By Bob Hennelly

Kai Fritz, elected captain for the first Starbucks store to unionize in Brooklyn, explains why Starbucks Workers United union will be holding a strike rally TODAY at 4 p.m. at the company's 325 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn location to demand a fair contract. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan, our reporter roundtable regulars, D.C.-based investigative reporter Dave Levinthal and Laura Jedeed, discuss Donald Trump's Versailles style of governing and his Caribbean hot war on suspicious small boats.

By Bob Hennelly

For over nine hours, WBAI’s team of dozens of reporters and producers—including Work-Bites’ Steve Wishnia—brought you the soundtrack of the growing resistance to authoritarian rule from across our nation.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of what’s going on, New York City Council Member Tiffany Caban (D-Queens) makes her case for her Delivery Protection Act—  legislation that she says will prevent the exploitation by Amazon of workers who are the final link to home deliveries. Currently, the global behemoth maintains these workers don't work for it but for so-called Delivery Service Partners that act as subcontractors shielding Amazon from its responsibilities to keep safe the workers it relies on. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan, we look at the federal government shutdown as it enters its first full week.

By Bob Hennelly

In Gaza, the Guardian is reporting that the Israeli military is pressing on with its siege of Gaza City even as Donald Trump floats what he claims is a breakthrough deal toward a ceasefire. Over the last 13 days, Israeli forces have intensified their strike of Gaza City systematically demolishing one residential apartment building after another to force Palestinians civilians to leave their homes.  

By Bob Hennelly

The BBC reports that British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned Israel  not to annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for the United Kingdom's recognition of Palestinian  statehood. The warning comes as Britain joined several other nations including France to call for a Palestinian state. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads” Communications Workers of America [CWA] President Claude Cummings Jr. joins Julianna Forlanno to discuss a nationwide boycott of T-Mobile in response to the wireless carrier’s about-face on DEI and embrace of President Trump and Elon Musk as part of their bid to close two  deals that needed FCC approvals.

By Bob Hennelly

In Gaza, the Israeli military continues its methodical demolition of one high-rise residential building after another after issuing an evacuation order for the entire civilian population of Gaza City. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has formally declared Israel's response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack that killed 1,200 civilians a genocide.

By Bob Hennelly

In the days after the 9/11 attack, the US EPA lied and said the air was safe to breathe in lower Manhattan. 24 years later, more people have now died from the toxic air in lower Manhattan than the 3,000 that died as a result of the attack.

By Bob Hennelly

This past week,  as part of the National "Workers Over Billionaires" Labor Day of Action, thousands of New York restaurant workers and their supporters marched on Trump Tower.

We speak with Brendan Griffith, the new president of the NYC Central Labor Council, which represents 300 unions and more than one million workers. Brendan describes how unionized workers make significantly more than non-union workers, as well as enjoy a safer workplace.

By Bob Hennelly

A steady rain in Times Square this past Wednesday couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of union activists who gathered to welcome the national AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour. The high profile rally to support the LIVE Broadway heavily unionized workforce came as union negotiators prepare to take on the powerful Broadway League in what is expected to be tough bargaining.

By Bob Hennelly

As President Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and European leaders grabbed headlines, Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza City in a final push to force out the population. Amnesty International maintains that Israel is “carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation” in Gaza and is “systematically destroying the health, well being and social fabric of Palestinian life.”

By Bob Hennelly

In a wide ranging interview, Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA warns every union in America is at risk if there's not a successful fight back against President Trump's evisceration of the collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan Pacifica’s Rev. Billy and Savitri D. sit down with Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement [AIM] leader who was prosecuted for the 1975 shootout on a South Dakota reservation that left two FBI agents dead. Peltier spent a half‑century in federal prison and has always maintained he was wrongfully convicted.

By Bob Hennelly

Throughout our region, Canadian wildfire smoke continues to degrade our ambient air quality. Health officials warn the fine particulates could irritate the eyes, nose and throat, causing respiratory and coronary distress particularly for those with pre-existing conditions. 

By Bob Hennelly

The New York Times is reporting major news organizations around the world calling on Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza and on the movement of reporters in and out of Gaza as Palestinian journalists struggle for the basics to survive.

By Bob Hennelly

The BBC is reporting that the next few days in Gaza are "make or break," according to the UN, as Israel's military pauses its ongoing attacks following a global outcry about the toll on Gaza's civilian population. The pause comes after the World Health Organization said on Sunday that malnutrition has reached "alarming levels" in Gaza with one in three people going without food for "multiple days in a row." 

By Bob Hennelly

Last week, the Congress voted to end the funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, long a goal of America's radical right wing. Created  in 1967, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting was  founded as a publicly funded non-profit to guarantee high quality, universal access to arts, educational and public affair programming to 1,400 locally-owned and operated public radio and TV stations. For years, for fear of being blamed for killing off “Big Bird” and the beloved Sesame Street, forced enough Republicans to vote with Democrats to keep CPB. President Trump’s re-election radically altered that political calculus, however, and so last week the axe finally came down on CPB.

By Bob Hennelly

On this edition of WBAI’s "What’s going On?” we open with BBC reports that in central Gaza the Israeli military has launched "yet another devastating blow" to humanitarian relief efforts in an area that the IDF had previously refrained from directly attacking.