On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown announced a deal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023, which would make California’s the highest in the nation. We talk to Ken Jacobs from the UC Berkeley labor center about who the minimum wage would benefit and how it might impact our economy. Plus: … Continued
The Price of Fighting Back: How Woman Faces 60 Years in Prison for the Death of Her Abusive Ex; “Spain in Our Hearts”: Adam Hochschild’s New Book Gives Life to the Americans Who Fought Fascism; Fueling Fascism: The Secret History of How Texaco Supplied Oil to Fascists in Spain.
With Meg Leta Jones, Assistant Professor of Communications, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and Author of the Book Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten. And Monique Morris, social justice scholar and author of the book Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century. Her new book is called Pushout: The … Continued
Drinking While Black? Two Lawyers Kicked Out Of Fresno Bar; Mumia Abu Jamal on Nixon’s War on Drugs; Cal State University Employees Prepare for a Historic Walkout; California Battles Over Raising Minimum Wage. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
The FBI announced that it has broken into the iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the San Bernadino shooters–and they did it without a court order. Cyrus Farivar joins us to discuss how and why. Plus: we talk with Samer Khalef about a new FBI surveillance program called “Shared Responsibility Committees,” that critics are calling … Continued
Juan González Retires from New York Daily News, Praised for His “Relentless Assault on Injustice”;Family of Mexican Man “Tortured & Killed” by U.S. Border Agents Seeks Justice at Int’l Tribunal; “2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back”: Will Obama’s New Opioid Proposal Continue the Failed War on Drugs? Plaintiff in HB 2 Suit: I Can’t Believe … Continued
With McKay Coppins, senior writer for the BuzzFeed News politics team, and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. About the book: After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took … Continued
Women Lead The Fight Against Climate Change; Sanders Sweeps Three States, Gaining Momentum As He Heads West; Pakistan’s Terrorist Attack Leaves More Than 70 Dead. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
Tariq Ali on Lahore Bombing: Is the Pakistani Government Turning a Blind Eye to Taliban Violence? “Complete Fantasy”: Tariq Ali on Donald Trump’s Claim “I Alone Can Solve” Rise in Islamic Militancy; Greenwald: FBI-Apple Fight Tied to U.S. Effort to Access the Communications of Everyone Everywhere; Bullied by the Government: North Carolina Sued After Enacting … Continued
With Risa Goluboff, Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia School of Law and author of the book Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. And Nick Casey, Andes Bureau Chief of The New York Times based in Caracas. His most recent article, about his visit to a remote FARC camp, … Continued
