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Working Class Heroes Radio
by Most Heroes Don't Wear Capes
Working Class Heroes is a narrative investigative journalism podcast exploring the lives, history, politics and culture of working class “New YorQuinos.” We will showcase their struggles and stories by highlighting their identities, experiences, interests, and working conditions.Working Class Heroes is produced by The Muckrakers' Union Local 718. Episodes will be crafted through interviews, historical research and presented in a bilingual format.Your co-hosts are Julian Guerrero, Brianda Guzman, Carlos Perez, Lupita Romero and Lea Ramirez.Why the working class?We believe that in this political moment, what we need more than ever is to relate the experience of the most resilient communities in New York City. Amidst a housing crisis, record mass incarceration, militarized policing, raids and deportations, high prices and lowering wages and longer hours, regular working people are the ones fighting for more, standing against politicians and corporations' efforts to exploit more of
Episodes
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Taxi Drivers Deserve Dignity - Seydou's Story
Another mini-episode focused on the struggles of New York Taxi Drivers. Julian Guerrero speaks with Seydou Ouattara, an Uber driver since 2016 who moved to New York from the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)to pursue a career as an accountant in the US but who became active around the struggles of New...
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UPS And The Laurelton 10
When UPS fired 10 part-time workers at a warehouse in Laurelton, Queens, it sparked a wave of protests from Teamsters Local 804 and union activists across New York City.
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Deliveristas of the World Unite! May Day Special
We're back for a May 1st Special episode to commemorate International Worker's Day! Happy May Day! For our May Day special, we're looking at the struggles of Delivery Workers in New York City - we speak with Katya and Juan Carlos, two delivery workers affiliated with Los Deliveristas Unidos, an...
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A Year of Working Class Heroes: Reflections on Building Independent Media
April 23rd 2021 marks one year of our series, Coronavirus and Class Struggle, on famed Lefty community radio station, NYC's WBAI 99.5 FM. A few members of the Working Class Heroes Collective, Khadija Mehter, Lea Ramirez, and Julian Guerrero, reflect on one year of producing 32 episodes of...
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Guantanamo: Don't Forget Us Here
On this week's show, we speak with two people dedicated to shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and all detention centers that hold prisoners of the US empire. Khadija Mehter speaks with former Guantanamo detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, who was incarcerated for over 14 years without a trial or…
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Building Solidarity with Our Unhoused Neighbors
On this week's episode of Working Class Heroes Radio, we speak with Jasmine and Kali of Southern Solidarity, an organization dedicated to liberation, mutual aid, and the cause of unhoused people, mainly in New Orleans and now, right here in New York City. They spoke to Lupita about their efforts,...
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Restaurant Workers Organize for Dignity
On this week's show of Working Class Heroes Radio, Julian Guerrero speaks with restaurant workers, Natalia Tylim and Gary Inman, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America and organizers with the Restaurant Organizing Project. They'll be speaking with us about the struggles of the...
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Prakash's Homecoming: The Fight Continues
On this week's show of Working Class Heroes radio, we speak with Prakash Churaman, the young Guyanese immigrant from Queens who spent 6 years incarcerated without a fair trial. Now that Prakash is out on bail, Julian Guerrero asks him about his experience with the criminal justice system, how…
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The Rise of the Tech Labor Movement
On this week's show of Working Class Heroes Radio, we speak with Aaron Petcoff, a software engineer, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a volunteer with the Tech Workers Coalition. Lea Ramirez speaks with Aaron about the current role of the tech industry in the U.S., Tech…
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U.S. Postal Service Not For Sale
From budget cuts to Trump's attempts to the sabotage mail-in voting system, Postal workers are fighting to save the US Postal Service. On this week's show of Working Class Heroes Radio, Julian Guerrero speaks with city letter carrier, Frank Couget, about the struggles that Postal workers have…
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Fired By Amazon & Fighting Back
On this week’s show of Working Class Heroes Radio, we speak with Chris Smalls, a former Amazon worker who was fired after organizing a walkout to protest the violation of COVID-19 safety standards in the warehouse by Amazon management. Lea Ramirez and Danny Katch talk with Chris about his...
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Starving For Freedom: Life Inside NJ Detention Centers
On this week's episode of Working Class Heroes Radio, we discussed the ongoing hunger strike of over 140 people across immigrant detention centers in New Jersey, who are fighting for their lives, demanding immediate release from indefinite detention as Covid19 cases rise in prisons. Lupita Romero...
