Leaked Audio: Amazon Managers Discipline ALU Organizer for Union Talk
Leaked Audio: Amazon Managers Discipline ALU Organizer for Union Talk by The Indypendent
Apr 14, 2022•14 min
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 12 April 2022
NY legislators approved a $220 billion state budget at the end of last week. The measure included a rollback of bail reform laws passed in 2019 and a $600 million public subsidy for building a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills football team. We speak with State Senator Jessica Ramos, who expressed concerns about the budget. She represents Senate District 13, which encompasses several working-class immigrant communities in Western Queens including Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona. I...
Apr 14, 2022•58 min
Ridgewood Tenants Union and Spanish Housing Activists Speak with The Indypendent on WBAI
We speak housing justice with Raquel Namuche, a tenant organizer in Ridgewood, Queens who was arrested on Saturday during a police sweep of unhoused people in her community. Towards the end of the segment, we learn about PAH, a radical Spanish housing-justice group, from a journalist who has covered them and one of their longtime organizers.
Apr 14, 2022•14 min
NYS Budget Breakdown with State Senator Jessica Ramos
NY legislators approved a $220 billion state budget at the end of last week. The measure included a rollback of bail reform laws passed in 2019 and a $600 million public subsidy for building a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills football team. We speak with State Senator Jessica Ramos, who expressed concerns about the budget. She represents Senate District 13, which encompasses several working-class immigrant communities in Western Queens including Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona.
Apr 14, 2022•22 min
India Walton Talks Debt Cancellation on WBAI/Indypendent News Hour
India Walton electrified the Left last year during her run for Mayor of Buffalo when she almost became the first Socialist to lead a major American city in 60 years. She’s now right in the thick of the movement to push President Biden to cancel $1.7 trillion in student loan debt for 45 million Americans.
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr
Leaked audio from one of Amazon's union-busting trainings just days before union election
Leaked audio provided to The Indy of a captive audience meeting on March 23, just two days before the current union election (March 25-30) happening at Amazon warehouse JFK8 on Staten Island. Amazon made sure each employee sat in at least 7 of these union-busting sessions masked as “required trainings,” for which union busters made $3-10K/class, says the Amazon Labor Union. The person who asks the first question is Derrick Palmer, Vice President of Organizing, Amazon Labor Union. If you listen c...
Mar 30, 2022•32 min
Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 29 March 2022
The story of the late Kalief Browder helped inspire the movement to dramatically reduce the use of cash bail for people charged with crime. In 2010, Kalief was thrown into Rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of 16. He refused to take a guilty plea and was held there for 3 years awaiting a trial. His case was eventually dismissed. But, he was so traumatized by his experience at Rikers that he took his own life after he was released. His older brother, Akeem Browder, has committed ...
Mar 30, 2022•57 min
Paddy Quick Explains Interest Rate Hikes, Government-Engineered Increase in Unemployment
The U.S. is experiencing an inflation rate of almost 8%, the highest it’s been in 40 years. The cost of just about everything is going up, up and up. To rein in inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to steadily increase interest rates over the coming year. To help us better understand what the Federal Reserve is, why it’s doing what it’s doing and who the winners and losers, Paddy Quick joins us. Quick is a retired professor of economic at St. Francis College in New York, a member of the Union of...
Mar 30, 2022•20 min
Ted Hamm Court Updates: A Small Slice of Justice Years in the Making
There’s not a lot of justice in our criminal justice system. And when it does come, it is often years in the making. In 2015, Saul Robles was convicted of killing Alex Santiago during a 20-person brawl that took place in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In 2019, an appeals court overturned the conviction finding numerous faults with how the Brooklyn DA’s office handled the case. Earlier this week, the DA’s office finally announced it would not try to retry Robles. The Indypendent’s Ted Hamm has been follow...
