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John Tarleton Interviews Medea Benjamin, a political activist who co-founded CODEPINK Women for Peace, about what is in the future for US foreign policy, Biden's cabinet, and the harms of Democrats' “do-gooder” motto for U.S. armed international intervention. This interview is a preview to Saturday’s event co-hosted by The Indypendent, “Biden’s Foreign Policy: Who Will be the Architects?”. View the invite here: https://indypendent.org/2020/11/bidens-foreign-policy-who-will-be-the-architects/

John Tarleton interviews Jes, a Brooklyn-based Community organizer in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement who works with a No Name Group and BK4BL (Brooklyn 4 Black Lives) on community organizing initiatives and protests actions. She talks about how to keep protesters safe, the installation of Brooklyn community fridges, and why the term “Defund the police," is important to use (after Obama recently claimed the opposite).

John Tarleton interviews Kathy Santoiemma, leader of the New Rochelle nurses and member of New York State Nurses Association, about the current situation at Montefiore Hospital in New Rochelle, where the unionized nurses find themselves locked out of their jobs due to an ongoing labor dispute with management.

John Tarleon, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent newspaper, interviews: --Kathy Santoiemma, leader of the New Rochelle nurses and member of New York State Nurses Association, talks about the current situation at Montefiore Hospital in New Rochelle, where the unionized nurses find themselves locked out of their jobs due to an ongoing labor dispute with management. --Medea Benjamin, a political activist who co-founded CODEPINK Women for Peace, about what is in the future for US foreign policy, Biden's cabinet, and the harms of Democrats' “do-gooder” motto for U.S. armed international intervention. This interview is a preview to Saturday’s event co-hosted by The Indypendent, “Biden’s Foreign Policy: Who Will be the Architects?” --Jes, a Brooklyn-based Community organizer in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement who works with a No Name Group and BK4BL (Brooklyn 4 Black Lives) on community organizing initiatives and protests actions. She talks about how to keep protesters safe, the installation of Brook

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Jo Ann Brown one of the health care workers at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, a hospital in East Flatbush that is slated to be closed in February. Jo Ann is trying to rally support for keeping the hospital open at least through the pandemic.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Shams DaBaron, one of the men who has been staying at the hotel Lucerne since earlier this summer when the City moved about 300 unhoused men into the hotel at 76th and Broadway on the affluent Upper West Side as a way to keep homeless people safe during the pandemic. Now the City is caught up in a legal battle as it tries to again move the men, who with good reason don't want to leave.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of ALIGN, the Alliance for a Greater New York. ALIGN is one of the groups that participated in a 02 December rally outside of Jeff Bezos’s NYC home to "deliver democracy" and end Amazon’s mass surveillance, deportations, gentrification, dirty energy, monopoly & worker abuse.

John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews: --Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of ALIGN, the Alliance for a Greater New York. ALIGN is one of the groups that participated in a 02 December rally outside of Jeff Bezos’s NYC home to "deliver democracy" and end Amazon’s mass surveillance, deportations, gentrification, dirty energy, monopoly & worker abuse. --Shams DaBaron, one of the men who has been staying at the hotel Lucerne since earlier this summer when the City moved about 300 unhoused men into the hotel at 76th and Broadway on the affluent Upper West Side as a way to keep homeless people safe during the pandemic. Now the City is caught up in a legal battle as it tries to again move the men, who with good reason don't want to leave. --Jo Ann Brown one of the health care workers at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, a hospital in East Flatbush that is slated to be closed in February. Jo Ann is trying to rally support for keeping the hospital open at least through the pandemic.

John Tarleton Interviews Sean Petty, nurse at public hospital in the Bronx and member of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), about the growing public health challenges posed by a second wave of COVID-19 as NY positive cases increase.

John Tarleton interviews Jessica Ramos, State Senator from Queens, about the new Democrat supermajority in the NY's Senate, taxing the rich, subways and school closings.

John Tarleton interviews Aixa Rodrgiuez, a high-school ESL teacher, member of Movement of Rank-and-File Educators & Bronx Educators United for Justice, about the way NYC public schools were opened and closed this fall. This interview comes less than a week after Mayor de Blasio's 11/18 announcement that public schools would close the following day.

John Tarleton, the editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews: - Aixa Rodrgiuez, a high-school ESL teacher, member of Movement of Rank-and-File Educators & Bronx Educators United for Justice, about the way NYC public schools were opened and closed this fall. -Jessica Ramos, State Senator from Queens, about the new Democrat supermajority in the NY's Senate, taxing the rich, subways and school closings. -Sean Petty, nurse at public hospital in the Bronx and member of New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), about the growing public health challenges posed by a second wave of COVID-19 as NY positive cases increase.

A Protester in the People's Liberation March Sings // 11.16.20 by The Indypendent

John Tarleton interviews Eric Stoner on election night. Eric is a co-founder and editor of Waging Nonviolence, a website that chronicles the variety of non-violent campaigns and movements active in the world today. He shares some ideas for what to do if Trump tries to claim an un-earned victory.

John Tarleton intereviews Yasemin Ozer on election night. Yasmin is a Turkish scholar who has lived under an authoritarian regime that tried to steal an election last year, only to be thwarted by a pro-democracy movement. She recently wrote "From One Fragile Democracy to Another" for The Indypendent. You can read it here: https://indypendent.org/2020/10/from-one-fragile-democracy-to-another/

John Tarleton Interviews Miles Kampf-Lassin of In These Times on election night. Miles recently wrote the article "How Our Politics Came Undone," about Trump and associates' disorienting strategies to hide the truth from the public. He warns that we could see more of these antics in the days following the election.

John Tarleton interviews Mike Tork on election day. Mike is a member of Veterans for Peace who made a 10-hour drive from his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to join a team of election defenders there.

John Tarleton, the editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, interviews: -Mike Tork, a member of Veterans for Peace who made a 10-hour drive from his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to join a team of election defenders there. -Miles Kampf-Lessin of In These Times who recently wrote the article "How Our Politics Came Undone," about Trump and associates' disorienting strategies to hide the truth from the public. -Eric Stoner, a co-founder and editor of Waging Nonviolence, a website that chronicles the variety of non-violent campaigns and movements active in the world today. -Yasemin Ozer, a Turkish scholar who has lived under an authoritarian regime that tried to steal an election last year, only to be thwarted by a pro-democracy movement.

John Tarleton interviews Jordan Teicher, who recently wrote “Showdown at Gowanus Canal” for The Indypendent, about the the growing controversy in Brooklyn around a massive rezoning proposal the city is pushing for Gowanus. Here is Jordan's article: https://indypendent.org/2020/10/showdown-at-the-gowanus-canal/

John Tarleton interviews Savitri D., Director of the Church of Stop Shopping and the organizer of a protest against NYC's Police Benevolent Association (PBA) on 10/27/20, about the protest and the reactionary antics of the PBA.