The Time the Protesters Won

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A group of teenagers and college kids were fed up with the lousy healthcare in their New York neighborhood. So they came together as a group, calling themselves the Young Lords, and fought the system head on — a fight that still resonates today. Sid Davidoff, Mickey Melendez, and Cleo Silvers share their story. [REBROADCAST] Check out the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsProtestersWon In this episode, we cover: (00:00) David vs. Goliath (05:01) The garbage offensive (10:20) Taking on lead paint and hunger (13:54) The tuberculosis offensive (17:08) The fight for Lincoln Hospital (28:39) The aftermath of the takeover This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Rose Rimler, Meryl Horn, Michelle Dang and Lexi Krupp. Editing by Caitlin Kenney with help from Jorge Just. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord. The archive for this story came from Pacifica Radio Archive, and the documentaries: El Pueblo Se Levanta, and Palante, Siempre Palante! A big thanks to Denise Oliver Velez, Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Iris Morales, Walter Bosque Del Rio, Professor Jose R. Sanchez, and Professor Lloyd Novick. An extra thanks to Blythe Terrell, Amanda Aronczyk, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimmlet.
0:04.0	A question that's going around right now is, how do you change things when it feels like the deck is stacked?
0:11.0	So today on the show, it's David versus Goliath. And I just want to get straight into it.
0:17.0	It's a Tuesday, July 14th, 1970. the sun is coming up over New York City, and word is out that a
0:28.0	militant group has taken over a hospital.
0:31.5	This is not a candy store that took over, we took over a hospital. We didn't know how bad it was.
0:38.8	This is Sid Davidoff. He worked for the mayor's office at the time.
0:42.1	They're still putting their reports together.
0:44.2	It's very sketchy.
0:46.3	A bunch of people taking over a floor.
0:49.3	They claim to have hostages and they have a list of demands and they want to talk to somebody.
0:55.3	Sid is the guy that the mayor's office would call in to deal with crises across the city.
1:00.4	He'd negotiated with gangs in Manhattan, coordinated responses to race riots in Brooklyn.
1:05.7	And so when he heard that some radicals were taking over a hospital, Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx,
1:12.2	he rushed over.
1:13.8	Police were already there surrounding the place,
1:16.7	and it was chaos.
1:18.2	Ambles is pulling up.
1:19.6	People are sick.
1:21.0	People are dying, maybe. You are dying maybe.
1:23.0	Got 50 cops ready to come in and do what have to be done.
1:27.4	Who knows what's going to happen?
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