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b"Hildalyn Hernandez Colon, Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships at the Workers Justice Project, talks about recent victories at City Hall won by New York City\\u2019s 65,000 delivery workers and the organizing that went into that among an upsurge in worker militancy across the country spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.\\n\\nDebt-stricken taxi drivers have entered their 17th day of a round-the-clock protest outside City Hall. They are demanding the mayor and city council cover the massive debts they incurred when the price of a taxi medallion collapsed after the City allowed Uber and Lyft to flood the streets with their own drivers who did not have to pay for medallions. We speak with Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance about how the city reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in taxi medallion sales a decade ago but has since turned its back on cab drivers, many of whom owe upwards of a half-million dollars each.\\n\\n\\nThe Workers Unite! Film Festival \\u2014 showcasing documentaries about worker struggles \\u2014 returns to the big screen this week starting Friday at Cinema Village Theater in Lower Manhattan. We talk with Andrew Tilson, the festival's executive director, and two directors of the featured films at the festival, Patricia Nazario (Backstreet to the American Dream) Peter Findley (Company Town)."