In our first segment, we speak to City & State Editor Peter Sterne about who Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani selected for his transition team. He explains what role these committees might play in helping him staff his administration, along with setting policy goals. In our second segment we talk to Sarah Ahn and echo - two Flushing Workers Center organizers. We discuss why they oppose billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen’s push to open a casino in their working class Queens community. In our final segment we tune into gratitude and the spirit of giving with Palestinian restaurant owner, Abdul Elenani. We talk about a Friendsgiving meal event at Ayat in Astoria, Queens and why he believes in embracing his culture and identity through food.
On Nov. 24, Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani introduced 402 New Yorkers who will serve on 17 different transition committees. We spoke with City & State Editor Peter Sterne about who Mamdani selected and what role these committees might play in helping him staff his administration and with setting policy goals
Sarah Ahn and Echo – two organizers with the Flushing Workers Center – discuss why they oppose billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen’s push to open a casino in their working class Queens community.
The head of the popular Palestinian restaurant talks about the Thanksgiving meal they are holding in Astoria, Queens and why the restaurant chooses to publicly embrace its Palestinian identity.
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This week's show fell on Election Day. Our reporters spoke with voters about their choices in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. We also spoke with NYC-DSA organizer Cole Sandick about his Election Day canvassing experiences on the Upper West Side and how working on the Mamdani campaign has affected changed his life; Cuomo whistleblower Lindsey Boylan about her former boss's divisive general election campaign and Minnesota-based freelancer Clint Combs about the Minneapolis mayoral race between democratic socialist Omar Fateh (the "Mamdani of the Midwest") and business friendly incumbent Democrat Jacob Frey.
Beginning on November 12 at BAM, Third World Newsreel will screen some of the group’s most iconic work from the late 1960s and early 1970s – another era where young people’s dreams of forging a more just world crashed against a system that didn’t want to change.
Voter turnout in the first three days of early voting in the NYC mayoral race was greater than the turnout in all nine days of early voting in 2021. Older voters are leading this surge, buoying the hopes of Andrew Cuomo and prompting concerned emails from frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's campaign to its supporters. On this week's Indypendent News Hour we spoke with Peter Sterne of City & State about the state of the race and whether Mamdani's supporters have cause to be alarmed
In the first part of this week's show we spoke with Peter Sterne of City & State about the state of the mayor's race with one week to election day and three days of early voting already completed. Voter turnout in the first three days of early voting in the NYC mayoral race was greater than the turnout in all nine days of early voting in 2021. Older voters are leading this surge, buoying the hopes of Andrew Cuomo and prompting concerned emails from frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's campaign to its supporters. On this week's Indypendent News Hour we spoke with Peter Sterne of City & State about the state of the race and whether Mamdani's supporters have cause to be alarmed. In the second half of the show, we’ll heard from JT Takagi, director of Third World Newsreel, about an upcoming retrospective of some of the group’s most iconic work from the late 1960s and early 1970s – another era where young people’s dreams of forging a more just world crashed against a system that didn’t want to change.
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