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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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00:22:25

July 7: Indy News Hour Co-Host John Tarleton...

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2025/07/25

Law & Disorder is a nationally syndicated radio show aired weekly on more than 150 radio stations across the country.

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00:52:55

July 1: How Will the New York Democratic...

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2025/07/25

We speak with Peter Sterne, an editor at City & State, about Zohran Mamdani’s shocking primary victory and how the New York City’s Democratic Party establishment was reacting to it. We also hear from Sam Mellins of New York Focus about how the state legislature he currently serves in might respond to his ambitious agenda. And in our final segment we spoke with two members of Veterans for Peace who just completed a 40-day fast to call attention to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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00:53:02

June 24: Election Day News, Interviews & Analysis

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2025/07/25

On primary day, The Indy's John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco discuss the latest developments in the race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. We also hear from voters going to the polls, take listener call-ins and speak with Indy Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about the affordability crisis.

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00:49:29

June 17: Interviews with Michael Blake, Mayoral...

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2025/07/25

The Indypendent's John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak in the first half of the show with mayoral candidate and former Bronx Assemblymember Michael Blake who cross-endorsed Zohran Mamdani the previous day. In the second half of the show, we talk with Jay Walker, co-founder of the Queer Liberation March who previews this year's march and how the second Trump administration was shaping its message. Founded in 2019 on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the QLM has become the radical

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00:21:23

New Poll Shows Zohran Mamdani Narrowing Cuomo's Lead...

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2025/05/28

We look at the latest news from New York City’s mayoral race. A new poll shows socialist state legislator Zohran Mamdani rapidly gaining ground on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. We also take listener call-ins.

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00:27:29

Veterans for Peace and CUNY Grad Students Launch...

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2025/05/28

As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student.

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00:54:32

The Indypendent New Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 27 May '25

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2025/05/28

As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student. Then we take a look at the latest news from New York City’s mayoral race. A new poll shows socialist state legislator Zohran Mamdani rapidly gaining ground on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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00:25:14

Former Cuomo Aide Lindsey Boyland Explains Why a...

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2025/05/15

We talk about former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. Our guest, Lindsey Boylan, was an economic development advisor to then-Gov. Cuomo. Boylan became the first of 11 women to go public with claims of sexual harassment against Cuomo that led to his resignation in August of 2021. In addition to her personal experiences with Cuomo, she got an up-close look at his vindictive governing style and is urging New Yorkers to reconsider putting him back in a

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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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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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