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The Herbal Highway

Haiti Naturopathic Clinic

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Haiti Naturopathic Clinic Julia Graves Jinpa

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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.

Against the Grain

Emancipated, Unfree

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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

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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.

Letters and Politics

A Conversation On the Constitution with Leading Legal Scholar Akhil Reed Amar

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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.

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Fighting the Tide: Efforts to Restore the California Kelp Forest

As climate change continues to transform our planet, many of its effects are fairly visible to us – things that make the nightly news, like fires, floods, heat waves and hurricanes. But we sometimes forget that climate change touches every part of our planet. Scott Baba filed this report, on the vast but mostly unseen … Continued

UpFront

Federal unemployment expires; Could COVID variants outpace science?; Plus a report on the sea creatures laying waste to California’s kelp forests

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On today’s show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) joins us to tell the story of where he was on 09/11/2001 and discuss what the nation will do now that the federal unemployment benefits have expired. 0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us … Continued