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Over the last year we’ve made choices to bring you LIVE breaking news of the incursion into Venezuela, the first bombing of Iran followed by the Trump/Netanyahu war on Iran and Lebanon that is ongoing. We’ve brought you daily reporting on the genocide in Gaza.
If you’ve been listening you know just how Orwellian the phrase “cease fire” has become during Trump 2.0 when the federal government is increasingly violent here at war at home and around our wounded world on one man’s whim.
We’ve brought you analysis and insights on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, the war in Ukraine, corporate consolidation, and the worsening climate crisis.
Closer to home, we brought you the grassroots victory of Mayor Mamdani, whose voice you probably heard first here on WBAI’s Indypendent News Hour before he became a national figure.
On May 9th of last year, when Mayor Ras Baraka was abducted off of a public sidewalk outside Delaney Hall by armed masked federal DHS agents, we sounded the alarm and stayed with that story in Newark until he was released.
Day in and day out we’ve uplifted the plight of ICE detainees and those willing to put something at risk to support them and their families.
Over the last two years we’ve made choices that enabled us to bring you the sounds of millions protesting the violent mass deportation of our neighbors, friends and families based on the color of their skin and the languages they speak.
We’ve broadcast daily on the resurgent union movement so that when our heroic nurses from NYSNA went out on strike in the dead of last winter for safe staffing, you heard their heroic voices not in ten second sound bites, but in extended conversation.
They deserved no less.
We want this broadcast platform available for the next generation of union members who might have to go on strike.
Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence we need your help now to keep broadcasting about creating a more perfect union, a democracy that’s grounded in loving and caring for our neighbor, the America that is still yet to be.
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