Bill de Blasio
Amid overwhelming debt and despair, NYC’s yellow cab drivers begin hunger strike
The city’s iconic yellow cab drivers are fighting to end a crushing debt crisis, manufactured by the city and Wall Street profiteers
New York City schools shut again due to second COVID-19 wave
Schools were opened up in phases in September and October, months after they were shut down in mid-March. The State’s governor has warned of a tremendous spike in the coming weeks
After mass resistance, NYC Mayor halts moving homeless out of Upper West Side
The homeless in NYC’s Upper West Side (UWS) were being forced out of their accommodations because of the thinly veiled class hatred of the residents of the area
- First commercial flight in last six years takes off from Yemen’s Sanaa airport
- Cuba describes easing of US sanctions as “a limited step in the right direction”
- Communists demand ouster of US military and NATO from Turkey
- Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion
- Belgian workers demand scrapping of Wage Margin Act of 1996
