The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

President Joe Biden tours Hurricane Ida’s destruction in New Jersey and New York, calls for infrastructure funding to address climate change; Taliban says it’s formed all male government, reports surface of Taliban repressing Afghan demonstrations; Homeless advocates rally in San Francisco demanding extension of Shelter In Place hotels for the homeless during the pandemic

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Joe Biden tours Hurricane Ida’s destruction in New Jersey and New York, calls for infrastructure funding to address climate change. Climate conference urges funding to adapt to climate change. Louisiana officials rescind licenses for 7 nursing … Continued


UpFront PM

UpFront PM – September 7, 2021

On today’s show: Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to discuss a new COVID variant, which has captured the attention of the World Health Organization. Listeners call in with their COVID science questions. And: We revisit this 2015 interview with Brian Fagan, professor … Continued


Join Renée Camila in conversation with Julia Graves and Thupten Jinpa of the Haiti Naturopathic Clinic. Julia and Jinpa share stories about the founding of their clinic, their relationship with plant spirit medicine, and about the lives they have cared from and learned from along the way. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway.


Did the Freedmen’s Bureau, established in 1865, help or harm the formerly enslaved? Priya Kandaswamy traces the Bureau’s activities in relation to vagrancy legislation and the placement of Black domestic workers in white people’s homes. Labor discipline and white surveillance, she argues, took precedence over public assistance and meaningful forms of freedom for African Americans. … Continued


Talkies

Roe v. Wade

Texas has done it: eliminated a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.  And there is every indication Texas is only the beginning, of a total rollback of reproductive rights.  Jessica Mason Pieklo, of Rewire News, explains. Hosted by Kris Welch.


Guest: Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of several books on constitutional law and history, including America’s Constitution: A Biography, America’s Unwritten Constitution, and his latest, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.