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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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00:22:51

DSA's Newest NY Senator in NY Kristen Gonzalez on The...

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2023/01/18

We speak with Kristen Gonzalez, NY's newest Democratic Socialist state senator and, at 27, the youngest woman to ever serve in the NY State Senate. She talks about tech privacy, housing, staying true to socialism, and the NY Supreme Court.

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00:18:06

NYC City Council to Vote on Whether Municipal...

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2023/01/12

Yesterday City Council’s labor committee held a public hearing on a measure supported by the Adams administration that would make it possible for the City to transfer 250,000 retired city workers from their current medicare health coverage to privately-run Medicare Advantage. The retirees have put up a fierce battle for over a year. City council is tentatively scheduled to vote on the measure on Jan. 19. We speak with Barbara Caress, adjunct professor at Baruch College in manhattan and a proud

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00:23:45

Over 7,000 Nurses at Four Private Hospitals on Strike

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2023/01/11

The Indypendent's Steven Wishnia updates us on the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike. He’s been speaking with nurses about their working conditions and demands. Over seven thousand nurses at four private hospitals are on strike. “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients,” says the union.

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00:10:11

Live Radio Call Ins on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Jan. '22

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2023/01/11

We take call ins live on the air on The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM. Callers share their views on the nurses’ strike and how municipal union leaders have set up retired municipal employees to lose medicare benefits.

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00:57:12

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 10 Jan. '22

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2023/01/11

The Indypendent's Steven Wishnia updates us on the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike. He’s been speaking with nurses about their working conditions and demands. Over seven thousand nurses at four private hospitals are on strike. “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients,” says the union. Yesterday City Council’s labor committee held a public hearing on a measure supported

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00:19:02

Remembering the Sixties Generation: A Son Explores...

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2023/01/04

We speak with The Indy's Nicholas Powers' beautiful essay in our December-January print edition about his mother who passed away last year. She was a radical Nuyorican activist and a child of the '60s generation. "She was born in 1948, in a Puerto Rican Brooklyn enclave and turned 20 in 1968, the peak of anti-Vietnam War protests, the hippie movement, the Young Lords and Black Panther rebellions. All the marches and slogans scooped my mother like a giant wave and lifted her out of the neighborhood,

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00:56:55

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 03 Jan. '23

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2023/01/04

We get the latest on the battle to stop Gov. Hochul's Hector LaSalle nomination to NY Court of Appeals from Peter Martin of the Center for Community Alternatives. We also speak with Nicholas Powers about his radical Nuyorican mother and an article he wrote about her in the current issue of The Indypendent.

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00:21:35

Peter Martin Speaks About Resistance to LaSalle...

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2023/01/04

We look once again at the epic battle for the Hector LaSalle nomination to be the chief judge of New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. The selection by Gov. Kathy Hochul has earned the ire of progressives. We speak with one of the advocates who has been leading the fight against this nomination about the broad resistance.

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00:45:09

Julia Salazar Speaks w The Indy on Hector LaSalle's...

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2022/12/28

We speak with New York State senator and socialist Julia Salazar about the growing revolt in the State Senate against Gov. Hochul's nomination of conservative judge Hector LaSalle to lead NYS's highest court for the next 14 years. We also discuss the role of the judiciary in a capitalist state, whether law can be separate from politics, the uses and abuses of identity politics and why the NY Democratic Party establishment has no qualms about betraying its own core supporters.

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00:55:13

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // Dec. 6 '22

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2022/12/07

On this week's show: We speak New School student organizers Cooper Sterling and Bella Coles. They are members of Student-Faculty Solidarity, the lead group on campus that advocates on behalf of part-time faculty. They report back on the critical negotiations that began last night between ACT-UAW 7902, the union representing striking part-time faculty, and the university. Then, we speak with Beth Miller of Jewish Voices for Peace and Sumaya Awad, co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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00:25:38

Strong Student-Faculty Solidarity Supports Ongoing...

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2022/12/07

We speak New School student organizers Cooper Sterling and Bella Coles. They are members of Student-Faculty Solidarity, the lead group on campus that advocates on behalf of part-time faculty. They report back on the critical negotiations that began last night between ACT-UAW 7902, the union representing striking part-time faculty, and the university.

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00:12:04

NYC City Councilmembers go to Israel, Refuse to Visit...

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2022/12/07

We speak with Beth Miller of Jewish Voices for Peace and Sumaya Awad, co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. Last week, 12 NYC City Council members traveled to Israel. While there, they were confronted by Jewish anti-occupation activists that urged them to travel to Sheikh Jarrah, which they refused to do. So why are they there, if they are only interested in seeing one half of the situation?

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00:25:48

Amba and John's Freewheeling Discussion of the News...

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2022/11/30

Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian chat between segments of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM. Interesting updates on subjects local and national.

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00:18:42

NYC Public School Libraries Are Disappearing. Here's...

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2022/11/30

We speak with Indy Ben Mankoff on WBAI. The disparities within the NYC school system are a frequent topic of conversation on this radio station and elsewhere, but what’s lesser known is that public-school libraries are disappearing. The city Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Library Services doesn’t have reliable data, but the available figures indicate that over 60% of city high schools do not have the state-mandated library media specialist on staff, and more than 40% don’t have any

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00:15:45

NY Dems Fail/Midterm Debacle on WBAI 99.5 Indy News Hour

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2022/11/30

We speak with George Abro of the New York Progressive Action Network about the recent midterms election and why he thinks New York Dems did so badly.

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00:53:12

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 29 Nov. '22

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2022/11/30

We speak with George Abro of the New York Progressive Action Network about the recent midterms election and why he thinks New York Dems did so badly. Then, we hear from Indy reporter Ben Mankoff. The disparities within the NYC school system are a frequent topic of conversation on this radio station and elsewhere, but what’s lesser known is that public-school libraries are disappearing. The city Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Library Services doesn’t have reliable data, but the

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00:26:05

Talking Con Ed Rate Hikes w/ Socialist NY...

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2022/11/25

We speak with Democratic Socialist Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani of Queens about fighting Con Ed’s latest price-gouging rate hikes, the need for a Publicly controlled power system fueled by renewable energy sources and the daily work of being a Socialist elected official operating within a capitalist system.

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00:01:21

Longtime Supporter Reacts to Lula's Win

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2022/11/19

Regina Bueno is from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. She sent us these vocal messages shortly after Brazil's presidential election results announced Lula would again be president of Brazil. She believes he is a champion of the poor and marginalized people of Brazil.

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04:50:42

The Indypendent Midterm Election Night Special on...

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2022/11/09

Over the past couple of years, The Indypendent News Hour has become the premiere news and public affairs show on WBAI, a listen-sponsored community radio station whose signal beams 90 miles in all directions from atop a Midtown skyscraper. On Nov. 8 2022, we expanded our normal one-hour news show into a five-hour election night special. We not only keep track of key races in New York and nationally but provide a deeper analysis of the issues that have animated the midterms — crime, inflation,

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00:19:15

Mexicanos Unidos is Organizing Community Sustainably...

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2022/11/02

We speak with Leo of Mexicanos Unidos, a politically-and-community-oriented group in Sunset Park, Brooklyn working to develop a critical, collective social consciousness for the Mexican community. The group, which was founded during the George Floyd Uprisings of 2020, hosts a sprawling weekly open-air market in Sunset Park (the park) called Plaza Tonatiuh and engages community in political education.

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