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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menim reached a handshake agreement earlier today on a $125.8 billion annual city budget. In our first segment, we spoke with Peter Sterne of City & State about key details in the deal including the expansion of a controversial rental assistance program backed by the Council and opposed by the Mayor. A recent Supreme Court ruling gave the Trump a...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menim reached a handshake agreement earlier today on a $125.8 billion annual city budget. We spoke with Peter Sterne of City & State about key details in the deal including the expansion of a controversial rental assistance program backed by the Council and opposed by the Mayor.

A recent Supreme Court ruling gave the Trump administration the greenlight to strip 350,000 Haitian immigrants of the Temporary Protected Status they received after a 2010 earthquake leveled Haiti and left more than 300,000 people dead. The Indypendent News Hour spoke with Phara Souffrant Forrest, the daughter of Haitian immigrant parents and a democratic socialist who represents a heavily Haitian...

Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton was interviewed by Scott Harris of WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut about New York City DSA's sweeping election victories in the June 23 Democratic primaries and how democratic socialists are rapidly gaining ground across the country. A shorter version of this 24-minute interview was syndicated on 70 radio stations across the country on Counterpoint's siste...

New York City DSA won 9 of 10 races, including two congressional seats, in the June 23 Democratic primary, sending shock waves through the national Democratic Party establishment.

The Indypendent News Hour's John Tarleton and WBAI's Jenna Flanagan co-hosted four hours of election night coverage that featured the voices of historians, political analysts and grassroots organizers on a historic night that saw democratic socialists win blow-out victories across the city.

As voters went to the polls in the waning hours of the June 23 Democratic primary, we spoke with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers, Peter Sterne of City & State Magazine and with voters in West Harlem where democratic socialists were challenging an incumbent Congressmember and their incumbent State Assemblymember.

It's been a long time coming.

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Eon Huntley is a retail worker, union activist, former PTA president and democratic socialist. He is running against a pro-corporate incumbent in Assembly District 56 (Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights) on Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda. Huntley’s friend and ally Jabari Brisport is running hard for his fourth term in the New York State Senate in an overlapping Central Brooklyn district. We caught up...

Eon Huntley is a retail worker, union activist, former PTA president and democratic socialist. He is running against a pro-corporate incumbent in Assembly District 56 (Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights) on Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda. Huntley’s friend and ally Jabari Brisport is running hard for his fourth term in the New York State Senate in an overlapping Central Brooklyn district. We caught up...

Susan Schnall and Trevor Howard are both members of Veterans For Peace who are calling on present-day U.S. soldiers and national guardsman to be ready to disobey unlawful orders from the Trump regime.

In our first segment, The Indypendent's John Tarleton caught with Assemblymember Claire Valdez while she was campaigning to represent New York’s 7th congressional district which spans North Brooklyn and Western Queens. Valdez has the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and is widely considered to be the favorite in a race. Topics discussed include Valdez's background as a low-wage worker and union...

The Indypendent's John Tarleton caught up on Sunday with Assemblymember Claire Valdez while she was campaigning to represent New York’s 7th congressional district which spans North Brooklyn and Western Queens. Valdez has the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and is widely considered to be the favorite in a race that also includes Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Queens City Council...

The Trump administration is set to kick off a so-called “America 250 celebration” with a massive MAGA Rally called the 'Great American State Fair'—but so many of the musical guests backed out over its ties to Trump that it’s unclear if it will still happen or who will perform, except of course for Trump himself. Meanwhile, progressive organizers, including Linda Sarsour, are moving forward with ot...

In this week's Indypendent News Hour, we speak with Dan Kaminsky of Park Slope Food Coop Members for Palestine about the upcoming vote by PSFC members on whether to boycott goods produced in Israel and the Occupied Territories. We also talk to Conrad Blackburn, a public defender, union organizer and democratic socialist running for Assembly District 70 in Central and West Harlem against the heir t...

The Park Slope Food Coop is the largest food coop in the country and one of the oldest. It has had a social mission since its founding in 1973 and has previously backed over 20 consumer boycotts including ones against products from apartheid South Africa and in support of the national boycott against California table grapes led by the United Farm Workers. For the past 17 years, pro-Palestine membe...

We get a live report from two New Jersey activists, Paula Rogovan and Terri Seuss, stationed outside Delaney Hall in Newark, the site over the Memorial Day weekend of protests inside the ICE facility by immigrant detainees and outside by their supporters.

We speak with Conrad Blackburn, a public defender, union organizer and democratic socialist running for Assembly District 70 in Harlem. Blackburn says the Harlem political establishment is out of touch with the needs of the community and is more concerned with catering to wealthy special interests which Blackburn says are on track to spend more than $2 million to defeat his campaign against Assemb...

Emily Gallagher, a democratic socialist from Brooklyn first elected to the State Assembly in 2020, discusses how Gov. Hochul has used her disproportionate power to break the legislative process for deciding on the states roughly $265 billion annual budget to push regressive legislation that has nothing to do with the budget and how this mess can be fixed if the legislature can find the courage to...

What is or is not in New York State's roughly $265 billion annual budget affects every facet of life—education, health care, public transit, parks, public safety, the budgets of cities and towns large and small and so much more. By law, the budget was supposed to be completed by April 1. Six weeks later, negotiations between Gov. Kathy Hochul, State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate P...

In the second half of our show, we spoke with Reneé Feltz about her epic cover story for the May print edition of The Indypendent titled “Trash Revolution: NYC Dumps Throwaway Culture for Sanitation Overhaul. Will It Succeed?” We were also joined by Clarisa Alayeto, a South Bronx activist who has fought to clean up her community for decades and is featured in Renee’s cover story.

In the first half of our May 5 show, we spoke with movement journalist Talia Jane and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso about the chaos that rocked Bushwick late Saturday night when ICE and NYPD clashed outside Wyckoff Hospital with protesters trying to prevent ICE from taking away an immigrant they had arrested and injured earlier that night. Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that the NYPD did n...