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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 rent freeze is needed now. In our second segment, 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 1-6 pm at the Sixth Street Community Center.

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 John Tarleton reports live from the event. We also 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 John Tarleton reports live from the event.

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 home in Brooklyn and the growing demands for Schumer to step down as the Senate's top Democrat. We also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem and catch up on the latest news in the mayor's race.

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 home in Brooklyn and the growing demands for Schumer to step down as the Senate's top Democrat.

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.

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.

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.

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 State and its 20 million residents. We also have updates from the streets as New Yorkers hit the streets to protest Trump, Musk and Adams.

LaMont Hopewell joins John Tarleton to discuss striking Amazon workers in Maspeth, Staten Island and across the country

LaMont Hopewell joins John Tarleton to discuss striking Amazon workers in Maspeth, Staten Island and across the country and Indy contributor Nicholas Powers fields listener call-ins about Kamala Harris' crushing defeat

On today's Indypendent News Hour, our hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress. We will also speak with Malika Conner of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition and a tenant leader from a Community Action for Safe Housing (CASA), an advocacy group in the South Bronx, about the lack of adequate legal counsel for tenants who are being taken to housing court by their landlords. We will be taking listener calls during both segments.

John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.

This week, co-hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco are busy working on the final edits for this month's issue of The Indypendent. Instead of a live show, enjoy some of our favorite interviews from the past few months including a conversation with contributing writer Nicholas Powers about the power of revolutionary cinema, a journalist who specializes in unconvering AI's impact in governmental elections, and finally two activists who say all the revolution needs is a little attention!

Co-host John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco are joined by Michael Lange who explains the recent scandals embroiling the Eric Adams administration. Later, union leaders from the Bronstein Tenant Union demand justice from their landlords in Queens.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from John Tarleton, the editor of The Indypendent. On this program we hear about the critical importance of holding independent media space within the context of a media landscape in New York City that is hostile to Palestinian life. Read the latest articles and reports from The Indypendent here: https://indypendent.org Accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

On this week's edition of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco spoke with two traveling peace activists – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who have lived on the frontlines of the conflict for decades and who believe peaceful co-existence with equal rights for all is still possible in Palestine/Israel. We also had a fascinating conversation with two instructors from the Strother School of Radical Attention which is helping people step back from their electronic devices and relearn how to become fully present in the world around them.

Voices for Palestine - Global solidarity Sept. 7, 2024 This 4 hour collective community broadcast weaves sounds from protests to support freedom in Palestine from all around the world. Including voices of artists and activists who are joining the frontlines of expressing their solidarity with the people of Gaza. In this broadcast we hear a set of interviews that I recorded with organizers of the People's Conference for Palestine in May 2024 in Detroit, Michigan, particularly with members of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Also you will hear from Caoimhe Butterly, an organizer of the The Freedom Flotilla Coalition during the stop of Handala (حنظلة) in Lisbon, Portugal. For this broadcast I am also sharing interviews with long-time Palestine solidarity activists Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, in addition to a conversation with John Tarleton, the editor of The Indypendent in NY. Below is a full track listing from the broadcast, please tune-in and encourage your friends to listen. All the best, sending my love and solidarity. - Stefan Christoff. A full outline of the voices, works and music included including links to the voices and contributors can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-a9dGkf2_gx5jR5iVefH9IBdBIXTLMPTMD_9mjSg2O4/edit?usp=sharing 01. Badawi - The One (Zikr wave mix) 02. Roua Daas speaks on Penn State chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) 03. Reflections on the Wayne State University encampment visit, with Andrea from Oregon and Zein from New Mexico 04. Reem Said of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Montréal 05. Yara Shoufani, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organizer 06. Steve Bates @steve-bates - Destroy the palace 07. An interview with Adam Shapiro (co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement) 08. SUNKEN CAGES @rmomin - Chants of The Broken 09. Errance @errancerrancerrance - Surdité 10. Badawi - A Better Place (reprise) 11. ben grossman @ben_grossman - force of will 12. Evitceles @evitceles - Within A Haze 13. Midland @midland - Side Gurn 14. Æther Varia @aether_varia - Asphalt 15. Atletas - Samsona (via Municipal K7 in Brazil) 16. Claire Deak @claire_deak - Quarrel of the Senses (Serenata) 17. Interview with John Tarleton, editor of The Indypendent in NY 18. Michel Banabila @michel-banabila - Where Old Meets New 19. Ian Kamau - Fear 20. Errance - Timbres oblitérés 21. Caoimhe Butterly interview from the Freedom Flotilla coalition, recorded in Lisbon Portugal 22. Leo, a youth singing in Nahuatl an Indigenous language in the Mexico City region 23. Naila Keleta-Mae - Free 24. JESICA SARRAF @777sarraf + CADENA NACIONAL (live mix) 25. Alejandro Saravia - In praise of struggle 26. Grim Beverage - Open C 27. Fuzz Lewis - Opener Wave 28. Leon Louder - Feast 29. Cataratas del Niágara - Dúo (Antonio Gritón and Germán Bringas) 30. Frank Barat interviews Lauren Jauregui

