America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turned into war. This is Uncivil: Gimlet Media's new history podcast, hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. We ransack the official version of the Civil War, and take on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about covert operations, corruption, resistance, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the ...
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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.
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1 Why a Rent Freeze is Needed in NYC + Rent Control History 16:53
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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.
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 1 May '25 53:51
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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.…
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1 PSC-CUNY President James Davis on Trump's Higher Ed Attacks + Fighting Back 21:35
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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.…
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1 Live Coverage: Protesters Flock to Dan Goldman's Congressional Town Hall 23:38
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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.…
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 April '25 55:11
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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.…
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1 Update: Attacks on pro-Palestine Speech in NYC, People Fighting Back 14:07
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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.
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1 Tax Strike With War Resisters League and Brooklyn for Peace 11:36
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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.
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 15 April '25 54:31
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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 billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to help the Zionist state kill more Palestinians. But it’s getting harder to talk about. 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.…
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1 Flushing, Queens Community Activists Rebecca Pryor & Howard Wong Speak Out on Citi Field Casino 14:58
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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.…
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1 Zara Nasir of People's Budget NYC + Students & Teacher from Leaders HS Discuss Adams' Budget Cuts 18:03
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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.…
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 8 April '25 54:19
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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 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.…
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 25 March '25 53:56
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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.…
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1 NYC Mayoral Race: Zohran Mamdani in Second Place After Andrew Cuomo 11:20
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We catch up on the latest news in the mayoral race and take listener call-ins.
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1 Indivisble Brooklyn is Calling Out Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party 19:10
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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.…
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1 Rucker Park Enshrined as National Commemorative Site 11:05
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We also speak with The Indypendent's Janavi Kumar about exciting news for a world-famous basketball court in Harlem.
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 18 March '25 54:07
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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 workers who kept New York running when the Covid-19 pandemic exploded five years ago this month.…
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1 Columbia Professor and Student Discuss Unprecedented Attacks on Their University 26:26
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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.…
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1 Robert Snyder's New Book on Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic 14:24
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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.
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1 Jessica Ramos Talks About Why She's Running for Mayor 23:08
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We speak with Queens State Senator and NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, who is running as a pro-labor progressive.
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1 Nicholas Powers' Black Psychedelic Revolution 23:21
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We then speak with Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about his latest book, 'Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation.'
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1 The Indypendent News hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 11 March '25 54:07
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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.…
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 4 March '25 54:19
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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.…
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1 Pro-Palestine Barnard Sit-In Outside Administration Offices 9:19
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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 Barnard student protesters — the first such student expulsions for political activity at Columbia or Barnard since 1968. We speak with The Indypendent’s Eric Santomauro-Stenzel, who was on hand during the sit-in. His story, “Inside the Student Sit-in That Rocked Barnard College” is up on indypendent.org.…
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1 Chinatown Home Care Workers Continue to Fight 24-Hour Workdays 13:34
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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. The focus of the protesters’ ire is a law that allows their employer to assign them 24-hour home care shifts for which they only receive 13 hours of pay. We speak with Vicki Niu, a volunteer with the Ain’t I a Woman Campaign and Alberto Neri with the Youth Against Sweatshops. They were both present at the gala protest and have been organizing the home care workers and other workers to end the 24 hour shift.…
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1 Cuomo Can't Be Mayor Again: A Conversation with John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian 21:42
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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.
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1 The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 25 Feb. '25 55:15
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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 in our final segment, we talk with journalist Liza Featherstone about why Trump and Musk are targeting many of the most popular services provided by the federal government. It’s not a political miscalculation, she argued in a recent essay for The New Republic, but a key part of their plan.…
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1 Peter Sterne on the Ongoing Adams Saga & Upcoming Mayoral Elections 15:01
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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 to dismiss the charges. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has weighed whether she should use her authority to remove a mayor from office but so far refused to pull the trigger. And there’s a mayoral primary in four months where the leading candidate to replace Adams — Andrew Cuomo — is not even in the race. To help make sense of all the latest with our embattled mayor, we speak with Peter Sterne, an editor at City & State, a news organization dedicated to covering local and state politics and policy here in New York.…
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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 as many letters as they used to, the Postal Service remains essential to small and large businesses, to elderly who receive their prescriptions by mail, to voters who vote by mail and many others. However, with President Trump and Elon Musk indiscriminately wielding their wrecking ball across the federal government, recent comments by Trump have many concerned that he may try to privatize the post office and dismantled the services we’ve become accustomed to.…
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1 Liza Featherstone on Why Trump and Musk Are Attacking Popular Programs 16:54
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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."
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