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New York City subway performers denounce police crackdown

Subway artists and police brutality activists held a news conference at City Hall on Aug. 12 to protest the racist…

August 21, 2014

On the picket line

Tentative transit agreement in San Francisco Transport Workers Union Local 250-A announced on June 27 that it had reached a…

July 4, 2014

On the picket line

Thousands march for immigrant rights and citizenship All across the country, in 183 cities in 40 states, thousands upon thousands…

October 11, 2013

The 9th annual NYC Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice points of unity

The following excerpted points of unity were initiated by TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit,…

June 26, 2013

Activists denounce MTA’s union-busting tactics in NYC school bus strike

Protesters crashed the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority's first board meeting of the year in solidarity with the school bus…

February 5, 2013

NYC struggle over racist subway ads

New York — When the far-right blogger Pamela Geller collaborated with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in September to run a series…

December 19, 2012

NYC Transit workers want to be paid

A 2011 study from Columbia University estimated that it would take several weeks, or longer, for the New York City…

November 16, 2012

NYC transit offers higher fares, more racism

On Oct. 15, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced the fourth round of fare hikes in four years. During that…

October 17, 2012

Riders & transit workers protest anti-Muslim subway ads

New York — The capitalist media waged a frenzied war campaign against Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejahd while the United Nations…

October 3, 2012