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We speak to Cynthia Carter, President of UAW Local 2320 here in New York which represents legal aid workers at Mobilization for Justice who have been on strike for the past eight weeks.

We speak with Indypendent photographer Neil Constanine. 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.

We speak with Johnny Rivera, longtime East Harlem tenant and socialist housing organizer. 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

We 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 yes...

In 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 c...

In 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 L...

In 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 fun...

We speak with Naim Mian of Writers Against the War on Gaza about the recent groundswell of direct action targeting The New York Times as well as a new unsubscribe campaign and the website newyorkwarcrimes.com, which was recently launched by a group of anonymous researchers, reporters and creatives.

In 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 cov...

We speak indy reporter Ariana Orozco about her stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Orozco has been covering the State of New York’s attempt to close SUNY Downstate Hospital in central Brooklyn. She also spoke with med school students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine about the recent announcement that a $1 billion donation to the school would ensure students at the s...

We speak with Amba Guerguerian about her article 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. And how they're winning.

We speak with a barista at a unionized store in Williiamsburg about the positive impacts that are already being felt by workers at her/their store. And we speak with a labor historian who says the breakthrough at Starbucks could turn out to be the biggest victory for the labor movement in the United States since the great industrial strikes of the 1930s led to the creation of the modern labor move...

—Over 100+ cities around the world took to the streets to denounce Israel’s threats to intensify the genocide in Gaza by ground invading Rafah, the tightly-packed “safe” zone on March 10, the first day of Ramadan. —We know of protests that occurred in many US cities, including but not limited to DC, Philly, Baltimore, Cambridge, Providence, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake...

In 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 mo...

We hear an interview by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton with Bennett Fischer of the United Federation of Teachers. At the United Federation of Teachers, one of the city’s largest municipal unions, UFT Retiree Advocate, a group of retiree activists, announced on Friday that they will contest an internal union election this spring for leadership of the retiree chapter which has more than 6...

We speak with Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at CUNY’s Hunter College about an ongoing film series showing movies about Palestine. She’ll also update us about an upcoming Jewish Voice for Peace protest for Palestine.

We speak with Don Mark Roxas and Diego Ramirez, 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 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...

We speak with Within Our Lifetime Palestine organizer Abdullah Akl. WOL has led over 100 protests across the city since Oct. 7. The pro-Palestinian group has been dealing this month with an intensifying crackdown by the NYPD and recently had its Instagram account suspended by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.

We look back at an earlier era in New York City history — a very different world in many ways, but not so different in others. In 1741, New York City had a population of 11,000 people, about one-sixth of whom were enslaved. We learn about a terrible court case that was prosecuted by Judges Chambers and Murray. We are joined by longtime defense attorney, death-penalty abolitionist Russel Neufeld an...

We speak with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.

We spoke with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus. Then, we hear from Abdullah el-Akl from Within Our Lifetime Palestine talking about the repression that the organization and its leaders are facing including their widely-followed Instagram account bei...

The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir. But now it’s also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essential city services and part of a broader community mobilization in the East Village to aid desperate migrants. We speak with Savitri D., one of th...

CUNY has been under increasing financial strain in recent years. The surprise firings and the course rollbacks at Queens College have stoked fears across CUNY that more such measures could take place across the CUNY system. We speak with Ash Marinaccio, one of the 26 fired professors, and Karen Weingarten, Professor of English at Queens College. Karen is also the chapter chair at her campus for th...

A round of Gaza updates from The Indy's Amba Guerguerian: ICJ decision, UNRWA defunding, updates from on the ground in southern Gaza, perspectives on various attacks in the Middle East & the arresting of Nerdeen Kiswani and other pro-Palestine protest leaders on Friday, Jan. 26.

First segment: A recent spate of budget cuts and faculty firings at Queens College have stoked concerns that a devastating new wave of austerity could sweep across CUNY, the largest urban higher education system in the country. Second Segment: The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shoppi...