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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: September 9: Amazon Union Busting, Medicaid Cuts, and the Minneapolis Mayoral Race
Description: In our first segment, Latrice Johnson joins us to discuss the recent rally by Amazon workers and their supporters in Maspeth, Queens, protesting the company’s recent firing of 105 workers who had supported union activities at the warehouse. Then, we hear from The Indy’s Lane Dibbler about her piece "My View from the Back of the Ambulance: An EMT Describes How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Low-Income New Yorkers.” Finally, we speak with Minneapolis-based freelance journalist Clint Combs about Minneapolis' hotly contested mayoral race where Muslim democratic socialist state legislator Omar Fateh is mounting a strong challenge against the city’s busine...