Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 07 July 2021
b'Editor-in-Chief of The Indypendent newspaper John Tarleton interviews:\\n\\u2014 Todd Fine, a lower Manhattan preservationist and activist, talks about Governor Cuomo\\u2019s recently halted plan to build a memorial to essential workers at Battery Park City. Angered that the the construction of the memorial, an eternal flame, would result in bulldozing part of Battery Park, neighborhood locals protested enough to stop the plan for now. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio remembers the covid-19 pandemic by hosting a ticker tape parade for essential workers.\\n\\u2014Kristin Richardson Jordan, who has pulled into a narrow lead for the NYC city council District 9 seat that covers Central and East Harlem currently held by incumbent Bill Perkins. Richardson talks about running her grassroots campaign centered around the theme of \\u201cradical love" as an LGBTQ+ Black woman and democratic socialist.\\n\\u2014Imani Oakley, who just announced she is running for Congress in New Jersey\\u2019s 10th congressional district which encompasses Newark (primary held next June). Oakley, a socialist running on the Democrat ticket, is taking on one of the machine\\u2019s dynastic heirs, Donald Payne, Jr. who inherited the seat from his father in 2012.'