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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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00:09:39

Privatization of NYCHA: Harlem River Houses Now Owned...

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2022/02/23

Slumlord C+C Management has just taken over Harlem River Houses from NYCHA. This means that the tenants of the complex are no longer protected by Section 9 public housing laws and instead fall under Section 8 low-income housing rules, which are less protective. This privatization and gentrification scheme being pushed by Eric Adams puts the roughly 600,000 people living in NYCHA buildings at a larger threat of eviction and bad conditions. On Saturday, tenants of Harlem River Houses and their allies

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00:57:38

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 22 Feb 2022

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2022/02/23

On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: —The latest front in Mayor Eric Adams crusade for public safety: New York City’s vast subway system. On Friday, Mayor Adams announced that the city would now be taking a zero tolerance approach to unhoused people in the subway system. Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of “The End of Policing" talks about the Mayor’s new strategy for policing the homeless and his broader approach to public

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00:59:18

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 16 February 2022

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2022/02/16

On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — The Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights but was met with fierce community response. We speak with Sherease Torain, who was born in the home, Nicoás Vargas of Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Joel Feingold of Crown Heights Tenants Union, two of the

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00:21:00

Kazembe Balagun in Conversation/ Black History Month...

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2022/02/16

We talk Black History Month and in particular two films that are going to be screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem in the coming days. One is about the poet Audre Lorde and her time in Germany and the other is about the great writer, historian and activist W.E.B. DuBois who also has some interesting ties to Germany. Kazembe Balagun — project manager at the Rosa Lux Stifgung’s New York office, a cultural historian, a contributing writer for The Indypendent and much more — joins us to

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00:18:12

Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave: First Starbucks...

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2022/02/16

In the past week, six Starbucks stores in New York City and on Long Island have filed for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board, the first in the NYC region to do so. They are among the more than 80 Starbucks stores in at least 23 states that have sought to unionize since baristas at a Buffalo Starbucks store voted to unionize two months ago. Two baristas — Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave, from a Starbucks store in Bath Beach, Brooklyn which filed for union recognition last

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00:13:44

Eviction Defense: Family + Community Fighting Hard to...

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2022/02/16

One month to the day after Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the state’s eviction moratorium, the Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. Sherease Torain, a member of Crown Heights Tenants Union, her mother, Ms. Robinson, and Ms. Robinson’s 98-year-old mother all live in the home. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights. On Tues., Feb 15, the family was back in housing

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00:11:54

Nicholas Powers Interrogates, “Is Eric Adams Playing...

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2022/02/02

We speak with Indy Contributing Editor and Eric Adams voter Nicholas Powers, who in his latest article does a fascinating job of exploring the political and cultural sources of Adams’ deep popularity in the Black community, what left activists have failed to understand about Adams and his supporters and how our new mayor has already begun to betray his working class supporters in favor of his wealthy backers. On WBAI-99.5 FM, Indypendent News Hour Tuesdays 5-6 p.m.

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00:18:10

Keron Alleyne, Candidate for AD 60 in Special...

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2022/02/02

Keron Alleyne, Candidate for Assembly District 60 in an upcoming special election for the district that covers East New York and parts of the surrounding neighborhoods. Alleyne has been endorsed by District 60 Assemblymember Charles Barron and his wife, Inez Barron. If Alleyne wins the upcoming special election, he will have to then be reelected in this summer's primary to carry out a full term. He plans to protect his predominantly Black district from gentrification and keep community spaces

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00:10:05

Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls; Upcoming...

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2022/02/02

Chris Smalls, president of Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots union formed by Staten Island Amazon workers in protest of the company's handling of COVID and other workplace violations, updates us on the fight to be recognized as an official union by the National Labor Relations Board. The around 6000 employees at largest of the four Staten Island Amazon warehouses, JFK8, will vote on whether or not to unionize this spring. On WBAI-99.5 FM, Indypendent News Hour Tuesdays 5-6 p.m.

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00:09:13

Workers Speak Out: Teamsters 9 Months on Strike at...

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2022/02/02

Co-host Amba Guerguerian went out to the United Metro Energy Corporation Tuesday morning, where all workers have been on strike for 9 months. Their billionaire boss, John Catsimatidis, pays them $10 the industry average for their dangerous work transporting oil. We hear the voices of the strikers and learn how to support them. On WBAI-99.5 FM, Indypendent News Hour Tuesdays 5-6 p.m.

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00:54:16

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 1 Feb 2022

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2022/02/02

On this week's episode of The Indy News Hour: Co-host Amba Guerguerian went out to the United Metro Energy Corporation Tuesday morning, where all workers have been on strike for 9 months. Their billionaire boss, John Catsimatidis, pays them $10 the industry average for their dangerous work transporting oil. We hear the voices of the strikers and learn how to support them. Chris Smalls, president of Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots union formed by Staten Island Amazon workers in protest of the

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00:03:07

Voices of United Metro Energy Corp Workers on Strike...

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2022/02/01

Voices of United Metro Energy Corp Workers on Strike with Teamsters Local 553 by The Indypendent

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00:07:32

Teamster Demos Demopolous Updates on 9-Month Long...

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2022/01/26

On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview Security-Treaurer of Teamsters Local 553, Demos Demopolous, who is leading two dozen oil workers in Brooklyn on their 9-month long strike against billionaire boss, John Castimatidis, owner of United Metro Energy Corp.

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00:13:01

Nic Nicoludos Demands CUNY Change Mandate, Rehire...

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2022/01/26

On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview Nic Nicoludis. Nicoludis, member of Rank and File Action (RAFA), the more militant faction of PSC-CUNY, The City University of New York staff & faculty union. RAFA is demanding an end to a mandate that 70% of courses be taught in person this semester and called for CUNY admin to reverse all planned adjunct layoffs resulting from the madate.

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00:17:03

New NYCHA Committee Chair Alexa Avilés: Housing a...

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2022/01/26

On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview Socialist Citycouncilmember Alexa Avilés, a member of DSA, who was just made chair of city council’s NYCHA committee. Avilés, who represents Sunset Park and Red Hook in Brooklyn, talks about how she plans to approach NYCHA.

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00:13:48

Ted Hamm Talks NYPD, Judges, Public Safety After...

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2022/01/26

On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview Ted Hamm, Indy criminal justice reporter, about the recent police killing in Harlem and the current rhetoric around public safety in NYC and reform pushbacks.

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00:57:19

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 25 January 2022

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2022/01/26

On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview: On this week's show, Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian interview: * Ted Hamm, Indy criminal justice reporter, about the recent police killing in the Bronx and the current rhetoric around public safety in NYC and reform pushbacks. * Nic Nicoludis of Rank and File Action (RAFA), the more militant faction of PSC-CUNY, The City University of

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00:14:14

Marcely Mitaynes Updates The Indypendent on Arrest...

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2022/01/19

Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes about her first year in office, why she got arrested at Thursday’s climate demo and the prospects for moving bold progressive legislation in Albany this year.

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00:08:20

Eviction Moratorium Expires in NY: Interview With...

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2022/01/19

Amba Guerguerian, an Indy reporter who was at the Brooklyn Housing Court Tuesday — the first day courts were open since the NY eviction moratorium expired — and spoke with tenants on the brink of eviction and "eviction defender" tenant organizers.

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00:14:02

Interview With Bronx Public School Parent & State...

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2022/01/19

Indypendent EIC John Tarleton interviews Bronx public school parent and former AOC staffer Jonathan Soto who is running for a State Assembly as a champion of replacing mayoral control of schools with community control.

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