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Indy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 June '25In our first segment, co-host Amba Guerguerian joins us live from Foley Square, where immigrant rights groups and their allies are rallying today to protest the Trump administration’s mass deportation program and the increasingly brazen tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain and deport immigrants.
Then we speak with a participant in the rolling hunger strike by students and faculty at the City University of New York. The hunger strikers want CUNY to cut all ties with Israel and companies that do business with Israel.
And in the final part of the show, we catch up...2025-06-1155 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 3 June '25In our first segment, we hear from an organizer with NYC ICE Watch, a rapid response network founded in 2020 that responds to incidents of ICE sightings and other emergencies. In our second segment, we speak with City Councilmember Shahana Hanif. She’s facing a tough re-election challenge in her Brooklyn district with money from Uber pouring into her district after she backed legislation that would protect the labor rights of immigrant gig workers. And in our final segment, we get the latest on the New York City mayoral race.2025-06-0454 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent New Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 27 May '25As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student.
Then we take a look at the latest news from New York City’s mayoral race. A new poll shows socialist state legislator Zohran Mamdani rapidly gaining ground on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.2025-05-2854 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 20 May '25Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian look at the pro-Palestine activism that continues roiling New York City college campuses from CUNY to Columbia. We speak with Naomi Schiller of CUNY Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine and Josh Dubnau and Lillian Udell, two Columbia alumni who plan to burn their diplomas outside the campus gates Wednesday morning before the university holds its graduation ceremony.
In the second half of the show, we speak with Nicholas Powers, longtime Indy contributor and African-American Literature Professor at SUNY-Old Westbury, about how Black America is generally responding to Trump's second presidency. His latest article...2025-05-2154 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 May '25In our first segment, we speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk about the convoluted process that led to the final agreement and the Governor’s outsized role in causing the delay.
In the second half of the show, we talk about former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now the frontrunner in the New York Ci...2025-05-1554 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 1 May '25We were talking tenants rights on this week’s Indypendent News Hour. In our first segment, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a rent freeze is needed now.
In our second segment, we speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA’s Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is organizing tenants to directly resist the landlord class. IWCO will be holding a citywide tenant assembly this Sunday 1-6 pm at the...2025-05-0153 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 April '25Outraged Americans have been showing up at congressional town halls over the past couple of months to demand that their representatives do more to stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. On Aprill 22, New York Congressmember Dan Goldman held a town hall at City Tech College in downtown Brooklyn. The Indy’s John Tarleton reports live from the event. We also speak with James Davis, President of the Professional Staff Congress—the union that represents over 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York—about the struggle to defend the City Universi...2025-04-2355 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 15 April '25Brooklyn for Peace and the War Resisters League held a protest on tax day outside the IRS office in Lower Manhattan. We hear from one of the organizers about the staggering amount of your tax dollars that go to pay for the war machine and what they’re doing here at the local level to address this.
