The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 12 April 2022
b'NY legislators approved a $220 billion state budget at the end of last week. The measure included a rollback of bail reform laws passed in 2019 and a $600 million public subsidy for building a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills football team. We speak with State Senator Jessica Ramos, who expressed concerns about the budget. She represents Senate District 13, which encompasses several working-class immigrant communities in Western Queens including Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona.\\n\\nIndia Walton electrified the Left last year during her run for Mayor of Buffalo when she almost became the first Socialist to lead a major American city in 60 years. She\\u2019s now right in the thick of the movement to push President Biden to cancel $1.7 trillion in student loan debt for 45 million Americans.\\n\\nWe speak housing justice with Raquel Namuche, a tenant organizer in Ridgewood, Queens who was arrested on Saturday during a police sweep of unhoused people in her community. Towards the end of the segment, we learn about PAH, a radical Spanish housing-justice group, from a journalist who has covered them and one of their longtime organizers.'