Part 1: Government COVID-19 Aid May Dry Up
Guest: Ro Khanna, Democratic Representative who represents California’s 17th Congressional District, located in the Silicon Valley.
Part 2: The Depiction of Disability in Film Through Time.
Guest: Lawrence Carter-Long, disability rights activist and film buff. He is the Director of Communications for the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund based in Berkeley. A lifetime film buff, he appears in the documentary feature Code of the Freaks, currently available on virtual cinemas with a DVD release coming up August 4. On September 25—for the second time—he’ll curate an evening of programming on Turner Classic Movies devoted to notable, historic and authentic depictions of disability in classic film including the TCM premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s controversial 1967 documentary Titicut Follies.