One of the things your tax money goes to is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to help the Zionist state kill more Palestinians. But it’s getting harder to talk about. We have the latest on the repression of pro-Palestine spee...2025-04-1654 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 8 April '25City budget season is underway as the mayor and City Council debate how to divvy up the city’s roughly $110 billion annual budget. In our first segment, we hear from students and educators who rallied today outside the Department of Education headquarters demanding that Mayor Adams cease his cuts to their schools. In our second segment, the struggle against billionaire oligarchy is unfolding at a hyperlocal level in Flushing, Queens. Mets owner Steve Cohen wants to build a new casino on parkland adjacent to Citi Field. We hear from two local community organizers who are helping lead the opposition to Co...2025-04-1154 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 25 March '25The Democrats lost to Donald Trump for a second time in November. And now the party's leaders are rapidly losing the trust of some of their most loyal rank-and-file supporters. Our co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with Brioney Romer and Liat Olinick of Indivisible Brooklyn about their recent protests outside Senator Chuck Schumer's home in Brooklyn and the growing demands for Schumer to step down as the Senate's top Democrat. We also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem and catch up on the latest news in the mayor's...2025-03-2653 minIndy AudioRucker Park Enshrined as National Commemorative SiteWe also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem.2025-03-2511 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 18 March '25In the first half of the show, we look at the continually exploding crisis at Columbia University which is on the cutting edge of the Trump administration’s plans for higher education in this country to no longer be a bastion of free speech and political protest. Then we speak with historian Robert W. Snyder about his new book on the essential workers who kept New York running when the Covid-19 pandemic exploded five years ago this month.2025-03-2054 minIndy AudioNicholas Powers' Black Psychedelic RevolutionWe then speak with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about his latest book, 'Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation.'2025-03-1723 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 11 March '25Our co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with Queens State Senator and NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, who is running as a pro-labor progressive. We then speak with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about his latest book: Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation.2025-03-1654 minIndy AudioCuomo Can't Be Mayor Again: A Conversation with John Tarleton and Amba GuerguerianIndypendent co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and why we think he shouldn't be elected again. We also take listener call-ins.2025-03-0621 minIndy AudioPro-Palestine Barnard Sit-In Outside Administration OfficesOn Feb. 26, about 50 students in keffiyehs occupied the hallway outside the offices of Barnard College’s top administrators. Barnard is an undergraduate women’s college located across the street from Columbia University. Over more than six hours of tense negotiations, protesters demanded that the school’s leaders rescind the expulsions of two Barnard student protesters — the first such student expulsions for political activity at Columbia or Barnard since 1968. We speak with The Indypendent’s Eric Santomauro-Stenzel, who was on hand during the sit-in. His story, “Inside the Student Sit-in That Rocked Barnard College” is up on indypendent.org.2025-03-0609 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 4 March '25In our first segment, we get the latest on the bi-partisan repression of pro-Palestine voices on college campuses. We then learn about a campaign by home health care workers who are fighting for fair labor standards. Finally, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and take listener call-ins.2025-03-0654 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 25 Feb. '25In our first segment, we get the latest on the Eric Adams saga from a reporter who has City Hall covered like a blanket. Then we’ll take stock of the Trump-Musk administration’s widening attacks on public services. We then speak with Chuck Zlatkin of the American Postal Workers Union which represents more than 200,000 postal workers nationwide. And in our final segment, we talk with journalist Liza Featherstone about why Trump and Musk are targeting many of the most popular services provided by the federal government. It’s not a political miscalculation, she argued in a recent essay for The Ne...2025-02-2755 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 18 Feb. '25Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerin speak with Leo and Maria about the Sunset Park-based Plaza Proletaria is organizing against ICE raids and deportations. In the second half of the show, we hear from Socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about how the Trump/Musk assault on federal agencies and spending could impact New York State and its 20 million residents. We also have updates from the streets as New Yorkers hit the streets to protest Trump, Musk and Adams.2025-02-1954 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 11 Feb. '24We start out by looking at how the campaign to unionize Starbucks is faring. More than 500 Starbucks stores have unionized since December 2021, but now the movement faces new threats as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle the Department of Labor.
We then speak with veteran labor organizer Eric Dirnbach. He’s lived the ups and downs of the labor movement since the late 90s. In recent years, he’s been active with the Emergency Worker Organizing Committee which formed in the early days of the Covid pandemic and has helped thousands of workers organize unions.
At the end of the show...2025-02-1254 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 4 Feb. '25In our first segment, we go to Queens College, where yesterday more than 100 faculty and students protested for the right to protest on their campus in the face of an increasingly authoritarian campus administration.
And then we check in with The Indy’s Amba Guerguerian. She published a major new piece today looking at how dissent has been systematically crushed at Columbia since last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment ignited a nationwide anti-genocide campus protest movement. Amba has also been following protests that have been popping off around the city just over the past 24 hours.
In our final segment, we spea...2025-02-1254 minIndy AudioNicholas Powers Joins Us On the Air for Listener Call-ins the Day After Trump's InaugurationWe bring on Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers and take call-ins from listeners who share how they feel about the Trump's second presidential term.2025-01-2215 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 21 Jan. '25First Segment: Ravi Ragbir, a leading advocate for immigrants facing deportation and the co-founder of the New Sanctuary Coalition, won a full presidential pardon from Joe Biden, ending Ragbir’s 16-year quest to avoid being deported to his native Trinidad and Tobago. We speak with him about the pardon and the need for community power.
Second Segment: In the context of Trump's harsh deportation plans, we speak with Murad Awawdeh, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, a broad coalition of many immigrant-rights community groups in New York.
Final Segment: We bring on Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers an...2025-01-2150 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 7 Jan. '25To start of the show, we spoke with Danny Pearlstein and Emilia Decaudin of the Riders Alliance about the launch of congestion pricing in New York City, which began on Sunday after many years of struggle.
We then heard from Alex Kane, staff writer at Jewish Currents, about the Trump Administration's plans to dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement.
Lastly, we bring on Nicole Noble from NY-10 Neighbors for Peace, a Palestine solidarity group that has been pressuring their ardently Zionist House rep Dan Goldman since the genocide in Gaza began.2025-01-0755 minIndy AudioDec 17: The Indypendent News Hour Best of the Year RoundupListen to some of our favorite stories and interviews over this past year including one of the first interviews with mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and a story about birds attacking NYPD drones!2025-01-0649 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Family and Radical Lawyer React to Daniel Penny VerdictJohn Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.2024-12-1229 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Daniel Penny Trial Reaction, Tenants Right to CounselOn today's Indypendent News Hour, our hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.
We will also speak with Malika Conner of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition and a tenant leader from a Community Action for Safe Housing (CASA), an advocacy group in the South Bronx, about the lack of adequate legal counsel for tenants who are being taken to housing court by their landlords.
We will be...2024-12-1259 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Tenant Advocates Seek Protections Against LandlordsMalika Conner of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition and a tenant leader from a Community Action for Safe Housing (CASA), an advocacy group in the South Bronx, about the lack of adequate legal counsel for tenants who are being taken to housing court by their landlords.2024-12-1228 minIndy AudioDec 3, 2024: Daniel Penny Update and Socialists Parents Against TrumpOn today's Indypendent News Hour, we'll have an update from the Daniel Penny trial, the latest on a Gaza solidarity encampment at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and we'll speak with Elizabeth Gonzalez of @comradeswkids about being a socialist parent in a time of Trump.2024-12-051h 00Indy AudioNov 26, 2024: Following the Daniel Penny Trial Week 2Nov 26, 2024: Following the Daniel Penny Trial Week 2 by The Indypendent2024-12-051h 00Indy AudioNov. 12, 2024: Ted Hamm on Republican Election Gains in NYC & What Trump's Win Means for Eric AdamsDonald Trump had the highest New York City vote of any Republican presidential candidate since 1988. Indypendent Contributing Editor Ted Hamm talks about where Trump made his gains and what Trump's election might mean for Eric Adams who has embraced Trump's apocalyptic anti-immigrant rhetoric.2024-11-1719 minIndy AudioNov 5 2024It's Election Day! The Indypendent hits the streets to speak with real NYC voters about who they cast their vote for and calls in some friends of the paper who are involved in grassroots organizing this cycle.2024-11-1158 minIndy AudioNov 5 2024: Bob Hennelly and Nick Powers on Independent Media During the Presidential ElectionNov 5 2024: Bob Hennelly and Nick Powers on Independent Media During the Presidential Election by The Indypendent2024-11-1012 minIndy AudioOct 28 2024: Zohran Mamdani Explains How He Will Address Affordability Crisis as MayorQueens assembly member and mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani announced his campaign last weekend and for once his first media appearance he tells The Indypendent how he'll address New Yorkers' biggest problems including the affordability crisis.2024-11-0115 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 29 Oct. '24We speak with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about the largest current campaign Uber and Lyft drivers launched against the rideshare companies, which are locking drivers out of the apps for extended periods. We also hear from two of the Nation interns that published “Kamala Harris Does Not Deserve The Nation’s Endorsement."2024-10-3152 minIndy AudioOctober 2: AI & Activism, The Indypendent News Hour Greatest Hits Fall SpecialThis week, co-hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco are busy working on the final edits for this month's issue of The Indypendent. Instead of a live show, enjoy some of our favorite interviews from the past few months including a conversation with contributing writer Nicholas Powers about the power of revolutionary cinema, a journalist who specializes in unconvering AI's impact in governmental elections, and finally two activists who say all the revolution