Mar 30, 2022•9 min
Akeem Browder Says NO to Kathy Hochul's Criminal Justice Reform Rollbacks
The story of the late Kalief Browder helped inspire the movement to dramatically reduce the use of cash bail for people charged with crime. In 2010, Kalief was thrown into Rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of 16. He refused to take a guilty plea and was held there for 3 years awaiting a trial. His case was eventually dismissed. But, he was so traumatized by his experience at Rikers that he took his own life after he was released. His older brother, Akeem Browder, has committed ...
Mar 29, 2022•17 min
Longtime Activist Leslie Cagan is Still Asking for Peace, Not Nukes!
Longtime peace and justice organizer Leslie Cagan was the coordinator for the June 12, 1982 Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, when upwards of 1 million people marched past the United Nations and then gathered in Central Park to demand an end to the arms race. It remains one of the largest single protest events in U.S. history. Cagan takes us through some of the history of that event and the impact it made at the time. She also helps us think about where we are today with nuclear war again on the ra...
Mar 16, 2022•17 min
Sandy Nurse Talks Trash on WBAI with The Indypendent
City Councilmember Sandy Nurse has a long history as a radical activist and community organizer in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She was elected to City Council last year and is leading some important battles from her new position as Chair of the Sanitation Committee. She explains how trash in NYC works and whats missing. Among other things, she’s leading the fight to reverse Mayor Adams proposed cuts to the Sanitation Dept budget.
Mar 16, 2022•25 min
Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 15 March 2022
On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — In our first segment, we speak with City Councilmember Sandy Nurse. Sandy has a long history as a radical activist and community organizer in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She was elected to City Council last year and is leading some important battles from her new position as Chair of the Sanitation Committee. She explains how trash works in NYC works and whats missing. Among other things, she’s leading the fight to reverse Mayor A...
Mar 16, 2022•48 min
Francesca Fiorentini Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
We talk with leftist political comic Francesca Fiorentini. She’s the host of the Bitchuation Room podcast which brings together political comics, activists and thinkers. She also appears on The Damage Report on the Young Turks Network and is the host and lead writer for AJ+’s Newsbroke which airs short, entertaining videos that use a light-hearted approach to unpack complex topics such as white fragility in the workplace and the history of socialism in America. She’s done all this while facing t...
Mar 10, 2022•16 min
Kristen Gonzalez Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
Kristen Gonzalez, 26, a socialist from Queens, is running for State Senate. If elected, she will make history as the youngest woman ever elected to the New York State Senate. She’s been off to a fast start since entering the race, with endorsements from the NYC Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party.
Mar 10, 2022•12 min
Jen Hernandez Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022.
Mar 10, 2022•15 min
The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 8 March 2022
On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022. —Kristen Gonzalez, 26, a socialist from Queens, is running for State Senate. If elected, she will make history as th...
Mar 10, 2022•58 min
Christina Zawerucha Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
We hear from Christina Zawerucha about her experiences coming of age in New York’s Ukrainian-American diaspora and how it has shaped her life. She also sings us an amazing freedom song live on air.
Mar 03, 2022•17 min
Linda Martín Alcoff Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
Linda Martin Alcoff, a leading critical race theorist, talks with us about why the Left should stop running from the controversy around critical race theory and see it as an opportunity. She says that pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.
Mar 03, 2022•15 min
Emilia Decaudin Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
Emilia Decaduin, a trans socialist organizer and Democratic Party District leader in Assembly District 37 in Sunnyside, Queens, talks about the growing backlash to Eric Adams’ appointment of several brazen homophobes to his administration.
Mar 03, 2022•20 min
The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 1 March 2022
On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: —Emilia Decaduin, a trans socialist organizer and Democratic Party District leader in Assembly District 37 in Sunnyside, Queens, talks about the growing backlash to Eric Adams’ appointment of several brazen homophobes to his administration. —Linda Martin Alcoff, a leading critical race theorist, talks with us about why the Left should stop running from the controversy around critical race theory and see it as an opportunity. She ...
