We speak with New York State senator and socialist Julia Salazar about the growing revolt in the State Senate against Gov. Hochul's nomination of conservative judge Hector LaSalle to lead NYS's highest court for the next 14 years. We also discuss the role of the judiciary in a capitalist state, whether law can be separate from politics, the uses and abuses of identity politics and why the NY Democratic Party establishment has no qualms about betraying its own core supporters.
Dec 28, 2022•45 min
On this week's show: 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. Then, we speak with Beth Miller of Jewish Voices for Peace and Sumaya Awad, co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. ...
Dec 07, 2022•55 min
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.
Dec 07, 2022•26 min
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 situation?
Dec 07, 2022•12 min
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.
Nov 30, 2022•26 min
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 do not have the state-mandated library media specialist on staff, and more than 40% don’t have any li...
Nov 30, 2022•19 min
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.
Nov 30, 2022•16 min
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 Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Library Services doesn’t have reliable data, but the availab...
Nov 30, 2022•53 min
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.
Nov 25, 2022•26 min
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.
Nov 19, 2022•1 min
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 nationally but provide a deeper analysis of the issues that have animated the midterms — crime, inflation, ab...
Nov 09, 2022•4 hr 51 min
We speak with Leo of Mexicanos Unidos, a politically-and-community-oriented group in Sunset Park, Brooklyn working to develop a critical, collective social consciousness for the Mexican community. The group, which was founded during the George Floyd Uprisings of 2020, hosts a sprawling weekly open-air market in Sunset Park (the park) called Plaza Tonatiuh and engages community in political education.
Nov 02, 2022•19 min
We speak with Hall and Greyson of Starbucks Workers United (SWU), who are part of a group of workers that just launched a union campaign at Starbucks/Amazon go in Times Square. Worker-led SWU has organized over 300 Starbucks shops since last year.
Nov 02, 2022•15 min
Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian talk about leftist and Workers Party founding member Lula da Silva defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's presidential runoffs. We connect it to (and discuss) the governor's race here with Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul being neck-and-neck in the polls with MAGA candidate Lee Zeldin.
Nov 02, 2022•13 min
On this week's show: In the first segment, we talk about leftist and Workers Party founding member Lula da Silva defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazil presidential runoffs. We connect it to (and discuss) the governor's race here with Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul being neck-and-neck in the polls with MAGA candidate Lee Zeldin. In the second segment, we speak with Hall and Greyson of Starbucks Workers United (SWU), who are part of a group of workers that just launched a u...
Nov 02, 2022•55 min
On this week's show: With Republican Lee Zeldin gaining rapidly in the polls on incumbent Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, in our first segment we hear clips from a raucous Get Out The Vote rally for Kathy Hochul Sunday afternoon on the Upper West Side. The event was disrupted by Zeldin supporters and some really strange and disturbing anti-vaxxers. We hear from Indy reporter Ted Hamm who has a new article out on how Zeldin is using blatantly racist images, tropes and campaign promises to push ...
Oct 26, 2022•56 min
We speak with acclaimed street photographer Alex Harsley about a new exhibit of his life’s work that is being staged on the Lower East Side in a photo exhibit titled "Sixty-four years of Images of my NYC Community." The optical time journey highlights Harsley's "quest for the ultimate photo that truly represents the beauty of his community as it has evolved over the years." @ Cooper Square Committee's Studio One 59-61 E 4th St. #3W until Nov. 15.
Oct 26, 2022•15 min
We talk to Democratic Socialist Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn about the governor’s race and how it could affect working-class New Yorkers. We also speak with Mitaynes, a former tenant organizer, about the shocking news that came out last week about how nearly 90,000 rent-stabilized apartments in the city are currently vacant even as both rents and homelessness continue soaring.
Oct 26, 2022•13 min
With Republican Lee Zeldin gaining rapidly in the polls on incumbent Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, in our first segment we hear clips from a raucous Get Out The Vote rally for Kathy Hochul Sunday afternoon on the Upper West Side. The event was disrupted by Zeldin supporters and some really strange and disturbing anti-vaxxers. We hear from Indy reporter Ted Hamm who has a new article out on how Zeldin is using blatantly racist images, tropes and campaign promises to push his tough on crime me...
Oct 26, 2022•23 min
Revered Billy Talen Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent
Oct 13, 2022•57 sec
Leslie Cagan Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent
Oct 13, 2022•2 min
Linda Sarsour Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent
Oct 13, 2022•30 sec
Jabari Brisport Speaks at The Indypendent Fundraising Party by The Indypendent
Oct 13, 2022•3 min
We speak on The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI with members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense about the rapid growth of BED tenant associations since March & why a tenant association is an important thing to be a part of, to defend your rights as a tenant, fight evictions and organize communities.
Oct 12, 2022•21 min
We speak with members of the Amazon Labor Union about the Oct. 12-17 union election at ALB1, a warehouse in Schodack, NY, near Albany and about heightening work-safety concerns among Amazon workers as three warehouses caught on fire last week, two of which occurred at Amazon Labor Union-associated warehouses.
Oct 12, 2022•16 min
On this week's Indypendent News Hour: In the first segment we speak with members of the Amazon Labor Union about the Oct. 12-17 union election at ALB1, a warehouse in Schodack, NY, near Albany and about heightening work-safety concerns among Amazon workers as three warehouses caught on fire last week, two of which occurrd at Amazon Labor Union-associated warehouses. In the second segment, we speak with members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense about the rapid growth of BED tenant associations since M...
Oct 12, 2022•45 min
On this week's Indypendent News Hour, we talk about the life and legacy of Dr. Jeffrey Perry, who died over the weekend. Perry was an independent, working-class scholar whose work focused on the role of white supremacy as a retardant to progressive social change and on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy to progressive social change efforts. Perry wrote and spoke in particular on two of the most important thinkers on race and class in the twentieth century: Hubert Harrison and The...
Sep 28, 2022•17 min
On this week's show: First Segment: Alexa Avilés, democratic socialist City Councilmember whose South Brooklyn district encompasses Red Hook, Sunset Park, Greenwood and parts of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. We catch up with her on the latest from Puerto rico, the city’s response to the influx of migrants from border states and the latest disturbing news from the New York City Housing Authority which she oversees as the Chair of the City Council’s Committee on NYCHA. Second Se...
Sep 28, 2022•59 min
On this week’s Indypendent News Hour on WBAI, we feature an intersection of labor and culture. The 11th annual Worker Unite Film Festival begins on Friday, Oct. 7 at Cinema Village Theater. It will be WUFF’s first in-person festival since the pandemic. The festival comes at a time when we’re seeing an upsurge in labor organizing and strikes and labor unions are more popular in public opinion polls than any time in the past five decades. We are joined by WUFF Executive Director Andrew Tilson and ...
Sep 28, 2022•15 min
On this week’s Indypendent News Hour on WBAI, we speak with Alexa Avilés, democratic socialist City Councilmember whose South Brooklyn district encompasses Red Hook, Sunset Park, Greenwood and parts of Windsor Terrace, Dyker Heights and Borough Park. We catch up with her on the latest from Puerto rico, the city’s response to the influx of migrants from border states and the latest disturbing news from the New York City Housing Authority which she oversees as the Chair of the City Council’s Commi...
Sep 28, 2022•16 min