needs is a little attention!2024-10-0349 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour August 27Co-hosts John Tarlelton and Ariana Orozco of The Indypendent speak with Jesse McLaughlin of the NYC Bird Alliance about protecting wildlife from NYPD encroaching on their habitat at Rockaway Beach, an organizer from the Live Arts Workers Union about establishing better working conditons for NYC dancer, and Reverand Billy about exciting happenings at the Earth Church on Avenue C in the Lower East Side.2024-08-2953 minIndy AudioAugust 20- The Indypendent News HourThis episode of The Indypendent News Hour features guests Russell Brandom discussing emerging AI technology and its impact on politics and culture, Heidi Schlumph on why the Catholic vote is split, and Nicholas Powers on Kamala's path to the White House.2024-08-2258 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour July 30The Indypendent’s John Tarleton speaks with NYU student activist Anita Talukder about her university’ recent capitulation to lawsuits brought by Zionist students alleging pro-Palestinian protests were anti-semitic and how the logic of the Israeli occupation is spreading to Americna universities like hers. We also speak with Danny Pearlstein of the Riders Alliance about the struggle to revive congestion pricing and with Josh Kraushauer of NYC DSA about how organizing softball leagues, family picnics, reading clubs & more is essential to nurturing a socialist movement that is sustainable for the long haul.2024-07-3154 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour July 24The Indypendent News Hour July 24 by The Indypendent2024-07-2558 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour July 24The Indypendent News Hour July 24 by The Indypendent2024-07-2558 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour July 9The Indypendent News Hour July 9 by The Indypendent2024-07-2552 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour July 9The Indypendent News Hour July 9 by The Indypendent2024-07-2552 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour June 18The Indypendent News Hour June 18 by The Indypendent2024-06-1955 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour June 18The Indypendent News Hour June 18 by The Indypendent2024-06-1955 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24 by The Indypendent2024-04-2555 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24 by The Indypendent2024-04-2555 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 16 April '24We hear first from housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov, Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
Then, we speak with Indypendent photographer Neil Constantine. Constantine was arrested yesterday while covering a massive pro-Palestine Tax Day protest as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.
We also get updates on the growing worldwide movement to end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation in Palestine.
In our final segment, we speak to Cynthia Carter, President...2024-04-2553 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 9 April '23In the first segment of this week's episode, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused most fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous books including “The Future of Whiteness” and “Race and Racism: A...2024-04-1158 minIndy AudioNY State Senator Jabari Brisport x The Indypendent: Updates on State Budget NegotiationsIn the second segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legislators weigh in on the talks. We talk about efforts to weave affordable housing policies into the budget and the competing claims of landlords and tenants...2024-04-1011 minIndy AudioLinda Martín Alcoff x The Indypendent: White Fright in a Changing WorldIn the first segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused most fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous book...2024-04-1023 minIndy AudioLinda Martín Alcoff x The Indypendent: White Fright in a Changing WorldIn the first segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused most fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous book...2024-04-1023 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 March '24In the first half of the show we speak with two Indy reporters, Amba Guerguerian and Ariana Orozco about their stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Guerguerian’s cover story looks at how younger workers are leading the charge in a resurgent labor movement as they strive to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs. Orozco has been covering the State of New York’s attempt to close SUNY Downstate Hospital in central Brooklyn. Ariana also spoke with med school students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine about the recent announcement that a $1...2024-03-2851 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 Feb. '24In our first segment, we speak with workers at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also be joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe's are alleging in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional.
