Prisoners for Profit: CUNY Prison Divest and the Carceral State
CHRISTINA NADLER, MELISSA MARTURANO, and SEAN M. KENNEDY Through a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, CUNY Prison Divest,...
Monthly Archives: April 2015
The Seeds of a Revolution: The Anatomy of the Baltimore Revolt
GORDON BARNES In October 1865, in Morant Bay, Jamaica, a man was arrested for “trespassing” on a long abandoned...
Fighting for Feminism: Well…Sort Of
JENNIFER POLISH Last month’s Advocate editorial, “A New Feminism,” by Gordon Barnes, offers some excellent critiques of second-wave,...
Book Review: The Need for Something New Under the Sun
ERIK WALLENBERG Naomi Klein. This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate. Simon & Schuster, 2015, 566 pages. When...
Pushing Back Against the Landlords: Low-Income Residents and the Struggle for Legal Counsel
PAUL MCBREEN Homelessness in New York City is overwhelmingly caused by evictions, and on any given night, there are...
Editorial: More Propaganda, Less Liberalism: Our Ongoing Struggle
When I began my tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the Advocate, I, along with then Managing Editor Cristina Pérez Díaz...
