We start today’s show in conversation with Oakland’s City Councilmember At-Large, Rebecca Kaplan, about the impacts of the heavy storms and rainfall that we’re experiencing, and particularly its impact on our most vulnerable neighbors. We also discuss how the councilmember expects to work with the new mayor and council, who were sworn in on Monday, January 9th. Rebecca Kaplan has been Oakland’s City Councilmember At-Large since first being elected in 2008 as the city’s then-youngest and first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to public office.
Then we move to a conversation about the inability of California’s jail system to take care and responsibility for prisoners with mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities. Our guest is Jocelyn Weiner, journalist with non-profit newsroom CalMatters, whose most recent piece is called No way out: Why a mentally disabled man was jailed nine years awaiting a murder trial that never happened.
Read the article here: https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/12/california-jails-disabled-competency-delays/
Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is chef, artist, author, and food justice activist Bryant Terry, renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House and Ten Speed Press, and he is co-principal and innovation director of Zenmi, a creative studio he founded. For the 2022-23 academic year, Bryant is an Artist Fellow/Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, as a member of the second cohort of Abolition Democracy Fellows.
Learn more about Bryant Terry and buy his books on his website: https://www.bryant-terry.com/
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