For NYC organizers, the struggles against police violence at home and occupation abroad are inherently intertwined.
Hundreds of protesters wearing keffiyehs flooded Brooklyn’s DeKalb Avenue station last month, dodging police in riot gear to hop the turnstiles en masse. Their collective refusal on September 20 to pay the $2.90 fee required to ride the subway was an act of protest: Just days before, on September 15, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer shot haphazardly onto a train platform in pursuit of an alleged fare evader named Derrell Mickles.