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We are a free, progressive monthly newspaper and online news site. Founded in 2000, The Indy has become a New York City institution and a unique fixture in the city’s mediascape.
We cover social justice movements here in New York and beyond and the issues they are concerned about because it is movements of organized people that make change happen.
We combine old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting and deep dive research with a willingness to look at news and culture with a critical lens, exploring how systems of power — economic, political and social — affect people’s lives. Facts matter. So does the ability to interpret and place them in context.
No lazy journalism here that defers to the powerful and then hides behind the pretense of being objective.
We have a combined print and online audience of more than 100,000 readers. In addition to our print edition that we publish at the beginning of each month, we have a website we update on a near daily basis, are active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Soundcloud, and have a weekly e-newsletter that you can sign up for here.
Winner of more than 50 awards from New York Community Media Alliance for excellence in journalism, The Indypendent is funded by subscriptions, reader donations, grants, and advertising. The newspaper is produced by a small paid staff working in tandem with a network of volunteer contributors. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search Articles"Not In Our Skies": DSA Steps Up Campaign to Stop Israel Arms Shipments from JFK Airport
In the Fall of 2025, three 23-year-old Irish activists in a Ford Transit van rammed the perimeter barrier at Shannon Airport, on Ireland's rural west coast. Using a fire extinguisher converted into a homemade paint sprayer, they coated a US Navy 737 in green paint. Their direct action was to protest and expose how civilian airports move weapons to Israel. Later named the "Boeing 3", they were stopped at gunpoint and charged with various crimes.
Machiavelli in Mill Basin: The Brooklyn Democratic Party's Old Guard Fights to Remain in Power
The Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, an old-school political org that for decades has been perhaps the most influential collective in Brooklyn politics, is housed in a short, squat building in a lovely, green part of Mill Basin, bookended on one side by a Chinese restaurant whose "thing" seems to be year-round holiday decorations, and on the other by an extravagant massage parlor.
For the Culture: "One Ummah, One Barrio" Explores the Radical History of New York's Latine Muslims
In the late '60s and early '70s, New York was alive with revolutionary spirit.
Key Witness Recants Testimony 21 Years Later in John Giuca Murder Case
"My father sent me an article from the New York Post about my former attorney Philip Smallman-and it made me very sick," Albert Cleary somberly stated on the witness stand in a Brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday, August 18. A key prosecution witness in the 2005 murder trial of John Giuca, Cleary now explained why he provided false testimony.
Dancers for Palestine Call Attention to Israeli "Artwashing"
Chanting "dance dance for liberation, down down with occupation!," more than two dozen demonstrators affiliated with the activist group Dancers for Palestine picketed outside the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn on August 5, protesting a dance intensive affiliated with a company that is part of a public relations campaign to improve Israel's image abroad. The for-profit organization Gaga Movement Ltd.
Meet the Radical Legal Collective That Won Justice for Fred Hampton and Continues Fighting to This Day
Chicago attorney Flint Taylor was still a student at Northwestern Law School when he joined up with the People's Law Office (PLO) in 1969. Fred Hampton, the charismatic and effective young leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party had just been assassinated by the Chicago police. The murder was organized by Chicago's main prosecutor, States Attorney Edward Hanrahan, a rightwing operative of Mayor Richard Daly's machine.
I Learned to See the City in a New Light During My Indy Summer Internship
I am a high school photojournalist who has only had my own camera for nine months. When I began my summer internship at The Indypendent, I knew that I had to make sure I got the right photos for whatever articles I came across. My first assignment was to speak with bus passengers about the mayor's ambitious to speed up and improve bus service. I had to get portraits of bus passengers and a photo of an MTA bus in action.
Op-Ed: Woke 1 Wasn't Crazy - It Was Necessary, and the Work Is Far from Over
I'll admit it: when the media class recently started talking about "Woke 1," I didn't know what they meant. As political pundits used the catchphrase to summarize a movement, the label seemed to frame the height of pro-abolition organizing in New York City as an era to be neatly closed, filed away, and moderated. Or at worst forgotten. As someone whose family has been impacted by the criminal legal system, I can't just file it away as a moment in time.
As Shoppers Avoid Supermarket Lettuce, NYC Greenmarkets Thrive
Summertime is the busiest season for the 60 locations of New York City's farmers market network, called "greenmarkets." For decades, greenmarkets have been a reliable space to buy locally grown food, serving over 3 million New Yorkers, and housing 140 local farmers throughout the year. Carrie Brautigam works at Wilklow Orchards in Highland NY, which often sells fruits and vegetables at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Greenmarket.
Protesters Honor Martyred Palestinian Journalists Outside New York Times Headquarters
On Monday, more than 50 New Yorkers gathered outside The New York Times headquarters in mid-Manhattan adorned with signs and cardboard press vests bearing the names of the more than 300 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7.