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Behind the News

Sucking CO2 out of the air, and has real estate development become the Palestinian national project?

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Christian Parenti looks at carbon dioxide removal, an underappreciated technology that could stave off climate collapse. And the anthropologist Kareem Rabie talks explores a new town development on the West Bank—has real estate development become the neoliberal substitute for nation building in Palestine? photo: Chris LeBoutillier via Unsplash

Talkies

Robert Moses! Town Crier!

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Choreographer, teacher, dancer, writer, composer, artist/activist Robert Moses joins us to talk about his newest piece, premiering this month—and the challenge of being a working socially-conscious artist in this society, and under COVID restrictions.  PLUS: Raymond Nat Turner..Hosted by Kris Welch.

Letters and Politics

When the Plague Came to San Francisco

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Guest: Marilyn Chase is a journalist and teacher, and the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. She covers medical science and health care focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. She is the author of the book The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco.  Her latest book is Everything She … Continued

UpFront

A Look at the Massive ‘Human Infrastructure’ Package; Rent Relief and Debt in California; Psychedelics and Smoking; California to Pay Reparations for Forced Sterilizations in Prisons

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Today on Thursday, July 15th, 2021 on Upfront: A massive 3.5 trillion ‘human infrastructure’ package has gotten a thumbs up from Senate Democrats, but how does it square in terms of policy in the face of increasing inflation? A look at California’s expansion of tenant relief and a discussion how tenants can pay off their … Continued