The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 Feb. '24
We spoke with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.\n\nThen, we hear from Abdullah el-Akl from Within Our Lifetime Palestine talking about the repression that the organization and its leaders are facing including their widely-followed Instagram account being deleted by META.\n\nLastly, we learn about a terrible court case from 1741, when New York City had a mere population of 11,000 and one-sixth of that was slaves. The prosecutors in the case were Chambers and Murray.