The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 03 August 2021

Published: Aug. 4, 2021, 10:14 p.m.

b'\\u2014Cea Weaver of Housing Justice 4 All, a statewide coalition of more than 70 organizations fighting for housing for all New Yorkers:\\nA federal eviction moratorium instituted last year lapsed this past Friday at midnight putting an estimated 11 million tenants nationwide at risk of eviction. Here in New York, a statewide eviction moratorium is slated to end at the end of August. Cea breaks down what\\u2019s going on and how tenants movements are responding to the dire rent situation.\\n\\u2014Kaitlin Baucom, mutual aid and anti-homelessness organizer with The Gym:\\nTwo Saturdays ago, June 25, the NYPD attacked and attempted to displace a mutual aid hub and organizing collective based out of an empty storefront space in a Brooklyn building called The Gym. Fourteen reportedly violent arrests were made and one person was hospitalized.\\nKaitlin Baucom, who has lived in and been doing social activism out of the same building at 1083 Broadway for the past 8 years talks about the space and the police attack.\\n\\u2014Charles Lenchner, co-founder of People for Bernie:\\nIn Cleveland, a race to fill a vacant congressional seat has brought on a showdown between the progressive and pro-corporate wings of the Democratic Party. Voters are heading to the polls today to choose between former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, a close ally of Bernie Sanders and Cuyahoga County Councilperson Shontel Brown who is backed by senior leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus and a whole lot of outside Super PAC money.'