This week's episode on WBAI-99.5 FM features:
—Sarmad Akkach, an organizer with the Student Workers of Columbia, gives us the latest update on what's happening at Columbia University where 3,000 graduate student workers have been on strike for two months as of yesterday. It’s the largest active labor strike in the country. The workers have held strong and Columbia has started to make some substantial concessions.
—Matthew Thomas, (the Vulgar Marxist on Substack) talks about his latest investigation that looks at how Columbia and NYC’s other private universities get away with not paying more than $1/2 billion in property taxes. That money is enough to make CUNY free again.
—Neelu Shruti, birthing justice advocate, says pregnant people looking for healthy opportunities to hospital birthing have just been betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
