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Jun
07
It’s 2019 & Some People Don’t Want Drag Queens Reading To Kids

It’s 2019 & Some People Don’t Want Drag Queens Reading To Kids

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGERRITSEN BEACH – “Drag queens are robbing children of their innocence,” people shouted outside the Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn
6 min read
Mar
28
“Go Home”: Councilman’s Supporters Rally Against Palestinian Cause

“Go Home”: Councilman’s Supporters Rally Against Palestinian Cause

Some of the crowd. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)BORO PARK – A protest against Council Member Kalman Yeger’s “Palestine doesn’t
4 min read
Dec
10
Culture Wars Come To Brooklyn College, Possibly Not In Highest Form

Culture Wars Come To Brooklyn College, Possibly Not In Highest Form

BROOKLYN COLLEGE – Two months ago, Brooklyn College Professor Mitchell Langbert posted something on his blog [http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2018/
6 min read
Oct
04
Students Rally For Professor’s Termination After He Writes Litmus Test For Being A Man Is Sexual Assault. Now He Says It Was Satire.

Students Rally For Professor’s Termination After He Writes Litmus Test For Being A Man Is Sexual Assault. Now He Says It Was Satire.

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – After a Brooklyn College professor posted statements that seemed to be condoning sexual assault on his
5 min read
Sep
27
Building Workers Protest For Back Pay, New Contract at Williamsburg Development

Building Workers Protest For Back Pay, New Contract at Williamsburg Development

WILLIAMSBURG – Seven workers at The Williams, a luxury-rental development in South Williamsburg, are looking for what they’re owed—about
3 min read
Jun
21
Anti-Gentrification Protestors Break Up Bushwick Community Board Meeting

Anti-Gentrification Protestors Break Up Bushwick Community Board Meeting

Protestors brought the last CB 4 meeting of the season to a halt in opposition of gentrification (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)
3 min read
May
15
Pro-Palestine March Takes to the Streets in Bay Ridge

Pro-Palestine March Takes to the Streets in Bay Ridge

Pro-Palestinian protestors gathered in Bay Ridge yesterday evening (Photo via NYC911News LLC)BAY RIDGE – As the killing of Palestinian protestors
2 min read
May
01
Residents and Politicians Protest Mayor’s Move to Put Party Boats in Mill Basin

Residents and Politicians Protest Mayor’s Move to Put Party Boats in Mill Basin

Mill Basin Residents gathered to protest the planned arrival of party boats in the waters off their property (Photo via
2 min read
Apr
27
Residents to Protest Against Party Boats This Sunday in Mill Basin

Residents to Protest Against Party Boats This Sunday in Mill Basin

MILL BASIN – While residents of Sheepshead Bay have celebrated the announced departure of some of the “party boats” [/sheepshead-party-boats-relocated/] docked
1 min read
Apr
06
Protestors Take to the Streets in Crown Heights After Rally for Slain Saheed Vassell

Protestors Take to the Streets in Crown Heights After Rally for Slain Saheed Vassell

CROWN HEIGHTS – After Wednesday’s killing of 34-year old Saheed Vassell at the hands of the NYPD [/police-shooting-vassell/], crowds gathered
3 min read