Issue #178, July 26 – Sept 4, 2012 THE INDYPENDENTA FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE Jim Crow THEN & NOW by Nicholas Powers, p8 DAVIDHOLLENBACH.COM NYC IMMIGRANTS TARGETED PEOPLES’ PENSION YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT P5 P14 P6 community calendar THE INDYPENDENT UPCOMING EVENTS THU, AUG 9 • 7:30pm BLACK AUGUST SPECIAL: POSTRACIALISM, POSTBLACKNESS & POSTMODERN UNCLE TOMS? Join philosopher/social critic A. Shahid Stover, singer/media activist Iyanna Jones and radical intellectual/community organizer Kazembe THE INDYPENDENT, INC. Balagun for what promises to be a lively and relevant dialogue. 666 BROADWAY, SUITE 510 Co-sponsored by Brotherwise Dispatch Journal. NEW YORK, NY 10012 Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 PHONE: (212) 904-1282 FRI, AUG 17-SAT, AUG 18 • 8pm-11pm EVENT: THE DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL 2012. 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Manny Jalonschi Open to kids ages 9-13, these journalism together radical political economists and The Merchant of Four Seasons tells the story of Hans, a fruit peddler, ILLUSTRATION COORDINATOR: workshops will take place in the Lower East Occupy activists from around the country to whose choice of career upsets his bourgeois family. Introduction by Frank Reynoso Side on four consecutive Saturdays. Kids examine the power of the 1% and the ways in Charity Scribner. PHOTO COORDINATOR: will work alongside professional journalists which the Occupy movement is addressing Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 Amelia Holowaty Krales to research, write and edit articles about these challenges. For more information on DESIGNERS: current events, science and social justice. times and pricing, visit urpe.org. Steven Arnerich, Anna Gold, RSVP by emailing [email protected]. 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