The New York City Police Department arrested nine housing and AIDS activists Wednesday near City Hall, before the start of a march on Wall Street, which called on Mayor Bloomberg to improve services for those affected with HIV/AIDS, while demanding a new tax to fight the epidemic's global threat…

Although not attracting the crowd many Occupy Wall Street activists had hoped for, May Day marches drew tens of thousands of demonstrators across the New York City and surrouding boroughs, demanding social change and higher taxes for the wealthiest in American society. Throughout the day, Occupy…

There were protests by OWS at Federal Hall National Memorial on Friday April 20, 2012, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. Before OWS protestors moved to the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial on Monday last, they had been sleeping on the streets in the vicinity of Wall and…

"One of the worst things about being blind is that you gotta trust people," said Steve Cannon recently on his couch at A Gathering of the Tribes, an alternative salon and performance space on the Lower East Side. Cannon was mulling over news he had just received from his accountant that someone's…