Get In Touch

I’m a longtime listener and subscriber to WBAI, and proud to be running for the Local Station Board with Justice & Unity (justiceunity.org). I started listening to and supporting WBAI as a high-school student in the ’60s. Radio back then was a means of linking you to the whole wide world, and BAI was the one station that did it the best. WBAI was my classroom of the air… (read more)

I’m retired from the New York City Board of Education and Nassau County’s Uniondale School District, where I often incorporated WBAI programs, especially “Democracy Now,” “Talk Back,” and “Jordan Journal” into my lessons. My students were fascinated with the wide range of programming, and some even encouraged their parents to listen… (read more)

You may know me as the persistent leader of the Free Lynne Stewart campaign. Raised by a union organizer, I first taught elementary school in Harlem, joining the United Federation of Teachers. But when the UFT colluded with management to support the racist Board of Education against Black communities’ demands for Community Control of schools, I founded the Teachers’ Freedom Party and became a leader in that fight… (read more)

Each day, the world faces greater crises.

At home, communities of color feel the sting while organizing against both economic violence and the physical violence of over-policing by those who see us as problems to be contained. Abroad, movements are building toward freedom and equity. (read more)

Warmest greetings to all WBAI community supporters and members! ¡Mis más cordiales saludos a todos!

WBAI is a precious resource, and it is our responsibility to make it stronger. We need to reach deeply, not superficially, into the tristate area’s diverse communities. Despite the Pacifica National Board’s backward reversal of the requirement to add an hour of Spanish-language news and information programming each weekday for the millions of non-English-speaking Latinos who need and deserve progressive radio, WBAI’s management has not only the prerogative, but also, due to area demographics and increasing attacks on migrant communities, the obligation to do this… (read more)

WBAI has been the source and inspiration of much of my activism, and I am determined to keep it on the air.

East Harlem has been my home for about 33 years, and my focus has been to help preserve my community as a place where regular people, and particularly those who face systemic discrimination, can continue to live even as the area becomes more attractive to others. I’ve been fighting the “River-to-River Harlem Rezoning” plan, spearheaded by Michael Bloomberg and continued by the current mayor, Bill de Blasio. This plan would accelerate gentrification and could complete the erasure of Harlem as we’ve known it, driving out its current populations… (read more)

I grew up in 1950s New York. Like all families coming north to America’s urban centers, my parents worked hard at as many jobs as could be juggled. I recall the second-grade teacher who hugged me and told me how great I was going to be; later, a young scientist took me to see the Columbia nuclear reactor, and I knew that this was my college. A class visit by a former student discussing his escape via the Columbia-East Harlem Scholarship made it the only college to which I applied. I learned there that in doing whatever you feel is important, you have to go for broke. Half steppin’ and indecision are bad for your health… (read more)