0:08 – Brexit negotiations hang on new UK parliament vote
We’re joined by Georgina Wright (@GeorginaEWright) a senior researcher on the Brexit team with the UK think-tank, the Institute for Government, where she focuses on the negotiations and the views from the 27 EU member states. Her research interests include Brexit, Franco-British relations and the future of the European Union. She joins us now from London.
0:25 – KPFA News: the City of Berkeley votes to ban overnight RV parking city-wide. KPFA’s Carla West (@carlacwest) reports from the city council meeting.
0:34 – Inside Immigration Court
JJ Mulligan Sepulveda is an immigration attorney working at the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California Davis Law School. He’s new book is No Human is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War.
1:08 – New CA estate tax proposals aims to address income inequality
Senator Scott Weiner (@Scott_Wiener) represents Senate District 11 that includes the city and county of San Francisco, Broadmoor, Colma, Daly City, as well as part of South San Francisco. Senator Weiner just introduced a new bill to raise the CA Estate Tax to address income inequality.
1:15 – Lead in school’s drinking water more prevalent than we know.
Emily Rusch (@emilyrusch) is the Executive Director of CALPIRG. They just released a new study, “Get the Lead Out” showing most states are failing to protect children from lead in schools’ drinking water. It also includes a new interactive map of school lead testing results. California scored a C+.
1:25 – Theater Review: KPFA’s Richard Wolinsky reviews American Hero, running at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco through Saturday April 6th.
1:34 – Special Report: Invisible Epidemic: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in California & Beyond
Indigenous women and girls go missing or are murdered at startling rates that are not even yet fully known. While there are movements working hard to bring more attention to this, there is little legislation in the nation, minimal police support and then there is the eerily silent mainstream media.
Next we have a special report, by Pacifica Network producers Sara Blanco and Morning Star Gali, titled, “Invisible Epidemic: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in California & Beyond”. This is part 1 in a series produced for “La Onda Bajita” from 94.1 FM KPFA Berkeley. To find out about the upcoming series visit La Onda Bajita on Facebook.