In the second segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legislators weigh in on the talks. We talk about efforts to weave affordable housing policies into the budget and the competing claims of landlords and tenants about how to address New York’s housing crisis and more.

NY State Senator Jabari Brisport x The Indypendent: Updates on State Budget Negotiations

In the first segment of this week's episode, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused most fundamentally by the slow demise of the modern colonial world system.” Alcoff is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of numerous books including “The Future of Whiteness” and “Race and Racism: A Decolonial Approach,” which will be released later this year by Oxford University Press.

In the second segment, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legislators weigh in on the talks. We talk about efforts to weave affordable housing policies into the budget and the competing claims of landlords and tenants about how to address New York’s housing crisis and more.

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 9 April '23

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Eduzz stronzo (British remix)

We speak with Johnny Rivera, longtime East Harlem tenant and socialist housing organizer. Housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with State

Housing Organizer Johnny Rivera Speaks with The Indypendent About Anti-Tenant State Budget

This podcast episode covers antiracism within activist spaces, and how we (those of us who are white) can facilitate the creation and maintenance of antiracism within them. Our guest, Tibbers (they/any), is a member of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) and DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). For information on these organizations, see the references section!

[References]

"10 Tips on Receiving Critical Feedback: A Guide for Activists" by Brooke Anderson:
https://medium.com/@brookeanderson/10-tips-on-receiving-critical-feedback-a-guide-for-activists-e51689c59d81

IWW: https://iww.org/

DSA: https://www.dsausa.org/

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Intro Music: 
Love Me Right Here by ScOmBer (c) copyright 2024 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/scomber/68117 Ft: So Sha

Intermission SFX:
Wind Up Music Box (F6 Note) by moodyfingers -- https://freesound.org/s/732950/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Outro Music:
Traveling Lights by Zep Hurme (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/zep_hurme/64191 Ft: DeBenedictis

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SJ102: On Being Antiracist Within Activism

PUrPLE PiNK MYSTiC DRiNK FT. TWEEN

Mutilatorrrrr

uh yeah
clear as day
uh yeah
clear as day
i can see yo ass from far away
i can see yo ass from the other side
boy u in the scope now u cannot hide
u can run from it damn but i wouldnt try
i might joke with u but wont tell a lie
and its so much yeah that i hold inside

and its so much that i keep right by my side
got a 45 right next 2 the 9
my girl stupid bad, i just made a face like i took a shot with no lime
we put 6 shots in his face ask him if he feel fine
told my mama it dont matter its about time
u know i cant stay here 4ever if im gettin mine
i been going thru da worst, fuck a tough time
how u got the fucking nerve, ask me why im upset?
i been tryna turn up i aint had enough yet
i aint never had shit, and right now its getting worse
u dont know how it feel to put in real work
i seen real shit and i never once told
i cant talk about them boys cause they getting old
if the bitch got a butt put it on a pole
not my bitch but tonight i might let it go
oh my bad, did ya right 4 i did ya wrong
never cared bout who was right if we dont get along
long nights spent before i was all alone
back again, man its time to make a fucking song

uh yeah
clear as day
uh yeah
clear as day
i can see yo ass from far away
i can see yo ass from the other side
boy u in the scope now u cannot hide
u can run from it damn but i wouldnt try
i might joke with u but wont tell a lie
and its so much yeah that i hold inside

clear as day (rippmaz)

Boronsacker

Gruft

lyrics

what it is

and i wouldnt say i hate my life
but this is not where i saw myself
what the hell, shi, wtf
what am i doing 2 myself? am i stuck?
i dont think the money stuck
still these bitches fucking love me, they just wan get fuck
way i act tho is unhealthy, i cant even talk
molly water bottle, i cant even walk
would u even feel the pain if i put it in a song?
i wont make it long, this not how i get off
we just hit the bong, i aint need to cough
man this world rough, so i gotta job
how he hit the 9-5 and hit the fucking block
ill hit ya chick, but ill never hit the rock
straight to the bottom
aye bottom of the bottle
and we look for another round
they said to not go look for trouble but this just the shit i found
i want another pound, i wanna knock another one down
u dont wanna be on no shi, u dont wanna end up in the ground
if i aint fw u, just know i aint fucking around

dsa

fast version

stuck in place (prod. 1thheo)

Umland

Schatten über Riva

Zwergenmine

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