The Indypendent News Hour On WBAI-99.5 FM // 16 May '23
b"First Segment: Former Sunset Park tenant organizer-turned-Socialist Assemblymember Marcela Mitanyes speaks about the ongoing campaign this spring to win affordable housing legislation in Albany.\\n\\nSecond segment: On May 6, protesters took to the subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street subway stop on the Upper East Side, bringing trains to a complete standstill demanding justice for Jordan Neely, a homeless man killed on the subway by ex-marine Daniel Penny. We speak\\xa0with Kimberly Bernard, one of the protests organizers, about police repression and what comes next.\\n\\nThird Segment: Betsy Plum, executive director of\\xa0Rider's\\xa0Alliance, speaks about a hard-won boost in state funding for the MTA that should improve mass transit service in the coming year and what remains to be done."