Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani

<p>Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s inaction around the taxi medallion crisis has forced working-class cab drivers into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Plus, Matt Bruenig joins to discuss the never-ending string of design flaws in the Democrats’ childcare proposals.</p><p><br /></p><p><span>Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 30, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Nando.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span>Verso book club:</span><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub" rel="nofollow">https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span>Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10:</span><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT" rel="nofollow">https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span>Music provided by Zonkey:</span><a href="https://linktr.ee/zonkey" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="https://linktr.ee/zonkey" rel="nofollow">https://linktr.ee/zonkey</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span>Patreon:</span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag</a></p>