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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The Funniest Podcast Around. Listen as Moose A.K.A Big House, A Jeezy, DJ Delo G, and Run breakdown hot tops, dating, and more. and remember we are the guys and girl you wanna hang with.
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Welcome to The Last Dab Podcast! Join Three Cohosts + Guests every week for discussions, debates, reactions, and comedic bits to internet/sport/world news & what's going on in our daily lives! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelastdabpodcast/support
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Newly Elected UFT Retiree Chapter Vice Chair Arthur Goldstein Discusses Protecting Medicare Coverage
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Newly elected United Federation of Teachers Retiree Vice Chair Arthur Goldstein explains the efforts to the stop the city from stripping healthcare benefits from 250,000 retired NYC workersBy The Indypendent
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Claire Valdez "Workers deserve it all" DSA Candidate for Queens Assembly seat
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Claire Valdez explains how she got involved with union organizing and her plans for Queens District 37 including addressing housing costs and low wages.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour June 18 by The IndypendentBy The Indypendent
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Danny Pearlstein of Riders Alliance Warns Hochul's Congestion Pricing Reversal Will Hurt New Yorkers
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Danny Pearlstein discusses how congestion pricing can solve some of the MTA's most pressing issues like overcrowding and train delays.By The Indypendent
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State Senator Julia Salazar Responds to Gov. Hochul's 'Irresponsible" Congestion Pricing Decision
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Julia Salazar critiques Gov. Hochul's decision to delay congestion pricing. She believes that congestion pricing would help improve MTA service and provide essential services like accessibility.By The Indypendent
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Kayta Schwenk of The Lever Uncovers Hochul's Connections to Auto Dealers
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Journalist Kayta Schwenk follows the money and discovers the connection between auto dealers and Governor Hochul's campaign.By The Indypendent
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Can Gov. Hochul be compelled to restore congestion pricing?After years of debate and planning, New York City was scheduled on June 30 to implement congestion pricing for cars that enter Manhattan below 60th Street. However, last week Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she was "indefinitely pausing" the plan which would have reduced traffic, improved air q…
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Nicholas Powers Reflects on Decolonial Protests from Algeria to College Campuses
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Indypendent writer Nicholas Powers explains how protests have developed to confront imperialist colonial projects like that in Israel-Palestine.By The Indypendent
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Eon Huntley, DSA Candidate For State Assembly Holds Rally in Bed-Stuy
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Eon Huntley is mounting a strong challenge to an incumbent Assemblymember in Central Brooklyn.By The Indypendent
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Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy Urges State Legislature to Pass NY HEAT Act
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Kim Frazcek of Sane Energy discusses the fight to keep a corporate polluter out of Greenpoint, Brooklyn as well as the final push in Albany to pass an important piece of environmental legislation before the state legislature adjourns for the year.By The Indypendent
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No North Brooklyn Pipeline!By The Indypendent
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Interview w/ DSA Candidate Jonathan Soto, Running to Unseat Incumbent in Northeast Bronx
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We interview Jonathan Soto, an educator and community activist who is taking on a 10-term incumbent in a northeast Bronx Assembly district that encompasses Coop City. If elected, Soto would be the first Socialist from the Bronx to serve in the state legislature in more than a century.By The Indypendent
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New Names, Same Game: Updates from Leo w/ Workers Movement for Liberation & Plaza Proletaria
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We hear from Leo with Workers Movement for Liberation (previously Mexicanos Unidos) a radical Sunset-Park group that formed during the George Floyd protests four years ago this summer and continues growing and evolving. He updates us on how things have been going at Plaza Proletaria (previously Plaza Tonatiuh) now that it's been pushed out of Sunse…
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Updates about the terrorizing scenes unfolding in Rafah, Gaza's southernmost and last standing city where about half the Strip's population currently is sheltering on day 234 of the genocide in Gaza. Israel is targeting areas it designated as "safe zones," makeshift tent camps where fire spreads fast.…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 28 May '24
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We provide an update on the latest from Rafah, the besieged town in southern Gaza that is the current focal point of the genocide. And we’ll hear from protesters who took to the streets yesterday in response to a massacre there by Israel.We also hear from Leo with Workers Movement for Liberation, previously Mexicanos Unidos, a radical Sunset-Park g…
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Interview With Kazembe Balagun, Executive Director of Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem
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We speak with Kazembe Balagun, the new executive director at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, about his vision for creating a people’s democratic film culture.By The Indypendent
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Columbia Student Journalist Lara-Nour Walton Reflects on Gaza Solidarity Encampment
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An exciting conversation with Lara-Nour Walton who was on the ground during nearly the entirety of the duration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment there.By The Indypendent
