The region prepares for life-threatening flash flooding with rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour predicted starting Monday into Tuesday.
Please, if you live in a basement apartment, in an area prone to flooding, plan ahead. Back in September of 2021, 11 New Yorkers perished in Queens when remnants of Hurricane IDA inundated the city's sewers system. Ten of the victims lived in basement apartments.
Overnight, British PM Keir Starmer pledges to resign making him the seventh prime minister to lead Britain since the 2016 vote to exit the European Union. Starmer’s departure comes after what was growing dissatisfaction within the Labour Party with his performance and concerns that the nation’s sputtering economy would fuel the ascendancy of the country’s anti-immigrant far right.
Social justice activist Larry Hamm and labor historian Dr. Joe Wilson weigh in on the latest developments.
All through this weekend protests continued outside Delaney Hall, the private jail operated in Newark, New Jersey by the GEO Group, which are major donors to President Trump. We will get an update from Paula Rogovin and Terri Suess about the status of the detainee hunger and labor strike to protest the inhumane conditions inside the 1,000 bed facility that started over the Memorial Day holiday.
We also learned more this morning about the status of the proposed detainee jail slated for Roxbury Township in Morris County. We heard from local anti-ICE organizer Bill Angus about NYT reporting that DHS was not moving ahead with its plans to convert a warehouse into a detention site in Roxbury.
If you were listening on Friday, you heard the case for continuing the horse drawn carriage rides in Central Park from TWU Local 100 who represents the carriage drivers.
This morning, we will hear from City Council Christopher Marte about his bill to ban the horse carriage trade following the death of one of the horses earlier this month and then the death of an 18 year-old tourist from India who was tossed from one of the carriages last week when check horse bolted.
Council Member Chris Marte also updates listeners about his pending bill to ban the controversial practice of live-in home health aides being paid only just 13 hours for work despite having to be present for 24 hours in the home.
We finished up with a discussion about legislation pending in Trenton that would make fossil fuel polluters help pay for the close to $50 billion dollars in infrastructure costs necessary to mitigate the life threatening impacts from the climate crisis we are already starting to grapple with.
We spoke with Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director of Clean Water Action and one of the bill’s lead sponsors Assembly Member Alixon Collazos-Gill (D-NJ).
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