Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 23 March 2020
John Tarleton, the Editor-in-Chief of the Indypendent, and Amba Guerguerian interview:\n\u2014Glenn Cantave, a participant in a group of hunger strikers who are fasting until a $3.5 billion excluded worker fund is included in the New York state budget. This would ensure excluded workers (undocumented people, the recently incarcerated) with weekly payments on par with the unemployment benefits other workers have received. \n\u2014Danny Pearlstein of Riders Alliance, a membership organization of subway and bus riders in New York City, about what it will take to restore NYC's mass transit system and what will be done with the federal aid that the MTA just received.\n\u2014Akeem Browder, the brother of the late Kalief Browder and the founder of the Kalief Browder foundation, about the HALT Solitary Confinement Act which passed with supermajorities in the New York State Legislature. The act will put humane limitations on the use of solitary confinement in New York so that it will no longer fall under definitions of torture.