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The Indy's Amba Guerguerian on NYPD's Mishandling of Nakba Day Protests
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We speak with our very own Amba Guerguerian about the NYPD's bloody protest-repression tactics at annual Nakba Day demonstrations this year. Many protesters were left injured, illegal arrests were made, and the police department should expect to be sued for its policing on May 15 and 18.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour On WBAI - 99.5 FM // 21 May '24
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We speak with our very own Amba Guerguerian about the NYPD's bloody protest-repression tactics at annual Nakba Day demonstrations this year. Then we hear from Indy reporter and Columbia University student Lara-Nour Walton who was on the ground during nearly the entirety of the duration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment there. Lastly, we speak with …
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Alex Holmstrom-Smith: The Red Cosmos Society Aims to Bolster Socialist Culture
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Then we speak with Alex Holmstrom-Smith of Red Cosmos Society, which is dedicated to creating and spreading new holiday celebrations and rituals that embody leftist values of solidarity and struggle to create a better world.By The Indypendent
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The New School Student and Faculty Organizers Speak About Gaza Solidarity Encampments
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We will heard from Suneil, a part-time faculty member at The New School and an organizer at the Refaat Alareer Gaza Solidarity encampment. Then we speak with Jana and Rose, student organizers with The New School chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the student Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which lasted over a weeks and was shut down when …
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 14 May '24
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We will heard from Suneil, a part-time faculty member at The New School and an organizer at the Refaat Alareer Gaza Solidarity encampment. Then we speak with Jana and Rose, student organizers with The New School chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the student Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which lasted over a weeks and was shut down when …
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Sophie Ellman-Golan on the Revolutionary Meaning of Passover
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Several lefty Jewish groups held an emergency Passover seder Tuesday evening one block from Sen. Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home that drew several thousand protesters. During the event, Sophie Ellman-Golan of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice called in and talked about the revolutionary meaning of Passover, the encampment movement and more.…
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We spoke with Indy Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about what makes The Battle of Algiers such a unique movie, the burgeoning encampment movement on college campuses and more.By The Indypendent
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Ana Nogueira on Starr Bar & It's Role in NYC's Social Justice Movements
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We spoke with Ana Nogueira, co-owner of Starr Bar, about the role the Brooklyn performance venue plays in hosting live events for a wide array of NYC social justice organizations. We also talked about Roadmap to Apartheid, the documentary movie she co-directed and her role in founding The Indypendent 24 years ago.…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24 by The IndypendentBy The Indypendent
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Legal Aid Workers on Strike: UAW 2320 President Cyntha Carter Speaks With The Indypendent
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We speak to Cynthia Carter, President of UAW Local 2320 here in New York which represents legal aid workers at Mobilization for Justice who have been on strike for the past eight weeks.By The Indypendent
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Press Photographer Targeted for Arrest While Covering Pro-Palestine Action
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We speak with Indypendent photographer Neil Constanine. Constantine was arrested yesterday while covering a massive pro-Palestine Tax Day protest as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. We also get updates on the growing worldwide movement to end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation in Palestine.By The Indypendent
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Housing Organizer Johnny Rivera Speaks with The Indypendent About Anti-Tenant State Budget
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We speak with Johnny Rivera, longtime East Harlem tenant and socialist housing organizer. Housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with StateBy The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 16 April '24
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We hear first from housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov, Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Then, we speak with Indypendent photograp…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 9 April '23
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In the first segment of this week's episode, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused mos…
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NY State Senator Jabari Brisport x The Indypendent: Updates on State Budget Negotiations
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In the second segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul…
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Linda Martín Alcoff x The Indypendent: White Fright in a Changing World
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In the first segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epoc…
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Historic Protests Continue Against the New York Times
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We speak with Naim Mian of Writers Against the War on Gaza about the recent groundswell of direct action targeting The New York Times as well as a new unsubscribe campaign and the website newyorkwarcrimes.com, which was recently launched by a group of anonymous researchers, reporters and creatives.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 March '24