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco sit down with Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy to discuss the fight against National Grid's price hikes for consumers. Then, Nancy Romer urges CUNY to make sure of NY Power Authority to lower electric costs and save energy. She is joined by Zach Jonas of Public Power NY about how to build coalition for renewable energy, despite Governor Hochul's efforts to undermine clean energy advocates.

The Indypendent's John Tarleton speaks with NYU student activist Anita Talukder about her university' recent capitulation to lawsuits brought by Zionist students alleging pro-Palestinian protests were anti-semitic and how the logic of the Israeli occupation is spreading to Americna universities like hers. We also speak with Danny Pearlstein of the Riders Alliance about the struggle to revive congestion pricing and with Josh Kraushauer of NYC DSA about how organizing softball leagues, family picnics, reading clubs & more is essential to nurturing a socialist movement that is sustainable for the long haul.

John Tarleton and Nicholas Powers of The Indypendent talk about the New Hampshire primary and what it means that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both on the verge of locking up their party's nominations and pivoting to a general election contest that most Americans say they do not want to see.

Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton joined King Downing on WBAI's Good Morning Nueva York on Monday November 27 to talk about recent coverage in The Indy including stories about the exoneration of two cops in the killing of Kawski Trawick, the filing of a $40 million lawsuit against the FBI by a man who was wrongfully convicted in the assasination of Malcolm X and an article we did on the similarities between South African and Israeli apartheid.

In our first segment we get to get a perspective from Mexico on the continuing surge of migrants from South America to the United States & on Mayor Adams' recent visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to discourage migrants from journeying north. Our guest, Laura Carlsen, is the director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, A Mexico-City based think tank. We hear some of the music from the Indigenous People's Day celebration on Randall's Island recorded by Indypendent reporters Elias Guerra and Kimberly Izar. Peoples from Hawaii, the Philippines, Nigeria, U.S. and N.Y. tribes, and many others were there. Then we hear from Carl Miller and The Indy's investigative reporter Ted Hamm. Forty-two years after he was convicted of an infamous murder of a Crown Heights rabbi, Miller is still seeking exoneration from the Brooklyn DA's office. Hamm wrote about the case and why his conviction should be overturned in the current print edition of The Indypendent. Lastly, show hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss the shocking events in Israel and the Gaza Strip from the past few days and what may lay ahead. There's a lot to unpack there.

John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian discuss the shocking events in Israel and the Gaza Strip from the past few days and what may lay ahead. There's a lot to unpack there.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump was arraigned at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse for paying $130,000 in hush money to a former mistress in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign and then falsifying related business documents. Supporters and detractors of Trump rallied outside the courthouse. The intense divisions of the Trump era were on full display as well as the toxic brew of grievances and conspiracy theories embraced by the former president's most rabid followers. We covered Arraignment Day on this week's show. Our reporters gathered comments from average New Yorkers and diehard MAGA protesters and then joined us on the show.

Co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian talk about leftist and Workers Party founding member Lula da Silva defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's presidential runoffs. We connect it to (and discuss) the governor's race here with Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul being neck-and-neck in the polls with MAGA candidate Lee Zeldin.

