Confronting Racism in Inwood

Lea and Carlos take up the incident on Dyckman Street in Inwood, North Manhattan when a group of mostly Dominican men patrolled the neighborhood looking for scare away looters and chased out Black youth protesters while using racial slurs. The incident raised debates about anti-Blackness in the Latino community and solidarity. To go deeper into these topics, Lea spoke with Madel Hidalgo and Kleaver Cruz, two Dominican activists, about the incident, the roots of Dominican anti-Blackness, and its intersections with Queer identity.

Season 2Brianda GuzmanAugust 3, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Afrosocialist, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Uprising, Yanny Guzman, Mel Gonzalez, Abolition Park, City Hall Park, Occupation

Inside the Occupation at City Hall Park

Yanny and Mel speak with community activist, Tatiana Hill, and Khalil Sulker, a member of the Afro-Socialist Caucus of the DSA, about the lessons, challenges, and successes of the City Hall occupation and about the next steps in the fight to defund the NYPD. Occupy City Hall is entering its third week as it transitions into Abolition Park. In this transitional moment questions about the future of Abolition Park are being debated now that the budget negotiations are over.

Season 2Brianda GuzmanJuly 13, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Afrosocialist, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Uprising, Yanny Guzman, Mel Gonzalez, Abolition Park, City Hall Park, Occupation

Fighting For Public Education Not Cops

Lupita and Danny speak with Ronnie Almonte, a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators, a social justice caucus inside the United Federation of Teachers. Ronnie will talk to us what this current moment can mean for the long fight against racism in New York City's public education system.

Season 2Brianda GuzmanJuly 6, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Afrosocialist, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Uprising, Organized Labor, Union, Teacher, UFT, Lupita Romero, Danny Katch, Ronnie Almonte

Do Black Lives Matter in the Labor Movement?

Julian and Carlos speak with Robert Cuffy, founder of the Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, a DC37 Union member and a member of the Afrosocialist and Socialist of Color Caucus of the DSA. Robert speaks with us about the role organized labor can play in the Black Lives Matter uprising across the U.S., the demand to expel Police Unions out of the labor movement, and how the Black freedom struggle can generate broader social movements in the US.

Season 2Brianda GuzmanJune 29, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Julian Guerrero, Afrosocialist, Democratic Socialists of America, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Uprising, Organized Labor, Union, Carlos Perez

Who is Looting in the Bronx?

Carlos and Mel speak with Josie, an organizer with Take Back the Bronx, an organization of Bronxites who are organizing for community control, to discuss the looting that unfolded in the Bronx and Queens, the tensions it created in the movement and try to answer who is really looting in the Bronx?

Season 2Brianda GuzmanJune 11, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Julian Guerrero, Lupita Romero, Bianca Cunningham, Afrosocialist, Democratic Socialists of America, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Riots, Looting, Uprising

We Can't Breathe

Lupita and Julian speak with Bianca Cunningham, participant of some of the initial protests in the nationwide uprising for Black Lives and a member of the AfroSocialist and Socialist of Color Caucus of the Democratic Socialist of America, about what New York City protests have looked like, why they feel different from the protests of 2014 and what she thinks of the way its all being handled by the police and the people in power.

Season 2Brianda GuzmanJune 5, 2020Season2, coronavirus and class war, Working Class Heroes, WBAI, Julian Guerrero, Lupita Romero, Bianca Cunningham, Afrosocialist, Democratic Socialists of America, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, New York City, Protests, Riots, Looting, Uprising

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