Luis Feliz Leon is an organizer, journalist, and independent scholar in social movement history making good trouble in New York City. Follow him @Lfelizleon.
Amid the pandemic, Uber and Lyft drivers are more precarious than ever. Even as the companies dodge court rulings, the battle for drivers to be legally classified as employees is growing.
The combination of rising property values and billowing police budgets have transformed New York City since the 1970s. Now, movements to defund the police are coalescing with calls to cancel rent.