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No Pipeline Through North Brooklyn
On this week's episode of Working Class Heroes Radio, we speak with organizers from the Frack Outta Brooklyn Coalition and the No North Brooklyn Pipeline campaign about their efforts to stop the construction of a liquefied natural gas pipeline under Brooklyn by National Grid, a London based…
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Reclaiming Stolen Land in New York
On this week's show, we speak with members of the revolutionary indigenous organization, The Red Nation as well as a member of the Shinnecock Nation about the struggles of indigenous people in New York, focusing specifically on the struggle waged by the Shinnecock Nation against the settler state...
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Essential But Ignored: NYC Delivery Workers
On this week's show, Mel Gonzalez speaks with NYC delivery worker, Miguel, about their job conditions, treatment from the employer and the recent hit and run deaths of delivery workers. Lupita Romero and Julian Guerrero also discuss another segment of the informal labor force, the NYC Street...
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Stopping Solitary
In this week's episode, Danny Katch speaks with Victor Pate, a formally incarcerated organizer with the campaign for alternatives to isolated confinement about the fight to end the horrific practice of solitary confinement inside New York prisons. Mel Gonzalez and Julian Guerrero discuss some of...
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"Can't Be A Victim to the System" - The Prakash Churaman Story Part 2
On this week’s show of Working Class Heroes Radio, we continue our story of Prakash Churaman, a young man locked up for six years without a fair trial or a guilty verdict, who’s fighting to prove his innocence from within the Rikers Island Jail Complex. In part two, Julian talks about how Prakash...
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"Can't Be A Victim to the System" - The Prakash Churaman Story Part 1
On this week’s show of Working Class Heroes Radio, we report on the story of Prakash Churaman, a young man locked up for six years without a fair trial or a guilty verdict, who’s fighting to prove his innocence from within the Rikers Island Jail Complex. Locked up since he was 15 years old,...
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Deciding Puerto Rico's Future
On this week's show, Lupita and Mel host, Khadija and Danny bring us a special edition of our weekly headlines, given Trump's diagnosis of Covid19, Lupita and Mel break down some of Puerto Rico's most recent events. Finally, Julian speaks with Paul Figueroa, a San Juan City Council candidate and...
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We Won't Die for the D.O.E.
On this week's show - school is back in session and the city’s failure to address health and safety concerns has already propelled the spread of Covid infections in school buildings. Bill de Blasio has insisted that schools will reopen without giving them funding for ventilation or enough…
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Rezoning Battles in NYC
On this week's show, we focus on the anti-displacement work against the large scale developments of Industry City in Sunset Park and the waterfront in Flushing. Khadija and Lupita host and address NYC's richest residents, Yanny and Danny lay out some of the latest headlines and Mel spoke with...
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Confronting The Slumlord
On this week's show, Lupita and Mel report on struggles tenants are waging against abusive landlords and courts trying to restart the eviction mill in New York City. Julian speaks with tenant and activist Ginger Ging-Dwan Boyd who dealt first hand with a landlord who broke into her home and tried...
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Legal Workers Unite Against Office Reopenings
After a short break, we're back with a new show and few lined up for the next couple of weeks. On this week's show, Khadija and Danny give us a summary of recent headlines, Lupita and Mel talk about excluded workers and their fight for pandemic relief and recognition of their rights, Julian and...
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Resisting the Reopening of Court
For this week's episode, we're changing things up a bit. Lupita and Mel host our regular radio show while Julian introduces an ongoing investigation on the reopening of New York City Courts. Julian and Yanny speak to legal workers about their resistance to reopening the court systems in the…
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Confronting Racism in Inwood
We're back after a two-week break. We've been working on a few stories for a while and are happy to have it ready for everyone now. Lea and Carlos take up the incident on Dyckman Street in Inwood, North Manhattan when a group of mostly Dominican men patrolled the neighborhood looking for scare…
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Inside the Occupation at City Hall Park
Occupy City Hall encampment has brought hundreds of people demanding to defund and abolish the NYPD to take over a plaza next to city hall. The encampment began on June 23rd, growing to its peak on the eve of the NYC City Council budget vote, and continuing until now. For this show, Yanny and Mel...
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Fighting for Public Education Not Cops
Protests against police violence have coalesced in recent weeks into a movement to defund the NYPD and transfer needed resources to education and other vital services. While activists are disappointed with the budget passed this past week by the City Council, the struggle continues. This week...
