Working Class Heroes Radio

Working Class Heroes Radio is back after a week off! Well, it's more like we moved from a half-hour show on Thursdays to a full hour radio program live on WBAI 99.5fm on Saturday nights at 6 pm.

On this week's show, 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 United States.

We also get a brief live report of the Occupy City Hall encampment from our correspondent, Lea Ramirez. Make sure to download and subscribe to our weekly show. You can also check out WCHRadio.org to view photos and listen to our past episodes.

Working Class Heroes Radio is back after a week off! Well, it's more like we moved from a half-hour show on Thursdays to a full hour radio program live on WBAI 99.5fm on Saturday nights at 6 pm.

On this week's show, 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 United States.

We also get a brief live report of the Occupy City Hall encampment from our correspondent, Lea Ramirez. Make sure to download and subscribe to our weekly show. You can also check out WCHRadio.org to view photos and listen to our past episodes.

Last week's show is a little late due to technical issues on the live show. The remote work set up is taking us a bit longer to adjust to but we're going to keep working at it until we get it right.

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 the question, who is really looting in the Bronx?

Music Credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx

Pig Feet - Kamasi Washington, Denzel Curry, G Perico, Daylyt

Kimberly Jones - David Jones Media

Last week's show is a little late due to technical issues on the live show. The remote work set up is taking us a bit longer to adjust to but we're going to keep working at it until we get it right.

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 the question, who is really looting in the Bronx?

Music Credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx

Pig Feet - Kamasi Washington, Denzel Curry, G Perico, Daylyt

Kimberly Jones - David Jones Media

America is burning and it smells like justice.

In the short time since we aired our last episode, protests in Minneapolis over the police murder of George Floyd have spread across the country and a new chapter in the struggle against anti-Black racism has begun.

This week's show Working Class Heroes Radio, Lupita and Julian will kick off a new series about police oppression with an interview with Bianca Cunningham, a participant in last weekend's protests in Brooklyn and a member of the AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America. We had time for one caller over WBAI's live radio format at the end.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

J Dilla - F**k the Police

The Coup - Guillotine

Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder - In every Ghetto

America is burning and it smells like justice.

In the short time since we aired our last episode, protests in Minneapolis over the police murder of George Floyd have spread across the country and a new chapter in the struggle against anti-Black racism has begun.

This week's show Working Class Heroes Radio, Lupita and Julian will kick off a new series about police oppression with an interview with Bianca Cunningham, a participant in last weekend's protests in Brooklyn and a member of the AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America. We had time for one caller over WBAI's live radio format at the end.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

J Dilla - F**k the Police

The Coup - Guillotine

Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder - In every Ghetto

Forgive the hiccups! This is our first remote show live on the WBAI 99.5 fm's community radio station - we promise to get better as we get more comfortable with the technicalities of remote streaming radio shows.

On this week's show, Yanny Guzman and Danny Katch speak with the Erin Neff, a housing attorney in New York City and organizer with the Housing Justice For All Coalition, about how rent strikes have helped win the housing laws we have today and argue for why they are necessary again in this unprecedented economic crisis under Covid19. We take a few callers at the end.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Wu Tang Clan - 7th Chamber Part 2

Rent Party - Booker T. Jones

Spoken word piece: “This is Home” by Deandre Evans, William Hartfield-Peoples, & Donte Clark

Forgive the hiccups! This is our first remote show live on the WBAI 99.5 fm's community radio station - we promise to get better as we get more comfortable with the technicalities of remote streaming radio shows.

On this week's show, Yanny Guzman and Danny Katch speak with the Erin Neff, a housing attorney in New York City and organizer with the Housing Justice For All Coalition, about how rent strikes have helped win the housing laws we have today and argue for why they are necessary again in this unprecedented economic crisis under Covid19. We take a few callers at the end.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Wu Tang Clan - 7th Chamber Part 2

Rent Party - Booker T. Jones

Spoken word piece: “This is Home” by Deandre Evans, William Hartfield-Peoples, & Donte Clark

Tonight's show continues our month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants.

On this week's show, Lea Ramirez speaks with the Jasmin Sanchez, longtime NYCHA tenant and organizer about how NYCHA is reacting to the pandemic, what long term disinvestment does to the public housing community and how NYCHA tenants are organizing to make sure they aren't forgotten.

If you have any thoughts about this show or if you're a NYCHA tenant with a story of your own to share with us, give us a call at (929) 352-0134. Leave us a voicemail. You never know, it might make it on the air later on.

Music credit:

Acid - Ray Barretto

His-story poetry - Hervé Alexandre, Stony Tony, Hattress

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan

Tonight's show continues our month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants.

On this week's show, Lea Ramirez speaks with the Jasmin Sanchez, longtime NYCHA tenant and organizer about how NYCHA is reacting to the pandemic, what long term disinvestment does to the public housing community and how NYCHA tenants are organizing to make sure they aren't forgotten.

If you have any thoughts about this show or if you're a NYCHA tenant with a story of your own to share with us, give us a call at (929) 352-0134. Leave us a voicemail. You never know, it might make it on the air later on.

Music credit:

Acid - Ray Barretto

His-story poetry - Hervé Alexandre, Stony Tony, Hattress

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan