While imprisoned in ICE custody, Marcial Morales Garcia helped lead a wave of hunger strikes in New Jersey jails where guards refuse to wear masks, rats run wild and toilets are often the only source ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleMay 2025 See all stories → Zohran Mamdani’s Path to Victory Under Trump 2.0, Most Black Americans Have Nowhere to Run Veterans Hospitals Face Massive Layoffs CUNY Faculty ...

They said it couldn’t be done. And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than… ...

And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than 400,000 New Yorkers voted early and Zohran Mamdani led by 9 points. The Election Day surge of support for Andrew Cuomo never ...

The Indypendent’s Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton has led our local political coverage since 2017 as the left has steadily ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleAt The Indypendent, we’re always listening closely to what’s happening with grassroots movements and electoral campaigns that boldly challenge the economic and political ...

In From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary, Carol Mason, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, draws a through line that ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and tenant activists rallied this morning outside the New York Apartment Association headquarters to denounce the landlord lobby group for giving $2.5 ...

Zohran Mamdani has been on a roll since he launched his longshot mayoral campaign. Relying on small donors, the 33-year-old socialist state legislator from Queens raised the maximum amount allowed by ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleThank you, Governor Cuomo, for taking time out of your extraordinarily busy schedule to answer a few questions from The Indypendent. Why are you running for mayor? a) ...

A Free Paper for Free PeoplePhotos by Lantz Arroyo. Against the granite columns of the New York County Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, hundreds of professors, students, school staff and alumni rallied ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleYesterday morning, the members of the CUNY 8 made their fourth court appearance at the New York Supreme Civil Court, where the case was once again adjourned. No decisions ...