The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 18 Jan 2022
This week on The Indypendent New Hour, we hear from: \n\nAmba Guerguerian, a reporter who was at the Brooklyn Housing Court on Tuesday \u2014 the first day NY courts were open since the NY eviction moratorium expired on Saturday \u2014 and spoke with tenants on the brink of eviction and "eviction defender" tenant organizers. \n\nTwo public school students who walked out of their classes last week to protest unsafe conditions in their buildings amid the latest surge of COVID-19. \n\nBronx public school parent and former AOC staffer Jonathan Soto who is running for a State Assembly as a champion of replacing mayoral control of schools with community control. \n\nAssemblymember Marcela Mitaynes about her first year in office, why she got arrested at Thursday\u2019s climate demo and the prospects for moving bold progressive legislation in Albany this year.