Online archive of The Shadow, an anarchist newspaper based in New York City focussing on investigative journalism, squatting, policing etc.
The Shadow
![Shadow Masthead: Information is strength - knowledge is power](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/small_wide/public/2024-01/shadowcov1_0.png?itok=gJkGUdho)
The Shadow has been published in New York City since 1989. It was founded in reaction to the way that events in the Lower East Side, including the Tompkins Square Park Riot, were covered by mainstream media.
The Shadow #1 (March 1989)
![Shadow 1 cover Tompkins Square Task Farce](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/small_wide/public/2024-01/shadowcov1.png?itok=6eIYBHv_)
Including: Tompkins Square meeting disrupted by activists, police complaints corruption, Shadow statement of intent, Guardian Angels critique, Reagan autocracy, interview with prisoner Mariyn Buck, police brutality, where to go for food and help, etc.
The Shadow #5 (July 1989)
![Pigs Attack The Homeless](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/small_wide/public/2024-01/shadow5cov.png?itok=MmVHpz8U)
Including: attack on homeless in Tompkins Square Park, flag burning outrage, skinheads attack leftwing space, Abbie Hoffman event, death of street musician Lincoln Swados, events, letters, etc.
The Shadow #36 (June 1995)
![Long Squat Summer!!](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/small_wide/public/2024-01/shadow36cov.png?itok=VpKCRHwt)
Including: twelve hour eviction battle on Lower East Side, Oklahoma bombing, militant protest against University budget cuts, ABC No Rio eviction threat, cops attack Puerto Rican Day celebrations, resistance to Criminal Justice Bill in the UK, Militia movement - enemy or pawn of the state?, interview with former Black Panther Dhoruba Bin Ward, Mumia abu Jamal, subversive electronics, the internet, etc.
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