The Indypendent Radio Hour on WBAI // 26 Jan 2021

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 8:35 p.m.

b"John Tarleton, Editor-in-Chief of the Indypendent newspaper, interviews:\\n\\u2014Astra Taylor and Umme Hoque about the Debt Collective's newly launched campaign to pressure Biden over the first 100 days of his administration to go all in on student loan debt abolition. Umme Hoque is the Organizing Director of The Debt Collective and a student loan debtor herself. Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, author and co-founder of The Debt Collective.\\n\\u2014Jose Saldana, Director of Release Aging People from Prison. RAPP is \\n a group led by formerly incarcerated persons that is campaigning for the state legislature to back a package of proposed laws that would make it much easier for prisoners to obtain parole especially for those prisoners over the age of 50.\\n\\u2014Art Chang, NYC mayoral candidate who\\u2019s worked at the New York City Law Department, the New York State Empire Development Corporation, the Indiana Department of Child Services, the City University of New York and for JP Morgan/Chase. He has worked to establish the NYC Votes website, an all-purpose portal for New York election information."