0:08 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Foreign Policy
Conn Hallinan is a military analyst and columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus.
0:34 – New Stanford study on where people get infected
David Grusky is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. And co-author on a new study of cell phone location data and COVID rates.
0:45 – What the Biden Administration can do now: the Economy
Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
1:08 – KPFA News: The California Commission on Judicial Appointments confirmed the state’s first gay, black California Supreme Court justice this week. 66 year old Martin Jenkins, Democrat and a San Francisco native was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. KPFA’s Chris Lee reports.
1:11 – KPFA News: Vote counting for the Presidential election continues, with Georgia announcing it will hold a re-count of the close vote in that key state. President Trump is showing no signs of conceding the election, but Democrats are moving forward in the expectation of seeing Democrat Joe Biden in the White House come January 20, 2021. KPFA’s Christopher Martinez reports.
1:14 – KPFA News: California is experiencing a moderate increase in COVID-19 spread, pushing some counties back into quarantine lockdown. KPFA’s Noah Litwer reports.
1:20 – Remembering Adam David Miller
Former KPFA program producer, poet and Laney college instructor Adam David Miller, known as AD, has died at his Berkeley home on November 4, 2020 at the age of 98. AD’s first memoir, Ticket to Exile, recalled being jailed at the age of 19 for passing a note to a white girl. As co-founder of Mina Press and founder of Eshu House Publishing, AD was always looking for diverse voices to publish. He was honored at age 90 by the City of Berkeley for his poetic works…And also won the Oakland PEN lifetime achievement award at which he read his signature poem, “Keep Sending Love Out.” Stanford University acquired his papers three years ago. Adam David Miller is survived by his wife Elise Peeples.
1:34 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Education
Kitty Kelly Epstein is an educator, scholar, and host of KPFA’s “Education Today” airing each 2nd and 4th Friday at 2:30pm. She joins us to discuss her book A Different View of Urban Schools: Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities.