Shadow Masthead: Information is strength - knowledge is power

Online archive of The Shadow, an anarchist newspaper based in New York City focussing on investigative journalism, squatting, policing etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on January 30, 2024

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.

Each issue includes excellent coverage of local struggles, but unfortunately there are also occasional forays into conspiracy theorising (especially around the World Trade Center bombing and then 9/11), which Libcom does not support.

PDFs from various online sources including shadowpress.net.

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Submitted by Fozzie on October 28, 2024

I'm stopping uploading these at #50 I'm afraid. Things get a bit more conspiracy theoryish from then on, including several infamous 9/11 conspiracy theory films being sold as merch. The coverage of local struggles is still very good though. A shame.

Shadow 1 cover Tompkins Square Task Farce

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.

Submitted by Fozzie on January 30, 2024

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Dinkins to homeless - Drop Dead!

Including: park pigs raid homeless again, Shadow editor busted, Lower East Side corruption, tensions at Tompkins Park public meeting, sit-in a Deputy Mayor's office, ACT-UP cathedral protest, ABC community center retaken, the truth behind the Revolutionary Communist Party, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on August 1, 2024

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Coke Cops Squeal!

Including: pigs raid 5th anniversary of Tompkins Square uprising, council member Antonio Pagan re-elected, many police clampdowns, Fierce Pussy Festival, Manhattan Bridge teepee valley evicted, anarchists vs KKK in Chattanooga, San Francisco Food Not Bombs arrests, Dave Insurgent obituary, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on September 9, 2024

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Including: FBI informant's role in WTC bombing, squatters protest at Community Board meeting, Antonio Pagan exposed, Clinton and the Contras, copwatch, California Food Not Bombs under attack, London and Netherlands travelogue including Claremont Road, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on September 16, 2024

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Submitted by Fozzie on September 16, 2024

It seems fairly well established that Al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.

The headline to this issue refers to the testimony and tape recordings of FBI informant, Emad Salem, who stated that the FBI were aware of the bomb being made and could possibly have prevented it from being made. It does not seem clear that the FBI knew what the target of the bombing would be either.

So in my view the headline is misleading and sensationalist and unhelpfully opens up a world of conspiracy theories.

Fozzie

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Submitted by Fozzie on September 17, 2024

Yeah, I'll keep an eye on that side of it all. If the conspiracy stuff becomes more prominent than the reporting on local struggles in later issues, a rethink wil be necessary!

Long Squat Summer!!

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.

Submitted by Fozzie on January 31, 2024

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Shadow 45 cover - Seattle Rocks!

Including: anti-WTO protets in Seattle, community garden defenders arrested, Reclaim The Streets in Times Square, Dos Blockos squat evicted, community radio lock out, deportations of political radicals, copwatch, anti Klan protests, interview with community activist Armando Perez, making 42nd street sleazy again, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on October 16, 2024

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Including: 9/11 fallout and the war on terror (with some unhelpful conspiracy theorising), tenants campaign for rent law reform, GM food, $4.4 million compensation for Judi Bari cover up, interview with radical attorney Lynne Stewart, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on October 17, 2024

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Submitted by Fozzie on October 17, 2024

The cover of this issue has echoes of the one for #34 on which it was claimed that the FBI bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.

It is clear that on both occasions it was Al-Qaeda operatives who bombed the World Trade Center.

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Including: Bush appoints Honduras death squad supporter to key role, US election and electronic voting, Iraq war crimes, Ukraine crisis, journalist Gary Webb obituary, Republican convention, Seth Tobocman cartoon, surveillance, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on October 24, 2024

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