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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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00:54:20

Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 17 August 2021

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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 Nonviolence. 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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00:07:26

Lee Ziesche Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/11

In North Brooklyn, National Grid has begun construction on a controversial new liquid natural gas pipeline which would bring highly volatile fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New York. Its opponents see the $185 million project as both a public health hazard and bad energy policy as it would further lock the city into a dependence on natural gas for decades to come instead of speeding up a transition to 100% renewable energy. Residents’ opposition has temporarily stopped construction of Phase 5 of

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00:21:14

Ross Barkan Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/11

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a mushrooming sexual harassment scandal. Kathy Hochul will take his place and become New York’s first female governor. Cuomo was also under investigation for his role in covering up the deaths of thousands of nursing home patients who perished at the height of the pandemic last year and for using state workers to help him write a book about his leadership during the pandemic which he received $5 million for writing. Ross Barkan,

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00:12:15

Barbara Bowen Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/11

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a mushrooming sexual harassment scandal. Kathy Hochul will take his place and become New York’s first female governor. Cuomo was also under investigation for his role in covering up the deaths of thousands of nursing home patients who perished at the height of the pandemic last year and for using state workers to help him write a book about his leadership during the pandemic which he received $5 million for writing. Barbara Bowen,

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00:51:53

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 10 August 2021

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2021/08/11

—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a mushrooming sexual harassment scandal. Kathy Hochul will take his place and become New York’s first female governor. Cuomo was also under investigation for his role in covering up the deaths of thousands of nursing home patients who perished at the height of the pandemic last year and for using state workers to help him write a book about his leadership during the pandemic which he received $5 million for writing. Ross Barkan,

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00:55:59

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 03 August 2021

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2021/08/04

—Cea Weaver of Housing Justice 4 All, a statewide coalition of more than 70 organizations fighting for housing for all New Yorkers: A federal eviction moratorium instituted last year lapsed this past Friday at midnight putting an estimated 11 million tenants nationwide at risk of eviction. Here in New York, a statewide eviction moratorium is slated to end at the end of August. Cea breaks down what’s going on and how tenants movements are responding to the dire rent situation. —Kaitlin Baucom, mutual

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00:08:26

Charles Lenchner Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/04

Charles Lenchner, co-founder of People for Bernie: In Cleveland, a race to fill a vacant congressional seat has brought on a showdown between the progressive and pro-corporate wings of the Democratic Party. Voters are heading to the polls today to choose between former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, a close ally of Bernie Sanders and Cuyahoga County Councilperson Shontel Brown who is backed by senior leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus and a whole lot of outside Super PAC money.

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00:16:47

Kaitlin Baucom Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/04

Two Saturdays ago, June 25, the NYPD attacked and attempted to displace a mutual aid hub and organizing collective based out of an empty storefront space in a Brooklyn building called the gym. Fourteen reportedly violent arrests were made and one person was hospitalized. Kaitlin Baucom, who has lived in and been doing social activism out of the same building at 1083 Broadway for the past 8 years talks about the space and the police attack.

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00:15:25

Cea Weaver Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/08/04

Cea Weaver of Housing Justice 4 All, a statewide coalition of more than 70 organizations fighting for housing for all New Yorkers: A federal eviction moratorium instituted last year lapsed this past Friday at midnight putting an estimated 11 million tenants nationwide at risk of eviction. Here in New York, a statewide eviction moratorium is slated to end at the end of August. Cea breaks down what’s going on and how tenants movements are responding to the dire rent situation.

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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 20 July 2021

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2021/07/22

—Daniela Alulema, DACA recipient and program director at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. A federal judge in Texas ruled that no more Dreamers as the youths are known can enter the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gives them protections from deportation. —Gail Walker is the Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace. We look at the U.S.-Cuba standoff and how people in New York City and elsewhere are stepping up to end the U.S. embargo of Cuba or where possible go around it

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00:13:20

Gail Walker Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/07/22

—Gail Walker is the director Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace. We look at the U.S.-Cuba standoff and how people in New York City and elsewhere are stepping up to end the U.S. embargo of Cuba or where possible go around it to deliver crucial supplies to the socialist nation.

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00:14:18

Drivers Coop Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/07/22

Ken lewis and David Alexis from a drivers' coop recently started in New York that is challenging the duopoly of Uber and Lyft, which exploit their workers tremendously and represent the worst sort or rapacious capitalism in NYC. The drivers coop thinks theres another way that is better for both workers and consumers.

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00:10:28

Daniela Alulema Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/07/22

—Daniela Alulema, DACA recipient and program director at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. A federal judge in Texas ruled that no more Dreamers as the youths are known can enter the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gives them protections from deportation.

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00:09:44

Michael Pellagatti Interviewed on WBAI by The...

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2021/07/14

Michael Pellagatti, a laid-off double decker tour bus guide, talks about the automation of the bus tour guide. Two hundred tour guides have been laid off since the pandemic and instead of rehiring them, tour companies are switching to automated tours. Pellagotti stresses not only the importance of keeping people employed, but the disparity in the experiences of a live tour and an automated tour.

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00:14:54

Carmen De La Rosa Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/07/14

NY Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa (D-72) talks about the first-of-its-kind $2.1 billion excluded workers fund included in the fiscal year 2022 New York State Budget. Most undocumented workers and other workers who missed out on COVID-19 relief (unemployment, stimulus checks) will be eligible to receive either $3,200 or $15,600. Rosa explains what will be needed for the application as well as the uphill battle some applicants will face in aggregating the required documents in order to benefit from

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00:13:22

Rita Joseph Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent

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2021/07/14

Rita Joseph, NYC City Councilmember-elect for District 40, which mostly encompasses Flatbush, Brooklyn, who emigrated from Haiti when she was two-years-old, gives perspective on the unfolding crisis in her family's country and shares her goals for City Hall, including more just education, healthcare, housing, and police practices.

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00:14:54

Imani Oakley Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2021/07/07

John Tarleton interviews Imani Oakley, who just announced she is running for Congress in New Jersey’s 10th congressional district which encompasses Newark (primary held next June). Oakley, a socialist running on the Democrat ticket, is taking on one of the machine’s dynastic heirs, Donald Payne, Jr. who inherited the seat from his father in 2012.

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00:16:37

Kristin Richardson Jordan Interviewed on WBAI by John...

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2021/07/07

John Tarleton interviews Kristin Richardson Jordan, who has pulled into a narrow lead for the NYC city council District 9 seat that covers Central and East Harlem currently held by incumbent Bill Perkins. Richardson talks about running her grassroots campaign centered around the theme of “radical love" as an LGBTQ+ Black woman and democratic socialist.

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00:09:22

Todd Fine Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2021/07/07

John Tarleton interviews Todd Fine, a lower Manhattan preservationist and activist, talks about Governor Cuomo’s recently halted plan to build a memorial to essential workers at Battery Park City. Angered that the the construction of the memorial, an eternal flame, would result in bulldozing part of Battery Park, neighborhood locals protested enough to stop the plan for now. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio remembers the covid-19 pandemic by hosting a ticker tape parade for essential workers.

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00:53:57

Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 07 July 2021

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2021/07/07

Editor-in-Chief of The Indypendent newspaper John Tarleton interviews: — Todd Fine, a lower Manhattan preservationist and activist, talks about Governor Cuomo’s recently halted plan to build a memorial to essential workers at Battery Park City. Angered that the the construction of the memorial, an eternal flame, would result in bulldozing part of Battery Park, neighborhood locals protested enough to stop the plan for now. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio remembers the covid-19 pandemic by hosting a ticker

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