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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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00:37:26

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 22 December 2020

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2020/12/23

John Tarleton, Editor-in-Chief of The Indypendent newspaper, interviews: --Amba Guerguerian, author of 'Black Lives Matter Backlash: The NYPD’s War on Protesters Intensifies,' of The Indypendent's December issue. They talk about the NYPD's knack for crushing signs of political dissent and the City's lackluster attempt at police reform. --Moumita Ahmed, candidate for the Feb. 2 special election to fill the vacant seat for City Council District 24 in Queens. Ahmed, focused on bringing a socialist

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00:17:06

Moumita Ahmed Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/23

John Tarleton interviews Moumita Ahmed, candidate for the Feb. 2 special election to fill the vacant seat for City Council District 24 in Queens. Ahmed, focused on bringing a socialist political revolution to Queens, has started multiple political and social organizations and programs and advocates for Bangladeshis/Bangladeshi-Americans in NYC.

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00:10:23

Amba Guerguerian Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/23

John Tarleton interviews Amba Guerguerian, author of 'Black Lives Matter Backlash: The NYPD’s War on Protesters Intensifies,' of The Indypendent's December issue. They talk about the NYPD's knack for crushing signs of political dissent and the City's lackluster attempt at police reform.

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00:44:35

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 15 December 2020

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2020/12/16

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent newspaper interviews: --Brian Garita from Mexicanos Unidos about the ICE detainee hunger strike at Bergen County Jail and the way that people who were protesting outside of the jail in solidarity were attacked by riot police. The conditions in Bergen County are so bad that ICE detainees at the Bergen County Jail recently went on a 31-day hunger strike to demand changes. --Thompson Newkirk, bartender at Castello Plan, a restaurant the Ditmas Park

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00:00:25

Roger Manning Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/16

John Tarleton interviews Roger Manning from the Metro Area Governors Island Coalition about the de Blasio administration's aim to rezone Governor’s Island. They say they want to set up a climate research center but critics say the rezoning plan would open the door to all sorts of other development.

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00:09:05

Thompson Newkirk Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/16

John Tarleton interviews Thompson Newkirk, bartender at Castello Plan, a restaurant the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, about how Cuomo's recent decision to close indoor dining will affect small businesses.

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00:12:20

Jonathon Soto Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/16

John Tarleton interviews Jonathan Soto, an aide to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, about AOC's Homework Helpers mutual aide program. More than 13,000 volunteers responded to AOC's call to help tutor struggling school children in her district. For many students, COVID-induced remote learning is a difficult and frustrating experience that leaves them struggling to keep up with their class work.

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00:07:06

Brian Garita Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/16

John Tarleton interviews Brian Garita from Mexicanos Unidos about the ICE detainee hunger strike at Bergen County Jail and the way that people who were protesting outside of the jail in solidarity were attacked by riot police. The conditions in Bergen County are so bad that ICE detainees at the Bergen County Jail recently went on a 31-day hunger strike to demand changes.

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00:14:08

Medea Benjamin Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/09

John Tarleton Interviews Medea Benjamin, a political activist who co-founded CODEPINK Women for Peace, about what is in the future for US foreign policy, Biden's cabinet, and the harms of Democrats' “do-gooder” motto for U.S. armed international intervention. This interview is a preview to Saturday’s event co-hosted by The Indypendent, “Biden’s Foreign Policy: Who Will be the Architects?”. View the invite here: https://indypendent.org/2020/11/bidens-foreign-policy-who-will-be-the-architects/

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00:16:10

Jes Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/09

John Tarleton interviews Jes, a Brooklyn-based Community organizer in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement who works with a No Name Group and BK4BL (Brooklyn 4 Black Lives) on community organizing initiatives and protests actions. She talks about how to keep protesters safe, the installation of Brooklyn community fridges, and why the term “Defund the police," is important to use (after Obama recently claimed the opposite).

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00:08:38

Kathy Santoiemma Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/09

John Tarleton interviews Kathy Santoiemma, leader of the New Rochelle nurses and member of New York State Nurses Association, about the current situation at Montefiore Hospital in New Rochelle, where the unionized nurses find themselves locked out of their jobs due to an ongoing labor dispute with management.

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00:53:41

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 08 December 2020

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2020/12/09

John Tarleon, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent newspaper, interviews: --Kathy Santoiemma, leader of the New Rochelle nurses and member of New York State Nurses Association, talks about the current situation at Montefiore Hospital in New Rochelle, where the unionized nurses find themselves locked out of their jobs due to an ongoing labor dispute with management. --Medea Benjamin, a political activist who co-founded CODEPINK Women for Peace, about what is in the future for US foreign policy, Biden's

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00:14:35

Jo Ann Brown Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/02

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Jo Ann Brown one of the health care workers at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, a hospital in East Flatbush that is slated to be closed in February. Jo Ann is trying to rally support for keeping the hospital open at least through the pandemic.

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00:11:35

Shams DaBaron Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/12/02

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Shams DaBaron, one of the men who has been staying at the hotel Lucerne since earlier this summer when the City moved about 300 unhoused men into the hotel at 76th and Broadway on the affluent Upper West Side as a way to keep homeless people safe during the pandemic. Now the City is caught up in a legal battle as it tries to again move the men, who with good reason don't want to leave.

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00:12:25

Maritza Silva-Farrell Interviewed on WBAI by John...

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2020/12/02

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of ALIGN, the Alliance for a Greater New York. ALIGN is one of the groups that participated in a 02 December rally outside of Jeff Bezos’s NYC home to "deliver democracy" and end Amazon’s mass surveillance, deportations, gentrification, dirty energy, monopoly & worker abuse.

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00:52:39

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 01 December 2020

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2020/12/02

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews: --Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of ALIGN, the Alliance for a Greater New York. ALIGN is one of the groups that participated in a 02 December rally outside of Jeff Bezos’s NYC home to "deliver democracy" and end Amazon’s mass surveillance, deportations, gentrification, dirty energy, monopoly & worker abuse. --Shams DaBaron, one of the men who has been staying at the hotel Lucerne since earlier this summer when the City moved

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00:08:52

Sean Petty Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/11/25

John Tarleton Interviews Sean Petty, nurse at public hospital in the Bronx and member of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), about the growing public health challenges posed by a second wave of COVID-19 as NY positive cases increase.

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00:20:25

Jessica Ramos Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/11/25

John Tarleton interviews Jessica Ramos, State Senator from Queens, about the new Democrat supermajority in the NY's Senate, taxing the rich, subways and school closings.

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00:09:51

Aixa Rodriguez Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton

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2020/11/25

John Tarleton interviews Aixa Rodrgiuez, a high-school ESL teacher, member of Movement of Rank-and-File Educators & Bronx Educators United for Justice, about the way NYC public schools were opened and closed this fall. This interview comes less than a week after Mayor de Blasio's 11/18 announcement that public schools would close the following day.

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00:54:19

Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 24 November 2020

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2020/11/25

John Tarleton, the editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews: - Aixa Rodrgiuez, a high-school ESL teacher, member of Movement of Rank-and-File Educators & Bronx Educators United for Justice, about the way NYC public schools were opened and closed this fall. -Jessica Ramos, State Senator from Queens, about the new Democrat supermajority in the NY's Senate, taxing the rich, subways and school closings. -Sean Petty, nurse at public hospital in the Bronx and member of New York State Nurses

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