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Steve Harrison at a 2007 anti-war protest in Brooklyn(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Late last night the Democratic Committee of Richmond County (Staten Island) selected conservative Mike McMahon their designated nominee for the 13th Congressional District race. Progressive Democrat Steve Harrison called the selection process a “betrayal of democracy”, citing the […]

PRINT and DISTRIBUTE to your Chapter, Campus and Community!The SDS News Bulletin working group is proud to bring you our fourth issue, the best yet. From front cover to articles to action reports to poetry to art, we loaded this issue up for maximum Dangerousness, and once again you made it all possible by sending […]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Advance broke the story today: local peace activists won’t have Vito Fossella to kick around any more. The man Terrible Tim describes as having “twice the family values of most republicans” announced today he will not seek re-election to the U.S. Congress.
It wasn’t years of lap dog […]

David Hernandez and Elaine Brower at the Marine Corps Reserve Center(Photo: Richard J. Marini / NLN)
On Saturday three of us from Staten Island, members of MDS, traveled to the Garden City, Long Island Marine Corps Reserve Center, home of the 2/25 Battalion, my son’s unit. Over the course of the morning about 200+ […]

Steve Harrison speaks to members of Peace Action(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
STATEN ISLAND, NY – Peace activists held a press conference yesterday to announce the endorsement of congressional candidate Steve Harrison by Peace Action, a national anti-war organization. Harrison, a progressive Democrat, is challenging the incumbent Vito Fossella - recently in the news for a […]

Dominic Carter - Host of NY1’s Inside City Hall(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — Journalist Dominic Carter, host of NY1’s popular Inside City Hall show, was fired up as he addressed members of the National Alliance on Mental Illness on Saturday. The organization and its supporters had gathered at NYC’s South Street Seaport for […]

CHICAGO — Amidst the nationwide flurry of this year’s May Day events—from New York to the West Coast and many points between—not the least was the day-long series of events in Chicago, the city where May Day began.
The events started at 10 A.M. with the annual commemoration of the Illinois Labor History Society and the […]

What do Robert Mugabe, Hillary Clinton and Vito Fossella have in common?
They should all step down.
Mugabe lost the election, Clinton lost the nomination and Fossella has lost it, period.
After years of mis-representing his constituency and his country, Vito Fossella is coming apart at the seams.
Enough already.
Original post by Thomas Good and reposted […]

Elaine Brower, just before her arrest(Photo: Mike Morice / NLN)
NEW YORK — Local anti-war activists and citizens joined on the streets of New York City yesterday to condemn the ruling handed down by Justice Arthur Cooperman declaring the three police officers who killed Sean Bell and wounded Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield innocent of any […]

Joseph Guzman outside One Police Plaza, just before his arrest(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — Civil Disobedience actions shut down the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges today during rush hour. The protests were called by Reverend Al Sharpton and his National Action Network as part of a campaign to force a Department of Justice […]