KPFA Election 2024 News Coverage

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Law & Disorder

Criminalized survivors and the need for Abolition Feminism w/ Leigh Goodmark; plus Resistance in Residence artist Leigh Rondon-Davis

On today’s show, in honor of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month we revisit this conversation about how intimate partner violence can’t be addressed through a carceral system with Leigh Goodmark, abolitionist lawyer and author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism. This week, our Resistance in Residence artist in Leigh Rondon-Davis (they/them) … Continued


UpFront

Israel Attacks Iran, What Comes Next? Plus, Boeing Workers Continue Strike; Election Explainers: Prop 2, Prop 6 and San Francisco Prop L

00:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast. She joins us from Washington D.C. 00:20 — Jenny Brown is an assistant editor at Labor Notes covering the machinists’ strike at Boeing. 00:33 — John Fensterwald is a staff writer for EdSource, an independent newsroom focused on Education.


Democracy Now!

Democracy Now 6am – October 29, 2024

On today’s show: Puerto Rico Is an “Island of Garbage”: Outrage Grows over Trump’s Racist and Xenophobic New York City Rally Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump’s Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco’s Language of Fascism and Violence Trump’s Night at the Garden: Racist Campaign Rally Evokes Infamous 1939 Nazi Gathering in NYC Editorial Writers at L.A. Times and … Continued