We interview Jonathan Soto, an educator and community activist who is taking on a 10-term incumbent in a northeast Bronx Assembly district that encompasses Coop City. If elected, Soto would be the first Socialist from the Bronx to serve in the state legislature in more than a century.
We hear from Leo with Workers Movement for Liberation (previously Mexicanos Unidos) a radical Sunset-Park group that formed during the George Floyd protests four years ago this summer and continues growing and evolving. He updates us on how things have been going at Plaza Proletaria (previously Plaza Tonatiuh) now that it's been pushed out of Sunset Park by NYPD.
Updates about the terrorizing scenes unfolding in Rafah, Gaza's southernmost and last standing city where about half the Strip's population currently is sheltering on day 234 of the genocide in Gaza. Israel is targeting areas it designated as "safe zones," makeshift tent camps where fire spreads fast.
We provide an update on the latest from Rafah, the besieged town in southern Gaza that is the current focal point of the genocide. And we’ll hear from protesters who took to the streets yesterday in response to a massacre there by Israel. We also hear from Leo with Workers Movement for Liberation, previously Mexicanos Unidos, a radical Sunset-Park group that formed during the George Floyd protests four years ago this summer and continues growing and evolving. And lastly we interview Jonathan Sot...
We speak with Kazembe Balagun, the new executive director at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, about his vision for creating a people’s democratic film culture.
An exciting conversation with Lara-Nour Walton who was on the ground during nearly the entirety of the duration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment there.
We speak with our very own Amba Guerguerian about the NYPD's bloody protest-repression tactics at annual Nakba Day demonstrations this year. Many protesters were left injured, illegal arrests were made, and the police department should expect to be sued for its policing on May 15 and 18.
We speak with our very own Amba Guerguerian about the NYPD's bloody protest-repression tactics at annual Nakba Day demonstrations this year. Then we hear from Indy reporter and Columbia University student Lara-Nour Walton who was on the ground during nearly the entirety of the duration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment there. Lastly, we speak with Kazembe Balagun about the Maysles Documentary Center up in Harlem where he just became executive director.
Then we speak with Alex Holmstrom-Smith of Red Cosmos Society, which is dedicated to creating and spreading new holiday celebrations and rituals that embody leftist values of solidarity and struggle to create a better world.
We will heard from Suneil, a part-time faculty member at The New School and an organizer at the Refaat Alareer Gaza Solidarity encampment. Then we speak with Jana and Rose, student organizers with The New School chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the student Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which lasted over a weeks and was shut down when the university called in the police on May 3.
We will heard from Suneil, a part-time faculty member at The New School and an organizer at the Refaat Alareer Gaza Solidarity encampment. Then we speak with Jana and Rose, student organizers with The New School chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the student Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which lasted over a weeks and was shut down when the university called in the police on May 3. Then we speak with Alex Holmstrom-Smith of Red Cosmos Society, which is dedicated to creating and spread...
Several lefty Jewish groups held an emergency Passover seder Tuesday evening one block from Sen. Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home that drew several thousand protesters. During the event, Sophie Ellman-Golan of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice called in and talked about the revolutionary meaning of Passover, the encampment movement and more.
We spoke with Indy Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about what makes The Battle of Algiers such a unique movie, the burgeoning encampment movement on college campuses and more.
We spoke with Ana Nogueira, co-owner of Starr Bar, about the role the Brooklyn performance venue plays in hosting live events for a wide array of NYC social justice organizations. We also talked about Roadmap to Apartheid, the documentary movie she co-directed and her role in founding The Indypendent 24 years ago.
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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 yesterday while covering a massive pro-Palestine Tax Day protest as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. We ...
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 colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate 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 Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legisl...
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 fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philoso...
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 covering the State of New York’s attempt to close SUNY Downstate Hospital in central Brooklyn. Ariana a...
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 school would have to pay tuition again.
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 movement.
—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 City, San Francisco, LA, Tampa, Raleigh, Asheville, NC, and in cities in counties such as Cuba, Arg...
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 morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. Then, we hear an interview...
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 60,000 members.
