Working Class Heroes Radio

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

On this week's show, Brenda Leon speaks with the Alvaro Franco, tenant organizer for the NorthWest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition about mass non-compliance, fighting for emergency repairs and the creative ways tenants are responding to the Covid19 pandemic to support the most vulnerable in their buildings.

If you have any thoughts about how to support tenants or if you're a NYC 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:

Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan

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

On this week's show, Brenda Leon speaks with the Alvaro Franco, tenant organizer for the NorthWest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition about mass non-compliance, fighting for emergency repairs and the creative ways tenants are responding to the Covid19 pandemic to support the most vulnerable in their buildings.

If you have any thoughts about how to support tenants or if you're a NYC 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:

Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan

This show kicks off a month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants.

On this week's show, Julian Guerrero speaks with the South Bronx Tenants Movement's main tenant organizer, Manny Pardilla, about the housing crisis plaguing the Bronx before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, their ongoing rent strike to save the South Bronx from widespread landlord neglect and why the Bronx is a ticking time bomb.

Music credit:

In Every Ghetto - Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, Rapsody

Glamour Life - Big Punisher

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan

This show kicks off a month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants.

On this week's show, Julian Guerrero speaks with the South Bronx Tenants Movement's main tenant organizer, Manny Pardilla, about the housing crisis plaguing the Bronx before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, their ongoing rent strike to save the South Bronx from widespread landlord neglect and why the Bronx is a ticking time bomb.

Music credit:

In Every Ghetto - Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, Rapsody

Glamour Life - Big Punisher

Hero - Michael Kiwanuka

7th Chamber Part 2 - Wu Tang Clan

This week's episode of Coronavirus and Class War focuses on the efforts of everyday people in making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)for front line workers. PPE is running dangerously low in hospitals across the United States due to years of austerity politics and a profit driven healthcare system.

Lupita speaks with Isabelle Barter, a member of Medics and Makers, about her organization's efforts to fill the supply gap of PPE with their 3D Printers and why major corporations aren't putting their factories to mass produce PPE.

Music credit:

Michael Kiwanuka, Ana Tijoux, Calle 13, Lupe Fiasco, Cambio

This week's episode of Coronavirus and Class War focuses on the efforts of everyday people in making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)for front line workers. PPE is running dangerously low in hospitals across the United States due to years of austerity politics and a profit driven healthcare system.

Lupita speaks with Isabelle Barter, a member of Medics and Makers, about her organization's efforts to fill the supply gap of PPE with their 3D Printers and why major corporations aren't putting their factories to mass produce PPE.

Music credit:

Michael Kiwanuka, Ana Tijoux, Calle 13, Lupe Fiasco, Cambio

Tune in to hear what working at Trader Joe's in a pandemic has been like for essential workers. Between struggles with management for protective equipment and tensions with customers, these supermarket workers are fighting to survive.

Our new series Coronavirus & Class War airs every Thursday at 7:30pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM New York.

If you have any thoughts about how to support supermarket workers or if you're a supermarket worker 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.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Wu-tang Clan - 7th Chamber Part 2

Las Cafeteras - Trabajador Trabajadora

Tune in to hear what working at Trader Joe's in a pandemic has been like for essential workers. Between struggles with management for protective equipment and tensions with customers, these supermarket workers are fighting to survive.

Our new series Coronavirus & Class War airs every Thursday at 7:30pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM New York.

If you have any thoughts about how to support supermarket workers or if you're a supermarket worker 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.

Musical credit:

Michael Kiwanuka - Hero

Wu-tang Clan - 7th Chamber Part 2

Las Cafeteras - Trabajador Trabajadora

This is a bonus story about an issue that plagues the New York City Taxi Industry: Taxi Ride Service Refusals.

Every year hundreds of passengers are refused service across the city. Service refusals primarily affect people with disabilities and communities in the outer boroughs who are disproportionately Black/People of Color. The Taxi and Limousine Commission’s latest campaign against taxi ride service refusals asks passengers to report drivers to 311 - but has this approach worked in the past?

Julian and Yanny break it down by looking at the last time a taxi ride refusal caused a stir - when the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz and then City Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, fought two yellow cab drivers. Tune in as we speak to one of the drivers, who for the first time ever, speaks about how it all went down. Make sure to visit the website for the fully translated transcription to follow along for the parts in Spanish. (http://bit.ly/2TNCQim)

Audio Mixing and Assistance: Kyle Kerley & Carlos Perez

Music credit: Talib Kweli, Geto Boys, Jay-Z, Lord Finesse, Pete Rock, Nas, Lucho Bermudez, The Temptations.

This is a bonus story about an issue that plagues the New York City Taxi Industry: Taxi Ride Service Refusals.

Every year hundreds of passengers are refused service across the city. Service refusals primarily affect people with disabilities and communities in the outer boroughs who are disproportionately Black/People of Color. The Taxi and Limousine Commission’s latest campaign against taxi ride service refusals asks passengers to report drivers to 311 - but has this approach worked in the past?

Julian and Yanny break it down by looking at the last time a taxi ride refusal caused a stir - when the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz and then City Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, fought two yellow cab drivers. Tune in as we speak to one of the drivers, who for the first time ever, speaks about how it all went down. Make sure to visit the website for the fully translated transcription to follow along for the parts in Spanish. (http://bit.ly/2TNCQim)

Audio Mixing and Assistance: Kyle Kerley & Carlos Perez

Music credit: Talib Kweli, Geto Boys, Jay-Z, Lord Finesse, Pete Rock, Nas, Lucho Bermudez, The Temptations.