0:08 – Stephen Buescher is a choreographer and drama instructor. Last month, he filed a lawsuit against the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) for racial discrimination and harassment. He worked at the Conservatory for ten years and faced racism and discrimination from the leadership and his colleagues that ultimately forced him to resign.
Felicia Medina is a civil rights attorney with the law firm Medina Orthwein LLP. They specialize in employment discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower protections, wage and hour, Title IX and civil rights for prisoners.
0:34 – Jerrie Johnson is a student with the ACT theater, studying drama, and shares her experience of being a black women at ACT Theater.
0:51 – David Reiner is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of ACT Theater, and discusses the their response to the lawsuit and what reforms they have underway.
1:08 – KPFA News: Israel snipers have killed and injured thousands of Palestinian in clashes with Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the past decade. Many of those who have lost limbs have been unable to return to work. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza on a Red Cross program providing small grants to Palestinians disabled by war to set up their own businesses.
1:15 – The Black Desi Secret History Project unravels a history of solidarity between Black America and South Asia, a history that’s largely unknown and has not been taught in schools. The curator of the project is South Asian Bay Area activist Anirvan Chatarjee who with his partner Barnali Ghosh are also the curators of Berkeley’s South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. A 2-miles walking tour (that’s wheelchair/stroller accessible) in the streets of Berkeley. It uses storytelling and street theater to narrate 100 years of South Asian presence and radical activism in the city. KPFA’s reporter Mira Nabulsi joined one of those walking tours and talked to Anirvan and Barnali to learn more about their work.
1:34 – Roger McNamee is an investor, venture capitalist, musician, and author. His latest book is Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe