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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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00:12:49

Bhairavi Desai Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/10/06

Debt-stricken taxi drivers have entered their 17th day of a round-the-clock protest outside City Hall. They are demanding the mayor and city council cover the massive debts they incurred when the price of a taxi medallion collapsed after the City allowed Uber and Lyft to flood the streets with their own drivers who did not have to pay for medallions. We speak with Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about how the city reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in taxi medallion sales a

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00:14:42

Hildalyn Colon Hernandez Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/10/06

Hildalyn Hernandez Colon, Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Workers Justice Project, talks about recent victories at City Hall won by New York City’s 65,000 delivery workers and the organizing that went into that in the midst an upsurge in worker militancy across the country spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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00:58:18

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 05 October 2021

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2021/10/06

Hildalyn Hernandez Colon, Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Workers Justice Project, talks about recent victories at City Hall won by New York City’s 65,000 delivery workers and the organizing that went into that among an upsurge in worker militancy across the country spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Debt-stricken taxi drivers have entered their 17th day of a round-the-clock protest outside City Hall. They are demanding the mayor and city council cover the massive debts they

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00:24:06

Cleveland Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/29

This week we spoke with Cleveland, who has been incarcerated in NYC jails for 28 months. He spent the first year of his sentence on Rikers and then was moved to the Vernon C Bain Correctional Center, commonly known as “The Boat,” which is right across from Rikers and shares many of the same conditions and staff. Cleveland talks about the many abuses of rights of the incarcerated that occur on Rikers as well as the abuses of due process in the NYC court system. Last name withheld for privacy

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00:10:34

Marcial Morales Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/29

This week on The Indypendent News Hour we spoke with Marcial Morales, who, after successfully being released from ICE detention on hunger strike, has supported a slew of hunger strikes in New Jersey and around the US. He updates us on current strikes in Buffalo and Miami and what uncertain future awaits people who are deported.

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00:10:04

Derek Ludovici Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/29

This week we spoke with Derek Ludovici, a contributor to The Indypendent newspaper and anthropology professor at Brooklyn College and City College. Derek received his masters from from the American University in Cairo and was in Egypt during the Arab Spring. He talks about his recent op-ed for the Indypendent’s Sept. issue called “What I Learned During the Forever Wars,” including what it was like to teach vets who served in one of the many U.S. wars in the Mid. East. Read Derek's

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00:56:21

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 28 September 2021

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2021/09/29

This week we spoke with: —Cleveland, who has been incarcerated in NYC jails for 28 months. He spent the first year of his sentence on Rikers and then was moved to the Vernon C Bain Correctional Center, commonly known as “The Boat,” which is right across from Rikers and shares many of the same conditions and staff. Cleveland talks about the many abuses of rights of the incarcerated that occur on Rikers as well as the abuses of due process in the NYC court system. —Derek Ludovici, a contributor to

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00:18:54

Amy Littlefield Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/15

Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent for The Nation, speaks about her recent coverage of SB 8, Texas legislation that eliminates abortion protections for women and creates a system of citizen bounty hunters who can sue women for getting abortions. She talks about how this affects other states and how soon we might see Roe v. Wade overturned.

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00:13:06

Priscilla Grim Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/15

Priscilla Grim, one of the editors of The Occupy Wall St. Journal, has stayed involved with various OWS-related formations since the 2011. She fills us in on what different OWS and occupy-adjacent groups have been doing since 2011 (how they've been able to change public opinion around capitalism) and what they plan to do for the tenth anniversary of the movement.

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00:56:38

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 14 September 2021

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2021/09/15

Priscilla Grim, one of the editors of The Occupy Wall St. Journal, has stayed involved with various OWS-related formations since the 2011. She fills us in on what different OWS and occupy-adjacent groups have been doing since 2011 (how they've been able to change public opinion around capitalism) and what they plan to do for the tenth anniversary of the movement. Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent for The Nation, speaks about her recent coverage of SB 8, Texas legislation that

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00:07:01

Harriet Hirschhorn Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/09/08

The latest from East River Park, a 46-acre park running along the East River, the only green space for the Lower East Side’s working class community. The park has been the home to a battle over the last several years over its preservation. The city is very close to being able to go forward with its plan to demolish the recently renovated park and rebuild a new, smaller park over the course of a decade. Harriet Hirschhorn from East River Park Action gives us an update on the battle to save the

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00:15:25

Amanda Vender Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/08

New York City public schools are reopening for the new school year. Amid the Delta wave, are the schools ready to do their work while keeping students and teachers safe? MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators), the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers says that there’s still much the city and department of education need to do in order to create a safe learning environment. They also want UFT to fight harder for its members. Amanda Vender, a MORE member and co-author of

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00:25:23

Todd Fine Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/08

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, hopes were running high that something profound would emerge at the site where 3,000 people were killed and hundreds more first responders were poisoned and later died of their illnesses. It hasn’t quite turned out that way. Todd Fine talks about what happened at Ground Zero over the past 20 years. Fine is president of the Washington Street Advocacy Group, which promotes historic preservation and historical memory in Lower Manhattan and

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00:57:01

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // Sep 9 2021

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2021/09/08

—Segment One, Todd Fine: In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, hopes were running high that something profound would emerge at the site where 3,000 people were killed and hundreds more first responders were poisoned and later died of their illnesses. It hasn’t quite turned out that way. Todd Fine talks about what happened at Ground Zero over the past 20 years. Fine is president of the Washington Street Advocacy Group, which promotes historic preservation and historical memory

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00:10:09

Anita Varma Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/02

Anita Varma leads the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement. She is also a new assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Media at UT Austin, where her research and teaching focus on how journalists represent marginalized communities and how this reporting can improve. Anita’s family immigrated from Bihar, India in 1978 and she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is speaks with us about solidarity reporting with Afghanistan and beyond.

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00:17:58

Shakib Noori and Madi Williamson Interviewed on WBAI...

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2021/09/02

When Joe Biden announced that US troops would pull out of Afghanistan, thousands of people rushed to Hamid Karzai International Airport where many lost their lives in the events that followed. Over 150 people died after a suicide bomber detonated his vest at a U.S. checkpoint just days before U.S. troops departure on August 31. We speak to two people working to get at-risk individuals through the Kabul airport and out of Afghanistan: Madi Williamson, based in Istanbul, is a nurse from Seattle,

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00:11:33

Marcela Mitanyes Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/09/01

NY state lawmakers are expected to Convene in an emergency special session to extend the eviction moratorium. This comes after the Supreme Court slashed down NY eviction moratorium two weeks ago and years of community protest. Tenants rights organizers are demanding that state leaders reconvene the legislature and extend the eviction moratorium. Worse, only 8,000 out of 180,000 applicants to New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program have received funds so far. Marcela Mitaynes, the

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00:07:13

Reverend Billy Talen Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/08/18

Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping talks about NYC parks and the fight for the planet. He was part of a failed effort in 2015 to get Monsanto's Roundup pesticide out of the NYC parks system. Billy also just came back from Minnesota where there's a huge battle led by indigenous people over a tar-sands pipeline, the "new Standing Rock," he says.

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00:14:23

Marika Plater Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/18

Marika Plater has extensively studied and written about the NYC public park system. She is the lead source in The Indypendent's August cover story, 'Parks for the People.' We look at the history of the class struggle around NYC parks. Parks for the People: https://indypendent.org/2021/07/parks-for-the-people/

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00:23:42

Medea Benjamin And Kathy Kelly Interviewed on WBAI by...

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2021/08/18

We look at the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. Two long-time peace activists Kathy Kelly and Medea Benjamin talk about the latest from Afghanistan, why the U.S.-backed regime collapsed so quickly and what the future may hold. Kathy Kelly is the co-founder of Voices for Creative Non-violence. She visited Afghanistan many times over the past decade and worked with peace activists there. Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Code Pink Women for Peace. She also visited Afghanistan a number of times during

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