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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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00:17:25

NY Sen. Jabari Brisport Breaks Down New State Budget,...

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2025/05/15

We speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk about the convoluted process that led to the final agreement and the Governor’s outsized role in causing the delay. power.

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00:54:10

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 May '25

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2025/05/15

In our first segment, we speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk about the convoluted process that led to the final agreement and the Governor’s outsized role in causing the delay. In the second half of the show, we talk

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00:15:23

NYC Tenants to Hold Citywide Assembly

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2025/05/01

We speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA’s Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is organizing tenants to directly resist the landlord class. IWCO will be holding a citywide tenant assembly this Sunday, May 4, from 1–6 p.m. at the Sixth Street Community Center in the East Village.

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00:16:53

Why a Rent Freeze is Needed in NYC + Rent Control...

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2025/05/01

We speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working-class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a rent freeze is needed now.

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00:53:51

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 1 May '25

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2025/05/01

We were talking tenants rights on this week’s Indypendent News Hour. In our first segment, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a rent freeze is needed now. In our second segment, we speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA’s Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is

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00:14:58

Flushing, Queens Community Activists Rebecca Pryor &...

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2025/04/11

In our second segment, the struggle against billionaire oligarchy is unfolding at a hyperlocal level in Flushing, Queens. Mets owner Steve Cohen wants to build a new casino on parkland adjacent to Citi Field. We hear from two local community organizers who are helping lead the opposition to Cohen and the Citi Field Casino.

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00:18:03

Zara Nasir of People's Budget NYC + Students &...

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2025/04/11

City budget season is underway as the mayor and City Council debate how to divvy up the city’s roughly $110 billion annual budget. In our first segment, we hear from students and educators who rallied today outside the Department of Education headquarters demanding that Mayor Adams cease his cuts to their schools.

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00:54:19

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 8 April '25

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2025/04/11

City budget season is underway as the mayor and City Council debate how to divvy up the city’s roughly $110 billion annual budget. In our first segment, we hear from students and educators who rallied today outside the Department of Education headquarters demanding that Mayor Adams cease his cuts to their schools. In our second segment, the struggle against billionaire oligarchy is unfolding at a hyperlocal level in Flushing, Queens. Mets owner Steve Cohen wants to build a new casino on parkland

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00:21:42

Cuomo Can't Be Mayor Again: A Conversation with John...

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2025/03/06

Indypendent co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and why we think he shouldn't be elected again. We also take listener call-ins.

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00:54:19

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 4 March '25

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2025/03/06

In our first segment, we get the latest on the bi-partisan repression of pro-Palestine voices on college campuses. We then learn about a campaign by home health care workers who are fighting for fair labor standards. Finally, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and take listener call-ins.

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00:13:34

Chinatown Home Care Workers Continue to Fight 24-Hour...

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2025/03/06

On Feb. 26, more than 100 home care workers were attacked by the NYPD and seven were arrested at a protest outside a fancy Wall Street fundraiser for the Chinatown non-profit that controls their working conditions. The workers from the Ain’t I A Woman campaign say that the Chinese-American Planning Council, or CPC, owes them $90 million in back pay. The focus of the protesters’ ire is a law that allows their employer to assign them 24-hour home care shifts for which they only receive 13 hours of

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00:09:19

Pro-Palestine Barnard Sit-In Outside Administration...

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2025/03/06

On Feb. 26, about 50 students in keffiyehs occupied the hallway outside the offices of Barnard College’s top administrators. Barnard is an undergraduate women’s college located across the street from Columbia University. Over more than six hours of tense negotiations, protesters demanded that the school’s leaders rescind the expulsions of two Barnard student protesters — the first such student expulsions for political activity at Columbia or Barnard since 1968. We speak with The Indypendent’s Eric

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00:13:33

Eric Dirnbach on the State of Labor Organizing in the US

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2025/02/12

We speak with veteran labor organizer Eric Dirnbach. He’s lived the ups and downs of the labor movement since the late 90s about low union membership numbers and how to keep fighting in this Trump (or any) era.

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00:54:09

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 4 Feb. '25

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2025/02/12

In our first segment, we go to Queens College, where yesterday more than 100 faculty and students protested for the right to protest on their campus in the face of an increasingly authoritarian campus administration. And then we check in with The Indy’s Amba Guerguerian. She published a major new piece today looking at how dissent has been systematically crushed at Columbia since last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment ignited a nationwide anti-genocide campus protest movement. Amba has also been

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00:20:09

Eric Adams Is Absolved For Now

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2025/02/12

We talk about Mayor Eric Adams, who had his federal corruption charges dismissed yesterday by the Department Justice, and take listener call ins.

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00:54:32

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 11 Feb. '24

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2025/02/12

We start out by looking at how the campaign to unionize Starbucks is faring. More than 500 Starbucks stores have unionized since December 2021, but now the movement faces new threats as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle the Department of Labor.We then speak with veteran labor organizer Eric Dirnbach. He’s lived the ups and downs of the labor movement since the late 90s. In recent years, he’s been active with the Emergency Worker Organizing Committee which formed in the early days of the

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00:20:24

Goodbye DEI?

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2025/02/11

We speak with Linda Martin Alcoff, a professor of philosophy at CUNY’s Hunter College who has written multiple books that explore the intersection of race, gender and class. We get her thoughts on the early days of the Trump administration and its relentless focus on purging anything it deems to be “DEI” or “woke.”

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00:14:03

Update on Starbucks Labor Organizing

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2025/02/11

We look at how the campaign to unionize Starbucks is faring. More than 500 Starbucks stores have unionized since December 2021, but now the movement faces new threats as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle the Department of Labor.

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00:18:31

Queens College Admin Cracks Down on Protest

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2025/02/11

We go to Queens College, where yesterday more than 100 faculty and students protested for the right to protest on their campus in the face of an increasingly authoritarian campus administration.

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00:12:58

Columbia's Crackdown + Protests Around the City

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2025/02/11

We check in with The Indy’s Amba Guerguerian. She published a major new piece today looking at how dissent has been systematically crushed at Columbia since last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment ignited a nationwide anti-genocide campus protest movement. Amba has also been following protests that have been popping off around the city just over the past 24 hours.

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