In the second half of today's Indypendent News Hour on WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org from 5-6 pm, we'll speak w/Kazembe Balagun, the new executive director Maysles Documentary Center about his vision for the Harlem-based independent documentary movie center.

In the first half of today's Indy News Hour airing from 5-6 pm on WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org-99.5 FM, we'll get an update from The Indy's Amba Guerguerian about the latest on Saturday's police riot @ Nakba Day protests in Bay Ridge. We'll also speak w/ Columbia U. student journalist Lara-Noor Walton.

How a live-streamed genocide, clueless neolib college admin & our society’s post-9/11 obsession with “security” ignited Gaza Solidarity Encampments. Plus, Adams’ shelter policy, life on ICE parole, Labor Notes & more. Pick up a free issue or read online:
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*76 YEARS of Nakba. Sorry — caption writing on the go at a protest sometimes results in typos/errors. 76 years and even more — since the British occupation in the early 1920s and Zionist incursions soon to follow.

A few nice moments from the Nakba commemoration protest earlier today in Bay Ridge BK. Currently at least one arrested protester is severely wounded and being transferred from jail to hospital.

More than 2,000 Mercedes workers in Alabama voted for a union. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough according to the results posted on the UAW website. 😞

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Astoria, Queens

There will be another Within Our Lifetime Nakba protest in Bay Ridge at 2 p.m. on Sat at Bay Ridge Ave & Fifth Ave and a tenants for Palestine protest in Ridgewood at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at Irving Square Park Ridgewood Tenants Union. Photos by Neil Constantine.

Remember the president of ⁦Columbia University⁩ canceled graduation after arresting 200 of her own students? Today those same students stood strong by holding a beautiful alternative graduation ceremony at St. John the Divine near campus.

Major display of student power.👊⤵️

The reaction from protesters in Astoria, Queens — marching last night to commemorate 76 of Nakba in Palestine — when they found out they were being live broadcasted to people in Gaza ❤️

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