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Members of the Staten Island branch of the NAACPPresident Edward Josey is at the podium.(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is calling for both New York City Police Department and U.S. Department of Justice investigations into the behavior of three […]

Protesters rally outside the Queens District Attorney’s office(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
QUEENS, N.Y. — Angry protesters filled Queens Boulevard after the verdict in the Sean Bell shooting was handed down. A rally called by a civil rights coalition was held outside the district attorney’s office - and was followed by an unpermitted march through Jamaica, […]

Steve Harrison squares off with Fossella supporters - and a cardboard Vito
(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — Republican congressman Vito Fossella, long derided by progressives as ‘Bush’s rubber stamp’ is running for re-election. According to watchdog group Truth 13 Fossella is low on funds and his campaign is vulnerable. On April […]

A leaflet prepared by the SDS strike committee(NYU Bobst Library)
NEW YORK — In March 1967 a Columbia University SDS activist named Bob Feldman discovered documents revealing Columbia’s formal relationship with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Department of Defense think tank. This discovery, along with the University’s encroachment into Harlem - the attempt to build […]

SDSers die-in at L3 Corporation(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — “Is that real blood?” a woman passing the SDS die-in at L3 Corporation said. “Where’s the ambulance?” another stunned onlooker asked Mike Morice of Movement for a Democratic Society.
A dozen members of SDS New York staged a graphic die-in at L3 Communications Corporation this […]

For the past year UF SDS has been working on a campaign that would ensure UF’s 1.2 billion dollar endowment is not invested in war, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses. We took on this campaign because it looked like a practical and achievable goal that would help our movement in its fight for a […]

(Photo: Mike Da Cruz / Providence SDS)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (SDS) — Providence SDS organized a week of action, March 18-March 20, to target and protest against different aspects of the Iraq War.
Tuesday night, sixty Providence SDSers took to downtown Providence to Funk the War and rally community support. For two hours, students passed out […]

Reverend Demetrius Carolina, pastor, First Central Baptist Church(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Early predictions of gloom and rain did not hold out and on Saturday, April 5th, Staten Islanders awoke to blue skies and sunshine for the first truly spring day of 2008. It was an auspicious sign for the Five […]

Beth Slutzky (Sarah Lawrence SDS) and Christa Hendrickson (Drew SDS) were interviewed on The Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio on WBAI (an independent radio station in NYC).  They discussed how combating sexism and promoting liberatory politics within SDS.  It aired April 3, 2008 @ 11am and you can listen to it online at: http://archive.wbai.org/
It […]

At one of the recent Five Years Of War - Five Days Of Protest actions held on Staten Island a demonstrator asked me about the origins of the iconic peace sign. He mentioned the oft repeated but spurious notion that it is an inverted crucifix. I related that the symbol was custom made […]