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The Indypendent

The Indypendent News Hour airs Tuesdays 5–6 p.m. on WBAI-99.5 FM. Check out our archives to listen to past interviews with movement organizers, authors, elected officials and others fighting for justice in New York City and beyond.

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00:54:09

Ritchie Torres Does Not Represent His District +...

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2023/11/09

First, we get an update on the March on Washington for Palestine, as well as hear voices from everyday NYCers talking about Palestin/Israel. Then (at 11:28), in the Bronx, activists are calling out Congressman Ritchie Torres, one of Israel’s most ardent supporters in Congress, for championing genocide in Gaza and for seeming to have forgotten his own constituents who live in the poorest congressional district in the country. We are joined by Sonyi Lopez and Richie Merino from The Bronx Anti-War

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00:07:24

Annual Workers Unite Film Festival in NYC

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2023/11/01

We speak with Andrew Tilson, the executive director of the Workers United Film Festival, which kicked off on Friday, about the featured films this year and why he started the fest in the first place.

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00:09:14

UAW 3039 President Jeff Purcell on Winning Historic...

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2023/11/01

We talk about the resurgent labor movement. The United Auto Workers announced a historic victory Monday in their six-week strike against the Big Three auto companies. We hear from the President of Local 3039 which represents workers at a Stellantis auto parts warehouse in Tappan, NY.

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00:33:19

Palestine/Israel Updates with The Indypendent

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2023/11/01

We get updates from an on-the-ground reporter in Gaza who we've been following, as well as talk about Palestinian solidarity movements across the globe and take a call from a listener.

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00:56:25

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // Oct. 17 '23

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2023/11/01

In the first half of the show, we get updates from an on-the-ground reporter in Gaza who we've been following, as well as talk about Palestinian solidarity movements across the globe and take a call from a listener. In the second half of the show, we talke about the resurgent labor movement. The United Auto Workers announced a historic victory Monday in their six-week strike against the Big Three auto companies. We hear from the President of Local 3039 which represents workers at a Stellantis auto

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00:11:02

Context + Perspectives on Palestine-Israel with The...

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2023/10/11

John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss the shocking events in Israel and the Gaza Strip from the past few days and what may lay ahead. There’s a lot to unpack there.

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00:15:21

Carl Miller is Still Fighting to Right His Wrongful...

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2023/10/11

We hear from Carl Miller and The Indy’s investigative reporter Ted Hamm. Forty-two years after he was convicted of an infamous murder of a Crown Heights rabbi, Miller is still seeking exoneration from the Brooklyn DA’s office. Hamm wrote about the case and why his conviction should be overturned in the current print edition of The Indypendent.

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00:03:57

Sounds of Indigenous People's Day Celebration on...

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2023/10/11

We hear some of the music from the Indigenous People’s Day celebration on Randall’s Island recorded by Indypendent reporters Elias Guerra and Kimberly Izar. Peoples from Hawaii, the Philippines, Nigeria, U.S. and N.Y. tribes, and many others were there.

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00:17:57

Laura Calsen on Eric Adams' Visit to Latin America +...

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2023/10/11

We get to get a perspective from Mexico on the continuing surge of migrants from South America to the United States & on Mayor Adams' recent visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to discourage migrants from journeying north. Our guest, Laura Carlsen, is the director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, A Mexico-City based think tank.

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00:54:55

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Oct. '23

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2023/10/11

In our first segment we get to get a perspective from Mexico on the continuing surge of migrants from South America to the United States & on Mayor Adams' recent visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to discourage migrants from journeying north. Our guest, Laura Carlsen, is the director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, A Mexico-City based think tank. We hear some of the music from the Indigenous People’s Day celebration on Randall’s Island recorded by Indypendent reporters Elias Guerra and

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00:03:28

Riders on B60 Respond to MTA No-Fare Pilot Program on...