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In the first half of the show we speak with two Indy reporters, Amba Guerguerian and Ariana Orozco about their stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Guerguerian’s cover story looks at how younger workers are leading the charge in a resurgent labor movement as they strive to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into s…
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Updates on Albert Einstein Free Tuition and Fight to Save SUNY Downstate
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We speak indy reporter Ariana Orozco about her stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Orozco has been covering the State of New York’s attempt to close SUNY Downstate Hospital in central Brooklyn. She also spoke with med school students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine about the recent announcement that a $1 billion don…
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Momentum is Being Maintained in the New Labor Movement
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We speak with Amba Guerguerian about her article in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Guerguerian’s cover story looks at how younger workers are leading the charge in a resurgent labor movement as they strive to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs. And how they're winning.…
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Starbucks Announcement a Huge Victory for Organized Labor
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We speak with a barista at a unionized store in Williiamsburg about the positive impacts that are already being felt by workers at her/their store. And we speak with a labor historian who says the breakthrough at Starbucks could turn out to be the biggest victory for the labor movement in the United States since the great industrial strikes of the …
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Gaza Update with The Indy's Amba Guerguerian
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—Over 100+ cities around the world took to the streets to denounce Israel’s threats to intensify the genocide in Gaza by ground invading Rafah, the tightly-packed “safe” zone on March 10, the first day of Ramadan.—We know of protests that occurred in many US cities, including but not limited to DC, Philly, Baltimore, Cambridge, Providence, Chicago,…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 Feb. '24
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In our first segment, we speak with workers at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also be joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe's …
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UFT Retirees Running Opposition Slate in Upcoming Internal Election
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We hear an interview by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton with Bennett Fischer of the United Federation of Teachers. At the United Federation of Teachers, one of the city’s largest municipal unions, UFT Retiree Advocate, a group of retiree activists, announced on Friday that they will contest an internal union election this spring for leade…
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Updates from Tami Gold on Spring Palestine Film Series at Hunter College
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We speak with Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at CUNY’s Hunter College about an ongoing film series showing movies about Palestine. She’ll also update us about an upcoming Jewish Voice for Peace protest for Palestine.By The Indypendent
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Worker Update: Labor Battle at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing Continues Three Years In
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We speak with Don Mark Roxas and Diego Ramirez, workers at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan, about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Tra…
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Abdullah Akl of Within Our Lifetime Palestine Speaks on Recent Censorship
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We speak with Within Our Lifetime Palestine organizer Abdullah Akl. WOL has led over 100 protests across the city since Oct. 7. The pro-Palestinian group has been dealing this month with an intensifying crackdown by the NYPD and recently had its Instagram account suspended by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.…
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We look back at an earlier era in New York City history — a very different world in many ways, but not so different in others. In 1741, New York City had a population of 11,000 people, about one-sixth of whom were enslaved. We learn about a terrible court case that was prosecuted by Judges Chambers and Murray. We are joined by longtime defense atto…
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Update: Skunk Spray Attack at Pro-Palestine Columbia U. Student Protest
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We speak with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 Feb. '24
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We spoke with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.Then, we hear from Abdullah el-Akl from Within Our Lifetime Palestine talking about the repression that the organization and its leaders are facing incl…
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Reverend Billy's Earth Church is Offering Migrants Respite in East Village
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The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir. But now it’s also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essential city services and part of a broader community mobilization in the East Village to aid despe…
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Unprecedented Firings of 26 Full-time Queens College Faculty Amid Budget Cuts
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CUNY has been under increasing financial strain in recent years. The surprise firings and the course rollbacks at Queens College have stoked fears across CUNY that more such measures could take place across the CUNY system. We speak with Ash Marinaccio, one of the 26 fired professors, and Karen Weingarten, Professor of English at Queens College. Ka…
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A round of Gaza updates from The Indy's Amba Guerguerian: ICJ decision, UNRWA defunding, updates from on the ground in southern Gaza, perspectives on various attacks in the Middle East & the arresting of Nerdeen Kiswani and other pro-Palestine protest leaders on Friday, Jan. 26.By The Indypendent
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