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We are Truth and Justice for Palestine. https://linktr.ee/TJ4PCoalition

We organize, build solidarity for, and broadly support the global struggle for a free Palestine by agitating against the blatant western chauvinism pushed by local media giant WAMC.

07/24/2026

Unfortunately, our dear comrade Bebhinn had to step back from THE PEOPLE'S ROUNDTABLE for just a moment. Fortunately, that means we get to meet yet another excellent character from United Tenants Albany. So, without any further ado, I'm pleased to introduce you to our friend CANYON RYAN!

Canyon is the Executive Director of United Tenants of Albany, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness by empowering tenants. Under their stewardship, the team at UTA has helped thousands of tenants in eviction proceedings, organized more than 2% of the city of Albany into autonomous tenant unions, and distributed more than $2,000,000 in emergency rental assistance to prevent over 1,000 evictions, in addition to passing numerous tenant protections at the local and state level.

After getting their Associate Degree from Onondaga Community College they moved to Albany full-time, enticed by the plethora of socialist organizations they were organizing with during an uninspiring internship with the NYS Assembly in 2017. They later received a Master's of International Affairs from SUNY Albany, one month before becoming interim director of UTA. Canyon and their spouse share an apartment with three adorable cats. Canyon is also a board member of Tenants PAC and Albany Landlord Report Card, and a member of the NYS Tenant Bloc. In their free time, Canyon enjoys playing basketball, reading, writing, and listening to music.

If you'd like to hear more about what Canyon, Eduardo, and Lacey have to say about Albany, the World and everything in between, you are invited to come to (25 Warren St, Albany 12202) to see them live this Sunday (07/26) from 2-4pm as the sit around THE PEOPLE'S ROUNDTABLE.

07/21/2026

Howdy folks! Meet Lacey Wilson! Lacey was born in Washington DC and has spent 10 years in public history, leading tours, managing sites, and engaging with oral histories and local communities. Today, she plans and implements a museum studies program for teenagers at the Underground Railroad Education Center. In her professional community she sits on the advocacy and nominations committees with the National Council of Public History. She also sits in the board for United Tenants of Albany.

If YOU want to hear more of what she has to say-- more of the perspectives that the mainstream media are scared of-- click the link in our bio to learn more and register for the PEOPLE'S ROUNDTABLE today!

07/19/2026

Hey Everyone! Meet Eduardo!

Eduardo Rodriguez Santiago is a Puerto Rican journalist, translator, editor, and educator. He is an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and ALBA Movimientos. Eduardo is an editor at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His writing has appeared in Peoples Dispatch, Al-Akhbar English, and Liberation News.

If you want to learn more about what he has to say, check us out at the PEOPLE'S ROUNDTABLE at YouthFX ( 25 Warren Street, Albany 12202) on Sunday, July 26th from 2-4pm! Check out the link in our bio to learn more and register today!

07/08/2026

Hello everybody– meet Bebhinn Francis one of our excellent Panelists for our upcoming PEOPLE'S ROUNDTABLE! Bebhinn Francis is a Tenant Organizer with United Tenants of Albany and an organizer with the National Union of the Homeless. Based in Albany, she supports both housed and unhoused tenants in building collective power to demand safe, dignified living conditions through grassroots action and tenant-led bargaining. Bebhinn’s work is deeply informed by her own lived experience with homelessness, poverty, and unsafe housing. This background gives her a powerful ability to connect with the communities she organizes and fuels her commitment to justice and systemic change.

Before joining UTA, Bebhinn volunteered with several community organizations and later became a Statewide Canvasser with Citizen Action of New York. There, she honed her skills in deep canvassing and political education, while also becoming active in labor organizing. She served as a bargaining representative and eventually as a union steward for her fellow canvassers. Bebhinn believes deeply in organizing across lines of class, race, religion, and all forms of division, and works daily to build solidarity among those most impacted by housing injustice.

If you’d like to hear Bebhinn’s take on what’s going on, come join us from 2-4pm on Sunday, July 26th at Youth, 25 Warren Street Albany NY 12202. FOR MORE INFO + THE REGISTRATION, CLICK THE LINK IN OUR BIO!
Stay tuned to learn more about our excellent panelists!

07/02/2026

You are invited to The PEOPLE’S Roundtable, a live, in-person conversation that WAMC’s The Roundtable could be having if they included voices that represented the racial and ideological diversity of their listeners. Registration link in bio.

Over the past year, the Truth & Justice For Palestine Coalition (TJ4P) began looking at the way WAMC’s The Roundtable covered current events, and why. We found that the show featured US and Israeli military affiliated experts 103 times, that 77% of the panels exclusively featured white guests, and that there were tiny percentages of Black, brown, q***r, Muslim, Palestinian and disabled panelists.

Our roundtable, The People’s Roundtable, offers a vision for what these conversations could look like instead. Moderated by former Albany Common Council Member and former WAMC Roundtable panelist Barbara Smith, our guests Bebhinn Francis (UTA tenant organizer), Eduardo Rodriguez (journalist), and Lacey Wilson (public historian) shall engage in a wide-ranging analytical discussion on the pressing topics of the day, offering critical perspectives that are hard to find in the mainstream media.

SO, please join us from 2-4pm on Sunday July 26th, either in-person at YouthFX (25 Warren St. Albany) or by streaming online! Just minutes from the freeway, our event is easily accessible by car (plenty of parking!) or by bus (near stops for CDTA routes 922/923 and 100) in Albany’s historic South End. We look forward to seeing you there!

**Accessibility Note: This is a mask-required event! High-filtration masks will be provided for respiratory safety. YouthFX is a wheelchair-accessible facility. If you have any accessibility questions requests, please reach out to us!**

03/20/2026

WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s The Roundtable includes just 1 BIPOC guest for every 12 white guests. We want to hear more BIPOC perspectives.

02/25/2026

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