Project Underdog

10/14/2024

America’s Most Convenient Bank -for Felons - Has Its US Headquarters in the Great State of New Jersey!!

TD Bank's anti-money laundering controls were so lax that the bank became "an easy target" for drug traffickers and other criminals, feds say.

10/13/2024

Great interview with Jessica Ramos- who is running for mayor of NYC. I met her for the first time at a press conference in my neighborhood—and she struck me as a fabulous organizer- which is what NYC needs! .

Ramos talked about her universal child care plan, the City's broken jail system, and what "deep Queens" means.

10/07/2024

Roosevelt Ave featured as a New Yorker cover? Time to organize !!

10/02/2024

When I lived in Somerville Massachusetts 2022-2023, I wrote a song about the crisis at the MBTA and played it on the streets of Somerville to make money while I was unemployed.

Maybe it’s time to add a new verse - and start busking again!

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/green-line-train-derails-near-cambridge-mbta-station-injuries-reported/3506328/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3xj_6CyOQqWecCceWlcNKhnQ4Oz0yXeGB1FRdhZ2K7z2HccgqZ0PFf_U0_aem_CrZPLQsarWZG-vosD57XWQ

A Green Line train derailed Tuesday near an MBTA station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, injuring several people and forcing dozens of passengers to walk along the tracks to an emergency exit. The MBTA says at about 5 p.m., the wheels of the lead trolley of a Green Line train were reported to have come...

09/29/2024

“I don’t believe in Taft Hartley” Joe Biden. Go Joe!

It was not clear if any negotiations were taking place or planned before the midnight Monday deadline.

09/29/2024

Trigger warning - features scenes of violence and cruelty by immigrants toward American pets on the New York subway. Watch at your own risk!

Chaos ensued on a subway train after a passenger's bag full of live crabs broke open, resulting in the arthropods tumbling out.The woman can be seen jumping ...

09/29/2024

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/09/19/migrant-women-construction-lunch/

Often living in shelters, they serve as an unregulated sales force for Latin American meals cooked after hours at restaurants, pizzerias and backyard kitchens across the city.

09/11/2024

Excellent analysis highly recommended.

Tuesday night was the first — perhaps the only — debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And it proved one of Harris’s stump speech lines right: Turns ou

09/11/2024

Behind the mind of the future president of the USA -Kamala Harris !
/Detrás de la mente de la futura presidenta de EE.UU.: Kamala Harris

We all know what she was thinking because we were all thinking it too.The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedi...

09/08/2024

https://gothamist.com/news/pop-up-photo-display-of-nyc-immigrants-aims-to-counter-a-hijacked-narrative

A new campaign celebrates immigrants' roles in the city's culture and economy.

08/24/2024

I am working with an undocumented immigrant from Peru (Flor) who is trying to publish some wonderful poems and other writings about the Roosevelt Avenue community in the heart of Jackson Heights Queens.

Her writings are in Spanish but I agreed to help translate them.

Does anyone have suggestion on places she could publish her writings?

Or does anyone know of anyone organizations that support immigrant writers?

07/13/2024

Recommended listen for organizers and activists and anyone interested in public life

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