Pressenza New York

LIVE SHOW on Saturday, April 9 at 10:30 AM In this show, we speak with Durga McBroom, singer, songwriter, and actress who has performed backing vocals for Pink Floyd and is a member of the house music band Blue Pearl, best known…

On this, the 54th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and in commemorating the life and witness of one of our nation’s greatest apostles of peace and nonviolence. From Riverside Church- the site where Dr. King first…

55 YEARS AGO TODAY, Martin Luther King delivered what’s been called his ‘most dangerous speech.’ ‘Beyond Vietnam’ not only questioned the US war in Vietnam. He linked racial injustice to US imperialism. Exactly to the day the next, MLK was…

On this show, we speak with Anna Dioguardi about a very successful, in-person, outdoor, Queens Power rally. Senator Chuck Schumer attends the rally along with 1,200 residents to address affordable housing and transit issues. Anna is the Director of Community…

Sufyian Barhoumi Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016 The U.S. government made public today that Sufyian Barhoumi was sent home to Algeria, nearly twenty years after arriving at Guantánamo and six years after being cleared…

Last month, Mayor Adams used one of his press conferences to grossly mischaracterize and criminalize New Yorkers who observe and document NYPD abuse (a practice known as CopWatch). He did this while announcing his rebranding of the NYPD’s notoriously brutal…

Alex Saab’s April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war against Venezuela. By Roger D. Harris In…

To mark the fourth anniversary of their action the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven and supporters are planning a Walk for Peace and Nuclear Abolition beginning at Riverside Church in NYC and ending at the Isaiah Wall at the United Nations.…

What we all hoped would not happen has happened. The Russian Federation sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 in response to decades of relentless US-led NATO provocation. The present situation puts many serious, fundamental questions before the global peace…

I managed to get a government permission to visit the National Museum in Addis Ababa to see my very old sister, “Lucy”. It was only the partial skeleton of a woman about 3,2 million years old, dug out in 1974.…