East Bay Yesterday – October 25, 2023
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
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Over the last forty years, bottled water consumption has exploded. Once a rarefied item, global sales of bottled water dwarf every other beverage — totaling $300 billion a year. Environmental sociologist Daniel Jaffee argues that packaged water doesn’t only imperil our oceans and bodies with plastic waste, but undermines safe public water even more than … Continued
It’s Going Down – October 25, 2023
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News. He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People.” His third book, due out in late 2023, will be called “The Squad and the Final Act of … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – October 25, 2023
On Today’s Show: Amnesty International Finds “Damning Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel in Gaza; Death Toll Tops 6,500 “A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More “We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians Juan González: U.S. “Economic … Continued
On Gaza & Grief – A Commentary; Oakland’s Police Commission Shakeup; Plus, Naka Dance Theater
Our producer, Jesse Strauss, shares a reflection on the shared grief experience of learning of the death and destruction in Gaza as the bombardments continue, connecting dots between shared Jewish grief of the holocaust, lessons we can learn from abolitionist organizing in the US, and a hope that one outcome of the collective grief process will … Continued
House Speaker Vote Continues; Sudan is One of the World’s Fastest Growing Humanitarian Crises; Plus, Challenges of Sending Aid to Gaza
0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation 0:18 — Nisrin Elamin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto 0:33 — Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, is Executive Director at Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank
Democracy Now 6am – October 25, 2023
On today’s show: Amnesty International Finds “Damning Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel in Gaza; Death Toll Tops 6,500 “A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More “We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians Juan González: U.S. “Economic … Continued
The Late Night Hype – October 25, 2023
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Latin and Reggae mix with Pedro Reyes and Guests.