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We speak New School student organizers Cooper Sterling and Bella Coles. They are members of Student-Faculty Solidarity, the lead group on campus that advocates on behalf of part-time faculty. They report back on the critical negotiations that began last night between ACT-UAW 7902, the union representing striking part-time faculty, and the university.

We speak with Beth Miller of Jewish Voices for Peace and Sumaya Awad, co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. Last week, 12 NYC City Council members traveled to Israel. While there, they were confronted by Jewish anti-occupation activists that urged them to travel to Sheikh Jarrah, which they refused to do. So why are they there, if they are only interested in seeing one half of the situ...

Indypendent 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.

We speak with Indy Ben Mankoff on WBAI. 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 d...

We 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.

We 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 De...

We speak with Democratic Socialist Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani of Queens about fighting Con Ed’s latest price-gouging rate hikes, the need for a Publicly controlled power system fueled by renewable energy sources and the daily work of being a Socialist elected official operating within a capitalist system.

Regina Bueno is from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. She sent us these vocal messages shortly after Brazil's presidential election results announced Lula would again be president of Brazil. She believes he is a champion of the poor and marginalized people of Brazil.

Over 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 nationall...