Bklyn SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RE- The NYPD, MTA, SBJSA and SEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE AG. THU NOV 29 515 Malcolm X Blvd, Mnht 7PM–8:30PM • FREE AFTeR The pITTSBURGh TALK: TOWARD A GREEN NEW FRI DEC 7 MASSACRe, p8 DEAL 7PM–9PM • $25 In the wake of the synagogue A wide-ranging discussion on how POETRY: ANNE CARSON: ON shooting, columnist Steven to fi ght for a Green New Deal. CORNERS Wishna refl ects on the persistence LEONARD LIBRARY Poet, translator, and professor of hatred toward Jews. 81 Devoe St., Bklyn of Ancient Greek, Anne Carson delivers an illustrated lecture, MIdTeRM MAdneSS, p10 THU DEC 6 “On Corners.” Presenting a range America votes and further rips 6:30PM–8:30PM • FREE of texts and fi gures both clas- MAGICAL STEPHEN HALL itself apart in the process. HISTORY: MUSLIMS IN BROOK- sic and contemporary, Carson BEINGS: The Pixies LYN LISTENING PARTY will touch on inspirations from current line up(from left The FInAnCeS ThAT BInd, p12 For well over a century, Muslims Homer’s Odyssey, Aristotle and to right): David Lovering, Saudia Arabia is waging a have lived, worked and prayed in Sophokles, to Samuel Beckett, Paz Lenchantin, Joey genocidal war.