Working Class Heroes Radio
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Working Class Heroes Radio
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 Hero...
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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 mov...
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 ac...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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 D...
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 incarcer...
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, a...
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.
O...
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 prot...
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...
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 Pipel...
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 a...
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...
Stopping Solitary
In this week's episode, Danny Katch speaks with Victor Pate, a formally incarcerated organizer with the campaign for alternatives to isolated confinem...
"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...
"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 tria...
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, Lu...
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...
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...
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...
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 giv...
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 i...
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 a...
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 encamp...
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 othe...
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 liv...
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 go...
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...
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 comfor...
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 sho...
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, Br...
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, Juli...
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...
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 equip...
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 pa...
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...
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-fo...
Episode Zero
Welcome to Episode Zero of the new, narrative-investigative podcast series - Working Class Heroes.
Lupita Romero and Julian Guerrero, of...