For the past 25 years, The Indypendent has acted from the belief that real change comes from the bottom-up not the topdown, that policies should be seen through the eyes of those most a ected by them and the future is not simply destined to be more of what has come before.| indypendent.org
The Indy is the city’s only truly progressive newspaper you can find on the streets, in the library and online — all for free.| The Indypendent
The Indy is not shilling lies for corporations. It has real people’s hopes and fears. The Indy is not filled with jargon. It speaks like the street. The Indy is us.| The Indypendent
The Indy is not owned by a corporation or big advertisers, foundation donors, or a “vanguard party of the proletariat.” This paper is a real public good, and like all public goods, it needs to be nurtured and supported.| The Indypendent
In the new issue that came out a few days later, my photo of AOC speaking to a crowd outside the 90th Street-Elmhurst Avenue subway station in Queens made the cover. Before The New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, et al would put her on their cover, we did.| The Indypendent
The Indy just welcomed me in with open arms and recognized that I could contribute to a journalistic enterprise that was serious and rigorously edited, and was not wedded to the sectarian politics of the left.| The Indypendent
Within 24 hours the paper was published.| The Indypendent