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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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00:53:58

March 17, 2026: Albany Budget Talks, Lindsay Boylan's...

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2026/03/19

With negotiations on New York State's annual $250 billion budget in the final home stretch, we spoke with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a socialist from Brooklyn. Topics discussed included the fight to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to agree to tax hikes for the rich, how the state will make up for federal cuts to Medicaid funding and the governor's push to roll back historic climate mandates that were passed in 2019. Former Andrew Cuomo staffer and urban planner Lindsey Boylan set in motion the

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00:19:30

March 17, 2026: Assemblymember Phara Souffrant...

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2026/03/19

With negotiations on New York State's annual $250 billion budget in the final home stretch, we spoke with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a socialist from Brooklyn. Topics discussed included the fight to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to agree to tax hikes for the rich, how the state will make up for federal cuts to Medicaid funding and the governor's push to roll back historic climate mandates that were passed in 2019.

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00:19:16

March 17, 2026: Former Cuomo Nemesis Lindsey Boylan...

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2026/03/19

Former Andrew Cuomo staffer and urban planner Lindsey Boylan set in motion the events that led to her boss's resignation as governor in 2021 when she became the first of 13 women to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment. In last year's mayoral race, Boylan continued to speak out against Cuomo while many Democrats rallied to his side thinking he was certain to be the next mayor. Now, she is running for an open City Council seat on Manhattan's West Side in a special election that will be held on

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00:15:10

March 17, 2026: Jalopy Theater's Eli Smith and...

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2026/03/19

As the weather gets nicer, New Yorkers are looking for things to do outside of their apartments that have doubled as caves these past couple of months. For our final segment, Ernasto Gomez and Eli Smith of Jalopy Theater joined us live in the studio to talk about the The 9th Annual Brooklyn Jug & String Band Rendezvous that is being held this Friday and Saturday at the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn. They also played a couple of their favorite jug and string songs. The two-day festival will include

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00:52:49

Feb. 24, 2026: The Tax The Rich Special

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2026/02/25

In this episode, we see why it will be benefit the collective to tax the rich. In the first segment, we zoom into Albany where thousands of New Yorkers will lobby their representatives to tax the rich. We speak to Divya Sundaram of Our Time for an Affordable New York on what they hope to achieve. In our second segment, we speak to Indy contributors, Lyna Bentahar and John Morris about their recent articles on the pathologies shared by many members of the super-rich and why they are so prone to

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00:16:49

Feb. 24, 2026: Tax the Rich Supporters Mobilize for...

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2026/02/25

Thousands of New Yorkers will converge on the State Capitol in Albany on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to support increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the state's largest corporations. We kicked of the Tax the Rich edition of The Indypendent News Hour by speaking with Divya Sundaram of Our Time for an Affordable New York, one of the groups playing a key role in organizing Wednesday's lobbying day in Albany.

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00:15:13

Feb. 24, 2026: Inside the Minds of Billionaires

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2026/02/25

For Part 2 of our Tax the Rich edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we spoke with Indy contributing writers Lyna Bentahar and John Morris about their recent articles on the pathologies shared by many members of the super-rich and why they are so prone to freaking out about small increases in their taxes that would do a vast amount of good for the rest of society.

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00:20:37

Feb. 24, 2026: Andy Tobias of Patriotic Millionaires:...

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2026/02/25

Andy Tobias is an investor, best-selling author and member of Patriotic Millionaires, a network of high-wealth individuals that advocates for higher taxes on people like themselves. Tobias told The Indypendent News Hour that multi-millionaires and billionaires can easily afford to pay higher taxes nationally and in the State of New York to help fund high quality essential public services and reduce the runaway economic inequality that is destabilizing the U.S. political system.

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00:52:22

Feb. 17, 2026: Peter Sterne On Mamdani’s Proposed...

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2026/02/18

Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his first executive budget. The release of the mayor's executive budget kicks off months of City Council hearings, protests and rallies by a wide array of community stakeholders and negotiations between the mayor and city council that will culminate in June with a final budget agreement. We spoke with Peter Sterne, an editor at City & State about what's in the mayor's proposed budget and the political battles that lie ahead. The beloved Reverend Jesse Jackson passed

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00:30:05

Feb. 17, 2026: Peter Sterne On Mayor Mamdani’s...

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2026/02/18

Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his first executive budget. The release of the mayor's executive budget kicks off months of City Council hearings, protests and rallies by a wide array of community stakeholders and negotiations between the mayor and city council that will culminate in June with a final budget agreement. We spoke with Peter Sterne, an editor at City & State about what's in the mayor's proposed budget and the political battles that lie ahead.

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00:21:54

Feb. 17, 2026: Nicholas Powers Reflects On Rev. Jesse...

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2026/02/18

The beloved Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away. He was a democratic socialist who ran for president in 1988, who worked closely with Martin Luther King in his early 20’s. We sit with African American Literature Professor and longtime Indy columnist, Dr. Nicholas Powers to reflect on the legacy of Jesse Jackson, and how we can turn to his wisdom to keep hope alive, as we continue to fight the same battles today.

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00:54:13

Dec. 2, 2025: New Council Speaker Julie Menin, 2020...

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2025/12/08

In our first segment, we speak to Brandon West, a former member of the City Council’s central staff on Julie Menin’s power as speaker and how her stance will affect Zohran Mamdani when he is mayor. In our second segment, we bring you an interview between John Tarleton and Zohran Mamdani, long before he became a world-famous politician. They reflect on policing in the United States. In our final segment, John Tarleton talks about a trip to Downeast Maine to a blueberry farm where he was reminded

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00:18:47

Dec. 2, 2025: Brandon West Talks About New Council...

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2025/12/08

Following right-wing Democrat Julie Menin’s victory in the race for City Council Speaker, we spoke with Brandon West, a former member of the City Council’s central staff, about how Menin and her supporters outmaneuvered progressives, the powers she will wield as speaker and how she might try to obstruct Zohran Mamdani when he is mayor.

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00:26:59

Dec. 2, 2025: From the Archives: Zohran Mamdani’s...

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2025/12/08

Before he became a world-famous politician and a leading symbol of the democratic socialist movement in the United States, Zohran Mamdani was a little-known candidate for a state Assembly seat in Astoria, Queens. In this interview with The Indypendent News Hour’s John Tarleton, Mamdani introduces himself, talks about why he is running and reflects on the George Floyd Uprising and how policing should be transformed in the New York City and across the country.

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00:07:12

Dec. 2, 2025: John Tarleton: My Journey to Small-Town...

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2025/12/08

In our final segment, John Tarleton talks about Downeast Maine, the wild blueberry harvest and how a small town of fewer than 500 people came together to mourn the sudden death of his former blueberry harvest crew leader. Amid the deep cultural and political divides between big city and rural areas, Tarleton says, his trip reminded him of some of the things we share in common: a longing for community, a desire to live a meaningful life and how common people in both places are exploited and pitted

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00:46:28

Nov. 25, 2025: Mamdani Transition Committees,...

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2025/12/05

In our first segment, we speak to City & State Editor Peter Sterne about who Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani selected for his transition team. He explains what role these committees might play in helping him staff his administration, along with setting policy goals. In our second segment we talk to Sarah Ahn and echo - two Flushing Workers Center organizers. We discuss why they oppose billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen’s push to open a casino in their working class Queens community. In our final

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00:19:08

Nov. 25, 2025: Peter Sterne Discusses Zohran...

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2025/12/05

On Nov. 24, Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani introduced 402 New Yorkers who will serve on 17 different transition committees. We spoke with City & State Editor Peter Sterne about who Mamdani selected and what role these committees might play in helping him staff his administration and with setting policy goals

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00:12:44

Nov. 25, 2025: Flushing Workers Center Organizers Say...

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2025/12/05

Sarah Ahn and Echo – two organizers with the Flushing Workers Center – discuss why they oppose billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen’s push to open a casino in their working class Queens community.

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00:10:34

Nov. 25: Friendsgiving with Ayat Restaurant...

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2025/12/05

The head of the popular Palestinian restaurant talks about the Thanksgiving meal they are holding in Astoria, Queens and why the restaurant chooses to publicly embrace its Palestinian identity.

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00:20:46

10/28/25: JT Takagi on Third World Newsreel's...

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2025/10/31

Beginning on November 12 at BAM, Third World Newsreel will screen some of the group’s most iconic work from the late 1960s and early 1970s – another era where young people’s dreams of forging a more just world crashed against a system that didn’t want to change.

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