John Tarleton interviews Orlando Hamilton about the collective bike ride protests that began after the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement erupted. Hamilton is the co-founder of Street Riders NYC, the group that organizes most of the demonstrations.

John Tarleton interviews Marcela Mitaynes who recently won the race against incumbent Felix Ortiz for NY Assembly District 51 (Sunset Park/Red Hook). She talks about winning the hotly contested race and what she hopes to do in the assembly as a tenant organizer who supports working-class-led, grassroots movements.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, speaks with Marcela Mitaynes, the democratic socialist who recently won a State Assembly seat in Sunset Park/Red Hook and with Orlando Hamilton, the co-founder of StreetRidersNYC, a group that has been organizing bike ride protests for Black Lives Matter in New York City.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, discusses the City's plans to partially re-open its 1,800 public schools this fall and what childcare needs will look like if children will only be in class 1-3 days per week with Elizabeth Palley, author of 'In Our Hands: The Struggle for US Child Care Policy' and professor of Social Work at the Adelphi University.

John Tarleton discusses the City's plans to partially re-open its 1,800 public schools this fall with parent leader Khaliris Salas Ramirez, the chair of the school leadership team at Central Park East 1, which oversees the development of curriculum and monitors how the school's budget is spent. Ramirez is also president of the District 4 Community Education Counsel, representing 23 schools in East Harlem.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, discusses the City's plans to partially re-open its 1,800 public schools this fall with parent leader Khaliris Salas Ramirez and Elizabeth Palley, author of 'In Our Hands: The Struggle for US Child Care Policy.'

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, speaks with Kim Phillips-Fein, a professor of history at NYU and author of 'Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics,' about austerity in New York in the 70s and now. Reeling from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, NYC city council approved a city budget with billions of dollars in budget cuts.

John Tarleton interviews Bianca Cunningham, one of the main organizers of the Occupy City Hall movement to defund the NYPD.

John Tarleton interviews Jake Tolan, one of the Reclaim Pride Coalition organizers of the Queer Liberation March on June 28th, about the police riot that attacked celebratory, peaceful marchers.

John Tarleton, the editor-in-chief of The Indypendent interviews Jake Tolan, one of the Reclaim Pride Coalition organizers of the Queer Liberation March on June 28th and Bianca Cunningham, one of the main organizers of the Occupy City Hall movement to defund the NYPD.