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.

John Tarleton, The Indypendent's editor-in-chief interviews Theodore Hamm about a special interest slush-fund doled out to incumbents running for reelection. Then he interviews Phara Souffrant Forrest, a union nurse, tenant activist and socialist running for State Assembly District 57 (central Brooklyn) in the June 23rd primary.

Phara Souffrant Forrest is running in a hotly contested June 23 Democratic primary for Assembly District 57 in Brooklyn where she is challenging incumbent Walter Mosley. She is a Haitian-American union nurse, tenant activist and proud socialist.

https://indypendent.org/2020/06/as-pandemic-continues-brooklyn-voters-have-a-chance-to-put-a-socialist-nurse-in-power/

Theodore Hamm and John Tarleton discuss the hotly contested June 23 NY primary and the topic of Hamm's recent Indypdendent article: The Speaker of the New York Senate wields a $4,000,000 slush-fund stuffed with special interest money that he distributes to allies facing tough reelections.

Article: https://indypendent.org/2020/06/heastie-controlled-slush-fund-props-up-embattled-ny-state-assembly-incumbents/

Nicholas Powers discusses the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and his recent article, "Why We Explode." Read it here: https://indypendent.org/2020/06/why-we-explode/

John Tarleton, The Indypendent's editor-in-chief speaks with Nicholas Powers, a professor of African American Literature at SUNY Old Westbury and a long-time contributor to The Indypendent, about his recent article, "Why We Explode," and the Black Lives Matter movement.

John Tarleton interviews Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a democratic socialist candidate for the New York's 36th assembly district, about the issue of taking contributions from the police.

John Tarleton interviews Aaron Fernando, a CUNY student who made public a list of democratic politicians who receive contributions from the police while espousing "Black Lives Matter."

This is the June 8 segment of WBAI Evening News by The Indypendent. John Tarleton, the show's host and The Indypendent's Editor-in-Chief, interviews Aaron Fernando, a CUNY student who made public a list of democratic politicians who receive contributions from police while espousing "Black Lives Matter." He also speaks with Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a democratic socialist candidate for the New York's 36th assembly district, about the issue of taking contributions from the police.