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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-999.5 FM // 5 Dec. '23
Description: First, we go to CUNY, the City University of New York. For the past months it’s been a flashpoint in the battle over campus free speech during a time of war. At Hunter College on the Upper East Side, the campus has been roiled by the administration’s flip-flopping on whether they will allow a film that’s critical of Israel to be shown. And at Baruch College in Lower Manhattan, top officials there canceled a teach-in on Gaza by members of that school’s history department. We are joined by Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunte...