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Local journalist Talia Jane covers social movements here in the city and has reported extensively on police brutality against protesters. They covered Saturday night’s confrontation between ICE/NYPD and protesters trying to prevent the abduction of Nigerian immigrant Chidozie Wilson Okeke.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso says the fear generated by ICE's violent appearance on Saturday night at the Wyckoff Hospital is spreading throughout the heavily immigrant community of Bushwick.

In the second half of our show, we spoke with David Orkin. He is an immigrant workers’ rights attorney at Make the Road New York. He’s running for Assembly District 38 in Queens as a democratic socialist who wants to bring the struggle against ICE and oligarchy into the state legislature. His opponent, Jennifer Rajkumar, is one of former Mayor Eric Adams’s most notorious allies.

April 28, 2026: Peter Sterne Joins Us for Political Updates and Joseph Mogul Talks About The Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard Movement by The Indypendent

Peter Sterne from City & State, joins us for another enriching conversation on upcoming elections, mayoral updates and political happenings.

Joseph Mogul, a local NYC journalist joined us to talk about his Truth Out article on 'Demilitarize Navy Yard's successful campaign against Easy Aerial, a company that manufactures drones.

In the first segment, we talk to Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters. She explains why a growing coalition of parents, students and educators are alarmed by the rapid rollout of AI tools in the classroom with the apparent blessing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and are demanding a two-year moratorium on the expansion of AI in the schools to gain a better understanding of its impact o...

More than 900,000 New York City children attend the largest public school system in the country. In this interview, Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, explains why a growing coalition of parents, students and educators are alarmed by the rapid rollout of AI tools in the classroom with the apparent blessing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and are demanding a two-year moratorium on th...

The proposed Streams Data Center in Genesee County, NY would be the largest built in the state to date. It is meeting massive local resistance, says Sarah Howard, an environmental consultant for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

In the first segment we speak to Cara Levine & Judy Loebl of Jewish Voices for Peace. More than two dozen groups from the Break the Bonds coalition participated in a Jewish Voice for Peace led Passover Seder outside the offices of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine. They want Levine to renounce his campaign promise to purchase Israel bonds with the New York City municipal pension funds he overs...

More than two dozen groups from the Break the Bonds coalition participated in a Jewish Voice for Peace led Passover Seder outside the offices of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine. They want Levine to renounce his campaign promise to purchase Israel bonds with the New York City municipal pension funds he oversees.

We spoke with Brooklyn-based writer, cultural worker and anti-carceral activist Priscilla Grim about the long legal ordeal she and dozens of others have been going through since being indiscriminately arrested by police three years ago at a protest against a proposed militarized police training in Atlanta known as Cop City.

April 7, 2026: Carl Miller’s Murder Conviction Overturned + Andrew Wang of Every Electric by The Indypendent

April 7, 2026: Carl Miller Reflects on His 46-Year Battle to Overturn His Wrongful Murder Conviction by The Indypendent

April 7, 2026: Andrew Wang of Everyelectric.com Talks About How to Save on Your Power Bill by The Indypendent

March 31, 2026: Parents Protest Gov. Hochul's Anti-Climate Policies + How to Make Democracy Real by The Indypendent

March 31, 2026: Samantha Gore of Climate Parents NYC on Gov. Hochul's Push to Gut Major Climate Law by The Indypendent

March 31, 2026: Danielle Chynoweth & Elizabeth Adams Discuss Their New Book: Remaking Democracy by The Indypendent

March 24, 2026: Home Care Workers Push for No More 24 Hour Shifts & New York Politics Update by The Indypendent

March 24, 2026: Belinda Hu & Dr. Steven Aurerbach Discuss No More 24 Campaign for Home Care Workers by The Indypendent

This week at the Indypendent News Hour we talk to Peter Sterne from City & State for updates on all you need to know about Mamdani, DSA and more.

With negotiations on New York State's annual $250 billion budget in the final home stretch, we spoke with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a socialist from Brooklyn. Topics discussed included the fight to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to agree to tax hikes for the rich, how the state will make up for federal cuts to Medicaid funding and the governor's push to roll back historic climate mandates tha...

With negotiations on New York State's annual $250 billion budget in the final home stretch, we spoke with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a socialist from Brooklyn. Topics discussed included the fight to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to agree to tax hikes for the rich, how the state will make up for federal cuts to Medicaid funding and the governor's push to roll back historic climate mandates tha...

Former Andrew Cuomo staffer and urban planner Lindsey Boylan set in motion the events that led to her boss's resignation as governor in 2021 when she became the first of 13 women to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment. In last year's mayoral race, Boylan continued to speak out against Cuomo while many Democrats rallied to his side thinking he was certain to be the next mayor. Now, she is running for...

As the weather gets nicer, New Yorkers are looking for things to do outside of their apartments that have doubled as caves these past couple of months. For our final segment, Ernasto Gomez and Eli Smith of Jalopy Theater joined us live in the studio to talk about the The 9th Annual Brooklyn Jug & String Band Rendezvous that is being held this Friday and Saturday at the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn....