In our first segment, co-host Amba Guerguerian joins us live from Foley Square, where immigrant rights groups and their allies are rallying today to protest the Trump administration’s mass deportation program and the increasingly brazen tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain and deport immigrants. Then we speak with …

We catch up on the mayoral race with Indy Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers. A new poll out shows former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lead over his top challenger, Zohran Mamdani, shrinking to a mere two points.By The Indypendent

We speak with a participant in the rolling hunger strike by students and faculty at the City University of New York. The hunger strikers want CUNY to cut all ties with Israel and companies that do business with Israel.By The Indypendent

Co-host Amba Guerguerian joins us live from Foley Square, where immigrant rights groups and their allies are rallying today to protest the Trump administration’s mass deportation program and the increasingly brazen tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain and deport immigrants.…

We speak with City Councilmember Shahana Hanif. She’s facing a tough re-election challenge in her Brooklyn district with money from Uber pouring into her district after she backed legislation that would protect the labor rights of immigrant gig workers.By The Indypendent

We hear from an organizer with NYC ICE Watch, a rapid response network founded in 2020 that responds to incidents of ICE sightings and other emergencies.By The Indypendent

In our first segment, we hear from an organizer with NYC ICE Watch, a rapid response network founded in 2020 that responds to incidents of ICE sightings and other emergencies. In our second segment, we speak with City Councilmember Shahana Hanif. She’s facing a tough re-election challenge in her Brooklyn district with money from Uber pouring into h…

We look at the latest news from New York City’s mayoral race. A new poll shows socialist state legislator Zohran Mamdani rapidly gaining ground on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. We also take listener call-ins.By The Indypendent

As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student.By The Indypendent

As famine and starvation spreads across Gaza, CUNY students and veterans here in New York have launched separate hunger strikes in opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide. We speak with a hunger-striking veteran and a hunger-striking grad student. Then we take a look at the latest news from New York City’s mayoral race. A new poll shows socialist st…

We speak with Nicholas Powers, longtime Indy contributor and African-American Literature Professor at SUNY-Old Westbury, about how Black America is generally responding to Trump's second presidency. His latest article is titled "Under Trump 2.0, Most Black Americans Have Nowhere to Turn."By The Indypendent

We look at the pro-Palestine activism that continues roiling New York City college campuses from CUNY to Columbia. We speak with Naomi Schiller of CUNY Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine and Josh Dubnau and Lillian Udell, two Columbia alumni who will burn their diplomas outside the campus gates on the morning of May 21 before the university h…

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian look at the pro-Palestine activism that continues roiling New York City college campuses from CUNY to Columbia. We speak with Naomi Schiller of CUNY Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine and Josh Dubnau and Lillian Udell, two Columbia alumni who plan to burn their diplomas outside the campus gates Wedn…

We talk about former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. Our guest, Lindsey Boylan, was an economic development advisor to then-Gov. Cuomo. Boylan became the first of 11 women to go public with claims of sexual harassment against Cuomo that led to his resignation in August of 2021. In addition to her…

We speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk about the convoluted proc…

In our first segment, we speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk abo…

Ariana Orozco will be speaking with an actor and director for a new play chronicling the history of Black midwifery in the U.S., she will also will be talking to a death doula about our relationship to death and how we might better accept the inevitable, and finally with Popular Democracy about the relationship between poetry and political educatio…

We speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA’s Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is organizing tenants to directly resist the landlord class. IWCO will be holding a citywide tenant assembly this Sunday, May 4, from 1–6 p.m. at the Sixth Street Community Center in the East Village.By The Indypendent

We speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working-class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a rent freeze is needed now.By The Indypendent

We were talking tenants rights on this week’s Indypendent News Hour. In our first segment, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a ren…

We speak with James Davis, President of the Professional Staff Congress—the union that represents over 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York—about the struggle to defend the City University of New York and other American colleges and universities from President Trump’s authoritarian takeover.…

Outraged Americans have been showing up at congressional town halls over the past couple of months to demand that their representatives do more to stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. On Aprill 22, New York Congressmember Dan Goldman held a town hall at City Tech College in downtown Brooklyn. The Indy’s Jo…

Outraged Americans have been showing up at congressional town halls over the past couple of months to demand that their representatives do more to stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. On Aprill 22, New York Congressmember Dan Goldman held a town hall at City Tech College in downtown Brooklyn. The Indy’s Jo…

We have the latest on the repression of pro-Palestine speech right here in New York and the growing impunity of groups like Betar and other militant Zionists. We cover recent protests by doctors, nurses and professors from Columbia University's medical campus and by Within Our Lifetime Palestine.By The Indypendent

Brooklyn for Peace and the War Resisters League held a protest on tax day outside the IRS office in Lower Manhattan. We hear from one of the organizers about the staggering amount of your tax dollars that go to pay for the war machine and what they’re doing here at the local level to address this.By The Indypendent

Brooklyn for Peace and the War Resisters League held a protest on tax day outside the IRS office in Lower Manhattan. We hear from one of the organizers about the staggering amount of your tax dollars that go to pay for the war machine and what they’re doing here at the local level to address this. One of the things your tax money goes to is sending…

In our second segment, the struggle against billionaire oligarchy is unfolding at a hyperlocal level in Flushing, Queens. Mets owner Steve Cohen wants to build a new casino on parkland adjacent to Citi Field. We hear from two local community organizers who are helping lead the opposition to Cohen and the Citi Field Casino.…

City budget season is underway as the mayor and City Council debate how to divvy up the city’s roughly $110 billion annual budget. In our first segment, we hear from students and educators who rallied today outside the Department of Education headquarters demanding that Mayor Adams cease his cuts to their schools.…

City budget season is underway as the mayor and City Council debate how to divvy up the city’s roughly $110 billion annual budget. In our first segment, we hear from students and educators who rallied today outside the Department of Education headquarters demanding that Mayor Adams cease his cuts to their schools. In our second segment, the struggl…

The Democrats lost to Donald Trump for a second time in November. And now the party's leaders are rapidly losing the trust of some of their most loyal rank-and-file supporters. Our co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with Brioney Romer and Liat Olinick of Indivisible Brooklyn about their recent protests outside Senator Chuck Schumer's…

We catch up on the latest news in the mayoral race and take listener call-ins.By The Indypendent

We also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem.By The Indypendent

The Democrats lost to Donald Trump for a second time in November. And now the party's leaders are rapidly losing the trust of some of their most loyal rank-and-file supporters. Our co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with Brioney Romer and Liat Olinick of Indivisible Brooklyn about their recent protest outside Senator Chuck Schumer's …

We speak with Professor Joseph Howley and student journalist Eric Santomauro-Stenzel about the continually exploding crisis at Columbia University which is on the cutting edge of the Trump administration’s plans for higher education in this country to no longer be a bastion of free speech and political protest.…

In the first half of the show, we look at the continually exploding crisis at Columbia University which is on the cutting edge of the Trump administration’s plans for higher education in this country to no longer be a bastion of free speech and political protest. Then we speak with historian Robert W. Snyder about his new book on the essential work…

We speak with historian Robert W. Snyder about his new book on the essential workers who kept New York running when the pandemic exploded five years ago this month.By The Indypendent

We then speak with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about his latest book, 'Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation.'By The Indypendent

We speak with Queens State Senator and NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, who is running as a pro-labor progressive.By The Indypendent

Our co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with Queens State Senator and NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, who is running as a pro-labor progressive. We then speak with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about his latest book: Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation.…

On Feb. 26, more than 100 home care workers were attacked by the NYPD and seven were arrested at a protest outside a fancy Wall Street fundraiser for the Chinatown non-profit that controls their working conditions. The workers from the Ain’t I A Woman campaign say that the Chinese-American Planning Council, or CPC, owes them $90 million in back pay…

On Feb. 26, about 50 students in keffiyehs occupied the hallway outside the offices of Barnard College’s top administrators. Barnard is an undergraduate women’s college located across the street from Columbia University. Over more than six hours of tense negotiations, protesters demanded that the school’s leaders rescind the expulsions of two Barna…

Indypendent co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and why we think he shouldn't be elected again. We also take listener call-ins.By The Indypendent

In our first segment, we get the latest on the bi-partisan repression of pro-Palestine voices on college campuses. We then learn about a campaign by home health care workers who are fighting for fair labor standards. Finally, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss Andrew Cuomo entering the NYC mayoral race and take listener call-ins.…

In our first segment, we get the latest on the Eric Adams saga from a reporter who has City Hall covered like a blanket. Then we’ll take stock of the Trump-Musk administration’s widening attacks on public services. We then speak with Chuck Zlatkin of the American Postal Workers Union which represents more than 200,000 postal workers nationwide. And…

We focus on City Hall, where Mayor Adams continues on the job but is not out of trouble yet. Adams recently cut a deal with the U.S. Justice Department to have his federal corruption charges dropped in return for assisting the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign here in New York City. The judge in the case, Dale Ho, so far has refused …

We speak with Chuck Zlatkin, a longtime postal worker who is currently the Legislative and Political Director for New York Metro Area Postal Union, the local affiliate of the American Postal Workers Union.The U.S. postal service is older than country itself and provides universal service to every address in the country. While people may not write a…

We speak with journalist Liza Featherstone about her recent article in The New Republic, "Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate: This is how you sever the positive relationship between people and government — ensuring there’s nothing left to defend."By The Indypendent

We speak with Leo and Maria, organizers with Plaza Proletaria, a working-class, immigrant-led group that is organizing to thwart the ICE raids, which are a part of the Trump administration’s campaign to deport millions of undocumented people in this country.By The Indypendent

We hear from Socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about how the Trump/Musk assault on federal agencies and spending could impact New York State and its 20 million residents.By The Indypendent

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerin speak with Leo and Maria about the Sunset Park-based Plaza Proletaria is organizing against ICE raids and deportations. In the second half of the show, we hear from Socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about how the Trump/Musk assault on federal agencies and spending could impact New York St…