In today’s episode, we go to London, where a new report commissioned by the government has exposed deeply entrenched misogyny, racism and homophobia in the Metropolitan Police Force. The report was spawned from the conviction of an officer for the rape and murder of a 33-year old woman, and the report shows horrendous failures of … Continued
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and … Continued
In this episode we take a look at how the latest Bay Area storms are impacting our unhoused neighbors with Talya Husbands-Hankin, who is known to many as ‘Boots’ and is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Check out the Love and Justice in the Streets website: https://www.loveandjusticeinthestreets.com/ —- Subscribe to this … Continued
In this episode, we focus on our neighbors without secure housing as covid-oriented eviction protections begin to dissolve. Our guest is Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. ACCE is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. Check out the ACCE … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” at 42nd Street Moon Gateway Theatre through April 9, 2023.
Discussed in this episode: Gao, Fei, et al. “Robust T Cell Responses to Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Compared to Infection and Evidence of Attenuated Peripheral CD8+ T Cell Responses Due to Covid-19.” Immunity, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2023.03.005 Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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Oak Flat is a sacred Apache site in the land now known as Arizona, where President Joe Biden’s team has used courts to move forward a mining plan on the sacred site that would obliterate it. We’re joined by Dr Wendsler Nosie Sr, the former Apache tribal chairman and founder of activist organization Apache Stronghold in … Continued
A new bill could make California the first state to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard for people of South Asian descent, to build protection from discrimination in areas like housing and education. We’re joined by the sponsor of the bill, Aisha Wahab, the California state senator representing the 10th District, which runs from Hayward and Union … Continued
Four hundred and eighty-three anti-trans bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country in an attempt to restrict medical access and public expression in what some advocates say is an attempt to erase trans existence from public life. We start this hour with a round up the legislative attacks on our transgender community members … Continued