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from John Tarleton on The Indypendent in NYC. John speaks about the role of an alternative but widely accessible progressive newspaper in NY that speaks to the demands, concerns and ideas of communities and individuals often not centred in mainstream publications in the city. The Indypendent emerged from the alternative media efforts that took place within the context of the global justice movement, specifically the Indymedia network, a project that sustains and survives until today. This interview was recorded at the Booklyn Commons building roof, the space that hosts the Indypendent offices in NY. Music on this edition is an excerpt of "Transcendence," by Jaimeo Brown Transcendence.

We spoke with writer and leftist pundit Tom Robbins on primary night about some of the hardest-fought races and the terrain these races were being contested on. Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are spending millions of dollars this year to drown out the voices of progressive grassroots candidates.

Listen along as Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and WBAI's Linda Sarsour discuss the results from Tuesday's Democratic primary in New York. In their conversation, they talk about some of the Left's big victories on Tuesday and why it failed to coalesce and win in NY's newly created 10th congressional district in Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.

We learn about races to watch in the upcoming state and national legislative elections from co-host John Tarleton, the Editor-in-Chief of The Indy and a keen observer of electoral politics.

—There are ~1,800 public schools in NYC serving 1 million students. But even though school will start in a month, most schools don't know what their annual budget will be and whether they will have to lay off staff. The matter appeared to be settled on June 13 when Mayor Eric Adams pushed the City's annual budget through City Council with hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to school funding. But on Friday New York Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank ruled that the process upon which the Department of Education's budget was established violated state law and allowed City Hall a new vote. Earlier today, the Mayor appealed the decision to a higher court. We speak with Paul Trust, a father and teacher at P.S. 39 and one of the four plaintiffs in the lawsuit. We were also joined by Kaliris Salas Ramirez, another NYC public school parent and the Manhattan representative on the Panel for Education Policy, the New York City school board. —Then, in our second segment, we hear a bit from john about the upcoming state and national legislative elections from co-host John Tarleton. Tarleton is the Editor-in-Chief of The Indy and a keen observer of electoral politics. —Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been sending the asylum seekers to “sanctuary cities” Washington, DC, and NYC for months — without sufficient food, water and medical assistance, say those that are supporting the migrants as they arrive. Since Friday, two buses carrying asylum seekers have arrived from Texas, with a total of 68 passengers. 4,000 immigrants have come from Texas in the last few months. We are joined in our third segment by Adriana Phillips, founder of South Bronx Mutual Aid and a member of the NYC ICE watch network. She has been on-the-ground, greeting buses as they arrive from Texas.

Indypendent Editor in Chief John Tarleton has been closely following some of the latest developments in the first round of Democratic primaries, which will be held on June 28 for all statewide offices and state assembly seats. Early voting is already underway. Tarleton speaks about progressive and socialist candidates that are challenging machine Democrats in a number of key races.

A mini segment with Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton, who has been following New York State's electoral politics and redistricting. The maps for Congress and State Senate drawn by the Democrats in the state legislature earlier this year were thrown out by the state's top court and control over the mapmaking landed in the hands of a Republican judge in Stueben County, New York, who in turn appointed a "neutral third party" expert to draw the maps.

On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — In our first segment, we speak with City Councilmember Sandy Nurse. Sandy has a long history as a radical activist and community organizer in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She was elected to City Council last year and is leading some important battles from her new position as Chair of the Sanitation Committee. She explains how trash works in NYC works and whats missing. Among other things, she's leading the fight to reverse Mayor Adams proposed cuts to the Sanitation Dept budget. —Then, we go to longtime peace and justice organizer Leslie Cagan. She was the Coordinator for the June 12, 1982 Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, when upwards of 1 million people marched past the United Nations and then gathered in Central Park to demand an end to the arms race. It remains one of the largest single protest events in U.S. history. Cagan takes us through some of the history of that event and the impact it made at the time. She also helps us think about where we are today with nuclear war again on the radar.