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Do Black Lives Matter in the Labor Movement?
Working Class Heroes Radio is back after a week off! Well, it's more like we moved from a half-hour show on Thursdays to a full hour radio program live on WBAI 99.5fm on Saturday nights at 6 pm. On this week's show, Julian and Carlos speak with Robert Cuffy, founder of the Socialist Workers...
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Who is Looting in the Bronx?
Last week's show is a little late due to technical issues on the live show. The remote work set up is taking us a bit longer to adjust to but we're going to keep working at it until we get it right. Carlos and Mel speak with Josie, an organizer with Take Back the Bronx, an organization of…
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We Can't Breathe
America is burning and it smells like justice. In the short time since we aired our last episode, protests in Minneapolis over the police murder of George Floyd have spread across the country and a new chapter in the struggle against anti-Black racism has begun. This week's show Working Class...
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Legal Workers and Rent Strikes
Forgive the hiccups! This is our first remote show live on the WBAI 99.5 fm's community radio station - we promise to get better as we get more comfortable with the technicalities of remote streaming radio shows. On this week's show, Yanny Guzman and Danny Katch speak with the Erin Neff, a…
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Surviving NYCHA During a Pandemic
Tonight's show continues our month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants. On this week's show, Lea Ramirez speaks with the Jasmin Sanchez, longtime NYCHA tenant and organizer about how NYCHA is reacting to the pandemic, what long term disinvestment…
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Tenant Solidarity and Imagination in the North Bronx
This show continues our month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants. On this week's show, Brenda Leon speaks with the Alvaro Franco, tenant organizer for the NorthWest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition about mass non-compliance, fighting for emergency...
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Rent Striking to Save the South Bronx
This show kicks off a month long series on the way the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting New York City tenants. On this week's show, Julian Guerrero speaks with the South Bronx Tenants Movement's main tenant organizer, Manny Pardilla, about the housing crisis plaguing the Bronx before the...
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Medics, Makers and Mutual Aid
This week's episode of Coronavirus and Class War focuses on the efforts of everyday people in making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)for front line workers. PPE is running dangerously low in hospitals across the United States due to years of austerity politics and a profit driven healthcare...
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Labor Woes at Trader Joe's
Tune in to hear what working at Trader Joe's in a pandemic has been like for essential workers. Between struggles with management for protective equipment and tensions with customers, these supermarket workers are fighting to survive. Our new series Coronavirus & Class War airs every Thursday at...
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A Taxi Ride Refusal Story
This is a bonus story about an issue that plagues the New York City Taxi Industry: Taxi Ride Service Refusals. Every year hundreds of passengers are refused service across the city. Service refusals primarily affect people with disabilities and communities in the outer boroughs who are...
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Episode Two: When Immigrants Drive The City
In episode one, Carlos and Julian reported on the crisis in the New York City Taxi Industry. They told us about what taxi drivers consider a war over the future of the industry. This is a war between Taxi drivers and app companies like Uber and Lyft. Immigrant communities are on the forefront of...
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Episode One: Taxi Wars - Part One
Welcome, everyone, to the Working Class Heroes Podcast. I’m your host Lupita Romero and this is Episode One. “In 1984 I joined the Air-force and went through basic training. My basic training photo I had given to Douglas, as soon I had left basic I sent a 5x7 copy of my photo. He had kept it with...
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Episode Zero
Welcome to Episode Zero of the new, narrative-investigative podcast series - Working Class Heroes. Lupita Romero and Julian Guerrero, of the Muckrakers Union, speak about the upcoming Working Class Heroes podcast in an interview with Lea Ramirez. Subscribe to our soundcloud or itunes podcasts...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Working Class Heroes is a narrative investigative journalism podcast exploring the lives, history, politics and culture of working class “New YorQuinos.” We will showcase their struggles and stories by highlighting their identities, experiences, interests, and working conditions.Working Class Heroes is produced by The Muckrakers' Union Local 718. Episodes will be crafted through interviews, historical research and presented in a bilingual format.Your co-hosts are Julian Guerrero, Brianda Guzman, Carlos Perez, Lupita Romero and Lea Ramirez.Why the working class?We believe that in this political moment, what we need more than ever is to relate the experience of the most resilient communities in New York City. Amidst a housing crisis, record mass incarceration, militarized policing, raids and deportations, high prices and lowering wages and longer hours, regular working people are the ones fighting for more, standing against politicians and corporations' efforts to exploit more of
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