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Black Agenda Radio

Thu, May 2, 2024 19:00 PM

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Hosts: Margaret Kimberley
Topics:
  • Rent regulation in New York – Rent regulation under attack in the Supreme Court by the man chosen to head the New York Law Department. -
  • Police killing in Chicago – Police violence continues even after a system of community control of the police is established. -
  • Sarah Jama – A Black member of Ontario’s provincial parliament has refused an order to remove a keffiyeh while working in that legislature. -
Synopsis:

This week we discuss a police killing in Chicago after the establishment of a system of community control of police, and a Black member of a Canadian provincial parliament is ordered not to wear a keffiyeh in an ongoing campaign to silence Black voices and to exclude Palestinian solidarity from the public sphere. But first we hear about the latest effort to use the United States Supreme Court to end New York’s system of rent regulation which is now led by the man who mayor Eric Adams has chosen to lead the City’s Law Department.

Leah Goodridge is a tenants’ rights attorney, a writer and a member of New York City’s City Planning Commission. She joins us from New York to discuss the latest effort by landlords to do away with New York’s system which regulates rents on thousands of apartments. The United States Supreme Court has previously declined to hear these cases but the latest attempt is led by Randy Mastro, who mayor Eric Adams has nominated to head the city’s Law Department. We’ll discuss the ongoing attack on rent protections.

Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression . That organization led the fight for community control of the police, with the creation of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability in Chicago. But that success did not mean the end of police violence. Frank Chapman joins us from Chicago to discuss a recent police killing.

El Jones is a poet and a professor at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She joins us from Halifax to discuss the case of Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario’s provincial parliament, who has been banned from wearing a keffiyeh while in that legislature.
 
Guests:
  • Leah Goodridge – Tenants rights attorney, member of NYC City Planning Commission -
  • Frank Chapman – National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression -
  • El Jones – Professor Mount Saint Vincent University, author and activist -
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