Reclaiming the Narrative

Reclaiming the Narrative

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Reclaiming the Narrative episodes

  • Even NYS Officials Won't Defend This Law Excluding Farmworkers From Labor Protections. So Who Is?
    In February, a New York State Appeals Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging an 80-year-old state law that excludes farmworkers from basic labor protections, including the right to organize.
    The main plaintiff in the case, Crispin Hernandez, is being represented by the NYCLU, who have argued that the law is a racist holdover from the Jim Crow era.
    Both Governor Cuomo and the state Attorney General's office have declined to defend the law in court.
    But the New York Farm Bureau is fighting to uphold the blanket exclusion of farmworkers from labor protections on the grounds that unionization would pose an existential threat to family farms.
    We recently had a chance to talk with NYCLU senior staff attorney Erin Beth Harrist, who argued the case before New York's highest court.
    Original air date 2/15/19
    Produced by Darien Lamen for Rochester Community Media
    8 min
  • Could Company Known As "Destroyer of Newspapers" Soon Own Democrat & Chronicle?
    Alex Zapesochny of the Rochester Beacon discusses a January 14th offer by Digital First Media/Alden Global Capital to purchase the Democrat & Chronicle's parent company, and what that could mean for local journalism.
    Zapesochny's article is available at:
    https://rochesterbeacon.com/2019/01/22/is-the-democrat-chronicle-facing-an-existential-challenge/
    Original air date: 1/25/19
    Produced by Darien Lamen for Rochester Community Media Center
    8 min
  • Citizen-Led Budgeting In Rochester: One-Off Or Wave of the Future?
    The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI)is asking area residents to cast a vote for the grassroots projects they want to see funded. Could this kind of "participatory budgeting" take off in Rochester in the future?
    We speak with RMAPI's Graham Hughes and Green Party Co-Chair Dave Sutliff Atias to find out more about why they support giving citizens more control of the purse strings.
    The online voting portal for RMAPI's PB process is available at: https://pbstanford.org/rochester2019
    Original air date: 1/11/19
    Produced by Darien Lamen for Rochester Community Media
    4 min
  • Lyle Jeremy Rubin On America's Forever War
    Seventeen years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the US is still embroiled in the longest foreign war in its history. Marine Corps veteran Lyle Jeremy Rubin argues that unending imperialist war has become part of a bipartisan consensus to which the Left must offer alternatives. Read his new article in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-forever-wars-cheerleaders/
    Image: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
    8 min

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Reclaiming the Narrative began in 2018 as a weekly news radio program produced by community journalists for WXIR 100.9 FM and rebroadcast on WAYO 104.3 in Rochester NY. We cover the stories, movements, and events that matter to local urban communities, while also providing training and experience for grassroots journalists.