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City Watch
Thu, Jul 2, 2026 5:00 PM
NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG ON FIGHTING FOR NEW YORK
What do housing, wages, climate, policing, food access, incarceration, and medical care have in common? They are all health issues — and they are all central to this week’s conversation on City Watch.
On Thursday, July 2, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM ET, host Jeff Simmons welcomes Nicholas Freudenberg, veteran activist, CUNY public health scholar, and author of the new book Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s.
Freudenberg’s book looks at six decades of activism in New York City, tracing campaigns that helped shape the city — from fights over lead poisoning, AIDS, wages, housing, environmental justice, reproductive rights, and mass incarceration to the continuing struggle for a healthier and more just New York.
The conversation will explore a powerful idea: health is not only about hospitals, doctors, and medicine. It is shaped by the conditions people live in every day — housing, work, food, safety, the environment, and access to dignity and opportunity.
Tune in for a timely discussion about the history of New York activism, the lessons organizers can draw from past victories and setbacks, and what it will take to build a healthier city today.
Listen live: WBAI 99.5 FM New York