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2023/10/05

In New York City, subway and bus fares seem to go only one way: Up. But on Sep. 24, the MTA threw those fare hikes in reverse for riders on five of its bus routes. Those routes — one in each borough — are now free for all riders. It’s a six-month pilot project to see if free fares will drive up bus ridership and increase the speed of the buses whose drivers no longer have to collect fares. Then we hear field reports from The Indypendent's Elias Guerra. He spoke with riders on the B60, one of the

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00:12:50

New York City Launches Five Free Bus Lines in Pilot...

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2023/10/05

On Sep. 24, the MTA threw those fare hikes in reverse for riders on five of its bus routes. Those routes — one in each borough — are now free for all riders. It’s a six-month pilot project to see if free fares will drive up bus ridership and increase the speed of the buses whose drivers no longer have to collect fares. The Indypendent's Elias Guerra. He spoke with riders on the B60, one of the trial lines. Then we speak with State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who

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00:34:10

Hot Labor Fall: Auto Workers Out on Strike, Writers...

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2023/10/05

Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screenwriters’ strike after 148 days. We hear from J.T. Allen, who was a WGA strike captain at the Warner Bros. picket line near Los Angeles. Then we spend most of the segment with labor historian Toni Gilpin about the historic autoworkers strike now in its third week with workers out on strike in more than 20 states. Gilpin comes from a proud UAW family and is the

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00:57:09

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 3 Oct. ‘23

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2023/10/05

First segment: Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screen writers’ strike after 148 days. We hear from J.T. Allen, who was a WGA strike captain at the Warner Bros. picket line near Los Angeles. Then we speak with labor historian Toni Gilpin about the historic autoworkers strike now in its third week with workers out on strike in more than 20 states. Gilpin comes from a proud UAW family and is the author of

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00:33:46

Labor historian Tony Gilpin Puts the Historic UAW...

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2023/10/04

We speak with labor historian Toni Gilpin about the historic autoworkers strike now in its third week with workers out on strike in more than 20 states. Gilpin comes from a proud UAW family and is the author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland.

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00:03:59

J.T. Allen, WGA Strike Captain at Warner Bros,...

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2023/10/04

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 3 Oct. ‘23 Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and the big Hollywood studios reached a tentative contract agreement that ended the screen writer’ strike after 148 days. The contract agreement was unanimously approved by the WGA’s executive council and is now being voted on by the union’s 11,000 members. We hear from J.T. Allen, who was a WGA strike captain at the Warner Bros. picket line near Los Angeles.

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00:21:28

Hector Oseguera, New Jersey Anti-Corruption Crusader

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2023/10/04

We speak with Hector Oseguera, anti-money laundering specialist and former candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 8th congressional district, about the corruption and bribery scandal that has engulfed New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez.

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00:56:49

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 Sep. ‘23

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2023/09/29

First we turn to Belleville, Michigan, where President Joe Biden joined striking auto workers outside a General Motors facility. Then we venture across the New York City region from a United Auto Workers picket line in the Hudson Valley, to the corruption scandal that has engulfed New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, and back to New York City where our reporter Keating Zelenke has been speaking with student-loan debtors who face a Sunday, Oct. 1 deadline to resume making their monthly payments after

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00:10:54

Student-loan Payments Resume Oct. 1, But Many Can’t Pay

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2023/09/29

Indypendent reporter Keating Zelenke talks about her article in our September print edition on student-loan debtors who face an October 1 deadline to resume making their monthly loan payments after a three-and-a-half-year pandemic moratorium comes to an end.

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00:16:52

UAW Local 3039 President Jeff Purcell: Auto Workers’...

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2023/09/29

On Friday, Sep. 22, United Auto Workers President Sean Fain announced the strike was being expanded to 38 parts distribution centers across the country belonging to General Motors and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler. One of the parts distribution centers that went on strike on Friday at noon is in Tappan, NY, in Rockland County, north of the city. We are joined by Jeff Purcell, president of UAW Local 3039, which represents roughly 80 workers at the Stellantis’ Tappan facility.

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