The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 8 March 2022

Published: March 10, 2022, 1:57 a.m.

b"On this week's show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian:\\n\\n\\u2014 Jen Hernandez, lead housing organizer with Make the Road New York which is a part of the statewide Housing Justice for All Coalition, gives us an update on the campaign for the Good Cause Eviction Law. She also fills us in on why March could be the decisive month for getting such a law passed in New York in 2022. \\n\\n\\u2014Kristen Gonzalez, 26, a socialist from Queens, is running for State Senate. If elected, she will make history as the youngest woman ever elected to the New York State Senate. She\\u2019s been off to a fast start since entering the race, with endorsements from the NYC Democratic Socialists of American and the Working Families Party.\\n\\n\\u2014We talk with leftist political comic Francesca Fiorentini. She\\u2019s the host of the Bitchuation Room podcast which brings together political comics, activists and thinkers. She also appears on The Damage Report on the Young Turks Network and is the host and lead writer for AJ+\\u2019s Newsbroke which airs short, entertaining videos that use a light-hearted approach to unpack complex topics such as white fragility in the workplace and the history of socialism in America. She\\u2019s done all this while facing the challenges of breaking into a field where the voices of women and people of color have historically been marginalized."