On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022. —Kristen Gonzalez, 26, a socialist from Queens, is running for State Senate. If elected, she will make history as the youngest woman ever elected to the New York State Senate. She's been off to a fast start since entering the race, with endorsements from the NYC Democratic Socialists of American and the Working Families Party. —We talk with leftist political comic Francesca Fiorentini. She's the host of the Bitchuation Room podcast which brings together political comics, activists and thinkers. She also appears on The Damage Report on the Young Turks Network and is the host and lead writer for AJ+'s Newsbroke which airs short, entertaining videos that use a light-hearted approach to unpack complex topics such as white fragility in the workplace and the history of socialism in America. She's done all this while facing the challenges of breaking into a field where the voices of women and people of color have historically been marginalized.

On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: —Emilia Decaduin, a trans socialist organizer and Democratic Party District leader in Assembly District 37 in Sunnyside, Queens, talks about the growing backlash to Eric Adams' appointment of several brazen homophobes to his administration. —Linda Martin Alcoff, a leading critical race theorist, talks with us about why the Left should stop running from the controversy around critical race theory and see it as an opportunity. She says that pretending CRT isn't real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense. —We hear from Christina Zawerucha about her experiences coming of age in New York's Ukrainian-American diaspora and how it has shaped her life. She also sings us an amazing freedom song live on air.

On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: —The latest front in Mayor Eric Adams crusade for public safety: New York City's vast subway system. On Friday, Mayor Adams announced that the city would now be taking a zero tolerance approach to unhoused people in the subway system. Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of “The End of Policing" talks about the Mayor's new strategy for policing the homeless and his broader approach to public safety. We also speak with speak with Peter Malvan, who spent 32 years living as a homeless New Yorker. During that time, he lived in the subway systems, in shelters and in parks. And from 1991 to 2011, he worked jobs. Peter has now been housed for the past year and a half. He is the Vice President of Midnight Run and a homeless advocate with the Safety Net Project, Persons with Lived Experience of NYC, Homeless Can't Stay Home, & VOCAL-NY and a member of the Coalition for the Homeless NYC. — Slumlord C+C Management has just taken over Harlem River Houses from NYCHA. This means that the tenants of the complex are no longer protected by Section 9 public housing laws and instead fall under Section 8 low-income housing rules, which are less protective. This privatization and gentrification scheme being pushed by Eric Adams puts the roughly 600,000 people living in NYCHA buildings at a larger threat of eviction and bad conditions. On Saturday, tenants of Harlem River Houses and their allies held a rally to speak out against the privatization. Vanessa, and Ryan, members of the United Front Against Displacement, speak with us about the struggle. Vanessa is also a tenant of Harlem River Houses. —We briefly speak with retired teacher Roberta Pikser about the battle to keep the city from transferring 250,000 retired city workers from Medicare to the privately-run Medicare Advantage.

On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian: — The Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights but was met with fierce community response. We speak with Sherease Torain, who was born in the home, Nicoás Vargas of Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Joel Feingold of Crown Heights Tenants Union, two of the groups that has come to support the Robinson Family. —In the past week, six Starbucks stores in New York City and on Long Island have filed for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board, the first in the NYC region to do so. They are among the more than 80 Starbucks stores in at least 23 states that have sought to unionize since baristas at a Buffalo Starbucks store voted to unionize two months ago. Two baristas — Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave, from a Starbucks store in Bath Beach, Brooklyn which filed for union recognition last week, the first in Brooklyn to do so — join us on WBAI-99.5 FM. —We talk Black History Month and in particular two films that are going to be screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem in the coming days. One is about the poet Audre Lorde and her time in Germany and the other is about the great writer, historian and activist W.E.B. DuBois who also has some interesting ties to Germany. Kazembe Balagun — project manager at the Rosa Lux Stifgung's New York office, a cultural historian, a contributing writer for The Indypendent and much more — joins us to talk about the films.

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.

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.

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.

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 tape parade for essential workers. —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. —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.

The Indypendent's EIC John Tarleton and co-host Natasha Santos of Brooklyn For Peace interview Pastor Tabatha Holley of New Day Church in the Northwest Bronx, an open and affirming (independent and non denominational) community of organizers, educators, artists, young people and dreamers committed to building the movement of God against the forces of Empire. Holley talks about Juneteenth , which was just celebrated for the first time in the U.S. as an officially recognized holiday/event.

As the city's 2021 primary election day comes to a close, The Indypendent's EIC John Tarleton and co-host Natasha Santos of Brooklyn For Peace talk with Lucas Shapiro of The Jewish Vote, a group that endorsed a number of candidates and encourages alliance forming. Shapiro explains Ranked Choice Voting (implemented for the first time during this election), how it works, how it came about.

As the city's 2021 primary election day comes to a close, The Indypendent's John Tarleton and Olivia Riggio interview Ben Max, executive editor at the Gotham Gazette and co-host of the Max & Murphy show, which discusses New York politics and airs weekly on WBAI. Max has been reporting on and analyzing the mayoral race on Max & Murphy as well as on his Twitter @TweetBenMax, where he's been giving his followers play-by-plays on poll data and other developments.

As the city's 2021 primary election day comes to a close, The Indypendent's John Tarleton and Olivia Riggio interview Julie Hollar, managing editor at FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy & Reporting), who just wrote a piece called “Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters' Minds.” Outlets like the New York Post and New York Daily News have failed to afford sufficient coverage to a more pressing issue for New Yorkers: housing. Hollar discusses the sensational coverage and how it's shaped the narrative of NYC and the mayoral race.

Listen to the first edition of Free City Radio podcast, it was recorded in the first days of the major measures taken in Montreal to slow the #COVID19 pandemic. Included in this podcast is personal reflections on this moment and also on doing street art during this time, on hanging a banner reading "solidarité" and the context behind this banner, because it was a gift from student activists in Winnipeg passed on during the Quebec student strike in 2012. I had visited Winnipeg to share reflections and texts from a booklet that I put out during that time, the zine is called , Le fond de l'air est rouge, info : https://howlarts.net/words Within this podcast I share an excerpt of audio recorded during protests in the Quebec student strike, specifically in Victoriaville where the Liberal Party of Quebec was having their congress. The street protests were focused on highlighting social injustice and protesting for the protection of public institutions, such a public health care and education systems. You can hear the full audio that I recorded at that protest for @radiockut here : https://soundcloud.com/freecityradio/lintense-journee-de-manifestation-a-victoriaville Also in this podcast is an interview with John Tarleton, editor at The Indypendent, speaking about the importance of independent media during this time and also the history of the Indypendent newspaper project in NYC. This was recorded before the pandemic hit North America in a major way, but it really does highlight some important points of reflection. https://soundcloud.com/freecityradio/interview-john-tarleton-editor-at-the-indypendent Finally a note to say this podcast includes two music selections, one by the band Weeping Icon, who are based in Brooklyn, released by @firetalk info : https://weepingicon.bandcamp.com Also I included a track by my brother Jordan Christoff who releases many different music tracks, the one we hear is "Angle Flow" from the album "Water" released via @salmonuniverse info : https://salmonuniverse.bandcamp.com/album/water Main song for Free City Radio, the intro / ending track is "Hope" by the Melbourne based band, The Dirty Three ! Thanks for listening to the first edition, this podcast is hosted by community organize, musician and media maker Stefan @spirodon Christoff

an interview with John Tarleton, editor at The Indypendent, recorded at the Brooklyn offices of the awesome NYC independent newspaper that has been deeply covering community struggles and issues in the NYC area for over a decade. recorded for @radiockut broadcast by Stefan @spirodon Christoff

Between the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the disclosure of highly classified information to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak and revelations of his alleged request to Comey to squash an investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, there's been more breaking news than ever this week on the ongoing saga of whether the Donald Trump administration illegally colluded with the Russian government. But with most major news outlets operating at code red, are key progressive issues being overshadowed by the nonstop news cycle? Jesse's guest John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent (indypendent.org) thinks so. In this episode of TrumpWatch on WBAI 99.5fm New York, John explains why it is important to not let the issues the left has been fighting for get lost in the chaos.

Between the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the disclosure of highly classified information to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak and revelations of his alleged request to Comey to squash an investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, there's been more breaking news than ever this week on the ongoing saga of whether the Donald Trump administration illegally colluded with the Russian government. But with most major news outlets operating at code red, are key progressive issues being overshadowed by the nonstop news cycle? Jesse's guest John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent (indypendent.org) thinks so. In this episode of TrumpWatch on WBAI 99.5fm New York, John explains why it is important to not let the issues the left has been fighting for get lost in the chaos.