The Inydpendent News Hour on WBAI // 4 January 2022
b"This week's episode on WBAI-99.5 FM features:\\n\\n\\u2014Sarmad Akkach, an organizer with the Student Workers of Columbia, gives us the latest update on what's happening at Columbia University where 3,000 graduate student workers have been on strike for two months as of yesterday. It\\u2019s the largest active labor strike in the country. The workers have held strong and Columbia has started to make some substantial concessions. \\n\\n\\u2014Matthew Thomas, (the Vulgar Marxist on Substack) talks about his latest investigation that looks at how Columbia and NYC\\u2019s other private universities get away with not paying more than $1/2 billion in property taxes. That money is enough to make CUNY free again. \\n\\n\\u2014Neelu Shruti, birthing justice advocate, says pregnant people looking for healthy opportunities to hospital birthing have just been betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul."