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As 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.

As 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 grou...

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 is titled "Under Trump 2.0, Most Black Americans Have Nowhere to Turn."

We 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 will burn their diplomas outside the campus gates on the morning of May 21 before the university holds its graduation ceremony.

Co-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 grad...

We talk about former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. Our guest, Lindsey Boylan, was an economic development advisor to then-Gov. Cuomo. Boylan became the first of 11 women to go public with claims of sexual harassment against Cuomo that led to his resignation in August of 2021. In addition to her personal experiences with Cuomo, she got an up-cl...

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 Govern...

In 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 ag...

Ariana Orozco will be speaking with an actor and director for a new play chronicling the history of Black midwifery in the U.S., she will also will be talking to a death doula about our relationship to death and how we might better accept the inevitable, and finally with Popular Democracy about the relationship between poetry and political education

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, May 4, from 1–6 p.m. at the Sixth Street Community Center in the East Village.

We 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.

We 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...

We 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 University of New York and other American colleges and universities from President Trump’s authoritarian takeover.

Outraged 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.

Outraged 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 s...

We have the latest on the repression of pro-Palestine speech right here in New York and the growing impunity of groups like Betar and other militant Zionists. We cover recent protests by doctors, nurses and professors from Columbia University's medical campus and by Within Our Lifetime Palestine.

Brooklyn 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.

Brooklyn 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...

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 Cohen and the Citi Field Casino.

City 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.

City 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...

The 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 Schu...

We catch up on the latest news in the mayoral race and take listener call-ins.

The 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 protest outside Senator Chuck Schumer's home in Brooklyn and the growing demands for Schum...

We also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem.