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 Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional.
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 and amateur historian, who is working to overturn it now.
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 being deleted by META. Lastly, we learn about a terrible court case from 1741, when New York City had a...
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 the leaders of the Earth Church.
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 the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, the union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at CUNY.
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 Shopping Choir. But now it’s also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essenti...
Indy editor Amba Guerguerian spent the entirety of the hour with Desiree Joy Frias of South Bronx Mutual Aid about how the financial aspects of the migrant "crisis" in New York City have been manufactured and how it is a crisis not for the inhabitants of the city, but for the migrants themselves. We speak about updates in conditions and rules for the recently arrived migrants, the vast majority of whom are asylum seekers. South Bronx Mutual Aid is part of a large network of mutual aid groups tha...
John Tarleton and Nicholas Powers of The Indypendent talk about the New Hampshire primary and what it means that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both on the verge of locking up their party’s nominations and pivoting to a general election contest that most Americans say they do not want to see.
Much of NYC's fate is decided in Albany where a new session of the state legislation has begun. We speak with State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, both Democratic Socialists, about their top priorities and how to make state government work for working people. In the second half of the show, we speak with Jonathan Soto, a public-education advocate and NYC DSA-endorsed candidate for the NY State Assembly. If he wins, Soto will be the first Socialist legislator elected fr...
We speak with Jonathan Soto, a public-education advocate and NYC DSA-endorsed candidate for the NY State Assembly. If he wins, Soto will be the first Socialist legislator elected from the Bronx in more than a century.
Much of NYC's fate is decided in Albany where a new session of the state legislation has begun. We speak with State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, both Democratic Socialists, about their top priorities and how to make state government work for working people. They also respond to Gov. Hochul's goals set out in her recent 'State of the State' address.
We hear from The Indy's Lara-Nour Walton about the process of writing her cover story on the Little Palestine neighborhood in South Brooklyn.
Over the weekend the Ridgewood Tenants Union led a 1,000-person march that highlighted the displacement experienced in both rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like Ridgewood and by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli settlers. We speak with two organizers from the Ridgewood Tenants Union, Raquel Namuche and Lamisse Beydoun.
We look at the continued surge of pro-Palestine protests in New York City, starting with a report-back from Monday’s shutdown of Lower Manhattan traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters who made national headlines yesterday when they blocked inbound traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges and outbound traffic at the Holland Tunnel.
We look at the continued surge of pro-Palestine protests in New York City, starting with a report-back from Monday’s shutdown of Lower Manhattan traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters who made national headlines yesterday when they blocked inbound traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhatta,n and Williamsburg Bridges and outbound traffic at the Holland Tunnel. Over the weekend the Ridgewood Tenants Union led a 1,000-person march that highlighted the displacement experienced in both rapidly gentrifying neig...
In this special Christmas edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we spend the first segment with Jonathan Kuttab, executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, an unapologetic Christian voice for Palestine. Kuttab is a human-rights attorney and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution. We will speak about the ongoing atrocities in Palestine including those against Christian Palestinians. Then we speak with Dr. Bedross Matossian, Professor of Middle East History & Politics at the Unive...
We speak with Dr. Bedross Matossian about the Armenian genocide, the current ethnic cleansing of Armenians from the Artsakh territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the oppression Armenian Palestinians face in Palestine. Matossian is a professor of Middle East History & Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincon. He focuses on Armenian and comparative genocide, Ottoman studies, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and global History.
Jonathan Kuttab is the executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, an unapologetic Christian voice for Palestine, and a human-rights attorney and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution. We speak about the ongoing atrocities in Palestine, including those against Christian Palestinians.
We learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College, for which students in Beirut wrote first-person pieces about being in Lebanon and Beirut, and Eben Wood took corresponding photographs.
We speak Tara Currie of Brooklyn for Peace about the Move the Money campaign to divert money from the Pentagon to meeting human needs, and then we learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College.
We speak with former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it.
We start the show by speaking w/ former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it. We also weak with Tara Currie of Brooklyn for Peace about the Move the Money campaign to divert money from the Pentagon to meeting human needs, and then we learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College. Plus updates from Ashley Marinaccio about a pro...
The Indypendent's Amba Guerguerian in conversation with Riham Barghouti, founding member of the BDS movement that came out of Palestine in 2005 and founding member of Adalah-NY here in NYC. Barghouti has a deep knowledge of Palestinian resistance
Amid Israel's war on Gaza and COP 23, we speak with Savitri D. and Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a good friends of The Indy that are always on the cutting edge of social movements.
This week, diplomats, world leaders and a small army of fossil fuel industry lobbyists have gathered in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, for the 28th annual U.N. climate summit. There’s no sign that progress will be made on reaching new agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize soaring global temperatures. We are joined by Tefa Galvis, a member of the eco-socialist working group of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Last year, the eco-socialists were a ke...
We go to CUNY, the City University of New York. For the past months it’s been a flashpoint in the battle over campus free speech during a time of war. At Hunter College on the Upper East Side, the campus has been roiled by the administration’s flip-flopping on whether they will allow a film that’s critical of Israel to be shown. And at Baruch College in Lower Manhattan, top officials there canceled a teach-in on Gaza by members of that school’s history department. We are joined by Tami Gold, Pro...
