The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI 99.5 FM // 12 May 2022
On this weeks' Indy News Hour:\n\nWorking-class nurse, tenant organizer and NY State Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest on her first term in office, which includes becoming a mom for the first time just a few months ago. She is one of a wave of young socialist NY legislators elected in the past few years, defeating a 4-term incumbent in 2020 to win Assembly District 57. She is now running for reelection. \n\nIndypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers talks about his new novel, the resurgence in interest in psychedelics (which he has always been a champion of) and why men should be speaking out just as loudly for a women\u2019s right to choose.