The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 19, 2023

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news. Search underway for missing submersible viewing Titanic wreck. Biden visits Bay Area, announces $600 million climate funding package. Secretary of State Blinken meets Chinese leader to repair relations. Major storms and heatwave ravage Southern U.S. Activists call for amendments to federal and state constitutions banning prison labor.


Can white people truly grasp how deeply racism is embedded in U.S. society, and in people’s psyches? According to David Mura, the stories that white people tell themselves about race make the recognition of Blacks as equals impossible. Also: more from Elisabeth Jay Friedman about intergenerational mobilizing. David Mura, The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial … Continued


Law & Disorder

Using Dystopian Futures of the Prison System to Motivate Action Now; Plus, Resistance in Residence Artist Mia Pixley

On today’s show, we’re in conversation with award winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his brand new book Chain Gang All Stars, a novel imagining a near-future where the prison industrial complex has developed a gruesome and widely popular reality show where prisoners are pitted against each other in gladiator death matches. We talk about … Continued