Highlights From This Week’s Indypendent News Hour

By Indypendent Staff

The Indypendent News Hour airs Tuesdays 5-6 pm on WBAI-99.5 FM. The show features news and interviews with progressive…

Hunger Strikers Celebrate Victory as NY Announces the Nation’s First Excluded Worker Fund

Undocumened workers and their allies celebrated victory Wednesday after state leaders finalized a $2.1 billion fund to assist New…

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Highlights from This Week’s Indypendent News Hour

By Indypendent Staff Mar 17

Marcela Mitaynes, Michael Hollingsworth and Elizabeth Palley joined us on this week’s show.

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Video: Looking Back at the Top Ten Moments from Bernie’s Journey

By Indypendent Staff Mar 5

Bernie Sanders’ five-year quest for the presidency effectively ended a year ago this week when he was decisively defeated…

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Video: Tenant Organizers Protest the Re-opening of Housing Court

By Indypendent Staff Mar 2

Eviction proceedings resumed Monday at the NYC Housing Courts. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been unable to…

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Video: Protesters Bring Tax-the-Rich Protest to Liz Krueger’s Upper East Side Home

By Indypendent Staff Feb 22

Demonstrators from NYC-DSA and New York Communities for Change demand higher taxes on the wealthy at the doorstep of the politician who chairs the State Senate Finance Committee.

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Facebook Blocks Sharing of the Indypendent’s Coverage of Hunts Point Produce Market Strike

By Indypendent Staff Feb 5

In a troubling sign of where Facebook’s crackdown on political extremism may be headed, the social media giant recently blocked acclaimed Marxist economist Richard Wolff from sharing an article by the Indypendent about the striking workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market.