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Can the Blue Wave Deliver a New Green Deal? Plus: Republican Hyde-Smith wins Senate runoff in Mississippi but dynamics are changing in era of Trump

0:08 – Christopher D. Cook (@chrsdcook) is an award-winning journalist who writes for Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and The Economist. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. He joins us to discuss his latest article in the Nation “Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal?”

0:34 – Fred Glass (@fglass57teaches Labor and Community Studies at the Community College of San Francisco. He’s also Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers. His latest book is From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement.

1:08 – Larrison Campbell (@thisislarrison) is a reporter covering public health and politics with Mississippi Today, a non-profit news bureau. She’s been covering the Mississippi Senate race, and joins us today from Jackson, MS.

1:34 – Oakland homeless take City to court to keep intentional community sheltered on public land. The judge is expected to rule today. To discuss the case, we speak with Kimberly Veklerov (@KVeklerovcovers Oakland and the greater East Bay for The San Francisco Chronicle.

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