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Luigi Mangione Makes First Public Statement, Launches Website

February 14, 2025 On Friday, Luigi Mangione spoke out for the first time since his arrest, releasing a statement on a new website launched by his legal defense team. “I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for – everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support,” writes Mangione. “Powerfully, this […]

New York Prison Uprisings

As reported in mainstream media, all outside visits have been cancelled to New York state prisons. Around midnight on Thursday, there was a militant uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, forcing correctional officers to retreat, vacate their posts, and call in police and emergency response teams to gain control of the situation. Last week […]

Protesters gather in lower Manhattan to denounce recent ICE activity in New York City

Protesters took to the streets of lower Manhattan to denounce and protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday evening. On Feb. 13, a group of about 400 protesters marched from the ICE building at Federal Plaza near Foley Square to the ICE office at West Houston and Vertex Street in SoHo. The protest […]

Thousands protest Donald Trump’s attempt to erase trans people from Stonewall Riots

Thousands of people gathered around near the Stonewall Monument in New York City’s Christopher Park this afternoon to protest the National Park Service (NPS) removing all mentions of transgender and queer people from the webpage for the monument commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The NPS did this to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order […]

Hundreds protest NYU hospital for obeying Trump order in advance & ending trans care

NYU Langone Health CEO, and dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Robert Grossman, made the decision to end care for trans youth without public notice, activists say, following Donald Trump’s January 28 executive order banning trans healthcare for youth. The parents of transgender youth got word out after their children’s appointments were canceled. Within […]

15 Months of Protest Art for Gaza

Admin note: only New York sections included Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on civilians in Gaza, which organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have determined to be consistent with genocide. After multiple failed attempts, Israel and Hamas agreed to a mutually negotiated ceasefire deal that went into […]

ICE launches ‘targeted operations’ in New York

January 29, 2025 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have begun in New York City as the Trump administration pushes for an increase in arrests of undocumented people across the United States. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in New York City to oversee ICE enforcement operations. Noem confirmed on X that at […]

Columbia University suspends one student as it expedites investigation into Israeli history class disruption

January 24, 2025 Columbia University says it has suspended one student after “expediting” its investigation into a group who disrupted a class on Israeli history. Demonstrators handed out flyers with “violent imagery” to students attending a History of Modern Israel class on Tuesday, the university said in a statement. Columbia said it identified and suspended […]

Six Joyriders Steal an R Train

New York City police are searching for a group of people they say took a subway train on a joyride. The department released images and video Wednesday of six individuals who they say commandeered an unoccupied “R” train over the weekend. Surveillance video from inside the train shows the group, who all wore jackets with […]