Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 15 December 2020
b"John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent newspaper interviews: \\n\\n--Brian Garita from Mexicanos Unidos about the ICE detainee hunger strike at Bergen County Jail and the way that people who were protesting outside of the jail in solidarity were attacked by riot police. The conditions in Bergen County are so bad that ICE detainees at the Bergen County Jail recently went on a 31-day hunger strike to demand changes. \\n--Thompson Newkirk, bartender at Castello Plan, a restaurant the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, about how Cuomo's recent decision to close indoor dining will affect small businesses.\\n--Jonathan Soto, an aide to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, about AOC's Homework Helpers mutual aide program. More than 13,000 volunteers responded to AOC's call to help tutor struggling school children in her district. For many students, COVID-induced remote learning is a difficult and frustrating experience that leaves them struggling to keep up with their class work.\\n--Roger Manning from the Metro Area Governors Island Coalition about the de Blasio administration's aim to rezone Governor\\u2019s Island. They say they want to set up a climate research center but critics say the rezoning plan would open the door to all sorts of other development."