Then, we hear an interview by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton with Bennett Fischer of the United Federation of Teachers. At the Un...2024-02-2252 minIndy AudioTalking Presidential Politics and the New Hampshire Primary with Indypendent EditorsJohn Tarleton and Nicholas Powers of The Indypendent talk about the New Hampshire primary and what it means that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both on the verge of locking up their party’s nominations and pivoting to a general election contest that most Americans say they do not want to see.2024-01-2522 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 Dec. '23In this special Christmas edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we spend the first segment with Jonathan Kuttab, executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, an unapologetic Christian voice for Palestine. Kuttab is a human-rights attorney and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution. We will speak about the ongoing atrocities in Palestine including those against Christian Palestinians.
Then we speak with Dr. Bedross Matossian, Professor of Middle East History & Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincon. He focuses on Armenian and comparative genocide, Ottoman studies, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and global History. We will look at the Armenian genocide, the current ethnic...2024-01-031h 00Indy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 21 Nov. '23In the first half of the show, we look at the growing crackdown on pro-Palestine speech at the City University of New York and other campuses in the city. Then we speak with Indypendent columnist John Teufel, author of our “This Month in Eric Adams” column, about Mayor Adams' proposed budget cuts and the FBI Investigation into the funding of his mayoral campaign.2023-11-2254 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 7 Nov. '23First, we get an update on the March on Washington for Palestine, as well as hear voices from everyday NYCers talking about Palestine/Israel.
Then, in the Bronx, activists are calling out Congressman Ritchie Torres, one of Israel’s most ardent supporters in Congress, for championing genocide in Gaza and for seeming to have forgotten his own constituents who live in the poorest congressional district in the country. We are joined by Sonyi Lopez and Richie Merino from The Bronx Anti-War Coalition (BAWC), an anti-imperialist organization dedicated to challenging state violence and U.S. militarism at home and abroad.
Lastly, we...2023-11-1055 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Oct. '23In our first segment we get to get a perspective from Mexico on the continuing surge of migrants from South America to the United States & on Mayor Adams' recent visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to discourage migrants from journeying north. Our guest, Laura Carlsen, is the director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, A Mexico-City based think tank.
We hear some of the music from the Indigenous People’s Day celebration on Randall’s Island recorded by Indypendent reporters Elias Guerra and Kimberly Izar. Peoples from Hawaii, the Philippines, Nigeria, U.S. and N.Y. tribes, and many others were ther...2023-10-1154 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Oct. '23In our first segment we get to get a perspective from Mexico on the continuing surge of migrants from South America to the United States & on Mayor Adams' recent visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to discourage migrants from journeying north. Our guest, Laura Carlsen, is the director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, A Mexico-City based think tank.
We hear some of the music from the Indigenous People’s Day celebration on Randall’s Island recorded by Indypendent reporters Elias Guerra and Kimberly Izar. Peoples from Hawaii, the Philippines, Nigeria, U.S. and N.Y. tribes, and many others were ther...2023-10-1154 min
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In our second segment, we are joined by long time Indypendent columnist and Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers. Nick is currently working on his fourth book. It explores the intersection of psychedelics, race and systems of power and it asks where psychedelics would fit in a socialist revolution. Nick is also preparing to leave in a few da...2023-08-2356 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour On WBAI - 99.5 FM 20 June '23We talk about the Rent Guidelines Board which meets today, June 21, to vote on how high rents will be allowed to go up this year and next for New York’s nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Tenants are urging the RGB to scrap proposed rent hikes of as much as 7% and freeze rents or even roll them back.
Then, we will get an update on the just-completed state legislative session in Albany from democratic socialist State Senator Kristin Gonzalez. We talk about the Build Public Renewables Act, the New York Power Authority, the failure to pass Good Cause Eviction and more.
In...2023-06-211h 00Indy AudioThe Indypendent New Hour on WBAI // 6 March '23In the first segment, we speak with Anthony Sims, who was convicted in the 1998 slaying of Li Run Chen at a Bushwick Chinese food joint in May 1998. The prosecution’s case was built around the testimony of a witness whose story has since been found to be awash in contradictions. Sims was paroled last fall after 24 years behind bars. He is still seeking to clear his name. He has a court hearing on Friday where Judge Danny Chun could throw out his conviction Meanwhile, Anthony is about to begin a fellowship with the Ford Foundation. Years of preparation while he wa...2023-03-0852 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Jan. '22The Indypendent's Steven Wishnia updates us on the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike. He’s been speaking with nurses about their working conditions and demands. Over seven thousand nurses at four private hospitals are on strike. “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients,” says the union.
Yesterday City Council’s labor committee held a public hearing on a measure supported by the Adams administration that would make it possible for the City to transfer 250,000 retired city workers from their current medicare...2023-01-1157 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 03 Jan. '23We get the latest on the battle to stop Gov. Hochul's Hector LaSalle nomination to NY Court of Appeals from Peter Martin of the Center for Community Alternatives. We also speak with Nicholas Powers about his radical Nuyorican mother and an article he wrote about her in the current issue of The Indypendent.2023-01-0456 minIndy AudioAmba and John's Freewheeling Discussion of the News on 29 Nov. '22Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian chat between segments of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM. Interesting updates on subjects local and national.2022-11-3025 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 29 Nov. '22We speak with George Abro of the New York Progressive Action Network about the recent midterms election and why he thinks New York Dems did so badly.
Then, we hear from Indy reporter Ben Mankoff.
The disparities within the NYC school system are a frequent topic of conversation on this radio station and elsewhere, but what’s lesser known is that public-school libraries are disappearing. The city Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Library Services doesn’t have reliable data, but the available figures indicate that over 60% of city high schools do not have the state-mandated library media specialist on sta...2022-11-3053 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent Midterm Election Night Special on WBAI // 08 Nov. '22Over the past couple of years, The Indypendent News Hour has become the premiere news and public affairs show on WBAI, a listen-sponsored community radio station whose signal beams 90 miles in all directions from atop a Midtown skyscraper. On Nov. 8 2022, we expanded our normal one-hour news show into a five-hour election night special.
We not only keep track of key races in New York and nationally but provide a deeper analysis of the issues that have animated the midterms — crime, inflation, abortion rights, the threat to democracy — and ones that haven’t been discussed nearly enough: the racist backlash to Black...2022-11-094h 50Indy AudioRevered Billy Talen Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyRevered Billy Talen Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1300 minIndy AudioRevered Billy Talen Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyRevered Billy Talen Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1300 minIndy AudioLeslie Cagan Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyLeslie Cagan Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1301 minIndy AudioLeslie Cagan Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyLeslie Cagan Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1301 minIndy AudioLinda Sarsour Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyLinda Sarsour Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1300 minIndy AudioLinda Sarsour Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyLinda Sarsour Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1300 minIndy AudioJabari Brisport Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyJabari Brisport Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1302 minIndy AudioJabari Brisport Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising PartyJabari Brisport Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent2022-10-1302 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 11 Oct. 2020On this week's Indypendent News Hour:
In the first segment we speak with members of the Amazon Labor Union about the Oct. 12-17 union election at ALB1, a warehouse in Schodack, NY, near Albany and about heightening work-safety concerns among Amazon workers as three warehouses caught on fire last week, two of which occurrd at Amazon Labor Union-associated warehouses.
In the second segment, we speak with members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense about the rapid growth of BED tenant associations since March and why a tenant association is an important thing to be a part of, to defend your rights as...2022-10-1245 minIndy AudioNY Election Coverage: Yuh-Line Niou with The Indypendent News Hour on WBAIWe hear from State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou. She is carrying the progressive banner in the wide-open race for New York’s newly created 10th congressional district which encompasses Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. The latest polls show Niou running second in a field of 15 candidates, trailing only Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor and an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.
Also, a reminder that we will be hosting a special, two-hour election night edition of The Indypendent News Hour Tuesday, Aug. 23 from 5-7 p.m. The second round of Democratic Party primary elections will be held Tuesday August 23rd...2022-08-1722 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 21 June 2022On Saturday, as a part of the moral monday movement, tens of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March. We hear from Amba Guerguerian, Indypendent associate editor, who was there and spoke with many participants. She says people are at their wit's end and ready to fight for a democratic system and a redistribution of wealth. We also hear a message from her friend Evan in Cali, Colombia, where the first leftist president was elected.
We focus on the militant, rank-and-file wing of the labor movement which gathered in C...2022-06-231h 00Indy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 21 June 2022On Saturday, as a part of the moral monday movement, tens of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March. We hear from Amba Guerguerian, Indypendent associate editor, who was there and spoke with many participants. She says people are at their wit's end and ready to fight for a democratic system and a redistribution of wealth. We also hear a message from her friend Evan in Cali, Colombia, where the first leftist president was elected.
We focus on the militant, rank-and-file wing of the labor movement which gathered in C...2022-06-231h 00Indy AudioIndypendent News Hour on WBAI // 14 June '22We start the show in Albany, where climate activists hoped that Democratic super-majorities in the State Senate and State Assembly could deliver historic legislation that would greatly expand the state of New York’s role in producing renewable energy, create tens of thousands of union jobs and lower rates for consumers. The Build Public Renewables Act did pass the Senate at the end of May but then died in the Assembly without receiving a vote before the legislature adjourned for the year.
State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn and Illapa Sairitupac, a climate activist who is running for State Assembly in...2022-06-1556 minIndy AudioIndypendent News Hour on WBAI // 24 May '22We start with a mini segment with Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton, who has been following New York State’s electoral politics and redistricting. Then:
Sireah McNeill is being denied a lease to her family home after her mother’s passing in February and is determined to rally community support to stop this act of displacement and gentrification in the Historic Clinton Hill community. We speak with McNeill and organizers from Brooklyn Eviction Defense, a grassroots group of tenants supporting tenants in Brooklyn.
We speak with labor organizers Wen Zhuang and Eric Dirnbach, who are trying to speed accelerate worker unionization rate...2022-05-2555 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 12 May 2022On this weeks' Indy News Hour:
Working-class nurse, tenant organizer and NY State Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest on her first term in office, which includes becoming a mom for the first time just a few months ago. She is one of a wave of young socialist NY legislators elected in the past few years, defeating a 4-term incumbent in 2020 to win Assembly District 57. She is now running for reelection.
Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers talks about his new novel, the resurgence in interest in psychedelics (which he has always been a champion of) and why men should be speaking out...2022-05-1255 minIndy AudioIndypendent News Hour on WBAI // 29 March 2022The story of the late Kalief Browder helped inspire the movement to dramatically reduce the use of cash bail for people charged with crime. In 2010, Kalief was thrown into Rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of 16. He refused to take a guilty plea and was held there for 3 years awaiting a trial. His case was eventually dismissed. But, he was so traumatized by his experience at Rikers that he took his own life after he was released. His older brother, Akeem Browder, has committed his life to incarceration reform from Rikers to Albany. Akeem is the founder...2022-03-3057 minIndy AudioIndypendent News Hour on WBAI // 29 March 2022The story of the late Kalief Browder helped inspire the movement to dramatically reduce the use of cash bail for people charged with crime. In 2010, Kalief was thrown into Rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of 16. He refused to take a guilty plea and was held there for 3 years awaiting a trial. His case was eventually dismissed. But, he was so traumatized by his experience at Rikers that he took his own life after he was released. His older brother, Akeem Browder, has committed his life to incarceration reform from Rikers to Albany. Akeem is the founder...2022-03-3057 minIndy AudioPaddy Quick Explains Interest Rate Hikes, Government-Engineered Increase in UnemploymentThe U.S. is experiencing an inflation rate of almost 8%, the highest it’s been in 40 years. The cost of just about everything is going up, up and up. To rein in inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to steadily increase interest rates over the coming year. To help us better understand what the Federal Reserve is, why it’s doing what it’s doing and who the winners and losers, Paddy Quick joins us. Quick is a retired professor of economic at St. Francis College in New York, a member of the Union of Radical Political Economists and a contributing writer...2022-03-3020 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 16 February 2022On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian:
— The Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights but was met with fierce community response. We speak with Sherease Torain, who was born in the home, Nicoás Vargas of Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Joel Feingold of Crown Heights Tenants Union, two of the groups that has come to support the Robinson Family.
—In the past week, six S...2022-02-1659 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 25 January 2022On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview:
On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview:
* Ted Hamm, Indy criminal justice reporter, about the recent police killing in the Bronx and the current rhetoric around public safety in NYC and reform pushbacks.
* Nic Nicoludis of Rank and File Action (RAFA), the more militant faction of PSC-CUNY, The City University of New York staff & faculty union. RAFA is demanding an end to a mandate that 70% of courses be taught in person this semester and called for CUNY admin to...2022-01-2657 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 25 January 2022On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview:
On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview:
* Ted Hamm, Indy criminal justice reporter, about the recent police killing in the Bronx and the current rhetoric around public safety in NYC and reform pushbacks.
* Nic Nicoludis of Rank and File Action (RAFA), the more militant faction of PSC-CUNY, The City University of New York staff & faculty union. RAFA is demanding an end to a mandate that 70% of courses be taught in person this semester and called for CUNY admin to...2022-01-2657 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 18 Jan 2022This week on The Indypendent New Hour, we hear from:
Amba Guerguerian, a reporter who was at the Brooklyn Housing Court on Tuesday — the first day NY courts were open since the NY eviction moratorium expired on Saturday — and spoke with tenants on the brink of eviction and "eviction defender" tenant organizers.
Two public school students who walked out of their classes last week to protest unsafe conditions in their buildings amid the latest surge of COVID-19.
Bronx public school parent and former AOC staffer Jonathan Soto who is running for a State Assembly as a champion of replacing mayoral cont...2022-01-1958 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 28 December 2021This week on Indy News we speak with:
—Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned “I’m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.” With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country, he is alarmed once again.
— Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls and VP Der...2021-12-3058 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 28 December 2021This week on Indy News we speak with:
—Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned “I’m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.” With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country, he is alarmed once again.
— Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls and VP Der...2021-12-3058 minIndy AudioSean Petty Interviewed on WBAI by The IndypendentThis week on Indy News we speak with Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned “I’m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.” With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country, he is alarmed once again.2021-12-3022 minIndy AudioJulia Thomas Interviewed on WBAI by The IndypendentThis week on Indy News we speak with Julia Thomas, author of “Rikers Island Transferees Now Held in Maximum Security Prison Where Drinking Water Tastes Like Sewage” from the recent Dec. issue of The Indypendent. Bedford hills, a maximum-security prison in Westchester is experiencing an influx of women and transgender and non-binary people — all held pre-trial — who are being transferred from Rikers Island. The controversial and inhumane transfers, which began in October, come after renewed calls to close Rikers and address the increasingly inhumane conditions on the penal colony.2021-12-3008 minIndy AudioCostas Panayotakis Interviewed on WBAI by The IndypendentA new variant of the Coronavirus, the Omicron variant, was just discovered in South Africa. We are faced with the possibility that the new variant may prove resistant to the vaccines that we had hoped to bring the pandemic under control.
We speak with author Costas Panayotakis about his recent article for The Indypendent, “Omicron Variant Underscores Why We Must Abolish Global Vaccine Apartheid." Panayotakis is a professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY).2021-12-0108 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour // 30 November 2021In this edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we speak with a member of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition about a current struggle to preserve an African burial ground located on the corners of Bedford and Church Avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Then, we turn to some breaking news. This week, the city announced that two safe injection sites in Harlem and Washington Heights that will be run by non-profit harm reduction groups. This much needed addition to our public infrastructure comes after 100,000 ODs resulting in death between April of 2020 and 2021. We will speak with an addiction doctor about the...2021-12-0156 minIndy AudioThe Indypendent News Hour // 30 November 2021In this edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we speak with a member of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition about a current struggle to preserve an African burial ground located on the corners of Bedford and Church Avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Then, we turn to some breaking news. This week, the city announced that two safe injection sites in Harlem and Washington Heights that will be run by non-profit harm reduction groups. This much needed addition to our public infrastructure comes after 100,000 ODs resulting in death between April of 2020 and 2021. We will speak with an addiction doctor about the...2021-12-0156 min