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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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00:16:53

NYC High Schoolers Permeash & Kaira A.:...

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2022/01/19

Indypendent EIC John Tarleton interviews Permeash & Kaira A, two public school students who walked out of their classes last week to protest unsafe conditions in their buildings amid the latest surge of COVID-19.

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00:58:14

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 18 Jan 2022

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2022/01/19

This week on The Indypendent New Hour, we hear from: Amba Guerguerian, a reporter who was at the Brooklyn Housing Court on Tuesday — the first day NY courts were open since the NY eviction moratorium expired on Saturday — and spoke with tenants on the brink of eviction and "eviction defender" tenant organizers. Two public school students who walked out of their classes last week to protest unsafe conditions in their buildings amid the latest surge of COVID-19. Bronx public school parent and

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00:10:37

Neelu Shruti Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2022/01/05

Neelu Shruti, birthing justice advocate, says pregnant people looking for healthy opportunities to hospital birthing have just been betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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00:15:40

Matthew Thomas Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2022/01/05

Matthew Thomas, (Vulgar Marxism on Substack) talks about his latest investigation that looks at how Columbia and NYC’s other private universities get away with not paying more than $.5 billion in property taxes. That money is enough to make CUNY (City University of New York) free again.

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00:13:24

Sarmad Akkach Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2022/01/05

Sarmad Akkach, an organizer with the Student Workers of Columbia, gives us the latest update on what's happening at Columbia University where 3,000 graduate student workers have been on strike for two months as of yesterday. It’s the largest active labor strike in the country. The workers have held strong and Columbia has started to make some substantial concessions.

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00:23:33

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Interviewed on...

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2022/01/05

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams speaks on an array of topics including the Omicron variant, how the pandemic is being handled, newly inaugurated NYC mayor Eric Adams and his own bid for Governor.

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00:58:22

The Inydpendent News Hour on WBAI // 4 January 2022

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2022/01/05

This week's episode on WBAI-99.5 FM features: —Sarmad Akkach, an organizer with the Student Workers of Columbia, gives us the latest update on what's happening at Columbia University where 3,000 graduate student workers have been on strike for two months as of yesterday. It’s the largest active labor strike in the country. The workers have held strong and Columbia has started to make some substantial concessions. —Matthew Thomas, (the Vulgar Marxist on Substack) talks about his latest

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00:58:46

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 28 December 2021

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2021/12/30

This week on Indy News we speak with: —Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned “I’m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.” With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country,

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00:22:51

Sean Petty Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/30

This week on Indy News we speak with Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned “I’m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.” With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country, he

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00:15:44

Derrick Palmer & Chris Smalls of Amazon Labor Union...

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2021/12/30

This week on Indy News we speak with Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls and VP Derrick Palmer to update us on the struggle to unionize Amazon workers. On Dec. 22, for the second time in three months, Staten Island Amazon workers hand-delivered signed cards to a National Labor Relations Board office in Brooklyn, petitioning that the board authorize a union vote. The refiling comes after six weeks of furious organizing by the Amazon Labor Union after withdrawing their first petition. This time,

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00:08:46

Julia Thomas Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/29

This week on Indy News we speak with Julia Thomas, author of “Rikers Island Transferees Now Held in Maximum Security Prison Where Drinking Water Tastes Like Sewage” from the recent Dec. issue of The Indypendent. Bedford hills, a maximum-security prison in Westchester is experiencing an influx of women and transgender and non-binary people — all held pre-trial — who are being transferred from Rikers Island. The controversial and inhumane transfers, which began in October, come after renewed calls to

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00:55:21

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 7 December 2021

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2021/12/08

On this week's Indy News Hour: —Caitlin Liss os the Student Workers or Columbia gives us a live update on increasingly high stakes labor struggle at Columbia University, the nation’s largest active strike of 3,000 students workers against the leaders of a university with a $14.4 billion endowment. The University is threatening to fire them from their jobs if they don’t end their five-week strike by Friday. —President of the New York Postal Workers Union Jonathan Smith talks about the union effort

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00:25:07

Evan George Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/08

Evan George, editor of Bostopia News podcast talks about what's afoot in Boston — moves toward free mass transit, a Green New Deal and rent control — with new mayor Michelle Wu in charge. This stands in contrast to NYC where our incoming new mayor is obsessed with more policing and cryptocurrency and to this drift nationally in the Democratic Party of insisting that nothing can or should change very much.

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00:16:17

Jonathan Smith Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/08

President of the New York Postal Workers Union Jonathan Smith talks about the union effort to get the postal service back on track. Biden still hasn't replaced Trump-appointed Postmaster Louis DeJoy, who is implementing measures that aren’t good for customers or workers, like understaffing and raising prices while giving American people less service.

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00:07:56

Caitlin Liss Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/08

Caitlin Liss os the Student Workers or Columbia gives us a live update on increasingly high stakes labor struggle at Columbia University, the nation’s largest active strike of 3,000 students workers against the leaders of a university with a $14.4 billion endowment. The University is threatening to fire them from their jobs if they don’t end their five-week strike by Friday.

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00:08:52

Costas Panayotakis Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/12/01

A new variant of the Coronavirus, the Omicron variant, was just discovered in South Africa. We are faced with the possibility that the new variant may prove resistant to the vaccines that we had hoped to bring the pandemic under control. We speak with author Costas Panayotakis about his recent article for The Indypendent, “Omicron Variant Underscores Why We Must Abolish Global Vaccine Apartheid." Panayotakis is a professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY).

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00:12:04

Melanie MacLennan Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/12/01

In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused by increasingly potent street drugs, NYC is authorizing two supervised injection sites in East Harlem and Washington heights. Trained staff at the two sites will provide clean needles, administer naloxone to reverse overdoses and provide users with options for addiction treatment. Users will bring their own drugs. New York will become the first U.S. city to open officially authorized injection sites. We don’t know all the details on these

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00:22:52

Joan Alexander Bakiriddin Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/12/01

In October 2020, without consulting the community, the City announced a high-rise housing development at the corner of Bedford and Church Avenues in Flatbush. The site is the last remaining section of an African Burial Ground dating at least to the 1700s. The Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition is a group of artists, historians, activists, organizers, lawyers, engineers, and neighbors who are committed to protecting the Flatbush African Burial Ground at 2274 - 2286 Church Avenue. We speak

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00:56:34

The Indypendent News Hour // 30 November 2021

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2021/12/01

In this edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we speak with a member of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition about a current struggle to preserve an African burial ground located on the corners of Bedford and Church Avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Then, we turn to some breaking news. This week, the city announced that two safe injection sites in Harlem and Washington Heights that will be run by non-profit harm reduction groups. This much needed addition to our public infrastructure comes

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02:00:08

Election Night Special with The Indypendent on WBAI

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2021/11/03

Voters across the country head to the polls today on the first election day since Donald Trump’s defeat last November. Governorships are up for grabs in New Jersey and Virginia. Boston, Buffalo, Atlanta, Seattle and Minneapolis are choosing their next mayors. The future of policing has been a flashpoint in each of those races. In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered, voters will also vote on whether to abolish their current police department and replace it with a new Department of Public

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