Mar 03, 2022•57 min
Brutality Against Homeless New Yorkers in the Name of Law & Order
The latest front in Mayor Eric Adams crusade for public safety: New York City’s vast subway system. On Friday, Mayor Adams announced that the city would now be taking a zero tolerance approach to unhoused people in the subway system. Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of “The End of Policing" talks about the Mayor’s new strategy for policing the homeless and his broader approach to public safety. We also speak with speak with Peter Malvan, who spent 32 years...
Feb 23, 2022•40 min
Privatization of NYCHA: Harlem River Houses Now Owned by Slumlord
Slumlord C+C Management has just taken over Harlem River Houses from NYCHA. This means that the tenants of the complex are no longer protected by Section 9 public housing laws and instead fall under Section 8 low-income housing rules, which are less protective. This privatization and gentrification scheme being pushed by Eric Adams puts the roughly 600,000 people living in NYCHA buildings at a larger threat of eviction and bad conditions. On Saturday, tenants of Harlem River Houses and their all...
Feb 23, 2022•10 min
The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 22 Feb 2022
On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: —The latest front in Mayor Eric Adams crusade for public safety: New York City’s vast subway system. On Friday, Mayor Adams announced that the city would now be taking a zero tolerance approach to unhoused people in the subway system. Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of “The End of Policing" talks about the Mayor’s new strategy for policing the homeless and his broader approach to public sa...
Feb 23, 2022•58 min
The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 16 February 2022
On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — The Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights but was met with fierce community response. We speak with Sherease Torain, who was born in the home, Nicoás Vargas of Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Joel Feingold of Crown Heights Tenants Union, two of th...
Feb 16, 2022•59 min
Kazembe Balagun in Conversation/ Black History Month Free Film Screenings in Harlem
We talk Black History Month and in particular two films that are going to be screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem in the coming days. One is about the poet Audre Lorde and her time in Germany and the other is about the great writer, historian and activist W.E.B. DuBois who also has some interesting ties to Germany. Kazembe Balagun — project manager at the Rosa Lux Stifgung’s New York office, a cultural historian, a contributing writer for The Indypendent and much more — joins us ...
Feb 16, 2022•21 min
Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave: First Starbucks in Brooklyn to File for Union Election
In the past week, six Starbucks stores in New York City and on Long Island have filed for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board, the first in the NYC region to do so. They are among the more than 80 Starbucks stores in at least 23 states that have sought to unionize since baristas at a Buffalo Starbucks store voted to unionize two months ago. Two baristas — Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave, from a Starbucks store in Bath Beach, Brooklyn which filed for union recognition la...
Feb 16, 2022•18 min
Eviction Defense: Family + Community Fighting Hard to Keep Home
One month to the day after Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the state’s eviction moratorium, the Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. Sherease Torain, a member of Crown Heights Tenants Union, her mother, Ms. Robinson, and Ms. Robinson’s 98-year-old mother all live in the home. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights. On Tues., Feb 15, the family was back in housing ...
Feb 16, 2022•14 min
Nicholas Powers Interrogates, “Is Eric Adams Playing Black Voters?”
We speak with Indy Contributing Editor and Eric Adams voter Nicholas Powers, who in his latest article does a fascinating job of exploring the political and cultural sources of Adams’ deep popularity in the Black community, what left activists have failed to understand about Adams and his supporters and how our new mayor has already begun to betray his working class supporters in favor of his wealthy backers. On WBAI-99.5 FM, Indypendent News Hour Tuesdays 5-6 p.m.
Feb 02, 2022•12 min
Keron Alleyne, Candidate for AD 60 in Special Election: Protect East New York from Gentrification
Keron Alleyne, Candidate for Assembly District 60 in an upcoming special election for the district that covers East New York and parts of the surrounding neighborhoods. Alleyne has been endorsed by District 60 Assemblymember Charles Barron and his wife, Inez Barron. If Alleyne wins the upcoming special election, he will have to then be reelected in this summer's primary to carry out a full term. He plans to protect his predominantly Black district from gentrification and keep community spaces vi...
Feb 02, 2022•18 min
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